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RVN probably has to drop Faes but with Okoli being injured, Coady and Vesty are the only other options - and they would surely be the slowest CB pairing in PL history. Don't envy Ruud trying to pick a defence with what we have available.

Oh FFS, not another game. Please make it end!

Hopefully that is the last time this moron has any involvement at our great club. One of the worst managerial performances that I've seen in a long time.

Dawson is a certified moron. Seriously.

Hard to disagree with that. Even Southampton's general play and organisation is streets better than ours. We are so passive and easy to play against. Ruud has a massive job on his hands. This game was a write off as soon as we ended up with some even more clueless than Cooper in the dug out.

Utter garbage. Our default setting is to play back or sideways. There is virtually zero positivity or pace in this team.

Obviously the squad is not great but we're not helping ourselves by repeatedly selecting the wrong line ups. Surely if you've got one game in your charge, you go with an attacking line up and have a go FFS.

Hopefully he will go straight to the dressing room and change about 5 of the starting XI.

Surprised that Dawson hasn’t played him instead of Facundo.

Not to mention the useless Coady. Hard to imagine that 3.5 years ago we missed out on CL football on the last day of the season for the second time running. The club is just a mess. Fielding this line up in the Championship would be disappointing.

Fully expecting that Dawson will be sacked immediately after the game. To be honest, for picking this abomination of a team he should be sacked before the game.

Absolutely hideous selection, worse than Cooper would have picked. Echoes of those games that we wasted under Stowell and Sadler in the relegation season. Can't Ruud just take over now, please?

This feels right. Really hope that fans will actually get behind the team more in home matches now that we have a manager we believe in. Really need a more intimidating atmosphere at home, given the quality deficit we face on the pitch.

Hope this is true but I won’t believe it until I see it. Still scarred by what happened in the summer when we were told Potter was a done deal one night and then the next day we ended up with Cooper.

100%. At least by appointing a young up and coming manager, we go into things with the possibility they could be great, and make a huge impact. Better that than settling for a tried and tested type whose ceiling we will know in reality.

Tbh, you look at that West Brom team and you have to think he’s doing very well to have them challenging for the play offs.

The only PL game all season that Man U have won convincingly was against us. They’re bang average and we barely laid a glove on them.

How come he left Benfica in the summer? Was he sacked?

Only 7 pages of comments after a PL game says everything about the current apathy within the fanbase. Feels like we are in a rut like Newcastle were when they had Steve Bruce as manager. We desperately need a manager that the fans believe in and can get behind. At least then we might be able to create a siege atmosphere and make it harder for away teams at the KP.

Been watching this. Fulham are a very impressive team to be honest. Play some really nice football and look very well coached with some good technical players.

Lavia trod on Reid’s foot. Definitely a pen.

I get your frustration at the state of the club but as much as I want Cooper gone, I can’t wish us to lose a game, especially against a club who have repeatedly asset stripped us over the last decade.

He surprised me in his early performances but this always seemed an odd transfer for such a high fee, especially given we didn’t have a large budget and had more pressing priorities.

Dear God, that would be even worse. Will Vardy even get a touch in their half?!

Agree with nearly all of this but I kind of get the decision to bring in Okoli for Vesty. Vesty was rinsed for pace by Jackson in the Cup game last season.