Cifuentes OUT

[Sunbury Fox]

Get him gone.  Totally rancid second half. Awful subs again. We managed 47 (!!!) accurate passes in the whole of the second half.  It was like we were playing away at Man City. 

 

 

[Nolucklcfc]

Out of his depth. How many times has this happended? 
 

Wrexham 

Portsmouth 

derby 

Bristol City 

 

he has absolutely no idea how to change things when it’s going badly. 

[em9999]

He isn't good enough 😔 

 

God knows who replaces him but he should be sacked 

 

Get Carrick in or something 

Edited 10 December 2025 by em9999

[Fazzer 7]

What a bloody calamity. He's got to go. 

[dylanlegend]

What the bloody hell was those subs all about

[BigGibbo]

Seems like any progress we make is in spite of him (and all of our other shortcomings above him).

 

Has made some baffling decisions, but today's were in a league of their own.

 

As I said in the match thread at the time; taking a combative midfielder off in James, for a regularly anonymous striker in Daka, whilst we were under the koshe, was basically choosing to play with 10 men... and the obvious result ensued. 🤷‍♂️

[Claudio Fannieri]

Appalling 2nd half and a shocker of a first substitution, credit to Marti for Saturday but he has to take the blame for throwing away 2 points. At half time we had a chance to push on and start a run but we literally handed the whole initiative of the game and possibly our season over to Bristol by sitting back and to then bring Daka on for James was a complete headloss moment. The natural change was Aluko and shift Hamza into midfield to take over from JJ who was clearly running on empty. 

[Groby_Blue]

Can't we sub him at half time? It's the only way we'll get a 90 minute performance. 

[Stadt]

Twice we’ve been given a penalty only to throw away the lead. Cowardice. Get him out - this isn’t a bad bunch of players

Edited 10 December 2025 by Stadt

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Stats a joke. 35% possession 

 

Lucky to get a point. How the hell anyone can defend the manager I don't know.

 

We have no chance of going on any sort of run with his tactics. His subs are a joke too

[CrazyKopCorner]

Just now, dylanlegend said:

What the bloody hell was those subs all about

Diabolical - what the **** was he thinking - absolute shit for brains 

[Noahfence]

He is so so so bad it’s painful. I feel sad.

[Tuna]

He's solskjaer at United.

 

League one manager with a championship squad.

 

Decent manager sees this game through.

Edited 10 December 2025 by Tuna

[Hammo]

That second half was all on Cifuentes and his cowardice.

 

Three strikes and you’re out. First half v Sheff Utd. Second half v Derby. Second half v Bristol City. Awful beyond words.

[sm1]

Only he could think a CM of Skipp and Bobby would be any good. Awful manager, then leaves Ayew on all game. Just fuch off.

[Fox92]

Well I wanted him gone after the Wrexham game. Nothing has changed for me. Terrible manager for a club who should have aspirations of getting promoted. We’re going nowhere under him.

[Beachyboy]

1 minute ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Out of his depth. How many times has this happended? 
 

Wrexham 

Portsmouth 

derby 

Bristol City 

 

he has absolutely no idea how to change things when it’s going badly. 

Derby? I thought we managed that one well the others fair enough 

[Andrew]

6 minutes ago, sdb said:

We've been rancid for years, but this second half is the worst I've seen for half a decade. Bristol City would've taken a 2-0 loss at half time. Unbelievable self destruction 

I would like Marti to explain how he saw that 2nd half. 

[bluefox1]

All the teams that have changed managers in this league have turned their season around but we keep going with this useless d,ckhead with only 1 plan and that doesn't work.

NEEDS TO GO NOW (TOP).

this club just gets worse every week and is also an embarrassment. 

Do the right thing.p45

[dbtcity]

His half time team talks must be the next step up from counting sheep!!! Said for a while he’s miles out of his depth hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing!

[AjcW]

“Less of the same lads”

 

”don’t keep doing what you’re doing”

 

”just keep it complicated” 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

14 games without a clean sheet under this castanets merchant

[TheShark]

It’s not rocket science is it 🤷‍♂️you hire a bang average manager that’s being kind you get average performances and results when we lose to Ipswich Saturday w7 d7 L7 

[GingerrrFox]

Never mind anything else just playing Jordan James consistently out of position is a sackable offence in itself. 

[Sunbury Fox]

By the way, we must be the worst side in the league at counter attacking, despite having 2 of the best wingers. How can he not coach us to be a threat when the oppo are pushing forward a lot?

Edited 10 December 2025 by Sunbury Fox