Saint_clark

Stephens at the back playing everybody onside, fucking UTTER CUNT, FUCK OFF!

Pile of wank.

Worst choice for a penalty taker. No Prem goals yet and a young lad.

Did I just hear that right from crouchy? Martin said this week that he was given FIVE YEARS to get us back to the premier league?

That's better. Not a fan of Stephens but THB needs to step up anyway. Fernandes to score today and not theirs.

He'll probably be proud that his defence are passing it well.

Wtf is a barclaysman?

Ignore them MB. The only criticism you deserve is for getting rid of your previous, bouncier profile picture.

I get where you're coming from but if you view it again a different way - his close control of the ball takes it just far enough away from the three players that close him down that they're unable to make a tackle because they'd be going straight through him. Not saying it's a goal of the season contender but his ability with the ball at his feet is frightening. We need to do a Chelsea and tie him down to a 6 year contract.

Nope looks like they're only showing one game per round of fixtures.

We beat them multiple times just in our last stint in the Prem.

Again? He never played at this level. He barely played at Championship level.

Can we stop the nonsense about players joining us to play Martin's brand of football please. Nobody has joined us because they are desperate to play a certain type of football. I'd also debate that we can play that style of football well now that we're in the Prem. A lot of people myself included said last season that he might get us promoted but his style would be suicidal in the Prem.

The opposite - they never do it. LD was gutted, he already had his belt unbuckled.

Searching through someone's wallet is not acceptable and I suspect not legal either, not at a fucking football ground. The looking for drugs routine is bollocks. Funny isn't it how stop and search is seen as racist but searching football fans goes ignored.

Giving him a new deal after he achieved the bare minimum expected of him was ridiculous. Winning the league last year would have warranted it, he failed at that, this season should have been his chance to prove himself for one.

True but he was arrogantly assuming he knew what to expect in the Prem. He's had a rude awakening.

You seriously trying to say that passing it around the back ISN'T what Martin has wanted us to do since he came in? Despite him repeatedly saying in the past that's what he wants us to do? I know, he's always been stubborn about it. But this comment from him, as much as I hate him throwing the players under the bus, is him distancing himself from the nonsense of passing it backwards/around unnecessarily in our own area, which says to me that when we come back from the international break we SHOULD have worked on getting it forward quicker.

I agree. But the fact he says that tells me he's going to be trying to change it.

Speaking about the goals we've stupidly conceded this season, he said he didn't know why the players were passing it backwards in those situations. Basically acting as if he HASN'T been drilling this play style into them since summer 2023.

I actually agree. Martins comments post match, whilst they were throwing the players under the bus, show that he will be changing things next time out and he has two weeks to work on doing that now.

Don't think he gave it away once.

Looked dangerous before when getting beyond defences. We ask our attacking players to pick it up deep, pass it backwards and shuffle forwards a few yards.

I don't remember ABK ever really having standout bad games. He was just playing in a properly shit, disorganised team. Crazy that he's being frozen out when we're struggling so much at the back. Even just having him on the bench to push the starting players would be beneficial as opposed to having *checks the Brentford game* no centreback subs. I don't think THB, Bednarek and especially Stephens feel at all threatened by Edwards and Wood.

He sounded perfectly composed, and to be honest as if he'd already thought of an answer to the question before it was asked.