Disco Stu

This was described as a very important game and this is what we've served up. No excuses today.

Stoke City's reserves 😂

Haha

He played left side but he wasn't instructed to hug the touchline. He can also play centrally which we haven't tried yet. If we utilise him properly, he'll score more than Armstrong.

Brereten-Diaz - 20 Premier League appearances 6 goals Armstrong - 74 Premier League appearances 4 goals I think BBD is far more likely to score goals at Prem level if we can find a way to utilise him properly.

Tbf he's only been utilised as a winger.

Get Brereten-Diaz on. Hopefully he can get a goal and build some confidence. Far more likely to find form in the Prem than Armstrong is if he's properly utilised.

Yes they should be capable. So why aren't they? They're not that bad compared to Stoke City reserve players.

Against Stokes B team? Not a valid excuse.

Ipswich concede at the death. 4-3 to Brentford.

Great goalkeeping from Ramsdale. Imagine if Bazunu was in goal for that 😂

Are we hoping to nab a goal or keep it at 1-0?

Armstrong on for Dibling has weakened us.

You don't have to participate if you don't want to but events such as these serve as a reminder of the sacrifices taken by those that came before us. Wars effect generations. People alive today grew up as orphans or with traumatised parents as a direct result of the war. I really don't like language like "poppy shite" it just shows a real lack of class and respect.

Not a bad half given the oppostion. Could have been a lot worse. Having said that, our fitness levels seem well off at this level and City haven't left 1st gear yet so I'm still expecting a 4-0 or so.

Really poor delivery from Manning and now we've passed it back into our own half

Effective at leading the second best squad in the league to fourth.

How shit are we 😂

Letting Alcaraz go was a travesty.

Leaving us to fall to inevitable relegation under Martin would just be negligence. I'd take any alternative that involves putting players in their correct positions and not playing tika taka in our own box. Any manager that does that would be an immediate improvement.

Because he knows his stock is still high. He might have turned offers down due to receiving his pay off from Chelsea, but he's been approached by Ajax and OGC Nice and there's every chance he could also be offered the West Ham job in the near future. Palace, Wolves and even Leicester, with their stronger squads, would also be more attractive propositions. Ultimately, we need someone that's willing to be a Championship manager.

I was asked to list experienced out of work managers that are better than Russell Martin so I did! 😂 All of them could teach a thing or two to Russell Martin about management, although unfortunately, learning isn't part of his philosophy. Moyes, Potter and Benitez are pipe dreams but the notion that our club can't attract anyone decent is nonsense. Bournemouth identified Iraola, Brighton identified De Zerbi and we identified Hasenhuttl all of whom came in and made positive impacts. We shouldn't just be limiting ourselves to free agents though. If we're run properly, we'll find someone. And that's why I think we'll end up with someone terrible.

All of their CV's blow Russell Martin's out of the water but don't worry guys, we'll end up with someone far worse 😂

We'd likely have to look at names that have seen their stock fall due to an unsuccessful season or time away from club management. Some of them won't be interested but I think it would be realistic to approach... Slaven Bilic - Extensive Premier League experience and experience of Championship promotion. Chris Hughton - Had a poor season with Forest but was an overall success at Brighton. Has also managed a team to promotion from the Championship. Nigel Pearson - Last Prem job saw him sacked at Watford but not before taking them from 7 points adrift at the bottom to 3 points above the drop. Very strange sacking. Javi Gracia - Replaced Jesse Marsch at Leeds and outperformed us, Leicester and Everton in his 11 games taking them from 19th to 17th with 4 games remaining. He got sacked and they went down under Alladyce losing 3 and drawing 1. Quique Sanchez Flores - Perhaps less realistic given he's a Europa league winner and was most recently at Sevilla but he's managed Watford in the Premier League a couple of times. The first time being quite successful. Ole Gunnar Solskaer - Probably the least likely but he's been 3 years out of management now so unlikely to attract offers from clubs much better than us. Could be very wrong about that though. All free agents and these are only the names I know because of watching English football. There's bound to be others out there. We're not in a position to turn our noses up at all of them. You may scoff at them but they've all done a lot more in the game than Russell has.

We'll only be looking at managers desperate to manage in the Premier League. When we were last in the Premier League, we hired the Championship's resident loony, Nathan Jones, then hired Ruben Selles internally and then in the Championship, we hired Russell Martin from midtable Swansea. All of them jumped at the chance and probably couldn't believe their luck. Looks even more ridiculous given two of them are now managing in league 1. If that's the calibre of manager we continue to look for, they won't give our "revolving door" a second thought. I'd like to think we're aiming for a manager with experience of the Premier League or the equivalent abroad but Sport Republic don't think like that. They've shown on several occasions they don't value experience.