funkyrobot

Where’s the logic in keeping a manager in a job he’s clearly not able to do purely to make a stand against the sacking culture though? His decision making and in game management isn’t suddenly going to have a complete reversal. This is what we will get with Cooper, he’s displaying exactly the same traits that he did at Forest.

Not all opinion. Cooper isn’t playing his best 11. That’s a fact. His best team would include both Mavididi and Fatawu and would always utilise a creative central midfielder. His selections are based on pragmatism. That pragmatism has helped Cooper to a remarkable 19 consecutive premier league games WITHOUT a win. If they recruit a better manager than Cooper then they will get better results with the same squad , Enzo is a better manager than Cooper. He would’ve got more points with the same squad. They need to recruit a manager with at least that level of ability, irrespective of the style of play and then results will improve.

Cooper is not doing his best with a terrible hand. He’s not playing his best 11, he’s playing players out of position, his tactics are pragmatic to the point that we can’t create chances and he’s created a lack of belief in the players in their own ability. He’s currently doing a bad job with a distinctly average hand.

The Cherries are battering The Saints but it could easily be us on Saturday. Player for player how many Leicester lads would get in the Bournemouth team? If we are being honest probably only Mads instead of Kepa? Could be painful tbh. Cooper will probably deploy BDCR and Ayew on the wings and try and shithouse one of his trademark pragmatic narrow losses or, if we are really lucky, an undeserved draw.

Ipswich are better in every way than we are at the moment. Better coach. More pace, more aggression, way more belief and with a reliable, technically very good and physical goalscorer in Delap.

Gave the ball away for their 4th goal after not tracking Trossard for their 2nd. Fair to say he’s not had a great start to the season. He can do it at this level though - multiple England caps demonstrate this. Cooper needs to adjust his midfield set up to better suit his game as we don’t have many alternative options.

He’s got a 3 year deal.

There’s nothing in BDCR’s performances for us and tbh in his limited starts for Fulham last season that would suggest he has anything to offer at this level anymore. At this stage of his career based on the last 12 months he just looks lightweight, not particularly fast, not overly skilful and not great defensively. I’m not sure what he brings to this fight other than making up the numbers (very expensively) in training.

Winks is suited to the single pivot role, the team are better suited to it. In a double pivot it’s just not working. He looks frustrated, he’s losing the ball regularly and the game’s passing him by. Him and Skipp look static together and it’s no better when he’s paired with Ndidi. Our number 10 options ahead that the double pivot enables (Ndidi 👀, Buonanotte or EL) despite great endeavour aren’t really the creative game changers at this level that make a double defensive pivot effective IMO. Maybe in the future the two youngsters will, but it’s a big ask at the moment. I’ve not seen anything yet that indicates Winks has a grasp of the role he’s meant to be doing behind. He looks bewildered and frustrated.

Okoli’s passing in that 1st half was pinpoint accurate, Vestergaard levels in fact. It’s a shame they all went to a red shirt.

Reid effectively means we play with one less player tho?

Going in hard on your team mate is not a good look JJ, particularly not on a forum like this!

The tactics would be crying out for some pace on the break. Mavididi, Fatawu, Vards. Apply ‘The Cooper Factor™️’ however and the answer is simple - play Ayew as a paceless lone centre forward or as an immobile right winger and get on field spectator BDCR on the left. Job done Coops ✅

Already having nightmares of VK, blonde bouffant bouncing around as he finds himself hopelessly out of position as the ball goes over his head to Saka who rips him apart every time. Everything about the lad this season screams relegation battle. Already having nightmares of JJ, hopelessly out of position as the ball goes down the line to Martinelli or Trossard who rip him apart every time. Everything about the lad this season screams relegation battle. etc

But tbf McLaren is a poor manager. Irrespective of his links to Derby, he would’ve got the same reception at Leicester. It’s looking likely that Cooper is in the same category. I would say there’s very few of you Forest fans who would take him back. Yes there are always outliers who don’t like a manager from day over but when the majority of the fans see a problem then it usually means there is a problem. And the majority of LCFC fans see a bizarre team selection, a lack of cohesion and ideas on the pitch, negative set ups, an emphasis on our left fullback which is our weakest and least creative area and a manager commenting after a game about how poor the team performance has been as if he’s a paying fan rather than the guy that’s setting up the training, selecting the players, the tactics and (de)motivating the players to look like the bunch of National League strangers last night against Walsall.

It’s the zero minutes in the Premier League that is particularly cutting and can only demoralise a player like Ricardo. It’s poor man management from Cooper.

The full 90 minutes last night for a start.

With Cooper at the wheel I’ll expect us to get a (fortuitous) 2 points out of 15.

Pearson was infinitely better than Cooper. He had players actually playing for him. Players have already downed tools for Cooper.

Got to say against teams we are looking to beat I much prefer 1 pivot and 2 number 8’s irrespective of whether a fullback plays in Enzo’s way or Cooper’s way. We aren’t creating much in the final 3rd because two of our 3 midfielders aren’t getting high enough to help centrally. The teams see our one central outlet is a number 10 and can mark him out of the game like what happened with Buonanotte last night.

It works both ways! Justin has also suffered three years of recurring injuries and had a poor pre season AND has had a poor start to the season. Ricardo is the more intelligent footballer, a better dribbler and a more positive passer. Justin is more athletic and is better in the air. Neither are fabulous tacklers. Both have pros and cons but to completely give up on Ricardo (0 minutes in the prem after we continue to ship goals on our right) is very poor man management from Cooper.

I’m sure Cooper will publicly bemoan the poor performance of the team again tonight like he did on Saturday, speaking like he’s a fan with no control or responsibility for the shit show he’s created. 😂

I asked my budget AI generator to create a statue of Steve Cooper hugging Danny Ward. You get what you (don’t) pay for I guess when it come to AI. I tried though.

Tbf he was a very solid 3/10 tonight. Well played CC👍🏻

He needs to dust off the Spider-Man suit. Not used since he got rid of Puel.