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There will be a spreadsheet for new wage bill for new/ reduced terms in Championship, and selling on to Premier Legue clubs from that level, to maximise that profit. Just a bit ruined by us getting taken over as a Premier League club and losing all that broadcasting/ commercial revenue.

Makes a change from Loose Passes 🙂

Lovely goal. But boy, did we mess it up. I was just typing away about the rawness of Alcaraz results in ruining attacks by sloppy passing. Then Lavia is brushed aside and we can;t get back quickly enough to prevent a really good ball, and haven;t tracked the scorer, because we'd all moved up field. Incredibly sloppy, and a clear example of where wer'e tactically naive. We don;t comit numbers when we're in a good attack. We are sloppy in passing, and our coaches never compensate for those risks, and we are absolute suckers on the counter.

Just tells me that Mo has been wasted, not being played up front. 🙂

Not part of the manual. Don't commit. Control the space. FOrce them into making an error. Or as we do, take up a space regardless of the threat/ position, allow shots to go in and hope our 'keepers are up to it, or they blaze over. Just another reason why RalphBall2.0 and SellesBall go wrong. Drop back to hold and break, allows a lot of very good finishers to have chances with a lighter ball at closer ranges.

Nice work from Theo, but a showboating finish that doesn;t come close.

Lyanco backing off, as per manaula, as opposed to dealing with the actual threat? It was going at pace, and McCarthy couldn;t get down in time. Not sure if he could/should have, although it doesn;t look great for a keeper to let one in under him.

18 in 92 for Rangers and she's not a striker, although had to play up front a fair bit. So, he's got as much chance, if nto more, than our usual band of bottlers.

A while ago pointed out that Bree had high assist/creative stats in the championship, while Aribo was getting ready for a Europa final. Both not near our team, and not because their repalcements are better.

If our players trusted their delivery, and wanted to change momentum in the game, get it in there. But no. Far better to create nothing from further back.

Brighton on a break, get 6 up there, but get it across early and take a shot. We break up the park, fewer options, but Aribo in there. We choose to pass it back and across. COuld have put a ball in, but played it safe.

Bednerak comedy slip and we are very, very lucky to get away with that. Not the best of passes from McCarthy either.

Promising that we got a good attack in, and it's not just Brighton who can catch us on the break.

Good chance there. Wrong option taken in the end by Theo. You could see what he was trying, but Alcaraz blazed it.

I'm in the conservative camp of preferring a manager who has seen it and done it. Not only at the level we're at, but at the level above. Someone who has a working knowledge of success at a level we can aspire to. While we may not be capable quite teaching those heights, we will have a solid groundwork in place to stretch for those standards. I'm naturally a little down, if the manager hasn't been a consistent success. But that's a passing thing. There are so many different circumstances, that it's simply not going to work out everywhere. Having some success/ progress at a good level is important. Strachan is a good benchmark. I wasn't gutted when he was hired, but was disappointed. He's just taken Coventry down. But he'd made progress with them the season before, and I quite liked their approach. Strachan had also worked with numerous top managers and had been a successful player at those clubs, in Europe and internationally. Martin played at an excellent level (if not at the top), and has been an international. He's had a good managerial career so far too. Norwich were abject to watch when he played and capitulated regularly in the Premier League. The soundbites I heard from him during one interview of that were cringe worthy. But it would be incredibly unfair to judge an incoming manager on him as a player, and be was the one to sick his head over the trench for the interview. What's more important is that I don't think he's had the experience at the level of club we need to get to, both to have the ruthless winning mentality to get up and stay up. That's not to say we can't be successful under him. Just that there are some extra hurdles. Handily, Rasmus has given us 2 recent managers I've been more disappointed with. And I've the memory of having my Strachan disappointment turned to delight. I can only hope the standards Martin knows to set show the squad what's required.

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Following a particularly abject, gutless performance where even the Norwich manager didn't want to show his face, Martin trotted out a series of empty platitudes and clichés. Anyone who had been watching them for a while would have realised how meaningless his words were, wondering about the disconnect between what he was saying and the reality of their performances. So, a lot like some of the rubbish we've heard from our club since the weekend. They'll really like Martin.

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If you find the "almost" dropping out of that sentence, let us know. We've got some highlights to show you. Well, lowlights really... 🙂

To get second place in the Championship over the last 10 years, you need on average 90 (89.6) points. Along the way an average 73 (73.4) goals is required, and an average goal difference of +34 (34.3) Projecting Selles’ performance across a Premier league season would see not even get half of the average goals required. His goals against (considering he was brought in to help Ralph improve defensively, hasn’t really worked either) With the same players, we should score more at a lower level. But would we score over double what we’re scoring now? Selles’ has been unable or unwilling to alter glaring flaws in his tactics and team selection. Additionally, our tactic of being compact, hoping our opponent doesn’t finish the chances we’re going to give them, and hope it falls for us centrally for a break, is miles away from the teams that dominate and get promoted from that division. Our other tactic of overcommitting with no output, only to get picked off, doesn’t bear thinking about. I’ve seen absolutely nothing to suggest he’s the guy to get us promoted. That’s even taking into account that he’s dealing with some dreadful recruitment/ transfer policy decisions from above that blighted his predecessors. Even if we actually learn from the numerous recruitment mistakes, I couldn’t see him setting out a team to win enough points for us to go back up. If he comes out and says “thankfully, we can recruit the players *I* want over the summer, to get away from the rubbish we’ve had to serve up,” then I’ll have another think.

Nathan on Sky. It was a learning curve. But, he felt that, had he got enough results to get a little more time, he would have improved. Didn;t want to be drawn into any headline making, such as "would he have kept them up?" He's presumably on there as he's available for clubs looking for a fresh, front footed, aggressive approach from a manager who helped the start of a successful championship campaign with Luton. If you can think of a club in, or going into, that division looking for such a manager, please contact Nathan. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11700/12880318/nathan-jones-admits-southampton-spell-was-a-huge-learning-curve-after-three-month-reign