Edmonton Saint

I just don’t get Martin’s obsession with this system which clearly is very limited. If you watch Man City which is the most successful side in England recently, they go long quite frequently. They mix it up. This suicidal passing in defence is not a long term strategy for success and it seems Martin is too blinkered to adapt.

I don’t get this obsession with risky passes at the back. The negatives of us constantly giving it away and costing chances and goals against, far outweighs any supposed positives. Madness.

It’s Darren Ambrose. Makes a change from Garry Birtles and his nonsense.

My god Archer.

Getting overrun in midfield

Russball is suicidal in the premier league.

Another mish-mash team selection. Fraser shouldn’t be starting . No KWP? no UGO?

Been charged with misconduct for abusive language towards the match officials. Hopefully they will add on an extra couple games suspension as punishment.

https://x.com/alfiehouseecho/status/1834962902282899832?s=46 Amateur Hour.

Send him off

Ross Stewart sighting

The problem is that Stephens and Bednarek together have never been good enough. Going back aeons. Stephens is very limited, but Martin backed himself into a corner by making him captain .

And then ball watching instead of any attempt at marking

Martin talks a lot about wanting his players to be brave and take risks, yet his team selections are anything but brave . He should practice what he preaches.

after 0 goals , and zero goal threat last week, can’t believe it’s the same old. Smallbone was atrocious last week. Martins blind loyalty to some players is baffling.

Dibling more attack minded in ten seconds than Smallbone was all match. And What the fuck was that Edozie ?

Be nice if Tall Paul was on the bench to throw on in this kind of situation, sometimes I feel like Martin would rather lose playing his way then mixing it up a bit

Why didn’t Martin show some bollocks and actually be proactive and make subs when the game was 0-0? Same old, going to be a long difficult season

There we have it

No attacking threat whatsoever.

Looked more like Jeffrey Archer today, let’s just hope it’s a settling in period.

McCarthy has been a fraud for his entire career. Just a hopeless goalkeeper. And we still learn nothing and keep giving this idiot new contract after new contract. Baffles me.

Champions - Man City Saints 17th - (much to the delight of Dalek) Relegated - Forest, Everton, Leicester

Maybe it’s the free hospitality at Wembley talking , but I just want to say even though I’ve been his biggest critic in the past, McCarthy was brilliant in the playoffs. I know this may be a cruel thing to say but maybe losing Bazunu was a blessing in disguise