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Martin does make some baffling decisions. Mara on the wing? He looked dreadful. He just strolled around. At one point he tried to counter attack by walking. He offered Bree no real protection. Bizarre. How surprising we won with no inverted full backs (trying to turn Stephens into Stones). Who’d have thought a proper back line with proper full backs would work?

He is fantastic. His tactical explanations of the issues caused by the Stephens obsession were spot on.

Some statistics. I'm sure the club is all over this with their focus on data. Goals Prevented 20 John Ruddy -5.9 21 Asmir Begovic -6.9 22 Ryan Allsopp -8.0 23 Gavin Bazunu -10.7 save percentage 20 Seny Dieng 64.2% 21 Matija Sarkic 63.6% 22 Lee Nicholls 63% 23 Gavin Bazunu 61.9% Can anyone spot a pattern?

Boring. It’s hard to watch us at the moment.

I think a lot of other managers would be doing better with this team. Whenever we go forward, we stop, sideways, back. The opposition can reorganize and then we can’t penetrate. It’s dull. It’s slow. Only a few 45mins here and there have had energy. Mostly it’s flat and boring. Martin rates himself much higher than his ‘achievements’ indicate.

RM- if we’d scored 4 or 5 everyone would be saying how great we were. Yes, Russell. They would. The only issue with that is the fact we didn’t. He wants praise for things that haven’t happened. I’ve got one of my own- If we had won all of our games, people would be saying we are amazing. 😂 Yes. Yes they would. But we haven’t. Arrogance is very touchy it seems.

If you listen to that interview and want to jump to his defence then that’s a worry. It was completely out of order. He needs to apologise next time he speaks to Adam B.

RM has another Jones style strop. This isn’t the first time. I hope he’s not like this with the players. It’s all very odd and a bit irrational. RM can’t work out why other managers don’t like him. 🤔I can. He’d struggle like Jones in the Prem with this sort of behaviour.

My issue is not with possession football. There are different ways to do it though as Adkins proved. Sometimes you need to actually put teams under pressure. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz pass pass pass zzzzzz lose the ball zzzzzzzzzz pass. Zzzzzzzz lose the ball zzzzzzzz

Another match goes by where we pass it around without creating anything. It’s pointless. The talent in this squad HAS to do better than this.

Don’t forget- apparently Martin won everyone over during the tactical evening. I always said it was just words. Some fans were hanging off his every word. He has to earn that sort of reverence. He hasn’t.

Be careful. That’ll upset some people! 🤣 even if the second half is better, it’s not enough. He tells us we’ll be brilliant though. I reserve judgement. Some people think he’s the messiah.

I hope nobody complaining went to the fans forum as apparently everyone went away happy from that. He was so impressive allegedly. As I said at the time, it’s just words. I went away desperately hoping but very skeptical because he says a lot but never follows it up on the pitch. Some people are so easily persuaded by words.

You have made yourself look a bit silly Fabrice29. Lots of hands went up but only 1 or 2 got to ask questions.

You do realise that it’s pot luck whether you get picked or ask a question?