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In 50 years no-one will remember Marinakis - EVERYONE will remember Steve Coopers impact on this club. I love that man more than my own father
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Dearie me.
Panic on the streets of Croydon, Derby, Sheffield, Leicestershire.
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31-03-2023, 06:08 PM
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Is this not the Nottingham Forest v Wolves match thread? Can we stay on topic please.
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Do we think Cooper gets a team buzzing and motivated before a game like this (for example you'd imagine Dyche does). Or is he more of a cool calm collected, get the information across and trust the players type?
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Just copied this off a discussion on Facebook. One particularly negative person had been slating Cooper as if we'd be top 6 with a different manager. The reply one guy put wS I thought absolutely perfect thought people here might like it:
"Christopher Morgan OK I will take the bait. If we finish 17th this season then it is a massive success, not a failure. We are currently 16th with 2 rivals to play in next 4 days. If you can't recognise the unique circumstances we came into this season with, then you are blind or don't want to look. We are running a marathon having given most of our opponents a 15 minute head start. That 23 year gap meant we had zero proven premier league players at the end of the season. The 2 other promoted teams had loads. We have since added Hendo, Aurier, Dennis and Kouyate in the summer, plus Shelvey and Wood in Jan. Of the rest, none were proven in the Prem. Softer leagues like Germany Italy and Brazil are zero guarentee of success and usually take time to adjust often a full season. We also needed key players from last season like Joe, Mckenna, Yates and Jonno to make the huge leap virtually over night. Blending all these new players into a cohesive unit was going to require 2 things: a miracle and alot of luck. The bookies had us as overwhelming favourites to finish bottom- they are not daft, never seen a poor bookie,.
So even you must agree our starting point was not great.
Add in the injuries that have hit us and that as we hit our straps, the WC disrupted our flow (Lingard in particular was looking like the player we hoped to have) and any idiot can see that we would be up against it. Whether we like to admit it or not, we have a team that should be 20th. It is the skill of our manager who has kept our heads just above water and I fully expect he will do it again. The team spirit will continue to grow and I hope that by the seasons end we will be 17th or above.
One thing I am sure of, is that no manager could get anymore out of this depleted squad than Cooper is. We are middle weights taking on heavy weights week after week. Even today when you look through the Wolves team you see quality all the way through and a number of players who would improve us significantly. Yet, we will match them with our inferior line up and hopefully take the points. We need 100% support for next 11 games, not negativity as we attempt to bridge those gaps every game.
If you can't recognise this then you are a part of the problem."
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If it wasn’t for cooper marinakis’ tenure would have been nothingness. Chopping managers, throwing loads of money at the club, signing loads of players and hoping something works
Coopers the difference
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Must win game, this and the next one.
Fingers crossed Cooper selects a good aggressive team to go and score goals and win. And does not pick another lets not let any in and defend all the time and hope to get a breakaway goal.
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Fawaz put in lots of money too
