Russell Martin - Confirmed as First Team Manager

[winteriscoming]

He desperately needs to get off to a decent start. 
Not only for himself personally but also to a least try and get majority of fans behind him. 
Hope I’m wrong but I don’t have a lot of confidence that we will. 
 

[Merchant_Banker]

13 minutes ago, dayday said:

Rodgers at first was brilliant the press , the movement but for whatever reason he stopped doing what served him well and that was the beginning of his downfall 

 

I also think he got the arse when the board wouldn’t give him any funds in the summer 

 

 

The problem was he said the squad needed a major rebuild then he found out the club had no money. So he had just told the players they weren’t good enough then had try to get a performance out of them. 🙁

[Lesta2014]

Week into appointment and backroom team not announced, needs to hurry up so they can get to work as I’m guessing pre season starts a week on Monday? 

[Claridge]

15 minutes ago, dayday said:

Rodgers at first was brilliant the press , the movement but for whatever reason he stopped doing what served him well and that was the beginning of his downfall 

 

I also think he got the arse when the board wouldn’t give him any funds in the summer 

 

 

Rodgers was spot on when he said we needed to buy a few players. With what's gone on since, I think he was probably lied to by the board.

Still don't like him though

[JimJams]

1 hour ago, Claridge said:

Rodgers was spot on when he said we needed to buy a few players. With what's gone on since, I think he was probably lied to by the board.

Still don't like him though

When you look at the team Rodgers used, he spent loads of money only to play the players brought in by Puel.  Although it was likely more a case of not having any money to continue spending, even if we were awash with it I'm not sure you'd want to be letting Brendan spend any of it.  I'm not giving him Youri, cos that was a Puel catch initially.  So Fofana, JJ and arguably Castagne.

[cropstonfox]

11 minutes ago, JimJams said:

When you look at the team Rodgers used, he spent loads of money only to play the players brought in by Puel.  Although it was likely more a case of not having any money to continue spending, even if we were awash with it I'm not sure you'd want to be letting Brendan spend any of it.  I'm not giving him Youri, cos that was a Puel catch initially.  So Fofana, JJ and arguably Castagne.

Spot on,he squandered millions and we are still recovering.Not sacking him earlier was the biggest mistake by Top and Rudders. 

The start of the downward spiral.

[Ric Flair]

3 hours ago, STEVIE B said:

A season or 2 of mid-table mediocrity in The Championship isn't necessarily a bad thing. Out of the spotlight, no dramas etc. I can't remember many seasons in the last 20/25 when our nerves haven't been shredded. 

That was basically 2010-12 albeit a brief scare from Sousa.

[coolhandfox]

8 hours ago, STEVIE B said:

A season or 2 of mid-table mediocrity in The Championship isn't necessarily a bad thing. Out of the spotlight, no dramas etc. I can't remember many seasons in the last 20/25 when our nerves haven't been shredded. 

Depends what you are doing in that time, if you are overspending on wages and not achieving you are just growing debt.

 

If you are being sensible and bring though youth, developing player and selling on at a profit to improve I agree.

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by coolhandfox

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4 hours ago, Claridge said:

Rodgers was spot on when he said we needed to buy a few players. With what's gone on since, I think he was probably lied to by the board.

Still don't like him though

100% he was lied to aswell as Enzo (no signings in Jan) and even Ruud (Woyo as our only signing). We forget that Rudkin and Top, on top of all their other faults, are 2 very dishonest people, who've been lying and winging it for years. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Rodgers bemoaning the need for new signings was correct but by that time the wiggle room we had was so small because of the autonomy we gave him and his men on transfers. We couldn't buy anyone because we'd spent so much on shite on his watch. Both he and Congerton were as complicit as Rudkin and Aiyawatt for how we'd snookered ourselves in the transfer market.

[Claudio Fannieri]

20 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Rodgers bemoaning the need for new signings was correct but by that time the wiggle room we had was so small because of the autonomy we gave him and his men on transfers. We couldn't buy anyone because we'd spent so much on shite on his watch. Both he and Congerton were as complicit as Rudkin and Aiyawatt for how we'd snookered ourselves in the transfer market.

The summer we spunked a fortune on Soumare, Daka, Bertrand and Vesty all on ridiculous wages absolutely killed us and from then on and meant when we really needed a refresh we were had well and truly bollocksed, Rodgers conveniently forgot all that to paddle the mantra he wasn’t being supported. 

[Foxdiamond]

Russell Martin thread quickly turns to Rodgers, Enzo, Puel 

[SafewayFox]

8 hours ago, Lesta2014 said:

Week into appointment and backroom team not announced, needs to hurry up so they can get to work as I’m guessing pre season starts a week on Monday? 

This is what actually winds me up most about Martin’s appointment, I feel odd saying that out loud.

 

As others have stated, I would haven’t chosen him but I at least thought that the club may have learnt from their mistakes by not trying to get a manager to work with these Sunday league level coaches.

 

If Reeves, Sadler and Hughes are all still here, we’re cooked.

 

 

[cropstonfox]

3 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

The summer we spunked a fortune on Soumare, Daka, Bertrand and Vesty all on ridiculous wages absolutely killed us and from then on and meant when we really needed a refresh we were had well and truly bollocksed, Rodgers conveniently forgot all that to paddle the mantra he wasn’t being supported. 

Rogers was actually worse than the other 

Pair of ****s. 

But they've give him a run for his money recently..

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[Vlad the Fox]

1 hour ago, SafewayFox said:

This is what actually winds me up most about Martin’s appointment, I feel odd saying that out loud.

 

As others have stated, I would haven’t chosen him but I at least thought that the club may have learnt from their mistakes by not trying to get a manager to work with these Sunday league level coaches.

 

If Reeves, Sadler and Hughes are all still here, we’re cooked.

 

 

Agree. Didn’t want him but the clowns running the club have now got to get behind him and let him bring his own team in to give him every opportunity to succeed.

[Mike1983]

Possession for possession's sake might work in league one with superior resources. 

 

Martin press conferences are like asking ChatGPT to insert Linkedin buzz words.

 

Pure garbage of a manager, so of course he's managing LCFC!

[Tommy G]

When does pre season start?