06 Oct 2025 21:04:53
Russell Martin now available and he’d probably be interested in the Leeds job, thoughts?
06 Oct 2025 21:20:11
No way, not for me.
Not as good as he thinks he is!
06 Oct 2025 21:28:24
Great post did make me chuckle.
06 Oct 2025 21:39:01
Doesn’t look a goal scorer OP, and think Joel could beat him over first ten yards, must be some better free options than RM.
06 Oct 2025 21:45:41
Great class.
06 Oct 2025 21:49:52
OP. He’s now became available due to being sacked for making such a pigs ear of a team that’s in a league with only 2 teams competing for the title every season. Already 11 points adrift of Celtic. So therefore that’s the league title already wrapped up. After only 7 games being played. He didn’t exactly set the heather on fire with Southampton in the premiership last season either. I’m not sure if you’re extracting the urine or being serious? If it’s the former, I never knew you had such a decent sense of humour. That’s a proper thigh slapper. Almost lifted the gloom of the spurs defeat that did.
06 Oct 2025 22:00:23
I’m confident it was a joke post and very good one. Certainly made me chuckle.
06 Oct 2025 22:35:36
C+ J he was taking zee urine ?.
06 Oct 2025 22:36:46
Have you seen RM's missus tho'?
He should stay at home and play ball with her, she's a hottie :-)
06 Oct 2025 22:37:17
You are taking the p1ss aren't you OP, my only thoughts are not to be used in polite company.
07 Oct 2025 06:15:59
Of course I’m not serious, I’m just trying to imply the thought of be thankful of what we’ve got and that it can, I promise you, be oh so much worse.
In fairness to Martin he did get the better over Farke in the play off final but that’s where I draw the line of the difference of the two coaches.
Neither coach has developed himself in the Premiership either but my guess is that Farke will achieve that in due course with Leeds.
07 Oct 2025 07:27:09
Chris are you sure? The silence is suspicious! ?
Also RM always reminds me on Nick Knowles for some reason. Always expected him to produce a guitar on the sidelines.
07 Oct 2025 09:12:27
Have to remember RM played under Farke so may have formulated a lot of his coaching from Daniel.
For myself both in losing to RM saints at ER and in the playoffs the team froze, on both occasions and whilst it was difficult to watch it’s very Leedsy and not a total surprise given our very young team and there be so much more expectation on a very young Leeds side.
Remember smallbone bossing midfield for Saints in both games, he’s an ok player now at Wall of all places but that little bit of experience was the difference for me on those games not the respective abilities of the two coaches.
Like all bad experiences you hope you learn from them and I think we did and it helped to build us into the record breaking championship winning team.
07 Oct 2025 09:47:39
Brilliant OP, Class and Sheds!
07 Oct 2025 09:54:10
You’re right about all that Class, i sometimes wonder actually with that very young squad and of course we would have added more experience and quality to that squad had we been promoted, but I can’t help feel that maybe it was a blessing in disguise the we were not promoted that season.
In my opinion we now have a team of players that might be able to deal better in keeping us up than had it been with the previous group of players.
All hypothetical of course but most of all i’m just so glad we are back in the Premiership playing against all the best teams in the land.
No club deserves to be in the Premiership League without merit, you have to earn that privilege and I believe we have, let’s all hope we can make it sustainable for a long time.
07 Oct 2025 10:01:04
It's a good thing that Farke is half decent because even after all of those defeats, the 49ers didn't sack Martin, the crowd did.
would ER ever become so hostile that a manager would need a police escort to leave? Farke is here for life.
07 Oct 2025 10:46:37
OP I remember Smallbone playing against us down there, took one of our players out (forget who) with terrible late tackle, should've got a straight red but only got a yellow, and popped up 10 mins later to score the winning goal.
07 Oct 2025 11:32:40
Sorry, that was for Classof92.
07 Oct 2025 12:18:31
Had forgotten that JR good point probably why Wall have signed him now.
07 Oct 2025 12:27:09
Yes JR, i wouldn’t say they deserved their win, far from it. But perhaps because they did, arguably unfairly, then i would say what comes around, goes around and that's for RM personally as a coach and Southampton FC.
I don’t need to point a finger and gloat, I always have that faith in justice or that the true balance in football is always served in the end.
In my very biased mind neither Southampton, Ipswich or Leicester with their PSR dodging merited Premiership football last season and where are they now.
07 Oct 2025 14:20:29
That being said about the true balance of fairness in football, I’m still waiting for the pay back from Paris 75’.
07 Oct 2025 18:54:35
Nick kwoles comment flawed me, any excuse to sing at the drop of a hat!