[Football] Russell Martin, De Zerbi's eventual successor?

[Farehamseagull]

I’m not sure he doesn’t like us.

I heard was he was let go at 18 and to find his way through non league, as there were few options locally, due to the lack of clubs in the area. His reasons for starting RMA were to give more local kids a chance through high levels of coaching.

Met him a couple of times, only briefly. Struck me as incredibly genuine and down to earth. Liked him immensely.

Not met him myself but a few people I know, know him or have met him and say exactly the same. He’s got a big fan club around here now.

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

Surprised Potter not being mentioned. Wouldnt surprise me at all.

So I will ask the question...WOULD YOU WELCOME HIM BACK Poyningsgull Apart from Holidaying and keeping his head down I wonder if he's been watching and learning. He MAY come back into football with a huge point to prove...

 

[Eeyore]

I appreciate that but I assumed that the post I was replying to, which said one liverpool manager at the time was actually meant to read one liverpool player and that that was Hyypia.

Whilst Melia did seem useless, he was at the helm when we got to the cup final. As for Case, he had the reigns at a time when I suspect even Pep would have struggled with the players available and agenda of the owner at the time.

Case had us 11 points adrift at the bottom of the league. Gritt then took 36 points from 24 matches- that would have got us a play off position if spread across a whole season.

 

[dwayne]

The next manager will be someone nobody has ever heard of. Although Dwayne will tell us he has won twelfty hundred pound having bet on the correct man months ago when someone in the know confirmed his well-researched judgement.

Tbf I did break the news potter was joining us days before it happened. On this site.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Case had us 11 points adrift at the bottom of the league. Gritt then took 36 points from 24 matches- that would have got us a play off position if spread across a whole season.

True but what Steve Gritt achieved in that season with that group of players was little short of a miracle, divine intervention if you like, as was proved the following season when he couldn't keep the miracle going.

It's hard to think of any manager in the game who could have done any better as the poster said.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Fair play to him here.

Mrs DiS showed me this yesterday! Good reason to get him in!

 

[Justice]

Surprised Potter not being mentioned. Wouldnt surprise me at all.

Seriously? TB strikes me as a man who likes to go forward not backwards.

 

[BN41Albion]

Seriously? TB strikes me as a man who likes to go forward not backwards.

Yep - would surprise me very much if we went back to GP!

 

[Justice]

Yep - would surprise me very much if we went back to GP!

RDZ has ruined his history lessons somewhat, what do Brighton fans expect a top six finish and into the last 16 of the Europa league Graham. Your easy life is no more

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Tbf I did break the news potter was joining us days before it happened. On this site.

But......when was life ever fair?

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

What's with the snide "Liverpool rejects" moniker for Milner and the Llama? Picking on your own players, how very Palace of you.

 

[drew]

Surprised Potter not being mentioned. Wouldnt surprise me at all.

You think we'd step back to Potterball after experiencing De Zerbiball?

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

You think we'd step back to Potterball after experiencing De Zerbiball?

Maybe we have a squad good enough to play Hyypiäball properly at last?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Surprised Potter not being mentioned. Wouldnt surprise me at all.

I honestly think he'd be the perfect candidate. Its a little wearing knowing we're a stepping stone club and if a manager has success he'll be off. Potter has failed at a big club and thus could easily be in for the long haul at his new club. Thinking Emery at Villa.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I’m not sure he doesn’t like us.

I heard was he was let go at 18 and to find his way through non league, as there were few options locally, due to the lack of clubs in the area. His reasons for starting RMA were to give more local kids a chance through high levels of coaching.

Met him a couple of times, only briefly. Struck me as incredibly genuine and down to earth. Liked him immensely.

It was a mutual decision for him to leave the club at 18, it came mid-way through the 2003-04 season. He initially linked up with Lewes and had trials at Charlton. By the summer of 2004 he'd joined Wycombe and made his debut for them off the bench on the opening day of the 2004-05 season.

He's a good lad, and his reasons for opening the RMA are to give back to the community of Brighton and provide chances for players who might have been released by clubs or not picked up for various reasons. As well as invite only sessions for players of a certain level they also offer Saturday morning training for any interested youngster so it covers the whole community. Certainly something to be applauded.

 

[drew]

Case had us 11 points adrift at the bottom of the league. Gritt then took 36 points from 24 matches- that would have got us a play off position if spread across a whole season.

You're right but Gritt won only 2 games before Feb 8th and Fans Utd was the catalyst for the turn around, in particular the home form as we only picked up 4 pts in away games under Gritt. Before Fans Utd, we were still 9 points from safety. I would also suggest the off field progress by the consortium was also helping improve the mood around the club. Gritt obviously failed to maintain that 'play off' form the following season and we only avoided relegation from the league due to an inept Doncaster.

 

[amexer]

I’m not sure he doesn’t like us.

I heard was he was let go at 18 and to find his way through non league, as there were few options locally, due to the lack of clubs in the area. His reasons for starting RMA were to give more local kids a chance through high levels of coaching.

Met him a couple of times, only briefly. Struck me as incredibly genuine and down to earth. Liked him immensely.

Still feel a little bitter that he never accomadated Southwick FC in his venture at Old Barn Way

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It was a mutual decision for him to leave the club at 18, it came mid-way through the 2003-04 season. He initially linked up with Lewes and had trials at Charlton. By the summer of 2004 he'd joined Wycombe and made his debut for them off the bench on the opening day of the 2004-05 season.

He's a good lad, and his reasons for opening the RMA are to give back to the community of Brighton and provide chances for players who might have been released by clubs or not picked up for various reasons. As well as invite only sessions for players of a certain level they also offer Saturday morning training for any interested youngster so it covers the whole community. Certainly something to be applauded.

Everything that my Saints fan wife has bombarded me with since he was appointed has been pretty positive. i got the impression that his academy was for societal/community reasons more than anything else. And I also seem to remember reading he appreciates the BHAFC way of doing things in every respect.

He’s getting some stick today from some Saints fans for not shaking hands with Sunak yesterday, but our PM was being followed around by a Tory Party photographer, do if it had been photographed it would have been used for political purposes! Fair enough, then.

 

[BrianSwan]

His Southampton team has closed the gap to 3 points with Ipswich now, 17 unbeaten.

Most recent game a 2-1 home win with 78% possession, 752 passes. Tell me this doesn't sound like a De Zerbi replacement! Other than Martin, the Las Palmas manager in Spain or Girona manager would be a great coup.

 

[Poyningsgull]

I honestly think he'd be the perfect candidate. Its a little wearing knowing we're a stepping stone club and if a manager has success he'll be off. Potter has failed at a big club and thus could easily be in for the long haul at his new club. Thinking Emery at Villa.

Well said, but that's far too sensible an observation for this thread.