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Only when St Mary's turned. Our fans have accepted the inevitable now, they can't even be arsed to boo Martin.

Because they actually buy into the bullshit that Martin spouts.

Armstrong is fuckin gash

At least the VAR call will give Martin something to focus on in the post match interview rather than another shit performance.

Even Mike Dean said that was a shit decsion

Oh well, here it comes

Manning! What the fuck!!

Lol

Downes out then. Aribo in.

Right. Manning was binned off by Martin even in the Championship, so quite why he has suddenly been deemed good enough to start in the PL is a mystery. Bit of a clue though, it's not because of any of the reasons you stated.

Martin was running out of bodies to chuck into the starting eleven.

Hardly said anything offensive, just questioned where the joke was in his supposed "funny" post. A few posters get dog shit abuse in other rooms/threads, but I guess that's perfectly ok depending on who you are and who is dishing out the said dog shit abuse?

Replies and comments on this thread getting removed seems to be a common occurence these days. I thought this was supposed to be a discussion board.

Is there a joke in there somewhere? Must have missed it.

I get that. But Martin takes it to a whole new level.

Why? Makes me want to throw up. The shite he spouted about Armstrong after the weekend was particularly cringeworthy.

Sure. Pick out one game and focus on that. Am sure you enjoyed your day in Sunderland and Leicester just as much last season.

That has to be the most craziest thing I've read on here in a long time.

Plymouth are making them look like Real Madrid at the moment.

Absolutely this. He is a club employee, hired to get the best results possible for the football club. Not the best results possible for Russell Martin. The two should go hand in hand, but they don't. Ergo, the best possible results for the football club, put Martin in a better light.

Martin's love in with Armstrong on the Saints App today. Honestly makes me want to throw up.

So, we were........lucky then?

I think for me, the issue is Martin's in game management. I get the impression, especially in our earlier games, that subs were made for all the wrong reasons. I get that we have a large squad, and every player thinks he should be playing, but it seemed in some games that Martin was determined to get certain players on just to get them on the pitch. That would work if you had like for like players, but the drop off in quality we have on the bench from the pitch is pretty stark. It certainly had a detrimental effect in the latter stages of some games. Also, the amount of changes in one go doesn't help the team either, just creates a bit of confusion for five minutes or so as they all adapt to different shapes etc. Am hoping that as the season goes on, if he is still here, that just because he can make subs, doersn't mean he needs to.

Not for me. Woefully short at this level. The ironic thing is, he scored yesterday with probably the most difficult chance he has had all season.

Think when you are a keeper in that position you need to make a split second decison. You could say that had he stayed on his line, Harrison would have scored. The fact that he came bulldozing off his line, may have just put him off.