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Completely Dreamland stuff, I know. This batch of hopium is potent. I can't see myself giving a Fuch if (or rather when) they do go any other way tbh.

Assuming he gets the job done with Newport, I want self confessed fan of the club Christian Fuchs. Complete heart over head pick to begin with but there's also some logic behind it. Newport's mindset turnaround from winless to resilient is needed here. He's had to focus on youth - roughly half of players with most appearances are under him are 24. He has switched to a back 3 on occasion and won ugly a few times too. I don't much care for the realties of whether this would actually happen this summer. I just need the hopium hits and the fantasy that Aiyawatt & Rudkin have big enough balls to bring back people who were successful for us as players and who might do so again as staff.

Highest paid squad in the league. 3rd most expensive squad in the league. ~£150mil spent on players since the FA Cup win. One of 5 teams ever to be relegated back to back from the EPL. Relegated with 2 games to spare. The depths we've sunk in the time we have is incredible and to think we've not bottomed out yet feels nothing but bleak.

Done. Took 5 minutes. Seeing complaints from some here about survey length in the context of the club's abject failure to engage meaningfully with the fan base is just bizarre. I hope those who made this survey happen see this as nothing other than a job well done and I'm sure the survey response figures will reflect that.

"A mere 10 years on from our finest moment as a club, we go back to where it all began. League 1 football has been secured for the 26/27 season. We go again 👊"

In an attempt to cut through some conjecture here... She's on record defending a 116% wages to turnover ratio; specifically saying that the "associated budgets for 2022/23 were entirely reasonable". At best, she was part of a team who agreed to gamble in order to be "best of the rest" and we're still feeling the affects of decisions she was involved in making. IMO she was overdue leaving; the only saving grace is that she actually left unlike the other barnacles who've then grown in influence.

This Dyche thing reminds me of being in my 20s, in town with the boys on the pull. You start the night all confident in your new shirt and this saucy ginger northerner with a reputation of keeping you up makes eye contact and it feels like it could happen but you pursue the little Spanish one because on paper she's more attractive. In reality she keeps talking about the same thing which at the start felt insightful but now it's predictable and boring. So you make some excuses, part ways (she was never the one anyway) and spot that ginger northerner across the bar again. You're thinking "let's do what I should have done earlier" and make your way over. She's looking just as she did all this time. Problem is, by this point in the night, you're desperate, a few jars in, your hands are sticky from the sambuca you've spilled and you've got piss sprayed on your jeans.... At this point you're just hoping shes feeling charitable enough and that she sees you as a rebound for her very, very recent ex.

I believe absolutely that Vichai would not have let this rot happen on his watch. I think he would have made different choices, held more control at KP and protected the squad culture and relationship with the fans. Nobody does what he did in life by accepting failure, regardless of what's gone before. So to answer your question, no. Our pre-October 2018 ownership model wouldn't have accepted this at all and I doubt we'd even be in this position. I also doubt our current ownership model "accepts" it either - they just don't have the capability, acumen or strategic thinking required to do anything about it.

I don't say this as a reason not to sack the melon but genuinely who comes in to replace Marti at this point. They're on a hiding to nothing. With Aiyawatt mixing it up and stepping in as CEO, maybe Rudkin fancies another go in the dugout and I'll bet he wears that tracksuit too.

I know you're joking, but some people actually think like this. 5 years ago, we won the FA Cup. 10 years ago; the league and our highest point. Now we're a points deduction away from being in a relegation fight to equal our lowest ebb. Vichai's dream is becoming a nightmare on Aiyawatt's watch.

Recent performances like this, this side of a points deduction... We're in a relegation battle now.

This is where the focus needs to be. While this clown is still here, bringing in a new manager is akin to trying to keep the Titanic afloat by rearranging the deckchairs.

Her name was increasingly mentioned alongside Rudkin's towards the end of her time here, so I don't think we miss her specifically. If Aiyawatt had even an ounce of Vichai's business nouse instead of bobbing around with a big stick on a horse, he'd have had a succession plan in place and wouldn't have had to take on the role himself. What we miss is a competent, experienced CEO.

A bit surprised there's as much traction behind the idea of sacking him again. 7 points from 9 going into the game and most observations on the squad and XI before kick off was positive. Having said that, wasn't at the game so assuming individual player brilliance didn't mitigate tactical misgivings this time. I still can't muster the passion to see the back of Marti this side of a new leadership team (or ownership, ideally) though. Aiyawatt replaced Whelan and Rudkin with himself and the supply chain manager - both downgrades and speaks to his wider judgement. There's worse than Marti out there and Aiyawatt definitely has it in him to appoint them. I'll be ****ed if Winks, Bouba and Daka get another "fresh start" too.

