League One - Who manages us?

[HP1]

5 minutes ago, DezFox said:

Source? 

Just a guess. Like others have said, RM would be a poor choice in many ways, so they might be putting it out there to then only employ someone else who is already out of work but doesn't quite generate the same furore.

[kingfox]

The fact they are seemingly trying to persuade Martin, just goes to show how thick our board is.

 

Two seasons of capitulation, where a broken fanbase needs galvanising and motivated, to the point where the club needs to build attendances back up.

 

Russell Martin isn’t the answer to those three things. 
 

His style of football has run it’s course at this football club, a large section of the fanbase are bored with it.

 

The club will turn more fans away if it’s Russell. 
 

Seeing his face on the back of today’s Leicester Mercury is depressing enough.

[AKCJ]

June and no manager.

 

Can we get a ****ing move on for once please?

Edited Monday at 09:33 by AKCJ

[Tuna]

About time posters were banned for vagueposting just a name and "incoming". Silly, juvenile behaviour.

[GrobyLCFC31]

3 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Like Cooper? 

 

How many players league 1 standard can play his football well enough to be effective? How many championship players can play it well? Not many. This is the reason this doesn't make any sense. His stats aren't great over a number of years. 

 

Thisan would be a disaster and his football won't work in league 1. We need to be direct robust and that everything Martins 'tactics' are not. 

 

Another short sightedness from board. I hoped with McCarron we would have a wider net to look at potential managers, but if we end up with the usual suspects, nothing has/will change, not a single lesson has been learnt from the last 4/5 years. 

 

Please let it be bull bottom, because that is what it'll be be 

I agree with you, tight pitches, everyone’s cup final it’s going to be an absolute slog for 46 games 

Chanillor is my pick but I can’t be us being in for him unfortunately 

[Chelmofox]

20 minutes ago, kingfox said:

His style of football has run it’s course at this football club, a large section of the fanbase are bored with it.

The thing is, we haven’t been playing Russell ball. Martin dials up possession football ball to 11. 
 

It’s like the board have decided the problem isn’t the style, it’s we aren’t committed enough to it. 

Edited Monday at 09:47 by Chelmofox

[Ric Flair]

Got it on good authority we haven't even spoken to Brussell this time around. However, I have always been convinced he ends up here at some point and staggered it hasn't happened yet.

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Got it on good authority we haven't even spoken to Brussell this time around. However, I have always been convinced he ends up here at some point and staggered it hasn't happened yet.

Is this because we are not interested, or because we haven't spoken to anyone at all (other than Rowett??)

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Have it on good authority that no news will happen this week.

[winteriscoming]

I hope we’ve at least spoken to other managers who have no previous connection with Southampton. 
I somehow doubt it. 

[Iwebema]

I wondered if they will be looking for a biggish name, someone that will pull in some global/commercial attention.

 

Rather than someone like Challinor, perhaps Steven Gerrard. 

 

As always there arent many leaks but I am getting a bit concerned we are in June now and all I have heard is Russell Martin, I actually dont think it will be him, I think he will try and rebuild his reputation abroad where a fan base may have less preconceptions about him.

[ClaphamFox]

9 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Got it on good authority we haven't even spoken to Brussell this time around. However, I have always been convinced he ends up here at some point and staggered it hasn't happened yet.

Alan Nixon, who first reported our interest in Martin, was weirdly distancing himself from the story last night. If it turns out that all of those—including me—who have lost their heads over this rumour have been getting into a complete paddy over nothing, today will be a good day  

[HankMarvin]

4 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

perhaps Steven Gerrard. 

12/1 for the Liverpool Job I think he can do better than a league one team.
I’m sure some top end championship team at the very least would want him, hoping he can do a “Lampard” 

[Wink84]

Cba to look through, can anyone update me if were lose to signing a new manager yet? Or even rumoured interest from us?

[ClaphamFox]

9 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

12/1 for the Liverpool Job I think he can do better than a league one team.
I’m sure some top end championship team at the very least would want him, hoping he can do a “Lampard” 

Any club who does this deserves everything it gets.

