Martin Out

[Chrysalis]

2 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

No but RM is putting us at risk of League two.

 

As will the replacement who plays the same way.

[Foxdiamond]

What is wrong with the fools. This is self destruction. 

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

What is wrong with the fools. This is self destruction. 

Scarcely believable isn't it

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, PhillippaT said:

But is that truly HIS failure, or the people that hire him?

Both. Both are abject failures. How on earth can you look at his CV and think, yes, he's the man for us?

[Cincinnati Fox]

Every team fans seem to say best game we have played in x years!

Thats how easy we are to play against

 

absolutely disgusting 

[Cincinnati Fox]

2 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Both. Both are abject failures. How on earth can you look at his CV and think, yes, he's the man for us?

70 %
165 shots in 5 games

play like Man City 

[Parafox]

Just now, Cincinnati Fox said:

70 %
165 shots in 5 games

play like Man City 

But don't and we can't. It's all pie in the sky, fantasy football. It's going to be our downfall until somebody takes over and kicks these ****s out of our once formidable club.

[Dan]

6 hours ago, murphy said:

He may be the worst manager in the world but you have to admit it was a masterstroke appointment by Rudkin.  It's taken the heat right away from him 

I think this was partly why they did it.

[Parafox]

2 minutes ago, Dan said:

I think this was partly why they did it.

In which case they are corrupt and should be hounded out but that won't happen. They have no shame. They take no responsibility. They just take from us for their own self interests. Horrible, horrible individuals. 

And what's just as bad, is that those alongside them just let it slide. Is there no-one with a backbone to stand up to them? 

Is it any wonder fans are angry and frustrated. We are invested in, and value our club. They couldn't give a toss as long as they are in an "important" position in a (could be any) football club.

The appointment of Martin sealed it for me. We all could see his career path and his abject failures, yet the board or the person/persons with the most power, ignored that and approved his appointment anyway. 

Disgraceful, short-sighted,  ignorant, blind to the facts and stupid to employ this non-entity of a "manager".

They should be ashamed. They don't represent us and we despise them. Let's get divorced. We'd be much happier in the long run.

[PAULCFC]

23 minutes ago, Dan said:

I think this was partly why they did it.

Exatly....No other explaination for it.......Nobody wanted him in the first place(Bournemouth away).....it just takes the heat of the people at the top.And to be honest when you are a crap manager married to a ex page 3 wife and going to get £2 million as a severence payout i doubt he's bothered about wining football games at all.......He will go on to punditery or pick up a job abroad.......nice work if you can get it!

Edited Saturday at 23:49 by PAULCFC

[The Year Of The Fox]

This whole sham of possession football philosophy is taught from a really young age these days. It’s wrongly seen as ‘the only way to play’ 

 

My points being that I’m not sure our academy graduates would be able to alter their style accordingly to much more direct football under a different manager  

 

The other point is that because it’s been so deeply ingrained from a young age it’s likely our next batch of graduates will be the same, and the one after them, and the next etc

 

 A little footnote required for those on here who need it- that does not mean I’m wanting Martin to stay. 

[AdcockFox]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/russell-martin-rangers-leicester-crisis-37758604
 

 

[Gamble92]

Imagine in the 90s saying I have one tactic and I will relentlessly stick to it even when I get beat at home by Burton, Oxford and Peterborough. 
 

it’s incredible he’s been able to get this many jobs. I think if we stuck Ric Flair on the touchline with a crate of Stella it wouldn’t be much worse.

[fox_favourite]

Looking at yesterday up until half time as that is when I left, patterns of play have stopped. There isn't any coherent attacking style, bar get it to the wingers who are then isolated. Go back as that's the only option or put a crap cross in. That's it. 

 

As there isn't any pattern, we end up going sideways and backwards because no one knows who is supposed to do the box crashing run so the all stop, or get in each others way. This causes stray passes, and easy to counter attack. 

 

Savage isn't a tactical genius, he was using basic setup that a Sunday league team could do. But that is all you need to do...give it to the fastest winger and run. That's it as there is so much space. 

 

 

Faffing football got us relegated 3 times and it's happening again. This was the season to modernise and bring in a forward thinking coach. But they are incapable of doing that. 

 

Until he's gone it's not going to improve and we can't afford to give him more time. I hate we're having to change manager again, but that's on the club. Will they get it right next time...? Nope, and relegation is now a real worry. 

Edited Sunday at 04:53 by fox_favourite

[Glovermagic555]

The only reason Martin was appointed as our manager was because there was no one else at the time. Any sane person with an ounce of football knowledge would have seen what he did at Rangers and wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole.

 

He was a total disaster at Ibrox and rubbed everyone up the wrong way, always blaming the players and then even the fans and then the board. 

He has no class, and is certainly not cut out to be a manager. A moment of madness by the LCFC board appointing this misfit.

 

Time to get rid of him and NOW.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 05:03 by Glovermagic555

[Glovermagic555]

5 hours ago, Parafox said:

Both. Both are abject failures. How on earth can you look at his CV and think, yes, he's the man for us?

Did no one consider the abject failure Martin was at Rangers where he pissed off everyone, including the entire squad?? Some sort of death wish appointing him. 

