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I'd love to know if this inverted full back thing is a Marti idea or something Ricardo is forcing. Cause it really leaves us exposed on the break and doesn't help our central defenders.

Hasn't Fatawu got like 4 goals and 6 assists in 22 appearances. That really isn't too bad for a championship winger. Especially playing in a team without a proper striker. Whole reason he's in the championship is cause he's inconsistent. If he wasn't he'd be worth £50 million and in the Premiership.

I am. It's working for me. Did take a little while to load after I pressed the red button though.

I see DK Metcalf hasn't got a grip on his temper tantrums he had in Seattle. The guy was always so emotionally immature. You'd think some of these players would have thicker skin. It's possibly cost him £45 million.

Honestly, I really didn't think he stood out in either match. He was good in those games you mentioned if that's what you're looking for. I never said he wasn't, just said he didn't really stand out. At Middlesborough I thought he was the best of the bunch defensively, but we also put Okoli at right back to help him. At Derby I thought the whole team played well and that one of the midfielders should have had MotM. I went to look at the match ratings on here to make sure I wasn't misremembering. And whilst i know they're hardly great evidence they sort of say the same thing. I'll admit though, I never really saw him at Oxford. And kept seeing people on here saying how exceptional he is and it's built up unfair high expectations. But that's my fault.

He's played 7 games this season. He was poor yesterday and he was dreadful against Huddersfield. He hasn't really stood out in many of the other games. I think the biggest problem he's got on Foxestalk is the Ben Nelson fan club. You can't even fairly criticise him on here without getting jumped on by a number of posters. Any young player is going to struggle in this defence. It has no protection, his more experienced defenders can't really help him cause they're bad defenders and he we have a young keeper. I hope he succeeds and we should keep playing him. He'd really be helped by Soutter coming back. People have been saying he's a future England international and a future £40-50 million pound defender who would sort this defence out. Maybe he is, but he doesn't really look like it atm. That isn't his fault. If people fairly point out he's had a bad game. A bunch of people come on here playing the outraged youth player excuse. Whilst some of the same people slag Silko Thomas off. Go on his thread yesterday, he's still getting slagged off after scoring. We just all need to chill. If he has a bad game, it's okay to say it. He's a young player in a sh*t defensive unit, he's going to struggle. We all need to manage expectations.

I agree. It's almost weird. He's looked okay when he's played for us this year in his cameos. Certainly nothing to complain about.

His Dad's legacy probably. This was probably something that bonded them together. And the sentimentality of how it ended for his Dad. He's probably that clueless about football that he thinks we'll get promoted. Really starting to think he might a Tim nice but dim character. Not in a funny way - like he genuinely might be a bit thick and not understand how bad it is. You don't keep someone like Rudkin in place given the amount of mistakes he's made for as long as he did.

I'm really not sure what subs I'd make tbh. Most people said this was our best first eleven before the match started. Not sure I'd chuck the kids on yet. But hope to see all the kids given a run out around the 60 min mark.

Just so mentally weak.

I understand teams can be inconsistent. But I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. We're literally capable of shipping 3 (now 4) goals one half. Then scoring a bunch in another half.

The next sentence in my post was literally agreeing about what you posted saying that. Big foreign business doesn't care about their employees. But they do care about PR. Especially receiving bad PR when it's entirely avoidable - their owner had to come out a few weeks ago to calm his customers because they're turning on him. Even the usual KPFC cheerleaders can't defend this. It's such an unnecessary public own goal.

Something like this is the only other thing that sort of makes sense if it's not an error. Cause they gained nothing from doing this. Especially the way they did it. They're only really paying their staff 5 working days later so I doubt it's cashflow. I can sort of understand aligning payroll dates, but you have to give people enough notice. It does scream how badly King Power is run as a company. Some clueless clown in Thailand has made a decision not fully understanding the ramifications. Then if people have complained, they weren't important enough to be listened to. I genuinely don't think this happens if Susan Whelan is still in place. This is what happens in badly run companies: the people who speak up slowly start to leave and are replaced by weaker employees or sycophants. As someone else said foreign companies treat their employees very differently. You're just seen as a replaceable number. Especially if you're low down on the rung.

