Fenway Frank
Well-Known Member
Player coach, good luck to him
I feel pretty much the same, yeah he is a good guy, and was captain, but the plain fact is that he just wasn't good enough for a lot of his later time here, but it seemed because he was nice it made him immune from criticism.Good luck to him / who cares, somewhere in between those positions for me.
I'd stick a tenner on him being retired from playing and coaching in our academy by this time next year.
Good luck to him / who cares, somewhere in between those positions for me.
I'd stick a tenner on him being retired from playing and coaching in our academy by this time next year.
Well I hope he is a good co-commentator, because he's blatantly going to be on Radio Norfolk every few weeks too
Oh good.......................
Bet he'll be better than Daryl Sutch, he's terrible.
Just seen the amount of love Russ has had from our current and ex players on social media. Clearly well liked, clearly a big character and a big part of our rise under Lambert. Why anyone would think otherwise defies fact and logic.
He clearly wasn't good enough for us for a long time before the penny dropped. For me, its not just about him, he is a symbol of a lot that was wrong with Alex Neil's judgement in thinking he shouldn't be replaced in the starting lineup, and the mentality of the club in offering him a new contract. For those reasons I'm glad he has gone. Him being an important member of the team seems a very long time ago now.Just seen the amount of love Russ has had from our current and ex players on social media. Clearly well liked, clearly a big character and a big part of our rise under Lambert. Why anyone would think otherwise defies fact and logic.
He clearly wasn't good enough for us for a long time before the penny dropped. For me, its not just about him, he is a symbol of a lot that was wrong with Alex Neil's judgement in thinking he shouldn't be replaced in the starting lineup, and the mentality of the club in offering him a new contract. For those reasons I'm glad he has gone. Him being an important member of the team seems a very long time ago now.
Bet those players who were grasses up to the management didn't queue up to stick a couple of euros in the envelope.He clearly wasn't good enough for us for a long time before the penny dropped. For me, its not just about him, he is a symbol of a lot that was wrong with Alex Neil's judgement in thinking he shouldn't be replaced in the starting lineup, and the mentality of the club in offering him a new contract. For those reasons I'm glad he has gone. Him being an important member of the team seems a very long time ago now.
Bet those players who were grasses up to the management didn't queue up to stick a couple of euros in the envelope.
He was a divisive influence in the squad, I'm not sure how that translates to coaching.
It's good to hear that you've experienced those conversations. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that often there will be different accounts from the same group of people.This divisive influence is rubbish. I know Maddison was close with him, but so were ALL the young players. If anything, the reason why Alex Neil persisted with him longer than he should have done was because he was such a positive influence in the dressing room, even if his playing ability wasn't quite up to the requirement.
I think a few are determined to find problems where there isn't and wasn't one. There's certain things I know for fact, coming from the player's mouths in private conversations. Russ was never divisive.
Again, that should be obvious in itself from the pure volume of good-will messages he's received from current players, young and experience, in the team and not in the team, all the way through to previous players like Holt, Snoddy and many, many more.