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How did that one on the left sneak in there

It just all seems so scattergun. Everything they do has no coherent strategy behind it. Embarrassing for Dragan tbh. Id hate to have wasted so much money on this absolute circus 🎪

The mad part is this seems to be a radical change in philosophy for the entire club again. I thought they were wedded to possession? Now they’re going back to high press? SR’s leadership is hilariously shite. I just hope this new guy is good, does things his way and tells the rest of them all to fuck off

One of the biggest differences between championship and the PL is physicality. The PL features absolute beasts that can overpower you physically and technically. It was really obvious to most of us that smallbone would be unable to make the step up. I really like him as a guy, but anyone who thinks he should be a PL player is kidding themselves. Yet the club seemingly think him and Arma are PL players.

One game doesn’t change everything, but it’s looking increasingly like this is correct. My opinion of Martin was already rock bottom, but seeing the improvement in fitness and technical ability in so many players… truly makes me angry at how inept he was

Martin has gone, let it go. He was a terrible manager that has absolutely fucked the club.

Finally Some accountability. Hopefully he removes the recruitment team next Sack the lot and start again.

A damning indictment of just how bad he is. A stat like that could cost the club automatic promotion. Not to mention he will likely be even worse after such a bad injury. Loan to league one or sell altogether are the only sensible choices

Our manager just said Sulemana was out of shape when he arrived. Seems the detractors about both Sulemana and Martin were correct, actually. Poor management & poor from him. A good performance against swansea’s reserves doesn’t change anything. He has to show it where it matters.

Based on what? He was absolutely toilet in the championship. Horrific keeper. Now he’s fit we should get rid asap.

Yeah… weird as when he played he looked good and even better than Wood. Don’t really understand the management of him tbh. I assume the club have just given up considering the lack of rumours?

Tbf, I’m glad someone’s benefiting from our premier league money. Even donating it all to charity is a better use of it than giving it to our scouts

Feel sorry for him. We should let him go in Jan tbh. It will make us even worse but watching a keeper this good behind this defence makes me genuinely sad

And where are the players going to have time to get their additional fitness training in between matches? You haven’t thought about this or played much football yourself, have you? In fairness, TP has never been fit enough to last 90 the whole time he’s been here. So I have a feeling he’s just not up the demands of the PL physically. However there are definitely other players that Martin has negatively impacted imo

My advice for SR: Sell the club to someone that has loads of money and isn’t as thick as two short planks

This is an extremely dumb post You can’t snap your fingers and make someone fit . Not having a preseason will affect you for the whole season. Let alone having half the season off on a jolly under a shite manager

He’s still young and has a lot of positive attributes. Put him next to VVD or even Fonte and I am sure he would be OK. Instead he’s surrounded by clowns and been asked to play ridiculous football for months Its honestly really difficult to judge any of our players this season because of how crap the overall team is (except Sulemana, Arma, Bednarek and Stephens who we have years of evidence for being not PL standard)

I really thought that Onuachu deserved a run of games to see what he’s got. Turns out he’s not got a lot. Another shocking signing really wasn’t he. Although I do still feel like even Erling haaland would struggle in this team. He’s not been given much service at all. Our recruitment is sooooooooo bad. I agree we shouldn’t even try in Jan. May as well save as much cash as possible and really go for the championship imo.

Might be good in a few years with some loans to league one / champ.. but currently he’s an absolutely woeful footballer at this level. NOWHERE near ready to play in the PL. Slow, clumsy, can’t tackle, doesn’t track Absurd that we’ve brought him in over Charles

Worrying signs yesterday. Only a fucking idiot would have picked those players and expected anything other than a big defeat.

We are a fucking joke. Glad the forums been down as I probably would have been banned due to how angry I was. Fuck Sports Republic. When can we boycott them?

I do not watch Blackburn and don’t intend to. Based purely off what I’ve seen of him this season, I wouldn’t even put him at league one level. I think he has nothing about him at all. Even Lee Barnard had a better touch in league one.

I’ve seen better players down at Sunday league. He can’t trap a bag of cement. His touch is about 10 yards ahead of him every time. He’s slow, always in the wrong position. Just all around shocking player. Not sure why you want to defend such a toilet player but go off, I guess. Id sell him and Sulemana in a heartbeat personally. If we can’t find better than these donkeys I’d sack the entire recruitment team too.

He really is. One of the worst players to play for us since Ali Dia. Literally looks like he’s won a competition. I agree we should loan him though, in case we need him next season. Him and Adam Armstrong show just how big the gulf in class is as neither are anywhere near PL standard.

Not at all. To shine like he does, in such a bad team, at 20 years old. CM is one of the more difficult positions and he makes it look easy. He’s going to the top imo.