Got my eVoting link through this morning. Any word on which candidates you're endorsing?

😩 Clearly not. My mistake - more like £2.25m. Still makes PSR sense to move him on in January.

Fortunately, we could let him go for free in January and be better off with his wages off the books come July for PSR. His book value is £1.6m but his £90k/week wages will cost us ~£4m from Jan-July. Using those figures we'd be £2.4m better off if he ****s off in Jan. We could even pay him £1m to leave and still be better off than if we kept him.

Bad under Cooper. Dire under RvN. Toothless under Marti. I'm convinced this doesn't change with a new manager with this squad. The game has never been played on paper. I don't see us going down. I don't care if we don't go up this season. My standards are low (and on current evidence, realistic). As long as we stay well clear of relegation form then I'm happy to keep Marti til the end of the season and see him gone if we're not in the mix for the playoffs; that all allows for the points deduction and backing him in January. Next season, with no points deduction (I assume/expect), the squad swamp largely drained, players who want to be here and a fit-for-purpose Board in place (tall order under Aiyawatt), I expect whoever is the manager to get us promoted. I don't know or care if that's Marti at this point.

Still not convinced. In the last month, Aiyawatt has sacked someone who has been an award winning CEO and re-signed a murky AF principle sponsor. He's then overseen tensions boil over as they did at Carrow Road and the club statement that followed. His next step is to record a video 'to the fans' from a literal ivory tower and appoint an MD with surely one of the weakest CVs a new football MD has ever had. This was his big reset, his new start but it just feels so amatuer and naive. He's taken an underperforming senior leadership team at the lowest ebb of their tenure out of the picture and replaced them with himself and a mid-level supply chain manager. Somehow he's made a really bad, dysfunctional board even worse.

Football isn't played on paper, though. In reality, this squad's current state is 4 points off Championship playoffs following an embarrassing PL season, losing 25/38 league games, losing 8 on the spin without scoring and losing 18 of our last 23 matches. Yes, this league is bad... but so are we! Personally I'd swap Faes, Soumaré, Daka, Skipp, Ayew, Kristiansen, Coulibaly with most players in this league in an instant. I'd sell the likes of Vestegaard, Thomas, Hamza if a bid the value of a mars bar came in, just to get the wages off the books. Even if I agreed they had talent at this level, it counts for nothing if they won't apply it and haven't applied it under the last 3 managers. A fourth manager is incredibly unlikely to change that. For me, the squad is a bigger issue than the manager at this moment.

For me, this needs to cover either; - an admission he's got things wrong. Some personal accountability and a genuine apology. - a plan to put it right including board restructure and new CEO - be the first of many interviews. Sustained and meaningful engagement. Or - he announces he's put the club up for sale. I'm fully expecting vanilla PR waffle, though. Assuming it goes ahead at all. What a ****.

Nailing my colours here - sacking Marti is pointless and we shouldn't waste our time on it. I don't know if he's a good manager for us or not but I know he's not our biggest problem. What I do know is that there's too many players here that are dross. Too many that he can't not pick some of them in his squads and XIs. Bringing in a bunch of literal children won't work - our culture is the pits and KP is toxic and unforgiving at the moment. Marti's not been given time by the crowd and the youth won't either. Do we really want another manager in who inevitably gives these chancers and frauds another "fresh start"? **** that. Stick by Marti, get some better players in in January (by current standards, this ain't hard) and see where we're at when those ten contracts expire in the summer.

I'm definitely including the "Mens Development Player of the Season" 23/24 as a graduate from our academy. We've played our part.

I'm not trying to conflate Hamza and Luke with a commitment to youth and academy graduates but if they were consistently omitted, it could easily be used to undermine what Marti has said about homegrown players in general and it wouldn't give academy players any faith in him. I think it's important players like that are used as they are. Anyway, while results haven't been exceptional, our league position has been fine which has to count for something. If results and position continue to slide, Marti will have less of a reason to stick with players who will then have truly failed his 'fresh start' ethos and I expect we'll see more academy players then. If we hover around the playoffs, we likely won't. I can't fully get behind Marti's approach to the academy being odd, though. I see Page getting rotated out (cast aside) and Monga persists, Jakubs establishing himself as our #1 and Silko is being used as a sub. It's not as most of us would like but it's enough for me for now.

Giving academy lads a debut is one thing. Persisting on match days, coaching and fully integrating so they can be relied on and rotated is a much bigger, longer term thing measured over seasons. So far, Marti absolutely gets that credit for Jakub and Monga in my book. Time will tell for the rest.