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Its more than good enough to be doing better than this. Yes the Maresca team lost matches and youll always lose some matches thats the nature of the game within that 90 mins but in a third of a season Cifuentes hasnt managed to attain anything like a successful style, settled team or patterns of play, hence we REGULARLY drop points against all kinds of teams who are equal or worse than us. Hes got a pretty damn good group of players by this level's standards unless he wants to swap them for oxford or portsmouths players and he should be doing better.

A cop out move that rarely works

Loud, coordinated chants for Rudkin out and new owners, loudly and incessantly are what is needed. Theres no need for threats to someones life, it is totally out of order and alienates others from joining in with the protest. Wouldnt be opposed to whoever chanted it getting banned because no one will miss members of the watch 10 mins of the game, do lines in the toilets and chuck beer about in the concourse "fans" anyway

the managers at the time must have rated those players. theyre every bit to blame, if not more, for their lack of talent spotting

pubs are crap

Have you seen the stats for the other games and only just realised we had won what was it, 1 in 10?

Why?? because weve just won a game? We are trash

Shankland from Hearts. He would join

Signing the likes of Granit Xhaka, Nordi Mukiele and Simon Adingra is a bit different to signing Jordan Ayew, Bobby Decordova and Oliver Skipp

Joey Barton tries his hardest to look intelligent, but the reality is he is just a thug with a low IQ.

Depends who the theoretical manager is, and who the theoretical striker is. Under Marti-ball, we would probably starve this striker of balls into the box anyway so the point might be moot, whereas a more direct manager might get more out of what we have just by playing more percentage football

No professional golfer ever attempts to hit it straight. The logic of why is extremely simple if you want me to delve into it?

If youre getting a club fitting, get a good one, depending on your budget. The absolute best place IMO is Precision Golf in Surrey. Closer to home, Scottsdale golf in Birmingham build most clubs on the day. Fitting is a bit of an art rather than a science. it needs some dialogue with your fitter, and it needs some understanding of what youre looking for and what you are trying to achieve. For example, when people think of a term like "Dispersion" people will immediately think left and right. Not really. YOU are creating left and right dispersion, "Dispersion" really means how consistently does the club retain launch and spin properties depending on where on the face you hit it, and the situation youre in, so as an example coming out the rough you dont want balls that lose spin and fly forever all the time (as an example). Also, hitting a ball bang straight down a line is a pretty much useless skill, so the fitting needs to take into account what you do in a real world setting, not just indoors. Be careful as well that when fitting clubs, you CAN be upsold certain options that are doing very little for you. Shafts are an obvious one. Its easy to sell expensive shafts because your Ventus Black and your Graphite Design VR are sexy and masculine....its like BMW's and Mercs. It has a much smaller impact on the quality of your shots than you might think i can assure you, a good fitter will explain this in detail. Its a TIMING DEVICE. When you hear of a shaft being "high launch" or "low launch", again NO THEY ARE NOT!!! the only way a shaft can make you launch it higher or lower is if the shaft influences THE WAY YOU DELIVER THE CLUB TO THE BALL. Thats not the shaft in of itself doing that, its the effect the shaft is having on YOUR DELIVERY, and that will NOT always conform to the "norms" youve heard before in golf. Example: Patrick Cantlay uses shafts that are lighter and softer than Colin Morikawa. Patrick Cantlay swings faster than Colin Morikawa, hence he *should* use the heavier stiffer shafts if following that logic. He doesnt. That all being said, fitting IS essential to improve your golf game as it can really work WITH your swing to make the most of it. Lessons wont really matter to a lot of aspects of your swing and if your delivery does change a little, you can always bend the lie angles a little flatter or more upright if you need to, but lie angles GENERALLY dont really ever go more than a couple of degrees in either direction (GENERALLY) so theyre not huge changes if needed. If youre prepared to travel, check out precision golf. They do lots of fantastic youtube content and they are an unbelieveably good fitting centre.

