| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud 23:03 - Sep 19 with 5346 views | MaySixth |
Saints not happy with him at all |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 23:07 - Sep 19 with 4280 views | Stewart27 |
Mad appointment.
He’s achieved absolutely nothing in football management. |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 07:48 - Sep 20 with 4068 views | Herbivore |
Martin-ball is very odd. He likes them to have the ball but they don't use it especially quickly and their pressing to win it back is very, very average when they don't have it. Our press was so much more effective than theirs. And when they do break the press with a neat little triangle, half the time they turn back and pass it backwards and have to start all over again. They only really looked threatening when we either misplaced a pass or they picked up a second ball in a bit of space in our half and it was then mainly individuals playing off the cuff to create something rather than being his usual possession based game. He won't last the season. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 07:52 - Sep 20 with 4047 views | Cafe_Newman |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 07:48 - Sep 20 by Herbivore |
Martin-ball is very odd. He likes them to have the ball but they don't use it especially quickly and their pressing to win it back is very, very average when they don't have it. Our press was so much more effective than theirs. And when they do break the press with a neat little triangle, half the time they turn back and pass it backwards and have to start all over again. They only really looked threatening when we either misplaced a pass or they picked up a second ball in a bit of space in our half and it was then mainly individuals playing off the cuff to create something rather than being his usual possession based game. He won't last the season. |
Agree. Glad we played them at Saint Mary's before they got someone in who knows what they're doing. |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:04 - Sep 20 with 3968 views | Yppswyche |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 23:07 - Sep 19 by Stewart27 |
Mad appointment.
He’s achieved absolutely nothing in football management. |
If feels very retro. Football has moved on in the last 15 years |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:06 - Sep 20 with 3955 views | Herbivore |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 07:52 - Sep 20 by Cafe_Newman |
Agree. Glad we played them at Saint Mary's before they got someone in who knows what they're doing. |
Yep, although I'm not sure how good Southampton are either. They were pitiful last season in the Prem and they've lost a couple of their best players. Smallbone looked good last night I thought, actually tried to pass it forwards and found space well, and Walker-Peters was a handful. Edozie had flashes but no end product and seemed to be all about trying to buy a foul. I'm not convinced they're as strong as some people suggest. | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:09 - Sep 20 with 3932 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 23:07 - Sep 19 by Stewart27 |
Mad appointment.
He’s achieved absolutely nothing in football management. |
He did manage a Jewell-esque run towards the bottom of the table last season, before rescuing it near the end. I’ve never understood the media fawning over him. It’s football management by numbers: at the end you get something that looks a bit like the real picture, but it’s not quite right.
His team last night were exactly like his Swansea team. Slow and predictable with a side serving of suicidal faffing at the back. I wasn’t sure at Swansea if he lacked the players, but he’s got no excuse this season. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:11 - Sep 20 with 3911 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 07:48 - Sep 20 by Herbivore |
Martin-ball is very odd. He likes them to have the ball but they don't use it especially quickly and their pressing to win it back is very, very average when they don't have it. Our press was so much more effective than theirs. And when they do break the press with a neat little triangle, half the time they turn back and pass it backwards and have to start all over again. They only really looked threatening when we either misplaced a pass or they picked up a second ball in a bit of space in our half and it was then mainly individuals playing off the cuff to create something rather than being his usual possession based game. He won't last the season. |
100% this. He had Piroe to paper over the cracks last season. If not for that thaey’d have been looking over their shoulders at a relegation scrap. | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:11 - Sep 20 with 3907 views | Metal_Hacker |
For me as individuals I thought Southampton looked quite dangerous but as a collective which is the most important thing obviously ,they lacked a lot of composure and appeared very inefficient
Can only lay blame at the manager's door really |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:13 - Sep 20 with 3900 views | yorkshireblue |
How he keeps falling upwards and getting better jobs amazes me. He must give one hell of a job interview, |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:13 - Sep 20 with 3893 views | StokieBlue |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:06 - Sep 20 by Herbivore |
Yep, although I'm not sure how good Southampton are either. They were pitiful last season in the Prem and they've lost a couple of their best players. Smallbone looked good last night I thought, actually tried to pass it forwards and found space well, and Walker-Peters was a handful. Edozie had flashes but no end product and seemed to be all about trying to buy a foul. I'm not convinced they're as strong as some people suggest. |
I thought Sulemana looked good, so insanely fast but decent control with it.
