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I thought that was a decent starting team …. Until I visited FoxesTalk!!!

Daka El Khannouss Thomas Are my picks… plenty of room for improvement and the raw materials are there - Fit young players, hopefully eager to thrive

Again, if we keep doing what we usually do we’ll continue to get the same (sh!te) results

Hopefully they’ve presented a new and different future vision … otherwise he may look to revise this comment!!

Yes that’s it. You definitely didn’t spend months defending Rudkin with the line, “we don’t know that he’s responsible for [insert blatantly obvious things a DOF has responsibility for] So much so you became caricatured as either Jon or his Mrs / mate. It’s definitely me misremembering 😂 Let’s not revisit that debate again now (have you been deleting your best bits yet?) It’s just great news that you’ve come round to thinking that the Director Of Football, at a football club, would be responsible for, well, footballing stuff. Ruud has already made improvements!!

Wholeheartedly agree…. We need to accept that we need time and stability to progress a plan. At least we now feel there’s somebody with a plan so can play our part in getting behind it

Well that burst of unity lasted well!! Nearly 1/2 page in fact!

I feel like I’ve just entered the Twighlight Zone

I thought it was nine years ago and eleven goals??

I’m just glad we didn’t manage to persuade him that he could manage us from our own golf course - I have a feeling you’re right about the time out not doing him any favours

Maybe. Who knows for sure, I’ve read he’s still being paid…. But then I’ve read Moyes / Potter / RVN have all been appointed as our manager …. The press don’t seem to be under any obligation to report facts!

Or …. Paid £10m a year to spend 3 years with your young family and on the golf course with zero stress…. Knowing that if you need to work again there’s always punditry or a championship project waiting. I’d do exactly what he’s doing now!

I’m sure that Chelsea are paying his wages until he finds a job. It’s on him to mitigate their loss by seeking a job (very likely to be an explicit term in his contract). So he does enough to appear to be looking, with no intention of taking a job until his Chelsea pay day is over

Welcome Ruud!!! There is no way that you play under the managers he did, in the teams that he did, scoring the goals, and winning the trophies that he did without knowing 100x more about football than our previous manager. He’ll bring ideas, tactics, knowledge, and respect to the changing room. He’ll bring an extra pull factor for new players and have many contacts in the game. I really can see him being successful for us, and being a long term / legend. He doesn’t need the money he’s working for fulfilment. I’m as excited by his appointment as I was for Enzo. Got a feeling he’s going to have a stellar coaching team too!

Maybe Cooper misunderstood evolution and thought it meant completely scrapping everything that made us good

DO gamble Top… For goodness sake show some ambition and not continue with this awful scrape safety mentality

I was a massive Puel Outter…. But a new scale is needed for how much I want Cooper out

Really gutted for Fatawu, seems like a lovely bloke as well as one of our brightest players. Get well soon x

That’s exactly the beaten, low expectation, unambitious way our board thinks.

It’s schoolboy stuff at times, both him and Faes have failed to deal with simple headers recently

Don’t let it bounce. Don’t let it bounce. Don’t let it bounce. ohh ffs he’s let it bounce.

Damn… saw this thread at the top and thought “he’s coming home”!!! (so have commented to ensure someone else enjoys that sensation then disappointment)!!

I think it’s another reason for Cooper Out - He somehow thinks Ward is the second best keeper at the club

I’ve also played in goal at an ok standard and two of those goals today I’d have been mightily disappointed to concede. 3-2 with a competent keeper

I’m trying to remember the goals as I only saw them live…. The one that hit the post and then out he was completely static for, did nothing to position himself to stop the shot. The poor back pass Mads / Kasper or any other decent keeper would have sprinted out to the ball and spread themselves. He literally stands in his goal like a table football goalie it gives the attacker such a massive advantage