trooky

Yep, we played Coventry off the park without scoring . Not sure why we've gone off the boil, but the manager has changed the starting line up alot searching for a solution at 9 and 10

We're crap now, but we've assembled a squad of players with very few fighters. It's not a description you would use for many of our players even when playing at their primes for previous clubs. James and Fatawu play with desire, Faes and Hamza show fight but are hated, Okoli will put his body on the line. Winks and Ayew look like they care IMO. All our other players aren't those types of characters and only look good in a confident team.

Agree, but we had 3 very good chances for this to be a comfortable win. Daka missed an easier header than JJs goal. Fatawu and JJ both shot when Daka was open in the penalty area for a easy finish.

Totally agree, none of the are ready to start for Leicester, and unfortunately Alves is injury prone after the horror challenge.

I don't understand your point, football players play because they are professionals and it's 'work'. Players are on relatively short contracts and will play for several clubs over a career. Those with families will not uproot them to move to their latest team, it's not just a Leicester thing.

This must be a disgusting watch. I pity anyone in the ground.

Phil Parkinson, but we probably couldn’t afford his compensation or match the tranf budget of Wrexham. We could make him a movie star in Thailand😂🇹🇭 in a documentary.

Good post, and the most depressing part is the highest earners are under performing the most.

We need to manage the game, or stop the cross. He had the run on Okoli and would have scored against any of our smaller RBs. In general he had a decent game, looked solid but should have scored. Anyway I want Nelson to keep his place, and to not play Skipp, Soumare or Hamza alongside Winks. James linked well with Fatawu so can stay at 10 as we don't have other options. If Ricky P plays RB, then Soumare will play alongside Winks for a physical presence, so IMO the best solution is Ricky P alongside Winks and Okoli at RB for additional height and presence.

Had a good game last night and hopefully keeps his place, Ricky P will be back for Norwich, I would play him alongside Winks and keep Okoli at RB. Whilst Okoli isn't great on the ball, he's a solid defender and also adds a physical presence.

Maybe in preseason he was going on the fact we've just been relegated from the PL and he thought we had some quality in the squad, but obviously the reality is completely different. I don't want to sack another manager, but as each week passes we look increasingly worse. I don't know why that is, he's chopped and changed the lineup quite alot, dropped players after bad performances, maybe upset a few egos. We don't look a happy camp or Marti just can't coach. We have to get rid of the dead wood and high earners before we can even think about a rebuild. So unless we're in serious danger of relegation I would keep him until at least the end of the season, and then re-evaluate if he's the right man to trust with the task. On a positive Ben Nelson looked good tonight and has to keep is position.

That's all he can do, but I don't see anyone buying Daka, Soumare or Winks in January when they're leaving on a free in the summer. Maybe we can hope Faes and VK are sold in January, that would be a start.

It's diabolical but Okoli should have scored and if Fatawu can actually pass, Carranza has a very good chance to score.

Its their Football Manager team that won the league 😂

He's a slimey cvnt, he's top of my list of who's to blame along with Rudkin and Top. I don't understand how in a professional organisation it's possible to mis-communicate to the extent the manager thinks he's getting a squad refresh, and as a result alienates half his squad and then has to back-track. If Top had any balls he would have fired them both that pre-season for such a huge fcuk-up. I'll be very surprised if he takes the Wolves job, they won't be able to back him in January and his ego couldn't cope.

You relegate them by playing Ward and Amartey😂

I'm not backing it, I would start him next game with Okoli in a 442 formation. I just try to offer a balanced view on FT, posters want the manager sacked because he's not picking the youth Aluko or Nelson or starting Daka, Soumare etc... We can vent our anger on this forum, but we also have to be realistic, we could sack Marti tomorrow, but the next manager will also start Faes and Vestergaard, he won't play Nelson just because this forum thinks he should. We've never had any communication from the DOF to say that this season the priority is to develop youth and that the manager will start Nelson, so we can't be that surprised when he's not picked. As fans we're venting our anger at certain players etc but that's just making it harder for the team to perform and will change nothing. Nothing will change until at least Rudkin goes, we should really be venting our anger at Rudkin and Top until they go.

It's not rubbish it's the reality of professional sport. Managers are short term appointments in football, we've had 3 in a year. They don't think about the long term. Its the DOF responsibility to ensure we develop our youth, it was Rudkin that gave Vesty the contract extension not Marti.

It was a wind-up, but he's behind 2 International CBs that won promotion and the championship the last time they were in the league. Its obvious that any new manager, not just Marti would start with the experienced pair. It would appear, Okoli and Faes are competing for one spot and Nelson is back-up for Vestergaard. However much you hate him or his ponderous style, he's reliiable at this level, makes less mistakes than the others and also happens to be the best passer of the ball and one of our biggest goal threats. Nelson was always going to find it hard to replace Vesty in the starting line-up and will have to wait his chance.

Maybe it's not that complicated and Marti has lost confidence in him after that shit show against Huddersfield.

We don't have the players for wing backs, Fatawu cuts inside everytime which isn't good in a wing back. VK is wank, Ricardo isn't a CM, We need to go back to basics 442 and play players in their proper positions, play more direct with a faster tempo and overlap the fullbacks. Daka, Carranza Monga, James, Winks, Fatawu Thomas, Nelson, Okoli, Ricardo Stolarkzyk Left back and strikers are a problem, maybe Aluko at LB but I don't know anything about him. Strikers we could also play Ayew and Evans. We just have a horrible squad full of ***** and no creative midfield spark. The only player that genuinely seems to care is Fatawu, but we'll end up over playing him and he'll get injured.

I've watched the highlights again and Marti was let down massively by the players yesterday, The defensive mix-up between Soumare and Vesty to concede. Mavididi had 2 previous chances from Ricky's crossing, but they were both poor crosses being slightly behind him. There is no excuse for that glaring miss, just has to lift it slightly over the keepers leg. VKs defending for the 2nd, gave up on tracking the winger, I've seen it on FT that he signalled to come off because he was injured, but I'm not convinced he just gave up. No reaction from the team after conceding the 2nd. A question for all those fans criticising team selections, and wanting youth, who can Marti select to replace Soumare, Daka, Ayew, Skipp, BDR from the academy? Last time Page played he got slated on here in a 2-0 win including an assist? The manager has an impossible task and needs time.

It just sums up the teams effort and intelligence. We managed to turn a totally harmless situation into conceding a goal. I'm not sure who's to blame, if he gave a call but Vesty clears without Soumare’s intervention.

We have Nelson and Aluko in defence, but who have we got in the academy to replace Soumare, Skipp, Ayew, Daka, BDR etc... Last time Page played, he got pelters on FT having assisted Fatawu's goal in a 2-0 win. The overriding opinion of Page was he's not physical enough or ready for 1st team football and Silko Thomas isn't doing anything either.

You've missed the bit about Soumare deflecting the ball into the strikers path with a half arsed lunge for the first goal, and Vesty not giving him a call either.