Our playing style...

[jasper_T]

People seem to get carried away every time when we have a run of easy fixtures and pick up points. It's not difficult to glance at the league table and see the level of sides we're beating. Did the same last season when we faced something like 6 of the bottom 8 plus Millwall in a row, and had apparently "turned a corner".

Back down to earth a few weeks later when the fixture list balanced itself out.

 

[Skippyjack]

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.

The last paragraph.. well we've been waiting 2 weeks about this new investment coming in apparently.. so we don't know what's going to happen, a take over or someone far richer than the owners jumping on board, Nigel Morris has been seen down the liberty, but we've seen Prince Albert down here an all, just to take in a game

 

[Dr. Winston]

People seem to get carried away every time when we have a run of easy fixtures and pick up points. It's not difficult to glance at the league table and see the level of sides we're beating. Did the same last season when we faced something like 6 of the bottom 8 plus Millwall in a row, and had apparently "turned a corner".

Back down to earth a few weeks later when the fixture list balanced itself out.

We did lose what, on the face of it, were similarly "easy" fixtures during our wonderful run from November to late March, but your general gist is a valid one. We have indeed been here before and it's far too early to suggest that Russy has finally stopped making the same basic errors over and over, let alone come up with a plan to set the team up against the better sides.