Filbert Fireworks

Can we call him Bilal Mademans from now on?

He certainly deserves more game time. At the same time the permier league is too intense to roll out the same 11 each week. Need strength in depth to rotate players. If the game plan is he has 30 explosive minutes to decimate a tired defence whilst another player spends 60 minutes tiring / containing the opposition. Its a team effort not starting the match doesn't have to correlate with his skill or pecking order in the team.

Steve Cooper new cult hero.......

Cooper does have a style of play but he allows players freedom of expression and clearly can motivate them. Maresca was an outstanding tactician but it was all about highly drilled sequences of play. Chalk and cheese but unfair to call cooper 'out his depth' 'a fraud' 'lucky'. If players had moments of brilliance his philosophy of play allows it. Never known such unnecessary vitriol. 2 back to back wins. Got the subs right Changed the shape. Came back from 2 goals to win. Maddison, Tielemans, Barnes, Fofanna couldn't manage that. What more do people want honestly. He's doing a good job several teams are below us. Hate to say it but he is a gifted manager or he wouldn't have the job he has.

Relax 3-2 Ayew hatrick. All part of the game plan.

Oh my days. Playing an attacking line up with two hugely young exciting takents and now its the bench that is a "disgrace". Give the guy a break.

Daka's not fast. The earth is flat The win and three draws has been luck. The stats say we lose 10-0 today. Foxes talk at its best.

The doom and gloom here. We're going to win 2-0. Southampton are woeful.

I'm actually feeling positive about this contrary to all rational logic. First win inbound. Think Bilal stayed on too long against Everton hopefully buonanotte starts again. 2-1 victory.

When we lost Enzo and with the potential points deduction the board made a decision. Carry on with the progressive style of play which with our squad would have been a massive risk. Could have had a Potter type but found ourselves adrift then faced with bringing in a dean smith / big sam type when its all too late. The alternative was to accept we would be in bottom 5 all season but try and avoid relegation playing ugly football and then rebuild next season with premier league survival secured. For context our striker is 38 years old which says everything about where we are at. 38 and in the most ruthless league in the world. They went for cooper knowing it would be ugly and as fans it's horrific to watch in comparison but it was a bold decision at the time and based on Cooper keeping Notts up they thought it could work.

Ayew Hatrick

Yeah Ayew did play well in some of the earlier games this season. Agree both odd signings now. maybe 10 years ago.

In our first 10 games: Everton (H) , Bournemouth (H) Forest (H) Given the quality of opposition and home advantage, these 3 matches it's fair to say would be where we needed to pick up 3 points. This alongside a couple of points from draws like we have achieved at Palace (A) and Tottenham gives a chance of stsying up. We've dropped points against an injury ravaged Everton at home which is a massive red flag so Bournemouth (H) really has to be a win for me. Lose this and its hard to see where we can pick up a win looking at the fixtures. Villa, Arsenal, Palace (A) Fulham (A) hoped for a point or so and we've bagged one. Average a point a game over the season and we should be safe. Our squad can manage this with its experience. Less than 2 wins from those 3 winnable matches and the board have to step in if we haven't found a win elsewhere.

Who do we bring in for those 4 games? How long is it going to take a new manager to assess the team and bring in their style of play? Those 4 games are gone either way.

I'm in the more time for cooper camp. Rodgers had 3/4 season which I agree was too long when it clearly had all gone stale. We've all got PTSD from that. Coopers had 6 games. Just 6. October gives him around 10. That's reasonable.

We had a huge transition this summer. Promotion managerial change. All the off pitch issues. 10 players left 9 joined We didnt assemble the squad untill a couple of weeks ago and with the off pitch issues we know Cooper didn't get his preferred targets. What manager does sail through that preseason perfectly he also joined us quite late. Maresca was a brilliant tactician. Simply brilliant. It was all about meticulous drills and patterns of play. Cooper is somewhat the opposite he provides motivation and allows the players freedom to decide and express themselves which at the minute looks like we lack a style but the 2 goals against palace and arsenal you see it working. It hasn't fully clicked yet but a win is coming. Transitions take time and patience. He has a good run in october now for it to click now and I hope we are all pleasantly suprised when it does. Reminds me a bit of MON remember thinking he was out his depth at the start of his tenure.

We'll beat Bournemouth and Cooper will be the messiah on here.

Walsall we played the discontents soumare etc

Minus Everton I think our results have been spot on if not exceeded expectation.

Don't worry if his hand is injured next week we have Ward. Imagine the score today with ward in goal

I'm not sure an out of their depth manager with 'no tactics or man management' manages to go to Arsenal find their globally inferior team 2-0 down at halftime and then bring the game back to 2-2 and keep it competitive for a while. They don't mange to draw against totenham, crystal palace and everton either and narrowly lose to fulham and villa by a goal. I do agree the Everton game felt a massive let down. If we don't pick up any wins over the next 5 games and get to 1/4 season in the relegation zone then fair enough that's the time to re-evaluate. The whole he hasn't won many games record is a bit mute really. Not sure anyone thinks his forest team massively underperformed he did well to keep them up and yes lost a lot of games to superior opposition.

2-2 you heard it here first

Relax, just luring them into thinking we aren't competitive then second half........ BOOM... Choudry, Bobby and Ayew triple subs at 80mins close it down and we only concede a couple more.

What do people think is an acceptable result for this game? 3-0 or less but the players work hard........

12 points, playing 3DMs and Ayew. The foxes talk members then do a walk of shame around the pitch mumbling about the underlying stats suggesting we're still on relegation form. Cooper and the crowd hiss and boo us throwing empty Chang cups and semi digested chicken balti pies at us as we walk around.