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What is Martin trying to achieve? He is utterly clueless.

Wonder if Pep is watching to get a few more ideas from the brilliance of Martin.

I thought the idea of this walking football was to give old blokes a game at their local rec.

Only we could let this Stoke side score two goals.

Wow this style of football is so bloody boring. It's all walking pace apart from when Fernandes gets it. I keep hearing Martin saying he wants to make us a team he enjoys watching - it aint working mate.

That's a tricky one. With RM in charge for the season 0%. A new manager with better ideas and tactics then I'd say 30% only because we've wasted a relatively easy start and we can't get those games back. However, anyone who comes in and makes us more competitive, improves our shape and gets a few wins will at least give us the hope of some respectability.

It will be bad but have less relevance. We won't win the Carabou Cup but, as things stand, we have a small chance of avoiding relegation.

That's interesting. I do wonder if, like Rasmus, JW is another of those who talks a good game but without the nous to back it up.

If we lose to Everton you have to wonder whether 1 point from a possible 30 will force SR to give Martin the bullet - some how I don't think it will even though it's an absolutely pathetic return if it happens.

I take your point but will be staggered if Martin's next job is anything other than a downward step.

I wonder what the owners are waiting for, what they are seeing, what they are thinking and what they are expecting to happen because it seems they believe Russell will suddenly start getting results. Maybe they think it is really going to be like Moneyball where the baseball team loses match after match and then suddenly starts winning every game. They are living in the land where the cuckoos fly in the clouds I'm afraid. It is inevitable that Martin will be sacked at some stage and, allowing him to continue this weird vanity project is utter madness. We need to beat both Everton at home and Wolves away to go even a little way towards making up for points tossed away in games against some of the easier opponents we'll face. Is anyone confident we'll do that? Seems a very long shot from what we've seen so far.

Kompany was a great footballer, Martin wasn't.

I don't agree with this point. The way things are going we are going to break Derby's record low points tally and who will want the manager who presided over that? Martin will not get a step up when we finally twig that he is ruining our club and get rid of him.

Apparently it's going to be fun 🙂

If his job really does rely on results why has he still got one? One point from nine games.

Also it doesn't work as shown by the results which is the clearest indicator.

On the flip side City could have score 4 or 5 with better composure - the sitters they missed were easier chances than ours'.

There will - we'll be told to trust the process and so it will go on, and on, and on until Russ is removed. He means well and clearly believes in his flawed process but we need to let him impose his vanity project on another club because he's doing untold damage to ours'.

Why wouldn't Pep sing our praises - he wants us to play the same way when City visit St Marys - he'd be daft to suggest we are playing the wrong way and should adopt a more suitable style.

When is the fun going to start Russ?

One of the dafter things Pep has come out with. He knows full well it is nonsense.

He's a very well paid football manager who knows how it works - with one point from twenty seven the press, pundits and fans are rightly going to question his position. If he doesn't like that he either needs to improve results or find another job.

In no way were we unlucky to lose against Forest. When quoting our own bad luck in games you also have to factor in the bad luck of our opponents.

But as we played most of the game in reverse gear they didn't need to.

Agree - having scored an early goal they were able to stroll through the game comfortably and were confident we'd not go hunting an equaliser. Had we scored they'd have gone up 3 or 4 gears. We didn't hold out against a rampaging, gung-ho City, we weren't so good defensively that they had no answers - we played a less than brave game and held a side that knew they needed to expend very little energy to take the points. Let's not kid ourselves.