James

He must have an amazing agent if any PL club is genuinely interested.

No surprise then that he was SR’s top target in the January we got relegated 🤣

Yep. The end of the game was an utter shambles, that’s on Martin.

Ipswich also have a manager that will, in my view, go on to be top top class. McKenna teams do the basics right, are fully committed and never give up. Our lot on the other hand…

Completely agree with you but if Martin can’t set up a decent defence with KWP, THB, Bednarek and Downes then fuck only knows how porous we will be next season. Quite simply, Martin teams don’t know how to defend and he hasn’t shown any signs of knowing how to change that.

Precisely. This was our most important game of the season so far and is probably the lowest quality side we’ll face the rest of the way. I can accept wayward finishing isn’t the manager’s fault but that second half performance was totally unacceptable and is on the manager. The subs were chaotic and panicked and it showed on the pitch at the end.

This is my major concern. We’ve had glaring issues at times this season that Martin hasn’t been able to address with top quality championship players. To see him try to defend with a worse squad is not going to be fun at all.

Not sure of your point. Mine is that Stu Armstrong hasn’t been able to do two full games a week all season. To try it now and potentially lose him for the playoffs is, IMO, bad management. If you disagree that’s your prerogative.

Because shipping goals for fun in the championship with a much weaker side will be less fun in the long term than a season or two back in the Prem.

Second start in a week and he played the majority against Preston. He hasn’t been able to play two full games a week all season…

TBH next season with Martin is a daunting prospect either way. Torn to shreds in the PL or a significantly lower quality side in the Championship. Whichever league we are in we will ship a tonne of goals as RM can’t change his tactics to properly balance attack and defence.

Exactly. This is why we have physios and a sports science department FFS.

The guy was absolutely blowing and has shown all season he can’t go the distance in weeks when we have two games. Muscle injuries much more common when players running on fumes.

Not a chance. Every time we’ve had a look in this season we’ve blown it. Squad is mentally weak and Martin is tactically naive and refuses to learn.

It was clear that he was blowing very early in the second half. Do I blame him for not predicting an ACL injury? No but Stu is so important to us and we know he can’t last multiple full games…