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We seem to have decided that the best way to negate a points deduction is to play badly enough that it wont make any difference to our final league position...

Almost exactly a year younger than Monga (one day off), who made his first senior squad in the fa cup on the 7th Feb last year and his debut in April in a PL relegation battle, but managed minutes until he'd finished school last summer. If he's good enough, then there's every chance of it. But he plays more central than Monga so potentially might not get that opportunity quite as early. Monga is definitely an exception rather than the rule though, so I'd imagine Motsi follows a path more similar to Evans' - training with the older pros more often but not quite ready for the step up fully.

Its a great initative, as always. Is there a straightforward way to contribute for those of us who won't be at the game (for whatever reason)?

Lovely stuff

One way traffic. Not good enough.

It won't happen, but I think it'd be competitive against any league1/2 side for sure. Midfield seems the lightest, but only because Braybrooke and Cartwright are both out on loan. Stolarczyk Aluko - Nelson - K.Gray - L.Thomas Choudhury - Cover S.Thomas - Page - Monga Evans* *or Hutchinson

I’m starting this a week early. And probably continuing it thereafter too, tbh.

For his sake, I hope we don't. Keeping him past this season would be a massive setback for his career. Thankfully for him, I think he's destined to go to a promoted side next year. Which clearly won't be us.

He guides what happens at training, though. If players are consistently making the same mistakes - either through confusing tactics or skill - then that's something that needs to be worked on in training and we should at least see some improvement, or the players dropped for someone else who does. But week on week we see the exact same crap on the pitch, and the same mistakes being made. We throw away points all the time? It's a mentality issue. Get some proper training in or a club psychologist. Marti needs to be taking responsibility for that. Slow, misplaced passes? Drill them again and again and again until we can at least do them at a level suitable for the championship (given that most of these are ex-prem players, that should be the bare minimum) Struggling with fitness/high pressure as the game progresses? Why has he not put his foot down to make sure the fitness training is more disciplined. Instead we have the likes Ayew huffing and puffing barely 30mins into a match. Keep putting ourselves under pressure from short goal kicks? Thats a tactical issue and we need to work on other options between games so we're not reliant on the same thing every time. He doesn't control the players like a game of FIFA, but he controls the day-in day-out stuff that leads up to a match day. If he cant get that right, then he may as well not be here at all. I'd rather have King running the show as Marti offers absolutely nothing at this point.

I'm still gobsmacked that he's not been pulled up for a foul throw at all this season. Every other throw he's half a yard on the pitch when he releases it.

Bang average first half, going in level. Alright Marti, if you're gonna have any sort of positive impact here, this is the perfect opportunity to show it. Couple of positive changes at half time/early in the second half and be more on the front foot - actually play like the home side for a change - and we've got every opportunity here to show what we can offer for the rest of the season. Equally, if we come out and it's more of the same - or god forbid worse - then for me thats Marti showing (again) that he's not got what it takes to actually get the most out of this club.

Just on attitude alone, I’d rather have these two than WF and JV. At least it all feels a bit more positive with these two

He’s not played for us… yet Wouldn’t put it past us 🤣

It's still less than a decade ago that we were celebrating what was arguably one of the biggest achievements in sporting history. And now we're 4-0 down at half-time against a bang average QPR side and not even looking like we give a sh*t, a pending points deduction for financial mismanagement and regular staff being shafted on their Christmas pay promises. It's an odious culture at the club and that comes right from the top down. It's like we've speedrun how to ruin a football club. Get the tossers out of our club, ASAP. And anyone who's attached themselves to them for the ride in the last few years.

Whats the point

Boll*cks

Happens with alarming regularity. Every single game, without fail. The biggest issue that Marti is doing very little to fix.

Oops

As others have said, he's relatively young for a first choice GK but still a solid shot stopper and actually decent in the air too (which we've been missing for a good while). He'll make mistakes - today was a particularly bad one, granted - but he can iron those out with experience. Don't think the philosophy of playing it on the ground out from the keeper suits him at all (although long kicks arent exactly his specialty either) and that's a tactical issue, so as well as Jakub doing the work to improve his focus, Marti needs to take a good look at whether this tactic is worth persisting with.

Here comes Kasey. Brace incoming

Ffs. Loss of concentration there from Stol. means we probably won’t see Evans now that there’s a bit more nervy finish. :/

i swear my feed has gone down for every goal so far

WTF Fatawu!

Nice one, ta.