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We can't keep changing managers every 20 games. At some point we need to stick with a manager. So many bigger problems at the club right now, getting rid of Marti would increase the problems, not make them all disappear. Give him some money in January to buy an actual striker that can score goals and a creative central midfielder that can actually create chances. Nobody is winning anything with the current squad and until there are significant changes in the board room, or some decent funds are made available, nothing will change. Getting rid now costs us money we don't have to start a recruitment process that will not see a significant upgrade and make it even less likely to bring anyone in during January meaning we head into thr second half of the season with exactly the same dross players.

Surprised by this response to be honest. Taking Thomas and Carranza out of the team and replacing them with Kristiansen and Daka, does not suddenly change this club from mid table plodders to table toppers. I don't care who the manager is.

This really is a bang average squad, isn't it?

There was one witness saying that when police confronted him he was shouting "Kill me, kill me". Possible suicide by cop? This has shades of Nottingham. Utterly tragic.

Police just said it isn't a terrorist attack.

And how many operational cops work there on a Saturday evening? It won't have been bursting at the seams with cops sitting around waiting for a major incident.

I'm impressed with the police and ambulance response in Huntingdon. We're almost used to seeing this kind of thing in a metropolitan area where there are lots of cops in a relatively small area, but Cambridgeshire is essentially a rural county and Huntingdon is a small market town with nothing like the staffing we see in large cities. To have mustered that level of response on a Saturday evening so quickly is astonishing.

No. Strikers man marking goalkeepers, defenders dropping deep to counter it. You'd end up with both sets of teams in each others penalty boxes and the ball being lumped from one end of the pitch to the other. Ironically, I think there'd be even less space for creativity as teams defend deeper and deeper. Less Jamie Vardy, more Kiefer Moore.

Skipp for me. With Daka there was a player with a high ceiling. He hasn't realised that potential with us because of poor coaching and lack of game time, especially whilst in Vardy's shadow, but the signing made sense at the time. Soumare too, he had just won Ligue 1 in France, so on paper a solid signing. Hasn't worked out for him, he's clearly not suited to the English game (some players just aren't). Skipp though... Big transfer fee for someone who was a squad player at Spurs, who had one or two decent games alongside some quality teammates but had shown nothing else. Couple that with the fact we had cock all money at the time and central midfield was not the priority. So not only has it not worked out on the pitch (predictably) Skipp was also a bad strategic decision.

This forum is actually nuts. The club is in a terrible place and fans calling for the manager to go is frankly making the situation even worse. 22/23 - relegated with a squad that should have been competing for European football and then we lose Kasper, Maddison, Barnes, Tielemans, Evans, Soyuncu. They are replaced by Hermansen, Winks, Coady, Fatawu and Mavididi 23/24 - promoted, but lose KDH and Maresca and we are SKINT. 24/25 - We buy Skipp(?), BEK and Ayew and bring in Cooper as manager - we were always going to be up against it. Cooper goes. RVN comes in - another zero cost manager. Results are terrible all season, players bereft of any confidence. Relegated 25/26 - Another manager - Marti. He PAYS HIS OWN COMPENSATION to join us late in pre-season. Sees BEK, Vardy, Mads, Justin, Ndidi and McAteer leave. We spend ZERO money on bringing players in. Fans believe that we have some kind of golden generation of youth players that can somehow dismantle one of the toughest leagues in football. This season we've seen Monga quite a bit - he has a long way to go to fulfil his potential and I'm not convinced he strengthens the team right now. Page looked decent in one game and out of his depth in the other, Nelson looked extremely shaky, Alves is a way off yet. As for Evans, Aluko and others - maybe, just maybe, they're not quite ready yet and everybody needs to be patient with the core of a youth team that finished 10th in their youth league last season. These players are not about to set the Championship on fire, even if their potential is high. The squad is dire but there's NO MONEY to buy anyone. We demonstrated we have no money yet we're suggesting that before we're even half way through the season we should sack a manger and therefore have even LESS MONEY to improve the squad. It's plainly obvious that we are in desperate need of a proper striker that can actually score goals. It's plainly obvious that we need some creativity in the middle of the park. It's plainly obvious that we need to move more than a couple of players on. It's plainly obvious that the DoF is incompetent. It's plainly obvious that the owner is clueless. It's plainly obvious that we are desperately short of cash. Believe me... We have 99 problems, but Marti ain't one.

