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Joined on 1st July.

We were led to believe he'd be living out of a suitcase and clocking up air miles as he scoured the globe for the talented footballers who would enhance our squad. Yet we signed not one player from abroad and most we did bring in were already known to either RM or JW. More money for old rope by the looks of things.

You're clutching at more straws than a scarecrow knocking one out.

I'm beginning to suspect that RS realise themselves how utterly incompetent they are. They'll never admit it of course but even they can't be so stupid that it hasn't dawned on them by now. As such perhaps they have decided to stick with RM because he is the type of yes-man who won't question them or rock the boat and, if they were to sack him, they'd only replace him with someone of a similar ilk. Could it be that they appoint managers on the basis that they are submissive and will not seek to challenge the constant poor decisions made by SR? I accept this sounds like total madness - it probably is but I'm just trying to fathom out what is going on at our great football club.

One of Ankersen's maxims that he thinks is so hip and clever is to say 'if it aint broke, break it'. Well, we were broke last year so why has he decided to break us again?

Nah - only for the long suffering, loyal fans who are the real losers in this whole sorry charade.

Giles was the brains behind the rise of Brentford not Ankersen.

Transitional year...scar tissue.....fans unease transferring to players.....it's all just variations of a theme but in reality it's a load of excuses used by a manager who knows he is way out of his depth.

It all comes across as being much too much of a friendly environment. I can't imagine any real bollockings being handed out to players, manager or coaches even when things are so bad and major mistakes are being made every week. The impression I get is that it's probably all largely ignored and swept under the carpet with blind eyes being turned because nobody has the courage or the balls to stand up and say what is going wrong. Oh for a character like Stevie Williams who would have no issues with standing up, facing people and reeling off what was going wrong and the names of those who were the cause for not pulling their weight. All we hear is that the mood in the camp is good, we've had another fantastic week of training and everything will be ok in the end. Training is probably nothing too taxing or physically gruelling, nothing to upset the poor little lambs. Time to ditch the laid back attitude that consumes the club - no more Mr Nice Guy, let's get someone in with a bit of nous and balls of steel who won't be afraid to put a few noses out of joint - literally if needed!

I think you'll find you're well past the cooling off period.

The problem we have is that the very clever Rasmus Ankersen believes if it aint broke it should be broken. Trouble is, we are broke and I've not heard what his solution for that is. I'm sure he'll have one and it'll be very left field.

Begs the question why those clever clever people like Ankersen and JW got this appointment so wrong. Somehow they've managed to miss some pretty damning evidence and some glaring clues that clearly pointed to the fact that RM would be a disaster. You'd think Ankersen having screwed up by appointing Jones would be a huge wake-up call and lessons would be learned. But no, after a brief spell of Selles, here we are again. The sheer incompetence is quite staggering.

Apparently RM has been quoted as saying he watched the match on Sky and thought Sheffield United were the better side.

He needs to stick to watching re-runs of Bergerac because his understanding of football is a joke.

RM will come out and says how proud he is of the players and that it's the fans fault for murmuring when the 500th 5 yard pass in a row went to a Leeds player. Oh and despite losing comfortably he'll claim we were the better side. It's as predictable as how we play to be fair.

We don't win the 20/80s in our favour let alone 50/50s. Never seen such a team of abject weaklings.

The 3 promoted clubs have a total of 3 points between them out of a possible 48 🙂

What a load of rubbish!

If I'm getting the blame I'd like my 20 grand a week please.

People will laugh at him more if he throws good money after bad. I think he got coerced into joining the RS project but can't believe he's seeing what he was sold by Ankersen and co.

I think you give him more leeway than he perhaps deserves - he meant what he said in my opinion.

Yeah, he should be on the bench.

I've looked at the thread. It's a mixture but not anything like you imply. There is plenty of support and positivity about Martin. Also, many of those expressing doubts outline what they think will go wrong and a lot of it is pretty well spot on 🙂

Explain how the 'crowd, can turn on a manager before he's appointed. A 'crowd' is usually used to describe people in the ground so your flawed theory is impossible.

Where does this rubbish come from?