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Not for the first time Martin's tactics are found wanting.

How fucking easy was that. Sort this shit out Martin. Bravery - where is it? Is this the team we want to be? Useless.

Take out a couple of players and it should be nowhere near as bad as this. RM is culpable.

We all know RM has nothing in his locker to change the momentum of a game. Just not bright enough as a coach to figure out what's going wrong and how to fix it.

Bravery Russell - all I've seen is complete cowardice.

Clearly RM learnt nothing from the first game against these. Now lino doesn't know the rules.

Clearly they want it more. No excuse for that.

Is RM watching this - it's pathetic. An insult to those who've paid their hard earned and given up their time to travel up to watch this shit.

We are hopeless all over the pitch and midfield is non existent.

Question for RM. Is this the team we want to be?

This could get embarrassing.

Too many players choosing to hide away. Shrinking violets.

Good job there's nothing riding on this game. We look hopeless.

We look very sloppy here.

What is the starting lineup?

I knew he'd start Rothwell.

Something RM doesn't do.

There is a video clip on the Coventry fans forum taken from the side of the pitch where the cross comes in from. It is very damning because it clearly shows that when O'Hare makes the pass to Wright he is being kept onside by Wan Bisaka. You can see it clear as day and the cut lines on the grass prove it beyond any possible doubt.

Another of what RM describes as a slight knock then Downes doesn't play for several games.

So what constitutes a frame? Surely a long pass is going to have a different number of frames to a short pass?

I've already said others will disagree and this is purely how I'd prefer to see VAR used. I get that some prefer exactness to the nth degree but that's not me and I hate seeing goals disallowed because someone has drawn a line 'proving' a part of a forward's anatomy is 0.000001 mm ahead of the defender.

I don't think Micheal Oliver could have retrospectively awarded a corner. He'd given a goal kick as didn't spot that the ball hit Grealish on the hand but VAR automatically checks.

The benchmark, is can a VAR official see from replays whether a player is offside without drawing lines? Make the decision based on that. If it is so marginal as to need lines just give the bloody goal. Use it to correct any clear errors. VAR is ruining the game. Coventry should have been awarded that goal and be in the Final. Using lines drawn on a flawed system is not absolute proof as it cannot factor in the exact moment the ball was kicked so let's introduce some common sense. Others will disagree and I get the arguments but that's what I'd like to see.

I already said - it needs to be clear enough whereby nobody needs to be drawing lines. I'm sure that would be simple and effective.

If you need to draw lines to prove a player is offside by 0.000000001 mm then it is a ridiculous system that is not fit for purpose. Use it only to rectify clear and obvious errors where an official has got it wrong and we can all see a player was offside from a replay without drawing bloody lines. Change the rule to that and it's the same for everyone . It's obviously not a fool proof system so let's have some common sense and stop all this nonsense.