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Should Russell Martin be moved on?  

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  1. 1. Should Russell Martin be moved on from being manager?

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OneMrsWallace

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Yes, yes and thrice yes. Does he have the quality of player to utilise his system? No. Will Saints ever have that quality of squad? Very unlikely - so for me there's no logic in keeping him. Reckon they will though. They all seem to be prepared to go down with the sinking ship. What a mess. 

 

 

 

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Harry_SFC

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8 minutes ago, coalman said:

Last season we played some lovely stuff in patches. That being said the seeds of this season were there to see. I was hoping Martin would build on last season and adapt to the higher level of intensity and quality of the Premier League but he hasn't.

We did play some decent stuff against the poorer sides in the division (as you'd expect us to) but against some of the better sides we looked like we do in pretty much every game this season - awful.

The Sunderland, Leicester thrashings coupled with two defeats to Ipswich, a pathetic away showing at Bristol City, another terrible one at home to Hull. There's probably more. How we have started this season is no surprise what so ever. 

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OneMrsWallace

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2 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

The players will be pissed of that this clown is making them look terrible and in private will be saying it, any professional footballer with any pride will be looking for a way out asap

Careful. Gio will be on your case for daring to question their absolute loyal to RM 😂

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Sheaf Saint

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17 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

We did play some decent stuff against the poorer sides in the division (as you'd expect us to) but against some of the better sides we looked like we do in pretty much every game this season - awful.

The Sunderland, Leicester thrashings coupled with two defeats to Ipswich, a pathetic away showing at Bristol City, another terrible one at home to Hull. There's probably more. How we have started this season is no surprise what so ever. 

We played pretty badly against some of the poorer sides as well. The home defeat to Millwall, and the debacle of that home game against Huddersfield spring to mind. 

Let's face it, the only games in which we comprehensively outplayed the opposition were the ones where they were naive enough to fall into our pressing traps like Blackburn and Swansea.

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WGC Saint

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As we’ve heard nothing I’m assuming that he’s sadly still in charge.
The people I feel most sorry for are the fans that pay good money to follow Saints week in week out. I used to but gave up a few years ago due to moving so far away and family commitments etc and I can’t even watch us on tv any more as the football RM dishes up just irritates the hell out of me. 
We limped into the Prem this season and we’ll limp out again.  All very depressing.

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Vancouver Saint

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I said at the beginning of the season give him 10 games....I stuck with that through gritted teeth...final straw for me was the Leicester game when at 2-1 up and the momentum swinging against us, he brought on a recovering-from-injury Smallbone (who shouldn't be anywhere near a PL team IMHO) leaving Lallana on the bench! Confirmed that he is a totally clueless manager who puts the dressing room culture/players before the customers - us mug fans who are victims of having had the club choose us (think Harry Potter's wand)...in my case for the last 55 years as a supporter.  

He is denying someone else the opportunity of salvaging our reputation and PL status.

Must go now.

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Saint Fan CaM

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I’m at a loss as to why 10% of the respondents are advocating keeping Martin. Is this because they’re unsure of who might replace him? Or because it’s impractical for SR to sack him financially? Surely it’s not because he’s got the team performing to the best of its ability??? The results (and particularly the turnarounds such as Leicester) tell me he’s not got control of the situation - he’s way out of his depth and most importantly, his football is boring and is unquestionably failing to achieve anything except break all the wrong records. Yes, remarkably we’re still in touch with 17th place, but there’s absolutely nothing in Russball - NOTHING - to suggest that we will drag ourselves off the bottom of the table let alone be better than the next worst three teams in the league.

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StrangelyBrown

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If RM stays the course, what might happen?

1) Some sort of miracle happens and we pull together some results and stay up - we'll beat a number of the better teams to get the points we need having already thrown away points against Ipswich, Wolves, etc. This is the stuff of pure fantasy.

2) we go down fighting and give ourselves a good chance of coming straight back. He gets the fans back onside by playing more attractive football and ditching the ponderousness of Russball.

3) we go down with a whimper continuing to play Russball. RM starts waffling on about scar tissue and it takes him until November 2026 to get the team firing again. He loses the fan base completely and things are really toxic

I can only see scenario 3 happening. Which begs the question WTF are SR hoping is going to happen?

