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It's not a out justice and fairness though is it. It's about what shirt your wearing. We all know that had that been a Saints player on Salah they'd have been walking. I would also hazard a guess that if the first penalty incident had been Van Dijk taking Smallbone it wouldn't have been given.

I still think Ings would score more than Armstrong & Onuachu if he played same number of games. I thought Archer would have done better than he has. Maybe he hasn't settled? Can't see Onuachu wanting to play championship and we know Archer and Armstrong score goals at that level so worth keeping unless we're just looking to restock altogether for next season.

Carlos Alcaraz to Everton - this one makes me a bit sad another player that Martin didn't like. Think he'd be alright under Juric

No, we did this with Selles after the win at Chelsea in is first game and that was as good as it got.

1/1 on SkyBet but 16/1 elsewhere 🤔

Mondays off!! that's another 500 sideways and backwards passes we could be practicing #MartinOut

Living up here in the West Midlands I obviously know a lot of Villa, Birmingham, Wolves, West Brom fans etc I've never really bought into this "we're a laughing stock" mainly because I don't think other fans really give too hoots. When we were relegated last time no-one up here cared. However, more and more recently I have these fans asking "why do you keep on playing out from the back when you keep making so many mistakes you're asking to be relegated" and "why is Martin so pig-headed"

I've been told it would cost us £14m in compensation to Russell Martin and his coaching team if we sack him. Not sure how accurate that is but source is from within the club

Genuinely don't know that answer to this, hence the question. Did Sheff Utd & Blackburn play BBD out wide like we are or did they play him through the middle? when we signed him I thought it would be as a number 9 type forward. He certainly doesnt look like a natural wide player.

Great post @Francis1947. I totally get where you are coming from too. I have never gone into that start of a game wanting a defeat but there have been times during games (especially under Nathan Jones) where the game has gone and I've thought maybe if we conceded another 3 or 4 the manager surely wouldn't survive this!! I was close to that point Monday. I do believe the 2nd half masked the damage to a certain degree. Martin baffles me, I want to like him and obviously want him to do well and i'll always thank him for giving me Wembley experience with my son and seeing the pure joy on his face at full-time. However, Mondays team was a step too far. Starting with no strikers, you're not Pep and we're not City/Barcelona and don't have the quality of players who can interchange positions like that for it to be able to work. 5 strikers on the bench because "he wanted to be aggressive and attacking with his subs" pointless when you're 3-0 down. I manage my sons U15's if I turned up on a Sunday morning and said "we're playing without strikers today lads" I would get all sorts of flack from parents and players. He seems to have a good relationship with the players, thats certainly the narrative of the clubs media department but at the same time they dont seem to be playing for him at the moment, more like rolling over and dying on monday. As i said on another thread if he's not willing to change his philosophies he's got to go, because there's only one way we'll be heading,. Do I trust the board to make the right replacement decision......i dont think i do

I do actually quite like RM but I remember saying to my son last year that if we do get promoted and we continue to play the way we do with no plan we'll be slaughtered in the Prem. I was thinking this would be against the likes of City, Arsenal & Liverpool not bloody Bournemouth. The insistence of playing one way and not learning our lesson, last night teams selection of playing without strikers!! does he think he's Pep? this has annoyed me now to the point I think if we want a slim chance of staying up we need to change now. I'm not sure i trust the board to make the right call in terms of replacement which is another matter.

So 2 days ago people were calling the club out for signing an injury prone keeper and mocking our medicals, now Bijlow has failed his medical people are calling the club out for not signing him 🤔

But we also don't know he's "EPL Quality" because he's never played that level. It would have made me nervous as hell to pay £20m+ for him. £25m rising to £30m is a big risk. Not saying he isn't "EPL Quality" just that we don't know..

SSN reporting we are "in big" for Ramsdale on loan

Purple Gloves - Purple colours worn by Roman Emperors = Roma + Goalie Gloves = Goalkeeper from Roma = Rui Patricio Is this how this thing works?