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This 100% When the team performs badly, the fans are quick to criticise the players and the manager (with justification), but the team has been a shambles through about a half dozen managers (I absolutely believe Maresca was a lucky appointment, but even his team limped over the line). Those poor team performances are a symptom. The cause is firmly at boardroom level but fans spend time and energy trying to get the manager out and the board are a side issue. The whole thing is on a rinse and repeat cycle. Top either needs to sell up and walk away, or employ actual competent people and leave them to run it. Time to pick a manager, stick with them and focus attention on real and meaningful change at the club.

Not sure we could afford the compensation due, but Tim Flowers is doing a middling to poor job at Bromsgrove Sporting. Currently 16th in the Southern League Premier Central. Links to the club though...

Rudkin's job is not, nor has it ever been at stake. In any other organisation he'd have been long gone by now. Top obviously likes him a lot.

Wait. What? Skubala out!

Mate, RVN was a world class striker. We couldn't buy a goal

We'll get through this.

With luck, yes.

It's taken so long, by way of an apology, they're going to award us an additional 15 points.

This has more legs than the Enzo rumour imo. And we desperately need a first choice keeper.

I thought I saw somewhere once that they automatically count all season ticket holders in the attendance, regardless whether they show up or not. Not sure if true.

I'd actually lose a bit of respect for Enzo if he came back. Hardly screams ambition does it? He is setting his stall out as a top, top manager who wants to be leading teams at the very top of Europe's elite divisions. Coming back here would be the polar opposite to his career trajectory and even by simply signing a contract here would, at the very least, raise eyebrows with regards the reputation he is building.

I've never seen him move so quick as when he got across and put the block on Page's shot.

I'm convinced there must be a clause in Ayew's contract that guarantees him a high number of minutes on the pitch, or we have to pay him for every minute he's not on the pitch. It's the only explanation.

Adventurous.

We sign players and award them with the biggest contracts of their career. Any move away from us will see a smaller pay packet. If you have a four year contract and after 6 months it looks like the club isn't the right fit and you have no incentive to up your game, then there's more than a few that seem to be happy to go through the motions for 3 and a half years, rather than leave and be paid less and be expected to do more. It's our fault. We created this.

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