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The manager may be wrong but the squad definitely needs a reset. Less slow, small, feeble weaklings with no stamina and more big, powerful athletes who can tackle, jump and run for 90 minutes - if they can play a bit that's a bonus 🙂

RM doesn't do 'different'.

Forest struggling at the wrong end of the Prem but would probably hammer us if we played them. Gave City a good run for their money and Chris Woods missed two sitters.

Bmuff are South Coast top dogs after beating Brighton 3-0. Used to be a position we dominated year after year.

For reasons only known to RM Ryan Fraser has had very little game time of late and now needs to get up to match speed - unless he's been carrying a knock that is down to RM. Having seen what we get from Edozie and Sulemana I would hazard a guess that Fraser has nor been best pleased at having to kick his heels and watch the dross produced in the last few games. It is now down to RM to pick this squad up and instil some belief because they look broken and RM must take a large chunk of responsibility for that.We have been poorly managed at a crucial period in my opinion. We threw away the Cardiff game because, not for the first time, the manager failed to close the game down, we then got slaughtered at Leicester by letting them play exactly as they did at St Marys and yesterday should have been an easy opportunity to put on a convincing display against a poor side, get a win and rebuild confidence. A 3 game sequence where RM has again shown his obvious shortcomings.

Much rather watch games like Hull Ipswich than the drab walking/crab football we've produced for long parts of the season. Two sides going hammer and tong for the win, no quarter asked or given, energy, positivity and yes Russ plenty of bravery. That was a good advert for the Championship.

Agree. The manager I could understand but the team doctor...that's nuts!

I strongly doubt Brighton would be remotely interested in appointing RM.

Those who gave up their time and paid to watch that crap must be thoroughly pissed off. RM could have tried some of the youngsters but probably figured if any of them played out of their skins he'd look pretty stupid for not giving them a go before.

A free hit to try something different and give some of the youngster game time and RM comes up with this shit which is just a total waste of time. If this is his idea of preparing for the play-offs then he has even less of a clue than I thought. Mr arrogant.

Still, as long as we are once again winning the possession stats all is well in RM's world.

I think it's called irony.

I give as much a shit about this game as the players did about last nights.

Another so called 'slight knock'

If true that's strange. I'm trying to get my head round why RM would be sad to see JW go but the players would be pleased. Maybe JW was the disciplinarian and now he's gone the players are getting away with things.

Totally agree. Leicester played pretty much exactly as they did at St Marys and RM made no attempt to set up a team to counter that. In both games we made them look like world beaters yet I've watched them constantly struggle against lesser sides than us and their fans forum confirms how poor they've been lately.

Fine words from Jack but talk is cheap. Let's wait and see if his comments are backed up by the performance on Saturday. Last night we were clearly not at it from minute one and RM should have sensed that early and got into the players. Instead he sat on his hands and allowed that car crash to unfold. For the second time this season the Leicester manager completely schooled him by setting up to hit us on the break and not worry about how much possession Leicester had as backed up by the stats.

He let's himself down badly with such daft comments. Fans can smell bullshit a mile away and do not want to hear it. Don't try to pull the wool over our eyes, we watched the game and know what we saw. If you can't be honest best to say nothing because that pile of nonsense fools nobody.

Take off the red and white tinted specs - they bossed us for 90 minutes.

They cut us to shreds down both flanks and through the middle. That hammering had nothing to do with McCarthy's distribution. We gave them the freedom of the park. They were quite happy to let us play our little tippy tappy backwards sideways passing and whenever we gave them the ball back as we did lots of times they broke our lines and flanks at pace and caused havoc. That was about as badly managed team performance as I have ever seen because we offered nothing. The stats in both games against Leicester show that they played on the break - we fell for it at St Marys and RM should gave been ready for more of the same tonight but of course he's far too arrogant to change the way we play. He got what he deserved tonight and I hope it hurt.

I'm not so sure he says the right things. If you listen to him he has a series of phrases that he continually rolls out at every interview. He's clearly unable to think on his feet so hides behind these stock phrases which he keeps repeating. He doesn't strike me as a progressive coach full of ideas and views about the game - he's just very limited from what I see and hear.

Exactly right. Watching it tonight it was very clear from the first minute that we were not at the races. It was his job to get across to the players early in the game that he was far from happy and to demand a marked upturn in energy, intent, drive, effort, concentration and yes, his favourite word, bravery. One of his big problems is the fact that he wants to be everybody's friend and is far too pally pally with the players.

Our manager is even worse.

Could do a lot worse than offer him the job but I doubt they'll sack RM.

67% possession and losing 5-0 but RM won't change a thing.