Charlie Wayman

Agree 100%. Edozie deserves to start over Fraser too, the lad is one of our better players and doesn't deserve to be dropped. Don't get me started about Adams and Armstrong! How they get into the team is beyond me.

Looks like another day for hiding behind the sofa. One thing's for sure we aren't going to get a miraculous transformation from Tuesday night. This will likely be a back's to the wall gritty determination type of performance from Saints rather than Martin's mythical total football, that's if any of our players care enough and are up for it. Personally I think that a disjointed and bizarrely selected group of players will do their usual bottle job of failing to score and making their usual quota of enforced errors at the back to encourage Boro to have a field day. 0-3 for me, could be more.

The bloke has lost it! What's that cap all about at the PC? Trying to disguise himself in the hope we don't notice he's still here? It's become a complete switch off for me, he has nothing remotely interesting to say anymore.

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I am not sure I want to be there when Martin goes on a streak.

RedKrap sold his house in Sandbanks at least 5 years ago. Where've you bin?

He has to go. The crap we are being served up is no better than the crap we've endured for the past three years. No way we are promotion candidates, if things go on the way they are we'll be in the mix for relegation.

You're a good man Whitey, We are all praying for you. Love and Best wishes.

I'm pretty sure they would.

Well, he hasn't given up his day job yet!

Presumably once Stewart is fit and running all these discussions will become academic. I agree Mara doesn't seem to be the answer.

Being 'spoon fed' with 'the ball on a plate' is class?

Poor performances from Adams who looked clueless and Armstrong who looked disinterested suggests that both players are past their sell-by dates for Scotland and not that far off the same fate at Saints. Both looked pedestrian last night. I'd be very surprised if either started on Friday - they certainly don't deserve to on merit - but Mr Martin is becoming as unpredictable as his predecessors on team selection.

I was talking about his value to Saints as a footballer not as an anonymous asset itemised on the balance sheet. Surely that much was blindingly obvious. We sent the player out on loan to improve him as a footballer with the intention of bringing him back to play football for Saints. He became a very good footballer. When he returned he didn't want to play for Saints again. How is that not a huge cock-up and a learning point for future loans such as Ballard? It seems that the grey bean counters upstairs have succeeded in brainwashing you.

Ballard PL2 Player of the Month. Well done Dominic! I hope he doesn't get fancy ideas or 'spotted' by a big club whilst out on loan and we end up in a similar situation to the Tella saga and lose him. Loaning players out can cut both ways but if you tell a young player it's good for his development to spend a year playing lower league football elsewhere isn't the player bound to feel he is being discarded? These are young and very impressionable lads after all and full of emotional highs and lows at that age. We certainly cocked up the Tella situation so I hope this isn't a case of pressing Repeat?

No wondering, it's obvious why they do it. Puzzle is why Ward-Prowse took them from both sides.

With the benefit of the doubt given to Mr Martin for the result at Sunderland through the uncertainty and disruption brought about by the end of the transfer window, it is difficult to see how things can be much better on Friday with the limited preparation possible with most of our players away on international duty. Maybe it's the same for Leicester and these things even themselves out but apart from offering Mr Martin an obvious let out if things go badly, a bad result will do nothing for the morale of players or fans; there is also the ever present danger of things then starting to spin out of control with a good Ipswich side here on Tuesday evening and a weekend in between with presumably limited preparation time again. It is difficult to see past a draw at best with team selection an obvious concern amplified by some players suffering from their international exertions and not being fit enough to start. One thing we can almost count upon is not having a clean sheet so a draw at 1-1 is very likely our best outcome. If we gift them a second goal then probably we will end up losing 1-3. I am preparing for both outcomes and the fall-out that will follow.

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Tough cookies. We've all been there! Hope you've kept up-to-date with the jabs. Another one coming up for the Over-65's, the rest of you are expendable.

The rehabilitation of Matthew Le Tissier is going to take a little longer it seems, judged by the above comments.

He will be missed around the dressing room for sure for his unfailing good nature and friendliness. By no means the worst player we have recruited in recent years but none of our recent managers seemed to know how to get a decent tune from the lad. At least he was not anonymous. Good luck Moussa and thanks!

I like this but prefer Edozie over Fraser to start. Fraser as sub at 60 minutes. Also need to find space for SAA at 60, probs sub for Alcaraz.

If players are 'getting away with it' in terms of work ethic then it is because Martin is getting too close to his players. There always needs to be distance and respect between management and employees, they cannot be best buddies. With all the cuddling and chuminess that goes on with Martin it is maybe not surprising that the players are starting to feel too comfortable with him around and taking the piss.

Top two sounds good but is not an automatic right and on the evidence of yesterday we are million miles away from being the irresistible force in this league. It will take time to build and settle the team whether we like to hear that or not. Although Wilcox and RM echo the SR mantra of promotion this year and whilst that certainly will be the ambition of several clubs including ours you have to question whether they really believe ("bet your house on it "level) that it's possible first time around with all the changes that have taken place. If it's a one year project then fine but the odds are that they know and as some of us sense that it will take a little longer than that. People don't always want to handle the truth, to paraphrase Jack Nicholson So No, RM will not be going anywhere this side of Christmas, as not being in the top two by then will not be regarded in any way, shape or form as an abysmal failure. That's why all of us should avoid ill thought through criticism so early in the season. Realism must temper optimism without pessimism!

We can see where this is heading but people need to be patient. First of all stop listening to the bullsh*t that we have the best squad of players in the league. We don't. We may have one or two gems and a few really promising prospects but the majority are at best average Championship players. There is a lot of work to do at the individual level to bring the best out of each player assuming they are all capable of taking the messages and coaching on-board and have the skills to apply those principles routinely day-to-day. Secondly, if there really is a definable system of play behind Martin's rhetoric it will take months to drill it into the heads of individual players and even longer to establish a best XI and hone it into an effective whole. So expect the period up to Christmas to be a bit hit and miss, probably more miss than hit. Yesterday was clearly a big miss, some of our results so far have been borderline but we have yet to see a big hit. It serves no useful purpose to ignite the blame game seconds after the result at the Stadium of Light - incidentally that should apply to Mr Martin as well, the players he has are only as good as the coaching they receive so he shouldn't really stand there after the match and imply an us and them responsibility.