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How long until we get a 'Russell Martin, your football is sh*t' rendition?

So very terrible.

We are flimsier then toilet paper. Floodgates surely about to open.

We just cannot have chance to enjoy anything nice, can we?

BBC Sport seem to be a little confused. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c0qdq005dg9t Good on him though. Clearly continuing to enjoy himself.

May he still fuck off.

Signs of life. Pointless, presumably futile in the context of this season signs. But something. Still want Russell Martin to cease to exist mind.

Yeah. Martin is fucking mad.

We are not getting battered and are creating chances. But it's not an easy thing to watch. Brighton might as well be in a different league, we are the plucky lower league Cup side. Taking 1-0 down at half time is damning in itself.

Failed to mention that it was a Brighton fan.

So, each other then.

No

It is mad, but, fundamentally.... it's worked. People are talking about Jaguar.

Very good! If only this could be recorded with someone of reasonable talent and production values.

How disgustingly toxic this is becoming. All centered from one man's arrogance.

Holy mother of f**k he's starting tall Paul!

The worst thing today, is the feeling of absolute futility. We know how our team will play, everyone does. We know it is not going to work, especially as we have lost our best player (Ramsdale) who, even in games where we have looked capable of getting something, has needed to be at his absolute best to keep us in it. We lose, nothing changes. We lose heavily, nothing will change. We get anything out of the game? The crux of our problems will be front and centre and hailed by the media. My prediction. Liverpool 4-0 Saints. And we will be lucky to have not conceded more.

Or, maybe it shows that when used to his strengths rather then shoehorned into a system that may not suit he is quite capable. Should Martin eventually and rightfully be sacked, Charles would be an asset next year when we inevitably return to the championship.

'Communist.'

The players are not good enough, so would need to be replaced with better ones who can play in that way. So why continue to coach players who are not good enough to a system they are not capable of? It's not brave, it is just foolish.

Had a promising young spine developing in the team at the time. Fitz Hall at CB, Folly in the middle. Griffit coming through. It all fell apart very swiftly.

Shades of Steve Wigley. The players loved him.

Football is all about opinions. By all means share your own and your reasoning for it, but no need at all to be so directly rude, it demeans you.

The young Thai prodigy, Fa Kin Yoo Sless is also a target.

If you mean the play-off final goal, yes it was nice. But, the idea that Martin is some kind of visionary, implementing something revolutionary is idiotic. Ideas he preaches have been previously done, by better managers who did not stick horrifyingly to one plan in the face of clear evidence that it is not going to work, they used them as part of their arsenal, not the whole focus. I had the pleasure of having chance to read for recreation a little recently, which given how busy I am was a rare treat. The book was 'Football Against the Enemy.' The chapter, 'Rulers of the Ukraine' highlights the methods of a coach called Zelentsov, he runs through the necessity to anticipate passes before they happen, requiring the Dynamo Kiev squad to be almost constantly circulating the ball. How very familiar. He also preached the use of statistical metrics and computer analysis to truly judge player performance against their desired requirements. Very Ankersen. This book was written in the early nineties, the coach mentioned in the above was at his best in the 1980's. Martin's approach is not a revolution, it is just extreme. Further to this, critically, Zelentsov recognised something. "A team that commits errors in no more then 15 - 18% of their acts is unbeatable." Martin's set up forces our players into errors. He shows no desire in changing his tactics to mitigate this. He is a fraud. And truly meets the definition of insanity in trying the same things over and over again hoping for something different to occur. The real horror. He did adapt..... once..... As stated above, after trying to make square pegs fit round holes after Bazunu's injury, and. it. worked. But he did not learn from this. So, the conclusion can only be that he is an idiot. An arrogant idiot, too full of his own brilliance to adapt to his situation and learn from past experience. An idiot dressing up other people's ideas as his own and more then happy to try and peddle his snake oil to anyone who will listen, people who would rather be seen to think 'differently,' then practically. It angers me that this superficial one-track preening hipster of a manager is still in charge. Rant over. No doubt which side of the fence i'm on as if you couldn't guess already.