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Brett Angell Delight said:
Mate, even on this illustrious forum - possibly with the exception of Benitez - I have NEVER seen such hatred for a manager so soon. We normally talk about them seeing Chrimbo; I'll be surprised if he makes it to Hallowe'en.
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He's so alien to their supporters: thoughtful, progressive, leftish even.

They'll turn on their equally *alien* ownership soon. Absolute certainty.
 
Forty minutes into Rangers' mortifying night at Ibrox, Djeidi Gassama won a corner at the Broomloan Stand end and his manager, Russell Martin, applauded on the sideline. The sound of one man clapping was deafening.

Rangers trailed 3-0 at the time, there had been multiple outbreaks of booing and scores of people had already headed home.

When Ibrox turns on its own like this, there's a temptation to put in the earplugs and don the crash helmet. It ain't pretty.

It's as visceral as it gets; loud and vicious, words coming like blades, capable of cutting their target in half. A corner might have done it for the manager, but it wasn't doing it for the masses.

This was in the post, though. Under Martin, Rangers have one way of playing and stout defending isn't a part of it. Not yet at any rate.

Caution is thrown to the wind. Everybody is on the front foot. There's little midfield or defensive discipline, none of the cynicism that you need, little of the physical strength and none of the commanding authority.

They could have shipped five or six in this game.

Rangers had negotiated ties with Panathinaikos and Viktoria Plzen in previous weeks and, while there was praise for getting through, the realists weren't blind to the luck they experienced along the way.

Poor defending unpunished. Crosses not headed away. Runners not picked up. A goalkeeper making save upon save. Space given up. Attackers missing sitters. Chickens tend to come home to roost, though.
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Embarrassment.
 

davek said:
He's so alien to their supporters: thoughtful, progressive, leftish even.

They'll turn on their equally *alien* ownership soon. Absolute certainty.
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He's a deluded fool dave,
His stubbornness to stick with a philosophy of Kamikaze football that plays straight into the hands of every opponent we come up against will quite rightly lead to his removal.
Problem is when does the board decide to do this, we will probably need to endure another struggle at the weekend, another doing next week against Brugge and dare I say it... a humping at Ibrox when celtic turn up desperate to take the opportunity that Martin has set up for them!
Might seem crazy to be calling for his head as early as this but it's apparent to everyone (except Martin) that his system is doomed to failure.
 
laudo9 said:
He's a deluded fool dave,
His stubbornness to stick with a philosophy of Kamikaze football that plays straight into the hands of every opponent we come up against will quite rightly lead to his removal.
Problem is when does the board decide to do this, we will probably need to endure another struggle at the weekend, another doing next week against Brugge and dare I say it... a humping at Ibrox when celtic turn up desperate to take the opportunity that Martin has set up for them!
Might seem crazy to be calling for his head as early as this but it's apparent to everyone (except Martin) that his system is doomed to failure.
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I can see what he's trying to do. But he hasn't got the players (or probably time) to roll it out. Playing high risk football has rewards but also gets you the sack. The defending was shocking I'll say that.

Really, your club needs to just take a manager and stick with them for a couple of seasons and see if he can bed in his own players to a new system and hope to snatch a Scottish Cup / Scottish LC. Gerrard got that time and he didn't even with a cup prior to winning the SPL.

No chance they do that they'll repeat that for Martin though.

Wee Barry the Ned "come on down again".
 


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