[teblin]

5 minutes ago, Wink84 said:

Cba to look through, can anyone update me if were lose to signing a new manager yet? Or even rumoured interest from us?

Nope not really, some really loose rumours about Russell Martin, but thats about it really.

[RoboFox]

12 hours ago, BlueBus said:

Baffles me why they treat Southampton as such a well-oiled machine that we should take all their players and management. We're 0 from 4 with Bertrand, Vestegaard, Glover and Aribo in terms of successes. 

It's been said before but I'm absolutely certain that it's because Rudkin is so ill-informed and poorly regarded in football that he just relies on Glover's contacts who was previously there. 

 

Our talent pool is basically Wasserman and Southampton. 

[winteriscoming]

I could see us going for Ruben Selles. 
Ticks the boxes with these clowns. 
Previously at Southampton and has experience in league 1. 

[MPH]

We are not going to get the ‘ finished article’ manager in league 1. It’s either going to be a relatively unknown or someone with a damaged reputation and a point to prove.

 

i can actually see it being Martin. Hopefully just on just a 2 year deal so that we can get  the manager we need when on the ascendancy..

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Chelmofox said:

Is this because we are not interested, or because we haven't spoken to anyone at all (other than Rowett??)

No idea mate, all thats been said is we haven't spoken to him this time around.

[LCFCCKEANO]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

No idea mate, all thats been said is we haven't spoken to him this time around.

Could be his agent circulating interest to try to push an offer through from another interested club? That would be nice

[cityfanlee23]

1 hour ago, kingfox said:

The fact they are seemingly trying to persuade Martin, just goes to show how thick our board is.

 

Two seasons of capitulation, where a broken fanbase needs galvanising and motivated, to the point where the club needs to build attendances back up.

 

Russell Martin isn’t the answer to those three things. 
 

His style of football has run it’s course at this football club, a large section of the fanbase are bored with it.

 

The club will turn more fans away if it’s Russell. 
 

Seeing his face on the back of today’s Leicester Mercury is depressing enough.

At this point I might be one of them, simply cannot be bothered anymore, I haven't been to games regularly for a long time, can't see it changing any time soon. I'm a 2 hour one way trip.
It's an interesting tactical approach, I get the strategy, but I watch this sport to be entertained. 
I watch F1 because it entertains me, I don't watch Tennis because it doesn't. For far too long I've planned my weekends around watching a Football club that doesn't entertain me, not sure I can be bothered wasting my time on it much longer if we bring in RM. I've followed F1 since the 90s growing up as a "side sport" but over the last 5-6 years, it's taken a far bigger portion of my attention than it has in previous years. 

Happy for those that want to watch it, but I'm not tribal enough about the club to waste my weekends watching football I despise. Love this club to death, but I respect my time more. The club right now feels a little bit like that conspiracy theorist relative that you love because they are family but avoid them because of their nonsense. 

Edited Monday at 11:03 by cityfanlee23

[LCFCJohn]

4 hours ago, ian__marshall said:

I agree that defensively his sides aren't the best. That said we were horrendous defensively last season and had he been in charge I don't think we'd have conceded more goals. 

 

The upside to his style of play is his teams score a similar amount of goals than they concede. Both Hull and Wrexham conceded a similar amount of goals this season as ourselves, but scored as many as they conceded. One made the playoffs and will now play PL football, the other missed out on the playoffs by 2 points. 

 

Yes, we were seriously crap at the back last season, but arguably our failing wasn't defending, rather our inability to score goals. 

To be fair, and playing devils advocate, you can also see where a club has scored a lot

less like Millwall and finished in a strong position because of their defensive record. We were similar in our title season with all those 1-0’s and the defence seeing us through those fixtures.

 

If you can’t get both right, you have to get one, I’m not sure it matter which. Our probably was both ends, well across the pitch in true. Personally I felt the defence cost us massively with the points we through away. 

[Happy Fox]

John Mousinho would be the standout name if we could prise him from Portsmouth but he will go to a club on the up and certainly not us.

[Bluearmyfox28]

18 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

No idea mate, all thats been said is we haven't spoken to him this time around.

Any names mentioned @Ric Flair ? I’m intrigued on @CruzNoir Challinor comment, source or opinion?