Dman

Great news. I can absolutely see why RM would be annoyed / concerned that JW has gone - He's JW man and clearly JW has an unrealistic view on how football should be played successfully. So long as possession stats were good, RM would have been protected by JW, i'm sure of it. I don't see why the players would be happy with that though, unless he (JW) was dabbling in area's he really shouldn't have been.... Given JW has now gone, I think a re-set woulod be good for us. If that means RM needs to go in the process, i'm absolultely fine with that.

surely he replaces Stu Armstong as one of the 10's, rather than either downes or smallbone. In that sense, at this level, a fit AOC would be unbeliveable at this level. The trouble is, he's only play at this level because hes not fit. Avoid, imo.

Jones got shit from practically the first game. Fans weren't having him and never gave him a chance (not saying he was right for us btw). We're the performances we dished up against forest etc. any worse than some of what weve seen this season? Ipswich home, sunderland away, leicester home and away etc. Im not so sure.

careful, that's probably considered a hate crime these days. Wouldn't want someone calling the grass, sorry supporters, line on you.

I'm going to boo him (Martin) all game and theres nothing you can do about it. I might even ask if hes still got ulcerative colitis, as all hes produced this season is a load of shit and call him a Vegan tosspot whilst I'm at it... Hows that for being nasty

At least hes made one sensible, correct decision this season then 👍

Forest Green are a club run by Vegans. Russell Martin is (supposedly) a vegan. Both are shit. it was all in the original post, its not too difficult to understand, buddy.

We’ve not had that all season.. ironically, the only time we have, we went 25 unbeaten.

Thought that was Mowbray? We seem to have a load of transfer guru’s and never seem to sign anyone any good.

The arrogance of this bloke, who’s previous experience is working with Kids and 6 months at a championship side, to go into a club like united and just demand they play a certain way. Dickhead.

Yeah I’ve noticed that as well, stupid experiments like Adam Armstrong and Ryan Fraser in CM. He’s moaned a few times about the fact we’ve not replaced Tella - whilst having a £22m winger on the bench who’s not getting a sniff. my biggest gripe is how sensitive he is. Any form of criticism from fans or the media and he goes on the defensive in a pretty passive aggressive manner.

I saw today he's (wilcox) has apparently demaned Ten Hag plays the "new" united way... you guessed it, possession-based. Lets hope he takes old Rus and his 80% bullshit stat with him in the summer!

In fairness he did take a bit of the blame for his tactical decisions.... but it was that he didn't pick stephens 😂

I wonder if Burnely fans were saying the same thing last year... Its about finding a balance between keeping the ball and attacking with intent. Martin's focus is keeping the ball.

That's down to the manager though, not really the style of play.

Its gonna be the Ted talk expert, isn't it. On a serious note, whilst I disagree with the appraoch, we're clearly trying to replicate the city group model (even to the point of copying the kit providers) and play a similar, possesion based style. Whoever we bring in to replace Wilcox, has to be in a similar mold and have a similar philosphy. Otehrwise, we'll be re-building season upon season.

Talking of pressing, having watched it all season, our pressing (from our forwards) is absolutely diabolical - so easy to play out and get inbehind us. Probably part of why we conceed so many. We'd be better of sitting in a decent block rather than half arsed pressing.

I thought this last night when Rothwell went off. The senible play would have been to stick Brooks in the 10 - almost in a similar role to KDH. Way to much fulidity for a control freak like Martin though. McCarthy KWP THB Bednerak Manning Charles Downes Fraser Brooks AA Adams is the side i'd go with for the next 2 and if it works, playoffs. Although, I do wonder if he'll revert to a back 5

There’s no maybe about it, we won’t. We’re not good enough and average c.2 goals conceded a game. Goign up under this moron scares the life out of me more than the repercussions of not, if I’m being brutally honest.

I’ll save you the Drama… we won’t.

Martin has done the bare minimum everywhere he’s been and has continued to fail upwards. If that doesn’t say how rotten modern, hipster, football is, I don’t know what does. Disgustingly average manager.

It looks like we still are.

What about the first time they gave us a pasting and we had Baz in goal…? And the Sunderland game…

If he can’t take this squad up, we’ve got absolutely no chance next year.

Yeah I can’t believe there is a serious soul who thinks we should sack him now.. however, I’d pull the trigger a minute after the playoffs regardless of what happens.