Russell Martin

[saintant]

1 hour ago, SambaMaverick said:

Changed style to save his own skin yet again

Coward

Yeah, he clearly realised he had to change his style and also drop Aarons and Rothwell to compete against Celtic. Rangers were better for it by being less easy to create chances against but had little threat themselves with zero shots on target. It will be interesting to see if he now reverts back to Russball which is often the case because he'll still expect his way to roll over most teams in the SPL other than Celtic so this might be a one off.

[tdmickey3]

How can the man of principled principles give up on them so obviously….. perhaps he’s a bullshitter

However it was still shit game

[Harry_SFC]

1 hour ago, egg said:

That doesn't make sense to be fair.

He used tactics. Different ones. There's never a football match without some sort of tactics being used. 

What I meant was that every time he abandons "russball" his teams seem to get a result. So why got back to using the tactics that don't seem to work?

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Harry_SFC said:

What I meant was that every time he abandons "russball" his teams seem to get a result. So why got back to using the tactics that don't seem to work?

Because he is an arrogant prick

[sockeye]

The principles are more like a brand to market himself with. He can recognise the games where he is required to perform seriously and abandons them accordingly. So he's not totally stupid. Personally I think he's just a mediocre manager but by leveraging his brand and character he can get jobs way above his station. I reckon he thinks that too.

[LGTL]

28 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

What I meant was that every time he abandons "russball" his teams seem to get a result. So why got back to using the tactics that don't seem to work?

Because he’s interested in Russell Martin FC. Couldn’t give a shit about Rangers, just like Southampton, Swansea and MK Dons before them.