Woodward resigns from United.
Swansea v. QPR
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Yankee_Jack
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amen
The Blobster
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we've offered nothing in this game , qpr deserve the win , end off 2nd place hopes .
Yankee_Jack
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That was a given
Cooper absolutely, totally and completely schooled by Warburton tonight. How in God's name did this useless lump ever get a job as a football league manager? We are easily the worst team of those likely to contest the playoff games. We've got NO chance!! We should take a leaf out of Spurs' book and sack him before the important games. I really, really, really want him GONE!! He gives us nothing.
Yankee_Jack
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No shape at home. No clue how to play, KOL commentary calls it the way it is. Lame!
Behindthegoal
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QPR deserved that. Will we learn the lesson?
Yankee_Jack
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Not a prayer under this manager. We've had 46 lessons from last season and however many this season. Yogurt doesn't absorb knowledge.
Yankee_Jack
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For whatever reason - we suck at home compared to away from home
Yankee_Jack
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If ever Monk's written words against Sousa had any validity ... I could see them applying to Andy Pandy.
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CroJack
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Gary Cooper is dead.
Yankee_Jack
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The one saving grace is that 2 of 3 are away from home. We are shit at home. And with any lucky Watford will be celebrating and lazy
Behindthegoal
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It’s not fair on the players to make them play an extra 2 matches. Let’s just settle for 7th, still more than we deserve.
Reading with total shock that Steve Cooper is on a shortlist to replace Mourinho at Spurs. And there was me always thinking that Mourinho was their manager and not a fcuking ballboy!! If this is true I'll start a raffle for the thousands who would love the pleasure of driving him there. Some stats:
POSSESSION: 41-59 SHOTS: 11-21 OT: 2-7 CORNERS: 4-7 FOULS: 13-10 GOALS: 0-1
Digest those stats and weep. QPR stuffed us on everything that mattered and this on our own patch. Some humourist online suggested that Cooper had told his team to take it easy and save themselves for the playoff games. Obviously this person hasn't seen us play recently!!
Do the people at the Liberty not see what's in front of their eyes? Can they not comprehend that Cooper is just NOT good enough or experienced enough to properly do this job? They must be blinded by our totally false league position. Where is Julian Winter in all this? The man must be a pure bred idiot if he can't see what the rest of us can.
Had he listened to the game last night he would have heard KOL schooling Cooper on what was going wrong and how to fix it. Cooper obviously didn't know what to do about it because the issues that KOL had raised in commentary were never addressed by our 'manager' in the game.
We have not been scoring enough and every fan and his dog knows it. So what does Cooper do? He benches our most natural striker and brings on the other one (Whitts) with five minutes to go. How in God's name we are anywhere near the top with Cooper at the helm I don't know. His ineptitude is exceeded only by his lack of emotion and lack of guidance on the touchline. Other managers bellow instructions from the side when things aren't going well. Cooper never does this mainly I think because, when things are going wrong, he hasn't got a scooby what to do about it. He just stands there with his default blank stare, hands in pockets, and hopes that a spot of individual brilliance, or sheer luck, will bail him out.
He has shown me that he is patently not fit for purpose. I like him as a man but have no respect whatsoever for his management/coaching ability. Question is, how do his employers view him? If they're happy then God help us, we are going nowhere.
If this is true I'll start a raffle for the thousands who would love the pleasure of driving him there. Some stats:POSSESSION: 41-59 SHOTS: 11-21 OT: 2-7 CORNERS: 4-7 FOULS: 13-10 GOALS: 0-1
Digest those stats and weep. QPR stuffed us on everything that mattered and this on our own patch. Some humourist online suggested that Cooper had told his team to take it easy and save themselves for the playoff games. Obviously this person hasn't seen us play recently!!
Do the people at the Liberty not see what's in front of their eyes? Can they not comprehend that Cooper is just NOT good enough or experienced enough to properly do this job? They must be blinded by our totally false league position. Where is Julian Winter in all this? The man must be a pure bred idiot if he can't see what the rest of us can.
Had he listened to the game last night he would have heard KOL schooling Cooper on what was going wrong and how to fix it. Cooper obviously didn't know what to do about it because the issues that KOL had raised in commentary were never addressed by our 'manager' in the game.
