CB Fry

You seem to be labouring under the assumption that Russell Martin was appointed on August 1st. We've seen a whole season of him so we know his shortcomings - last season he lost all four matches against our fellow promoted teams, for example. Time for bye bye. I think we should welcome our new manager and get behind him. After all remember how Alex Ferguson started and he proved everyone wrong. The new guy deserves our backing from the start because we all want to stay up. COYS

I mean you can push for your "each manager gets eight games" strategy but I'm worried that youngsters like Tyler won't know their A from their E. So....Manager 2 gets up until December and if he ain't no good then BAM - GOODBYE and new man in for the Christmas fixtures. Then he would make it to maybe the FA Cup fourth round in Feb before the potential chop. I'm not super sure, i think its insane but if you believe in it, I'll back you.

New man gets game 9 to game 27. At that point.... If he's broadly in the right direction he stays to take us into the Championship season On the back of a narrow relegation. Or he performs a miracle and we stay up (we're not staying up). Or If he's terrible then bin off and either caretaker or move in on a decent Championship manager (come on down, the inevitably available Steve Cooper). Prep begins for the Championship.

8 points in his first 8 Saints PL games which we already know Martin won't be matching.

Duckhunter now reposting the "Stats For Lefties" twitter feed. Jesus wept.

The original post I replied to was someone saying "Hughes was better". Not "should take over tomorrow", none of it. Nice try sweetheart x x x You can sneer away at Hughes post Saints career but let's remember the guy you are swooning over has won, let's count them, fucking zero Premier League games. Zero. 60 plus goals conceded in every season he's managed. Let's see how glittering Russell Martin's career turns out after we give him the elbow. 4 different clubs in the top ten of the Prem, or pissing around mid table Championship? Off you go, Russ.

I'm not suggesting recruiting Mark Hughes you fucking clown.

Mark Hughes finished in top ten Premier League spots with four different Premier League clubs. Anyone thinking Russell Martin is better than that is a fucking idiot.

I've seen them out and about with their belt buckles on show and everything.

Football Insider is just guesswork clickbait.

I think we just need to wait for the dynamic pricing to kick in

As long as he's not our manager, I really like him. Would love to see him take Charlton up.

Exactly - the opportunity is that a different manager and a different approach could get more out of this squad.

You’re, like, the most insightful person this forum has ever known. Everyone knows our squad is not full Premier League standard.

I dont get the "unlucky" not to get anything from Newcastle. Weren't we lucky to play them for half a match with 10 men? We got a huge lucky break and still got nothing.

I have no doubt the club are absolutely determined to piss these easier games away with Martin in charge rather than make a change before.

I would guess that Wolves will strike before we do.

I think you'll find it is all self explanatory.

First eleven needs more full backs

Yep, I am. The "circumstantial evidence" is you don't like Rasmus so are deciding to blame any bad decision you don't like on him and then getting arsey when anyone else tries to make the not unreasonable point that other well-paid decision makers are perfectly capable of making their own fuck ups. For example, Wilcox choosing Martin to deliver his mini-Man City dream. By the way, if it is your opinion how am I supposed "believe what you say"? It's your opinion so there is nothing to believe. You seem awful confused.

And you have a mountain of first hand evidence that the decision has a "Rasmus all over it"? It was literally Wilcox's job to select and employ the first team manager. Not sure why you are determined to pretend something different to make your own shitty point.

50,000 fans went to the JPT final therefore they would all come every week if only we had a 60,000 seater stadium. Or something.

We weren't "lucky" as such. Leibherr bought us for the same "potential" reasons you ascribe to Bournemouth etc. We were L1, cheap, skint with potential to get to the top division. We are close to our ceiling now though, agree. I am not sure middling/lower Prem club is good investment for anyone.

They've appointed two permanent managers and both were British so don't know how sure you can be of that.

Her salary not far off Starmer + Sue Gray combined. At least she’s not on the nuclear button.