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It's the RM way and he'll never change.

3-1 becoming our go to score this season.

Doubt we'll see much more of Tall Paul with Russell picking the team.

Unfortunately RM will come out with the usual platitudes after this game - the thing the owners should be drawing from it is that we are nowhere near as bad as RM's coaching and tactics make us look.

If today proves anything it's that he should be doing better with this set of players - I'm convinced another manager would have us winning games.

Doesn't fit in with the way Russ is reinventing football. He won't start the next game.

Why hasn't Tall Paul started games? Questions need to be asked of RM.

We should finish them off in the second half.

I suspect Russ is working his ticket.

Has anyone ever heard a player at any club say their manager is a hopeless coach? When asked the question or even in general conversation they will always praise the coach.

Anything below the 9-0 record will be acceptable 🙂

This theory is fine as long as you are happy to fuck off most of your fan base.

Ankerson will back Russ because he was his choice and, after the debacle of Jones, he has little credit left in the bank of Dragan.

You're probably right but he will be given more slack if we get somewhere close to staying up - if we get a low points total he'll probably be gone before the season ends and certainly couldn't expect to carry on next season.

If the squad are not as fit as they could be that is inexcusable. Fitness is so important and even more so at Premier League level where even the elite teams insist their players are in the best possible physical condition. If we are not on a par (I'm not saying this is the case just responding to the claim in the message) then that is on RM and his fitness coach and is a damning indictment. The one thing we can match every other team on is fitness. The problem is, if we are not fit enough, that will be down to poor pre-season conditioning and it is very hard to rectify any shortcomings whilst playing games every week.

I wasn't even considering the financial implications but do you think the fans will accept RM carrying on if we are relegated with a record or very low points total?

Seems counter intuitive but we need to seriously reduce the amount of possession we have.

As I've said on another thread I don't see this as viable. Unless we go down with some respect and get a reasonable points tally (seems unlikely) I don't think the fans/season ticket holders will accept RM being given the green light to carry on.

Agree. Before the game on Monday Graham Potter talked of the contrasting styles and described Bournemouth as a team that plays vertically which is to say they mainly play the ball forwards and look to progress towards the opponents goal in vertical lines at pace. We, on the other hand, look to play mainly horizontally and backwards slowly which is clearly madness seeing as the aim is to attack your opponents goal to create chances and score. I've had enough of Russball - the stats show that we have loads of possession which has led to us scoring three goals! We are currently going about the game in the wrong way and making the game look very difficult. As the Bournemouth manager said ahead of the game when asked whether he was concerned that we might have more possession, he'd rather have more chances than possession and so it proved - we had 60% possession leading to 9 shots with 3 on target and they had 40% possession which led to 14 shots with 6 on target. We're going about this arse about face.

As you say Dragan is the biggest investor so, when push comes to shove, he will be the one calling the shots. If he wants rid of Rasmus and Kraft I'm pretty certain he has the power to make it happen. The problem is he's probably still falling for the Rasmus bullshit.

Yeah, get rid of Rasmus, Kraft and Russ and we might just be on to something good 🙂

If anyone thinks we will continue with RM on the current trajectory and then allow him to try to get us promoted next season they are living in cloud cuckoo land. The fans will be up in arms and season ticket sales will plummet.

Having written books such as A Winner's DNE, The Gold Mine effect and Education of a Winner you would think Rasmus would be using his brilliance to make our team of losers into winners. Or maybe he just writes bullshit and some mugs are daft enough to buy his books.

If they stick with RM and he takes us down with a record even worse than Derby there is no way on earth the fans/season ticket holders will accept him continuing next season.

Some claim he's had his chips.