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Ruud Van Nistlerooy by a clear margin.

Greatest Leicester player of all time. I haven’t lived local for many years but I went to the 2015/16 home game against Palace when he scored when we won 1-0 (halfway through his record breaking run) and it was a big three points and my favourite memory ⚽️

Wow - When did you get that printed?

Well done. You have named one person with zero premier League experience. I stand corrected. Liam Rosenior would have hit 50 points minimum.

But the reason there are so many comments like that is because it’s true. We’d be on circa 30 points now so, although in trouble it wouldn’t be a total embarrassment. We’d have had goals to cheer (scored in almost every game under Cooper) and Vardy would’ve hit the 200 goals mark for the club. And the main point is nobody better wanted to come here. Nobody can name anyone.

Even if you didn’t like Cooper, you can’t say he was just as bad. It’s biased and incorrect. Cooper was miles better than Ruud in every stat going. We scored in every single PL home game under Cooper and always picked up points against the teams around us. To go from scoring in every home game under Cooper to not scoring in nine on the trot under RvN shows the gulf between them.

Cooper’s goals scored and points per game were far superior to RvN’s so we know a big upgrade is possible. A traffic cone would be a significant upgrade on RvN.

The Cooper bashing still goes on doesn’t it? The bloke got 15 goals and 10 points in 12 PL games out of this squad. Who realistically could have we got that would have got a better return out of our squad than that? I’d argue the best managers in Europe would do well to get this team to score 15 goals in 12 PL games.

We scored in every single home game under Cooper.

He is our worst ever manager. There is no argument.

He is miles and miles worse than Steve Cooper in every stat. Steve Cooper got 12 PL games. We got 10 points and scored 15 goals in that period, a standard we could only wish for now. It’s not fair to compare them.

Yeah but when you compare with cooper it’s like for like on similar fixtures 😂

This is all Cooper’s fault. We only scored 15 goals in 12 PL games under him. Should’ve got Ruud in sooner.

Cooper got 15 goals scored and 10 points from 12 PL games with this sorry squad. I wouldn’t say that’s bad. Even a very strong manager would struggle to hit one point per game on average with this lot.

How on earth did Cooper get this lot to score 15 goals in 12 PL games?

Marginally 😂

Please, please, please tell me you are trolling.

I think it will be Wolves away (fifth last game) when we are officially relegated. Even if by some miracle the gap is only ten points going into that game, Wolves winning would leave us 13 points behind with four games left. For it to be before then, the gap would have to be at least 16 points before the game, and I’m not sure Wolves will pick up enough points by then.

You don’t know that we wouldn’t have got close though. He picked up ten points out of twelve games, a run rate that would see us out of the bottom three now, and we scored in every single home game. We may have gone down anyway, but there’s nothing to back up that we wouldn’t have got close. A good manager would find it a challenge to keep this squad up, so Cooper’s points return and goals scored record doesn’t suggest that he wasn’t ‘in any way good’.

There is a lot of revisionism about Cooper’s brief reign on here. It is regularly commented that we have a Championship squad (which I agree with) and that Cooper was awful. Well surely if we had a Championship squad then logically Cooper did a pretty good job in the circumstances? Scored in every single home game (couldn’t be more different now) and regularly picked up points (again, couldn’t be more different now). We’ll never know if Cooper would’ve kept us up or not, but we’d have had a much better chance than we do now. One thing he did ensure is that we didn’t break Derby’s 11 point record low, which would have been an horrendous possibility if Ruud had been in charge the whole season.

Actually, the Opta Supercomputer currently has us at only a 98% chance of relegation. Must be one of RvN’s relatives in charge of it.

The people who called for Cooper’s head really can’t get over it can they? Do you honestly believe he would have done worse than eleven defeats out of the last twelve games and with a goalscoring record this dreadful? Under Cooper we scored in every single home game. Yes - we may have gone down under Cooper anyway, but he had a Championship level squad regularly scoring goals and collecting points so we wouldn’t have to suffer such apathy and resignation that we’re experiencing now. If RvN was manager from the start of the season we would be in serious trouble of breaking Derby’s eleven point record low.

I think relegation will be confirmed at the Wolves game. They’ll be at least ten points clear of us going into the match and when they beat us the gap will be at least 13 points with just four games to play.

RvN is clearly miles worse than Cooper. When you look at all of the stats it isn’t even close. But yes, we need to move on but to who? Dyche? Would he even want the job?

All the evidence shows Cooper would have kept us up. Kept Forest up in similar circumstances. We were out of the bottom three when he was sacked. Scored in every single home game. Picked up points in every game against teams around us.