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The system he plays gives the opposition chances to get back in the game, will happen again and again until they decide to sack him. Was square pegs in round holes at the end and created absolutely nothing in the second half of much note. Last frustration is we looked knackered again, Barnsley with 10 men looked properly fit and could have won it! Cleary was the best player on the pitch by the way and a team with ambitions of winning the league should be signing him.

Russ Ball once again gifting the opposition chances and creating absolutely nothing after half time, could have lost that in the end. Watson is an atrocious player at the moment, but none of the bench made much impact. Wasteful and complacent in the first half, and most of them were running on fumes at the end, really nothing to be positive from a game we should have won comfortably.

Shouldn’t be taken for granted by the club what amazing supporter numbers we have, particularly for away matches

Surely the club won’t be on the hook for his entire contract if they did pull the trigger soon; don’t most only pay some it in severance? Either way, if they sack him now that reflects badly on the board, and proves it was the wrong call. They also can’t back him that heavily and bin him one game after the window closed. If they sack him in 5/6 games, that’s Martin having failed with a squad provided for him.

I think as others have alluded to there seems to have been a drive to recruit some players with actual leadership qualities. O’Hora, Lundstram, Chaplin and Burns will all be great for driving standards as well as the experience the youth players can utilise. Genuinely feels really promising, look to have a strong and balanced squad.

Is there any substance to the Skipp rumour aside from some chancer on twitter? Him, Faes and Mavididi leaving would be party time

Football is a stupid game, this was 4 years ago and now he’s 4th choice at Bristol City and coming to our mob. In the comments they’d bid £1m for Jorgen Strand Larsen too at the same time 😂

The volume of crosses we seem to put in needs a big lump to at least cause a bit of chaos. He’s been a proven championship player and a totally different option to the others up front, and takes the pressure off Bristric. Would be an excellent signing.

Feels like if we had some goalscoring instinct in the side we’d have won that. There’s a decent side in there somewhere, might need a bruiser of a centre forward if we’re going to cross it this much!

Jon Rudkin is truly our Reg Varney

The foundation of his tactics is having players who are really comfortable on the ball. Okoli and Souttar have it more than anyone else and are basically tasked with picking passes into midfield over and over again, and are clearly not capable of doing it. So many times yesterday that one of them would touch the ball 5/10 times desperately searching for a pass, to then just aimlessly clipping it wide and us losing possession.

Never thought to look at it from the players perspective, probably a fair few of these as well 😂

With the Dwight McNeil swap deal in the news I remembered a few years ago when he was seemingly on his way to Leicester for £30m. Probably a good job that one didn’t go through, and compound some of the business done in recent seasons. Jack Harrison in a deadline day special on £100k a week is another that was a lucky escape. In the spirit of being positive, are there any others from Leicester history that come to mind as a bonus that they never actually signed?

The feedback and reaction from Ipswich’s fans is positive and if it helps get some of the dross out the door I’m all for it. The only worry is if they’ve got the last reliable years of football out of him. With his injury record over the last two years he won’t be getting anywhere near 40/50 games this season. If all they wanted was to supplement Watson/Alves with someone experienced then it seems potentially expensive as a solution.

I’m glad they’ve been decisive and sorted it relatively early. The abysmal dithering left us miles behind before we’d started in the last two seasons. We’ve also now got an obvious identity of playing style, which we’ve not had since Enzo left. We should have enough time to give him a few players that’ll suit his stubborn tactics, if we’re fitter than the last two seasons that’ll represent progress for this mob.