Cooper watch

So how many games realistically has Santo got before the crowd turn and he's under pressure from them and the owner?

If we lose on Saturday, Cooper’s name will be chanted.

Good.

I miss Cooper already.

I am fully expecting his name to be cheated win lose or draw.

The main issue Nuno Espirito Santos is going to have is that his name has too many syllables for the xxx's Red and White Army chant.

I doubt he has strong feelings about Leicester, Derby or what constitutes magic.

One.

Unfortunately we have a set of fans who will take a long time to get over Cooper and their opinions on how he has been treated so will be immediately anti-Nuno. We also have a selection of fans who booed Brennan Johnson at the weekend for whom I have very few words. We also have those who have written off Sangare after about 6 games when he is apparently ill and injured.

The next game is Bournemouth at home. It was always going to be a pivotal match. Were we to lose/draw, we wouldn’t be deep in the shit but with the expectation that someone else could turn it around and it would be difficult to justify keeping Cooper with 1/2 points from 14 games. If we were to win, then a tough decision but no worse than doing it yesterday.

I also think one game from the crowd, but surely more from the owner. Has to recognise we need a striker before any judgement can be made on anyone (assuming it starts badly in next few games).

Reading the Athletic piece leaves me thinking if the Marinakis stuff is true he is in for a fall. He may be a billionaire, but Chelsea have spent a billion to go nowhere. His money can influence the Greek league as he is the biggest fish in that pond. But even as a billionaire he is a small fish in Premier League terms.

His quoted ambitions seem somewhat ludicrous.

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable expectation that we are not constantly fighting relegation. Or that there are three teams who are shitter than us. I also think there is some truth in the quote about being content with mediocrity.

Constantly? We've only been back in the league for a year and a half after 23 years out of it, in which time the league transformed completely from what it was.

Firstly it’s Santo not Santos.

And I reckon “Nuno Santo” would scan just fine…

I don’t want to patronise you but ambition is about where you want to be not where you are

Example: my ambition is to be a single handicap golfer. I am currently stuck on 16.

You are talking about a group of avante garde singers who can happily cram two syllables into "City" and rhyme "ground" with "desire". Your made up bourgeois rules do not apply here.

Yes, but that isn't going to happen tomorrow if you go out and buy a bag full of magic sticks this afternoon.

Baby steps…

People rile against the use of words like passion as being generalities that have no meaning, but throw around ambition as wisdom of the ages.