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Many reports suggest otherwise. Talk of at least 6 players and his assistant going to the board to complain about him.

When was the last time we hired a manager with NO PL experience? KP don't play that game.

Didn't he get the sack because he had a falling out with the players?

I definitely think that sacking our manager first to get a jump on the pick of managers before Southampton/Ipswich etc has certainly played a part here.

After yesterday, I suspected issues between him and winks. Skipp was stripped the minute Harry went down which suggested (to me anyway) he was carrying an injury or Cooper knew he just wanted off the pitch.

Vesty and Ricardo tonight!

It's one thing being expected to lose a game. It another to not even attempt to win it. He had no intention of trying to win that game yesterday, he just didn't want to lose and I don't care who we are playing, we should at the very least be trying to beat them.

It'll be Moyes, RVN or Potter. I highly doubt we will be looking at anyone outside of those 3 men.

Fine.... she's fcuking clueless too!

People need to realise that Top either doesn't understand what he's looking at or doesn't care. He's happy to let Rudkin "run" the club for him and he DEFINITELY doesn't know what he's doing!

That's plenty for me. No point in watching that.

Getting ready to watch your team play shouldn't sound like your about to attend a pool part at Michael Barrymore's house.

Inresting thought about the nations league. If Scotland win tonight, we stay in the top tier of the league but is that better? We aren't going to win the tournament so we can't qualify for the euros through it. However, if we lose and are relegated down, we then open up another path of qualification outside the qualification groups, against teams we have a better chance of beating. The last two tournaments, we've benefited from the nations league. We qualified directly through it and last time, we had the safety net of playoffs if we needed it. There IS a benefit for teams like us in the lower groups but none in the top tier so it begs the question, why would we want to win tonight?

I've got two frames beside my bed. One is a congratulations letter my wife got me from the club for our wedding, signed by the squad and one is a sheet with all our fixtures/results, squad, stats and final league table of our PL winning season that my wife gave me on our first anniversary.

Hermansen Faes Kante Winks Vardy

Until they change their relationship status, I wouldn't get too excited.

Vardy and Vichai are the only two I can settle on. The other two would be between O'Neil, Pearson, Ranieri, Walsh, Lineker, Andy King and Kasper.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying that having a manager that CAN'T or WON'T address our tactical fragilities isn't a better option than replacing him with someone who MIGHT come up against the same problems.

It's going to be Alex Scott. Fills quotas (gay, woman of colour) whilst I also think she's good at what she does and has good knowledge of the game.

Then he isn't a football manager. Adjusting and addressing tactical weakness' whilst exposing the oppositions IS his job. Stripped back, that's his primary function as a manager. Just ignoring it in fear of creating an issue elsewhere isn't really an option.

Who said anything about making us contenders? It's simply a case of addressing a clear weakness in our game which you would think a manager of a "reasonable pedigree" would do. Yet, he's hasn't even though it's been exposed all season. You are right though, we are only fans so if we can see this weakness then actual managers of the opposition certainly can and taking no action is going to result in more of the same.

Yes. Asking him to play a role he's comfortable with? Absolutely. Especially if you protect him with Fatawu (who isn't one to shy away from his defensive duties) playing a more traditional winger role, instead of this drifting into the 10 position nonsense that Cooper likes from his RW which leaves the RB even more exposed.

We don't need to replace him with anyone. Just scrap this high RB nonsense and have our fullback in the fullback position. Common sense says he won't be out of position as much if he isn't required to leave that position.

I'm the same. Will have the game on in the background but don't pay the same attention I used to and don't really care when we lose all that much. Same as on here, agonising and discussing our club for hours seems absolutely pointless when no one t the club seems to be doing the same.

This is one I wouldn't mind Ndidi, Skipp and Winks start. Crowd out the CM position and have Buonnanotte start on the right, drifting in centrally with Ricardo overlapping and JJ tucking in with the CB's to make it a back 3 on the ball.