Steve Cooper secured ten points from twelve games, while RvN has four from nine, so there had been a material downturn in points return. Considering some comments such as this is a Championship squad which any manager would struggle to keep up (which I agree with this), then surely Cooper wasn’t doing the desperately awful job that the majority were making out. His head was clamoured for but I feel we at least had a fighting chance of staying up if he’d stayed, based on evidence such as what he did keeping Forest up and our league position at the time of his sacking. I think we go down now with or without Ruud so need to think who would be best placed to see us do well in the Championship next season, which would probably be Dyche if he were to accept the job.