Walsall Match Thread

[justfoxes]

Cooper Ball is sending quite a few fans round by us very sleepy !!😴😴😴

[whoareyaaa]

They will win on penos

[Benji]

Just accept it. We have this dross until Xmas at least. This club does admit mistakes and sacking him before then would be a huge admission of a terrible appointment.

[JimJams]

People can talk about the step up to the premier league being too much when they try to defend Cooper and our current position, but today is a clear example of why Cooper will fail.  There is no tactic other than to play a high fullback. That's his philosophy.  And there's no rhyme or reason to it as it doesn't prove to be successful.

We are up against a League 2 team and it's an even contest with Walsall having had the better (only) chances.  Under Enzoball, even with this 2nd string, we'd be passing them off the park. Whether that would have resulted in us taking the lead we'll never know, but we'd certainly be in the ascendancy just as we were at Champ level.

 

Coopers system wants to create an overload where the high fullback is the extra man out wide, where Enzo made the inverted fullback his extra man centrally. Whilst Coopers version isn't getting us any joy going forward, it also leaves us far more exposed through the middle as your 'extra man' is out to the side of the pitch away from the play.  At least in Enzoball that extra body made playing through us more difficult if it wasn't helping going forward.

 

 

[Mike1983]

[John rayner]

Should be 1 down ,ward kept us in it when he made the save ,again not 1 shot on target ,what is going on 

[Ryy]

Sack this freak immediately 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Bit of half time trivia for you all to pass the time.

 

What is the name of the pub on Coronation Street?

 

I'll be revealing the answer at the end of the half time interval — no cheating!

[Jakemoore]

5 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Wow this is a family forum please stop referencing this muck

I prefer two girls one cup myself 

[HitchinFox]

Great half, we're still in this. 

 

 

[sishades]

well that was a load of  smelly stuff. No shots on target. None. Zilch. Nada. Nichts.

 

On a lighter note im off to see Holland play Hungary in 2 months time.

[funkyrobot]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

One of the worst halves of football in a long time. 

3 days is indeed a long time.

[Dahnsouff]

Kept them out. Result.

[Pliskin]

At least Buonanotte is trying. Other than that it’s shite. #Cooperout

[phildw]

No wonder Ricardo has been nowhere near the first team this season. We're seeing tonight what Cooper is obviously seeing every week on the training ground. 

[sishades]

Just now, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Bit of half time trivia for you all to pass the time.

 

What is the name of the pub on Coronation Street?

 

I'll be revealing the answer at the end of the half time interval — no cheating!

Rovers Return

[Weller Wing]

2 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

I can imagine Steve Copper licks the end of his 

He could hurt his back, doing that

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Tell you what I've just been over on the Steve Cooper forum (CoopsChat) and the mood is sombre over there 

[niyaminski]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

One of the worst halves of football in a long time. 

Beating our own record of the worst half in the English pyramid this season.

 

My Sunday league team is a close second, conceding 4 in the opening 10.

[BigGibbo]

Have we had a shot in the first half this season?

[Muzzy_no7]

Soumare and Hamza as a double pivot has all the brains and creativity of a BNP Meeting with Brian Bedonde as guest speaker 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

If there is anything positive, it’s that we have improved in the second half of most games so far under Cooper (apart from Fulham and Palace, actually so that’s only in 60% of league games…)

[goog]

Intennnsssitteeee

[CrispinLA in Texas]

4 minutes ago, bovril said:

going to watch some drug cartel snuff videos at h/t to cheer myself up 

Disturbed Reality is pretty good... It's without the videos 

[copunk]

I'm still deciding which is worse, the fact we still have a team with Ward (good save btw) Thomas and Soumare (been OK tonight) or Justin's comments from Saturday about the players being naive to the fight Everton would bring 

I don't know what to say anymore 🤣