Russell Martin - Confirmed as First Team Manager

[indierich06]

Well he's here now, so may as well get behind him. There needs to be some serious incomings and outgoings now, we've got the manager situation sorted, we literally can't afford to hang around. Need to give him a squad that can get us out of this league, and if he truly wants a cultural reset then there are about 5-10 players who need to be bombed out before the players return for pre-season. 

[Ricey]

He'll either take us up and the hierarchy will all be patting themselves on the back and filling open top buses with Thai influencers, regardless of how we do it and what it means for our chances in Championship, or he'll get sacked by Christmas and they'll put all of the blame on the toxicity from the fans.

 

My prediction is that he will get us up, but it will be awful. The atmosphere will be flat and we'll have a few runs during the season that will surface all of the toxicity that exists right now. The club will celebrate it like it's our greatest achievement, but no one will be optimistic going into the Championship. He'll then be gone by October the following season, leaving us with no money to spend and a squad ill-suited to anyone else. It will then take us 4 weeks to hire Lee Johnson.

Edited 46 minutes ago by Ricey

[Mike Oxlong]

That morning after feeling 

 

 

[foxgas]

Ok he wouldn't have been my first choice, but neither was Pearson or Ranieri, so I will reserve judgement till I see what sort of squad he can cobble together to play his style of football. One thing I do know is that after the last two seasons things can't get much worse.

[Clever Fox]

Not happy with this appointment, I feel we could have done so much better. Haven't we learn't anything in giving out 3 year Contracts to people who have continued to fail.

 

I just hope he smat enough to bring in a Defensive Coach. Then maybe he might just win over some Fans with results.

[JimJams]

[Greg2607]

4 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Not happy with this appointment, I feel we could have done so much better. Haven't we learn't anything in giving out 3 year Contracts to people who have continued to fail.

 

I just hope he smat enough to bring in a Defensive Coach. Then maybe he might just win over some Fans with results.

who else would you have gone with?? i'm not being pedantic... I'm just interested.... 

 

Who were the truly realistic prospects that would have been happy to manage us in League One, with no money and a boat load of expectation??  

 

I'm no fan of the Martin Appointment (rFm) but I also don't know who else we could have secured... 

[Finnegan]

This might seem pedantic to some but given this is the first appointment since we brought in McCarron and supposedly restructured, it annoys me that it doesn't say "confirmed as the new First Team Head Coach." 

 

If we still think he's the manager we haven't learned a lot. 

 

[theadmans]

Apparently Martin is a Buddhist...

 

...so maybe he can get the Thai monks back!

[ClaphamFox]

42 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

who else would you have gone with?? i'm not being pedantic... I'm just interested.... 

 

Who were the truly realistic prospects that would have been happy to manage us in League One, with no money and a boat load of expectation??  

 

I'm no fan of the Martin Appointment (rFm) but I also don't know who else we could have secured... 

We go round and round in circles on this. Dave Challinor has just left Stockport and has a flawless record of getting his teams into the play-off places at least every season. He would almost certainly have been obtainable as well.