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Player Of The Season: Flynn Downes, the heartbeat of the side. Underwhelming Achievement Award (Worst POTS): Sulemana. Best Signing Of The Season: Downes. Worst Signing Of The Season: Ross Stewart. Not his fault. Stupid club trying to be too clever for it's own good by signing an already injured player. Best Match: West Brom away. A controlled and assertive performance against one of the leagues tougher sides without our best player. Worst Match: Both Leicester games. Season Rating: 6/10. See below. Russ Rating: 6/10. Stubborn sod. When he adapts, we are good, sometimes very good. When he sticks stubbornly to his mantra we are predictable and frustrating as hell to watch. I cannot get past the feeling that his block headedness has cost us automatic promotion. Your one hope for the remainder of the season/next season:

I would like to think he was trying some psychology on his fellow managers by appearing to be totally predictable so he could surprise them in key games. But, this is giving him far, far too much credit I feel.

Russell Martin shows some tactical flexibility and we look good again. Delighted with the result today, but just underlines how big a missed opportunity the season will have been if we do not win the play-offs.

Sully has to hit the target there

Downes off. He has run himself into the ground. So good.

Enjoyable to watch. Of course their goal owes a lot to us being crap at the back, it's nice to see us giving them a lot of trouble.

Compare Daniel Farke's contrition tonight to Russell Martin's delusion.

The worst thing about him, it seemed he had learned. That unbeaten run came after he adjust his principles slightly. We looked more adaptable, even slightly pragmatic and canny. Once the run came to an end, it is almost as though Martin saw that as a chance to double down on his original mantra, start putting players out of position and ignore the compromises to his philosophy that made it f**king work!

Almost a whole year with the squad, and learned nothing. Get rid of him.

3, each more ineffective then the last.

We need to do something different in the second half. Which of course, we will. We always get worse in the second half.

It's the same weaknesses we have seen for years now. Cannot take our chances, cannot hold onto a lead.

His goal v Coventry in the Cup a few years ago was a class apart. If he is now done, that will be my memory of him. Hope his can recover from this horrible injury, no player deserves to be 'retired' like that.

I do like that kit.

I've never seen him play. I've never seen a team from Lig 2 play. I have never seen a domestic Turkish game. But i'm still saying no.