Russell Martin

[Sheaf Saint]

40 minutes ago, trousers said:

 

Like clockwork 👌

[franniesTache]

3 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

t (some of the sequences leading to goals were a very enjoyable watch) but the season was tempered with frustrating periods of nothingness in games (the backwards, sideways, backwards cycle of the ball)

When the fuck did the world decide to start talking about football as if they're a management consultant?? "sequences" so you mean attacks, "cycle of the ball" so you mean passing?

It's this sort of god awful nerd speak that's let idiots. like Ramus and Martin to get a foothold in the game

[kitch]

12 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Martin going to Leicester with that squad would be a recipe for disaster for them.

I beg it happens!

[Crab Lungs]

1 hour ago, franniesTache said:

When the fuck did the world decide to start talking about football as if they're a management consultant?? "sequences" so you mean attacks, "cycle of the ball" so you mean passing?

It's this sort of god awful nerd speak that's let idiots. like Ramus and Martin to get a foothold in the game

Alright mate, calm down. I don’t like the speak either but I used that terminology just off the cuff.

[franniesTache]

1 hour ago, Crab Lungs said:

Alright mate, calm down. I don’t like the speak either but I used that terminology just off the cuff.

Wasn't digging you out specifically mush that language just does my head in, proper business speak bollocks

[beatlesaint]

18 hours ago, gurru991 said:

Well as you guys know my beloved Leicester are struggling & there is all kinds of chatter about Marti Cifuentes getting fired.

I now see all kinds of articles connecting Russel Martin with the job. I've supported Leicester since 1960 but this will severely test my loyalty !!!

I have nothing against Leicester now Vardy isn't there so I hope for your sake you dont have to face the RM Bullshit rodeo !

[Gloucester Saint]

8 hours ago, franniesTache said:

When the fuck did the world decide to start talking about football as if they're a management consultant?? "sequences" so you mean attacks, "cycle of the ball" so you mean passing?

It's this sort of god awful nerd speak that's let idiots. like Ramus and Martin to get a foothold in the game

Think that was another poster - CL by the looks of it.

[trousers]

8 hours ago, franniesTache said:

When the fuck did the world decide to start talking about football as if they're a management consultant?? "sequences" so you mean attacks, "cycle of the ball" so you mean passing?

It's this sort of god awful nerd speak that's let idiots. like Ramus and Martin to get a foothold in the game

Agreed. Please add 'double pivot' and 'low block' to the list please 👍🏻

[Zorba]

53 minutes ago, trousers said:

Agreed. Please add 'double pivot' and 'low block' to the list please 👍🏻

🤮

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Agreed. Please add 'double pivot' and 'low block' to the list please 👍🏻

"My partner said I wasn't adventurous enough, after refusing to try a double pivot."

- Read more in Bedroom Confessions of a Football Fan.

[Crab Lungs]

On 03/12/2025 at 12:33, franniesTache said:

Wasn't digging you out specifically mush that language just does my head in, proper business speak bollocks

Trust me, I’m in agreement with you! I avoid all tactico YouTube berks as best I can.

’Transitions’ ‘Game management’ etc

[Crab Lungs]

Isn’t double pivot just two central  midfielders? 

[gurru991]

On 03/12/2025 at 03:18, kitch said:

I beg it happens!

That really is quite mean... Nobody deserves that !!!

[St. Ciervo]

Has it happened yet? Im like a kid waking for presents!

[Willo of Whiteley]

Light years ahead of Tonda Eckhart.

 

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, Willo of Whiteley said:

Light years ahead of Tonda Eckhart.

 

How many light years was Pardew, Adkins, Strachan, Lawrie, Nicholl, both Joneses, Hughes, Koeman, Pochettino, Puel, Ralph, goodness knows even Pellegrino ahead of Martin let alone Tonda ‘Kinda Surprise’ Eckhert? 

Martin is fucking useless so what does that say about the latest kiddie?

[Zorba]

10 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Light years ahead of Tonda Eckhart.

 

The bloke was shit. The current bloke is shit. All the fuckwits inbetween have been shit. Stop banging the Russell Martin drum every time we lose.. He was shit!

