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The crowd tried to lift them when we conceded again but there was nothing coming from the players. As I said, to continually chant and cheer during that second half required a good set of beer goggles. They were very poor and gave no hope at any point of getting back in the game. I can’t even remember a shot at goal in that second half.

Not a bad plan, only problem is Vesty and Cooper don’t get on. The ‘ankle injury’ aside, he isn’t going to get much in the way of game time whilst Cooper is in charge.

Okoli was poor for two of the goals last night, still early days to judge whether he’s going to be a success.

We had ONE shot on target. We can’t defend and we created very little going forward and nothing in the 2nd half. Cooper is failing at both ends of the pitch. We concede too many goals/expected goals and we don’t create enough opportunities to win games considering the amount of goals we concede.

Looking at our full back options he should’ve played significantly more than zero minutes before last night which ensured he came in undercooked into a big match. It’s not so much hype as in the fact that with our current FB options he should start more often than not because we are so weak in that area. Hes competing with JJ, VK & Thomas ffs.

Nonsense?? You honestly. don’t think that home support at all clubs is not influenced by what’s going on actually on the pitch? It’s absolutely the same everywhere. When things are going well OR the team is fighting then the crowd will back them. Neither scenario occurred in the 2nd half last night. An away support is always loud when the away team is in the game. All of the fans are concentrated into one area and many will be well lubricated by kick off time. Forest are in form and outplayed us. Their fans were great because of this. When Forest were shafted 4-0 at ours a couple of years ago their fans were understandably crap by the end of the game.

The atmosphere is massively influenced by the performance on the pitch. In the second half the team looked clueless, lacked conviction and by the end were going through the motions. When this is considered on top of the club being lead by a manager who is unpopular, there’s no surprise that the atmosphere was flat. To happily sing and cheer throughout that second half would’ve required the delusion that only multiple pints of beer can provide.

On a shitness scale he was less shit than Justin and Okali and equally as shit as Faes. That’s why I’m not sure why you only highlighted him.

If Ricardo was awful what do you make of the performance of Justin? Okoli? Faes? Surprised his name gets picked out, particularly when you consider he was given zero minutes before such a big match. Out of the 4 defenders, he certainly wasn’t the worst and arguably was on par with Faes as the best of a bad bunch. Cooper hasn’t got the best out of this team over 90 minutes against any side we’ve played, never mind a confident Notts Forest team.

Ricardo was by no means the worst player on that pitch today but if you seriously expect a player to come in from the cold that’s evidently not trusted by the manager and so won’t have great confidence, who will have minimal match fitness, who is then asked to play a key role in a new system (employing an inverted fullback with a number 10 wasn’t how Enzo set up) against a rapid in form Forest team in the PL and somehow think it’s reasonable management of a player then I can only assume you’re a mate of Stevie C. Ricardo’s rustiness tonight was a result of Cooper’s management of him and the tactics that the struggling manager deployed during the game.

JJ had Patson’s 50p boots, his 50p head and even developed 50p thighs today. The ball was coming off him at perfect angles for the Notts Forest lads!

You can post comments on why you’d want Cooper in on this thread to be fair and you’ll get a much bigger audience than you would if you posted on a ‘Cooper In’ thread. You’d probably be the only one in it after tonight’s performance.

Because we conceded two soft goals against Southampton and because the team we beat was Southampton.

What’s the point of unlocking it? There’s surely no positive comments about Cooper’s management of the game tonight. His name was being chanted with glee by the Notts Forest fans at the end and that should tell you how bad he was.

Maybe he isn’t, but I think it reflects badly on the manager who has shown zero trust in him (zero minutes) this season but then expects him to come straight in and perform a complex role that until that point Cooper hadn’t tried once since the season has started. It’s really poor people management in my opinion. I’d also argue that based on what we’ve seen this season and today, he’s definitely no worse than Justin irrespective of whether he’s good enough for the prem or not. I think there’s at least as much evidence that Cooper isn’t good enough as a PL manager.

Expecting Ricardo to come in from the cold, with ZERO minutes in the prem before tonight and then play the inverted role for the first time against an inform local rival with a rapid quality winger was a big stretch and for me reflects badly on how he’s been managed by Cooper. And as such it’s part of why it’s not unreasonable to have this Cooper out thread despite us being on 9 points. It takes players time to get into a season and by not giving him any time before this at premier league level it’s almost as if he set him up to lose. The fact is though , despite being rusty, he still looked way better than Justin, who yet again can be directly blamed for a goal but appears to be undroppable by Cooper.

I’d take a shitty adidas template over that monstrosity every day of the week.

He’ll start Fatawu on the right but he’ll drop Mavididi on the left, replacing him with BDCR as he loves a lob sided set up and he’ll be hoping not many will remember the VK/Reid left hand side ‘partnershiT’ at Fulham.

Have you seen the Nike Chelsea home kit this year? 🤢

Southampton could probably bring up that one foul on their right winger that wasn’t given but other than that not sure what complaints they can have? The pulling of the shirt by Ayew didn’t have any material impact on the play, the pulling of the shirt by Fraser clearly prevented a clear goal scoring opportunity. They were diving a lot and the ref saw through it. The extra time was in part because of the delay in treating their player and because they were time wasting at every opportunity. We all know that’s standard Ramsdale practice as we’ve been on the wrong end of it before, he needs to learn - it’s not as successful when you play for a team not in the big 6!

The lad wasn’t getting anywhere near the ball when Ayew pulled his shirt. The commentator was making way more of this than it was. Shirt tugging only really gets picked up on when it directly impacts on a player on the ball or ready to make contact. If that’s given as a penalty then you’d get 5 given every match. The Fraser one was different as it very clearly denied Vardy a goal scoring opportunity. Clear penalty and a very clear red for Fraser.

Don’t know whether he was injured but he certainly didn’t have a good 1st half today. We lack any creativity with him and Ndidi playing as a double pivot. I’d prefer us to go back to a single number 6 pivot (Winks) with two number 8’s - Skipp becoming an option as a number 8 in competition with Ndidi, Buonanotte, El Khanouss. The options at number 8 would reflect the opposition although it would be difficult to drop Ndidi at the moment.

I wonder if BDCR could play there? 🤔 Can’t think of anyone else.🤪

Tbf BDCR came on and accidentally nearly got two assists - a sliced shot that curled spectacularly to give Fatawu a chance over the other side and an air shot that hit his standing leg that gave Vardy a great opportunity. 😂

Winks was outstanding, allowed to play in his best role as the single pivot and with Southampton sat back, he could play it in their half!