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You were shit for Norwich You're a bit of a bitch Passing in our own box is shit The players ain't fit Our tactics suck dick You're a twat hipster prick

So now we'll pass it around in the oppo's box before giving it away. Oh joy...

Still here? Useless. He's taken a poor team and made them even worse. Start with the defence and work forward but this clown has made everyone forwards. Pillock, Pep wannabe. Fuck off!

Absolutely. It's that fucking simple. RM is a pretentious toss pot. Like those fucking chefs trying to cook a streak with strawberries and serving it on a house brick. Fucking shit, not clever, not tasty, just fucking grill the thing, season it and be done with it. Results are what matters, not a pat on the head for being super duper clever.

Club full of clueless loser no hopers. Sick of the lot of them. Maybe only Alcaraz and SAA are players I like. The rest can get stuffed.

Ah but what will be the reaction to the reaction?

He's rubbish. Let's face it.

I feel completely done with this guy. Didn't want him, don't like him, don't like his tactics. Not enjoying this season at all.

Oh God, I've finally seen the goals. WTF?!? 2 big things stood out. 1) We are so utterly weak in or out of possession, powderpuff! 2) Once we have given the ball to Leicester they were so decisive, quick run, nice pass, goal. Easy. Can't help but think if it was the other way around we'd slowly move the ball back and forth until they'd regrouped and the chance gone. Big changes needed. Martin-ball is putrid.

We play like a cocky but average boxer with his guard down. He's not got a knockout punch and is going to get pummeled...

SR are hopeless. They had the opportunity last summer to say, "thanks Ralph but we'll go in a different direction" when we were still reasonably attractive to decent managers. Now all that we can get are snake oil salesmen. Passing around in our box, what next? Playing without boots to show us how to toughen our feet? Loony tunes!

I hated this appointment the moment I heard passing around in our box. Bin him!

Where do we dig up these specimens from. Loony managers trying to be Pep and the smartest man in the room. Mental from SR, they must be pompey shills! It was so fucking simple. Get in someone to solidify that back 4, instill a bit of confidence and belief and instead we've got another loony trying to be clever. Newsflash hipster, it's a simple fucking game! Concede less and score more. Why fanny around with it. Does an average boxer fight with his guard down?

Glad I missed this one. Was it the usual shambolic defending and a keeper who could catch a cold? Swansea fans warned us. WTF were the club thinking getting in RM with a team with no defensive confidence at all playing this suicidal system? What a joke!

Watching some of the Prem highlights and most goals scored by moving the ball quickly and decisively before the other team can recover. We're the polar opposite.

What I don't get is that we are just a bunch of dudes (and dudettes and non-binaries, and perhaps some furries) on a message board and we got information and warnings about Martin's "system". Even the thickest amongst us recognized that this system coupled with the mental weakness around this club would be a disaster. So how come, supposed footballing people and those who hold the purse strings were not a party to this information or were and couldn't put 2 and 2 together?

Can't get near most shots, those that are right at him go through his foam hands. When he does get a stop he pushes it straight back out. Makes a huge meal of any routine scuffer. Worst Saints goalie in my memory and that includes Ian Andews and Tommy Fourpast.

Yep, we ain't getting top half with foam hands in nets.

Haven't seen it yet. Most are hits post, hits goalie goes in. There's no way in hell Baz would have saved the late chances.

Early days but I don't like Martin and his "smartest person in the room" vibe. All talk. You can't have mentally fragile players like ours playing your "philosophy". We need to play to our strengths not lay bare our weaknesses. I don't think we can expect top 6 when we have a goalie that can only save 25% of shots that are straight at him. And even when he does he often pushes it straight back into play.

Just switched over to Everton and Pickford made an incredible double save at the death to keep a point for them. Shows just how valuable a decent keeper can be.

I've never seen a goalie where the ball is so close to him yet he either gets nothing at all on it or a hand but so weakly that it goes in. Like many others, I've said time and time again that was utter folly to not get a decent keeper.

He couldn't save a word document. But again, totally unmarked and untracked. Awful.

How come professional players can't make a 10-15 yard pass. I see less passes go astray in our 35s-50s league and we play on cabbage patch fields. Now a kid had just showed us how it's done.

Schoolboy stuff. Manning totally ignoring a pass right across the box. Luckily it was offside.