JimJams

Seems to be this bizarre idea about having a strong bench to effect the game later. I remember Stuart Pearce talking about it when he with Moyes at West Ham and how now it's a squad game and your bench is as important as your starting 11 because they're the players you can use later to change the game. I think the fact him and Moyes are out of a job now is a good indication of there being a problem with this kind of thinking. If you've got 25 players of equal standing and ability then yeah, fire away, be tactical with your setup. But if you have clearly better players for the job then put the best 11 out that you can, and maybe you won't have to use your bench to affect the game as much later on. And if you do, you make do with what you have. Don't hinder your starting 11 on the premise you might have to change things, not even knowing at that time what those changes will need to be.

Do you think we've been competitive because of Cooper or in spite of Cooper though?

It might feel that way, but not quite.

How about just winning ANY game?

From Cooper?

Shit. For me Cooper needed 6 points to warrant keeping from the run of Palace to Bournemouth. We've got 2 with Arsenal and Muff to play. It ain't happening. Other clubs being total shite at the minute is giving a false impression with us not being bottom 3.

Oh look, Duran scores again....

Ok, so put Fats on to create problems, but make sure you take off the only player that's really created problems so far.

We're giving him a lot to do every time he gets it as well!

Decent spell of pressure now.

Apparently booked for protesting rather than the foul.

Wilf needs to be decisive there. A bit like that. Wide but better.

Silly from Buo.

Get in. Only player looking capable of it today. Now go win.

Hit it straight at lil arms ffs.

Wilf did well there. Just didn't work out. Commentary can moan he should shoot, but Wilf is generally piss poor at shooting. Anyone else and you'd be hoping they do, but Ndidi would probably hit me before the target. And I'm 10 miles away.

Don't brag.

Faes asleep there.

If this was everybody's debut, who would you want near the team?

We have more technically capable players than the ones we're starting with though. And that's up to him.

Because they have one.

There's a good illustration of the problems. Wilf has the ball back down the left, Vardy runs forward for the space but he's being jockeyed, there's nobody in the middle. At all. And Wilf has no options.

The movement off the ball from others is absolutely shite though. Same thing just happened to Mav.