Hirsty The Blue 94

Well he played 90 for Denmark on Tuesday (2 clean sheets in 2 for them) but not even good enough for the bench for Cooper.

Would have took a point before the game, but to toss it off the way we did is shocking game management. Coady has being absolute garbage since he limped through the door, literally the only thing he has brought is alleged 'leadership' yet he comes on with 5 to go and does the opposite. We have Vestergaard who is better in literally every element of the game not even making the bench despite playing his nuts off last year and internationally for this gobshite who spends more time on 5 Live than on the pitch. Was willing to give Cooper time given the shambles the club was over the summer, but he will soon lose the majority if he continues with this kind of stuff. If you're going to stay up you need to convert 2-0 leads into wins, can't just rely on beating all the teams down the bottom at home, as that's not guaranteed.

Having been at the game I thought both centre halves had decent enough games. However having watched back this morning all Villa's promising moments cams from an error from one of the 2, with Faes being potentially being worse than Okoli. - Watkins tried to round Mads in the first half, Faes was wrong side of his man. - Mads save in the first half from Watkins, Faes gave the ball away cheaply in our half. - 1st goal Okoli gives a hospital pass which leads to the free kick, Faes doesn't bother to track Onana who can put into an empty net. -2nd goal Duran fights Okoli off to allow him a free header which he takes very well. If this is going to be the pairing, we aren't going to keep many clean sheets as both have atleast 1 brain dead moment in them per game, which in this league gets exposed. Think we will eventually resort to a 3 at the back with Vesty in the middle of these 2 once we are opened up by the lesser teams like Palace and Everton as well in the coming weeks.

To Delilah Why, why why, buy Ayew Why, why, why buy Ayew Now, before, you fcuk up the club even more Pleaae Fcuk off Jon Rudkin we just cannot take anymore.

Anyone who has played football across the County in the last 20 years will have likely have been reffed by Martin, one of the best in the business and always did it with a smile and enthusiasm, seemed to love what he did as well which as a referee can't be easy. As a player and a captain I was always first to have a bit of a chirp at a ref, but never did with Martin because you would have too much respect for him. To find out you're ill just a month ago then pass away must be horrifying for his family to come to terms with.

He hardly had much defending to do last season, we had 65% of the ball so wasn't sat in deep for large parts of the game, we are sadly going to have to do for most games this season. Not saying he can't defend, just think BDR's attributes are going to be better suited to away games and those against the top 6, with Mavididi coming on as an impact.

Unchanged for me should everyone be fit. Another game where we will need BDR's work rate and graft over Mavididi's flair but lack of defensively help. Would keep Wilf in there as well, need his physical presence, playing the 3 technical players in the middle of the park could lead to us being bullied in there. Dunno what Cooper doesn't like about Ricardo but neither Justin nor VK deserve to be dropped after last night.

Classy from Maddison to lay some flowers with Vards before the game. Also lovely to see Nige and Steve Walsh at the ground today, this is the club that those 3 amigos built and got a send off from the fans and players that he deserved.

His redemption really is something, from the punchline to the joke to the best centre half at the club in a year is quite impressive. Play him in a lower block and he will do just fine for us this year, yes he will make the odd mistake and give the ball away, yes the best strikers in the league might be too pacy for him but that won't determine if we stay up. If he can deal with the likes of Solanke, Calvert Lewin, Wood etc and his ability to play from the back in tight areas is something we really need, game really changed when he managed to get the ball into the feet of Winks & Buonanotte

Although it wouldn't be unusual action for some of our fans, a protest first game of the season would be fantastic, particularly as we're on telly and Top will likely be there would embarrass him in front of his rich mates. A mass walk out in the 72nd minute, as that is the most expensive single match day seat for a member, with chants etc. People will say it could affect the players and the game, but this goes beyond a single result, we need to show these charlatans that are running the club that this is our club, and there is a real possibility that King Power leave the club in a worse state than they found it which if you told me 5 years ago was a possibility I would have laughed at you.

