Whose fault is the goalkeeping situation Dave and who persists with not fixing the problem?
That falls directly at Martinez's door and we are not going anywhere without that getting addressed. So for all that Martinez has got right and all the positives we can talk about, he has such a glaring weakness that for me overshadows all of that because he simply can't either a) set up a team to win games consistently or b) has an issue with choosing the wrong personel.
There's no way Dave even you at the end of the season would surely accept if we finish 10th-14th with a striker whose just banged in 20+ goals and say that is acceptable because that's why we are likely to finish.
Lovely free flowing football only works of you have the results to back them up. Let's be honest when we went 3-2 yesterday did you think "that's us sorted for the win now"? I don't and I don't think anyone else did, we looked naive and it was pathetic tbh that no direction from the manager was given to sit deep,make the last defensive sub and then try and hit them on the counter.
There's just no thought within that squad or management to just dig deep and sit on a win, christ we couldn't hold out for 20 seconds against Bournemouth so there was no chance they were going to do it for 20 minutes without some kind of change being made.
18 months now mate and counting of piss poor results. How much longer does he get in your opinion as last Christmas we all said we'll he should be given until this Christmas to see how he's done. Would you give him this season plus all of next?
I would give him all of this and next if I saw signs of progression collectively as a team but all I see are a gang of players running forward like 6 year olds chasing a ball with no regard for any defensive duties and us getting caught out time after time and then when it does come to the last line of defence ( Howard ), well the less I mention about him the better I think.
