| Russell Martin on Swansea 12:39 - Jul 4 with 2815 views | KeithHaynes |
"The coaching staff, my family and myself, in terms of the place and the people it was fantastic."
He added: "So for something to come along and make us leave, it had to be right."
Martin, who guided Swansea to 10th in the Championship in 2022-23, signed a three-year deal at St Mary's until 2026.
Four former Swans, including assistant manager Matt Gill, have joined him to make up the backroom staff.
"I'm a big believer in trusting my instincts and intuition on people and opportunities and it has served me right so far," Martin said.
"After all the conversations I had with the club, thinking about the playing squad that is already here, the facility, all of the club's history and traditions, it was all just really exciting.
"When we sat down as a coaching staff and put it all together we felt like coming here to Southampton was too good an opportunity to turn down."
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 12:46 - Jul 4 with 2462 views | nantywatcher |
I would have changed the word 'guided' to 'fumbled.' |  | | |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 13:54 - Jul 4 with 2260 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 12:46 - Jul 4 by nantywatcher |
I would have changed the word 'guided' to 'fumbled.' |
I’m a great believer in my instincts too | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 13:56 - Jul 4 with 2248 views | Boundy |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 13:54 - Jul 4 by onehunglow |
I’m a great believer in my instincts too |
Fair play you stood your ground | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 15:06 - Jul 4 with 2111 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 13:56 - Jul 4 by Boundy |
Fair play you stood your ground |
You can be in a minority of one and still be right .
The man turns my stomach and did from the first month.
It is entirely possible the Soton fans will see through him much quicker .
I look around and see good people,long term fans taken in ,regretting it but looking to save face on forums. Well,don’t .
We love this club ,wherever we live in the world and it is bigger than any fan,forum or website .
It ,for me represents my early years on this earth ,my dad when he was religion free and my maternal nutcase granddad and no feker is going to tell me I am no fan because I complain,winge or diss. | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 17:07 - Jul 4 with 1974 views | SullutaCreturned |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 13:56 - Jul 4 by Boundy |
Fair play you stood your ground |
And I would say he was proved right.
it took me a lot longer to turn against Martin but when I did, even that 9 game run at the end wasn't enough. I'm glad he's gone.
Onwards and upwards.
AND, yes, would really enjoy it if we finish well above the "Saints" | | | |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 17:26 - Jul 4 with 1947 views | Kilkennyjack |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 15:06 - Jul 4 by onehunglow |
You can be in a minority of one and still be right .
The man turns my stomach and did from the first month.
It is entirely possible the Soton fans will see through him much quicker .
I look around and see good people,long term fans taken in ,regretting it but looking to save face on forums. Well,don’t .
We love this club ,wherever we live in the world and it is bigger than any fan,forum or website .
It ,for me represents my early years on this earth ,my dad when he was religion free and my maternal nutcase granddad and no feker is going to tell me I am no fan because I complain,winge or diss. |
In fairness RM delivered the double ‘doube’, so thats something.
And when we got it right it was a joy to watch us play.
RM was arrogant and it was all about him - and the many cheap goals we gave away was hard to watch if you wanted us to win.
Hopefully the new man can improve us. |  |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 with 1796 views | KeithHaynes |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 15:06 - Jul 4 by onehunglow |
You can be in a minority of one and still be right .
The man turns my stomach and did from the first month.
It is entirely possible the Soton fans will see through him much quicker .
I look around and see good people,long term fans taken in ,regretting it but looking to save face on forums. Well,don’t .
We love this club ,wherever we live in the world and it is bigger than any fan,forum or website .
It ,for me represents my early years on this earth ,my dad when he was religion free and my maternal nutcase granddad and no feker is going to tell me I am no fan because I complain,winge or diss. |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:32 - Jul 4 with 1748 views | lifelong |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
I agree.
Already stated that I would have liked him to have had a third season and I stand by that. |  | | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:39 - Jul 4 with 1711 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
I didn't say they were nor did I infer so Keith
You rated him
I didn't
Quel domage | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:53 - Jul 4 with 1689 views | KeithHaynes |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:39 - Jul 4 by onehunglow |
I didn't say they were nor did I infer so Keith
You rated him
I didn't
Quel domage |
I did and do, but like many I hope he messes up at Southampton. | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:09 - Jul 4 with 1639 views | SullutaCreturned |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
Shame he only delivered that football in small patches because most of his time here was boring.
Trust the process eh. | | | |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:11 - Jul 4 with 1637 views | builthjack |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
Spot on Keith. A third season would, in my opinion, have seen us easily in the play offs.
Some can’t, or don’t want to, see it.
But he has gone now. Let’s hope Duff can produce. I hope so, or he will have hell on here off the gang. |  |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:13 - Jul 4 with 1634 views | Dr_Winston |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
The best football we played under Martin almost always coincided with the most we strayed from his formula.
Had he been capable of accepting that then last season would have been a lot more fun and a lot more people would be mourning his departure instead of hoping it all goes tits up for him on the South Coast. |  |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:28 - Jul 4 with 1601 views | KeithHaynes |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:13 - Jul 4 by Dr_Winston |
The best football we played under Martin almost always coincided with the most we strayed from his formula.
Had he been capable of accepting that then last season would have been a lot more fun and a lot more people would be mourning his departure instead of hoping it all goes tits up for him on the South Coast. |
It must have been his formula because that’s the way we played.