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:17 - Sep 20 with 3869 views | Herbivore |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:11 - Sep 20 by Swansea_Blue |
100% this. He had Piroe to paper over the cracks last season. If not for that thaey’d have been looking over their shoulders at a relegation scrap. |
It's just really odd, either he's not setting them up right so that their players don't have good options on the ball, or he doesn't have players technically good enough to hold the ball in tight areas, or a bit of both. We pinched it off their CBs a few times last night, it led to our goal and could easily have led to at least one more. Contrast that with Woolf who could still be playing now without losing it in his own half. Despite some surface similarities in how the two sides looked to play, the execution was night and day. | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:22 - Sep 20 with 3839 views | Metal_Hacker |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:17 - Sep 20 by Herbivore |
It's just really odd, either he's not setting them up right so that their players don't have good options on the ball, or he doesn't have players technically good enough to hold the ball in tight areas, or a bit of both. We pinched it off their CBs a few times last night, it led to our goal and could easily have led to at least one more. Contrast that with Woolf who could still be playing now without losing it in his own half. Despite some surface similarities in how the two sides looked to play, the execution was night and day. |
Looked like a positional problem to me having no outlet
Seemed that the player without the ball didn't realise or know he had to create space to receive the ball or at least how to create the triangles needed - there are clearly patterns of play with our lot and you can quite easily see them . Everyone has their place to be in certain situations , it's so well drilled now
When and if Southampton sort it out they'll be very good though I'm sure | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:37 - Sep 20 with 3770 views | MaySixth |
His arrogance is off the scale.
He is stuck in a football time warp from 10 years ago.
He thinks his footballing style is the best despite a very average record at Swansea and expects his players to adapt to it rather than show flexibility himself. | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:46 - Sep 20 with 3719 views | Herbivore |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:22 - Sep 20 by Metal_Hacker |
Looked like a positional problem to me having no outlet
Seemed that the player without the ball didn't realise or know he had to create space to receive the ball or at least how to create the triangles needed - there are clearly patterns of play with our lot and you can quite easily see them . Everyone has their place to be in certain situations , it's so well drilled now
When and if Southampton sort it out they'll be very good though I'm sure |
Yes, the way we create space and angles with our movement so there's always options for the man on the ball is really impressive. Our bravery in holding the ball in those areas as well is a real strength. | |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:11 - Sep 20 with 3635 views | itfcsuth |
They look like a side who like to have the ball, without knowing what to do when they have the ball - it is not a good recipe for success. |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:23 - Sep 20 with 3561 views | ArnieM |
But, with players they have in that squad / team when they do get it right they will be a helluva team in my view. Not sure Martin will survive much longer though. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:25 - Sep 20 with 3539 views | Guthrum |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:13 - Sep 20 by yorkshireblue |
How he keeps falling upwards and getting better jobs amazes me. He must give one hell of a job interview, |
Football club owners can sometimes be very easily bamboozled by bullsh1t, delivered by supposed technical wizards.
What they forget is that genuine tactical innovation is extremely rare. You get much further by good organisation, talent spotting and simply doing the right things as well as possible. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:53 - Sep 20 with 3434 views | Kitman |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:23 - Sep 20 by ArnieM |
But, with players they have in that squad / team when they do get it right they will be a helluva team in my view. Not sure Martin will survive much longer though. |
I was thinking exactly that while watching last night.... |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 09:58 - Sep 20 with 3415 views | BigCommon |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:17 - Sep 20 by Herbivore |
It's just really odd, either he's not setting them up right so that their players don't have good options on the ball, or he doesn't have players technically good enough to hold the ball in tight areas, or a bit of both. We pinched it off their CBs a few times last night, it led to our goal and could easily have led to at least one more. Contrast that with Woolf who could still be playing now without losing it in his own half. Despite some surface similarities in how the two sides looked to play, the execution was night and day. |
Bang on.... And I can't even remember us conceding, at all, from playing out from the back under KM in 21 months or more... Everyone, throughout the pitch, is so well drilled to offer simple options. With us utilising the odd long diagonal, if we are well pressed...
