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How did we go from Vardy to him as our no 9? Dear God.

Astonished the average rating is as high as 3.9 after a frankly embarrassing performance.

I assume they thought that putting him on a long contract would help us get a decent fee for him. But instead he'll still be stinking out the place in 2029.

I don't want to believe he is totally done because, although he was unbelievably poor today, he was very good against Ipswich only a week ago, up against a much better player.

A win today and we'd have been 7th and 1 point off the play offs. Incredible really given how sh1te we are. I know we're all raging about being as low as 13th but in reality we're lucky to be that high. Our underlying numbers are horrific and that's confirmed by the eye test. This season is a write off to be honest; we just need to limp to 50 or so points in order to stay up and then hope we can have a massive clear out next summer.

Who still has a track record in the Championship that Cifuentes could only dream of.

No changes, ha, ha, ha!!

This is it. Marti has never had any real success in his entire career.

Hmmmm

3, 3 and 4 down in 3 of the last 6 matches. Totally unacceptable. Surely another manager could do better than this.

Always concerned when everyone on here is positive about a team selection!

Is this the quietest pre match thread ever? Can’t decide if that is because people are happier about the team or just apathetic. It’s mainly the Christmas pay outrage that’s stimulated the few posts that have been made.

I was always a big fan of Maddison, a truly brilliant technical player, but I also feel that missed pen was in the end a crucial factor in our relegation as it was against our direct rival and would have put us 3-1 up with the last kick of the first half, making it very likely we would have won that game. Had we won that game, we would have stayed up.

I was at that one!

Love how brave Bournemouth are. Kept going for the win right to the end.

The only positive thing that I can say about the second half performance is that it's proven that I still do care about this club as I've woken up this morning still absolutely fuming about it. We completed only 47 accurate passes in 50 minutes, including injury time, with a pass accuracy of 52%!!! These are the kind of stats you might see from a poor League 2 side. They are truly alarming. I get that we can't expect to dominate for 90 minutes away at a side who are decent for the level but we were completely overrun in that second half. It was humiliating to watch Jakub time wasting to try to secure us a point in the last 10 minutes or so. We simply could not get out of our own half for nearly the entire half. We had 3 rapid attackers on the pitch and yet not once did we look a threat on the counter, despite the fact Bristol City were pushing so high up the pitch. How has our "manager" not been able to coach the team to hit teams on the break? Words fail me.

Cifuentes can only dream of having Martin's record in the Championship. He's a Spanish Craig Levein.

By the way, we must be the worst side in the league at counter attacking, despite having 2 of the best wingers. How can he not coach us to be a threat when the oppo are pushing forward a lot?

Get him gone. Totally rancid second half. Awful subs again. We managed 47 (!!!) accurate passes in the whole of the second half. It was like we were playing away at Man City.

Absolutely love the pod but how come you all pronounce Faes as 'Fez'? Bugs the pedant in me!

Hi, mate. This is how things are from our perspective. Essentially, we've been garbage all season apart from the odd wonder goal, the occasional 30 minutes of good play and Jordan James. Our fanbase detest most of our players and many of those players hardly give a sh1t, despite being paid obscene wages that they don't deserve. Oh, and despite raising about £400m in transfer sales over the past 7 or 8 years, we're in such massive trouble with PSR that we're going to get a points deduction and can't afford to sign any players. But other than that, it's all going swimmingly.

Not having him. Still not had a single 90 minute performance of the required quality. I get that Derby were always going to have a go second half but we were so poor in possession and offered no threat on the break, which was really disappointing. Another game where we’ve had very few shots, but luckily we were clinical today.

Really good first half but was not happy with the second half at all, so little composure on the ball and not a single shot on goal. Skipp superb throughout and James also brilliant again.

If he's selected Silko over Monga by choice then he's more clueless than I thought. Silko is way off the level.

Tbh I don't think we need to worry too much about what Ipswich are doing. Can't see us being anywhere near the play offs, let alone autos. Main thing is that we stay up.