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:36 - Jul 4 with 1564 views | Dr_Winston |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:28 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
It must have been his formula because that’s the way we played.
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His formula was three at the back, heavy emphasis on possession and building things from the back, slowly and riskily if necessary. "You have to be brave to play the way we do" was one of his regular comments, usually after a mistake resulting from an idiotic short pass had cost us points.
The more we played that way the worse results were. The more we played with a solid defensive line, didn't f*ck about with it at the back and were not bothered if we had less than 65% of the ball the better results were.
Martin's "process" saw us fifteenth in his first season and would have resulted in an even worse finish in his second if he hadn't abandoned huge chunks of it with three months to go.
Basically all that remained was not kicking it long. [Post edited 4 Jul 2023 20:37]
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:49 - Jul 5 with 1274 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:11 - Jul 4 by builthjack |
Spot on Keith. A third season would, in my opinion, have seen us easily in the play offs.
Some can’t, or don’t want to, see it.
But he has gone now. Let’s hope Duff can produce. I hope so, or he will have hell on here off the gang. |
In your opinion
Same applies to all | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:56 - Jul 5 with 1257 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:11 - Jul 4 by builthjack |
Spot on Keith. A third season would, in my opinion, have seen us easily in the play offs.
Some can’t, or don’t want to, see it.
But he has gone now. Let’s hope Duff can produce. I hope so, or he will have hell on here off the gang. |
It will be interesting to see how this season goes for him at Southampton, TBH I'm not fussed either way as long as they finish below us. That also goes for every team in the league. |  |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 12:13 - Jul 5 with 1133 views | DoubeDoube |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 19:15 - Jul 4 by KeithHaynes |
The people who write for this website were never taken in.
Never regret anything if it’s done in good faith, and never ever cover up your feelings ever.
Russell Martin delivered the best football I’ve seen since we were relegated.
If anyone couldn’t get excited about the Swans when it ticked for him they are no football fan. |
poor tactics and turned up at the end of the season when it was too late. should have been playoffs could have been automatic. Fannying about at back and tippy tappy meaningless possession football. Glad he has gone tbf |  | | |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 06:49 - Jul 6 with 916 views | ItchySphincter |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:11 - Jul 4 by builthjack |
Spot on Keith. A third season would, in my opinion, have seen us easily in the play offs.
Some can’t, or don’t want to, see it.
But he has gone now. Let’s hope Duff can produce. I hope so, or he will have hell on here off the gang. |
If he couldn't achieve anything in two seasons why on earth would you think that he could suddenly deliver in the third? |  |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 06:52 - Jul 6 with 912 views | ItchySphincter |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 20:36 - Jul 4 by Dr_Winston |
His formula was three at the back, heavy emphasis on possession and building things from the back, slowly and riskily if necessary. "You have to be brave to play the way we do" was one of his regular comments, usually after a mistake resulting from an idiotic short pass had cost us points.
The more we played that way the worse results were. The more we played with a solid defensive line, didn't f*ck about with it at the back and were not bothered if we had less than 65% of the ball the better results were.
Martin's "process" saw us fifteenth in his first season and would have resulted in an even worse finish in his second if he hadn't abandoned huge chunks of it with three months to go.
Basically all that remained was not kicking it long. [Post edited 4 Jul 2023 20:37]
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I struggle to see why others can't see this.
Good results generally came in spite of Russell Martin. | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 07:19 - Jul 6 with 895 views | Dr_Winston |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 06:49 - Jul 6 by ItchySphincter |
If he couldn't achieve anything in two seasons why on earth would you think that he could suddenly deliver in the third? |
It's not even about achievement. It's also about the total absence of any kind of sense or impression that what he was trying to do was working, was on the verge of working or would ever work at all. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:33 - Jul 6 with 800 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 06:49 - Jul 6 by ItchySphincter |
If he couldn't achieve anything in two seasons why on earth would you think that he could suddenly deliver in the third? |
…which of course is and always has been my point .
It’s criminal really we still discuss him . He was an employee briefly passing through our club,one which he stated he would make “ proper”
He won nothing, developed nobody and ruined careers .
And some wanted to keep him
Please God,roll on this season | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:39 - Jul 6 with 803 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:33 - Jul 6 by onehunglow |
…which of course is and always has been my point .
It’s criminal really we still discuss him . He was an employee briefly passing through our club,one which he stated he would make “ proper”
He won nothing, developed nobody and ruined careers .
And some wanted to keep him
Please God,roll on this season |
In fairness you talk about him more than most, if you were able to stop probably so would others. | |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:44 - Jul 6 with 789 views | Dr_Winston |
Now that Martin has gone do you think Perchy is going to double down on Fisher as his primary hate figure this year or will Naughton make a comeback? [Post edited 6 Jul 2023 8:44]
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| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Russell Martin on Swansea on 09:34 - Jul 6 with 733 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin on Swansea on 08:39 - Jul 6 by Whiterockin |
In fairness you talk about him more than most, if you were able to stop probably so would others. |
It's fair comment and I can accept that .
That said, I often replied to what I saw as over love
It's my right to do so
It's a shame Dr Won posts perchy as we agree on much football wise
His posting on RM was hardly complimentary
I've said before we keep it tidy Whitey so let's keep it that wAy
I hate neither Naughton nor Fisher
Fact
Fisher is a poor keeperpreceived as do by most
Naughton is simply overated
WTF is there to bitch about and keep old scores burning
Winston is one I would love to meet again but won't | |
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