Filbert Fireworks

I defended the crystal palace performance but that wasn't great today especially the first half. Bilal had a lot of pressure to perform and sadly I think it was too much for him. Needs to be gradually introduced. Must have done well in training so that's promising. I actually think the team we fielded against palace wins that today. Skippy I thought was hard done by to be dropped after last week and it showed we didn't control the game at all. The double pivot with winks ndidi didn't work well today. Ndidi was much better further forward last week. We don't have the quality we did last time we were up. Every game is tough in the prem and both teams today were desperate.

This is exactly where I am at with it all. I like Cooper. I like to see the players have some spirit. At a loss as to why a draw away from home is a bad result. He's making us hard to beat with his line up and I think people underestimate the qualities in that line up. Don't really see it as 3DM's. Sure you make your own luck bit defending a lead is a reasonable tactical decision. Think we are where we would have predicted we should be 4 games in. Excited for today.

Relegated with Barnes, Maddision, Tielemans. Madness wasn't it.

This is becoming an absolute witch hunt now bordering on ridiculous. We were 2-0 up with the supposedly negative selections playing away from home. The game plan almost worked and we came away with a point. Thoroughly enjoyed the GOAT outpace England's best CB and Mav's goal (yes cooper reacted and played Mav from the start on merit). It was a good performance. Thats a perfectly decent result if we can keep that up and bag wins at home against the bottom 5. We've been in it every game and haven't lost by more than 1 goal. Played Spurs and Villa already. Give Cooper a chance. If this was Enzo or some other progressive manager they wouldn't be getting this treatment. Seasons of having a soft weak underbelly when the pressures on and if nothing else Cooper has turned that around.

It's all a bit negative on here. We were favourites for relegation before the season began. Everyone bemoaned the signings who have all played fairly well. Reasons why the 2 young new CAMs couldn't play today. Went away to palace who we have a poor record against away. Put in a solid performance took a point away from and were unlucky not to take 3. Could have thrown 2 attackers on and conceded 2 goals and lost it. Will line up more offensively at home and rightly so.

Scenes when he pulls his steve cooper face mask off and it is has actually been Gareth Southgate managing us.

Lining up with all 11 players between our goal posts body blocking whilst palace have shooting practice for 70 minutes.

Could the mods kindly add *cult hero* back into the thread title please. Our current joint top goal scorer for the season.

Courses for horses with this one. Gives tge team the option to bring on / start a hardworking player who can defend from the front. A good quality for some scenario's. Think we all know he isn't coming for gis goals and assists. A team is greater than the sum of its parts and all that.

Yes best thing about that performance was the fight and spirit in the 2nd half. Winning some 1:1. Everything we lacked the year we went down. Hopefully a better group of characters.

Honking

We conceded 7 corners within 17 minutes. Keep it to a 2-0 loss to maintain some self-esteem and start fresh with skippy next week.

Understand the frustration with Ricky P and Mads not in the 11 but it could be tactically astute. Powerful option to be able to bring them both on together against tired legs as opposed to changes that would weaken the side.

The greatest. Just build the statue now.

Just assisted the GOAT to score the killing blow in a match that will see us win championship. Part of a centre back pairing that has conceded fewest goals in the league. New cult hero.......