I'm still leaning Martin out and have not been a fan of his, but I want to be proven wrong. The recent run has been promising and I thought the performance on the weekend was fantastic. Our style of play does not match up well against a team coming here to put 11 men behind the ball and hope for a goal from a set piece, yet we won and had 19 shots on goal.
I'm not getting my hopes up though because we've seen this multiple times now over the past 2 seasons. A run of form, we move up the table, we all get excited, then we go on an equally poor run of results.
On matchday 36 last year, we started a run of 4 wins out of 5 games (the other was a draw) and drew the next 4 before losing the final 2 games of the season. The 4 draws isn't that bad, but it did include the capitulations against Reading and Bournemouth when we really should have held on to leads.
We won on matchday 38 this season, ending a terrible run of 3 wins in 21 games. Since then, we've won 4 out of 5, drawing the remaining game. Are the similarities a coincidence or proof of something about Martin's management?
I hope we continue to play well and get some wins from the remaining 4 games. If Martin is still here next season, it would be great to go into the summer on a high. My feeling is he won't be here though. Just like Cooper 2 summer's ago, he knows we'll lose players and are unlikely to get good replacements, so it will be very hard to improve next season. Again, I hope I'm very, very wrong.