Russell Martin

[Dillwyn the Dog]

Russ publicly rebuking his players today. Didn't take long. That'll engender team spirit. Any bollockings should be in the dressing room. It's going to end in tears.

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"We had too many on the pitch today who just did what they wanted to do. When you want to just jog around, there’s a big problem. Some of them have to drop their ego. I’ll look at us tactically and accept my responsibility but today wasn’t really tactical, it was a mentality problem.

Today, we go ahead and play some OK stuff. Every time we get in the final third, we turn the ball over and make crazy decisions. They’re either selfish decisions or they’re based on anxiety, so we need to get to the bottom of that. Because there was far too much stuff that we haven’t worked on

Too much ego, too much self-preservation, and you’re either all-in all the time or you’re not. And if you’re not, you just won’t play very much.”

He’s complaining about players’egos?? Self unaware

 

[Swanjaxs]

New Russ phrase klaxon

“There is a default”

Fanny.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1951718288905371971

Dead man walking, zombie

 

[Itchysphincter]

He’s overtly saying that he is going to do the same there as he did here - coach any instinct and natural ability out of his players, and if they don’t do it they’ll be on the scrap heap. He’s the archetypal copy and paste manager that belongs nowhere near the game. He’s an odd bloke and there’ll be a players’ rebellion in due course when they’ll fuck him off, win a few games, he’ll then take the credit and force them back to the ‘process’ and go on an awful run again.

 

[monmouth]

He’s overtly saying that he is going to do the same there as he did here - coach any instinct and natural ability out of his players, and if they don’t do it they’ll be on the scrap heap. He’s the archetypal copy and paste manager that belongs nowhere near the game. He’s an odd bloke and there’ll be a players’ rebellion in due course when they’ll fuck him off, win a few games, he’ll then take the credit and force them back to the ‘process’ and go on an awful run again.

Aye, painting by numbers. He doesn’t even try to hide it. It’s their fault because they didn’t do exactly what ‘we’ told them to do all the time.

It’s pathetic. A case study in how football on the pitch has lost its way. Hopefully this is his last job above league 1, but some idiot will probably keep employing the flop haired narcissist.