Dan

I thought that was a really poor end to be honest. For a ground we're generally good at.

He's pleasantly surprised me. Hope he keeps it up.

He's what I expected. He's got his uses but he's never going to be a big threat.

Feels too early to declare a game a must-win, but I do think a failure here just leaves us playing catchup that'll prove beyond us in the long run, particularly with an almost certain defeat the following week. Please please please just beat them. I'm fed up of this utter kack getting a result here.

Play with fire. Get burnt. His instincts are just too negative. He won't win more than 5 games here.

I just think there's a lot of mistaking cowardice and negativity for pragmatism. Pragmatic isn't playing a limited holding midfielder as an attacking midfielder when we have perfectly viable options. It's not like Buonanotte doesn't try and defend either, he isn't some luxury. I just don't see that method yielding results. I really don't agree with the way this game has been largely written off on here either. I mean I think we'll lose, but bloody hell, they're only on 1 point themselves and they've had nicer fixtures than us. I do expect them to pick up but I don't get this attitude on here that we're playing Real Madrid.

To me it's just an inevitability when you're setting out to defend. If you carry so little going forward you are going to let the opposition grow in confidence to eventually put more and more numbers forward and get that goal. After the way Rodgers had us playing in his latter time I do appreciate that there is at least an attempt to make us tougher to play through. We are battling and we're going to be a pain - it's really not dissimilar to his Forest side. But I just think we're going to constantly sell ourselves short. I think if we had somebody like I don't know, Iraola, we would take the odd fisting but we'd pick up a few more surprise wins through simply being more ambitious. I really do think over a 38 game season setting up this way we'll do well to win 5 times. If he plays Ndidi attacking midfield at Palace then that's me done with him to be honest because what's the point. I don't believe in that method and that to me would prove it's what he's standing for.

I think they're replacing it with a two week break in October. I could be wrong though. I've always thought it about September's break specifically. I'm not quite like I was probably 15 years ago where I'm lost without football for the weekend but I do think this one is complete crap. Like I said, too early into the domestic season and I feel like the Euros final is too fresh too. It's too soon to go back to internationals imo.

Best one to prove this was @The Doctor he found some game state xG tables which basically tell me that we're going nothing with the game even and only really attacking when behind. It's only three games but the trends do worry me. This isn't a method that is going to yield wins.

The September international break is the worst weekend of the season. Too early for a break and it's too soon after a tournament as well when that applies. It's going next year though thankfully.

Got a bad feeling they'll move Ipswich to Monday or something crap. We never seem to get that game at a decent time and we've just simply not had many moved. Man Utd away by my calculation has to be Sunday regardless.

This is exactly what I fear it'll be. If we're on 2 points from 7 I think Cooper's got to go. Although it's double the tally we had last time after 7 games and the manager survived that.

We can't just draw our way out of this. Arsenal we will lose without any shadow of a doubt. From Palace, Everton and Bournemouth I want a minimum of 5. You just know we'll draw with Everton.

Fastest speaking city in the country apparently.

We won't play a way that will beat these sides. We'll rarely get hammered by these sides but I think we will very consistently lose 1-0, 2-0 and 2-1 to them. His natural instinct isn't to attack.

I'd agree with you on that but I do think you can make signings where the worst case scenario isn't being tied down to some potential deadwood for years and we've done this on numerous occasions - plenty happening this summer. I just think we allow ourselves a bit too much risk. Our business this summer to me risks quite a lot of downside and unless the likes of El Khannouss and Okoli are top drawer (there's a chance with El Khannouss) there isn't tonnes of upside. If we do end up going down it's a really damaging window for me.

I can tolerate losing him to a top club but the fact we'll likely get done on some bullshit tribunal is really shit.

Tete's honestly not the best example, he gets highlighted because he came with a lot of excitement and didn't deliver, but at least there wasn't some long term commitment to him. Tete costs us nothing beyond May 2023. Someone like Ayew or Reid if they don't perform will be costing us for years. This isn't to say Tete was a good signing, if all signings got a pass on simply not costing much we'd never get anywhere, but we've made far worse deals. Souttar for example is a disaster in comparison.

If we had been deducted points it would've been something he was responsible for overseeing. The fact we've gotten off means it's simply something we can't hold as much against him (and it's not just him by the way) rather than something we can praise him for. We didn't get away with it because of good process and good organisation, unless that's what people think has actually taken place. The red flags are there even this summer. Left our business late, panicked, overpaid and have quite obviously caved into a managers demands again like we did Rodgers. We've made numerous poor economical moves again tying ageing players to lucrative and long contracts. He should be the one saying no to this sort of thing, unless he believes this is the way forward - which I would disagree with him on. If he isn't saying no, then he either believes in this way, or he's having things dictated to again by those supposedly below him. Exactly what got us into the mess in the first place. Nobody on here will convince me he's any good. But like I said earlier - he isn't the sole issue. He's a big issue but I find the tolerance of his performance even more concerning and that comes from above him. Rudkin wasn't 'good' when Rodgers clearly needed sacking either and Rodgers was getting barrels on here. Rodgers was simply the most replaceable at the time.

You're foolish to avoid the red flags in these performances IMO.

Forest, Everton, Leeds and Coventry Twitter absolutely sensational as expected.

The decisions we're on the end of this season are going to make Wolves fans red faced.

Based Leicester. We are so back.

We're staying in games but we just don't ever feel like we're going to win any. You can see more of the same coming up too with another narrow loss at Palace before the first 'six pointer' against Everton, which we'll obviously go and draw. I think he's setting us up to make us hard to play through the middle of which is completely opposite of what happened in 2022/23 where it was just laughably easy, but it's coming at the expense of nearly any attacking threat. I think the fact we've scored in every game is a bit of an anomaly because we've definitely not racked up 3 goals worth of attacking play. I can't forgive starting with that midfield yesterday in anything other than games at maybe Man City and Arsenal. How many managers are going to move Ndidi that bit further forward? Cooper's successor will end up with him as a striker. It's stupid and it's definitely not "pragmatism". Pragmatism is keeping Ndidi as a destroyer where he belongs.

It's better than nothing but meh.