CB Fry

Whatever is announced, Russell Martin will absolutely not be managing the team on Sunday.

Fulham bounced straight back, as did Norwich (I think twice), as did Newcastle but lots take longer. We can very easily be like Stoke or WBA, or indeed like Forest who spent 20+ years down. Next season there will be Leicester and Leeds and us wanting to go straight back. Can almost guarantee that not all of the three will do it.

The objection to Jones was the whole being shit and losing all the games and also him being mental thing. I'm sure this felt like a jolly clever little dig at the fans when you wrote it. What we are looking for is success, for winning a few matches. It's the club, not the fans, prioritising metrics and systems and spreadsheets, as they did with the recruitment of Jones and then Selles.

In the context of you just making up any old shit?

Who are we supposed to play in goal then?

As a youngster I was always coached that you've got to hold and give but do it at the right time.

20th out of 24 teams for "expected goals against" doesn't sound that great to me?

Has Clinton Morrison broken his silence yet?

When it does happen will you just write off all these reports as just lucky guesses or a massive coincidence?

Cheer yourself up by looking at Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke and West Brom and QPR and Derby and so on.

Didn't Leicester win the league on something like 40% possession

The entirety of next season will be like that time The Simpsons took the piss out of football. Good luck Russell 👍

Or a prime example of being 19/20 years old compared to being 22/23. Being that we are definitely going to be in the Championship next year, he's clearly able to deliver at this level. The Championship is a higher level than Eredivise anyway: Steve McClaren won that league FFS.

100%. If we aregoung to go "clever" / "up and coming" then this guy is clearly better - dragging a dormant Ipswich up from L1 is comparable to what we need (obviously at a higher level). No Championship experience but at least he is a winner already. Or....uneventful mid table bimbling around for multiple seasons at two clubs? Yeah great thanks

It's all completely made up by scheming clueless evil journalists I reckon. For money. They make it all up for money.

He managed to be quite nice in his statement yesterday. Morrissey and Marr were the genius combination but Rourke's (and Joyce's) contribution was huge, just a brilliant band. .....Rourke was 23 when the Smiths split up. That's what blew my mind yesterday.

I got as far as ".... yes the football was slow and pedestrian at times".

We weren't where Brentford were then, and we're not where Brentford were then, now either.

Now I am absolutely certain that Russell Martin is our new manager.

Course they would, we’ve got loads more money than they will have. A very obvious step up for anyone currently managing Ipswich or Swansea.

Personally I think it would be great if it was us in the Europa Conference final. Would be brilliant, with an additional benefit of watching people on this forum moan like fuck about fixture congestion for every step of the way.

Yep, fair enough. But - he didn't make the play offs in a season where Coventry, Luton and newly promoted Sunderland did, and Middlesbrough who were in the drop zone early in the season. At least two of those won't have bigger budgets than Swansea. If we get him then we'll all give him a chance but feels a bit risky / underwhelming to me.

Reading that fans report (thanks @The Cat )who we really want is that Joel Piroe boy.....but I imagine even as a rich club in the Championship he may be aiming higher than us now.

At least it's the other way round this time, which is creative. Jones took a League 1/Championship bottom six size club into the play offs. This guy is taking a play off contenders size club down to mid table or lower. Genius.

Swansea did finish top 6 for the two seasons before Martin arrived (4th once). So surely they'd be targeting play offs, which this guy has not delivered.