Les-TA-Jon

My 2nd ever 15K on Saturday. Somehow took 03:45 off the time, and 02:30 off my 10K PB.

The confusion may be because you literally said: Which sounds like you're saying the current squad is as good or better than the Pearson 2008 one (and you did initially claim the current squad is the best the division has ever seen). Oh I totally agree that under Martin the current squad is massively underperforming.

Which of our strikers do you think will exceed 27 goals and 8 assists? And you think Riis will do "significantly better" than 13 goals and 14 assists? Yes? Lundstrum isn't going to captain us to a league win, go half the season unbeaten, lose only once at home and do better than 8 goals, 6 assists is he? I'm not sure why you're talking about Andy King in 2026. This is about if 2008 Andy King (9 goals, 4 assists) is better than our current midfield options.

Do you really think anyone in our current squad is going to get numbers anywhere close to this? Let alone 5 players on double figures of goal contributions? Easy to say with the power of hindsight but the Pearson League One team won the league, went half the season unbeaten and only lost about 3 games (only once at home all season). Even just mentality wise, they're clearly far superior.

O'Hora was as much at fault as Thomas and Lundstrum for that second goal. Totally switches off, forget that the eventual scorer is over his left shoulder and then fails to clear it

It's really hard to tell how good our squad could actually be or not, under Martin. But it feels hard to believe the level of managerial underperformance is so bad that Martin = relegation and anyone else = promotion.

We've played 4 of the current bottom 7 and not beaten any of them...

In other news, had the best run of my life Saturday morning. 15K. 1hr 36m Furthest ever. 10K PB in there. Negative split on each 5K: 33, 32, then 31 mins

Multiple things are true: 1) the club is a mess and any manager will struggle under this ownership 2) the 'next manager' is always seen as some sort of panacea, but never can be because of the above and because: 3) the club enforce a style that doesn't work for our players/level 4) RM has underperformed given the level of backing and signings

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a new manager saying "We've/you've been shit for a long time" In fact, it's what we need; someone to come in, and hold the players, board and overall mentality of the club to account and to change standards - you can't do that unless you have the balls to recognise past failures up to this point. You can imagine Nigel Pearson would have done similar in 2008, right? The problem is that Martin is saying 1) without the results/changes to back it up and 2) as a self-defense mechanism.

I'm 75~ KG. There's a bloke on instagram (@owedpedz) who is 133kg and is faster than me

Yeah we did some walking rugby at work back in March 2025 and after 2 minutes I was completely blowing! Started Couch to 5K the next week and have largely kept us since. 2025 was a bit inconsistent and slow progress, but I did my first 10K by the end of the year. 2026 has been better. Sub 30min 5K felt impossible at one point. My PB is now down to 28mins. Since April running much more consistently and now on a 29 week streak of 3 runs per week. 13K largest distance so far and aiming to do Half Marathon distance by the end of 2026.

Ah OK. I've basically been inactive (in terms of sport) my whole life and I started running March 2025 (at the age of 35) - so the idea of running literally everyday seemed crazy to me, without more context about your background. I've been running 3 times a week since I started 18 months ago, but very much feel the need for the rest days.

It’s a group game

Bloody hell. How long have you been running for? How much training does it take to be able to run this high a volume, with literally zero rest?