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What is that makes you think this? What do you think he needs/is missing? I don't dislike the guy as a person, but as a manager and coach he is regularly been found wanting for what we want/need.

Well this isn't a good look is it? Feels very Ratcliffe stripping back at Man U, does it not?

Once again, JJ talks sense. I don't know about whether we were in control of the first half, but him saying that they shouldn't have been playing it around and making silly mistakes at the end of the half shows his maturity. How I wish we could keep him beyond this shitshow of a season. We don't deserve him, so we'll have to enjoy him while he's here I guess.

Blimey, disciplinaries have really got extreme in Leicestershire these days.

Martí...no.

Embarrassing. No idea what to make of this team at all.

What about a loan deal? Either for a young, hungry forward with something to prove, or a player out of favour but with a solid record in the Championship (e.g. Piroë)?

Sure, but do you trust them to make a decision that's best for the team and club? I don't

I have, and we can joke all we want about "my grandma could score more goals than Postman Pat", but Ayew, Daka, and Carranza are at least players who have some modicum of match fitness (less so the latter). Antonio is also older than all of them! We've already had passengers this season, we can't afford to bring in another one while he gets up to match fitness. If he was fit, maybe I'd consider it. He can't possibly be, after that much time without a pro match.

Signing him wouldn't make any sense at all. Hasn't played pro football in what, a year or more? No guarantee he's an improvement on what we've got, and has no match fitness to even give him a chance to show that anyway. In his heyday, and pre-accident, it might be a decent gamble. Not now though.

£14.7m apparently. And Kasey is due to cost them up to £12m, wasn't it? No way either should have cost that much.

How are we only 4 points off 3rd...? Only just clocked that this morning. This league is just plain weird right now.

Some very solid points made of late in this thread. I am still not Martí in, until I can a) see a true tactical plan that I actually like and b) he maintains our recent levels of performance. But I'm (maybe foolishly) starting to hope again. Not for promotion, maybe not even for the play offs given the impending points deduction, but a team we can be proud of. Credit where it's due, the Skipp-JJ combo seems to be working well, and Bobby has pleasantly surprised me since his return. Great to see Nelson being given a chance to develop too, and feels like has more than justified his inclusion since given the opportunity. Keeping Winks and Faes out of the team is also a good sign. Objectively they should be two of our better/most valuable players, but—as a number of fans suggested—it does seem to have made a significant impact dropping them, which I am relieved to see at last! I hear what you are saying too @Claudio Fannieri—as much as I'm still not Martí In, I do now wonder whether a new manager would come everyone a blank slate again, undoing what's been done with Winks and to a lesser extent Faes. Sidenote: Someone said something about things being said/things coming to a head after the Sheff Utd game. Presumably Cifuentes and Rudkin...? I missed that, so if anyone could enlighten me please, I'd appreciate it.

For now. I don't think it's insurmountable for some of those in and around them though. This league is utterly crazy when it comes to form—at least this season, anyway.

Hahaha what the actual **** 😂

Bit harsh, we probably can't speak to his intelligence.

No decent small flowing bodies of water this evening. How annoying.

I've not been able to watch it today. Sounds like we're doing pretty well! Anyone who is there, what's changed today??

I guess my point is that playing in the Premier League does not make you Premier League quality. I'm not sure the players agree.

In the context of the rest of the interview, it makes sense and it's good to hear fight and determination from him. He's probably the only player in the squad who has a ton of credit in the bank because his actions on the pitch back up saying this kind of thing. It does make me uncomfortable the reference to Premier League quality though. We don't have that, aside from JJ himself, and perhaps Fatawu. Nobody can now look at that squad after 2 relegations in 3 years and say that it's Premier League quality. And if in the dressing room they think they are...oh dear.

I honestly don't think I care about "who" any more. I just want to see a high press. With the players we have, it's such a no-brainer. Baffling that we seem allergic to it. Frustrating that Cifuentes seemed to suggest he preferred a high press, and has failed to implement one.

Yup! That wasn't a typo, sadly.

He needs to go. It won't happen until post- the next international break though. Struggling to accept it right now, but I really think once the points deduction hits we'll be fighting a relegation battle for the rest of the season. Sickening.

I think we know what's going to happen then, eh? Sigh. What a shitshow of a cycle of we've got ourselves in.

I'd really like this to be the case, but Top and Rudkin hardly have priors for being proactive. I genuinely wouldn't expect them to take any action until March, even if we're in the relegation zone before then. I reckon it'll be this same stumbling along, poor performances and shit results, with a points deduction pushing us into the relegation zone. We'll battle around there until March, when Marti will be sacked and we'll have King as interim until the summer. Then in August we'll hire a new manager. Just like this season. Edit: The only way I see us hiring someone new sooner is if we get a Technical Director with some balls in soon, who takes this all by the scruff of the neck.