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WE GOT MARTIN WHO ? RUSSELL MARTIN I JUST DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND BUILDS WITHOUT AGGRESSION POSSESSION AND POSSESSION WE GOT RUSSELL MARTIN

That's exactly what I was thinking as it sailed over. Let's hope RM has them all practising penalties well before the playoffs. But I'm delighted he got that late goal though, it will help with his confidence, and help lessen the embarrassment of that awful penalty.

Not when rating the whole season, it's not. Today was good, make no mistake, but it shows (1) we have a more than capable squad if utilised properly, and (2) should be happening regularly, not propaganda, pedestrian, crab football most of the time.

In fairness, that part is working. For the other team.

2022-2023: We were playing like shit, but in the PL against some of the best club teams in the world. 2023-2024: We're playing well below the squad's capabilities against Championship dross.

It’s been established that @notnowcato is Russell’s hairdresser, so you must be his Dad.

That's against Championship dross, with a squad containing players that cost more than the whole squad of others. RM: 4/10. Rasmus Ankersen: 0/10.

Are you Russell’s Dad?

https://thegentleclass.com/wske-10/

Anyone with a working stream?

I don't think Chelsea are the best choice to criticise as a club who've spent a fortune and are underperforming. Over the last two decades they've literally won everything, and their trophy cabinet is bulging. They are in a lull at the moment, but they'll probably be back sooner rather than later. Of course it doesn't help that they currently have the world's most overrated manager who, apart from a couple of one horse races in France with the help of the likes of Messi and Neymar, has won sod all.

Unless he's a Trojan horse, and they tell him to play shit for us (with a couple of "unlucky" own goals thrown in).

Rashford is a real Jekyll and Hyde player. Sometimes he's excellent, other times absolute gash.

I think you'll be saying the opposite in a few years if we don't go up and sell our best players, becoming Championship (or lower) dross the likes of Stoke and Millwall.

RM and the coaches need to have the squad practicing penalties every week, from now until the playoffs.

Both are to blame.

Or RM has taken time to unlearn his russball propaganda crab system and actually have the squad play to their strengths, which (almost) everyone and their dog could see was required ages ago. We live in hope that Saturday wasn't another false dawn.

True. But we can hold him up to the wall for choosing Nathan F**king Jones. The point is the contrast between a competent board who know what they’re doing, and Rasmus “I like managers who have failed” Ankersen.

Probably not. But I bet if he was available that legend in his own mind Ankersen would still have chosen Mr Jones.

Unai Emery, what a manager. I was envious when Vila signed him at the time when they and we were both languishing at the bottom part of the PL, and even more so now.

Let's hope Bayern Munich don't snap him up.

You've got a good memory.

I'm not saying RM shouldn't get some credit, but there's a big difference playing against Championship defenses vs. PL ones.

Leeds have no chance. They have to play away in every round.

Leeds have an away tie. Apparently that’s their thirteenth in a row in the FA Cup, a record! The odds of that happening are over 8000 to 1.