[die Mannyschaft]

Get Russell Martin back Tonda needs his advice as he's trying to copy RM master class.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Just now, die Mannyschaft said:

Get Russell Martin back Tonda needs his advice as he's trying to copy RM master class.

I can't believe you are being serious. 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

I can't believe you are being serious. 

I don’t think he’s being serious at all, he just hasn’t used this 😉

[LGTL]

Don’t forget they never wanted to sack him. This is clear pivot back towards that style of play. Although in true SR fashion, it’s worse. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

I haven’t banged the Russell Martin drums once since he was sacked funnily enough. 😂

He was shit, but he was still ahead of Tonda.

What does that tell you.

[die Mannyschaft]

22 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

I can't believe you are being serious. 

Its just a back up last resort as we don't appear to be able to play proper football for 90 mins. To me we are sliding back into directionless possession football. What's happened to the Charlton plus few games real football? Is Tonda confirming we are a one man team and he has to take Scienza off early to save him for next game. We then have little option for scoring. Then he takes more creative players off and its RM football 

[die Mannyschaft]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

The bloke was shit. The current bloke is shit. All the fuckwits inbetween have been shit. Stop banging the Russell Martin drum every time we lose.. He was shit!

It just shows how bad football coaching badges are, we don't have RM but look at the football we play with a £70m squad. We keep getting managers with same tactics. Its a paradox the more new managers we have had the more possession nonsense we end up playing. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Its just a back up last resort as we don't appear to be able to play proper football for 90 mins. To me we are sliding back into directionless possession football. What's happened to the Charlton plus few games real football? Is Tonda confirming we are a one man team and he has to take Scienza off early to save him for next game. We then have little option for scoring. Then he takes more creative players off and its RM football 

The only thing I can think of is its a club decision from above to play this way. Its the only logical assumption to make. We are scaring off good quality managers with this obsession of trying to be the new Manchester City. Sport Republic have ruined us. Even their name is absolutely fuckin ridiculous. 

[Zorba]

15 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

I haven’t banged the Russell Martin drums once since he was sacked funnily enough. 😂

He was shit, but he was still ahead of Tonda.

What does that tell you.

Whenever we lose the RM drum gets banged more than our Lucy. His shit philosophy football was the catalyst for the mire we’re in now. That and Solak falling for Ankersen’s bullshit after getting lucky with Thomas Frank at Brentford.. A feat has hasn’t managed to repeat since and I doubt ever will.

That’s what it tells me.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, Zorba said:

Whenever we lose the RM drum gets banged more than our Lucy. His shit philosophy football was the catalyst for the mire we’re in now. That and Solak falling for Ankersen’s bullshit after getting lucky with Thomas Frank at Brentford.. A feat has hasn’t managed to repeat since and I doubt ever will.

That’s what it tells me.

Fucker has been gone for a year now, yet he still gets airtime here.

[Dark Munster]

9 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Fucker has been gone for a year now, yet he still gets airtime here.

No he hasn't. As Alfie House recently confirmed, that f*cker is still Dragan's right hand man and his football "consultant".

Edit: I assume you're referring to Rasmus W. Ankersen. If not, apologies and carry on.

Edited 26 December, 2025 by Dark Munster

[Weston Super Saint]

8-0 win for Rangers today.  3 points away from the top spot.

Fuck all to do with the manager or tactics though!

[goodymatt]

35 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

8-0 win for Rangers today.  3 points away from the top spot.

Fuck all to do with the manager or tactics though!

We fumbled Rohl so bad.

[trousers]

40 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

8-0 win for Rangers today.  3 points away from the top spot.

Fuck all to do with the manager or tactics though!

Nonsense! It's all down to the quality of the players, innit...

[Midfield_General]

45 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

8-0 win for Rangers today.  3 points away from the top spot.

Fuck all to do with the manager or tactics though!

To be fair today was a cup game against bottom of the Scottish Championship. 

They could well win the league now though. Only three points off it now as you say, and Hearts have lost Shankland, their main goalscorer, for two months. Rangers are probably just about favourites, which considering the absolute catastrophe that Rohl inherited from Rusty, is an amazing achievement and entirely down to much, much better management of the same group of players. 

Edited Sunday at 17:32 by Midfield_General

[St. Ciervo]

Just another "what would have been"... right?

