Dan

Life under Top & Rudkin

It's remarkable he still gets in the Belgium team

Steve Cooper has only won a PL game at 4 grounds!

Extremely obvious sacking. To everyone bar those whose decision it is.

Worst outcome again. Dreadful performance but score isn't going to shift the dial. Down we go. Again.

Worst possible outcome again.

We are pathetic.

Just depressing. Another promising player basically ruined.

This is just the norm nowadays isn't it. Top to bottom shambles.

I've got 18/1 here. I had O'Neil at 20/1 and he went down to about 2/1 before Ten Hag got the boot. So Cooper is definitely shortening to about the same before Southampton bin Martin (and probably get one of our targets)

London bus effect. We've scored in every game followed by two blanks. Clean sheets impossible. 0-2.

Doesn't even make me angry anymore. I think I used all my anger in 2022/23 when the penny dropped. I've had my expectations completely blown to bits to a point it can't hurt me.

With the home grown thing I do sort of understand the motivation for this. There is some sense as a squad player. But thirty odd million obviously nonsense.

1. No - it's no secret. 2. Yes, mostly at the ref and generally just think it's part of home advantage to try and force the ref into decisions in our favour. 3. Yes but not every time. Depends on circumstance. 4. Who wouldn't? This is all pretty minor I think anyway. I think it's completely normal. Like I say I believe it's part of home advantage especially.

Is it not referring to Cooper?

You wonder if it's something we're doing or if it's just bad luck. Obviously there's a degree of bad luck involved regardless (I mean obviously with Alves). For it to happen to all three of our most promising kids is astounding. Could end up being the difference between them being useful to us or not. Nobody will convince me Ricardo & Justin have been the same.

Option 1 for sure.

It's just absolutely sickening.

Chilwell won a Champions League and was arguably MOTM in the final. Complete anomaly in truth. On the whole he's been pretty average for them. But he actually reached the summit.

Puel was 100% a Sunday.

You mean that playing like this, we're not likely to keep facing teams we came above last season who go down to 10 men each week? I for one am amazed.

Looks like it isn't happening this time around. Looks like it's 2022/23 all over again. Who expected anything else of this lot though.

Pointless transfer. Sooner he gets out of there the likelier he is to save his career. Problem is I don't really think it's the right move for us now either. We have far bigger issues.

Even beyond Cooper this season has been littered with ineptness. It's an underlying problem. Cooper does nothing for me at all but I've felt like this since before Cooper. Even last season. For a year where we literally won the league something just wasn't totally right.

I do wonder at times how much these sorts of posts have become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy and maybe just simply appointing a good manager would actually turn things, but the club is very, very uninspiring at the minute. I think we stick around hoping it gets better, but there is a really damning emptiness I feel about things these days. What bothered me more about yesterdays result than the result itself, was how little it actually did bother me. But this isn't new. It's been the case for a couple of years now to be totally honest. I think the club is just very half-hearted at the minute.