 

The bloke also has no shame,  talks absolute jiberish, has terrible tactics and then blames his players who are a bunch of clue-less kids. Until the owners are replaced and this fool is got rid of, this dire situation will remain the same. MARTIN OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dayday]

There was a spell in the first half where we had 100 passes and the fans was singing ole, ole to every pass and nothing came from it , i turned to my mate and said that is us in a nutshell, im so hoping he gets the bullet today , and Top was there at the match I believe, and even he can see this guy is not the right manager for the club 

[Glovermagic555]

On 08/06/2026 at 05:09, Nolucklcfc said:

I can’t stand the style of football but if he promotes youth and bombs out the deadwood then I’ll tolerate him 

And then we will be in League 2

[FrankieADZ]

21 minutes ago, Glovermagic555 said:

The only reason Martin was appointed as our manager was because there was no one else at the time. Any sane person with an ounce of football knowledge would have seen what he did at Rangers and wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole.

 

He was a total disaster at Ibrox and rubbed everyone up the wrong way, always blaming the players and then even the fans and then the board. 

He has no class, and is certainly not cut out to be a manager. A moment of madness by the LCFC board appointing this misfit.

 

Time to get rid of him and NOW.

 

 

there was, dave challinor was about, pretty sure he'd have done a better job than the idiot we have in charge atm

 

woke up and hes still not gone

 

Top/King Power writting the handbook on how to destroy a football club

[SafewayFox]

A quick Google search and only 7 clubs in League One spent money in the summer.

 

With our spending contributing to nearly half.

 

Yet, we have zero pace and athleticism after all that.

 

Imagine bringing in Cleary and another one of the better wingers in the league, I guarantee that they’d be better than Burns/Howell and sadly Alves.

 

They’re not helped with lack of attacking patterns but it’s a tough watch when they can’t beat a man.

[damolcfc]

23 minutes ago, Glovermagic555 said:

And then we will be in League 2

But we can't win league 2 if we not in it.... and so many new grounds 😝🫣

[Claudio Fannieri]

Enough is enough, this is panning out as many first feared when he was appointed, the out dated style being so easy to play against and being so ineffective. 
 

We have now had our arses handed to us by Burton Albion, Oxford United and Peterborough United on our home turf scoring 2 goals and conceding 9 and the most concerning part is the Manager has learnt nothing and changed nothing. 
 

This obsession of over coaching players to play such a style where we play possession based football for the sake of it, over play and invariably get bullied, out ran, out fought and out thought. 
 

The whole blue print of how we want to play should have been ripped up once Enzo left, instead we have appointed manager after manager to try and replicate it and it’s been an unmitigated disaster.

 

It has to change today, the so called leadership team have to accept its not sustainable and accept we have to take a different direction, bring in someone like Challinor or Fuchs and start to rewrite the narrative. Otherwise we will end up in league 2 if we don’t end up in administration first. 

[Aus Fox]

Competition time… After which game did Russel make this comment? 
 

[StriderHiryu]

24 minutes ago, SafewayFox said:

A quick Google search and only 7 clubs in League One spent money in the summer.

 

With our spending contributing to nearly half.

 

Yet, we have zero pace and athleticism after all that.

 

Imagine bringing in Cleary and another one of the better wingers in the league, I guarantee that they’d be better than Burns/Howell and sadly Alves.

 

They’re not helped with lack of attacking patterns but it’s a tough watch when they can’t beat a man.

For me this is truly unforgivable and shows the lack of knowledge from Rudkin, McCaron and Glover. Arteta at Arsenal has shown the importance of physicality and athleticism in the modern game, even Pep moved away from positional play and Iraola at Bournemouth showed the importance of being able to win duels. 
 

We’ve been punished hard over the last few seasons for not being able to see the trends in football. Since Enzo won us the Championship, teams in the Championship and now even League One have clocked onto the importance of developing fast wingers to exploit high lines and full backs who vacate their position. 
 

A good sporting director could have used this summer as a massive opportunity to totally overhaul the squad DNA to be able to play a more modern style and give us potentially a good leg up for the Championship. Instead the reality is that we’ve replaced all the players who stunk out the gaff with players of the same profile. Literally just repeating the same mistakes again. 
 

I am shocked we’ve been this bad. What we’re seeing now is how it was always going to end, but I assumed this season we’d be OK because compared to the rest of the league we have the deepest and most expensive squad. I thought we’d get found out when we came up against squads in the Championship that matched ours and then we’d see that this squad and style setup is flawed. But we are speed running the entire process and it’s terrifying. 
 

Our directors are too weak and the manager too stubborn. The easiest and most obvious fix is to stop playing a high line and focus on being more compact off the ball. Stop a simple ball over the top from causing chaos, build up a solid defensive foundation and take it from there. But it won’t happen and the inevitable is just waiting to happen. 

[Gamble92]

12 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Someone post the links to the Rangers fan the first time we were linked how we were all horrified long before he got the Rangers job 

Is that the Rangers fan who hasn’t developed grammatical skills and types like he’s sat in a corner of a pub like Father Jack?