Ric Flair

Supposedly a Chelsea fan so you can predict what happens next summer.

Move heaven and earth to convince him to stay Leicester. Cooper needs to be alert to the consequences of his short term decisions too. Not easy but we cannot allow this.

HANDS OFF HIM YOU BASTARDS!!!!

It was Everton I was particularly unimpressed with him. Was marginally better vs Palace. 1st half vs Everton he was brushed off the ball twice very easily and he was constantly nowhere near any Everton player when they got on the ball. He got involved a bit more 2nd half and that control and shot over the top was almost Yakubuesque vs Derby but if ever a performance didn't warrant the full 90 when the bench options had pace to attack a 39 year old out of position it was last weekend.

Similar managers IMO. One has more of a track record in the PL though as his 2nd season he got Villa absolutely flying for a good chunk of 2020/21. Neither are appropriate for us though, I don't know how some fans seem calm about how far we've fallen in our standards.

This has whats disappointed me most so far about Ayew. For the most 0art he's looked weak given his supposed prowess at thus, he's also barely got near a man to close down either. Looks several weeks off full fitness which surely isn't the case.

Whilst you raise some fair points, I'd just like to pick up on our fans being too quick to judge managers. You've quoted 3 managers, all many years ago. Pearson was immense right from the off so I presume you mean the struggles from his 2nd stint in his 1st full season back where we blew automatic promotion and then the 1st season back in the Prem? I don't think that's got anything to do with accepting a manager to start with. You're always going to get growing questioning when things go badly wrong for large periods. O'Neill was a curious one. He started OK here, then it got very very iffy and because of the frustrations of falling short in previous years and the unravelling of the early promise from McGhee it wasn't a great environment was it and as fans we have to accept we got that wrong. Can't comment on Milne I was about 3 but if that's the long and short of where we may have got it wrong it's really not thst hideous. As an aside, almost every manager we've had that's done anything this century has started well here. Pearson did when he got us back to the Championship and took us within a shot of back to back promotions. Ranieri completed football with us inside a season and Rodgers had us averaging the points total that gets you top 6 immediately and that carried on for 2.5 years and we won the FA Cup for the 1st time. The only manager who's started abysmally here was Sousa and he was bounced out very quickly. Cooper's not quite reached that poor a start but it could unravel quite quickly. Shakespeare did extremely well in his caretaker role but I liken his time in 2017/18 when appointed permanently a bit to what we're seeing under Cooper and Vichai acted quickly there and he was gone by mid October when he was someone who had plenty of goodwill in the bank and who saved us from what looked like relegation the year before. Puel started immensely until about January, think he holds the best points total for a new manager over the first 8-10 games than any other Leicester manager in the PL including Ranieri, although I need to verify that. Dean Smith probably registers as not doing much, but he averaged enough points in his games that over the season would have kept us up, if only we'd have had him in before the Bournemouth and Villa home games let alone earlier eh?

I can't stop this niggling away at me either, which basically means a 7 nil defeat actually happening 😂😂

Should just play Fatawu as that high full back shouldn't they and Bounanotte as the RW that plays centrally. Would be far too radical though.

His impression of Tim Davies absolutely buried me an'all

I respect his comments about the criticism. Classy response to be fair.

We can't be accused of not giving air time to opinions from those who have worked with him!!!

Yeah 100%

I tell you what's galling. Aston Villa. From 2014-2022 we were head and shoulders ahead of them and the rest of the midlands. Behind the scenes this will have given us an advantage in regard to our academy too but I know Villa spent a lot of time, effort and resources to improve their academy a few years back. Anyway, fast forward to now and look at the respective teams and squads put out last night. Theirs is littered with academy players being given a chance, ours on the face of it might not look too shabby with Thomas and Choudhury starting and Iversen, Alves, McAteer and Golding on the bench but delve in to it and it feels a drop off under this regime compared to what we'd have seen under Rodgers or Enzo. I won't even mention how they've replaced us as the best of the rest whilst we're eating out of bins inside 3 seasons but here we are.

Can't remember where I read it but back when we appointed Cooper, there were some comments about the quality of coaches he brings with him to clubs aren't good enough. If true, I do wonder if that's effecting our players as much as Cooper himself. If the coaches are a massive drop off to previous regimes then it will feel very stark and likely add to the early disillusion. I was hoping that Hughes and Dawson may have improved it if it's the case but admittedly I don't know a massive amount about either.

Young ambitious managers ala Maresca. See us as a way to improve your reputation for a year or so, which is usually about the peak of a managers powers anyway. I've said it before, if I had my way I'd only ever have a manager for 1 full season.

MAD DOG 20/20

Hahahaaaa I think it's great. I will continue my pursuit of capturing various opinions 😂

Got a beauty for you landing tomorrow morning. MADDOG MARTIN ALLEN

I'd be fascinated to know if the nice guy image is actually real from those who've worked with him rather than what we presume.

A pair of kegs with shit in the gusset look clean from the front (unless extremely badly soiled)

How on earth has he got the gig over Alves tonight? This is personal now.

Sorry about that

Mavididi helped force his way back in by playing well 2nd half vs Tranmere. Let's hope both blow Walsall apart

It was inevitable Soumare and Hamza would play, that's a combination that could really expose us if their tracking of players is as poor as it can be. I hope we can be in a position to give Golding, Alves and McAteer decent run outs. Keen to see how Edpuard and this young lad Ricardo does.