Jesse Marsch has made Canada a contender... Rohl revived Rangers... We are always just around the corner from getting it right. 

[Weston Super Saint]

n/t

Edited yesterday at 08:04 by Weston Super Saint

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, St. Ciervo said:

Just another "what would have been"... right?

Jesse Marsch has made Canada a contender... Rohl revived Rangers... We are always just around the corner from getting it right. 

Just around the corner from getting it right, or always choose the wrong option? 

[coalman]

On 08/02/2026 at 17:29, Midfield_General said:

To be fair today was a cup game against bottom of the Scottish Championship. 

They could well win the league now though. Only three points off it now as you say, and Hearts have lost Shankland, their main goalscorer, for two months. Rangers are probably just about favourites, which considering the absolute catastrophe that Rohl inherited from Rusty, is an amazing achievement and entirely down to much, much better management of the same group of players. 

The players Russ brought in that hadn't had a chance to gel yet before he was hounded out by the baying mob.

[Colinjb]

12 minutes ago, coalman said:

The players Russ brought in that hadn't had a chance to gel yet before he was hounded out by the baying mob.

If you end up with 'baying mobs' at more then one club, the clubs are not the problem.

[coalman]

22 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

If you end up with 'baying mobs' at more then one club, the clubs are not the problem.

It's the fans as Russ was so fond of telling us.

[Lord Duckhunter]

We’ve got baying nods…

[Midfield_General]

1 hour ago, coalman said:

It's the fans as Russ was so fond of telling us.

If you're not ready to clap along while watching 11 goals given away as a direct result of trying and failing to play out from the back, then you're an idiot who doesn't understand football.

And don't forget 'It's not tactical, it's mentality', delivered with that trademark condescending sneer. Especially after you've started a Premier League game with five centre forwards on the bench and none starting on the pitch (Bournemouth away - lost), or played a radical U-shape formation with literally no-one playing as a central forward and Ben Brereton Diaz as a tricky, flying wide man with chalk on his boots (Forest at home - lost).

It's never your tactics though is it Russ, oh dear me no. 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Cuddles]

2 hours ago, coalman said:

The players Russ brought in that hadn't had a chance to gel yet before he was hounded out by the baying mob.

Weird they gelled literally as soon as he left 😂

[Doctoroncall]

1 hour ago, Midfield_General said:

If you're not ready to clap along while watching 11 goals given away as a direct result of trying and failing to play out from the back, then you're an idiot who doesn't understand football.

And don't forget 'It's not tactical, it's mentality', delivered with that trademark condescending sneer. Especially after you've started a Premier League game with five centre forwards on the bench and none starting on the pitch (Bournemouth away - lost), or played a radical U-shape formation with literally no-one playing as a central forward and Ben Brereton Diaz as a tricky, flying wide man with chalk on his boots (Forest at home - lost).

It's never your tactics though is it Russ, oh dear me no. 

 

If only his pay was linked to performance, I don’t think he would have been such an arse. 

[Zorba]

Everytime this thread gets bumped i keep hoping to see he’s gone to Leicester. Please let him be unveiled tonight 🙏🏼

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 hours ago, Colinjb said:

If you end up with 'baying mobs' at more then one club, the clubs are not the problem.

Perhaps it was the time to move on from possession based football.

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, Cuddles said:

Weird they gelled literally as soon as he left 😂

He healed the scar tissue

he cured their anxiety 

he made them believe 

his thanks were moaning fans and the sack just like with us. If only people were more grateful and not so entitled they would have seen it click 

[Midfield_General]

36 minutes ago, Turkish said:

He healed the scar tissue

he cured their anxiety 

he made them believe 

his thanks were moaning fans and the sack just like with us. If only people were more grateful and not so entitled they would have seen it click 

and it would have been so, so beautiful

after all, they were training like beasts 

[SNSUN]

3 hours ago, Zorba said:

Everytime this thread gets bumped i keep hoping to see he’s gone to Leicester. Please let him be unveiled tonight 🙏🏼

On the pitch, in front of the Saints fans. 😜

 

Wait, has he got a brother? Cos Watford might be interested!

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Midfield_General said:

and it would have been so, so beautiful

after all, they were training like beasts 

He’d have been so proud of them. The way they were brave, so much love for the team.