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Solid pragmatic half, give him time

I would be amazed if he's gone before the new year regardless of results. I think we would need to be well entrenched in the bottom three for any action to be taken but all the teams down there are so shit it's difficult to see any of them streaking away from us even if we have a rotten couple of months. The fact there's not been so much as a hint that he might be in the slightest bit of danger tells me that as long as we continue to scam a few points here and there, he's safe as houses no matter how shit we're playing.

Pom Pannon

You would think so but then Forest played us on a Friday having also played on Monday that week and somehow looked about half as tired as we did

Mourinho is no longer a good enough manager to make the baggage that comes with him worth it

The short version is that with his selection Cooper went for the Enzo structure that suits playing out from the back/through midfield with Vestergaard/Ricardo/Winks, but then had us building up in a way (direct balls out to the wingers) that managed to both neglect those three players and also meant Buonanotte wasn't really involved in the build up

His work for the goal is what I was hoping we would be getting when he joined. From what I remember of his stats he looked like a Mousa Dembele type who wasn't ever going to score or create many but would be very difficult to dispossess and excelled at driving forward with the ball. Unfortunately he does it about once a year which is not really enough and I think while the situation today suited him as we had all the ball and there was no danger of any opposition players running beyond him, I'm yet to see much evidence he's not a total liability out of possession. Whether you put it down to not being able to adapt to the pace of the league, a lack of focus or just plain laziness, we can't afford to carry a player like that.

The bar this season seems like it might end up being quite low with Ipswich and Southampton being so shit and the likes of Wolves and Everton not looking a great deal better, but assuming the manager and team remains as it is, I would have to say no. I don't think you can stay up playing as badly as we do, over periods as long as we do, as often as we do.

Yeah there's no way he should be getting minutes ahead of the utterly imperious James Justin who hasn't put a foot wrong all season

And so in order to keep a not particularly good side in the league, we would want to recruit the best available manager to get the absolute maximum possible out of them, would we not?

In terms of our survival prospects that is the worst possible outcome IMO but good to land a blow on Ipswich and their team of lower league foul merchants

Finish Jord

I see your point but Chris Wood only started thriving once they got shot of that dosser and brought Nuno in. I don't think any variety or calibre of striker would look especially good in a system this lacking in attacking intent or fluency.

Luke Thomas-esque

Surprised our plan of getting it launched up to three forwards who are all under six foot isn't bearing fruit

Well the only thing I was particularly looking forward to in November was Path of Exile 2 which has been delayed, but you certainly shouldn't let that dampen your own enthusiasm for any/all of the following: 8th - Slitterhead (PC/PS/Xbox) - hot off the heels of the Silent Hill 2 remake we have this very weird-looking survival horror offering from the creator of Silent Hill. Not my thing but the setting looks cool and the monster design is appropriately bizarre in the way Japanese devs seem to specialise in. 12th - Farming Simulator 25 (PC/PS5/XSXS) - I cannot imagine you need me to describe this for you. 12th - The Rise of the Golden Idol (PC/PS/Xbox/Switch/Mobile) - indie murder-mystery puzzler and sequel to 2022's The Case of the Golden Idol. The mobile release is via Netflix apparently and for us PC folk there's a demo on Steam. 14th - Lego Horizon Adventures (PC/PS5/Switch) - it's Horizon made out of Lego which is not an enormously attractive proposition for someone who found the Horizon games quite boring and doesn't care about Lego, but it does look to have a certain charm to it. 19th - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (PC/XSXS) - please refer to the entry for Farming Simulator 25. 20th - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (PC/XSXS) - post-apocalyptic survival shooter, first entry in the series for 15 years and the product of a troubled development even before its creators had their country invaded by Russia. Despite everything it looks great and supposedly it'll be arriving on PS a few months down the line too.

Most of the posts I can see are either predicting we'll lose because we're shit or rightly pointing out it's a game we should really be aiming to win because as a fellow promoted team you're also quite shit and haven't won any of your games. Sorry we're not all sat here creaming our jeans over how brilliant Ipswich are and shedding a tear over what a privilege it will be to play against you but I would suggest you're probably in the wrong place for that.

Wank

Shame the result and performance took the shine off his goal somewhat because it's a brilliant finish, probably just about the only way he could score from that position and he executed it perfectly

Yeah we all know he's shit but he is so far down the list of people to blame for that result it's probably not worth bothering

Hahaha that is class. We were absolutely dominant having already conceded four in the first half to the most profligate team in the league, and then conceded another for good measure. I did start off feeling a bit sorry for him because he's obviously well out of his depth and it's not his fault we appointed him but any such sympathy is long gone now.

Just please not a draw. A win is obviously good against anyone but particularly a relegation rival and helps claw back some of the momentum we've lost over the last two games, a loss pushes Cooper closer to the edge (though probably still nowhere near over it). I can't be arsed with us scamming a point and then hearing about how well we battled and how many positives we can take from it.

We've very nearly just conceded a 42 minute perfect hat-trick to ****ing Casemiro

Jobby Reid

Some hit to be fair from that big old pudding