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I thought you liked Baz?

Particularly when I have a tenner each way on him being top scorer in the championship at 100/1.

This is one of the reasons that I'm not calling for Martin to go - just don't trust SR to get a decent replacement in (and we're getting less attractive every game). Only hopes I've got are that we manage to get a win from somewhere that instils a bit of confidence in the players and we can go from there. It's still a decent squad for the Championship and at some point you'd hope that will tell. The other hope is that Ross Stewart comes in and starts banging goals in - that will make a huge difference. We're not creating that much but should still be scoring more and, again, a bit of confidence could make a world of difference.

Yeah, I could have been mistaken on the episode. Probably a trailer I’d seen. Stand corrected, he’s an arrogant cunt in more than one episode. Thanks badger!

Have you been drinking? I find it weird that you're actually trying to say that anyone who doesn't tolerate school boy errors is a tool. Yay! Embrace the failure! Bring it on, the more mistakes the better - anyone who doesn't revel in the worst goal difference in the division is an entitled tool.

Ha ha, you had respect for me? I'm honoured. I find Sorkin a bit hit and miss - loved "A few good men" even if it is over the top. I only ever watched the first episode of West Wing and if I recall Martin Sheen only appears right at the end and moans at everyone for not standing up when the president enters the room. I thought, arrogant cunt and never watched any further.

You seem to be getting quite angry, maybe a cup of decaffeinated tea is in order?

Obviously everyone is entitled to an opinion but you're wrong. It's a total dirge. And West Wing was shit too.

Quite telling that you're not defending the results or performances but quite willing to criticise anyone that does. So come on, what's been so great? What's the excuses? And how long would you give Martin? As for entitled. Yep, put me in that camp alongside Martin, Wilcox and Sports Republic. They're the ones who have been talking about and expecting automatic promotion. At the moment we're light years away from that.

Absolutely, most football fans are thick and stupid, and their opinions are even more stupid. Everyone except us though! Where we see a football visionary, a philosophy and an identity, they just see petty results. We're building something more than results here but can they see it? Can they fuck. I'd give him a decade if it was up to me cos this is going to take time and faith. It's not easy building something like this (if it was everyone would be doing it!) and people need to understand that there's much more than "results". Tell you what, if this all goes wrong (how could it?) then it's those stupid fans. It's all on them.

I quite like Bertrand Russell, who might have explained our current predicament in Russell's Paradox.

TBF that actually was quite funny so I like it more. Whilst I'm on a roll and musically thinking, anything either Talking Heads or Roxy Music have ever done.

The song Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (or any of the covers). Can't fucking stand it.

I'm going to be a little controversial here. I thought first half we were largely OK. It looked like RM had set us up defensively and not to concede which given the last 4 games was sensible, we ditched the inverted fullbacks, cut out needless passing around the back, and it looked like working until Holgate fucked up. I don't know what it is but at times some of our players seem to think they've a god given right to stroll around without being challenged. Charles did it against Ipswich and was guilty again at least a couple of times today. Second half that shape completely vanished when we brought on Manning who's like James Bond; he's a left back with license to roam. Any kind of discipline vanished. We still didn't create much of note, and looked much more likely to concede. Really not looking forward to Leeds.

According to reports Tony Mowbray was being considered before we appointed Martin. Can't see him moving to us but I'd take him all day long if it was possible.

Honestly don't know where we go from here. I don't think RM is capable of turning us into play off contenders, and I don't trust SR with another managerial appointment. You have to hand it to Sports Republic on their staggering incompetence.

Just had a look at some highlights of Boro games. Woeful finishing, dodgy keeper and both fullbacks vulnerable in one on one situations. This really shouldn't be a difficult game.

Fans absolutely weren't against him from the start. Look back at the Sheffield Wednesday reactions or the reactions after the Norwich game. It's a myth.

Yes, I've heard everything Wilcox has said thanks. It's not a lack of understanding, it's that I think he's probably picked the wrong man and the way that the style is being implemented has definitely been wrong. You seem to be buying into this narrative that it takes time but has to be implemented in full right at the start or it doesn't work. I don't subscribe to that. Martin will disagree but you absolutely can implement a style over time, you absolutely can see what players are capable of (and not capable of) and if it isn't working, then you shelve it until such time as you think it you can make it work.

We haven't spent the last 5/6 years booing managers. That's revisionist bollocks. I think if you ask most fans they didn't ask for a style and identity - they expect to win and, let's be honest, a decent manager gets a better tune out of the players than Russell Martin is currently doing. We've never looked comfortable at any time under pressure, we've shipped more goals than anyone else, KWP looks lost as an inverted fullback, virtually every single goal has been self inflicted and we're not creating much in the way of chances or scoring much either. If he hasn't cracked it by now then he probably won't get much of a chance - he's had an entire pre-season and now we're into two games a week his opportunities for coaching are limited. I'm not criticising possession football and I appreciate you want to like the way he hopes we'll play, but I've got serious doubts over his ability to deliver it.

OK, cheers. Seems like the braver they get, the more shit they get.

Well that's interesting because it could be any of those things you suggest (or none of them) so it's not pretty obvious, is it? it's just your interpretation which is all well and good but it may not be that of Martin. As for the part I've highlighted - you don't tell players to have a determined and positive mindset (or be brave), you have to create the environment for them to do so. It's like telling a manic depressive to cheer up.

This won't be popular but the fetishisation of food. Taking photos of your food, making a big deal out of something relatively common place just because it comes from some far flung part of the world, endless cookery programmes, Jamie Fucking Oliver. Most of all, the absolute pretentiousness of anything connected with food these days.

Has anyone asked him what "being brave" actually means? Just sounds like one of those bullshit management phrases used to avoid talking about anything meaningful.