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As you say Dragan is the biggest investor so, when push comes to shove, he will be the one calling the shots. If he wants rid of Rasmus and Kraft I'm pretty certain he has the power to make it happen. The problem is he's probably still falling for the Rasmus bullshit.

Yeah, get rid of Rasmus, Kraft and Russ and we might just be on to something good 🙂

If anyone thinks we will continue with RM on the current trajectory and then allow him to try to get us promoted next season they are living in cloud cuckoo land. The fans will be up in arms and season ticket sales will plummet.

Having written books such as A Winner's DNE, The Gold Mine effect and Education of a Winner you would think Rasmus would be using his brilliance to make our team of losers into winners. Or maybe he just writes bullshit and some mugs are daft enough to buy his books.

If they stick with RM and he takes us down with a record even worse than Derby there is no way on earth the fans/season ticket holders will accept him continuing next season.

Some claim he's had his chips.

The problem is that he does not come across as the sharpest of coaches so I'm not overly convinced that he has much more in his locker than we've already seen.

This is likely to be a defeat and potentially a heavy one, nothing surprising there. Our recruitment continues to baffle me. Our squad is very short of big, powerful athletic players which all other sides in the Premier League have. I don't get why those in charge of recruitment have continually failed to address this other than the fact that they are completely incompetent. It is hard to compete if most of your team lacks strength, physical presence and power and we continually see our players brushed off the ball or lose out in 50/50 situations - it often looks like men against boys. Obviously this can't be addressed overnight but it needs to be resolved asap.

If he's worried by this he'll never work again.

Hey fella - you clearly think RM is a great manager and he decided it was a good idea to play Dibling up front so why are you slagging me off for suggesting something that your hero Russ did? 🙂

So you think the majority want RM to continue 🙂

Yeah, the majority are weird but the minority are the clever ones. Let's see how that pans out.

Agree - I said before that it's easy to have a happy dressing room when things are going well but the acid test comes when the team is under the hammer and losing week after week - that's when the finger pointing and recrimination starts and the once contented dressing room quickly unravels into a toxic mess.

Can anyone who watched the game explain what our formation was because I didn't have a clue. When I saw the team he picked I assumed we'd be setting up as a 4-2-3-1 but there was no sign of that. It looked like a poorly executed 4-3-3 but I'm not entirely certain. We did start reasonably well and the commentators were saying Bmuff hadn't got going and were struggling to work us out - it didn't take long for their smarter manager to put that right.

Agree, quantity over quality never works and it was the demise of one Rupert Lowe who filled us with a squad of very average players and not enough game changers. If you exist by trying to polish turds you will end up with a lot of, well....turds.

Maybe the Wilcox influence is not as great as we thought - he's not exactly got Man Utd ticking. He may be another who talks a very good game but without substance.

You miss my point - I'm stating that the Bmuff players were switched on whilst ours were not. Whether Oliver should or should not have allowed it is a different matter entirely. Instead of standing on the ball Big Les turned his back and just let them take the quick free kick - that sort of thing should not be happening at this level.

Disagree I'm afraid. What it proved was the Bmuff players were far more switched on than ours. Whilst they got on with it and played a quick clever ball into the box we stood and watched - Big Les was the most culpable as he should have stood right by the ball and prevented them taking it so quickly. We were very naive and paid the price.

You are preaching to the mainly converted - most of us on here know that but the manager and coaches clearly don't.

I know that this is tongue in cheek but it emphasises the point made by the Bmuff manager before the game - when asked whether he was concerned that we might have more of the ball he said something along the lines of he'd rather have more chances than possession - and so it proved.

Not sure what credit he will accrue if we go down with a very low number of points which is on the cards right now.

I'm failing to comprehend how a friendly match featuring Martin's X1 comes before our first team and their diminishing chances of survival in the Premier League. We'd be bonkers to make that a reason for not sacking him now.

If he goes my guess is that it will be before the international break. No point putting someone else in charge with Arsenal away coming up. I suppose they could give Lallana a go as caretaker manager but we need to get the Arsenal game out of the way because that could be brutal.

Made that very easy for Bmuff especially in the first half when we did not compete physically. We improved with the subs but it's straw clutching really. Tyler was ineffective today - looked to be trying to do too much but he'll learn. We need to start being drilled in the basics ie free-kicks, throw-ins, corners because we just continually switch off. Not sure where we go from here but still think we are better than we're being coached to play. Lallana again looked class.

RM out before the players - looked broken as he sat down.