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Russell Martin's done one...

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by GLP, Oct 5, 2025.

  1. djsowtz

    djsowtz Well-Known Member

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    Yeah that’s the sad state of football. Rangers and other teams were always built on a British base of about 6/7 players, now you struggle to find 1 in the starting line up. Rangers have about 5 British starters which is incredible these days. I very rarely watch the EPL games because of this.
     
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  2. ElTigre

    ElTigre Well-Known Member

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    Celtic and Rangers have a great past but realistically they are never going to achieve much outside of Scotland in the future.
     
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  3. djsowtz

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    Depends what you mean by past? Wasn’t that long ago we were in a European cup final and we were very lucky not to win it. We probably would have gone further last year if Phil had stayed on. I remember the European nights against TWS, it was honestly something else. In that far enough back or are you thinking longer than that?

    We do need to get back to winning domestic trophies first, but other competitions are not out of our reach once we get going again.
     
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    imagine being 8th in a 2 horse race.
     
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  5. The B&S Fanclub

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    The 1967 Celtic team was a one off, never to be repeated...All but two of the 15 man squad, who became the first British side to win the European Cup, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon, were born less than 10 miles from Parkhead.
    Imagine, say an Arsenal team, winning the Champions League with the bulk of the team born less than 10 miles from their stadium. I'm confident that that will never happen.
     
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  6. Amin Arrears

    Amin Arrears Well-Known Member

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    It was great when done right, the Barca team that pioneered it was just unreal. But like with everything some people just take things way too far until it just became a game of keeping possession purely for the sake of having possession.
     
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  7. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    Those stats look superb when compared with Russell Martin.

    I was in Glasgow a few weeks ago when they got pumped by Brugge at home.

    Quite a few wanted Gerrard back.
     
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  8. djsowtz

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    Yeah, I wouldn’t be adverse to Gerrard coming back at all. Van Bommel has thrown his hat in and I wouldn’t mind him either. A lot of fans want Muscat because of his attacking style. Me, I’d like to see Ole Gunnar Solksjaer. I think he’d fit in well and I think he plays the right brand of football for Rangers.

    I do not want Dyche or Ferguson. Dyche was the favourite, purely I think because of the Thelwell link, but I think, and hope Thelwell has been found out now too, after the statement from the American owners last night.
     
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    It wouldn’t be hard to be better than Martin tbh. From the moment I heard his name even mentioned I knew it would be a disaster and didn’t want him anywhere near our club. Not someone I can take to. Those results still weren’t good enough and if you saw Ferguson on the touch line, he was all over the place, it wasn’t really him, although he was the front of it. It was Neil McCann clearly making most of the decisions.
     
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  10. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Agreed
    I saw iniesta live once and he was unbelievable add Messi etc and you could play any bloody system you like and still win

    there’s an awful lot of posters who are very very quiet about the demise of this type of football
     
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