We have not been scoring enough and every fan and his dog knows it. So what does Cooper do? He benches our most natural striker and brings on the other one (Whitts) with five minutes to go. How in God's name we are anywhere near the top with Cooper at the helm I don't know. His ineptitude is exceeded only by his lack of emotion and lack of guidance on the touchline. Other managers bellow instructions from the side when things aren't going well. Cooper never does this mainly I think because, when things are going wrong, he hasn't got a scooby what to do about it. He just stands there with his default blank stare, hands in pockets, and hopes that a spot of individual brilliance, or sheer luck, will bail him out.
He has shown me that he is patently not fit for purpose. I like him as a man but have no respect whatsoever for his management/coaching ability. Question is, how do his employers view him? If they're happy then God help us, we are going nowhere.
Yankee_Jack
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If he needs a reference, I'd be happy to provide him with one.Reading with total shock that Steve Cooper is on a shortlist to replace Mourinho at Spurs. And there was me always thinking that Mourinho was their manager and not a fcuking ballboy!!
Over the last 15 years ... think of all the managers we've had: Martinez, Sousa, Rogers, Laudrup .... then Monk, Guidolin, BoBo, What's is name #1 (the serious guy), What's is name #2 (the funny guy), Potter, Andy Pandy. Thoroughbreds and donkeys - what a mixture. And Spurs want Andy Pandy ... FFS, if there's a GOD, please, oh please, let him be hired.
Behindthegoal
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Clement , carvalhal.
Brighton playing Chelsea last night and more than holding their own when a commentator said how good it was to see how well supported was the man on the ball when Brighton were in possession - that there were always options because of the movement. Contrast this with Cooper's God-awful idea of possession where we play the ball in a painfully slow build-up before eventually losing it.
Why do we lose it? Our play is so slow that defenders always have time to get organised. The man on the ball rarely has options because the movement of his team mates off the ball is almost non-existent and he's eventually reduced to hoofing it or playing a speculative pass. It's no use just one man moving because he gets spotted and easily marked then picked off. We need movement throughout and by the TEAM. When there are several players doing it, defenders don't know who to mark. They get dragged this way then that way and confusion reigns resulting in mistakes and leaving gaps/space that can be exploited.
So what is 'movement'? It can be a lung bursting run down either of the flanks or in the channels. But it can also be players moving as little as a couple of metres to create an angle to receive the ball - and all the different types of movement, made continually, gives the man on the ball continual passing options. To play like this doesn't come easily. Mark Lawrenson once commented about us on MOTD that it takes years of practise to play it as well as we were doing at the time. Trouble is it can all be lost in just a season or two as has happened to us - starting with Monk!!
This is nothing new! My final session on the FAW coaching course was entirely based on the principle of pass and move; pass and move and keep doing it until gaps appear. This was over FIFTY years ago yet the concept appears to be completely alien to Cooper and his coaches because we just don't do it. If it is claimed we are then we're doing it pretty badly because I don't see it.
Why do we lose it? Our play is so slow that defenders always have time to get organised. The man on the ball rarely has options because the movement of his team mates off the ball is almost non-existent and he's eventually reduced to hoofing it or playing a speculative pass. It's no use just one man moving because he gets spotted and easily marked then picked off. We need movement throughout and by the TEAM. When there are several players doing it, defenders don't know who to mark. They get dragged this way then that way and confusion reigns resulting in mistakes and leaving gaps/space that can be exploited.
So what is 'movement'? It can be a lung bursting run down either of the flanks or in the channels. But it can also be players moving as little as a couple of metres to create an angle to receive the ball - and all the different types of movement, made continually, gives the man on the ball continual passing options. To play like this doesn't come easily. Mark Lawrenson once commented about us on MOTD that it takes years of practise to play it as well as we were doing at the time. Trouble is it can all be lost in just a season or two as has happened to us - starting with Monk!!
This is nothing new! My final session on the FAW coaching course was entirely based on the principle of pass and move; pass and move and keep doing it until gaps appear. This was over FIFTY years ago yet the concept appears to be completely alien to Cooper and his coaches because we just don't do it. If it is claimed we are then we're doing it pretty badly because I don't see it.
Maybe Cooper doesn't travel with them.