How long will Russell Martin last at Rangers ?

longer than chichatdi

Rangers boss a tough gig at the moment ,their fans are not renowned for their patience,but the team is nowhere near good enough to be challenging for the title ,they have to give a manager 2 or 3 years to get players /style he wants ,but few bad results and they may well press the panic button.

Probably just realised that he's gone from manager in premier league full of championship players to team that would struggle in league one but full of overpaid pre donnas to add to his problems Should have done his due diligence

Has a bit of David Brent about him which is obviously concerning..
also committed to over playing from the back even when it's clearly not working though not unique to him..

felt a surprising choice but his work with Southampton in the Championship was pretty good.

He's Livin’ la vida loca tonight

snowynoon 05 Aug 25 12:06

Rangers boss a tough gig at the moment ,their fans are not renowned for their patience

The club has only existed for 13 years!

another f-kin idiot, just got to be heard Isuppose. cheers.

Feckin brill.DIE LINKE.

Every Old Firm appointee is ultimately dependant on Old Firm Derby results.  Can’t see any reason for him to do any better there than his immediate predecessors.  I liked his selection statement to his players on Tuesday night which read to me as “I don’t care who you are or what your reputation is.  Measure up or sit games out”.  So it seems he has a clear picture of where he wants to go.

Longer than you've lasted on this forum

I think he will need to beat Celtic on upcoming match to survive, Glasgow demands results, if he loses he is gone.

might not make it past September 13th

was an odd appointment

Very odd.  The only sense it made was cost.  Presumably he was very cheap.  Can’t think of anything else.
New board regime barely three months old.
There will surely be a Bring Back Barry campaign.
Ironic that not that very long ago they could have had McInnes themselves.

Expect a Russell leaves headline in Autumn

he wasn't cheap loyal believe me, he knocked back Leicester job, albeit different length of contract, the yanks will need to pay a lot of cash to leave.

Right.  Thanks for that.  So easy to assume.

It would be cheaper for Rangers to sack him today than cost a lot more in the future.

Should keep him, he's doing a fantastic job of grinding this horrible club into the dirt where they belong.

Should keep him, he's doing a fantastic job of grinding this horrible club into the dirt where they belong.






Keep the dirty sectarian thoughts out of the forum you clown.

He's hopeless!
Doesn't handle pressure at all.
Division 2 beckons (where he belongs)

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Should keep him, he's doing a fantastic job of grinding this horrible club into the dirt where they belong.




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I see you posted a minute after Celtic's well deserved win over Kilmarnock, so I'll forgive your insults, as you were obviously pure dead raging.

Sorry to disappoint but if was up to me I would punt the old firm out to some lower European dross league or down south…..

The bring nothing but hatred and unhappiness for the neutral up here….

Totally irrelevant which one wins the pub trophy at the end of the season tbh…..

He has another difficult match on horizon, Hibernian, there is no easy games in football, we all know that and should not be, but yer man russell has got to start winning games, possibly he might have been a wee bit unlucky at weekend. I never seen match, hit post and bar, but he got beat and that is most important thing

I watched all Scottish football highlights and thought Rangers were a tad unlucky tbh….Celtic are Celtic and they seem to be blessed with Lady Luck imv…..

The rest remind me of volleyball tbh..

Lower level is almost unwatchable imo…..

I watched Celtic game it would have been travesty if they hadn't taken 3 points they totally controlled match. Big baws from new lad to put penalty away.

they are usually mad complainers at Ibrox, hard luck stories, blame any cant but themselves but they are not doing that now, they just want to blame this manager, it's as if they are happy to lose if they get shot of the manager, but they will have pay him off, and americans don't like parting with cash

Agreed Malay.  Both posts.

honcho it's a toxic environment for the lad, they want him gone big time, he probably wants out himself but he's not going to resign, however he is going to **** it out till they pay him his contract up, because he rejected a very good post to go there.
That 3 year contract will buy a lot of vegan burgers for him and his family, sit it out Russell get you're cash and sign an NDA, everything was great it just didn't work out.

He's got a lot on his plate tbh, keeping Lucy Pinder happy.

Indeed it's a very tough life being a vegan and voting green party and also manging a very big football club, but I'm sure the lad will get through it, hope his mental health is grand currently.
My advice, ride it out Russell. Ignore the flak keep doing you're job.

martin is the new kid on block interview wise apparently
does glitzy eye catching bullet pt presententation about his vison etc,etc
as my old boss use to tell me about new starters
HE,S GOT A CV TO DIE FOR
and on the job they wernt worth a rowe of beans ,worse than useless

but in this day and age if you want one who hasnt got a CV to die for coached to the minute on how to give worldie interviews ,presentations

He's a pub manager, great head of hair though.

2 month and 2 days later was the answer.

have the yanks paid him off yet ? Grand cash to get for 4 months. My advice don't go to get the lot.

He had to leave by a side door and into a car as 'fans' were surounding the team bus.

