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I’d say that has been a feature of the entire 23/24 season 😬

Who would have thought that we’d actually still have something to play for at this point? Massive game tomorrow night. Hopefully Saturday’s defeat will have taken the edge off of PNE’s determination.

Great win. SMS rocking with that goal. ……but RM’s substitutions continue to baffle.

That’s the spirit ……Though sadly very likely to happen

I voted no but it’s not an easy decision. I just feel that with the squad we’ve got we should be doing even better than we are and in a solid top 2 position. I also feel that Martin sometimes illogically persists with particular tactics and players to make a point that he’s in charge. The sign of a good manager is to recognise when you need changes and not be too stubborn to accept your mistakes. After a bad result he often says that he accepts full responsibility but then makes the same mistakes again.

My heart says glorious win. My head says another tedious 70% performance capped by a lack of Saints goals and a late capitulation.

We ought to win this but after our capitulation on Monday nothing is certain.

Martin and Russball are our main problems. The squad is better than our league position. If we don’t go up this season we will lose our best players and will struggle in 24/5. Martin loves to say “I take the blame for this and that “. He seems to wear cock ups as a badge of honour. If he was good enough he wouldn’t keep having to make these empty apologies.

Let’s be honest. With the squad we have we should be nailed on for automatic promotion. Martin is the problem - though he’s sufficiently arrogant that he will never admit that in a million years. Every time we get on top by pressing forward we fail to push home the advantage by reverting to tippy tappy Russball. I would love us to win at Wembley. But I can’t see that happening with the form clearly drifting away. Sadly no one is scared of us. The standard Russball tactics have been comprehensively absorbed and countered by every team we now play. No stability in team selection or game plan outside standard Russball .

Please no Che Adams

Why on earth does Russell Martin persist with Che Adams? He keeps starting him and he keeps failing to school goals. The few goals he has scored have come to him more or less on the goal line, where he even he can’t miss! Apart, of course, from today - where he managed to miss two completely open chances in exactly that position. Unacceptable. Shouldn’t start another game this season but be kept on the bench for exceptionally desperate times! And no - despite what some people say he doesn’t even hold the ball up very well.

After such a long break has Russball evolved on the training pitch?? Will we ever score from another free kick or, even more unlikely, a corner?? These and other questions may or may not be answered today.

Good. He also 100% nailed the shortcomings in Russ Ball after the Sunderland game

Some fans always want someone to hate.

We must win this just to stay in touch with those above us. Not an easy game. PNE in good form and just the type of team we find hard to play Russ Ball against.