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Maybe Wilfried Nancy could do a job here? He'd be cheap.

Sacking Marti likely makes no difference to where we end up at the end of the season. It does shift attention away from another transfer window with zero signings and takes some of the heat away from Top. The next manager will not be the saviour. The leadership of the club need a clear goal and strategy to achieve that aim. A 3 or 4 year plan as a minimum but I have no faith that Top and co even look beyond tomorrow. It's a complete shambles and that's on Top.

Gary Rowett seems like the best option available to us right now. Russell Martin should be avoided like the plague. I can't see Gerrard wanting it. We can't afford anyone currently in employment.

I literally feel nothing. 18 months ago the club was a mess, yesterday the club was a mess, today the club is a mess and tomorrow the club will still be a mess. I can't get optimistic until Top and Rudkin go.

Marti needs to go. Rudkin needs to go. Top needs to sell up and go ASAP. As a fanbase, we need to focus on one thing. This emotional "We played badly and lost so the manager has to go" might actually be counter productive. Think about it... Getting rid of Marti is better for Top and co than the club. Make no mistake, 23 games without a clean sheet is unacceptable, fitness levels are unacceptable, players' effort is unacceptable, tactics are atrocious and performances are getting worse with no sign of improvement. I'm firmly Marti Out but there are bigger issues with the club. Here's how it goes... Marti gets booted. Fans are appeased and go into a frenzy over who the next guy might be. Two weeks pass and a new manager is announced, a bargain basement, unproven gamble. Some fans are ok with it, others aren't but c'est la vie, everyone is a bit more upbeat and willing to give the new guy a chance. Another 4 or 5 games go by, maybe a win or two, but the same situation starts to play out with a lack of effort from players, tactical inefficiencies, a lack of goals (because we still won't possess a goal scoring striker) and bad goals being conceded. By then, the end of the season is in sight so let's reset in the summer. All of this time goes by Top is nowhere to be seen and is out of the firing line. Rinse and repeat. Nothing changes until Top is gone. The club has been a trainwreck since winning the FA Cup through half a dozen managers. If anyone seriously believes that the fortunes of the club take a serious upturn by the current leadership appointing another manager, then frankly, you are deluded.

The club is utterly lost. It's an impossible task for any manager that we can tempt. Top has to go. Until then we're rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

The time to sell is now. This is a club on a downward trajectory and there's no way out. There's no cash Complacency is the norm There's no direction, no common purpose No ambition No drive We've got there through years of allowing it to happen from the second half of Brendan Rodgers reign, through several managers. Player recruitment has been a disaster. Tactically we've rarely looked competent. Our squad has had a serious fitness problem for too long. For me, this isn't on the manager. Dean Smith could do nothing, Enzo looks like a lucky guess (but we looked bad in the last 15 games of his season), Copper did nothing, RVN did nothing, Marti is doing nothing. It all stems from the ownership. They set the tone, set the objectives, set the standards and Top has been AWOL through it all. It's terrible leadership and needs to change. Changing the manager is pointless. Nothing will change until Top and co leaves and there's a fresh injection of energy into this club.

My only hope is that Ayew is sent off so he's suspended for the next game.

If Marti doesn't get Daka on immediately, he can get in the bin.

This game would be more challenging and interesting if the links had to be people rather than places and things. Pablo Escobar used financier Robert Vesco who also dealt with Fidel Castro. Castro was pictured with Barack Obama. Barack Obama met David Cameron. Cameron met with Gary Lineker. Gary Lineker presented BBC SPOTY 2016 and presented Jamie Vardy with the team of the year award. Jamie Vardy is married to Rebekah Vardy. Escobar > Vesco > Castro > Obama > Cameron > Lineker > J Vardy > R Vardy

January is usually a tough market with over inflated prices as clubs don't usually want to lose their better players half way through the season. I do get the impression though, that other Championship clubs could make signings if they really needed to. I am firmly of the opinion that we are absolutely brassic and even though the need to buy players is high, there's just no money to do it. Even to the point that if two or three did get sold, I suspect that money might get used elsewhere before it's reinvested in players.

The thing is, people will start ignoring the warnings, that's when it gets dangerous. It wouldn't be so bad if they were right 50% of the time. Nobody expects them to get it right all the time.

I'm finding these weather warnings, approximately 100% of the time, are over-egged and it turns out to be never as bad as predicted.

I clearly have too much time in the morning

Yeah the first bong is the hour but there's some dings and dongs before that first bong. It's a bit of a count down I suppose... Ding ding dong, dong dong ding, ding dong, ding dong [dramatic pause] BONG. It's the BONG that should signal fireworks, not the dings or dongs.

I agree that Top & Co have been very poor in setting high standards and demanding excellence from everyone connected to the club. He's been too soft for too long and I don't think it's in his nature to be the tough guy we need. That said, Marti is on the training pitch, with the players every day. Responsibility for these stats lies with him and him alone, unless Top has explicitly said he wants the team to play walking football. I've been one of Marti's supporters due largely to the poor hand he's been dealt and the shambolic way the club is run, but this stat is on him and makes me more sympathetic towards the Marti Out brigade. Out of interest, does anyone know what QPR's stats in these areas were when Marti was there?

Sadly, I suspect they were already aware. Those metrics - distance covered and number of sprints are an easy stat to improve. Aim to be number one in both, and results (and league position) will improve drastically. When I used to coach grass roots youth football I always told my players that the result of the football match will largely be decided by what you do when you don't have the ball - how far and how fast you run to put the opposition under pressure, make them make mistakes and win the ball back. It's absolute basics and at a mis-firing professional club, this needs addressing immediately.

Lack of fitness has been a big issue for a long time. Not just under Marti either. It's shocking. Watch a Premier League game, the fitness levels are off the scale compared to us right now. If by some miracle we do go up, we'll get absolutely smashed every week.

We do everything at 80% or less. Running Passing Shooting Concentrating Helping teammates We're lazy. It's been that way for a long, long time. It's a mentality that underwrites the whole club through multiple managers and too many players. And the people at the very top of the club who should set and expect high standards are permanently MIA.

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Hide Marti?

Where is the evidence of "the short sums we do have"? What is our transfer budget this window? Everything I see going on from the outside points very much there being no funds whatsoever. I expect us to pay nothing at all this window, so strikers capable of digging us out of our current predicament will be slim pickings. I don't think Antonio would be scoring every game by a long shot, but if the choice is Antonio or nobody, then I go with Antonio. And he always seemed to score when Leicester were on the pitch, so it might not be a bad idea!

Antonio is nowhere near as bad as some of the signings we've made in the recent past that actually cost a lot of money in fees and wages. If he's willing and even partially able, then he's absolutely worth a shot.

It's a valid question for sure. There are many missing pieces to this particular puzzle which makes it a great environment for breeding of conspiracy theories. Entering another state and arresting their leader is a ballsy move. I'm sure it wouldn't have been done on a whim, but do the US have a lower threshold to justify the action than other countries? Maybe. It's entirely possible that any "investigation" might have been driven by ulterior motives. We don't know right now and we may never know!

To be fair (I'm no Starmer fan), there's not much else he can do. I dare say there's an awful lot of evidence and intelligence that the US were in possession of that they feel justified to do what they did. Starmer almost certainly won't know the full picture so he, like the rest of the world, need to exercise some patience for the full facts to come out... Which might be a long time in a world where Joe Public believes they should receive full facts in a real time commentary. Starmer is a lawyer, he's adopting a stance of allowing the relevant justice process to play out by sitting on the fence.