saintant

Not a criticism of you but you are stating the bleeding obvious - unfortunately, our manager doesn't agree and is determined to embarrass us by doing things his way which is clearly bonkers but he will continue until the owners decide/realise that he is way out of his depth and unable to coach the method he advocates so strongly. Meanwhile we, the fans, are forced to suffer this garbage week in week out.

If Martin can't set up a side to play decent football against a very poor Stoke side it shows just how limited his talents are. We should have given them a chasing and won by 4 or 5 nil but, in the end, it could have gone either way.

Where are we getting nine points from with this guy running training, setting tactics and picking the side?

Another masterclass inspired by the genius of Russell Martin - I'm sure Pep will have run a tape and will be using it in preparation for City's next game.

Martin has the tactical brain of a goldfish.

Whatever Martin coaches at Staplewood it certainly aint football and will never replace it.

It's the fun Russ promised.

Wonder which side gets the bye in the quarter finals 🙂

Cheesey Bree does it again. Who'd have thought it?

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.