Post Match Ipswich 1 Leicester 1

[H T B]

Christ, their goal was some finish!

99/100
The cross wouldn’t be that good
Defenders wouldn’t be so out of place
He wouldn’t finish like that

Reminds me of the Cresswell goal in that 2-2 draw.

 

[H T B]

After playing 1st to 6th in last 9 games ours was their home banker .

****ed that up as well.

Maybe, just maybe, they’re not as good as they like to think they are, and Cambiasso is too old now to come to their rescue.

 

[City Fan]

99/100
The cross wouldn’t be that good
Defenders wouldn’t be so out of place
He wouldn’t finish like that

Reminds me of the Cresswell goal in that 2-2 draw.

I’m sure someone will be along to tell us all that the goal we conceded was the exact same as the rest we’ve conceded this season.

 

[H T B]

I’m sure someone will be along to tell us all that the goal we conceded was the exact same as the rest we’ve conceded this season.

Now , now

 

[Miles Away]

99/100
The cross wouldn’t be that good
Defenders wouldn’t be so out of place
He wouldn’t finish like that

Reminds me of the Cresswell goal in that 2-2 draw.

Luke Thomas vs Manchester United.

 

[Brown Nose]

Worth pointing out that Cooper left both Eduoard and De Cordova-Reid out of the squad entirely yesterday.

Their 'performances' for us so far deserved this.

He also dropped Okoli after two errors that cost goals in his previous two games and Justin who has been poor for the last few games.

He also dropped Winks deservedly and then brought him back in deservedly.

He gives players an opportunity and it's up to them whether they take it.

I do quite like how straightforward this seems to be.

 

[popillius]

I’m sure someone will be along to tell us all that the goal we conceded was the exact same as the rest we’ve conceded this season.

Probably not.

But we defended like we have all season. Which is why we were shit. Again.

 

[jb5000]

what are you doing for fun tomorrow? Pulling out all your pubes?

They still haven't grown out properly from the Mandaric years

 

[Miles Away]

That Edouard signing stinks to high heaven.

 

[homer]

That Edouard signing stinks to high heaven.

And Bobby Shitpants

It’s what happens when you prioritise having ‘premier league experience’ over people who are actually any good

 

[Jimmy Lad]

McKenna has a very short memory moaning about a blatant penalty and the ref getting it wrong sending his player off.

In the same fixture last season Harness should have had three yellows and got away with just the one and KDH was flattened in the penalty area when clean through on goal.

He needs to wind his neck in… what goes around comes around. Suck it up pal.

 

[Brown Nose]

Pretty fair summary:

 

[City Fan]

Pretty fair summary:

Sums it for me too.

Yes we’re getting dominated for large parts of matches, yes we’re conceding a lot of goals, and yes we’re riding our luck at times. But all of that can be expected from a newly promoted team.

The bit we’ve been really good at is managing to grind out results when we’ve not played particularly well, which is what Ipswich and Southampton have largely failed to do.

 

[londonfox]

McKenna has a very short memory moaning about a blatant penalty and the ref getting it wrong sending his player off.

In the same fixture last season Harness should have had three yellows and got away with just the one and KDH was flattened in the penalty area when clean through on goal.

He needs to wind his neck in… what goes around comes around. Suck it up pal.

He’s getting desperate. I know the media love this guy but surely he has to be under some pressure now with no wins out if 10.

 

[H T B]

Yesterday was supposedly their home banker after playing the top 6 .

Maybe they’re not as good as they think they are .

Hopefully our late equaliser has put doubts in their mind

 

[M17TT C]

Yesterday was supposedly their home banker after playing the top 6 .

Maybe they’re not as good as they think they are .

Hopefully our late equaliser has put doubts in their mind

2 weeks in a row for them now too dropping points in the past minute - that's got to be massively deflating whoever it is against.

 

[TommyK]

2 weeks in a row for them now too dropping points in the past minute - that's got to be massively deflating whoever it is against.

No chance he gets the sack. They were in League one two seasons ago. It's just a step too far for the squad.

 

[popillius]

Sums it for me too.

Yes we’re getting dominated for large parts of matches, yes we’re conceding a lot of goals, and yes we’re riding our luck at times. But all of that can be expected from a newly promoted team.

The bit we’ve been really good at is managing to grind out results when we’ve not played particularly well, which is what Ipswich and Southampton have largely failed to do.

You're missing the important part of that article;

That’s not a problem if it’s recognised that City weren’t great, that the deficiencies and problems are identified, and that work is done to correct them and improve the team. But there were very few indications that Steve Cooper felt his team needed to be better.

So far, he's shown that he's a sloth when it comes to learning speed. For the most part, he's living on luck and the fact we have some good forward players but the 'last gasp hurrah' stuff will stop happening and, when it does, we're screwed royally unless we learn how to adapt.

Bournemouth should have put us away easily, Ipswich should have finished us off and Southampton threw it away against us because their manager is even more shortsighted that ours. We've had two stonewall penalties against us inexplicably denied by referees who have done us a huge favour. That's all great and we celebrate every point. ****ing hell, I went batshit mental when Ayew got the equaliser on Saturday; it was brilliant stuff. What we can't do though is say, "oh well, everything's dandy because luck is on our side". It won't always be.

I genuinely do think we could be doing much better. Let's look at the games we have lost points in; we should have Everton as they were appalling against us but we got the setup so wrong from the start bully going defensive against them. We should have beat Ipswich as they are dross but we created nothing at all. We should have won against Palace but we sat back and made brown milkshake in our knickers. In each of those games we threw points away because our set up was totally wrong, we didn't make the correct changes or because of stupid, naive decisions to protect a lead. Yes, on the flipside we got a point against Spurs which we shouldn't have got and our win against Bournemouth was great but we were totally outplayed. The win against Southampton was great because of how it happened but we shouldn't have been in a losing position against that rabble of we are honest.

I don't buy this nonsense about us having the 3rd worst squad. We have proven this season we can play with tempo, we can create high quality moments and we can score some exceptional goals but we are so hugely curtailed by some awful decisions that are being made by our manager. You keep talking about promoted teams and that we must 'know our place' but we have gifted points to our opposition not through having poorer players than them, but by making poorer tactical decisions.

Of course we will be poor at times and of course we will lose more than we win, I think everyone understands that as a given but that doesn't make Cooper immune from difficult questions or scrutiny. You seem to take any criticism of him personally and it's odd because even you must see his shortcomings as a coach. If not, then you're in a tiny minority. I have said numerous times that he has talents and that he has done some decent things but they're offset by the sheer number of poor decisions he has made, not least of all in recruitment. He may be a good manager, but he isn't for us as if yet and Forest have excelled since his departure.

Time will tell and he won't be going anywhere for a while given what we know about those who make such decisions but this season could be a little easier than we might end up making it.

It'll be interesting to see what, if any, adaptations he makes for the Manchester United game. My guess however, is that it will be different names on a tactics board where the magnets have been in the same position since pre-season.

 

[City Fan]

No chance he gets the sack. They were in League one two seasons ago. It's just a step too far for the squad.

Yep. They’ll probably go down, but he’s a bloody good option to get them back up again.

 

[Robin127]

...We should have beat Ipswich as they are dross but we created nothing at all...

Although I agree with a lot of what you say here this is totally wrong. Look at post no. 32, I think their keeper was a lot busier than Mads.