The Doctor

We're not really still within catching distance of wolves, what is this commentator on?

hows that not a foul on BEK? full on from behind, took man and ball.

How long is left on Faes contract before we can be finally free of his half-arsed defending?

he's got school in the morning... like genuinely, a 15 year old not playing is not actually that outrageous.

Overrated, true tactical genius is having a player who's 6ft 7 on the floor and 4 ft 7 in the air.

is it not? Our goal difference is miles better than Palaces, and besides, Villa are a right mess and liable to go down

Much as I prefer wednesday, that's fantastic for the continued dream of a Leeds bottle job.

Can't loan ayew unless we extend his contract no?

you've been wrong and doubled down on it. "my mate the Dutchman", because of course saying he's crap but the problem with the club runs much deeper than who the manager is is being buddy buddy with him... fact of the matter is we've got a squad with delusional ideas of their own abilities and who are too friendly with the chairman. Much as I think Cooper is crap, we literally saw how the players just wouldn't play for a manager unless they like his tactics.

No, it very much is. We've seen that this squad have zero professionalism and will undermine managers for demanding anything of them.

we know full well though that the players would throw a strop and go to Aiyawatt to have a disciplinarian sacked though

https://www.premierleague.com/news/4071456 by 26/27 at the latest, newly promoted teams have two years to implement.

He really wouldn't, Stolarcyk was not fully fit and Ward was Cooper's second choice. which is why he blindly stuck with JJ while Ricardo was fit and we were conceding multiple per game from the right back position...

there's 288 players ranked: https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/leagues/47/stats/season/23685/players/rating/premier-league presumably there's a minimum number of appearances to appear in that. also, Wout, Vestegaard and Kristensen are all in the bottom 10% in addition to Okoli and Skipp.

Everton were in the midst of an injury crisis and were playing centre mids and Ashley Young at full back, and we managed one shot in that game. Frankly that game alone should have been a sacking offence ok, then he's still 2 points behind RvNs performance. They're both utterly shit. We'd have gone down with a similar whimper if we'd kept Cooper as we are now right, and we'd have drawn v wolves with a proper keeper in goal. So, are we claiming that Cooper would have magically stopped Hermansen getting injured during a match?

honestly I'd be surprised if he'd even manage as many points as RvN has, and that's a really low bar to clear. Like in terms of the games against opposition they both faced (Spurs, Fulham, Villa, Palace, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea) Cooper: W0, D3, L4, G: 9, GA: 14 RvN: W1, D0, L5, G: 3, GA: 14 Points the same, defence the same, only difference is we're scoring less. Then consider RvNs fixtures: Chelsea, West Ham x 2, Brentford, Arsenal, Everton, Spurs, Fulham, Palace, Villa, Man City, Liverpool, Wolves, Newcastle, Brighton. Let's assume that Cooper manages his same points return in the return fixtures (despite us barely laying a glove on Everton when they were under Dyche with 12 senior players). Does he manage 4 points from West Ham x 2, Brentford, Man City, Liverpool, Wolves, Newcastle and Brighton? I don't think so, man City, Liverpool and Newcastle are still comfortable losses, Brentford probably as well. so, 4 points from West Ham x 2, Wolves and Brighton? we lost v wolves because of Ward, and he was Cooper's second choice, so unless we're doing a butterfly effect, Cooper staying means Hermansen doesn't get injured, we have the same issue there. West Ham and Brighton in RvNs first week? the rot under Cooper was really bad at the end, I genuinely wouldn't see us getting anything from either of them...

literally no ones problem with Cooper was that he was at forest before, it's literally only his defenders (you, and the series of other accounts named after grace road) who bring it up.

can pretty much guarantee it tbh, you're forgetting how bad the last month of him was. Getting completely outclassed by RvNs Man Utd twice, barely laying a glove on Walsall in the cup, getting outclassed by Ipswich until they had a clear penalty not given and a red card then given, absolutely dog shit performance v Forest as their fans sung his name. We were getting results our performances didn't deserve back in August/September and that luck had clearly run out.

ah yes, because it's a pure coincidence that there's been several accounts with names themed around Grace Road acting as the Cooper Defence League... He was absolutely shit, there was zero tactical coherence, we were off bottom because of questionable penalty decisions at Southampton and Ipswich, and we'd have gotten nowhere near 17th, we'd have plummetted the moment Palace picked up form The revisionism is in pretending that Ruud being worse made Cooper in any way good. We'd not have got close to survival under him.

Could you not ask this on your main account? its because he was shit and we'd have plunged into the relegation zone the moment palace got their act together

cannot believe in 2025 I've finally learnt it's "she fell over" and not "cheat fell over".

Worse than that. Since Brighton (H) we've scored 4 in 13 games. 4 goals in a third of a season.

Leicester Fosse 1884, presumably playing on Vicky park.

Chelsea was on sky. it's only on youtube in full if it's not televised.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, long term this will kill the national team for precisely the question you ask. How many teams will decide that having their best youth products poached for a pittance isn't worth it and give up on having an academy (Brentford have already done it). And, when academies start shuttering en masse, how many top prospects will slip through the net?