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Agree that Martin should only take partial blame for the recruitment side of things but the one significant thing that you missed out, for which Martin shoulders full blame for, is sticking with a playing philosophy that was never going to work (in the Premier League) with such a mediocre squad. Not getting good enough players through the door is one thing, but then expecting them to play in a way that they weren't capable of (in the Premier League), and persisting with it regardless, was an even bigger faux pas, in my humble opinion. And before the "but we would've got relegated regardless of what playing style we deployed" brigade get triggered, yes, I agree, but the difference is that we could've gone down fighting and less embarrassingly, if we'd played more like Luton than Man City, which would've been much easier to stomach than the shit show Martin presided over.

Yep, and the the room decor was pretty naff too...

Hotel kettles boil my piss

That's Pompey level table-clothery! #tinpot

Nope. Name 5 posters who thought otherwise before the start of the season... On the other hand, I could name quite a few posters who didn't think we'd be cast adrift well before Christmas and end up finishing on 12 points....

My money is on you not referring back to this post in 10 months time if we go straight back up, but wheeling it out every 5 minutes for 7 weeks if we don't... I'll keep a medal aside for you though, just in case...

You've been well and truly scooped mate

Always had a hunch he was destined for a big club playing European football...

£20m...? Isn't that a rounding error in football these days...? 🙂

Calling @Harold K Steptoe to the new kit thread to verify 🙂

Yup.... we've been led to believe that Sport Republic have learned from their past mistakes.... The Ramsdale replacement will be a good litmus test of this....

Welease Wussell!

I'm sure any Liverpool fans on the jury will give him a fair trial...

Yeah, agree. I always judge players on a single video clip too...

Could PTSD have been a factor in his irrational reaction maybe? (I've no idea myself as I'm not familiar with how the condition can manifest itself)

They've dropped the 'driving under the influence of drugs' charge, haven't they?

Fag

Possibly me being thick, but where do you get 3 windows from? Surely it's only one window between gaining promotion and starting life again in the PL?

Fair point 👍