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at 20:59 22 Oct 2024

For me, whilst it's unfair to single out one specific position, as it's not a binary failure, the biggest weakness is CM. FIeld is a superb disruptor but a poor passer and unambitious attacking wise. Varane is still developing and promising but he's not great rn. Then you have colback who's mediocre and really a field type player, and Madsen who looks lost and Dozzellesque at the moment. We've not had a connecting all rounder central midfielder since Johansen and he was only really good for 6 months. It's no wonder Ale Faurlin was so adored because we just don't produce in that position sufficiently

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Our Pomp and Ceremony - Match thread vs PFC
at 18:00 19 Oct 2024

Echo your thoughts thoroughly.

Before we start going down this path of calling for Marti's head can we please maintain some perspective. With the signing of many new players in the summer, I felt an ominous hope, which now feels misplaced in traditional QPR fashion. Yet I am sure under Marti we will not be relegated and to sack him would be suicidal.

I had the displeasure of watching a lot of Ainsworthball home and away at the time. To call it dreadful would be an underestimation. 30% possession, no goal threat, defence like butter, and the transformative capability of making our squad seemingly terrified of stringing more than two consecutive passes together. I got to the point where I came away from matches feeling not angry, but empathetic for the team who were for my money, applying themselves without any sense of directive or sense of coaching.

That team was utterly doomed. It was hopeless, chronically bereft of confidence and weak. The job Marti did last year was nothing short of messianic. Now if you want to be revisionist and diminish the scale of the task that Marti achieved that's fine but your either painfully blind or excluding evidence to further your inevitable grievances.

Marti has shown his capabilities. This squad has glaring weaknesses but it is still stronger than last year's collectively. Are Marti's tactics failing? Seemingly, repeatedly. Is Marti aware of this? Undoubtedly. Marti not only deserves at least another 5-10 games (as without him we'd be in league one already), we must for our own benefit let him work this turgid spell. The tide will change. Marti has in a myriad of ways demonstrated creative solutions and pragmatism last season and this season will be no different. Can we please keep the toys within the pram.

Now this isn't me saying "How dare you criticise Saint Marti". Harsh and scratching criticism is not only justified but logical and helpful. We're bloody bottom of the League. Yet, even if you entertain the counterfactual of sacking Marti do you really believe an sunny alternative is just around the corner? We're all far too seasoned in JFH and Dutch Schteve trauma for that delusion, or at least we should be. There obviously comes a point in which you would sack the manager if this persisted, but my point is, I don't think it will, if we don't hound Marti out the club first. We are not at the edge, there's no need to jump.

All 24 teams start from 0 so a bad run of form to start the season magnifies results and can make the table look bleak. Even good teams that place well come Spring, can find themselves with runs of dire games where they muster 7 points from 10 games. Coventry most prominently decide to give the league a headstart every year before making a late dive for the play offs. Now, to make it clear, we are not making the play offs, I'm not that mad, but the example stands.

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