Dippy

Baring in mind I've not really seen a great amount of his football since he left MK in July 2021, but based on the fact that he doesn't seem to have changed at all since then, here are my positives for you guys: He brought in a really good squad for the level. They may have flourished under another manager but losing his signings in the summer of 2022 to higher levels is a big reason as to why we got relegated the season after finishing third. Scott Twine, Matt O'Riley and Harry Darling especially were superb signings, and even the year before he brought in quality like Scott Fraser and managed to convince Cameron Jerome to return to England at a lesser level. He'll probably get you believing again if you can set aside a lot of the negatives. He's a good talker is Rus and despite inevitable mistakes in defence, he'll have you believing that it's all for the greater good of the team. When it works, it's great football. The game has changed since 2019-2021 when he was here but I distinctly remember feeling extremely positive about a Russell Martin team going into the 21/22 season... then of course he left on the opening weekend of the season but it's probably harder to do that to Leicester than it was MK at the time. Bragging Rights: Who doesn't enjoy saying that they had more possession than PSG, Man City and everybody else in Europe. He clearly worked well enough at Southampton with a team that's too good for the level, and that should be the case with you guys. When you get back up again the story may be different, but focus on that if/when it comes.

You'll probably be fine so long as you either have centre backs very comfortable on the ball, or the money to bring in those centre backs (if Harry Darling will drop down to L1 then that would probably be a signing you'd make) If not... then I wish you all good luck in 44 of your games because you'll likely need it.

Personal opinion is that the mistakes at the back that come with his style would probably have pushed us down the table, but the talent was enough that it would likely have been a play off challence so 5th-9th rather than fighting for the top 2.

Yeah that's the point. He assembled the squad, left just as the season was starting and so the replacement manager Liam Manning just tweaked things slightly to make us a little more forwards than sideways, and we finished third after being in a promotion battle until the very last day.

That’s one thing I will give him for his time here, he created a really exciting team that almost managed to go up when you added in just a bit more attacking will. A lot of our ire at MK comes from his abandonment of the team basically on the day of our first competitive game of the season, a cup game against Bournemouth, leaving us in limbo after we’d all been pretty excited to come back and challenge at the top. That being said, there was still a lot of frustration over his style and his tactics so it’s not all pure bitterness.

What that doesn’t say is that we lost that game against Gillingham so the goal was simply for his own personal highlights reel. What Southampton fans are saying is basically the same as what we said to Swansea fans, though we had the benefit of being his first club and presumed he’d iron out his stubbornness. He hasn’t. He may do well with you initially if you sign him up, but eventually it’ll get old, his comments will get grating and the ridiculous mistakes will start mounting up.

There is. Wolves brought just under 9,000 official away fans because it was a test event and over the last few years we've limited the max allocation to around 7,000. That being said, we haven't had a huge away attendance under the new ownership so I'm not 100% confident on saying that hasn't changed.