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At this point, unless Cooper absolutely wants the job, there isn't much good in approaching him. Assuming we are in 'advanced talks' with Lampard, if we mess him about to talk to a manager who may not want the job and end up getting neither, we'll look like right idiots.

I don’t want to tempt fate, but Burnley have really struggled for goals this season, especially at home. They are there for the taking if we can get a goal. Pragmatically, I reckon it’ll be 1-1 draw.

Yes because I don’t think Lampard will be on more money than our highest earner. Lampard was on about £1.75m at Derby whose wages were higher than ours back then. To reiterate, Lampard’s stock is low. He’s probably not going to get Prem wages from Day 1.

Only one way to find out. Robins always seemed to do well with us and struggle elsewhere. It will all depend on who he brings in as his next number 2. There’s certainly risks on our end, the relationship with Robins was always a ‘match made in heaven’, right person and the right club.

He’s another manager who’s probably exposed at Premiership level. His Championship record is what I’m interested in!

Absolutely if it gives us a chance of hiring Cooper. Wish they’d done it 2-3 weeks ago!

They definitely won’t pick him up. I love Robins but can definitely see him struggling at other Championship clubs.

So what? It was his first season in a packed league. Swansea were in receipt of parachute payments when Cooper was there and were paying Ayew something stupid like £80k per week. He left before the going got tough. At Forest, his work was impressive but Forest had an expensive team and Prem...

This may be a controversial take but imo, Cooper is a manager that would’ve been sacking Robins for given his track record getting 2 teams in the playoffs and one promotion. However, Cooper has just been sacked and highly doubt he is interested in the job so soon. Additionally, we’re...

There’s Potter and Moyes available too if they want another crack at the Prem. Leicester’s team isn’t good enough to stay up irrespective of who their manager is imo.

... and one of their players throwing an elbow as the melee happened. But, of course Wilder's players would do that. Why would we let the truth get in the way of a good story?!

Have you considered the possibility that RVN wasn’t seriously interested in taking the job? There are lower end Prem jobs about to become available, such as Leicester who’ve just sacked Cooper.

It’s irrelevant because he never managed them in the Prem, but I was convinced Maresca wouldn’t have done a much better job.

I understand why Forest and Leicester fans would say such things… Did Swansea fans miss what happened to them after he left them? 😂 His work in the Championship at Swansea and Forest was fantastic and that's not accounting for his body of work elsewhere e.g. England U20s. If he put his name...

The point wasn’t that we shouldn’t have kept them. It time for them to move on, the issue is that there’s been no experienced players to replace them. Thomas and Kitching had spoken on how well they got on with McFadz and his influence on them in training (iirc). Coincidentally, the initial...

Agree on this. Both of Sheffield’s goals yesterday felt a bit too easy. You could see 2 passes before the matter because of how all over the place we were. The issue is two fold in my view. As you rightly point out there’s something not right with the tactics and/or coaching of the team...

I’d 100% appoint Cooper but it’s probably too late in the process.

This is a silly conspiracy theory. Things take time to be put in place and there’s no point in having a new manager take over a game for one session before Burnley away.

Recruitment for Jan needs to pick up where we left off in the summer. We were looking for a CM and experienced CB. Defensively, an experienced head would hopefully support the young core so we cut out a lot of our soft goals. I’d like to add a RB and LB but reckon that’s a job for the summer...

He could play RWB, but he was mostly playing CM. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, we have more resources than before. My priority is a CM, there’s just a different profile of player needed in our team and without disrespecting Eccles or Sheaf, Hamer showed us yesterday what we’re missing.