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What have you been smoking?

Agree. In any other year, we would probably have a small buffer in the auto spot. The relentlessness of Leeds and Ipswich, added to the points we've dropped so far this season and the games we have left to play, means that play-offs is an almost certainty now.

Another little snippet I heard is that we might be interested in David Brooks on loan and hope to have him available for the Liverpool cup game.

Definitely, he only told them to score so many goals today to take the pressure off and revert to his preferred 1-0 win with 75% possession on Friday.

Good job that Martin instructed the team to score goals this week rather than to just keep possession, otherwise we might not have scored so many goals.

Not really hard to work out that we need width and attacking threat from the full backs today, hence Bree on the Bench.

When you’ve reached a point where you have to conclude that everything that’s gone wrong is because of Martin and everything that has gone right is in spite of Martin, you might want to sit things out for a while.

Right, cos you’ve been screaming for Bree to play LB all season? Other than him, it’s the same side that has been playing

Pretty much the same side he’s picked for 4 out of last 5 games.

This place has gone properly weird this season.

I don’t think clubs would saddle themselves with that kind of commitment off the back of a single international call up. I very much doubt the two are related.

That hasn’t been the case though. Prior to Sunderland we were creating chances and scoring. Obviously confidence has drained following that. As I said. remains to be seen if it’s a blip or not. But rubbishing everything about the season and RM is not proportionate IMO.

I don’t know what propaganda football is. RM has always played the same the way as a manager. He was hired to play that way and is trying to deliver it. Yes, the last 2 weeks of football have been awful. Remains to be seen if that’s a blip that will be forgotten pretty quickly or not. But the animosity on here is OTT. I get it’s a spill over from how bad we’ve been for the last 2 seasons. But that isn’t RM’s fault.

No…but people claiming that they literally have no idea what he is saying is a reflection on them, not RM. All just part of the pile on until (if) we start getting results.

Hopefully the knock to Adam Armstrong will help RM clear up the mess of one his mistakes in this game at least. Making him captain and shoehorning him into one of 3 central midfielders doesn't work. He doesn't make the first 11 in my book. He's better off the bench for high pressing, high energy impact. Martin has made it difficult to restrict him to that role.

Martin’s not going to change his approach a great deal so it’s really whether the players can implement quickly enough. Conceding 9 goals in two games at this level is ridiculous, clearly. But I do think he’s been unfortunate with timing. The Sunderland game was only hours after the close of the transfer window. There have been key injuries meaning we don’t have a settled defence. There hasn’t been much time on the training ground due to the international break and frequency of games. But he could help himself immediately by sacrificing an 8 for someone who will hold. We’ve had no defensive minded midfield player for the last two games. It feels like recklessness over high risk/high reward. I actually think his slightly OTT public praise of AA is becoming a problem as he basically has to start him for the foreseeable, limiting options of firming up the midfield.

Let's all start frothing at the mouth over a single quote without any other context added.

No doubt though that had we made a similar start to Burnley with Kompany as the manager, the squealing on here would be rife. Wonder how long before the first Kompany out posts appear on the Burnley forums after their tactically inept start to the premier league campaign?

I'm sure Swansea (winless) and MK Dons (relegated) fans are really happy he left.

He is useless playing out from the back and therefore never going to be an option here.

Jesus, state of this place today. Crumb of comfort is that we’re 3 points off top, won’t be playing yesterdays 11 again and have shown we can play a shit load better than yesterday. It was a car crash of a game, but it happens, especially conceding so early. Writing off the manager and the season because of it is a tad OTT.

Flexibility seems key to Martin. Assuming he won't want to be using Bree too much if he doesn't leave, wouldn't be all that surprising to be bringing in Johnson regardless of KWP. That said, wouldn't be surprising for someone to come in for KWP either.

Bree watch, hopefully

Similar to what Martin said about Perraud, I can’t see Bree playing being first choice fullback. More likely that we would want to shift Bree

Seems unlikely- would they actually be able to structure the deal in an agreeable way even if overall valuation is met? I think it's 60/40 in favour of Sulemana being here at the close of the window. He's valued too highly relative to what he has done. But he does have pace and attributes that prem teams would want.