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I'm thinking maybe Danny Rohl would do the job, Bayern, Germany, Sheff Wed. Was a good fit with Ralph.

Onuachu. Good record as a penalty taker. We had a few score v Everton.

Personally I have a problem with Martin's lack of credibility. Defending a lead he brings on the expert in non contact football, Will Smallbone. A player out of his depth. Fraser to pick up Fatawu, he tracked him when what was needed was somebody tight to get up him so that he didn't have room to turn. Cut off his supply mark Winks and put Onuachu and Sulemana up tight on the centre backs. Eventually he brought on Taylor the one player who should have replaced Sugawara. Has no plan at corners except pack the goal area. Allowed two players to be unmarked on the edge of the penalty area. Never leaves any two forwards who are usually useless defenders to stay upfield and thin out the number of attackers available to the opposition. That together with his obsession with slow motion go nowhere keep ball.

Agreed. It's all a bloody big con. We need a proper football manager not a one trick pony obsessive.

The team is dysfunctional under Martin. It seems that the whole game is based on ball possession however no thought seems to be given to what we do when our opponents have the ball. We all know how Leicester play but we did nothing to stop or disrupt them. When Fatawu came on we knew he was going to run down the line and try to get behind us especially as he had pulled us apart last season. Did we do anything? No we just gifted him the room to receive the ball from midfield and run at us. Fraser trying to run alongside and Manning just behind didn't stop him. Firstly we should have been ruthlessly slamming the door on him. Firstly Taylor at Left Back, that tidied that up. Then what to do about him. The quickest player was Sulemana, no thanks not for that. I would have put on Adam Armstrong just to forget about playing but get up Fatawu really tight and battle it out with him. Leave Manning in front of Taylor just with the job of blocking him off and supporting. Taylor can be the final block if he tries to come inside. It needed us right up him not standing off. For God's sake Smallbone shouldn't even be a substitute. Put Sulemana up next to Onuachu as high up the pitch as possible as an out ball and to obstruct the centre backs playing out. Stick Ugochuckwu tight on Winks again to mark and disrupt with Aribo and Downes together. That was the time to change and get stuck in all over the field and disrupt Leicester. Smallbone in stroll mode doesn't cut it. If we haven't got the ball he won't win it. We needed physicality and to face up and stamp on Leicester. Martin's possession obsession isn't going to be anything but cosmetic and flatters to deceive. The goals didn't come from that it was Manning and KWP getting good crosses in.

I was sitting at a street cafe in Kuala Lumpur when I heard the result emphasising the youngsters brought in, Benali, Shearer, LeTissier, Rod Wallace, Dodd etc. This is the first time I saw this since then. I was operating a Boeing 737-400 on a wet lease to Malaysian Airlines so they could prove their routes before they got their aircraft. I was only there six weeks. The aircraft stayed eighteen months with pilots rotating. I didn't really fancy going back.

For Leicester's third goal we had 9 outfield players in the goal area marking 6 Leicester players. Two Leicester players were unmarked on the edge of the area. A repeat of the Ipswich game except we had 10 players then. The ball was just passed to the free players ond one of them shot the goal. Possibly Ramsdale didn't even see it until late. That defending was hopeless. Our backing off passively in the second half where we are leading is a joke. Smallbone came on and didn't lay a boot on the ball or the opposition just backed off and floated around. Our lack of physical pressing was a disgrace. Onuachu battled well when he came on. Fraser had no idea he had to get close and Manning just didn't bother trying to get to the line and cut the winger off inside Fraser. Only Taylor tried to do that. Martin is obviously incapable of coaching disciplined defence or organise physical pressing. The obsessive passing is an excuse to do neither. He's been well and truly found wanting. The management lacking decisiveness and just sitting on their hands hoping isn't helping. Just stand him down on gardening leave and honour his three year contract.

Don't sack him! Just do everybody a favour send him on gardening leave and pay him and his staff weekly/monthly for the contracted term or until he gives up and moves somewhere else.

I've seen it done and the panic in the opposition. On one occasion it was us panicing. Secondly a good number of forwards have no idea how to mark except stand like a traffic cone. Can't close down, can't tackle. Why would you want them just cluttering up the penalty area marking nobody. A better use would be up the field taking opposition players away.

We embarrassed ourselves because there is no defensive organisation or discipline. It needs a new manager that believes in defence first, high tempo, severe pressing, an in your face attitude and isn't interested in counting meaningless passes.

The way to take pressure off defending corners is elementary. Leave at least two quick players on the halfway line. At least one more half way that really thins out the attackers. At 2-2 Cooper isn't going to leave those players unmarked, it would probably mean four or five less players in our box. If players are on the edge of the box don't Leave them unmarked. RM learned nothing from the Ipswich debacle. Smallbone is hopeless, didn't press, mark or tackle just strolled backwards and forwards. A waste of a substitution, what's more took off one of our best players for him. We lost KWP on the left, bring on Taylor. I thought he should have started Onuachu with Archer and Dibling.

