funkyrobot

The reason we had these players - Ayew, BDCR, Skipp, Edouard was down to Cooper. He’s the manager that created a team that would need a miracle to stay up. The terrible performance of the team during his time, the decline in results that was already occurring during his tenure and his neglect of creative players like Fatawu, Mavididi and Ricardo show him up as a catastrophic appointment after Enzo. He wouldn’t’ve kept his created team up, the fact that RVN was even worse is irrelevant.

No it was officially recorded as 10.18. There have been quicker goals, but not at Goodison.

RVN will be here until the end of the season, then he’ll be gone IMO. It’s probably worth Winsky booking an early holiday because he’s not getting out of the bomb squad whilst RVN is here. Same can be said for Coulibaly and Vesty (and his dog.)

Conceding the fastest ever goal at soon to be demolished, 132 year old Goodison Park. 10.18 seconds.

MacAteer gave Estupinan a real game last week at Brighton. His running and commitment rattled the full back and he also tracked back effectively. BDCR offers nothing going forward, no pace or physicality and it’s exactly the same defensively. The worst of some terrible signings this season. 2 more years too ffs.

Cooper fanboys will always hang their hat on the first 12 games where we were abysmal and used a combination of sheer luck and a relatively gentle start of the season compared to others around us (e.g. Wolves.) Compared to Cooper, Martin wouldn’t have had BDCR or Jordan Ayew anywhere near this squad, he gives youth a chance AND his football is closer to the style that the majority of our squad are used to. If I ONLY had a choice between Cooper and Martin I’d have Martin.

He won his battle against Salah. Again. Well done Thomas. Linked well with Mavididi too.

I much prefer Martin to Cooper tbh

Ruud’s inability to see the obvious and make a change when necessary, together with his inability to motivate or even get on with his players, alongside a reliance on nonsensical business speak when communicating with the press, fans (and presumably the players) would suggest that yes, you have indeed lost the plot.

It’s not exactly done much for his confidence though . Subbed at half time. He went to the wrong club but I’m not sure anyone else was in for him.

Yeh that’s true, Ruud’s flawed 5 at the back formation prevented wingers getting access to game time. It’s changed now though (far too late.)

From a tackling perspective you get away with way more in The Championship. That’s the physicality I’m talking about. Not pace. BTW, we are way off the pace in the Premier League in part because our squad AND manager are both significantly weaker than the one that got promoted.

Very harsh to be subbed off at half time. Strange loan to a club that struggles in possession and is in a Championship relegation fight. Getting hooked at half time again isn’t great for his development, he would’ve been better off here rotating a LW role with Stephy and gaining more experience in a less physical league.

Mavididi has barely started and mainly been used off the bench when a game that we’ve set up to block has gone. Even an off form Mavididi offers way more attacking threat and an ability to stretch the opposition than Bobby Reid or Ayew.

He’s the second person who has at some point been employed within Leicester’s youth department that I’ve heard from that seems very reluctant to give first team game time at Leicester to our young players. Obviously they’re the experts but maybe too much attention is given within youth coaching at LCFC to the risks that come with giving game time to the younger players within the 1st team set up rather than any benefits that might bring. As if the rawness they bring into a role can only have a negative impact. Sometimes, surely their unpredictability can be a real strength, particularly off the bench and particularly if its young players in a less risky attacking role?

Simple answer is we played more players that can create opportunities. Before today our formation meant only ELK was a creator. Today we played 2 extra creative players in Mavididi and K-Mac. So we had 3 players on the pitch who could create opportunities, If we’d’ve gone with Monga at RW rather than K-Mac then it might’ve been even better.

Like any fan you are entitled to protest whichever way you want and not attending is a legitimate way of doing that. You didn’t address my real issue with your OP. To suggest that those of us who do attend should be ‘ashamed’ of ourselves for turning up, as you did in your original post, was unfair and plainly a wrong comment to make to fellow Lcfc fans.

I can tell you I happily clapped Monga as he walked round on his own at the end. 15 years old ffs.

Saying fans should be ashamed of themselves for watching their club is just wrong, I totally respect people exercising their right not to attend as a form of protest but I can tell you there were no fans clapping the rubbish last night. In the first half the players, RVN and Rudkin would’ve been absolutely aware of the disdain the fans had for them. In the second half, the change in formation and players was rightly encouraged by fans who saw a big improvement in attacking intent. At the end of the second half fans were pointedly applauding the creative players that have been ostracised by RVN and had shown some effort going forward. Buonanotte, Mavididi and specifically Monga will have been boosted by the fans and that makes a statement to RVN and the club.

The point is there’s absolutely no way Enzo would’ve chucked money and contracts at Skipp, Okoli, Ayew, BDCR and Edouard. Our squad would’ve been way more competitive had the money been spent by Enzo than Cooper.

No LCFC fan disputes the terrible mismanagement by the KP senior team but If you don’t think Chelsea poaching our manager and our best player on the eve of the new season has had any impact on our season then you could be accused of being delusional!😂

Great to see Monga get game time. As he got up to speed he started to see success against an outstanding full back in Livramento. It makes a mockery of the loaning of Alves. He should’ve stayed and be given significant game time alongside our creative players - Buonanotte, Mavididi, ELK and kids like Monga and Evans.

Enzo is a better coach than Martin. He’s a better coach and man manager than Cooper and RVN. We would’ve been in a better position had he stayed and had we kept KDH.We certainly wouldn’t’ve signed Ayew, BDCR, Edouard or Skipp. He wouldn’t’ve sidelined Fatawu and Mavididi, he wouldn’t’ve used VK, he wouldn’t set up a midfield with just 2 non creative 6’s in. Bouba and Ndidi. He wouldn’t get in to arguments about commuting. Yes the club is a shambles from senior management down but with this in mind Chelsea effectively ruined any hope when they took our manager and our best player.

Already bumped into a friendly Geordie fan who’s gonna be sat on his hands in the home end. I’ve told him to look disgruntled, swear a lot and keep swearing about ‘fkin Rudkin’

Such are the levels of failure that RVN is demonstrating I can’t take his side on this debate. He’s made every player worse, his team selection and team performances shows zero intent to attack. If he’s here next season then we’ll continue to get stories like this and like Vesty’s dog because he isn’t creating any positive stories on the pitch. If this treatment of Winks is because he’s creating a bomb squad that he wants to remove from the club then he’s doing it without any of the tact that Maresca used at Chelsea that allowed him to drop players like Chilwell with minimal noise.