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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.

Makeup of the team playing tonight feels all wrong, how can Green be in at 6 for any team with ambitions to qualify

Rowett must genuinely be a Blackburn double agent at this point

Never seen less urgency or class from a team, genuinely unbelievable how fast it’s come to this

Couldn’t agree more, tried to jump through their hoops for tickets several times over the years. Can guarantee I am far from the only one who got completely disillusioned at being treated as a customer when times were good, and milked for every possible penny. Hopefully this is a wake up call for the ownership that fans are walking away in large numbers, and won’t be back next year.

I have a degree of sympathy with him for today. It was really poor management to drop him after he scored a good goal at Ipswich for Ayew to stink the place out. The guy hasn’t had a run of starts for about 3 years and needs rhythm. I can’t understand the logic in ever selecting Ayew, and Rowett should really be getting more criticism for recent team selections in home games, that’s undone any confidence we were getting.

The whole defence seem absolutely petrified of making a mistake constantly, it’s complete panic stations whenever we get the ball back. Doesn’t seem possible that some of these played under Enzo and can’t string two passes together now.

Most managers would be absolutely mad to take this job at the moment. Even Michael Skubala, who seems to be the outstanding candidate in my eyes, wouldn’t leave Lincoln to coach us. The fact we can’t realistically attract the Lincoln City manager is unbelievably damming. They have a bigger budget for new players than us, and can’t lose a game, and they’ve barely got 4 stands round the pitch!

Confirms my suspicions around King Power itself and the complete lack of investment post Covid. Clearly as a company they didn’t navigate this change and diversify, perhaps assuming that their existing operations would never fail, sounds pretty familiar on the football side too. Obviously Top is miles out of his depth, with a total lack of the business acumen that his father had. It seems inevitable that even with staying up this season we’re drifting the way of Sheffield Wednesday. We’re already at the point of operating a tiny first team squad, bulked with youth players who aren’t ready. This will only get worse as contracts expire, there simply isn’t any money to sign new ones.

We’ve lost a load of leadership really from the point of Schmeichel leaving which was never replaced, he certainly seems to have the right attitude. Hopefully this points to more value being placed on the character of the player the club is going after. A lot of the arrogant wasters leaving hopefully means I’ll have some affinity with the players again soon!

Got to be about the worst bit of business the club has ever done. How much has this clown cost in wages and his transfer fee for 2 relegations and 4 assists 😂