The whole world smiles

Out of interest what changes when you get in the ground why the change?

Ranieri had just been sacked by Greece and his reputation was in the mud. City fans were unimpressed with the appointment hence the famous "Claudio? really?" Gary Lineaker tweet. Brendan was probably the only time I remember us attracting a better manager than I thought we could get on paper. He was no fool and understood how good a squad macia and puel had assembled.

So your paid your money went to the game and hoped they lose? How did you feel when the goal went in or at full time?

What's the point in wasting energy whinging and moaning when you know the club are going to stick with him and he's doing enough to keep us up currently? Your howling at the moon pal he's the clubs man I actually agree that we could do better but we are where we are try to enjoy it.

Well put it this way the team and squad is a lot worse than the one we went down with last time. So you could make an arguement that we should be doing better you could also make an argument that we could be doing worse. Also looking at Burnley, Luton and Sheffield United last season you would say the gap between the championship is bigger than ever. I know it's not black and white but Russel Martin at Southampton is a more attacking front footed manager and his side is getting slaughtered. I am not arguing he is the 2nd coming of Christ or should be in charge for the next 3 years but I am arguing that cooper being in charge of Leicester is not some existential crisis that needs action now he is the clubs man he is going nowhere let's see where we are after 12 premier league games.

Very well put.

Yeah me too mate. I work in Nottingham and have mates who love him but they would admit he's a very negative manager. He isn't a long term solution and think the club know it to. He's been bought in to do a specific job and arguably so far he's doing it. The club are not even thinking about sacking him now. So in my opinion time to give him a bit of breathing room and see where we are after 12 games.

I don't think we are getting worse week on week it's all been pretty meh this is what your gonna get with him we are gonna be in games, we are gonna be atrocious to watch and we are gonna grind out points. To be honest I don't know how much of Southampton or wolves you have watched this season but we look a lot more likely to click than they do in fact if we back today up with a win at Southampton you could argue we are clicking. Also palace was a shocking robbery and the premier league admitted he was offside so add those theoretical 2 points on and we are 12th. I'm not saying it's not shit to watch I'm not saying I want him in charge for the next 3 years but the situation is nowhere near as dire as people are making out. I think people just enjoy the drama.

The next game is game 8, back to school for you.

7 games in we are 5 points clear of Southampton and wolves. We are also top of the 6 team grouping that you would imagine will make up the bottom 6 come the end of the season. Yes he's pragmatic and overly cautious and the football isn't pretty on the eyes but you absolutely can not deny that so far he's grinding out results. The goal for this season was always 17th we don't have to be good we just have to be less shit than 3 other clubs.

Hope some of you in this thread picked up those mens mental health leaflets union FS were handing out pre match because you must be on the floor after that win. Up the city.

Didn't they?

There is a thread on Cannon 4 posts down. But I don't think scoring 4 against Portsmouth proves he's the real deal be interested to see how he plays for the rest of the season.

Quite a long name... Who's he managed?

Yeah. Googled him. Looks good on paper, your right he probably would come but it's a massive appointment if you sack cooper early you are probably stuck with the new man for the rest of season whatever happens and this dude would be a huge gamble to keep us up looking at his club record. Arguably We have done it the wrong way round they should have gone for the untested foreign manager like this guy in the summer then bought in the established Dean Smith/Steve cooper type if it went wrong.

Who do you think is realistic and would keep us up? Not being facious, genuine question?

Duplicate post.

I don't know for sure you are right but Was he not out of work in the summer? Pretty sure they would have spoken to him if he had any interest in the job and it won't exactly look more appealing after a 6 game basket case sacking. I genuinely hope we can get an established successful manager like moyes but like I said in my post feel like we are shopping in different waters now.

With Rodgers and Enzo the fan base was divided between people who liked them (excluding the last season with Rodgers) and people who hated them. This time the fan base is divided between people who want to sack him now and people who want to wait a few games. It shouldn't be a radical or controversial decision to not want commit the 2nd quickest sacking in history.

Starting to find these kind of posts quite annoying. Having a more balanced view on the situation doesn't meant that you out and out support him. I was gutted when he got the job. I am not pro cooper I am pro giving him another 5 games or so because... - sacking him now would be the 2nd fastest managerial sacking in premier league history in terms of league games. This is probably an indicator it's a bit soon also its is going to hurt us in terms of getting in a decent replacement. We struggled to get anyone in good in the summer so imagine how much harder it will be to get good candidates after sacking someone after just 6 league games we would look like a complete basket case club (even more so) - we just spent the summer bringing in his kind of players to play his kind of football (whatever that is) surely it's worth waiting a little longer to see if it clicks before we start dialing Dean Smiths number (yes those are the waters we are swimming him here) - we don't need to not be shit we just need need to be not quite as shit as 3 other teams currently we are achieving this. People who are expecting free flowing football and mid table comfort are very naive to the gap between the champ and prem and the state of the current squad and of the managers available to us. - he has kept a newly promoted team up in very recent memory. 2023 to be precise. - the club are absolutely in no way shape or form going to sack him anytime soon. To do so would be an admission they got it very wrong and they aren't about to do without exhausting the possibility of him turning it around. Also you lot are very good at moaning on internet boards, complaining about Rudkin and berrating people who disagree with you but less good at getting organised and putting any kind of pressure on the club to act so in a nutshell he is going nowhere probably at least till late Nov. So if he's going nowhere and you aren't gonna get organised and do anything about it just calm down a bit try and keep the old blood pressure in check and see what happens in the next month. If someone like moyes wanted the job right now I would say sack him post haste but believe me he doesn't so we are where we are.

That is putting it mildly if you look at who puel and marcia signed and how much we sold those signings for it was absolutely a peak period of transfer business in the clubs history I would be on my knees thanking the gods if a puel and marcia Combo took over next.

A lot of confirmation bias going on here if your part of the "cooper out, Rudkin out everything is shit brigade" then that was a poor performance where we created little and threw away points with bad game management. If your in the "6 games is too early to sack a manager, give him a fair crack, there has been some encouraging signs brigade" then that was a spirited performance away at one of the best sides in Europe, where the lads fought there nads off and nearly got something. I think what ever camp your in you would have to admit that was better than you was expecting?

He had 5 games if we lost 5 - 0 the club will give him as long as possible as sacking him is an admission they got it wrong.

he gave the goalkeeping coaches credit not the manager, maybe listen to the interview before you start moaning about it!

annoying that people have to be piss-takey or snarky when it comes to Ward. Forget the statue jokes, forget some of his shortcomings in the past lets just call tonight what it was a fuching excellent performance from a city player that deserves respect. also not that it will matter to some of you but he seemed like a top bloke in his interview giving credit to the coaches straight away.