Oldandtired

I can see why he’s your inspiration. Same level of nonsense.

This. They are wrecking/have wrecked the club.

Which doesn't necessarily make for a successful player. As I keep on saying RM could take Ronaldo and Messi and destroy them as players within a month.

This is what I don't understand about all of the RM acolytes on here. I don't think that many of Bournemouth players are outstanding, their manager has simply instilled a system in them that works. Surely even an egomaniac like Martin must watch this and see the difference between that and his woefully inadequate way of doing things. How can you possibly defend him?

Witness the Chelsea manager having a go at Madueke despite him having scored and made one last night.

Looks like the Brighton manager has been learning from RM...

Very unusual for you to have a point.

Exactly, what are the fabled long term plans? Maybe it’s to get us in the premier league when we go down to league one.

What are the options for this? Asking for a friend who after a lifetime of supporting Saints has had enough…

Turkish has been sectioned at last.

But we were brave and he's proud and zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

What the hell are you on?

Can you explain to me exactly what other data actually matters. And while you’re at it get that other twat fabreze to explain how ‘all the metrics’ are so important. There’s only one bit of data / metric that matters to most fans. This:

On reflection this morning I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…I mean grown men hair pulling? Come on, it’s not the Under 7 playground league. How does that even cross a professional, supposedly (haha) elite PL player’s mind? Another thing that amused me last night is I sit in the Kingsland with the other old people just forward of the edge of the goal area Northam End. I noticed on at least three occasions Lumley had the ball towards the front of his area but even he passed it backwards. It made me smile…I needed it last night.

Don’t forget some people like League One football.

Yep…that’s why we’re adrift at the bottom of the table….🤓

Is Ted Lasso there?

Maybe for a different thread? This one is to vent on how bad Russell Martin is…😎

That’s another reason I really dislike him…he could at least change the friggin’ script.

Even the most ardent fan must surely admit it evens itself out over a season….for instance on the plus side the Everton goal that wasn’t (really) and kamikaze Downes not getting sent off in the Brighton game.

Not doing us much good though is it?

My personal view is that his knowledge and abilities regarding football tactics are very limited. He has been well and truly found out in the PL, unfortunately I can find no reason to think that the same won't happen in the championship next year. Managers are paid to find weaknesses in opposing teams and tactics. They won't have to look very far to find those in this manager.

If…(see what I did there…)

Doesn’t the promotion money come into this year’s accounts? I haven’t a clue how PSR works but would have thought that that has to be a factor somewhere along the line.

It could well be true that we will have a decent Championship squad of players for when (in my mind) the inevitable happens. The question is will these players thrive if RM survives as manager. His mantra is ‘no change’ so for other managers perhaps it will be like re- reading a book or watching Game of Thrones for the seventh time. They will surely know how it acts out and how it ends. For this reason I am perhaps not so optimistic as others about life in the Championship.