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This’ll be a tough one. Was watching a preview podcast and the Preston fan said that they’ve been really good at home. I’d still expect us to get something from it potentially but it won’t be easy. Hope Idah has a good game up front.

To be fair, I wasn’t describing Martin in a good or bad way, I was just saying he was more of a footballing manager in the sense that he gets the ball down on the floor and plays it shorter. I would love to have the patience that you’ve got, I really would but I think the squad we have now is a...

I think this is the primary reason why some are being more patient. They don’t want a Russell Martin type who will try and play football at the expense of goals at the other end. Personally I don’t see it that way. I don’t see us as particularly defensively solid this season, there has been...

Interesting graph from Louorns on Twitter, he’s a Watford fan who collates stats from The Championship. Not great reading from a chance creation point of view. He even points out that we shouldn’t be that bad😂

Millwall and Preston are in the top 6 at the moment, there’s no reason with the players we have available that we can’t be competing higher up. We have an excellent goalkeeper, some solid and experienced CBs, the most creative fullback in the division last year, Galbraith who most fans can see...

This 100%, for the next few games I’d like us to stick with the team that started against Man City (with Vipotnik if fit and keeping Cabango and Burgess in with Vigs). Consistency should be the aim, give our more creative players a chance, just like he’s now giving Casey a chance. I’m generally...

I don’t think we’ve seen enough of Inoussa in general to be honest. He picked up a couple of assists for us when he started more consistently and if I remember rightly, both were decently weighted balls to Vipotnik and Ronald. There’s talent there and an ability to get fans off their seats...

Yeah, it’ll be more nuanced than that, but I think the pressing game we built around Franco and LOB is how Sheehan wants us to play but it just doesn’t suit what we have at the moment. I look at the squad and think a possession game feels more natural to this group.

I agree with all of this bar the last paragraph. I think it’s definitely the case that fans who have been around longer will compare the present to the truly awful days and so find it difficult to condemn it. I get that, it makes total sense. For the record, I fall into that lower bracket, so I...

This is crucial context to our season and I think reveals that O’Brien was holding a lot more together last season than we realised.

I’m not saying I want him back as our manager or anything but I always thought people gave too much flack to Martin and it let the old ownership off the hook, that was where the main problem was.

I’m just talking from a football perspective. I personally liked the way Martin came across, I never saw the arrogance that some did. He was just stubborn and could have a bit of an ego but that’s like most football managers.

Agree with most of the points made in this article. I honestly don’t get the optimism from some and I wish I could have whatever you are all drinking! To me we are worse than we’ve been in the last 3 to 4 seasons. Only beating the bottom 4 and doing next to nothing in attack. The squad may not...

Those are all fair points and obviously everything is subjective. Martin was flawed, don’t get me wrong he persisted far too much with a system that didn’t fully suit our team in my opinion. The one thing I always say for him though, is that I don’t think his football was risk averse by design...

Agree with this, it’s not as simple as if we don’t play how we are now, we’ll play Russell Martin football. We can be doing a lot better than we are and not concede shedloads of goals. It’s looking like lower mid table based on the 13 games we’ve played so far and I’d rather be in 16th playing...

What’s the point in being in games that you aren’t going to score in though?

Attack wise we are bad. Bottom of the league for most metrics, Vip won’t be able to bail us out every week. What we are doing just isn’t sustainable unfortunately. We might have the results of a midtable team but performances have been well below that and I think results will soon follow. It’s...

Just going off what I saw, Charlton were terrible, regardless of their league position we could and should have taken advantage of how poor they were today.

Unfortunately, I can’t see us progressing under Sheehan. I think he made the right decision sticking with the five but then he leaves Widell and Inoussa out who were a large part of a decent performance against City. Just not creative enough and yes we want to be an adaptable team but there is...

Inoussa and Widell have to start, we at least have some threat when they’re on the pitch. Casey played well despite the mistake and happy for Idah to get his first from open play. Josh Key needs to finish that at the end!