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I’m going to sound super petty but why does Marti’s face wind me up so much? There’s nothing wrong with it per se, but when I see a photo of him looking clueless, it really grinds my gears.

I want him out so bad, but we know that we’re not gonna do it, we are skint and have a pending points deduction. Marti doesn’t get sacked until we’re in the bottom 3 🤮

Marti is staying on, for one very simple reason……we are skint!

Nothing do to with getting defensive, merely stating that you have an irrational dislike for Nelson. As a club, we’re financially screwed so it makes business sense to play Nelson, I hope that he turns out half as good as most on here hope.

Terrible by Jakub, how does that even happen?

Or to think that Nelson is 21, probably on the lowest wages of the CB’s that we have, an academy player, whilst the only CB with potential re-sale value. Surely even if he ticked a couple of those boxes, he’d be worthy of being a starter for us?

Thomas with the most Sunday league kick/pass there. The lad has zero technique doesn’t he.

You’re starting to show an irrational dislike towards Nelson, Okoli was at fault for that goal so not sure why you’re bringing up Nelson like that?

I agree with the style of play being an issue, I called it out earlier that we have no idea, on or off the ball. However, you’re giving Abdul way too much credit, he has been poor for most of the season with a few wonder strikes in between. He is not being helped by this turgid football but he needs to mix it up, I haven’t played in about 2 years but I’d even not mind playing him as know that he’ll cut inside 10/10. If we could be trusted to spend money wisely, you’d cash in IMO.

Our football is rank but that doesn’t mean that Abdul becomes this predictable and quite frankly, a below average winger. He gives the ball away a lot by running into players when cutting inside, rinse and repeat. He needs to mix up his play, as it’s so predictable.

It’s not even hyperbole as said it a few times now….someone offers £30m+ for Abdul and you sell don’t you?

He hasn’t ran at his FB once yet!

Merry Christmas Helen!! Did Wout spoil you?

I was typing this when JJ scored….Marti is genuinely a hideous coach. Can anyone please highlight, any patterns of play that we play under him? We look poor on and off the ball, solely relying on the quality of some of our individual players.

We’re dreadful but so lucky that we have JJ.

Gray going off injured for Birmingham just after 15 minutes. Is he broken? Didn’t he come off early against us earlier in the season too?

Guy Branston part 2?

I know we’re all angry with the club/Marti/players but it’s actually a proper sad state of affairs that Nelson seems to have received a bizarre reaction on here. I want the lad to do well because he’s not Wout/Jannik etc etc. It’s a bonus that he’s an academy lad but as a few have said, there seems to be a strange agenda against our own on here, chill out everyone. Nelson is far from being the problem for us.

I hope that you have a few cans before this weeks podcast @Ric Flair. I don’t just want a hippo but a whole zoo to replace the dossers that turned up today.

I missed the game as out, anyone fancy reliving their misery and saying what I missed?

I might be over simplifying it but how many of the players that started against Newcastle were bought in the summer? They appear to have had a cracking transfer window and other than Xhaka, pretty confident none were signed due to their “PL experience”.

Another great pod as usual. I know that we’re run by clowns, so not fair to make a Sunderland comparison but they weren’t “PL ready” yet they’ve been great so far this season. I can’t say that I agree with us not wanting to go up this year, it’s all about making sure that Rudkin and co. revise our wage bill.

Serious Ayew vibes for me. Most on here weren’t up for his signing when the rumours started doing the rounds. Some said that those posters were “being snobby”, or “we were in League One, never forget!”. As predicted Ayew has been a pretty dreadful signing on a hefty wedge.

Credit where credit is due to Bobby. But he was a hideous signing last summer, we lost our best CM in KDH yet for a very bizarre reason never tried to replace him with a like for like player. If Bilal or Facundo were playing as the 10 (yeah I said it) in this grotty league, they’d have even greater numbers as they’re better players especially in 2025. As others have said, signing Bobby to play out wide and was often started alongside Vardy and Ayew as a front three, was always going to get the honking outcome that we all witnessed last season.

100% Our spend on wages was not reflective with the transfer fee of 90% of our signings. We shopped in the bargain bin but then paid the player an elite salary, terrible business acumen when say it that bluntly.