orangecity23

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I just can't see where a (league) win is coming from while he is our manager. He just sets up to waste 60-70 minutes of a match again and again, and for all the "pragmatism" he is supposedly introducing, not once does it yield a clean sheet, so we are always left chasing games at the end. The one time we actually had a lead this season, he still couldn't defend that properly eaither. Not once have we started with Mavididi and Fatawu at the same time this season. Mav had to sit on the bench for 3 league games while he dicked about with Bobby de cordova Reid, and now Fatawu is benched for a man who delivers 3 goals a season in a good year. Stephy's only started 2 games and already has 2 goals, imagine having that level of attacking threat and completely ignoring it for weeks.

I mean, that would be like delaying Everton's first PSR punishment so long, some other club got relegated instead of them ... oh wait.

This weeks Who Are you in goal form:

Oh, so now it makes sense. The case will be so big with the 115 charges, plus Man City cobbing the finest lawyers an unlimited supply of crude oil will buy, that when the lawyer bill comes in it turns out every club has failed PSR, because lawyers charge hundreds per hour just to read an email then not do anything about it, and the prem have been investigating for years. So Man City still win the title because we all end up with a points deduction.

He tried, but after watching all the old matches he got too distracted and reverted to his usual post game response:

A bit of quick googling / using the history section suggests this only really applies to Martin O'Neill. Ranieri won his first game vs Sunderland and started well, Pearson got off to a good start in both spells. Brian Little won his second game. O'Neill took over mid-season, didn't have an entire pre-season to get his team up to speed, but drew 5 and lost 2 in his first 7 before getting his first win. Which is still a better record than Cooper so far in the league. Rodgers won his second league game, Maresca won his first. Unless you had some older examples in mind, I'm struggling to think of any half successful managers here in the modern era who've had a worse start than Cooper.

After today, both teams will be trying to avoid going 2-0 up at all costs. Got 0-0, 999999 throw ins footballing war crime writen all over it, with both managers pleased to "get a clean sheet under their belt to build on".

If we don't beat Everton, I can't see where he gets a league win from. Maybe away at Southampton, but again, that's an away game and he has that abysmal away record at Forest and shows no signs of having a plan to do anything different here. in fact, everything seems the same as his stint at Forest - no tactical plan, constant demands for more signings, griping about offiicials and no sign of knowing how to win games of football.

When are we having our first decent attack then - after we're 1-0 down, or are we waiting until 2-0 down this time? If he wants to be pragmatic, here's a wild idea - how about trying to actually take a lead, then shutting up shop - you might shithouse a 1-0 win then. Instead, Cooper wants to set up like Homer Simpson's boxing career - just sit there and get hit and hope you land a lucky punch at the end.

Steve Cooper's approach to defensive midfielders:

I remember there being loads of second hand copies of zone of the Enders for cheap in the games shops in town at the time, as loads of people bought it to play the demo then traded it in. I got a cheap one and ended up really enjoying ZOE, even if it was a bit limited in places. The sequel was absolutely quality, loved that game. Most played demo had to be the one that came with my PS1, which had the Tekken 3 demo on it. Played it for ages until Mum bought me a used copy of Tekken 1, then gradually ended up getting 2 with pocket money ages later when it got cheap, then finally got 3 a year or so later. What a game.

I remember a few years back Norwich had a yellow and green 1st kit, a green and yellow 2nd kit and a yellow and green 3rd kit. There's surely an argument there they could have just had 1 kit

Like Tea for the Tielemans?

I suppose it might just be a coincidence, but if we do currently have an excellent crop of youngsters aged around 16ish, and they've been at the club since they were 8, that would mean they must have started around the title winning season. Can't have hurt to have that going on at the time, must have made the club look a hell of a lot more attractive than it had previously to kids around the expanded local area.

I say, good fellow from the BBC Sports Radio phone in. I would like to propose that my local team employs a new Football manager - GIRRITWALSHEHSOMONEWIRRABIRRAPASHUN.

This is free on Epic Games Store on PC this week, you have until Thursday to claim it.

Enid Blyton books sure have changed from what they used to be...

As soon as we actually won the league, the so called "neutral" fans, and a lot of the media, have been very keen to see us go back to obscurity. Our country is all about enjoying plucky losers, not winners. As soon as we won, the "narrative" shifts to waiting to see us fail. Put us back in our place. We saw the response when we sacked Ranieri, the rest of the country wanted us to sit there and get relegated without doing anything. In fact, that would have made the story of us winning the league even better for them.

The Premier League only have themselves to blame, 3 clubs get relegated every season, so it was always the case that this instance would arise at some point. If they and the EFL can't sort themselves out to write consistent, cohesive regulations that handle the movement of clubs between the 2 systems then thats just tough shit for them. Of course, if they hadn't fecked around so long before punishing Everton for their first PSR offence, then they would have gone down instead of us anyway. Then they could have quite happily punished us last season and we would've had to take it.

If Everton and Forest have a problem, then it should be with the PL, not with us. Their punishment was a points deduction, and it occurred in a season we weren't even in the Prem. They weren't relegated, so the impact of the points deduction was they finished a few places lower in the Prem than they would have otherwise? At best, you could argue their damages is a few million in prize money and not a lot else. The last time we were in the Prem they both finished above us anyway.

I have this situation on the way home from work every day, and I always use the right hand lane on the exit now - because there is always someone coming approaching from the left lane of the bottom left entrance who will come off at the same exit as me(ie they are going straight on), they definitely will not be giving way to traffic from the right when they join the roundabout at a squilluon miles an hour and try to undertake you as you are about to take the exit - so I find it easier to exit in the right of the two lanes then check mirrors carefully after exiting to ensure an absence of speeding clown approaching before safely moving into the left lane after the roundabout.

This tactic of "keeping it tight" by starting defensively cannot keep happening, because as it stands we pose zero attacking threat at all in the first half of games so far. All we've done is given ourselves a handicap which requires us to score multiple goals while chasing a game. Trying to keep it tight against villa meant we needed to score 3 goals in 20 minutes to win. I wouldn't be opposed to it if we had set up in a solid block which carried a counter attack threat but there isn't one. Abdul is the only pacy player starting and he is often pinned back at right back. We are getting penned in to our own half where we give up chances because it's hard to have the space to get any possession going. Having Mavididi back in would give us pace on both flanks, plus add one of the number 10s to give us a chance of retaining the ball and progressing it down the centre (it could even be Ayew at 10 if Cooper is determined to get his experience in there and his hold up play could be useful) and we could be a lot more solid at the back by having a threat in the other direction, as the opposition will have to back off a bit to not leave themselves open to a counter attack.

It was a simple misunderstanding. Cooper handed him a note that said "Go in for hard tackles, but make sure to play the ball", but he read it too quickly and thought it said "make sure to play with the balls".

Hopefully it's not like car insurance, where they ignore what you paid and only pay out the "book value" - we would be lucky to get enough for a bag of crisps if they paid ward's market worth