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Trust me, Naismith has done fuck all this season(Chelsea hat trick aside). Fuck me, if Kone can get a start ahead of you for most of the season it really is time to leave.
Martinez is our main problem, has been for most of his time with us.
We are now basically Wigan but with Lukaku. I mean that not in the sense that we have shit(ish) players like Wigan but that we are leaking goals like they did. It's common knowledge he doesn't train the defence or work on set pieces and it shows. We've conceded the most goals in The Prem from set pieces this season and third worst defence in the league, it's not good enough.
We have the players to beat any team on their day but Martinez is the weak link
Pistanator-
Mourinho is up for grabs. He's known for drilling defensive duties into players.
God knows what went wrong for him at Chelsea.
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But if Martinez hadn't come on board you wouldn't have lukaku, mirallas, defoeleu (sp), cleverley (has he done anything apart from score that last minute goal).
Doesn't his attacking footballing good outweigh the defensive ills? He wants to play attacking possession based football, that's what you signed up for when he came on board, so not much point in crying about defensive failings at this point.
Maybe Martinez isn't a manager to get you challenging for stuff, maybe he's one of those that improves you to a certain point, lays attacking foundations and someone else comes in and takes you forward that final step or two.
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cornelius_blackfoot
Good work, you've managed to contradict yourself in the same post.
Naismith did alright for you. He's a clogger but that was the mark of your team at that point, still fucking is tbh, I even had him in my fantasy side for a bit last season. Neverton should be kicking on, we say this every season, they should be leaving the Scottish boot boys (like big "chasing parked cars" Dunc) behind, but you ain't, you haven't for years, and it's just a bit fucking rich when you turn on them 'cos you've pretensions to be a team that plays in red.