HankMarvin

Isn’t this case in point, we know he is too good for this level. It’s another example of shit management. Yet a lot of people think the whole squad is shit for this division

So you say, but it can’t be much fcking worse can it

Oh you’re happy for him to go now, what was the straw that broke the camels back. It’s only game week 23 you was saying he needs time the other week

It’s like Beetlejuice as soon as Marti gets mentioned/criticised up you pop. Bang average is a division lower, but it’s all lost on you.

Closer to the bottom 4 than the top 2

Away team with nearly double the touches in the opposition box

They are probably desperate for him to go, he is harming all their careers. The one player decent most weeks is putting himself in the shop window

You do realise where that money is coming from for 3 years for relegated clubs?

That doesn’t make sense You’re worried about missing out on a reduced parachute payment?

That’s all debatable, linger in the league points deductions potential administration. Not every person that buys a club comes in and is the saviour look at the likes of Reading, Wednesday, Cardiff etc

It’s not exactly a joy in the championship, conceding 3s and 4s in a half. Second seasons don’t get any easier with a reduction in parachute payments. Get out while you can before we follow the path of the other fallen strugglers

That depends on what money they would have to spend, not every newly promoted club can be the 8 highest spender in the biggest spending league in world football

Derby to the playoffs Millwall top 8 twice Out of his 12 seasons managing in the Champ he has only less points per game than Marti once and thats now with Oxford after 22 games

1 win in 9 appears to be what earned him the sack

He has missed 6 and scored one so it’s not 1 in 3 and they are “big chances” not chances

Yet missed 6 big chances

Coulibaly was playing in midfield for Mali

Yeah he is pony but somehow still managed to score 5 times more goals than Daka since he has signed. its just highlights how far we fallen.

He played more games as a winger than he has as a striker in the prem, and in his career 230 as winger and 238 as a striker

On a long list of players to criticise, I wouldn’t pick the one that didn’t cost anything and is on a low wage and could possibly get the club out of the shit in years to come if they get a large fee for him. The seasons gone to shit, point deduction incoming let him get experience as long as he isn’t scoring own goals each week. Hopefully Okoli is given a chance along side him. 20 goals conceded in 10 games is probably a reason why JV should be dropped to see if things change.

As I recall, his name wasn’t even mentioned as one of the talented youngsters so I don’t think he was written off as such. He seemed to slowly develop later. Most people only really took note with the consistent displays at Luton.

What are you talking about, living in the past. I highlighted the options because you said no club envies our squad because we don’t even have a striker. If our xG is low and we are not missing many big chances, it clearly indicates that we are not creating enough opportunities. Simply putting a different player up front will not change much if the chances are not there to be converted in the first place. The player in our squad with the most big chances missed is Daka, with six. Ayew does not even appear on the list. Only 16% of our goals have been scored by a striker Ipswich for example, on the other hand have missed 29 big chances through their strikers, compared to our eight. That points towards a significant potential increase in points for them if they improve conversion or bring in a more competent striker, a situation that is fundamentally different from ours.

There are a whole host of options at striker. Just because we have a manager unwilling to experiment does not mean other managers would take the same approach. Mavididi has previously scored 12 goals from midfield and has also played as a centre-forward during his career. BCR featured as a centre-forward in several games during the season he scored 19 in the Championship. If we truly “don’t have a striker,” as you suggest, why hasn’t the highly rated Evans been given any minutes? Why have none of these alternative options even been explored? There is a fundamental flaw in this team, and it lies in creativity. Simply signing a new striker will not suddenly fix the problem. The statistics back this up, we are 18th in the league for big chances missed. Ipswich, by contrast, are top of the table for big chances missed, with more than double our total. That alone shows that merely bringing in a new striker is unlikely to significantly change our fortunes.

What you seem incapable of grasping is that nobody is claiming we should be walking the league or that these are Premier League-standard players. The point is simply that, in this poor league, we should not be getting turned over 4–0, 3–0, and 3–0 — including conceding these goals in a single half, especially when we have a squad that would be the envy of several of the clubs mentioned above. There is enough quality in this group to be competitive for the majority of matches over 90 minutes. You do realise that managers have a significant impact on a squad’s performances. Football is not as simplistic as “the players are all rubbish and even Pep would struggle.” Recent example such as O’Neil and Nancy clearly show how a change in manager can transform a group of players in a short period of time, without any change in personnel.

The quality of the players is subjective to the league, Skipp would’ve probably walked in to every team in the division prior to this season and the same with Ayew with 5 goals in a struggling prem team and Okoli. Just because they have been underwhelming for a underwhelming manager doesn’t mean they should all be written off as dog shit in this league. Steve Cooper walked into a forest team bottom who finished 17th the previous season. They didn’t get 11 new players before getting promoted the same season. He installed “belief” and he had experience of 2 play off finishes. We got a manager with experience of mid table and that’s where we are heading.