The Doctor

At least when we get trounced by RvNs team, he'll be a manager the board are aware of for when Man Utd appoint Southgate and we finally get rid of Cooper.

god I hope it's Southgate. Still, the season of sackings has begun, let's join the party Top

yea, honestly I'd rather see Kasey Mac coming on than Ayew or BDcR, he's an exciting young winger who can put in a decent defensive shift and does feel like he can create something

this is basically it. Moyes is semi retired, will likely only take one job and that's the Scotland one once the SFA gets a president that Clarke can't bore to death

were arsenal fans always this pathetic? "gonna community note the PL VAR explanations, that'll show them"

he didn't though did he? away he was saved by the ref ignoring the most blatant penalty you'll ever see then the jammy triple deflection, at home ok one of his subs was involved in the equaliser but was more their keeper having a worldie

same as every tier list - vibes. and Derby are next to villa, whoever made it just used the lineart of the ram so it blends into the black background

we won v Bournemouth having been ahead at half time? or is that literally just the results of those 45 minutes, i.e. over the second half of the Bournemouth game it was 0-0?

eh, I'd say if the sole post someone makes saying to sack a manager is in the hour or two after a defeat, that's probably not a seriously held position but an emotional reaction (it's why I think the match rating posts shouldn't go up until the following morning, think you'd see far less variability in manager confidence with that). 100% on that thumbs down, and that's because while he adopted enzos system first half with the inverting full back, he doesn't understand that system or how to manage it, so he can't do tactical adjustments to it. It's why a properly run club should have a consistent idea of a stylistic identity and identify managers to fit that - we recruited Souttar under Rodgers who immediately then didn't fit Enzo ball. We re-signed Vestergaard for Enzo but he doesn't fit Cooper's ideas. When cooper inevitably goes, is the next manager going to look at Ayew as useful to his plans? probably not. Much as Cooperball is absolutely hideous to watch (I'm still fuming at not attacking Ashley Young at home once), and he's not a particularly good coach, it's a symptom of the fact that the higher ups are inept.

there's a huge difference between saying "oh just **** off you bald twat" in the heat of the moment following a defeat and actually seriously wanting him sacked.

that's not actually true though is it? you started comparing people overreacting immediately after the defeat at Plymouth with this. people say shit when panicking immediately after a defeat like that that they don't necessarily seriously believe

Facundo shouldn't be trying to dribble out but even once they've won it off him, we win it again on the cross, and JJ then ****s up the clearance. it's not by any stretch "all on Buonanotte"

I think there's very little overlap between Enzo out and Cooper out, as the Enzo out lot (the sustained ones, not the brief panic after Plymouth) were about style and complained of Enzo ball being boring. As such, they like Cooper-ball because it's drastically different (and far worse to watch, but they won't admit that)

yea, and they're the same clowns currently defending Cooper, because they'd rather lose pluckily playing hoofball than play football

Enzo got a level of vitriol after the 3 defeats in four from a run of Brizzle, Plymouth and Millwall away and Norwich at home, but it quickly dissipated, it was not anywhere near as sustained as this, because right from preseason this twat was stinking the place out.

what a load of bollocks. the reason people aren't having Cooper is because he's not capable of a 7 game winning streak or even anywhere close to it. Arsenal v Bournemouth had the mitigating circumstances of having a player sent off early, yesterday was simply the result of a manager who is tactically inept and cannot motivate a team for shit (have we ever come out the blocks at the start of either half under this clown?)

so, he's a decent championship manager (although needed Jon Moss's peak match fixing abilities to get through the playoffs, that final was so obviously rigged), but then just about survived on luck and one top half team choosing to absolutely detonate itself... he's not anywhere near good enough for this level.

by using all 5 subs, rotating the squad and who comes on, and, importantly, not leaving it until the 89th minute to start making subs

we should use our bench each game and ensure that the players we view as back ups are sufficiently match fit from 20-30 minutes in some games to then start when needed. this is obvious and playing the fool doesn't suit you

training and match fit are two very different things, don't be disingenuous

difference is Enzo could coach it well and had them drilled on what to do when teams moved to counter act it, Cooper doesn't understand the system so can't coach it properly

Ricardo should be playing, but he didn't have a great game because he's not match fit because Cooper hasn't even used him off the bench before today. He should be playing, and the poor performance is down to Cooper being utterly useless at squad management and so not keeping players fit. clear enough or do you want me to draw a picture?

my point is you've got a squad to use, and you do so by not leaving your subs until the 85th minute so players don't have match fitness. if you don't understand that, probably time to stop drinking and turn in for the night

not really the point is it? we didn't have one on the bench tonight, the point is that, accepting daka is injured, we've got 24 senior players plus youth teamers, at least 4 senior players miss out each week