Roberto Martinez discussion

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It's a smorgasboard of acute sh1te that he's heaping on us at the moment.
  • Consistently playing three "number tens" (in his language) in the same team with two of them out wide. For the 10th time. Without success.
  • A complete lack of urgency in the final third which may be related to the above.
  • A ponderous midfield which was lifted briefly with Barkley and Besic against QPR and duly scrapped for Southampton.
  • Our record striker playing in a system that not only negates his threat but absolutely ruins him.
  • The opposition buzzing off us as our centre backs pass the ball amongst each other without moving it forward.
  • Really crap subs.
I don't want him fired, I just want someone to shake him really, really hard and ask him to sort it out as it's very obvious things to fix.

And dare he be even slightly positive in the post match interview.
 

I'm lost for words. To make NO subs/changes to the team at half time when it was soooooooo obvious it wasn't working in the first half was p1ss poor. To make no subs AT ALL is disgraceful. What the hell was he thinking?
 
ToffeeMark said:
What can he say though? "yeah, we're sh**, and I haven't got a clue how to change it?"
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'That wasn't the level of performance I'd expect from these players, and the level of commitment wasn't there from start to finish. The lads don't need me to tell them that's not good enough; improvements are needed all round immediately and we'll be going into the next game looking to make them.'

Not hard.
 

He's not a complete muppet, but he needs to start doing the completely obvious occasionally. No manager of any calibre can successfully fit that many central players into a side and expect results.

Substitution now and then wouldn't go amiss either.
 
Not really sure of the way forward from here. He just seems lost. Watching him on the touch line was like watching an 80 year old looking at a computer for the first time. Just yell and point at stuff and hope it doesn't blow up.
 
What we dont need is knee-jerking over his status. I'll tear into his decision making of late (most of the season in fact), but I'll step out of any demands we get a new manager.

Have some backbone and loyalty. Remember last season and that we're still midtable and in Europe after a very ropey first half of the season.

He'll get it right in the end. He needs to add in January and simplify his starting line up and give it shape.

I'm still 100% behind Martinez.
 

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