Farmer Saint

We are 4th - if the board had equipped Martin with a good keeper and striker we'd probably be top, and we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Bednarek is shit though, and has been for years. When 60% of your back 5 is not very good, that is an issue.

I think we'd have seen a few better results if we didn't have shit defensive players. I thinkartim has been stitched up with the fact that we have to play a combination of Bazunu, Bednarek, Stephens, Manning and Bree, and then have all the good chances we create missed by Adams. If you concede too many, and miss too many chances, you're not going to get promoted. If we had a decent keeper, a decent striker who could score a decent percentage of his chances, and some defenders who could actually defend, there would be no doubt we'd be top.

So 7 to 9 from the Adkins team. Shows how well Martin is doing with this side.

Both judging by the geniuses on this forum.

Your avatar now looks like you call him Martino, as if he's some foreign master. You really are a fucking joke pal 🤣

Probably not, but I already know Cooper is out of his depth there. He's proven that.

Why have you used a mix of upper and lower case letters? Looks like a child has done it.

What, and then sack him if we get into the Prem? FFS.

This is not a coaching thing - no manager has to tell a professional football player to mark up or not stand off. This is football 101,and points towards the players not being good enough.

Oh, yeah, so you've seen him training them not to mark up? Maybe, again, our CB's are just a bit shit. We know Bednarek is shit, and we know Stephens is shit and everyone was saying earlier in the season about how shit Bree is, and Manning. Maybe we just have shit defenders who don't do as they are told.

Add a £10m Charles into that mix. Imagine if we'd have spent that money a bit better and equipped Martin with a fit striker and a better CB. We'd have easily been top.

Yep, issue for me is not Martin, it is piss poor recruitment.

But we had our best CB's out there - we can't have conceded 3 goals?? Maybe, just maybe, our CB's aren't good enough. Just saying.

Now resigned makes much more sense than gardening leave.

Stop talking so much sense.

Just wondering, but was that first half because of Martin and his team selection and tactics, or in spite of him? Asking for a friend.

I wish my companies were that pissed off with me. Tbf, it does show that actual football recruitment at the club is extremely strong under SR - perhaps too good.

Great half of football - great team selection and tactics by Martin.

But you'd make him see it out actually doing his job, wouldn't you? Otherwise he's just being paid for doing nothing. That's not a punishment.

Fucking Martin and his shit coaching of free-kicks. Sack him now.

Oh fuck off Martin you fucking clown.

Why would he be on gardening leave? Cos United are a big rival?

So is Martin doing well with the tools he's given, or should we be promoted automatically anyway considering that Wilcox has made a major cock-up this season in putting together a team?

Some of the people on this forum post as if they've been following football for about 3 weeks.

Well yes, it was a far more talented team than we have now - if you created a team using both sides you would end up with many more from the Adkins side.