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Saint Fan CaM

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The psychology of the squad must be rock bottom right now - do they honestly believe deep down that they will win another game again this season? Do they care that they will be a part of the worst team in EPL history, with little chance of that dubious honour ever being eradicated? 

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Mr X

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53 minutes ago, StrangelyBrown said:

If RM stays the course, what might happen?

1) Some sort of miracle happens and we pull together some results and stay up - we'll beat a number of the better teams to get the points we need having already thrown away points against Ipswich, Wolves, etc. This is the stuff of pure fantasy.

2) we go down fighting and give ourselves a good chance of coming straight back. He gets the fans back onside by playing more attractive football and ditching the ponderousness of Russball.

3) we go down with a whimper continuing to play Russball. RM starts waffling on about scar tissue and it takes him until November 2026 to get the team firing again. He loses the fan base completely and things are really toxic

I can only see scenario 3 happening. Which begs the question WTF are SR hoping is going to happen?

They are gambling on option 2 getting the fans back onside through a change of style but it's hugely naive as Martin simply isn't going to ditch his philosophy and he's been very clear on that. 

It's very likely that we won't have any more points on the board by Xmas, I think the owners are taking the piss and know that saints fans are meek and submissive and won't do anywhere near the protests that other clubs would so they are happy to just roll with it!

You would think his position would be untenable back in the championship but stranger things have happened!

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steveo

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RM`s "system" is just not working, there is no plan B. He takes the coaching, picks the team and gives them instructions. After yet another poor defeat he says we should do more with the ball. WTF does he coach then? Its his team following his style of play, it just does not work. If he won`t change then he has to go.

Here`s a thought, how about an absolute punt on RVN? Give him till the end of the season, he`s got a decent coaching staff with him, and could he do any worse?

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FarehamSaintJames

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15 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

I’m at a loss as to why 10% of the respondents are advocating keeping Martin. Is this because they’re unsure of who might replace him? Or because it’s impractical for SR to sack him financially? Surely it’s not because he’s got the team performing to the best of its ability??? The results (and particularly the turnarounds such as Leicester) tell me he’s not got control of the situation - he’s way out of his depth and most importantly, his football is boring and is unquestionably failing to achieve anything except break all the wrong records. Yes, remarkably we’re still in touch with 17th place, but there’s absolutely nothing in Russball - NOTHING - to suggest that we will drag ourselves off the bottom of the table let alone be better than the next worst three teams in the league.

This. I voted for him to go, but I don’t want him to go if we’re going to bring in some inadequate mid EFL manager in as the replacement.

Imagine we went for someone of Emery’s class like Villa did two years ago. 😥

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11 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

This. I voted for him to go, but I don’t want him to go if we’re going to bring in some inadequate mid EFL manager in as the replacement.

Imagine we went for someone of Emery’s class like Villa did two years ago. 😥

Like we did 19 months ago?

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Holmes_and_Watson

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4 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

I still get nightmares of Villa getting Unai Emery and Saints getting Nathan Jones within two weeks of each other.

SR were looking to reduce individual wages, to maximise sell on values. Villa were looking to pay players for league success.

Just two very different outlooks, that extended to their managerial decision making too.

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Holmes_and_Watson

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8 hours ago, StrangelyBrown said:

If RM stays the course, what might happen?

1) Some sort of miracle happens and we pull together some results and stay up - we'll beat a number of the better teams to get the points we need having already thrown away points against Ipswich, Wolves, etc. This is the stuff of pure fantasy.

2) we go down fighting and give ourselves a good chance of coming straight back. He gets the fans back onside by playing more attractive football and ditching the ponderousness of Russball.

3) we go down with a whimper continuing to play Russball. RM starts waffling on about scar tissue and it takes him until November 2026 to get the team firing again. He loses the fan base completely and things are really toxic

I can only see scenario 3 happening. Which begs the question WTF are SR hoping is going to happen?

2 is even more of a fantasy than 1. Martin has pretty much said he'd rather lose than change and that he would never change the fundamentals of his approach.

That leaves 3. Martin would have to stay around the top places after the squad settled in, to stay at that point. Much like last season.

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