So maybe the manager isn't the problem?

It's currently a cat 4. Most models downgrade it to a 2 or 3 over Jamaica. Still likely to cause major disruption, but not as bad as it once looked (hopefully). Has generally been a quiet hurricane season this year.

Government sanctioned a couple of companies to leave their scooters lying around for all to hire... Hop on hop off type of thing. The schemes have been abused by many riders and it has created an unnecessarily dangerous environment for other road users. The scheme has failed as far as I'm concerned but it is further aggravated by private e-scooters that don't have the speed limiters or the lights that the government approved ones do. Frankly, it's a disgrace that you can walk into a reputable shop (like Currys) where they are all lined up ready to take away for a few hundred pounds. It's written in the small print of the small print on the label that these are for use on private land only and I'd bet that the sales staff don't point that out. They all need binning. E-bikes are even worse.

The thing is, I expect him to make mistakes and get things wrong at his age. My hope is that he's a fast learner and mistakes and wrong decisions become less and less. Little things like not making the run to the far post for a Fatawu cross, when that was the likely thing to happen. Things like for their goal, Carranza gets dispossessed because Monga wasn't available for a pass because he was stood stationary about a yard away from the ball. I have confidence he'll make a top footballer, just bear with him whilst he gains experience.

Meh. Just as I thought Daka was going to actually get the run of games he desperately needs, he gets dropped. Cifuentes the same as all our previous Daka managers... Clueless.

To be fair, the article hardly gives any detail about what happened. I suspect there's a lot that complicates the case that hasn't been reported here.

5g has been the biggest con of the last 5 years. We're only just starting to see "proper" 5g now.

Regarding work/business: Don't be afraid to set big goals and go after them. If they seem challenging, rise to the challenge even if the road ahead seems long. Understand that a worthwhile journey to that goal will most likely be boring. Stick with it, put the hours in, be disciplined now rather than regretful later. Mental wellbeing: 90% of your life's happiness and misery will be rooted in your choice of life partner. Choose wisely. Finance: Spend less money than you earn on living and stuff that doesn't matter. Invest the rest into assets that pay interest/dividends OR invest in your own education. Health: Walk more. Eat more naturally green things, or meat that ate green stuff rather than grain fed.

A hugely, hugely important win in that season

Out of town retail parks with good parking and the internet means that town and city centres are no longer shopping destinations. Councils are desperate to hang on to the notion that they should be prime shopping centres but the days of getting decent foot traffic are long gone. If you have money and want to spend it in retail, there really is no point in going into town. Big high street brands know this with declining profits, so they close big stores that were once a reason to venture into city centres, to be replaced by pound shops, charity shops and bookmakers. Set aside part of the town for butchers, bakers, independent retailers and make a feature of them. Have a section with restaurants and bars, maybe dedicate some space to dome fun attractions. Perhaps three quarters of most town and city centres should just be redeveloped for housing.

There are perfectly bright and able young people that choose not to go to university. Using the "did you go to university?" question as a metric as to whether someone can possibly do a job or not is bonkers. Especially, as you say, there are so many bullshit degrees out there. If your chosen profession NEEDS a university degree, go get it. If it doesn't, you shouldn't be discriminated against by an outdated perception.

The notion that someone is inherently brighter just because they went to university is outdated. It's a shame that there seem to be a fair few companies that will still bin applications from perfectly able candidates because they chose to take a different path at age 18. I see quite a few new graduates around. A good chunk of them distinctly lack decent communication skills or sound decision making skills, but they're good at exams, and that somehow makes everything OK.

Given the circumstances, this is a solid 8 for me. All our problems can't be sorted out in a single window but this is a positive step in the right direction.

And we're probably paying the bulk of his wages.

So there's a chance he can come back?