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"Last season the longest unbeaten run they had in the Premier League was one game"

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!! SPERTSYANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Sorry just imagining a better match in my head since this one is so shit

That's more like it Charles!

Horribly slow in transition. That's on the coaching team, I'm afraid. They need replacing.

I don't think any of the relegated three will be going up this year. Still, maybe it's good for the health of the game that parachute payments aren't buying promotion.

I think that we need a team who are self-starters, think for themselves, and have good decision making (football IQ) - the opposite profile of our teams over the last half-decade. The group did okay with Martin with 2023-24, because his system gave them a comfort zone. I don't think it's good to require the manager to be a mood maker within the team. Players should be able to motivate themselves to reach the next level. We need a team who are hungry.

We will extend our unbeaten run to 4 games

Regarding Robinson, I recall Martin did similar with Dibling in 2023-24. Perhaps it's a mandate from above - promising youth getting injured in the Championship season could prevent them from breaking out in the Premier League season. Doesn't really make much sense to me though.

To be honest, going up in 2023-24 may have been the worst thing for us as it seems to have convinced SR we can half-arse our way to promotion.

In my opinion they're just the fourth horseman - Death - following Gao who was Famine.

My issue is that yet again the most important areas are neglected. Why are the club so insistent that Bazunu will come good? Whether you want to believe the stats or your own eyes, he has been awful since day 1.

My argument for greed is their insistence on signing Downs for a potential 4x in value instead of a proven mature striker. But yes, there is plenty of incompetence from Solak too. I have no idea how he's had a modicum of success given how the last four years have gone.

Act like Watford and we will become Watford. That is to say, a nothing club making up the numbers in the Championship.

Greed has caused this situation. And I’m sorry to say but the greed starts with Solak.

THB was a part of 2022-23 Burnley, not that it means much now.

+1 on this. Easy to focus on the guy we see on the touch line but helping him with the day to day is - Paul Trollope, most recently seen getting Luton relegated back-to-back - Lallana (in his FIRST EVER coaching role) seemingly hired because he played for us 20 years ago - Carl Martin who has overseen two woeful relegations with Saints and kept his job throughout And that's not even getting into the guys upstairs or the kid analysts on work experience. There is a rot and it is caused by mediocrity permeating the club on every level.

Said silverware being the League One playoff trophy.

Our fanbase is one of the worst in football.

You can't just win - Russell Martin

Schadenfreude is so very pleasing.

He often makes substitutions that damage our momentum, and his game management is now actively killing our ability to win. The Scienza → Downs choice today was a strong example of this. One of the best players on the pitch today, replaced early with a serial underperformer. Potentially the rationale was: Stewart was injured → Armstrong can't play as a central striker → Armstrong is the goal scorer and is performing well → Take off Scienza instead, we could try a two-striker system → Archer is more suited to a poacher role than target man → Downs has a superior physical profile, and getting a goal could raise his confidence and allow him to kick on. My belief is that Still overthinks his substitutions, resulting in baffling decisions and unnecessary system changes. He's not good at adapting to the present, and his inability to manage the flow of the game through sensible personnel changes is now a critical weakness. Whatever the reason, he needs to improve his game management because it's killing us. I could just be bullshitting though.

Sport Republic. we are on a year on year decline and they are the only constant

3 Three games unbeaten

Manning off please. Another ghost of the past that needs to be exorcised

Recall bbd and put him up top