They only put in a reputed £20m in the first place.  How much will they have to shell out now? £3M?  £4M?  You have to laugh at the ineptitude.
Sevco and Sevpay!  Rangers sliding into utter irrelevance.

not sure they put anything in they bought shares off real supporters to take over club, that is not a capital investment

longer than chitchatDi

longer than chitchatDi

Don't know if he is good manager or not, domestically results have not been good enough, although he did get through 2 tough European ties which guarantees Europa League income, which his employers would have been delighted with.
He also got a draw v Celtic, and discussed previously he may have been unlucky v Hearts
I think the real problem is the support believed the rubbish about massive investment from new owners and that was never going to happen and perhaps the new owners underestimated Scottish football, and he has to take the fall.
According to Tory MSP "no more vegans or Buddhists at Ibrox" is the solution I doubt his personal life had anything to do with him not getting results that were expected.
Good Luck to guy hope he proves people wrong in his future career, be interesting to see who they appoint next, or who even wants the gig ?

Sevco are in their 13th year so hopefully more bad luck to follow, although it is not really bad luck, the 'fans' have actually engineered this themselves. Both Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Philippe Clement had delivered some silverware and good European runs for them but after a wee run of bad form , the perplexingly entitled 'fans' decided they were not good enough for the club and hounded them out, now where are they? On Sunday the Police had to escort Sir Martin out of Falkirk as hooded and masked fans had gathered on mass, as if to perform a public lynching. Since Rangers were dissolved they have never done what they should have done and lived within their means, they have the splashed cash they didn't have, especially under Dave King, and they are actually still doing it. They had a £17 Million pound loss last season f**ck knows what it will be this season, because it will be a loss, and will they get away with? yes. It's about time this club, along with their thug fan base, was brought to heal, but the SPL does not have the cahonies to do so...

Sevco are in their 13th year so hopefully more bad luck to follow, although it is not really bad luck, the 'fans' have actually engineered this themselves. Both Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Philippe Clement had delivered some silverware and good European runs for them but after a wee run of bad form , the perplexingly entitled 'fans' decided they were not good enough for the club and hounded them out, now where are they? On Sunday the Police had to escort Sir Martin out of Falkirk as hooded and masked fans had gathered on mass, as if to perform a public lynching. Since Rangers were dissolved they have never done what they should have done and lived within their means, they have the splashed cash they didn't have, especially under Dave King, and they are actually still doing it. They had a £17 Million pound loss last season f**ck knows what it will be this season, because it will be a loss, and will they get away with? yes. It's about time this club, along with their thug fan base, was brought to heal, but the SPL does not have the cahonies to do so...

great post badjoe must sensible people with knowledge of Scottish football would agree, weird club

Watch Diomande’s powder puff, couldn’t care less challenge in the middle which led to the Falkirk goal.  He couldn’t have cared less.  And Souttar is so poor in central defence.  There is no fear in the squad.  No respect for the club, the fans and their aspirations.  Martin’s leadership, if it ever existed, disappeared weeks ago.
Why would Gerrard want to go back there?  Why would anybody when they see they see the rag tag squad of nothing at their disposal.
I saw Davie White, I saw John Greig at their lowest ebbs but this current Ibrox situation is the worst I’ve ever known.
And let’s be honest, things don’t look too clever at Parkhead either.  Fans not at all happy there either.  What would two defeats produce on their seated stands?

rag tag

From my contacts in Hamilton it's strongly rumoured that Gerrard may pick up the pieces. Not that far off imo as at least he will be closer to home.

Difficult one to predict, I assume they have spoken to somebody weeks ago, is there anybody even there who could be caretaker ? Who knows ?
I think they will need appointment in before they play Celtic in semi final, that will be massive game for both sides, hope its entertaining, the league is gone that's irrelevant ,Europe is waste of time but gets them cash.

Rangers will struggle for decades imv…Celtic are going the same route…..maybe the lizard and Co could plough some of the billions made from punting football into hearts and get some big names……Scottish football is in dire need to get away from Glasgow tbh…..

Memories acey but I remember when the Gers had most of the England squad and five or six of the Dutch squad. And then you move on to Brian Laudrup....

Check the line up at most premier matches and count the home grown……

Doubtful Sky would cover Scotland if it wasn’t for the two bitter rivals spewing bile imv…

Great players stewarty and Barry home grown skipper, great player class, loved watching them on TV, wee bit unlucky champions league ?

If they were a wee bit unlucky MALAY I would emphasise the word WEE ..

There's was no reason not to give the job to Barry Ferguson at the time, yet they seemed to be groveling to get Gerrard back when he walked out on them, it should be the other way round. I'd even give it to Duncan Ferguson over Gerrard.

Kind Regards.

Looks like Gerrard is in talks with sevco as I type. The English media getting it wrong again saying he did a' fantastic job' first time round and the fans would 'love' to have him back, from what I see it's 50/50 that they want him to return, so if his appointment p!sses off half of the sevco support, then that'll do me. . He'll be demanding money at the Crimbo break, so that'll further damage the club and I'd rather have Steve G than Sean Dyche, who would probably do a good job! So roll on another poor appointment for yet more disappointment.