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They just can’t stick to a structure or plan at all can they! It’s so frustrating. The most successful clubs have a clear structure and plan. I would’ve assumed they had someone lined up but instead they can’t make up their mind about the way forward. They really don’t cover themselves in glory. Very amature.

I bet we were brave.

I bet we were brave. I’m sure Martin will let us know we were brave.

But were we brave?

I don’t understand why people are obsessed with being next to the away fans. Most grounds seem to have the away fans at the opposite end of the stadium to the most vocal home support. This is normal. What we currently have is odd.

Martin does make some baffling decisions. Mara on the wing? He looked dreadful. He just strolled around. At one point he tried to counter attack by walking. He offered Bree no real protection. Bizarre. How surprising we won with no inverted full backs (trying to turn Stephens into Stones). Who’d have thought a proper back line with proper full backs would work?

He is fantastic. His tactical explanations of the issues caused by the Stephens obsession were spot on.

Some statistics. I'm sure the club is all over this with their focus on data. Goals Prevented 20 John Ruddy -5.9 21 Asmir Begovic -6.9 22 Ryan Allsopp -8.0 23 Gavin Bazunu -10.7 save percentage 20 Seny Dieng 64.2% 21 Matija Sarkic 63.6% 22 Lee Nicholls 63% 23 Gavin Bazunu 61.9% Can anyone spot a pattern?

Boring. It’s hard to watch us at the moment.

I think a lot of other managers would be doing better with this team. Whenever we go forward, we stop, sideways, back. The opposition can reorganize and then we can’t penetrate. It’s dull. It’s slow. Only a few 45mins here and there have had energy. Mostly it’s flat and boring. Martin rates himself much higher than his ‘achievements’ indicate.

RM- if we’d scored 4 or 5 everyone would be saying how great we were. Yes, Russell. They would. The only issue with that is the fact we didn’t. He wants praise for things that haven’t happened. I’ve got one of my own- If we had won all of our games, people would be saying we are amazing. 😂 Yes. Yes they would. But we haven’t. Arrogance is very touchy it seems.

If you listen to that interview and want to jump to his defence then that’s a worry. It was completely out of order. He needs to apologise next time he speaks to Adam B.

RM has another Jones style strop. This isn’t the first time. I hope he’s not like this with the players. It’s all very odd and a bit irrational. RM can’t work out why other managers don’t like him. 🤔I can. He’d struggle like Jones in the Prem with this sort of behaviour.

My issue is not with possession football. There are different ways to do it though as Adkins proved. Sometimes you need to actually put teams under pressure. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz pass pass pass zzzzzz lose the ball zzzzzzzzzz pass. Zzzzzzzz lose the ball zzzzzzzz

Another match goes by where we pass it around without creating anything. It’s pointless. The talent in this squad HAS to do better than this.

Don’t forget- apparently Martin won everyone over during the tactical evening. I always said it was just words. Some fans were hanging off his every word. He has to earn that sort of reverence. He hasn’t.

Be careful. That’ll upset some people! 🤣 even if the second half is better, it’s not enough. He tells us we’ll be brilliant though. I reserve judgement. Some people think he’s the messiah.

I hope nobody complaining went to the fans forum as apparently everyone went away happy from that. He was so impressive allegedly. As I said at the time, it’s just words. I went away desperately hoping but very skeptical because he says a lot but never follows it up on the pitch. Some people are so easily persuaded by words.

You have made yourself look a bit silly Fabrice29. Lots of hands went up but only 1 or 2 got to ask questions.

You do realise that it’s pot luck whether you get picked or ask a question?

How slow was some of that football! Tedious. Players were static. Again. The pedestrian nature of RM’s football is clear to see.

Picking the wrong manager again and again. Jones was a disaster. They trapped themselves into the Selles corner. Martin was a gamble. Terrible defensive records. He had a terrible run with Swansea - just a good end to the season to sadly get him the job here. Such poor managerial appointments. Some poor recruitment on top of that. Even if we did go up with Martin, this football will fail in the Prem. He’s never going to last.

Supporting this team is a chore. There’s no enjoyment at all. It’s a total mess. Total apathy is creeping in. I was finding myself torn between wanting a heavier loss just to get rid of this waster or hoping for an equalizer. By 60mins I just wanted the match to finish.

THIS

Why do we keep employing people that over complicate everything. Ralph and Russell seem to think it takes ages to learn their style. Wonder if they’ve ever reflected on that. It took Swansea aver a year. Why does his possession style game have to be so different to everyone else’s? He seems to like telling us how different it is. If nobody else is doing it, maybe there’s a reason. Perhaps some managers think conceding so many goals is not the best idea 😂