You'd suspect, with a team like Saints. Who keep conceding, atm from overplaying at the back. It just becomes harder and harder for their players to buy into it. And eventually, with a stubborn coach like RM, he may lose the dressing room.(And fans). |  | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 10:24 - Sep 20 with 3357 views | NthQldITFC |
He'll make an ideal replacement for Wanger (sic) when the time comes later in the season. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 10:28 - Sep 20 with 3328 views | GavTWTD |
I don't think he was that popular at Swansea either. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 12:09 - Sep 20 with 3151 views | J2BLUE |
The sneering and aloof act is finally wearing thin even for those who bought into the hype.
Hearing what he said to his players at HT says it all. Soundbites. I can't imagine McKenna coming out with such rubbish. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 12:31 - Sep 20 with 3109 views | tractorshark |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:09 - Sep 20 by Swansea_Blue |
He did manage a Jewell-esque run towards the bottom of the table last season, before rescuing it near the end. I’ve never understood the media fawning over him. It’s football management by numbers: at the end you get something that looks a bit like the real picture, but it’s not quite right.
His team last night were exactly like his Swansea team. Slow and predictable with a side serving of suicidal faffing at the back. I wasn’t sure at Swansea if he lacked the players, but he’s got no excuse this season. |
My son is at Swansea Uni and he said exactly the same thing. Very ponderous style of play, lots of possession and then no idea what to do with it in the final third. Apparently the Swansea fans weren’t sorry to see him go.
I thought they were incredibly slow in their build-up last night and they looked vulnerable all night playing out from the back.
Two incidents defined them for me. In the first half when they had a chance to counter down the right with Williams out of position, the bench told their guy to hold the ball up and wait for support. Absolutely bonkers, that allowed Ipswich to get 10 men behind the ball and Saints promptly kicked it into touch.
Then in stoppage time at the end they kept making 5-10 yard passes in the middle of the pitch with no urgency instead of lumping the ball into the box and hoping for a lucky bounce. Surely you’ve got to go direct with a few minutes left?
That said, you can criticise Saints but you have to give enormous credit to Ipswich. What a performance and the fact Southampton were poor was as much to do with us as it was them. Our organisation, resilience, bravery and non-stop running blew them away.
McKenna is undeniably the real deal. | | | |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 12:46 - Sep 20 with 3033 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 08:22 - Sep 20 by Metal_Hacker |
Looked like a positional problem to me having no outlet
Seemed that the player without the ball didn't realise or know he had to create space to receive the ball or at least how to create the triangles needed - there are clearly patterns of play with our lot and you can quite easily see them . Everyone has their place to be in certain situations , it's so well drilled now
When and if Southampton sort it out they'll be very good though I'm sure |
Yeah I love the way when our centre backs have the ball a midfielder either strolls forward or drops back and they seem to suddenly be in acres of space, then the defender just rolls it forward into them. They then turn and go forward or hit it first time out wide. We make it look so simple and you wonder why everyone isn't doing it, but we're obviously so well-versed at it. |  |
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| Russell "The Hipster" Martin is a total fraud on 12:50 - Sep 20 with 2994 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
"There wasn’t a problem tactically tonight". LOL. Absolving himself of any blame there.
His after match comments are all over the place really, saying the players don't react well to disappointment and aren't brave enough, but that they gave their all. And pandering to the fans saying they kept behind the team when there were lots of audible groans and boos.
Sounds like he's in desperate self-preservation territory. | |
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