GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 19: Rangers head coach Russell Martin at full time during a UEFA Champions League Play-Offs First Leg match between Rangers and Club Brugge at Ibrox Stadium, on August 19, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Eight matches in and it is impossible to avoid the calls for #MartinOut from Ibrox fans.
For many bears it has been eight matches too many from the hipster manager who has trashed the traditions of the club with his insistence on wearing trainers, a black t-shirt and carrying the appearance of a full on tree hugger.
Before he was appointed manager Martin was detested, having him in charge of their team and having to listen to his soothing management talk three or four times a week is proving way too much for fans that will never take to the ideas of the 21st Century.
Martin’s personality is an issue that will never be accepted but if he was able to put a competent side on the park some allowances would be made.
Putting a powder-puff side on the pitch that is being routinely taken apart is just too much for fans that were promised a full on Revolution! After struggling through home defeats from Queens Park, St Mirren and Motherwell earlier this year.
Think the overwhelming majority of fans now realise this Martin experiment won’t cut it at our club. I mean the guy doesn’t even have the manners to wear a suit for a start let alone a brain to actually manage players. #MartinOut
— YeahitsmeNiko ? ?? (@EducatedOranje) August 20, 2025
Martin’s gaslighting is only compounding the issues, telling fans the complete opposite to what they have just watched isn’t going to wash when he started off with a negative rating.
Brugge were 3-0 up in 20 minutes with hundreds of fans streaming out of Ibrox, those that remained shared their complete disgust at the manager and the team, in that order.
Last night’s attendance was 43,000, well short on capacity with more pain in store for the fans before the 49GERS finally decide that it is time to pay off Martin and launch the autumn Revolution!
“back martin”… you trolling? ? pic.twitter.com/N6vjKtdJaY
— biffo (@biffo_32) August 19, 2025
Rangers 1
Club brugges 3
Rangers just get worse every week #martinout— glen hogarth (@Rfcglen) August 19, 2025
#MartinOut pic.twitter.com/Hk2BkiPiKe
— Rangers Talk (@RangersTalk55) August 19, 2025
Sack him now, get him gone now and get someone in competent who could maybe save the tie or shore us up for the Europa league groups and make sure we don’t capitulate to the scum in 2wks time.#MartinOut #RussellMartinOut
— Gruff (@Gruffzilla) August 19, 2025
Goodnight troops.#Martinout pic.twitter.com/PoItfpASvw
— CMG87 (@C_M_G1897) August 19, 2025
His managerial success prior to this position is relegation!
Need I say more… we all knew from the start!#MartinOut
If anyone disagrees, please explain ?!?!— S.Robertson_81 (@steven_hashtag) August 19, 2025
Russell Martin’s @Rangers pic.twitter.com/bRg4oveHKC
— Avi Viewpoint (@truthorbare) August 19, 2025
Get Russell Martin out now. Most fans are being proven absolutely right, man is a gaslighter and wrong for this job. Man 6said the performances would at least show progress, think I’ve seen the absolute worst I’ve seen, any other manager would do better then that. #Martinout
— Iain Hamilton ???? (@IainHamilton93) August 19, 2025

…and now the fun begins, when they realise they sold the club to faceless blameless money men who couldn’t give a monkeys how angry they are….
Kinda like us,then !!!
Spot on mate….well said.
Brilliant!
Correct Balloon head,nail on head.
Lol all the duds sorry fuds at the daily devco had the sevco klub holding out for 1-1 or 2-2 draws in the first leg with it all to play for in the return.
Rumour has it that auld pishy pants aka Spew Heevins has doubled down and tipped sevco to go through in the away leg.
I said this recently. If Martin ditches the “schoolboy football”, which has served then well, in Europe they will be slaughtered. The tippy-tappy crappy Celtic football he is now trying to copy will be their undoing.
He praised the energy in the second half but all they did was revert to their old style where the player that gets the ball runs with it and charges towards the goal and they looked much more dangerous.
As well as that they hemmed Bruges in as they tried that crazy playing out from the back where the goalkeeper passes to a back who has three opponents on him.
Not impossible to win by two goals and take it to penalties if he reverts to the old style.
