Phillip https://www.scfc2.co.uk/forums/discussion/comment/75612#Comment_75612
Mark Guihi withdrawn from last England under 21 through injury, Ayew extremely doubtful and looks like Manning and Lowe wont get back home until Thursday, Hourihane injured, Cabango also been away and Roberts must be shattered.
as stated many times Arriola will never kick a ball for us and he's gone back injured yet another with no contact, the 2 Yanks have sustained 4 injuries in 12 Months without a tackle. If Cooper had been allowed to sign 2 British, Spanish or anyone from a proper footballing nation we might have had 2 ready to go. Before we even signed them I said when it was rumoured it was a bad idea and an owners PR stunt.
Since they came we have halved our goal difference, doubled our defeats and played absolute shit. 2 decent signings and we could have been comfortable in 2nd, because 2 decent players could have been rotated not the shit that we got from across the pond, Now the best we can hope for is the play offs and the way we are playing, we will need a massive amount of luck and hope the other 3 have bad luck.
Our meddling none football owners have ruined us, Cooper got us some good loans and a tidy brand of football, it seems imposing those clumsy Yanks on us, seemed to change his whole strategy, from a decent side to a defensive boring team or perhaps disinterested getting what he didn't want
@Phillip
Can I respectfully suggest that you read that post again and reflect on it.
That Morris and Arriola suffered two non contact injuries, so what ? ****e happens in football and in life in general. Bodde suffered two ACL's, neither of which actually resulted from contact.
If Cooper had signed 2 players of British, Spanish or any other nation, how do you know that they wouldn't have suffered similar injuries ? I wasn't aware that injuries were based on one's nationality.
Blaming Morris and Arriola for our recent results is absolutely ludicrous given that they were given so little game time. As for suggesting that Cooper would have rotated any other two signings is purely speculative and highly unlikely given his rotational record with Gyokeres, Palmer, Manning, Latibeaudiere, Hamer, Freeman, Whittaker, Routledge etc, who incidentally are all players from 'proper' footballing nations.
As for the two Yanks being shit as you put it, I would like to understand how who arrived at that conclusion. Morris in particular was receiving very favourable reviews from his cameo appearances and most were looking forward to him getting more game time. Arriola had very little opportunity to show us how good, or bad, he was. Personally, I wait to see a player perform before writing him off. It would appear that you wrote him off simply because of his country of birth.
As for suggesting that the owners are somehow responsible for Cooper changing his tactics, that just beggars belief.