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Just now, StinckleyFox said:

We stay up if they didn’t sack marti.

No chance. This started a long time before we sacked Marti. 

7 hours ago, Spudulike said:

Still a decent chance that Notts Forest get relegated 

There’s actually a decent chance they stay up, win a European trophy and play in the Champions League next season lol. 

Another person not paying attention and making excuses for horrendous ownership. Today in The Times…

MISSION TO RUIN LEICESTER

Leicester City gave the Premier League the greatest season in its history, and the Premier League is repaying them with a mission to destroy the club. This was as good as confirmed by a small detail that emerged from the independent commission which dismissed Leicester's appeal against a six-point deduction. The League wanted more. It hadn't released that information, but it came out as part of the verdict. It asked for an extra point to be taken away.

The penalty has already plunged Leicester into the Championship's relegation zone — but just in case there was any chance of football's great fairytale not ending back in tier three, the League twisted the knife.

Nobody would argue Leicester has been a well-run club in the years since the title win, but this vindictiveness knows no bounds.

Whatever fears exist around the independent regulator, he cannot have as little feeling for football as Alison Brittain and Richard Masters.

2 hours ago, Rubbersoul said:

Said it a few times but going down any season is obviously dreadful but to get relegated from such a low quality league is utterly embarrassing. 

This is it, just look at how many teams have pulled themselves away from it this year after looking truly dreadful. Norwich, Southampton, Sheff Utd, QPR, even West Brom and Blackburn have almost done enough in 3/4 weeks. 

I reckon we needed to be at 50% this year to comfortably stay up with a 6 point deduction. We're watching the absolute pits of player application, commitment and effort. It was genuinely harder to get relegated than stay up in this league. 

When that Sheff Wed goal went in you just had to laugh, it was so obvious it would happen. The worst thing in all of this is the entire fanbase should be absolutely fuming...and they're not. 

 

To everyone else it’s unbelievable but to us it’s the most predictable thing in the world 

Match day! 

11 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Let’s make one thing abundantly clear it should not and will not be Gary Rowetts fault if we end up in league one, look no further than Aiyawatt and Rudkin and their -6 contribution 

That’s definitely true and for the bigger picture, the blame completely goes to the ownership. But there cannot be any insinuation that the -6 was the reason we went down. I can already imagine Top’s statement acting like we’ve been hard done to. 
 

It was a season full of pathetic games where we couldn’t compete for 90mins. Bristol, Oxford, Charlton, Southampton (insert pretty much any other game)

We could and should have wiped out that -6 with ease. The attitude of the players this season has been an utter disgrace and if we go down, that is really why. 

8 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

As it stands, derby top 6 and we're in the bottom 3.  Just need southampton to score a winner and that'll be another great weekend.

Very real possibility of Forest, Cov and Derby being 2 divisions above us next year. Which considering where we were is absolutely revolting. 
 

…There’s a much smaller possibility of us all being in the same league. 

If Blackburn take Rowett and beat us to send us down on the last day, just add it to the long list of unbelievable yet completely ****ing predictable events that have happened to us recently.
 

It seems finding new ways of taking embarrassment to another level is the only thing we’re focussing on atm. 

1 minute ago, EnderbyFox said:

Generational performance from our number 9. This guy took that shirt from Jamie Vardy, sickening  

Seems like a small thing but this actually pisses me off. A proper club retires that number the moment Vardy leaves. A small but classy gesture. 

What do we do, hand it straight to a player that is the polar opposite of what Vardy represents. 

I cannot stand a huge percentage of our fan base. Clapping Winks like that is absolutely unreal after the way he has behaved. 

12 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Ralph Hassenhuttl is probably the best option I've heard mentioned. Don't let the 9-0 sway your judgement. Most Southampton fans still regret letting him go. 

9-0s

If the next manager can just get the absolute basics of football and professionalism to an acceptable level, we’ll see an improvement. 
 

You can think Marti is a good guy and believe the problems are higher up, but we have to accept he got a disgraceful level of performance from these players. 
 

Don’t get me wrong, I hate that players seem to down tools for managers these days but that’s the modern game. 

We’ve never needed a manager to tell the dressing room they are all a bunch of twats more than we do now. That’s not Kingy. 

Every week you think they can’t possibly let him stay any longer, yet again here we are. Should have gone in October and we’re still watching this bollocks. Absolutely disgusting. 

Why do they sing a song that is literally about how depressing and shit Coventry is before games? 

Vile once again. People should be fuming watching us atm. 

We can’t string 2/3 passes together to get the ball out of our own half, we’re not doing the absolute basics. We’re definitely watching some of the worst football we’ve ever played. 

20 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

If your place of work is a word class training facility with everything an athlete could ever want and you decide to dick about, I hate to say it but the fault doesn't lie with the objectively fantastic facilities.

+1

Why haven’t Man City struggled after moving to their state of the art Etihad campus? 
 

We’ve just spent the last 4/5 years buying average, arrogant mercenaries. It’s completely irrelevant where they train.
 

Admittedly if you have those types of players, a spa retreat training ground will not necessarily help…but that doesn’t make it the problem. 

Even for us that was revolting. 

1 minute ago, Fox85 said:

RVN wa splaying the best teams in the world.

 

Marti is failing against some of the worse teams in the league.

 

RVN was miles ahead of Marti if RVN was here the table would be looking different.

What on earth is that based on? You know they can both be as bad as each other right?

People are rewriting history with RVN, that was the worst football we’ve ever witnessed. Record breaking bad. 

10 minutes ago, jv1 said:

Zero chance we finish top 2 with him as the starting striker - surely daka scores more goals if played for at least 70 mins every week - surely 

No chance. Daka is worse than Akinbiyi and no one can convince me otherwise. 

1 hour ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I was fuming when we signed him, thought it was a terrible move. However this season I have really warmed to him, he works tirelessly for the team, his hold up play and ability to protect the ball, link up play and win free kicks to alleviate pressure is excellent. I also think he is an excellent professional and definitely a calming assured character to help younger players such as Page and Monga. 
 

He has been a victim of us not having a decent enough 1st choice striker and is reluctantly having to play there, and please don’t say Daka because the truth is, Ayew is a better more solid selection than Daka ever will be. 
 

I think Carranza’s cameo yesterday and hopefully the last 2 weeks of acclimatising to his new surroundings will now give Marti the option to play him up top and drop Ayew deeper into the shadow striker /attacking midfielder role where I think he will excel. 

Spot on, I also think he must have amazing mental strength. The sheer reluctance of our fans to accept when he does anything well but pounce on him the moment he makes a mistake is hard to watch sometimes.
 

He’s been decent this season, anyone disagreeing with that is refusing to see it. Like you say, now we have Carranza, we’ll see the best of him - and hopefully we never have to watch Daka again. 

27 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Had to google all these names, and just found this https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/11/win-the-league-it-feels-possible-nottingham-forest-fans-dare-to-dream

 

 

 

I enjoyed him saying on The Overlap, he’d rather Forest got a Champions League spot over winning the FA cup because they could then build themselves into a top 4 club.
 

Was properly patronising towards the FA Cup too. Well, doesn’t matter what you’d pick pal because you got ****ing nothing. You won’t find a more delusional fanbase.