He has to take a lot of responsibility for today. First half we were good, second half he cost us 3 points
All replaceable. Stu is the one we'll miss the most, but luckily we're allowed to buy and loan players.
Sorry but that's utter nonsense. You all just revert back to the same old script regardless of what happens on the pitch.
No way man. A good manager wins the game today. Our players were much better than theirs. All we needed to do was be more solid in the second half.
And SR have amazing form for buying players.....Ross Stewart, Sulemana, Edozie, Larios, Sheer quality. If you can't see that we're going to be 10x weaker next season, there's no helping you!
You have to say there is an argument for having a few arseholes in your team. We have been a soft touch for way too long. I don’t blame RM for today or falling short this season, I blame our players and their mentality.
After cutting down half a hedge, walking the dog and eating a lovely meal I feel a lot more chilled. So we lost today. Really looking forward to a two legged play off now with perhaps a trip to Wembley! Guess what, if we stay in this league, we'll still get to see good football, have ups, downs and no VAR. Win win.
No. All we needed was for our strikers to actually shoot on target. They wasted so many chances. I don't know how any sane person can try and twist it otherwise. Also, Ipswich lost at Cardiff, so I guess their manager is sh*t too?
Our squad next year will be something like (best 11 first with backup second) Gk - new player now Baz injured/Lumley RB - Bree/New player LB - Manning/Larios CB - New player/New player CB - Stephens/New player CDM - Charles (if Martin is sacked for not taking us up)/New player CM - Aribo/New player CM - Smallbone/New player LW - A Armstrong/Edozie RW - New player/New player ST - Mara/Stewart Zero chance any of the loanees sign permanently if we don’t go up. Be interesting if we can get similar level of loans next year as well due to their wages. Think Schad did some analysis about that and how we wouldn’t be able to afford players like Downes/Fraser/Brooks wages next year with lower parachute payments So yeah a big turnover in the summer. If we do go up the turnover won’t be as high but there will still be a fair amount, should be interesting
McKenna is manager of the season. He impacts games positively almost every week, culminating in their team being better than the sum of their parts. We have a manager that just managed to lose to Cardiffs youth team after making the same mistakes he’s made ALL SEASON. We have lost 10 games from winning positions. Martin has positives, but he is **** at in-game management. Absolutely ****. You can bury your head in the sand and wear rose tinted glasses if you like. Hopefully our owners won’t. He hasn’t been good enough at impacting games tactically.
That's still the makings of a good team, plus we've got the likes of Amo and Dibling to step up. And we'll still be able to outspend 90% of the division. At least 8-10 new faces will come in. THB is only on 7.5k a week, so there are good cheap players out there. It's just whether we get the scouting bit right.
If we're going to criticise Martin for points lost, shouldn't we also be priaisng him for points won? You win some and you lose some. We've had a fair few games this season where his subs and last minute goals have won us points. I get what you're saying, and it does feel, particularly recently, that his subs are making us worse, but his subs and decision making have also won us many points this season.
Yeah it’s the makings of a playoff challenging team I’d say. But it also has the potential to be A LOT weaker than this years squad, obviously depends on the incomings to really know. If we don’t go up this year with a squad this strong then I don’t fancy Martin to get lesser players to perform better
McKenna has had the benefit of knowing his squad from the previous season, in which they pissed League One. In comparison Russ had a squad half of whom had just been relegated dismally, the other half were all totally new to each other. He's obviously made mistakes along the way, but on the whole we are probably the best footballing side in the division. We just lack a clinical striker.
