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Rothwell either isn’t ready in which case why is he playing or he’s pretty crap…. He was hiding for most of the game… Lose a stone might help… Certainly shouldn’t be on the pitch again until he is much more up to speed.

This is truly dreadful.. Rothwell hiding all game. What is RM waiting for here?

Rothwell is so far off the standard it’s a mystery why we have brought him in…

100%

Plus KWP much effective as a wing back

Agree, it has t worked yet, in fact quite the opposite…. Odd

True, as RM alluded to as well the back pass was not the best from Stephen’s who again looked rusty. A couple of games for under 23s would be a good idea for him.

He isn’t anywhere near as slow as Che though who is normally 10 yds behind the play. Id take a close look at him…

This guy is very good and has consistently scored lots of goals. He’s 28 so ready to go and a strong runner. He would fit straight in.

Yeah I don’t think it worked that well either. Stephen’s will need to bide his time, he didn’t look great out of his normal position.

Keep Mara and give him more minutes…

Stephens really has been poor…

Could anyone decipher what Martin just said😂

This did bring a smile to my face after that utter bore fest….. 😂

Surely by now someone in the coaching staff should be asking/telling Smallbone to look forwards and stop facing his own goal as a default….

Russ - ‘Very proud of the players’

Blackmore is irritating in that he makes an obvious statement and seeks an obvious agreement from the interviewee. Blackmore should ask questions which are not prequalified. The question should have been thus: How did you see the difference between the first second halves Russel? Or even better: What was your view of how the game unfolded Russel? Blackmore is not there to offer his implied answer to the question first which he most often does….

Oh sorry but Martin has been given at least as much as Adkin’s but he hasn’t used the tools in his box to his advantage. Adkins was far more astute in the transfer market that is all…

I’m not sure how long it will wash from RM that he is angry with the performances …. He does the coaching and the play is the same game after game so not buying that it’s the players fault…

Surprising ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Usually a free scoring dynamo …. 🤷‍♂️

Met loads of West Ham fans on the train Sunday. All praising JWP to the hilt…. Nice bunch…

Unless it’s AA then not quite so sure…

A supporter is a customer too, unless of course you get in for free…. Any customer/ supporter has a right to critical analysis or to show their dissatisfaction with the quality on offer. In addition they can clap if they they think the quality was excellent…. Of course if you think the players and manager should be applauded given any circumstance of questionable football then you are entitled to do that, however, that doesn’t turn you into a better or proper/superior supporter/customer. What it it does mean is you are willing to accept results that align with your nature of taking part is your ambition and winning is not as important as taking some kind of moral high ground and labelling yourself as a proper supporter and forgetting you are a customer too. Russel Martin is slowly turning into a deflector of issues whilst he struggles to utilise the resources at his disposal. Martin continually concentrates focus on supporter opinion which he disagrees with and excuses relating to spurious exaggerated hangover psychology from last season. In fact you could say he was acting out the ‘superior supporter’ syndrome himself. It is precisely the lack of a winning mentality which Martin and some paying customers buy into which is holding us back. Expect to win and ask questions if we don’t. We should be thrashing Rotherham, no if’s not but’s and not making glib conceited comments about supporter opinions and match stats…. Martin is having you over if you buy into these distractions….

Definitely not a clear ‘gulf’ Rose tinted glasses touch off ….

God we weren’t exactly ‘a class apart’ Stoke played reasonably well and got into dangerous positions a number of times. There really wasn’t much in it…. We were also full strength and they had injuries. Great goal from Stuart Armstrong but that apart fairy even…