Just as well Martin doesn’t read your blog or he could have had a heads up!
Martin himself said the tie is in the balance… I suppose he’s got to, to keep the flame of hope alive, but it does nothing for his hopes of a decent future position when sacked. His mum is probably saying just come home now son, I’ll make you a nice tea… It’s probably the best advice he’s getting, as his coaching team don’t seem to be providing any! A few points I noted from last night…
It should have been worse, Brugge took the foot of the gas.
Their Captain looks like a bench-warmer now, his legs look gone.
Holding out for high value bids of their “top talent” will not be forthcoming – at this rate they’ll have to sell Gassama to recoup any money to soften the blow of missing the CL!
I wonder if, as you say, Bruges “took their foot off the gas” or did Sevco just find their old high energy game. I think it was the latter, the one that destroyed Rodgers twice.
Is Martin smart enough to work it out and be flexible to change back to what worked in Europe? I hope not.
What sort of Tim would say: “…….. the one that destroyed Rodgers twice.”
Would that be a Lawwell supporter or a ‘loyal-type’ supporter? “I hope not.”
How about …and Mourinho as well?
Sorry but getting skelped by Sevco 3 nil is a destruction as far as I am concerned.
I think that the greatest fan’s in the world should arrange a demonstration walk out in the 12th minute (year of conception), well the one’s that are still there anyway…….
HH
I have no problem reading this article and help put the boot into Sevco…good on you for that…But if you get a chance Editor can you throw any light onto “comments ” which are appearing on various Celtic blogs…suggesting a “campaign” against BR to get him out the door ?
Do you have any information which would back this up…or is it mere speculation ?
Probably a bit of both. The thinking behind it, as you know, is that the board won’t let BR spend any money if he isn’t going to be here next season, so if he goes they will back the new guy.
Perfect excuse because it makes sense to some degree but “cutting their nose off to spite themselves”.
They have Rodgers over a barrel as he won’t want to walk out again.
It is a bit late now but I think most fans would have forgiven him if he said, at the beginning of the transfer window, “I am going for the sake of the club so that new players can be brought in as the board won’t back me.
As it is he is sort of covering for the board and putting us in “Limbo” for a year.
Seems logical…good point.
And yet if anyone listened to BBC Sportsound those ex theRangers players and fan presenters had plenty of positives to take after their home drubbing . In fact those very people were implying that all is not lost in the tie? The great thing about listening and watching to the small army of ex theRangers players and fan boys and girls it employs with our dough , is that they all suffer at the very same time when it goes ‘ nipples up ‘ for the tribute act ! Wee Terry co babbling on Amazon Prime TV was on the verge of bubbling , such was his frustrations and sadness ….have you ever heard so much piffle spouted out from someone’s mouth , like his ? Good God in Govanlandia !
I wonder how the DR clown aka Jackson will re-spin all the bloated bullshit he came out with when the yanks came calling.
Oh, it’s all gone quiet over there……. (I’m guessing here as I wouldn’t buy that or any other SMSM rag, not for love nor money.)
PS The Celtic PLC hierarchy (Lawwell & Desmond) will be delighted we’ve got all this deflection from where our eyes should really be, a lot closer to home and on the transfer situation. Fukkin treacherous rat!
Yes, that’s the problem with absent landlords,
they don’t sit in the stands and get a real feel for what the paying customers think.
[And they probably don’t want to know what the support thinks either?]
The Americans are just interested in the numbers at sevco: it’s just business.
But a non-capacity ibrox for a crucial CL play-off tie must be of concern…?
Russ was a brilliant student at school. 3 A levels. One was in Drama.
Gen Z would love Russ as a British intelligence officer in the movies.
Perhaps himself as a James Bond type.
Cavenagh and Stewart will give Russ plenty of time to turn the big blue ship around.
Cavenagh now knows how rebellious 49 Gers fans can be. The investors must be shit scared.
If this form continues, the Premiership will be a 3 horse race. Could Paddy be taking bets on
what hurdle the jockey in the Union Jack colours will get tossed off.
He must not be verbally abused by the 49 Ger fans. The nasty ones, are part of the Club’s problems. Sorry Russ, you are a better coach and man than those blue nose pricks will ever be.