Dr. Kucho

If what you say is the case regarding our finances, why did the club gamble with Martin and his possession based style? Wouldn’t it have been a better idea that once we went down to appoint a manager with experience of getting promoted to the Premier League? And not gamble with a young relatively inexperienced manager? I hope you’re wrong and Dragan covers the costs, but wonder for how long he will continue to invest before saying enough is enough?

Here’s the answer to the statement that Rasmus is a bullshitter. The answer to other statement, look where we sit now compared to when Sports Republic took over and the amount of money spent to end up a league lower and with a worse squad and manager.

Is he doing a good job at Reims? I know next to nothing about the French league and wonder what others think of the work Still is doing?

Would you sack Martin now and bring in an experienced manager for the final game and play offs?

Is that you Dalek2003?

I voted no, think with the quality we have and resources he should be doing a better job, nearer to the top 3. Plus this style leaves us open at the back and if we go up, we’ll get trashed every week.

Stream for tonight’s game, https://hes-goals.io Usually works for me this site (have always used it on my IPhone with Safari. Unaware how it runs on other phones and browsers).

If, big IF, we win our game in hand we are 8 points behind Leicester. Beat them when we play them and Leeds to beat them too (good possibility), we are just 2 points behind them. Of course if we win them coming fixtures that is.

Wonder if he’ll be selected for the match day squad if he keeps progressing. Just hope we can persuade him to stay for a little while and not jump at the first opportunity to join a big club (and remain in their youth teams whilst he could be playing first team football here).

Thanks for the compliment Toussaint. On a serious note, it’s better to keep Stewart out longer then rush him back and get him injured again. If you want to see how not to rehabilitate a player, there’s a video of 3 physios (or better sad idiots) treating Neymar after his ACL injury. Just 3 weeks after the opp they are bending him his knee to full and you can hear him scream and swear. Like said earlier, my partner is a physiotherapist and specializes in knee and hip injuries (studied in Holland and university of Brussels). She says that a full ACL recovery takes 1 year, any sooner and the person is being rushed. When you see clubs having players on the pitch 6 months after an ACL operation, they are playing Russian roulette with this persons knees (and career). Good example is Arjen Robben whilst playing at Munich. He was injured and a international tournament was coming up. The physio of the Dutch team stretched his leg endles, gave him the green light to play and after the tournament he was out for almost a year with an injury. Munich sued the Dutch team for this.

It certainly possible to be out with a hamstring injury for 5 months. If the hamstring is torn, and this isn’t the first hamstring injury for Stewart, you are talking 8-12 weeks recovery. Then it’s another 4 to 6 weeks to get up to speed and see how the hamstring feels. The club likely have decided that Stewart shouldn’t be rushed so he doesn’t have a setback in this injury. (Source regarding hamstring recovery, my partner who has been a physiotherapist for 17 years and specializes in knee and hip injuries)

Please let our next goal come out of a classical Wesley Hoedt fuck up.

2 wins on bounce, let’s make that 3 before the international break. C’mon you Reds

We all expect us to lose Saturday, but this is Saints and whenever I expect us to lose we win. Scrappy 2-1 win to us.

Players, managers and directors get a relatively easy ride here. Bit of booing and maybe a chant here and there. Just look at other clubs what happens there when it goes wrong. Ajax fans kept throwing flares on the pitch last Sunday and when the match was postponed in the second half they smashed their way in through the main entrance to confront the board. Marseille fans burned down their training ground when results were poor and Feyenoord fans turned up at the house of this bloke who was about to be named member of their board wearing balaclavas demanding he didn’t. (By no way would I want us to do these kind of actions).