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Any side with JJ in can't be sensible! Particularly at centre half. His positioning, strength and bravery is very questionable at right back, he'd be completely flummoxed in that position!

I too don't have a problem with it. I also would leave work pronto to either get home to my family or do something more interesting socially! The last thing I'd want to do is hang around gassing to work colleagues all the time as much as I liked them. Some people get wrapped up in football as being a fairytale existence just because it's their hobby and probably wish they could do it themselves. To the players it's invariably just a job that you get paid very well for. To be honest, I suspect training 5 days a week isn't actually very glamorous and at times it would certainly bore the pants off most people. Particularly if you live in London (a separate issue), it's no wonder you want to disappear ASAP.

He only needs a sniff in front of goal too! 4yrs contract incoming. He won't take no for an answer, he's like a dog with a bone.

Well I've certainly seen him start to make runs but sometimes our lot don't get the ball to him, sometimes our players don't even see them! Do you really think that even if we had Harlaand or Salah that they'd be scoring every week with our lot and save our bacon?

Add that to him favouring Ayew and Reid also and you get the hatrick!

I suppose it would depend on the individual really, whether he'd been previously sacked by them or moved on of his own volition. A few years ago O'Neil got sacked by Forest, would we have had him back in preference to some of the others we've had? Good job Forest didn't refuse Cloughie just because he'd been at Derby County eh? What about Nuno now instead of Cooper or Van Nistleroy just because he's been at Forest?

Good question and probably a little bit of both. It would be interesting to know precisely where Cooper perceived his 'backlash' was coming from and whether it was right from the start of his tenure or when things had started to go wrong? When we think of rivalry between say us Forest and Derby, I think the biggest rivalry by far is between Forest and Derby, perhaps because historically, we weren't really a threat to either of them. Apart from personal contacts and relatives myself in Nottingham and Derby who tell me similar, my son when at Uni there played for two local teams. He being a Leicester season ticket holder got the occasional expected comment, nothing dramatic, but it was made quite clear, had he come from Derby, things may have been quite a bit different 🤣. I also think to a certain extent some of the rivalry had petered out somewhat since the 70s and 80s. But there again, probably since all seater stadiums and the completely different make up of crowds all over now, that too may have had an influence and watered the rivalry down? Of course there's still rivalry, but just not as intense or vicious as previously. When Cooper first got the job it didn't bother me personally in the slightest where he was from or people I knew but, it could be argued that that is probably due to me and them being of a certain age now? However, my son aged 24yrs and his friends and current teammates at a now local leicester team didn't appear to care much either, whether some rated him or not was a different issue, but, it wasn't because of who he'd previously managed when I'd watched matches with them in the clubhouse. I suppose we're all different but from what I generally heard or read, most people, whilst he may not have been their first choice, just wanted him to do a good job regardless.

Exactly how I read it too. Until the last game when at 2 or 3 down he lost confidence, at least previously Okoli at least had a bit of fire and grit about him. Coulibally on his limited showing has a bit more about him than JJ but then I'm struggling with the defence! If we need to try and win games, starting with Ayew and Reid just can't be the answer. Both El Khannouss, Buonanotte and Mavididi have to be playing for me. They are far more likely to give the opposition something to think and worry about! If we lose we lose but we're certainly not going to win by rinsing and repeating the dull and cautious approach and hoping for a lucky breakthrough or moment of good fortune. If you're achilles heal is in defence then don't try and throw a leaky sticking plaster over it if there's the possibility of playing to your strengths with better attacking players. A bit like England but worse 🤣.

It's not about my mates, I doubt if you put it to a vote on here people really cared much, it was more about the apparent lack of quality of his management that people judged him on. Neither was it the games he had us for in the Premiership, it was the whole of preseason as well!

Hmm. How much of that was down to him? I think Walsh was the man that identified the talent and that it was the threesome of Pearson, Walsh and Shakespeare that made it work. NP was brilliant for us but only because he was one part of a successful team.

If he plays the same team including Ayew and Reid with Buonanotte on the bench again, he needs stuffing with a ragman's trumpet!

Nobody I knew gave a toss that he'd managed Forest in the past. Why would they, it's not as if O'Neil or Morgan got vilified for their previous connections.

Personally I think just about anyone else, I don't think he's even Championship standard. No real pace, never takes his man on, any potential move invariably breaks down when the ball reaches him as he slows things down to pass backwards or sideways a couple of feet. Wouldn't even have him on the bench.

It was all going well until Mcateer? Or is he just there to sell ice creams to the front row of supporters?

There's a good chance also that RVN was the only manager we could get under the circumstances!

We'd have done better with Lady Penelope.

Probably his best game in a Leicester shirt?

Why for one minute do you think he'd want to come? Don't think he's been interested in the past and we're far worse off now!

All plausible until the last bit. Things have changed a bit since Pearson. Yes, we might, if we're lucky, get a manager in a similar mold but his ability to 'weed' is very limited now. We may even be able to have a good guess ourselves we'd but want rid of but with all the best intentions, if you have for example a player like Ward who you'd want to 'weed' your totally knackered if they have a contract, long or short and they don't want to go (and why should they if their future career prospects are poor and we were dumb enough to give them a long contract). Also, to those who suggest paying them off think again, as PSR constrictions will apply. Apart from Mads and El Khannouss, I don't see any readily saleable assets do you and arguably, whatever happens to us, we're going to need the latter but wouldn't be surprised if he'd got certain release clauses in his contract.

I'm an 'undecided'. To be honest, although I've had season tickets since the early 80s, the shines really gone off it for me, in fact Premier League football in general, it's all quite dull and very overhyped now. All fur coat and no knickers. As for Leicester City, it's not bothering me which League they're in because I've always looked forward to the new season, even in Division 1! Don't know whether it's just an age thing but I just don't have that sense of belonging or being part of something anymore. If I do renew it will just be in the hope that as in the past, owners, managers, staff and players and we can regroup and start again. I'd sooner stay in the Championship with good up and coming new young home grown talent busting a gut for the shirt. It's got to be more entertaining than this particularly with certain one's of the current mob wanting away and thinking they're far better than they actually are!

I think Woyo could possibly do it on the right but Mcateer is as much use as a chocolate teapot as a winger I'm afraid, a waste of a squad place! He's not fast and can't take the opposition on.

I wouldn't even consider him for the bench!

Absolutely. We've seen Mcateer last year and this and it's clearly obvious that he's not good enough for us in either division, so why waste a squad place? If someone at the club still thinks he is then why didn't we just loan him out to Sunderland both for experience and game time?

Not really, supposedly Manchester City and Chelsea are interested in him. We've got brilliant facilities at Seagrave but it's merely a white elephant, clearly no decent coaches there over a long period of time now! All fur coat and no knickers. Our system of sending players out on loan is slow, too late and to clubs that are hardly well thought out, Braybrooke to Dundee for example Compare that to certain other clubs like those two mentioned and he'll at least get some decent coaching.