Southampton

[monmouth]

The man left us up the creek, weeks before the new season and caused the whole Duff era fiasco. He's clearly acted in his own self interest from his MK Dons days and the fact he was willing to break contract says a lot.

Thanks for the doubles, but also lol you get what you deserve.

We seemed to find it pretty amusing mind when he indicated he wouldn't leave MK and strutted around their pitch milking their adulation before joining us the next day. We might have actually inferred something from that...

A narcissist is going to narcisst...or something.

Oh, and anyone that thinks any manager wouldn't have left us in a heartbeat for Southampton in the same situation is living in cloud cuckoo land. I find the bloke and his bullshit not at all to my taste, and hated the dirge he mostly served up on the field, but to beat him with the stick of jumping to a bigger, better, more highly paid job, is nuts.

 

[NWJack]

Am I the only one that heard the rumour of the PTI and his wife playing a part in his departure?

 

[Smurph]

Am I the only one that heard the rumour of the PTI and his wife playing a part in his departure?

Would have thought it was his shit football that lead to his departure unless his wife was the actual mastermind of Southamptons promotion last season.

 

[NWJack]

Well yeah, that remains

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Russell Martin’s Southampton philosophy was a self-defeating brand of stupidity

Comment: As Martin leaves the Saints bottom of the Premier League and seven points from safety, Richard Jolly analyses the cause of Saints’ issues and why they refused to deviate from their footballing ideology

www.independent.co.uk

This is one for the Martiphobes

 

[Darran]

Russell Martin’s Southampton philosophy was a self-defeating brand of stupidity

Comment: As Martin leaves the Saints bottom of the Premier League and seven points from safety, Richard Jolly analyses the cause of Saints’ issues and why they refused to deviate from their footballing ideology

www.independent.co.uk

This is one for the Martiphobes

They aren’t 7 points from safety.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Surprised it took him this long to be found out.
So far out of his depth it was laughable.
So many avoidable goals that were they're own cause & no spine to the team what so ever which meant teams can cut through them at will.
Will always think he's better than he actually is.

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869067266765242612

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Some wonder why our ( albeit shit, previous) owners didn't trust him with what money we did have?

 

[magicdaps10]

Some wonder why our ( albeit shit, previous) owners didn't trust him with what money we did have?

And then put trust in Paul Watson to spend it

 

[Dr. Winston]

Russell Martin’s Southampton philosophy was a self-defeating brand of stupidity

Comment: As Martin leaves the Saints bottom of the Premier League and seven points from safety, Richard Jolly analyses the cause of Saints’ issues and why they refused to deviate from their footballing ideology

www.independent.co.uk

This is one for the Martiphobes

Savage and entirely accurate.

Still won't prevent the fanboys trying to blame anyone and anything else for his repeated failures.

 

[Smurph]

They aren’t 7 points from safety.

They're fucked

 

[Neath_Jack]

I'm still relatively new to this site - only been here about a year or so - but I do think there is a strong anti-Martin sentiment on these pages that you don't really get elsewhere, to the point of being quite rabid at times.

I get some of it - he's clearly a very flawed coach defensively, he is a bit "Brentish" sometimes, he is too stubborn to even be slightly pragmatic. I was glad to see the back of him by the end, it was going nowhere really - he wasn't happy with the club, the owners had gone cold on him.

That said, he always wanted to play an attractive style (albeit with too many flaws to be effective), he definitely ‘got’ what our club was about while he was here (Doube Doube says it all), he did an ok-ish job here with an average squad, then he went on to get a team promoted to the PL (and you can't do that if you're the total numpty some people make him out to be).

Like most things in life there is room for grey on this one.

Behave, you’re exactly like what you’re describing about Cooper.

 

[Neath_Jack]

I think you're getting him confused with Cooper there. Martin was effectively gone by the end of May. It was Cooper who started pre-season then decided to piss off, leaving us needing to find a new manager with only a couple of weeks to go. Just saying like.

Cooper agreed to stay on until we found another manager.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Behave, you’re exactly like what you’re describing about Cooper.

Sorry, but that's bollocks.

I've acknowledged on several occasions, despite my dislike for his style of play, the fact that his side at least had a backbone and a set of balls, something our sides of the last three years have lacked. I don't like the guy but the one thing he can do is organise a side defensively and he won't put up with laxity.

By contrast, you will never hear the Martin-hatred brigade concede an inch of ground. Hell, even a millimetre is too much for them.