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We've no idea if Coulibaly can defend, I can't imagine if many of us had even heard of him before we signed him. I agree with your other points, drop Mavididi, play Bilal and Facundo as 2 tens in a 5221 formation. We looked doomed, the Palace defeat has destroyed what little confidence we have and the players lacked any fight yesterday.

Yes totally agree, Ruud is no better but Cooper wasn't the solution either and certainly never over achieved. He had a full squad to choose from, his own backroom staff, Mads in goal, refused to play Ricky, underused Bilal and Fatawu and played 3DMs every game Signed Ayew, BDR and his piece de resistance wasting £20 plus million on Skipp. The club is where it deserves to be and this is our short to medium term future because we don't have the finances to buy better players.

Yeah let's all get offensive, very mature.

Yes let's sack the manager every 10 games and become even more of a basket case club. We're without Fatawu, Mads and Ndidi in this terrible run, all standout performers last season. I'm sure Dyche or any manager for that matter would love to come here to such a supportive environment and fanbase knowing they've got less than 10 games before the locals turn🤔.

Yes because he never played bilal

Because they're appealing the summer PSR decision when we won on a technicality. They obviously thought we would fail this time and could hit us with a big points fine, but that's backfired. So it's plan B.

I any normal business you would expect a return on your investment, but football is different. Just look at the money Spurs, Chelsea have spent without a return.

The PL are seething 😂 that we complied this time and are re-writing their useless rule book so they can appeal the appeal panels final decision. What a set of vindictive *****, just accept we won the Premier league and screwed your ****ing PSR rules. Leave us alone and save your money for the Man City appeals.

Yes winning is a habit, the same as losing regardless of the opposition. I think we should play a full strength team and beat QPR so we've got some positive form going into the Palace game. We can hopefully makes changes and bring on a few prospects when we're comfortably winning in the 2nd half.

I don't understand why the EFL are so vindictive and obsessed with bankrupting their member clubs. They're justing making the gulf wider between the PL and EFL and creating 17 permanent members of the PL and the 3 promoted EFL teams.

I'd play the first team so we can hopefully win, get some momentum and confidence because we sure need it.

Yes we've been lucky all season, Mads has won our 14 points on his own. 4pts in 7 is where we are at the moment. We're a newly promoted championship team with a shit squad, shit DoF, novice manager and going down unless he can work miracles which is still more hope than we had under Cooper.

Yes, great post and totally agree nothing changes until Rudkin goes. I thought the club was supposed to have learnt after the Rodgers debacle and they had a new strategy and succession plan which started with Enzo? Unfortunately the new plan ended with the panic appointment of Cooper, who's the polar opposite of Enzo. At least Ruud is more aligned with Enzo but needs time, even if it's in the EFL.

Well it shows you how clueless you are Coops, you played Ward 3 times in the league cup😂, must be the boyo luv eh!

I've kept them for myself, I wouldn't waste them on you Coops.

Fair enough, I'm the opposite I'm more confident with Ruud at the helm. I'm not blaming Ruud for picking Ward either because Cooper would gave done the same. He played him in 3 league Cup games so blaming Ruud for this is ridiculous, he was the regonized back-up keeper. At least he learnt from the mistake quickly and dropped him from the squad completely which I'm not convinced Cooper would have done.

Only because he was sacked before, the club was already on a downward spiral and it would only have been a matter of time. Cooper has done nothing in his career to suggest he would have gained points away to Newcastle, Liverpool, Villa or at home to Man City so stop trying to claim the recent run of results under him would have been any different. We're conceding too many goals from individual mistakes in defence which is costing us. Mads alone has been responsible for our 14 points because he's been performing miracles in goal.

Against champions league teams in Newcastle, Liverpool, Man City and Villa with a reserve keeper and no Fatawu, Ndidi or Ricky P. The only thing Cooper had going for him was luck and he's used it all up for the season gaining 10 points in 12 games. Considering the injuries and run of games 4 points from 7 isn't that bad. The only real blip was the Wolves game which was totally on Ward who would still have player under Cooper. I'm more confident under RVN than Cooper because at least he has a tactical plan whilst Cooper offered nothing and relied on luck which was already on the turn before he was sacked.

Not sure the players share that opinion when they got him the sack with their complete lack of respect towards him.

Apart for the assist on Barkley's goal.

And he also had Mads in goal for every game playing like a super hero, remember that

Undone by two individual defensive mistakes yet again.

I'm guessing we didn't budget for sacking Cooper in this year's accounts either. I'll be amazed if we escape a points deduction because the cretins of the PL will be gunning for us after their humiliation in the summer.

Who Ward?

Ruud is better than Cooper and we'll have more chance of attracting better players under him than Cooper in January We've shipped goals under Cooper with Faes and Okoli in defence, the same with RVN partnering Vesty and Coady. Let's face it we're shit but I am much more optimistic with RVN at the helm than Cooper.