Wages would be astronomical and if he was going to coach anywhere id suspect it would be somewhere like Italy

So to clarify, youve seen enough that you think a new manager would relegate us, but sticking with Marti would get us in the playoffs? Ive no idea at all what youre basing that on. The problem is not so much the six point either, its the fact that there are 7 teams already above us, we would have to beat every single one of them by six points, is not just overhauling one team, all of them would have to be worse than us

I think discussions on possession percentages and certain stats are a bit irrelevant. In a game of football, one team will have more possession than the other whatever their styles are predominently, one team will have the bigger share of possession. But its context. Teams that tend to have lots of possession dont have a lot of possession as the goal, it just happens to come with their domination of the game, i.e. winning the ball back quickly, passing to team mates instead of giving the ball away, managing situations in the game like protecting a lead by being on the offensive rather than sitting back and hacking clearances away. Their high possession numbers came as a by-product of doing things RIGHT in the game, and not because they set out with the intention that having the most possession in the game was the goal. The couple of things that stand out to me as being very wrong with Leicester watching matches and not going on a stats basis are: 1) Any time we lose the ball, we look all over the place in transitions. This shows that the team with little possession can often win because when they get the ball off us, it doesnt take much to make a good quality chance, whereas we work hard to create chances of extremely low quality when we have the ball. 2) Game management,understanding WHEN to pass short, WHEN to be direct, and having more tactical flexibility than predictable patterns of play that focus on wide areas a lot and creating the same passing moves too often.

I think Spain is still seen as the destination the "elite" end up in. Specifically Real Madrid but Barcelona were a part of that for many years. Most countries as a whole are weak but usually have one, possibly two stellar teams within them, like PSG, or Bayern, but the league as a whole is bad and that lack of competitiveness can aid freshness going into the champions league matches for those sorts of teams. Pound for pound, Italy is consistently the most "overperforming" nation relative to te quality of the teams in my opinion and I think a lot of that comes from tactical awareness and smart transfer business. squads always seem older and wiser. The main advantage English teams have is depth. The 1 to 11s of the top teams are usually very good in the top 5 leagues, but in the other leagues beyond the starting 11 there isnt much depth to use. The champions league gets a little bit dull because way too many games are one sided especially at the beginning. You know that a top 5 european league team is going to win it, theres not much scope for back in the day when teams like Porto, Bucharrest or even Celtic could win it. Never happening now. Players like Xhaka would rather play for Sunderland than a Bundesliga winning team, that shows you the relative strength

Irrespective of a points deduction, the gap is 5 points to the playoffs because its early in the season, we have played approaching 1/3 of the games. We would have to get on a run of form that beats not only the 7 teams above us by 6 points who are not in the playoffs, but someone else would need to fall out of the playoffs as well. That gap will just get bigger as we meander to a mid table finish.

in lay persons terms, for someone who just watches the football and doesnt take much interest in this, is this whats happening: We have a very high wages to turnover ratio - this creates cash flow issues within the club To ease the cash flow issues, when we sell a player, a loan company gives us the money we are owed up front - the installments (and smaller payments from us depending on the interest level) are then paid back to the loan company An increasing number of deals are being done this way, meaning we have an increasing liability to the loan company Should we not be able to finance the repayments on time, the loans are secured against sources of money we have not yet received. i.e tv money We are not likely to get said tv money and our parachute payments are going to shrink next year Even if we are FFP compliant, the agreements entered into with the loan company are going to leave us up shit creek because our income streams are going down and we have hardly any assets left to sell Is this a fair summary?

I think its more the level we play at that does it for me. Win a game vs someone absolutely gash....whoopee, well done. Just as likely to lose the following week to someone equally gash. Beating proper teams at the highest level means something

I dont think teams need new manager bounce to ruin us

Well yeah thats also true, their track record is rubbish and they probably want to save face by not sacking a manager after a few months. For all we know theyre probably happy with Marti anyway

If we can take someone upwards from a job and buy them out, then Dave Challinor would be possible. Failing that, Ralph Hassenuttl played a style that the fans here seem to want, id said in another thread i felt Mike Phelan would be a good fit for the club. Its not like no one can do the job

I dont agree with this. Im not saying there isnt boardroom level problems, but that doesnt grant crap managers a free pass to do a rubbish job. By championship standards theres still plenty of talent here to be doing a LOT better.

These kind of leaks never come out of a happy camp.