Win Win for both parties. He wouldn't have got what he wanted here from a recruitment standpoint if he had stayed and probably jumped at any job should it have came up during the season, which would have caused more upheaval than this with still near on 3 months to the start of the season. He gets a massive contract where if he is booted early gets a mighty pay off. Another positive for us other than the 10 million release clause in the bank balance (finally Rudkin has done something sensible) is that he is going there as head coach with limited say on transfer activities, so he's unlikely to come back and raid us on the cheap for any of our assets, Hermansen in particular would be a perfect fit for his team at Chelsea as their keepers aren't up to much. Dunno what reception he will get if he is still in charge by the time we play Chelsea at home, he delivered the bare minimum given the squad we had, but equally would probably still be here had Top, Rudkin and Whelan hadn't sold him a lie when he first joined about the absolute state of the FFP mess we're in.

Style of play is a complete myth amongst the majority of football fans. If you're winning most weeks you most likely enjoy the way the team is playing, whether that's possession based, counter attacking, getting the ball wide and crossing it into the box etc. If you're losing those very same tactics are rubbish, boring, one dimensional etc. If the club have serious ambitions of reestablishing ourselves in the Premier League, expand the ground and all the other bells and whistles promised, financially we can't afford to drop into the Championship again, as we have seen with Leeds there is no guarantee even if you have a pretty good squad and a decent manager for that level you will come back. So we need a man this season who is going to be able to get us to 40 points (plus potentially the 8 or so we may get deducted) without the resources to invest heavily in the squad. It has to be someone who can get his message across fast, not someone who will take 10 games to feel out the ins and outs of the league, get his 'style' onto the players. I think the long term target would be Potter but if he is in talks about going back to Brighton they are an infinitely better proposition than us, so for me it has to be Moyes, he would give us the best chance of staying up given his 20+ year record in the league. Seems British coaches over the age of 45 are all tarred with the same 'dinosaur' brush, if a 38 year old German had the record Moyes had with West Ham (a team who hadn't gone past the qualifying rounds in Europe since 2005) and got to Europe 3 times including winning a title and getting to another semi only losing to a team who hadn't lose in 40+ games then people would be falling over themselves to get him through the door. Top, Whelan, Rudkin and Rodgers have collectively taken the club backwards 10 years, we made our first forward step in getting out of the hell of the Championship first time up, but we can't afford to go back there again.

Don't get the snobbery towards Moyes at all. We're going to need someone who knows how what this league is all about, not somebody learning on the job. His style of football is complaints from West Ham are standard West Ham fans, not the West Ham way, which for the last 20 years has been yo-yoing between the leagues, Moyes is the only bloke who has steadied the ship, got them into Europe 3 times and won a European trophy, all more to his CV than the likes of Corberan, Carrick, Potter etc. Think we either have 2 options, almost accept our fate is relegation and go for someone who will stick around for a rebuild in the Championship, or try get someone in who could keep us up and steady the ship for a few turbulent years to give us a platform to build.

Looks like he is a goner then. Not devastated as I think his style would have seen us ripped a new one by the top half of the league. More concerned is what the KP clowns will do and how long it will take them to get a replacement in, remember we took 2 weeks between Rodgers going and Smith coming in which probably cost us relegation as the 2 'caretakers' got beat in 2 winnable home games, and it took us til nearly a month before the start of the season to appoint Enzo. Also, all the players we may have been negotiating new deals for, such as Vardy, Vesty, Wilf may decide with the turmoil they will sign elsewhere. For me, his legacy doesn't warrant cheering when he brings his Chelsea team back to the KP. He achieved the bare minimum with the assets he had at his disposal, akin to when Pearson won League 1 with us, if he had left then, and never returned he wouldn't have anywhere near the status he has with the club that he does.

Can see McKenna going to Chelsea whilst his stock is as high as it is, realistically Ipswich are going to be strong favourites to go back down, and would he still be such a hot commodity then, not so sure. Whereas with Enzo, can very much see him wanting to establish himself in the Premier League before taking a big job, say he keeps us up with a points deduction next year then pushes into mid table/top half the following, Pep is likely to walk away within the next 2 seasons and as long Man City don't get an obscene punishment for these 115 charges, Enzo would be a ready made replacement. He already has 1 managerial failure on his CV in Italy, if he went to Chelsea and got the boot after 6 months he has to start from scratch again at a club of a similar stature to ours. Of the merry-go-round I can forsee United - Poch Chelsea - McKenna Brighton - Potter