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Joyless is a good description of most recent games on and off the pitch.
To be fair though, the Cardiff game was quite joyful, and that last gasp smash and grab at Leeds sent me nuts.
This is the mystery. They can be motivated to play well against Cardiff but not against Barnsley Millwall etc? That’s down to the players own professionalism and bad man management. And the pointless inclusion of Byers who would be far more useful in a cherrypicker rubbing the rust off the uprights of the stadium. Give him a thousand tins of hamerite job done.
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This is the mystery. They can be motivated to play well against Cardiff but not against Barnsley Millwall etc? That’s down to the players own professionalism and bad man management. And the pointless inclusion of Byers who would be far more useful in a cherrypicker rubbing the rust off the uprights of the stadium. Give him a thousand tins of hamerite job done.
How about just sending Byers back to the U23s and send Cooper with him.
This is the mystery. They can be motivated to play well against Cardiff but not against Barnsley Millwall etc? That’s down to the players own professionalism and bad man management. And the pointless inclusion of Byers who would be far more useful in a cherrypicker rubbing the rust off the uprights of the stadium. Give him a thousand tins of hamerite job done.
I see that Arteta has some revolutionary ideas at Arsenal- playing people in their correct positions, coaching them to be pressing and working together as a team and getting them fitter.
I see that Arteta has some revolutionary ideas at Arsenal- playing people in their correct positions, coaching them to be pressing and working together as a team and getting them fitter.
Perhaps these ideas could catch on.
Sorry that is just too revolutionary to catch on, especially here.
Yet we are 5 points better off than at this stage of the season than we were last season under Potter despite the loss of our two most effective players who were sold in the Summer.
Yet we are 5 points better off than at this stage of the season than we were last season under Potter despite the loss of our two most effective players who were sold in the Summer.
Cooper has a stronger squad available than Potter did even with those two losses. DJ didn't even kick into full gear for us until after his December injury and January transfer drama. Courtney Baker-Richardson played almost as many games as Cooper's signing Surridge did.
Cooper's celebration at the end of the game was embarrassing. Didn't realise Grimes was playing for first 20 minutes. Byers must have something on Cooper. With powder puff midfield Ayew and Routldge had to play in defence more than attack.
Same behind the dug out for tonight's game. Cooper not that obvious in the technical area until the last 15 mins. The other coaching staff were holding conversations with players at the injury breaks, in one conversation Roberts was obviously in disagreement with one of them and Routledge just held his arms out at Tate.
This is a marked contrast to the likes of Martinez and Rodgers who would engage and support players at every opportunity.
You get the impression that Cooper does not have a game plan that he is keen to help players execute.
Tonight's result only papers over the cracks against a poor Charlton side with 12 first team squad players missing through injury, a small improvement on Sundays game against Barnsley but still not good enough and awful to watch, the fact we are sitting 6th says more about this league than it does about us. If only Potter had stayed and had ayew and baston this season we would have been pissing it.
Cooper has a stronger squad available than Potter did even with those two losses. DJ didn't even kick into full gear for us until after his December injury and January transfer drama. Courtney Baker-Richardson played almost as many games as Cooper's signing Surridge did.
How do you work that one out? We are most lacking in terms of the muscle we have in midfield and in terms of converting chances. Fer has gone with no replacement, not even an attempt at a replacement, and it's been proven that Oli was a better finisher than Baston and Surridge combined. You're right that James didn't kick in until late January, but no wingers have kicked in up until this stage of this season either. Ayew is an improvement and would have walked into Potter's team, but his addittion isn't enough to make up for the lightweight midfield and hasn't plugged the gap Oli's departure left. So, absolute bollox you're spouting there as far as I'm concerned.
Tonight's result only papers over the cracks against a poor Charlton side with 12 first team squad players missing through injury, a small improvement on Sundays game against Barnsley but still not good enough and awful to watch, the fact we are sitting 6th says more about this league than it does about us. If only Potter had stayed and had ayew and baston this season we would have been pissing it.
Charlton beat Bristol 3-2 one week ago.
The CooperOut Clan will never be happy. We lose and it's chaos. We win and it's chaos. The 2nd half tactics were bad, but you all seem to be forgetting that the first half was very encouraging. Had we had a terrible first half and been 0-0 at HT, and then played well in the second and scored for 1-0, more people would remember the good part of the performance.
How do you work that one out? We are most lacking in terms of the muscle we have in midfield and in terms of converting chances. Fer has gone with no replacement, not even an attempt at a replacement, and it's been proven that Oli was a better finisher than Baston and Surridge combined. You're right that James didn't kick in until late January, but no wingers have kicked in up until this stage of this season either. Ayew is an improvement and would have walked into Potter's team, but his addittion isn't enough to make up for the lightweight midfield and hasn't plugged the gap Oli's departure left. So, absolute bollox you're spouting there as far as I'm concerned.
Oli missed his share of chances. Had a miss equally as bad as Borja's last night, in fact. Open goal, sliding in. Wasted a few of those from DJ deliveries.
Remember that Potter couldn't regularly call on Routs or Dyer for the first half of the season either, despite claiming he could. Fer was constantly being rushed back and injured throughout, featured in only half of Potter's games (already matched last season's total minutes for us with Feyenoord this season, in 16 games), and was out of the side on form during our great 2019 run of form - we tried to move him on to Villa in January but he failed the medical. Hardly an important player demanding replacement.
Oli missed his share of chances. Had a miss equally as bad as Borja's last night, in fact. Open goal, sliding in. Wasted a few of those from DJ deliveries.
Remember that Potter couldn't regularly call on Routs or Dyer for the first half of the season either, despite claiming he could. Fer was constantly being rushed back and injured throughout, featured in only half of Potter's games (already matched last season's total minutes for us with Feyenoord this season, in 16 games), and was out of the side on form during our great 2019 run of form - we tried to move him on to Villa in January but he failed the medical. Hardly an important player demanding replacement.
Olie missed his fare share and scored a fair share, he's no world beater for sure, but his goals haven't been replaced. As scoring goals is the job of a striker, he was better at his job than anyone we have.
Same goes for Fer. Not excellent, but would improve our powder puff midfield. Byers, Fulton, Caroll all the same kind of players. Fer gave something different. Ideally you'd want someone better, but he'd walk in to this midfield, which despite his faults means our midfield is more lightweight than it was last season, which was my point.
Oli missed his share of chances. Had a miss equally as bad as Borja's last night, in fact. Open goal, sliding in. Wasted a few of those from DJ deliveries.
Remember that Potter couldn't regularly call on Routs or Dyer for the first half of the season either, despite claiming he could. Fer was constantly being rushed back and injured throughout, featured in only half of Potter's games (already matched last season's total minutes for us with Feyenoord this season, in 16 games), and was out of the side on form during our great 2019 run of form - we tried to move him on to Villa in January but he failed the medical. Hardly an important player demanding replacement.
Also...
We have Bidwell who has played 230 times in the Championship.
Roberts, Grimes, Byers, Celina all have an extra season under their belts and should be improving. They’re not. They’re regressing.
Ayew is probably one of the best players to have played at this level in recent years. You take him out of this side and Cooper would barely have made it into November.
McBurnie was barely in the side towards the end of the season and missed loads of games through illness throughout.
Cooper looked bit disinterested last night . So seeing as I'll be shouting myself silly in legoland, least we should expect is same passion from him on the line that day.
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