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I think people get a little too obsessed with the whole hipster thing (do hipsters even still exist?). There are some god damn awful 'hipster' appointments - like we have done. There are some amazing ones who keep teams punching above their weight by relying extremely heavily on stats like xg - Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, possibly Fulham. Liverpool and Man City have invested heavily in stats over the last decade and they've done alright. I'm not a stats person really myself, but just get bored of the massive downplaying of it and writing it off as hipster. The issue we have is an incompetence one - we are using stats terribly and think we are smart. Some other clubs also use them bad, some use them good

I want 10

He is the proverbial turd of my life which will not flush

Agree and this has been our issue for a long time and contributed to our last relegation. We had a brief spell of signing players for around market value of 10-15m around the Mane/Tadic era. Then the market jumped to around 25-30m for those kinda players, and we stayed paying what we were. And now that market rate is around 40m as you say. Also I know we need to produce some level of talented young players to sell at a profit so we are more sustainable, but it can't be the sole focus. There are only a limited amount of talented young players that will go on and be world class, and with Chelsea and Spurs hoovering up talent, along with bigger clubs Dortmund, plus a bunch of other Prem clubs, means we are more likely to buy duds like Archer. Need a few more 26-27 year olds that aren't learning on the job, but also aren't yet a journeyman

This could be 9. It's due.

Jesus, I had blocked him out. Stick him front of the list I agree.

I find this post utterly bizarre. I too want Martin gone. But in all of your time supporting, there have been far far worse managers. Fuck, we've had worse managers in the last couple of years with Jones and Selles. Then you add in Burley (who like Martin had an over resourced team but actually failed to get us up), Wigley, Wotte/Poortvielt combo, Branfoot etc. If that was the first time ever you have wanted to see the opposition score to get a manager out, it says more about you mate.

I said I like him, but for purely non football reasons. As a person his values align similarly to mine. I think he is a decent human being. But in football terms I agree with everything you said. I didn't want him cos he hadn't achieved anything as a manager yet and was getting parachuted into one of the best well resourced team in the Championship ever. He then managed to come 4th in what should have been a 3 horse race. Hit style of football bores me, and is not as original as he thinks.

I voted time to leave. I actually like Martin as a person. But I have never warmed to this style of football. For over a decade we played a real high octane football with a clear identity. Adkins, Poch, Ralph, and to a lessor extent Koeman, really got in the faces of the opposition. Sure it didn't always work, there were some thrashings along the way, and sometimes we looked clueless and dismal. But any Saints team is gonna get walloped now and again in the prem. I don't care if we go down, I didn't last time either. Someone has to. I did care about the lack of fight though. I don't want us to be Man City -lite. I switch off often when they are playing, and they are the best if the world at that style of football. If we are gonna copy some of the bigger clubs, I would much prefer copying Liverpool, Spurs, Leverkusen, Atalanta from a few years ago. Something that is more exciting than this. Watching Bournemouth, I feel a bit jealous of the way they play

When we last came up we had a bad start. But at least we knew we had an awful fixture list with the exception of Wigan. This season hasn't even been an outrageously hard start

Just stuck 10 on Martin to be sacked next. If it doesn't happen I will be far angrier at that than the lost money

I miss the days when we would concede 9

I've just got this feeling, deep down in my scrotum, that we are going to see another 9 today. A real 'we are back baby' statement loss

Wow! We actually went for the kill! Cardiff are absolutely here for the taking. Let's wrap this up by halftime.

Beautiful goal. This is possibly the most ive enjoyed watching us this season. Also playing alot more direct