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Kingy's bingo card must be almost full now. Just a Lyndon Dykes hat-trick to seal the deal I reckon.

By rollicking, do you mean "spa day pass". There's no accountability in that dressing room whatsoever. Completely agree with you, we are cooked. A poorly coached, unfit, uncaring, and threadbare squad. Top is utterly delusional.

0-2. Fun.

10 minutes added on. Not sure anyone wanted that

I appreciate Winks' inclusion is probably down to lack of personnel, but it also suggests he isn't off this window. Which is a shame. Oh well!

I think he played there when he was younger. I'm basing that purely on ye olde Football Manager though 😅

Good point actually!

Disappointed that Ayew is starting, but King's had very little time to affect any real change yet. Our midfield and bench are so threadbare, it's unreal. What a mess. Fingers crossed we can get something today, or at a minimum, show some ****ing effort. Let's aim for survival now, and go from there.

Anyone else catch that "ERROR" seems to flash up on the screen in the intro to that video? 😂

Michael Appleton is now free...to come in as assistant to Kingy 👀

He says he doesn't understand how we got relegated. There was supposedly an internal review conducted to get to the bottom of why. Assuming it was ever actually done, he's clearly not aware of the outcome then 🙄. How great to have such a clued up Chairman. (And yes, I am aware Rudkin will have lead it and seemingly come to the conclusion that Stowell and a few others should be sacked... effectively to save himself from the spotlight)

Yeah that's an entirely fair point, sorry. Like the rest of us, I think I'm just tired and grasping at straws

If this was until the end of the season...maybe? Normally I'd say I don't think he's of the quality we require right now...but honestly beggars can't be choosers, and he knows the club, so... Genuinely no idea if that would be a sensible appointment or not, given he's only recently been sacked by...*checks notes*...Oxford.

I mean honestly, it gives them a good excuse for not signing players 🙄

Finally. Genuinely shocked it's happened so soon, but thank goodness. No I'll intent meant towards Cifuentes, but it's not good that 3 of the best moments I think I've experienced in the last couple of seasons is us sacking 3 managers. Onwards we go, eh.

An absolutely fair take from Percy, but the bare minimum we should have been able to expect from anyone managing this squad was showing some level of plan on the field, without relying solely on individual moments of magic. He hasn't done that. A better manager should be able to squeeze more out of this squad. Well, we can only hope.

What a terrible situation we find ourselves in. I actually sort of want us to lose if it means Marti goes. But he won't, will he? Not until March at the earliest I reckon.

Think he was on the bench for the U21s earlier this week, but not sure if he got on. Maybe this is just to get him minutes...but yeah, he needs game time at a higher level.

At what point do we start a crowdfunding campaign 😅. If nothing else, it would get media attention for the plight we find ourselves in, and massively embarrass Top...

Chelsea

Whelp, think I've found my new place to spend my time during all our matches for the rest of the season!

When the thread gets inevitably locked, is there any way to...I dunno...just keep them all locked in there? I mean they probably won't even notice anyway.

Based on the videos and stats, he's clearly a bit of a risk...but there are attributes like his strength, pace, aerial ability that we completely lack up front. What I do genuinely like though is what looks like his "awareness" to be in the right place at the right time, as well as just capitalising on opportunities/mistakes from the opposition. How many times yesterday were you screaming at Ayew to get on the end of something, or just compete with a defender about to get to the ball first? We desperately need someone to do what he does not. JJ, BDCR and Skipp have been getting the ball into dangerous areas...but there's no-one there to snap a shot off! Maybe I'm just clinging to something giving us hope this season...

It's been coming. We've been shite this half. Ugh this club right now, jeez.

Agreed on the first two points—it's too high pressure a game to throw Aluko in, same as the Southampton game, and Thomas is still a better option than Hamza at LB—but BDCR has looked iffy of late, while Page has impressed. I hope Ayew does do a man marking job on Grimes, but I'm not sure I've ever seen him operate like that...so not holding out too much hope there.