wardyfox86

Didnt deserve to win the game on this showing anyway. Atrocious second half just trying to hold on from minute 49. We have better players than Cooper is giving us credit for. Sets us up like we're fresh out of League 2 playing Man City. We'll go down with a whimper with him in charge.

Steve

fair enough. As difficult as sarcasm is to detect in text form, I'm usually pretty adept. This one slipped through.

I can't think of many occasions where this HASN'T been written into a loan contract between 2 PL teams. It's pretty commonplace.

True. Look at the bucket load of goals he scored with the likes of Olise, Eze and Zaha supplying him I jest, because I do agree with you

I just can't see where 12 or so wins that we require will come from without taking games to teams at home. Coupled with Cooper's away record it's hard to see 30 points without even taking into account the points deduction. The bottom 6 already look like the mini league for relegation and Palace strengthened well on deadline day. Can we pick up points where they can't?

Christ, half a page of laughing at Everton...

What is the point in friendly games if not to get the players up to speed with the approach you're trying to implement? If the approach is to win the ball back well and then look clueless with what to do with it, preseason was a success.

A touch in the opposition box there, great half...

My calls for Cooper to go are starting early. Farcical lineup, we'll offer nothing today again. 0-3 loss. He'll quickly lose any support from the remaining fans once he removes Fatawu to make space for BDCR. Clueless...

No. It's only because we don't have him, that this forum elevates him to a level he's never reached.

It's no "chat shit, get banged" but it's not bad.

It's 3am and we're picking through the "less desirables" at the club.

Druggist.

Great, we actually need a few of them.

Just get some excitement on the bloody pitch. Mavididi has been poor but I'd have him in every team above McAteer, who is just painfully average at everything. He's not fast, not skillful, can't pass, can't cross. A waste of a winger. Thomas the same, does absolutely nothing. It's a shame cos they're academy products, but they aren't good enough for us.

The sad thing is, they barely look up for it either. And we are still labouring, it's a chore to watch.

Luke Thomas, 3 DMs, Kasey McAteer on the wing and Ayew up front is the most lower league a Prem team has ever looked.

Make sure he signs before he sits and watches or fringe players take on Tranmere

Meh. He just isn't a very good CB but none of our CBs are, they all look equally bang average at this level. Okoli can't get in ahead of our current 2 so that doesn't bode well. If selling him gives us licence to bring in a different CB, great.

Imagine telling somebody your club has spent over £30m after bonuses in the last week on players, and they ask who you've got

It's gonna look dodgy at times this season, but it we can muster up that level of effort... ...maybe!

I'm going 90+8 for the sucker punch

All I can say is thank God we've got Skipp coming in, he'll be the goal threat that's so badly lacking.

Would imagine Vardy for Mavididi will be the change on 60 minutes, perhaps why he's benched.