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Can't quite believe that some pundits haven't worked out that calamitous defending is very much part and parcel of the Russell Martin experience.

Two years. And the fact that he's a laughing stock throughout football will be hurting his ego far too much for him to care about us. Not that he was particularly bothered about us when he was the manager here, just in burnishing his reputation.

Fair points. Sheehan and the team are certainly going to be under pressure from the fans if the OTT reaction to the Middlesbrough game is any indication. It'll be interesting to know what the internal expectations are though. Obviously they'd be delighted to hit the ground running and be in the...

Considering we could have made the playoffs last season with a squad that many people assert was almost entirely crap if we'd sacked Williams a month or two earlier, I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility for us to be there or thereabouts this season *if* the players we've...

The Maginot Line presumably. An argument can be made for Cullen as a backup #10, but he should never play as a striker again. It's been several years now, back to Russy, and he still looks completely out of place there. Be as critical of Vipotnik as you like, but he at least is capable of...

Surprised at the number of people making comparisons to Grimes. He was far more aggressive and mobile than Grimes ever was. Definitely more hints of Johnny De Guzman about him for me.

Bench player now. Never been good enough as a striker, and we've just got better midfield options too.

It almost seems odd to say, but it's encouraging that Franco didn't stand out today. The quality around him has raised so much he doesn't have to be chasing and harrying everything because we've got people who can help him. Galbraith looks quality. Yalcouye a little dazzled a bit by the pace as...

We're going to be depending on the midfield to do a lot of running this season so it makes perfect sense to have the depth required to replace and rotate tired legs. No doubt there's similar thinking going into the amount of players we now have capable of filling in on the flanks. If, as I've...

Watching them pop up on Twitter is interesting. After being all Gung Ho during the Summer there seems to be a creeping realisation that perhaps they don't have the best squad in the division after all. Should be even more fun in a month or two.

This. It's not so much that we've bought nothing but bad players (although some have been) it's that there's been no consistency of approach since Potter left. GP tried to take us back to the way we'd played on our way up the table with moderate success. Then he was replaced by Cooper, who had...

Once he gets the sack from Rangers he's maybe got one more Championship job left in him I reckon. Some club owner somewhere will be mad enough to think that the Southampton promotion was down to him and not the parachute payments. Once he screws that up he'll be battling Garry Monk for lower...

If only we'd backed him!

He's insane.

He was forced into it by results so bad that most other managers would have been sacked long before. There's no real evidence to suggest that had we given him even more money to piss away things would have been different. Indeed, his subsequent career at both Southampton and Rangers say otherwise.

I don't know why people keep banging on about style. For the most part we haven't had one since Potter left. Certainly most of the vehement Sheehan critics have the whiff of Martin apologia about them. It's one game, after an injury hit pre-season, when we're likely to have at least two...

Must admit, as much as I loathe Russy even I thought he couldn't possibly screw things up in a two horse race. For once I appear to have overestimated him.

As others have mentioned, Sheehan made good use of Fulton in our run of form last season so not a massive shock to see him start again as a defensive shield today, especially given Cabango's lack of pre-season minutes.

It's probably a situation that's been made worse by downgrading Academy status. The quality of opposition the youth teams face has dropped. I mean, the MG cup is all well and good, but are they really testing themselves against the likes of Afan Lido?

I think we're basically allowed to bully other Academies and nick their players for peanuts too.