Russell Martin

[Raj]

Not all bad...might see Lucy in Haymarket shopping centre!!

 

[Raj]

3 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Following the club.

 

I don't spend time in here now because of shite like this.

But here you area...cant resist!!

[sylofox]

Top " Jon do you think the fans will like this?"

Rudkin " sure if not we'll just give them a free beer and a donut"

 

Top " I'm starting to think they would appreciate razor blades more"

[SouthamptonGoMad]

In all seriousness it genuinely wasn't his fault that we've sank like a brick in the ocean in the Premier League  It was pure and simply because we were shit on so many more levels than just the coaching staff I can assure you.

 

With a few not too drastic adjustments (hanging on to Prowse and Danny Ings might have helped 🤦), it almost possibly maybe could have sorted of worked. Cutting out stupid passing from inside the 6yd box would have cured a hell of a lot of it, as would have having a defence brave enough to receive it.

 

He'll get you out the championship.

 

Good luck guys. See you on the other side.

 

UTS

 

 

Edited 21 May 2025 by SouthamptonGoMad

[Guest Bilo]

Just now, SouthamptonGoMad said:

In all seriousness it genuinely wasn't his fault that we've sank like a brick in the ocean in the Premier League  It was pure and simply because we were shit on so many more levels than just the coaching staff I can assure you.

 

With a few not too drastic adjustments (Ward prouse and Danny Ings would have helped 🤦), it almost possibly maybe could have sorted of worked. Cutting out stupid passing from inside the 6yd box would have cured a hell of a lot of it, as would have having a defence.

 

He'll get you out the championship.

 

Good luck guys. See you on the other side.

 

UTS

 

 

 

[st albans fox]

19 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Saints had that clown Bazunu, so wouldn’t worry there 

He was supposed to be v  capable with his feet but the Martin style is so rigid that finding someone who can manage it will be v tough 

[Harboro]

Martin, multiple attempts to get Potter, Cooper, Rodgers, even Sousa - can they really not be more imaginative than looking at a list of people who’ve managed Swansea

[Lambert09]

13 minutes ago, 87fox said:

While I agree with your sentiment I would imagine it's going to be be both Vardy's £140k off the books and as many of the Soumare, Faes, Daka, Vestegaards (etc) as we can shift, too. Not either/or.

No matter how amazing he is, you can’t afford to be paying anyone 70k in the championship… and he will absolutely get that or more at a different club.  The club would almost be embarrassed to offer him 20-30k and that’s probably all we can do now. 
 

 

[Will1981]

42 minutes ago, Jacob7839 said:

I wish we could protest outside the stadium but I'm afraid not enough would turn up guaranteed 

Most of them would leave early anyway.

[Xen]

6 minutes ago, Harboro said:

Martin, multiple attempts to get Potter, Cooper, Rodgers, even Sousa - can they really not be more imaginative than looking at a list of people who’ve managed Swansea

Give them some credit, it's not just Swansea they look at.

They've decided that rather than just the unwanted players at Southampton, we'll have the unwanted manager too. 😂

[It'sblueupnorth]

If this is true I’ll quite literally be going to 4/5 games tops, all away just so I can tick the ground off. **** the board

[Foxin_Mad]

22 minutes ago, SouthamptonGoMad said:

In all seriousness it genuinely wasn't his fault that we've sank like a brick in the ocean in the Premier League  It was pure and simply because we were shit on so many more levels than just the coaching staff I can assure you.

 

With a few not too drastic adjustments (hanging on to Prowse and Danny Ings might have helped 🤦), it almost possibly maybe could have sorted of worked. Cutting out stupid passing from inside the 6yd box would have cured a hell of a lot of it, as would have having a defence brave enough to receive it.

 

He'll get you out the championship.

 

Good luck guys. See you on the other side.

 

UTS

 

 

Sounds familiar sadly we are shit on even more levels 

 

We have Faes who can not defend, most of our defence can’t defend. A midfield can’t midfield and no strikers who can shoot. What could go wrong!

 

Sure he will take us far away from the Championship…League 1

Edited 21 May 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[Gloria]

Russell Martin? Really?

