Disco Stu

I was asked to list experienced out of work managers that are better than Russell Martin so I did! 😂 All of them could teach a thing or two to Russell Martin about management, although unfortunately, learning isn't part of his philosophy. Moyes, Potter and Benitez are pipe dreams but the notion that our club can't attract anyone decent is nonsense. Bournemouth identified Iraola, Brighton identified De Zerbi and we identified Hasenhuttl all of whom came in and made positive impacts. We shouldn't just be limiting ourselves to free agents though. If we're run properly, we'll find someone. And that's why I think we'll end up with someone terrible.

All of their CV's blow Russell Martin's out of the water but don't worry guys, we'll end up with someone far worse 😂

We'd likely have to look at names that have seen their stock fall due to an unsuccessful season or time away from club management. Some of them won't be interested but I think it would be realistic to approach... Slaven Bilic - Extensive Premier League experience and experience of Championship promotion. Chris Hughton - Had a poor season with Forest but was an overall success at Brighton. Has also managed a team to promotion from the Championship. Nigel Pearson - Last Prem job saw him sacked at Watford but not before taking them from 7 points adrift at the bottom to 3 points above the drop. Very strange sacking. Javi Gracia - Replaced Jesse Marsch at Leeds and outperformed us, Leicester and Everton in his 11 games taking them from 19th to 17th with 4 games remaining. He got sacked and they went down under Alladyce losing 3 and drawing 1. Quique Sanchez Flores - Perhaps less realistic given he's a Europa league winner and was most recently at Sevilla but he's managed Watford in the Premier League a couple of times. The first time being quite successful. Ole Gunnar Solskaer - Probably the least likely but he's been 3 years out of management now so unlikely to attract offers from clubs much better than us. Could be very wrong about that though. All free agents and these are only the names I know because of watching English football. There's bound to be others out there. We're not in a position to turn our noses up at all of them. You may scoff at them but they've all done a lot more in the game than Russell has.

We'll only be looking at managers desperate to manage in the Premier League. When we were last in the Premier League, we hired the Championship's resident loony, Nathan Jones, then hired Ruben Selles internally and then in the Championship, we hired Russell Martin from midtable Swansea. All of them jumped at the chance and probably couldn't believe their luck. Looks even more ridiculous given two of them are now managing in league 1. If that's the calibre of manager we continue to look for, they won't give our "revolving door" a second thought. I'd like to think we're aiming for a manager with experience of the Premier League or the equivalent abroad but Sport Republic don't think like that. They've shown on several occasions they don't value experience.

The game Russell Martin's been dreaming about since it all began. Facing his idol Pep Guardiola. The culmination of his managerial career. I bet he begged Dragan he could stay long enough to get to this moment.

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Depressing that he's still here. All the comments I see from other fanbases are pretty much along the lines of "I hope he's still there when we play them".

They could have just made a bigger version of the Markus Liebherr banner and it would be a clear improvement. I also thought we could have done something with the "saintly monk" design instead of the generic slogan we went with. What we've ended up with is what happens when you don't include the fanbase in the design process and instead, ask them to pick from a bad bunch.

I suspect he wouldn't want to do it again. I also suspect Newcastle being a much bigger club was a significant factor.

It was a good idea after giving the entire Northam end to the home fans but its been executed so poorly. Feels like a missed opportunity to make a real impactful banner to reveal every game rather than something that's so cringey. All the best tifo banners use symbolic imagery not cheesy slogans like "Pride of the South" or "We March On" that sound like they've been thought up in a corporate setting. Generic. Terrible font. No impact. Forgettable. FFS!

Whoever we bring in will now have to be someone willing to manage us in the Championship. That means not David Moyes, not Graham Potter and definitely not Rafa Benitez. You'd imagine names like Carlos Corberan, Michael Carrick and John Eustace are on the shortlist as well as a few obscure names from overseas. If Everton's new owners intend to replace Sean Dyche, I'd take him in a heartbeat. Experience of promoting teams and making them competitive in the Premier League is the ideal CV. Danny Rohl would be an interesting left field option given the job he's done at Wednesday and already knowing the club. Knowing Sport Republic, we'll end up with another nutjob 😂

And the rest of the league lets out a cheer!

I was hoping Martin would be gone by this game before he could do any more damage. The amount of goals his teams concede is alarming.

That's Russell Martin's speciality. He takes pride in it.

He was on my shortlist so I'm very pleased!

If we play like we did against Ipswich, we'll lose.

Oh look, he came up against a seasoned manager with more nous in Jovanovic and look what happened.

Blowing £x amount on sacking Martin and his team and spending £x amount on replacements doesn't guarantee success as is the case every time we've changed manager. It does however guarantee that we won't have to watch Russball anymore. If we assume the long-term goal is to ultimately become an established Premier League club again, we know Russball isn't the solution.

You must be trolling 😂 So you expect us to lose every game? Not even Russell Martin is deluded enough to think we're "exceeding expectations".

I stand by the opinion he is our best player. It was a joke to drop him. If Russell insisted on playing Taylor, he should have dropped Sugawara. Sugawara has looked decent but he isn't at KWP's level.

Where's this myth that we played well against Ipswich come from? Yes we came close to winning but Ipswich were the better side that day.

Standard Russell Martin not playing to our strengths.

I'm not sure we'd be winless in 7 if we actually played this guy. Might have at least managed another draw. He needs to play. I feel the same about ABK.

At least it won't be decided by a dodgy VAR decision.

Onauchu should have been way ahead of Stewart in the pecking order.