Clutching at straws. That won't stop Leicester hitting balls through for their runners. We needed a pressing front three to shut that off.

We got promoted through the playoffs because we dropped the suicidal passing at the back, moved the ball quicker and were more direct. Let in fewer goals and scored more including the Leeds game at the end of the season.

Playing target man Onuachu with Archer and Dibling in a front three. Sugawara, THB, Bednarek, Taylor. back four.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dragan Solak isn't running out of patience with the whole scheme. How much has he spent reinforcing this team plus retaining Onuachu and Sulemana? This is a much stronger squad than last season yet is no nearer to a settled starting team.

If Russell Martin thinks he's discovered the holy grail in football tactics he's a bigger fool than I thought he was. What I don't get is his comments about his own tactics stating he's not going to change then reveals that we have been studying and preparing for the opposition all week. Those two statements just don't make any sense together. Quite how a team can prepare to meet the opposition it's studying in detail then play the same way every week is contradictory. No wonder he's forever moaning that they prepared meticulously but the preparation was ignored. The art of football management is firstly picking a team where the players complement and blend whilst covering for deficiencies. He's never done that. His team selection tomorrow will demonstrate if he's learned anything at all about Leicester attacking on the break.

Then stick an emoji with it. It didn't come over that way.

That is a really cheap arrogant remark and detracts from any point you are trying to make. It has no place in the ongoing discussion.

Slow complicated recycling possession as we play it has little chance of an end product except repeated catastrophic mistakes in and around our own penalty area and the main reason I'm against it. The possession football played by Manchester City and Arsenal which is high intensity attacking in possession is proper football. The players at Arsenal and Manchester City have been put together at great expense to play that way. We just have a cheap imitation that is delivering defeat after defeat and is both prdictable and unwatchable. Passing the ball is part of football, passing short around our own penalty area is crass stupidity and will ensure that only two other teams will be relegated as we are unable to avoid gifting goals. We don't have the players to play that way successfully so unless we play a higher tempo, a strong press and be more direct we are done.

That frees up Potter. I'm not sure he'll get one of the top jobs. After Chelsea there must be questions about his ability to manage a top six club although Chelsea were a basket case.

It won't be Thomas Tuchel. Just agreed a contract to be the new England manager, News conference tomorrow. According to Sky Sports

Martin isn't getting the best out of the players, on the contrary he is inhibiting their natural ability with his pass out 'no matter what' from the back. The playoffs were like chalk and cheese from the bulk of the season. We won through because of the change not from the 'process' which kept us out of the automatic promotion race despite the lapses on the part of the top three. The change wasn't planned, circumstances dictated it. Anybody who thinks we can turn it around playing this way is living in cloud cuckoo land. There has to be a change and that can be in two ways, Martin changing it or the club changing the manager. It has to be a manager that doesn't have a cast in stone system but a clever football manager that can construct a framework that gets the best out of the players. It must also be a manager that believes in high tempo pressing and quick breaks as a team. I don't believe that Martin can change or is even willing. The longer we wait the worse it will get. Give Leicester, Everton and Wolves wins then we are done.

Until we ditch this slow, negative, mistake ridden micro passing playing out from the back it's impossible to judge how these players can perform under a pragmatic manager who plays to our strengths. Rather than a straitjacket that is slowly destroying any chance of a turnaround.

It's not that Martin has failed because he managed to get us promoted in spite of his process essentially being picked apart by the better and pressing counter attacking teams. He failed to really threaten the automatic promotion places. He did eventually win the play offs. With McCarthy in goal he was forced into a bit of pragmatism, reduce passing around at the back, move the ball out quicker play more on the break. Surprise, surprise it worked, Leeds away, clean sheet at WBA, clear win at home then Leeds again at the final, promotion achieved. Back in the Premier, McCarthy in goal, repeat the pragmatism, no fear! that was an unfortunate blip in the process. We will show the Premier League what they haven't realised, the ultimate weapon in the results business, ultra short possession will sweep all before it. Utter delusion, having failed with it in the Championship it's the answer in the Premier League. The fact Burnley tried it and were promptly relegated again ignored. We were far better results wise with the pragmatic approach than the rediculous fatal error ultra short slow passing out from the back. If we are to stand any chance in this division we have to change. Martin has to do it and admit his process is a dead duck if he hasn't been given that choice already he should have been. If he isn't prepared he should be sent on gardening leave along with his personal staff. He isn't going to turn this around. The more matches he manages the less chance we have of turning this around.

Potter at Bournemouth for Sky.