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The guy has no idea. Can't pick a team, his substitutions and in game management is useless, he seemingly can't motivate players into giving a crap. He seems to have a system or structure that he wants to use, but it just looks a mess, and doesn't work, and I dont think the players believe in it either, which makes it worse. He has to go, while we still have some chance of staying up, because I've seen enough now to know we ain't staying up with him in charge.

But plays "I have zero interest in being here Soumare". Incredible!

The funny thing is, although I didn't want Cooper as manager, the one thing I thought he would have as a plus, is that he would give one or two of our talented youngsters some pitch time in the first team, and would have at least one had one on the bench each game, but he seems to have absolutely no interest in our younger players. If someone can tell me how Soumare, who has zero interest in being here, can get on the bench in front of Alves, who will be wanting to play and make his mark, then i would be very interested on the reasoning. Alves is now basically spending his time training, and hoping to get a spot on the bench for a league cup game, when if Cooper had no interest in giving him a chance, he should have been loaned out, and playing league games somewhere. I would be fuming if I was Alves. What a waste of a talent, at least until January.

I also think the reason he hasn't been playing Mavadidi is again because he wants Kristiansen to be bombing on, and his "wide" player to come inside and make the extra man in field, which again is a big change from last season, when our wide players hugged the touch line on both sides to stretch the pitch. Mavadidi has done well when coming on though, so given Cooper something to think about, but i doubt he will change too much. Possibly he might play Mavadidi, drop Kristiansen, and move Justin to the left, and have him do what hes currently doing on the right,, drop Fatawu and play Ricardo and ask him to bomb on, on the right. Again, I want to see both Mavadidi and Fatawu playing, but I'm not convinced that Cooper is going to do that at the moment

Well he was pretty decent as recent as last season. He isn't being picked because the manager wants to play Kristiansen on the left, and have him bombing on, and he thinks that Justin is more suited than Ricardo to coming inside to make the extra body in the middle when the defence has had to shift over to cover Kristiansen. That's how Cooper wants to play. It's a choice, but not one I agree with. How he can leave out probably our best technically gifted player is beyond me, but ultimately he will live and die by his choices, as do all managers.

What is his form, we've hardly seen him to judge. Looked a bit rusty but ok against Tranmere, it was his run into the box that got us the penalty.

The Championship games have never been well attended as i can remember, but certainly back in the 70s, the sunday league games were packed, there would literally be people sat by the rope at the boundarys edge.

Very true, and interestingly his mantra was very much that we had to stay in games, which is much the same as Cooper. It was only when it was shite or bust time in those last 9 games, that he changed the system and let them off the leash, and went for it, which resulted in us winning 7 of the last 9.

Wow! Have we ever started a game with a more negative team.

Rob Tanner on Radio Leicester last night said Bilal El Khannouss would be it, that we will be going with what we have. So if he is right and assuming Cannon moves, we will actually be a striker down from last season and it will be Vardy and Ayew as our striker options.

Maupay is a no from me as well. The point is, along with a KDH replacement, a striker was a priority position, that we needed to spend a fair proportion of our budget on. Instead we have spewed more money on players or positions that were not as important, which is why will probably end up with sodding Maupay or Sargent!

Sargent wouldn't even get us promoted next season if we go down. Midtable championship striker at best. His one prem season he scored 2 goals and 1 assist in 26 games. He's been at Norwich 4 seasons, and had one half decent season, so it's a no from me, but he's just the sort of non striker the club will probably settle on.

Maybe only 2 games and a pre season, but the clock should already be ticking, and hopefully his time at the club is going to be short. He has already shown zero signs that he is able to set us up in a cohesive and competitive way He has shown zero evidence that he even wants or is willing to pick his better players in front of players that will run about a bit! He has shown zero interest in giving any of the youngsters a go, even in pre season friendlies, despite the fairytale of him being "good for the younger players", and helping to develop them. Finally and what should eventually see his demise at the club, so long as the brain farts that run the club can see it early enough (I won't be holding my breath!) he has no coherent plan that will get us even close to 20 points this season.

Just a heads up to anyone who don't know, the u21s on sky sports plus against Burton in the efl Cup, tonight, on the red button.

He's a big smelly pile of poo! In my opinion of course!