If that's true it really is bad on a lot of people. Especially the person who made the decision. Most people's wages in the UK are paid by BACS (over 90%). It's cheap but slow. You have to fill in two dates when you create/send a BACS file. A process date and payment date. It's like 3 working days including the day you submit the file. Even if people disagreed with the decision and tried to stop it. They'll have known days ago people were not going to be paid today. There's no reason to wait till the very last minute if it isn't human error. If anything like this happened where I used to work and people incurred charges from their banks for something that was our fault we would pay it. Or issue Faster Payments to correct it.

I agree, but the way they communicate nothing surprises me. This was just the first thing that came to my mind - it probably didn't happen. I just don't understand given how unhappy the fan base are with them why they'd do this on purpose knowing it would hit the media. Everyone is still going to be annoyed, but they'd be less annoyed with more notice. But let's just say this did happen. Technically they could recall the BACS transfer and correct it - it would be possible. But it's highly irregular and not easy after the process has started. They'd have to pay fines/costs/admin fees to the different banks. Which they wouldn't want to do. So that could be why they wouldn't admit it. And I guarantee you if they made that offer to all staff, then almost everybody would claim financial hardship and ask for their money around xmas.

I'm not a KP defender at all but I am someone who once worked in a payroll department. This could just be an admin error and nothing more sinister. Payroll software can be complicated. I used to work for a company that payrolled over 100 different payrolls a month and I saw a situation worse than this. Someone will have had to go in and manually change the pay dates on the system. If you forget it's a special month it can be easy to miss as it's rare, but there should be controls in place to prevent it. Where I worked two people missed that it was set to a bank holiday and so did the supervisor who authorised it. All the paperwork had the correct dates. But on the system it was still set to the last weekday of the month which happened to be a bank holiday. If someone has run the payroll and submitted the BACS Transfer with the incorrect date it's not so easy to recall it without paying costs - it's probably thousands of individual payments that have gone in bulk. It's so poor to just give people a days notice at this time of year. As shambolically run as we are I just don't understand why they'd do that if this was planned. But then nothing would surprise me with these clowns.

They were bleaker back then. There was literally no hope. We have players like Skipp and James in midfield. Back then it was Gavin Williams and Stephen Hughes. I think Andy Johnson might have been around at time. I think some people forget how truly bad we were back then.

Still remember being there when Gudjonsson scored that goal not quite believing what I'd just seen. Fatawu just gave some people a great memory - his goal was better. Always remember when Gudjonson went to Burnley after AZ because we couldn't afford the £150,000 transfer fee - and he wanted to come back here. God how times changed. Those days were bleak.

Maybe it's not ideal, but if the contract is favourable for 6 months it could work well for both parties. Especially if we have no transfer funds. Our strikers are beyond bad. This guy can't be any worse. In 20 games they've got like 4 goals between them (even less excluding penalties). I don't see how he can be any worse. I've totally given up on Daka now. At the very least he's physical, can hold the ball up and head it. He might have struggled to get into the West Ham team in the Premier League. But we're a mid table championship team with League one strikers. It can't do any harm.

Lack of fitness and mental weakness.

Can't workout if it's all mental weakness or if we're really quite unfit.

Daka is so frustrating in this situation. He can stretch defences and presses well. But as soon as you pass the ball to him 9 times out of 10 it goes back to the opposition. His ball control and passing really is bad for a £20 million player.

One thing I like about Skipp is he covers his full backs. If they go up for throw ins, corners, or are just out of position for any reason. He'll fill in. It's a small thing but it makes such a difference.

It's crazy watching this guy in the Championship at age 29 and remembering he managed to get 10 caps for England. He never stands out and most of the time looks overmatched at this level. Sort of shows how players can be carried by other players or specific tactical systems.

Really impressed with the central midfield. Skipp has really impressed me. Getting stuck in, covering for defenders if they go forward, and passing the ball forwards. Winks does nothing like that. James pushes the game forwards, gives everything and gets in the box at the right times. They complement each other well. Made such a difference to the team. Just bin Winks off now. Skipp's clearly a confidence player. I've been so impressed with him the last few games. I really didn't think he had this in him.