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I'm hoping that was a good learning curve.

I really wanted him to get the Fox job, that would have been incredibly entertaining. They are a rival, anything that hinders them would be good in my eyes. But watching him put them through the 'work in progress' stage would have been highly amusing. I don't have a particular grudge against RM, but his inflexibility has caused us all some big football trauma. If I were to pick a rival in the Championship for the soul destroying tactics he persists with, it would be Leicester. They really dodged a bullet.

Glad we don't have the reverse of this thread. That would be some reading.

Inevitable, but fun while it lasted.

Two match threads up on the same day. Love to see the excitement is back.

Fucking love the Championship. Oh and you can keep var, even on ref displays like that.

Frustrating so far. Lets see how WS reacts.

In those first few games he did look like a game changer, clearly there is something special about him. But those latter performances were nowhere near 50m. That is a massive risk for Everton.

Glad this is an early kick off. This will be a lovely start to life back in the greatest league in the world. Wrexham will battle, but ultimately leave with nothing. Football is back. UTS

Money. We were infamous for shit pay, so it wasn't a surprise. Didn't set the world alite at Villa, but got paid. Fair enough.

What hate? He's not hated, he's derided, and rightly so.

If people want to discuss a ex manager on a football thread, I see no problem with that. If you want to let it go, I'd suggest a better plan would be not commenting on the thread in question.

Woah. So he was on £50K a week when he left Chelsea. We paid him £60k. And the most he got was after this contract, £120K. Was that what Leicester paid him?

Inevitable parting of ways, but goes with blessings. Good lad, best of luck to him.

I feel a little bad saying this, but I'm as excited for RM signing for Leicester as I am about WS starting here. Both will have massive ramifications on the top six next term.

Had Smallbone's attempt be in a practice match with that lame attempt, you'd expect to get blasted by everyone. The fact there's been so little improvement on simple stuff, just ends any future hope here for him. Just go already.

I'd like everyone to be a little more respectful to Russell Martin, at least until he's put pen to paper. 🙂

Hoping we escape with nothing worse than a 2-0 to end this travesty of a season. With the new guy in place, it will be interesting to see who's walking around and finishing the campaign with little to no urgency. The real work starts tomorrow.

That looks like a nasty dislocation.

Fancy Sunderland to win this today. Be glad to not have to go there next season. Even when they are crap, they still seem to beat us.

Got no beef with Russell. I'd like to see him given the opportunity at Leicester for a couple reasons. Firstly, I'm intrigued to see how he does there. Will he adapt and evolve, or stick to his dogmatic approach. What has he learned from the last two years. And secondly, it will save us a few million in restitution. Sign him up Foxes!

I'm looking forward to the EPL being totally off my radar. Good bloody riddance.

Derby 07 would smash this lot. Absolutely pathetic.

Hoping we can crash the party. Its going to be a very emotional day for the blues, be great to nip in a steal the points.

I reckon there might be a little bit of chatter about var tonight.