[Kp1984]

3 hours ago, Lad1966 said:

Makes no sense. Currently we are under investigation for PSR, so would we sack RVN, In fact we are likely to keep RVN, rather then Pay compensation. I think is a duff rumour( hoping)  

What not under investigation for PSR we have been for the season we loop holed are way out of a points deduction when we was last in the championship. They changed the rules and now think they can charge us for it. So sacking RVN won’t matter as long as we sell and stay within the threshold 

[Raj]

25 minutes ago, SouthamptonGoMad said:

In all seriousness it genuinely wasn't his fault that we've sank like a brick in the ocean in the Premier League  It was pure and simply because we were shit on so many more levels than just the coaching staff I can assure you.

 

With a few not too drastic adjustments (hanging on to Prowse and Danny Ings might have helped 🤦), it almost possibly maybe could have sorted of worked. Cutting out stupid passing from inside the 6yd box would have cured a hell of a lot of it, as would have having a defence brave enough to receive it.

 

He'll get you out the championship.

 

Good luck guys. See you on the other side.

 

UTS

 

 

Do you want Vestergaard back???

 

[Kp1984]

3 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said:

We don’t really want someone who did pretty well, he did dogshit against us, any team that can taking a spanking like that is a worry. Rudd might do pretty well in the Championship it’s a sideways move

What evidence you drawing on to say RVN could do good in the championship 

[An Away Move]

2 hours ago, Pratlinho said:

Swans fan in peace.

 

For our sakes I hope this is true. We've got our own ambitions to return to the Premier League and having one of our likely rivals for that managed by Russell Martin can only help our cause.

 

For your sakes I hope it doesn't happen. He's easily the Swans manager I've loathed the most in his time at the club. An arrogant, stubborn, tactically idiotic buffoon with a complete inability to get the best out of the players at his disposal and total willingness to blame them when things go wrong.

 

He may play some youth players but he will chuck them under the bus at the first opportunity if he can shift responsibility for failure from himself in the process.

 

He's far from the nice guy his cheerleaders in the media enable him to portray himself as too.

Brendan Rodgers 2.0 then. 

[Lambert09]

For the players Martin is

 

good for:

winks

ricardo

vestergaarde

soumare

fatawu

mavi 

nelson

alves

monga

evans 

hermansen 

 

 

bad for:

coady 

Justin

okoli 

daka

Skipp

ndidi (possibly) 

bdr

ayew 

 

 

others don’t really land either side of it. or unsure.   
 

We spent a summer undoing enzos work to revert back to it.  I don’t think it’s an awful decision by the club but I’m really not looking forward to it.  What I will say is that I’d be worried to be a defender at this club because Martin’s system makes you look complete horse sh*t. And considering how bad they just were… I don’t think many fans will stay calm when JJ rolls a ball to a striker on the penalty spot 

[80footgiraffe]

ITt's pretty spectacular that the only team worse than us in the division this season is seen as a scouting opportunity for a new manager. He's so ****ing David Brent it's unreal. Look at Rohl, or someone abroad with an interesting ethos. Look at Heitinga ffs.

[OadbyBlue]

Top must be stuck in 2013 when Southampton were the model club to try and emulate.
 

Really is ridiculous how many of their cast offs in terms of both players and staff we have taken since appointing Puel, especially when we have finished above them in every single one of those seasons. I’m sure Russell will finally be the man to break that trend.

[Pratlinho]

9 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

Brendan Rodgers 2.0 then. 

You won't find many who will speak ill of Brendan in these parts.

 

Martin has his defenders here too, but they're all a bit weird and most of them have gone very quiet over the last twelve months.

[Leicester_Loyal]

I’m done with the football club. Martin is a honking manager, get KP out now! 

[Dahnsouff]

 assume this is not confirmed then

[Grebfromgrebland]

Whoever we go for I'm going to give them a chance and hope for the best. 

 

 

[lcfcbluearmy]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Rather get rid of about 4 other players to recoup approx £140k/w.

 

Soumare at 80k is worth binning off. 

I imagine Faes is on about 50k?

Daka similar. There we go - 180k/w off the books. 

We probably need to do that as well