The Doctor

I mean, probably is doing a lot of heavy lifting. it's a tedious argument to have but we don't know whether Cooper would be doing better than RvN, you can very easily make the case for him doing worse. Doesn't change that sacking Cooper was the right choice, we took a gamble which hasn't worked on the replacement

Crap premier league manager then, he's a championship manager

fair, Mecca bingo then

what, Nandos?

This is relegation manifest!

he's not dead?

Oh this is fun, shall we look at King Powers history? https://www.occrp.org/en/news/thailand-owner-of-leicester-city-faces-422m-graft-suit Now yes, the courts did dismiss the case, not because it wasn't happening but because the person bringing the suit wasn't an affected party so didn't have standing.

scoring... goals? is that part of the rules?

my opinion on Moyes was that he wouldn't come here, that if he did management again it would be because Steve Clarke was sacked and he wanted to end his career in charge of his nation (a return to a club he's a legend at does at least make sense). Moyes is worlds ahead of Dyche, and Dyche would be crap given the squad we've built. Unless you're having a complete turn over this summer, give him a miss and even then I don't want to see us just smashing it at a target man which is his way.

Dyche would be utter crap, come off it. if we're accepting relegation and rebuilding, get in a manager who isn't a relic, like Rohl, Wellens or Cifuentes at QPR

No he wasn't. He grossly misused the squad he had, focusing on a style that didn't suit the players abilities at all. Pragmatism is not "defensive football", it's playing to the strengths of your squad, rather than to a set tactical plan.

He does, his defensive workrate is really underappreciated (and made the signing of Ayew even more stupid) but you need him further up the pitch. Unless you go 3-5-2 and ask the wingbacks to provide all the width and attack, it's a waste of him.

it's pretty easy to argue against: Everton away is the only game you'd look at and say maybe Cooper would have got something, but it's worth remembering that he'd lost the players and performances were in the toilet when he was finally sacked. For me, we don't beat west ham or come back v Brighton under Cooper, we still lose at Newcastle, still end up playing Ward v Wolves and throwing that game, still lose the following 5 league games given Coopers sole tactic was hope Hermansen is possessed by the spirit of Lev Yashin. Decent chance we'd have beaten spurs given their injury issues but then Everton were the same position in the home game and we barely threatened them. Honestly with Cooper there's a reasonable chance we'd be on 14 points now.

I know people will blame Mavididi for the first but really he's got no business bombing that far forward when he takes an age to get back. I'd rather play Thomas at this point.

3 of the points were fortunate, the win v spurs, sure (the determination to rewrite history around the west ham game is weird af), but on the flipside we had the same bit of fortune v Everton at home which Cooper couldn't make use of, because he played a shite lineup and showed no desire to attack a team playing a pensioner winger and a cm as full backs. We would not be in any better position if we'd kept that clown, RvN was a gamble which unfortunately hasn't worked but it was still a better decision than keeping cooper would have been.

it does work like that though. yes, over a full season you tend to sit where you deserve to be, you can't fluke a full season, but over short spells you absolutely can and cooper was, we were comfortably second best in every single game under him, he was absolutely awful, that we've not improved under RvN shouldn't have people pretending otherwise Not having this rewriting of history on the west ham game. could it have ended a draw, perhaps, but a lot of speculative shots does not equal creativity. this is ultimately highlighted by the xG city 2.78 - 2.88 west ham, from a shot count of 8-31, the individual chances we created were far better than theirs, they took a lot of shots but only the goal and another were more than half chances.

from understat, what they indicate is that we're creating slightly worse or fewer chances under Ruud but giving up less good chances as well

factually incorrect. Cooper: xG 14.29, xGA 28.61, xPts 9.14 Ruud: xG 12.92, xGA 25.68, xPts 9.41 under Ruud we're creating marginally less per game, but defensively more solid than under Cooper, with roughly the same expected points return.

luck is absolutely real. Did we deserve points from Ipswich and Southampton under Cooper, no, but refereeing errors around penalties for them (Ayew v Southampton with his shirt pulling, Fatawus challenge at Ipswich) turned the game. Cooper was as bad as RvN has been, arguably worse given he's made our PSR position crap again with shit like Skipp ok, I'll grant he might have got a draw, although very different circumstances having Moyes Vs Dyche for Everton. Unlikely he'd have gotten anything Vs West Ham at home though so we're still in the position of the points haul wouldn't really have changed.

we got close to a point at arsenal because Hermansen was possessed by the spirit of Lev Yashin that afternoon, not because of Cooper's tactics, Cooper's tactics had us so exposed that we racked up a whopping 6 xGA

probably the fact that we barely deserved 50% of the points we got under Cooper, but had significantly more luck than RVN has. like, genuinely, the points dropped under Ruud, where do you see points that Cooper would have got? name games.

he talks a good game and you can see small improvements with Wilf back (the defensive setup is much more secure than it is under Cooper) but the attack is non existent and his in game management is poor. Id keep but that's more at this point wanting to plan for next season than anything else.

no no, I'm assured by the bowl cut behind me today that Ayew is the greatest thing since sliced bread and all you need is players that work hard.

he was decent but I think the set up generally was better, BDCR was much better at supporting his full back than others have been, so the right back position was nowhere near as exposed. still, promising signs and you'd expect he's in for a while

you mean when we decided to gamble and attack? yea, that does tend to leave you open. Ayew was better than he has been granted, but he still offers nothing