All Martin is, is a player relationship coach he likes to be popular and liked by the players in a bid to get good performances but he isn't a tactician of any kind on any level and that's what he's got criticism for at other clubs he is very rigid in his philosophy of the playing from the back press and there's no deviation from that
The problem with Russ ball is that any decent team knows that 90% of the time we are in our own half passing in circles! So all they have to do is press harder than us to win possession in our half and they are already in prime position to attack our goal and they haven't even had to start an attack from their half! So risky so crazy unless you have world class players!
It's a dilemma wether to stick with Martin beyond this season, I think we can assume we won't be going up via the playoffs. We are stuck with this ingrained style that only looks good when it occasionally works against teams that can't press us properly as soon as we are against a team that can do it better we fall apart and we ship goals for fun! I think it's make or break for Russ as it's clear we are going to be even worse next season