Fabrice29

As above. Also this was echoed by Martin yesterday in his press conference. And, most pertinently, it was quite obvious that was the reason at the time by anyone watching the game I would have thought.

For a specific reason that neither of them would have been able to provide.

They play different positions and are completely different players to him but sure.

There's very rarely any consideration for the other team in these "what changed" summaries is there?

I thought it was obvious this was to deal with the set pieces/physical threat they were having without messing up the set up?

Don't know what you're referring to here but if you're telling everyone you've rumbled a team I feel like you probably should pick up a better result than 0-0 to back up you're point. Also find it interesting Blackburn players are pointing out a narrative that FF has been stating since November at least... conveniently through FF himself.

Can see why they are struggling if they can rumble a team but still only come away with a draw.

"Mara is ineffective so try Sulemana up there instead" - For at least the second time. Incredibly on brand not to actually bother either checking the minutes/goal contributions or for anyone to challenge it.

This is not the place for an Ellis Simms debate but that's a mad opinion

This isn't true though? Our main creative genius are supposed to be the ones ahead of him that failed to perform. His role in the team is to help build from a back 3 and rotate possession into those ahead of him. If we wanted creativity from our left back, then Manning would be a good shout considering he was literally creating chances consistently from left back, but he was widely ridiculed on here too.

Personally, no. As stated above, it wouldn't be wise financially firstly but more importantly I just don't think there's evidence of discontent that needs to be resolved. He's quite clearly appreciated by those that work at the club so unless that changes, I don't think we need to be disrupting things. We'd be a much different squad next year obviously and I don't think another new manager at the helm to oversee that would be wise. He'd be best placed to transition the younger guys I think. It would be disappointing though obviously and we'd have to start the season well, not least because the fanbase would be toxic otherwise. We've only underperformed if you compare us to the 3 above us though. Which is of course natural but take them out for a moment and our record obviously stands up. That's credit to the 3 above us obviously and whilst it's not a glowing review it's also not a disaster that people would have you believe. We're still very much in with a good chance of achieving our goal. I think the season should be played out before people come to conclusions that Martin has to go for example.

Yes, that's why I said its frustrating not to be there but it's not the crisis some people on here seem to think it is.

I was Stephen's biggest critic in the summer and was perplexed we'd given someone who had consistently shown himself to not be good enough a place in the squad let alone the captaincy, but it's quite obvious he's not the problem ffs

People would do well to remember this. We're having a perfectly good season but there is 3 teams better than us at the moment having insanely good seasons. It's frustrating we're not doing that as well but we're still well on course for a 3 game shoot out at the end with one of them, which again, is perfectly reasonable considering we were below two of those teams last year and probably had more squad disruption that both. This is correct. Stephens really is not the problem on his own. This is insane. It's been written on here for years despite having had 4 different managers, at least 3 different ways of playing and trying every combination possible. Maybe the core players we're still relying on that have seen us gradually decline to a Championship side might be the issue rather than people trying to be clever.

Win against West Brom in the middle of those weren't there? With Stephens shoe horned in at left back from memory producing a MOM display.

I’ll give credit to Ralph for getting Stephen’s and Bednarek out and criticise Martin for his loyalty to them fwiw. Anyway, you lot are insane. Some of you need to enjoy it more, it’s actually quite fun when you’re not desperate to be outraged by the manager. Let it play out and waste your summer being angry about it if we don’t get promoted.

With the squad we have we should be nailed on for automatic promotion - Not true. Although most other seasons we would be, you’d do well to remember both Leeds and Leicester finished above us last year and probably had less disruption to their squads. Pretty sure they’d want their squad over ours so nope, we shouldn’t be nailed on for automatic promotion at all, but do have a ridiculous amount of points compared to most teams in most seasons. Martin is the problem - though he’s sufficiently arrogant that he will never admit that in a million years - he’s blamed himself for various things over the season so again, not true. Every time we get on top by pressing forward we fail to push home the advantage by reverting to tippy tappy Russball. - We’ve won 22 games this season so again, literally not true we fail to push home advantages every time. Good post though.

I’ve no idea what the reasons are for dropping KWP. Maybe it’s not wanting him to be exposed to Moore at the back post, maybe they had a fall out, maybe KWP missed out on the ‘Stephen’s has to play so who misses out roulette’ this time. I don’t justify my ‘love’ for Martin based on one decision. That’s not sane, healthy or plausible given that as fans we’ll never ever know the reason for every thing. Like I said, not every little thing has to be conclusive evidence of something.

Isn’t there some stat around showing our subs have scored more goals than anyone else’s in the league by quite a bit? We’ve won/drawn games late on too you know. Side note: I know online brings out the worst in people but it really is insane the pile on Martin gets on here. Feels so out of touch with most people you talk to at games. We’re miles better off the pitch and on it than we were last year, at worst we’ll have 3 games to reach our aims at the end of the season, just let it play out, not every moment of every game has to be conclusive evidence of something.

Maybe it's something else. Maybe it is criminal negligence. Who knows.

Or maybe he just dropped the guy who was at fault for the goal on Friday? Maybe the simple explanations are the best.

Also maybe Martin has his faults as does his way of playing. Maybe both are right. Maybe also he's still quite clearly doing a good job and maybe despite everything it still doesn't require a "I've known all along Martin is a prick and I will jump on every opportunity to tell you so" meltdown.

Maybe if you're a player and you keep conceding a lot, against 44 different teams, at 2 different levels and with 4 different managers, the problem might be you?

This is true, there is definitely hurdles to overcome yet before we get to that point.

No idea about Leeds or Leicester as I haven't watched them enough to know. I'm just looking at our defenders and seeing people who consistently don't defend the box, continue to not defend the box. Nope, that's not what I said is it?