InvictaSaint

I think we all know the answer to that one….

From a Dons supporter:

Worth a listen:

From somebody who knows him and has got his coaching badges with him…

The comments I posted above might suggest otherwise….

Two Swansea fans’ views. Somewhat more positive. “Southampton gave a great manager and fantastic person, but a long contract with assurances is needed to succeed.”

Spot on - this is the absolute nub of it. Even with Romeu - who was definitely adding protection and broke up play before it got to the edge of our 18 yard box or out wide, which we have badly lacked since his departutre - with JWP in the middle we didn't /don't have pace to break through the lines. Hence the endless recycling of possession which does nothing for us. This has to be an area where we look to invest and improve, particularly if (as has been mooted) we go down the heavy possession-based football route.

Yes. That is oh so clearly what I was advocating. For the hard of understanding....it is NOT my opinion. I am simply passing on - on a football forum - what somebody who has worked with / met him thinks of him. Take it, leave it, ignore it - don't really care. But don't wilfully misinterpret it.

Not my opinion - just passing it on from somebody who has worked with him. Which I imagine is more than you have done. Go back to commiserating over your beloved Gooners missing out on the title.

Spoke with a colleague at work today who did his UEFA B licence with Russell Martin, and who has had a number of interactions with him over the last few years. He holds him in very high regard. Says he is a very good man manager, and a thoroughly decent human being. He is a purist so will not abandon his principles just to get results. His football is heavily possession based - 60% plus - and his teams often win games in the last 20 minutes once they've ground teams down. However, supporters enjoy watching his teams - there is positivity around watching them - and he gets good buy in. My colleague's view is that he has not had the tools - or at least not all of them - at his disposal at Swansea to get a team where we need to go, but that given the right resources he will do very well. Says we could do a hell of a lot worse, and would recommend him over Schumacher if that were ever a consideration.

Spoke with a colleague at work today who did his UEFA B licence with Russell Martin, and who has had a number of interactions with him over the last few years. He holds him in very high regard. Says he is a very good man manager, and a thoroughly decent human being. He is a purist so will not abandon his principles just to get results. His football is heavily possession based - 60% plus - and his teams often win games in the last 20 minutes once they've ground teams down. However, supporters enjoy watching his teams - there is positivity around watching them - and he gets good buy in. My colleague's view is that he has not had the tools - or at least not all of them - at his disposal at Swansea to get a team where we need to go, but that given the right resources he will do very well. Says we could do a hell of a lot worse, and would recommend him over Schumacher if that were ever a consideration.

Anyone else’s ticket not turned up yet….?

Interesting that you never see them both in the same room at the same time….🤔

Silver linings and all that….

Silver linings and all that….

Agree. Posted this at the end of yesterday’s game. Sums him up,

Seriously….for your own sanity’s sake…just accept we are down. Because we are.

AMN on that chance when Wilson hit the bar. Fuck me. Just lets him stroll off him. Not an ounce of effort. Pathetic chancer of a player.

Haha! Well he’s definitely not on it - that much we do know!

No Tall Paul anywhere near the bench again….

Not sure if anybody else spotted this but when Theo went over to Selles during a first half injury break and came back with a note, one of the first players he showed it to was AA. Now this is not to defend said player or say he had - given how shite he’s been - any right to do what he did. However as Theo walked away, AA just stood there shaking his head from side to side in apparent disbelief / disgust. Whatever our players’ faults - and they are manifold - any last vestiges of belief they had in Sellesball have clearly evaporated.

We could lose our record….

5!!!