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Lee Trundle
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Swanjaxs said:But the fact is we do have a strong squad, the frustration comes because Cooper is over reliant on the same core of players week in week out.PSumbler said:Someone asked yesterday whether we would be where we are this season if crowds were allowed in and for me simply the answer is no.
The ease at which the crowd would jump on the backs of both the manager and the players would just add to the pressure and we have won games this season that I don't believe we would have had there been a crowd. Last season was a good example of this as our away record up to crowds stopping was better than our home record and that - I think - proves the point that I am trying to make.
So the answer to the question is that I think if we don't go up Cooper will stay but as crowds return he probably won't stay long as people get on his back. And to be fair the chances of us sacking him after (as an example) two play off defeats are quite remote and probably rightly so.
It was suggested somewhere that we have assembled one of the strongest squads in the Championship yet five minutes later we have no real options and we don't have the players we need. That was the very same poster making both those points. That is why - for some people - Cooper will never do right for doing wrong and even if we went up those same people would want him sacked by September.
And I say that from a position where I would say that I am not a fan, he has much to learn, but it is very difficult to argue with his record in almost 80 league games in charge of Swansea City
We have been playing 3 games a week all season, use the squad, and when the pitches start firming up towards the end of the season we should be in a good place to push on for automatic
You've come up a theory there and becoming quite a popular one on the forums. But if you look at it closer, it doesn't really stand up:
1) all our competitors in this division are reliant on the same core of players. Brentford, Norwich, Watford, the scum, play their same key players every week when available.
2) he did make 1 change besides the enforced ones.
3) Who else could have come in to play? The defence was already disrupted by injuries, up front after the injuries to Morris&Cullen were stuck too as Cooper said this week Whittaker isn't yet up to speed. Smith maybe could have come in? Would he alone have made a noticeable difference?
4) Presumably you think he should change things to stop the team getting tired? But that doesn't stack up either really as that starting 11 was strong enough to create chance after chance, force 3 penalty shouts, get their wingback sent off, miss an open goal, force several superb saves.
A lot people are trying to apply the same criticisms they've been tabling at Cooper for a while now to this match, but if they'd watched the match, its obvious they simply aren't relevant to this particular game.