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I think the prospect of playing a deeper defensive line somewhat changes the dynamic of our CBs. They don't suit our current style of play but drop them back 10 yards where pace becomes less of an issue and defending becomes their one and only priority... Souttar, Coady and Nelson look far better prospects. Then we have Vesty and Faes who are also able to play higher up if needed. Don't get me wrong, I'd still like to see one or two of them replaced with a bit more quality but I don't think it's quite as bleak as it once was.

Tbh, the question shouldn't be why these clubs are doing this, it should be why aren't we? Is it a bit Sly? Ofcourse but it's within the rules that we had no issue breaking so...

The more I think about it, the more I think he's a good fit and has qualities we need right now. One of his main strengths is his ability to unify the players and fans. We need that. We are so fractured as a club just now. Fans, players, board, all of seem to be pulling in different directions, we need someone to bring us together and get a siege mentality going with what the club are facing right now. I believe he can do that. His track record with youth. We are in a financial mess right now. We need someone who can get the best out of every resource we have and youth can play a part in that if we can get someone who can bring them through, develop them and integrate them in the team. He has proven he can do that. Someone who can adapt to get the best out our current team. Like my previous point, we won't have all that much to spend so we need someone who isn't married to a specific way of playing that alienates half our squad. He has shown that he will adapt to what he has available. The low block is the perfect example. Not only will it suit almost all our current CBs but all our current strikers who all work better running in behind. He has shown that he's not afraid to adapt his tactics and system depending on who we are playing, how we are playing, who is fit etc. We didn't have that under Enzo and it showed at times. He has proven he can deliver what's expected of him whilst Woking with utter clowns in the boardroom. He will need that experience. Yes. There are negatives and his win rate in the PL is one of them, particuarly away from home but people forget, he is a young manager. Enzo benefitted from the "up and coming" "still learning" tag, he should too as they are the same age. Plus from what we've heard, he is a student of the game and has went away and analysed what went wrong, I have every faith he has learned from that. Plus, even with that win ratio... he achieved what he set out to achieve with forest. I wasn't excited by his appointment but I'm now 100% convinced he'll succeed here and people need to drop their desire to be proven right and get behind him.

Park life!

I don't think he was as bad as people are making out. He often found himself being doubled up on by Saka and Walker and yes he did struggle but there aren't many LBs in the world that wouldn't. He gave a decent account of himself other than the goal. I did say after their first game and @Ric Flair just repetead it. He does strike me as more of a LB than a LWB and I think that having him and JJ as more defensive options on each side whilst Ricardo and a new signing offers wore attacking threats would be a goid balance.

I think it's playing on repeat on sky channel 222.

I'm assuming that's out of 100?

England should consider themselves lucky. Second best all over the pitch.

I guess that's why you're watching the England game? Smart! Not much to smile about there!

Kane's funeral is going to be a riot. Trying to get him in the box is a nightmare!

Coached his brother didn't he?

There is absolutely nothing to suggest that RVN has a higher ceiling than Cooper. He's like 3/4 years older, has far less managerial experience and in his one and only year as a senior manager, he turned his squad against him.

And yet none of that alters or affects in any way my original statement that Enzo was not "tactically astute"

Unpopular opinion but I don't think we are any worse off with Cooper than we where with Enzo. Enzo is a better manager and I'm sure he'll go on to have a great career but a manager who plays a style of football that requires players better than we can afford to be succesful at this level and who is entirely inflexible in changing that system even when it isn't working is of absolutely no use to us. Cooper although not what we all hoped for has proven he can keep a team in this league and is willing to change and adapt his ideas to do it.

You having a laugh? He set the side up the same way in every game, regardless of who it was against and played the same way regardless of whether or not it was working.

The main positive is that 90% of this forum are against it, and seeing as 90% of this forum are morons (myself included) he's likely to be a roaring success.

Think Clark has done a great job with us but his time should be up after this tournament. He looked tactically lost against the Germans and tonight, he done nothing to try and knick that game. No tactical tweaks, 2 subs before the 89 minute, one forced and the other like for like. We had players like Adams who were non existent. Players like McGinn on a yellow and players blowing out their arse and he sat there drinking water... Thank him profusely for what he's done for us and get Moyes in.

I'll take that. We were poor again and I think Clark has suffered a stroke recently as his decisions have been shocking but we are still in it.

Said it at the world cup. It's excellent.

78 minutes for a sub and it Kenny Mclean!

We've scored 2 goals from 0 shots. Show some fcuking respect.

"Tierney is injured" as a sentence is older than football itself.

We need to get a striker on that atleast knows where the goal is. Shankland for Adams and absolutely anyone for Ralston. That guy is pants.

Fvcking Che Adams! I have no idea what Steve Clark has against scoring goals.

Apparently Cooper is nailed on.