Russell Martin has been sacked as Rangers manager after just seven league games.

Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton bring you a special edition of The Warm-Up recorded hours after Russell Martin’s departure from Ibrox.

Chris and Kris discuss what went wrong for the Rangers manager and why his vision for the club imploded so quickly and so spectacularly, with just one win in his opening seven William Hill Scottish Premiership matches.

The duo look at what is going on behind the scenes at Ibrox at boardroom level and in recruitment and ask who will be next to take charge?

Up for discussion is:

Managerial options: Steven Gerrard, Sean Dyche, Kevin Muscat - or Steve Clarke?!

Would leaving Hearts be a backward move for Derek McInnes?

How do you build a winning team at Ibrox?

00:00 STARTS

01:10 ‘Surprised he lasted this long?’

03:01 This runs deeper than Martin

04:52 Disrespect to Scottish football

07:42 What it takes to be a Ranger

08:25 Serial losers

09:40 ‘Happy to be put out of his misery?’

11:00 A £10million gamble

12:10 What’s in Rangers’ DNA

14:10 Getting a bounce

17:25 Who is next?

20:45 Would Derek McInnes downsize?

22:30 Number one on the Boyd list

25:25 Is there a caretaker?

28:20 Brown brogues and tradition

29:30 Time to call Barry

32:00 Chris Sutton of Rangers?

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Sutton calls Full House on Boydy Bingo as our hosts feud over Old Firm and Edinburgh derby comparisons and put themselves in the frame to replace Brendan Rodgers as Celtic’s managerial Dream Team.

The Warm-Up team of Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Steven Naismith discuss Hearts under Derek McInnes, their progress so far this season and ask if new shareholder and Brighton & Hove Albion owner, Tony Bloom, will go ‘blooming big’ in January.

The team also look to Easter Road and the missing piece of the jigsaw at Hibs, who failed in a deadline move for a Scotland striker.

And with the clock ticking for under-pressure Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin, they also ask, is this season a ‘last dance for Brendan Rodgers’?

Also, up for discussion is:
📦 Why Shankland is the total package
🔄 Celtic’s transfer model
🤬 Sutton and Boyd in the dugout?

00:00 Start
00:24 Do Hearts look like title challengers?
01:25 The Brazilian is ‘the real deal’
03:30 Hearts’ sole desire
04:55 The unknown of January
05:28 Hibs in a good place
06:38 Missing piece of the jigsaw
07:15 The weight of expectation
10:10 Hibees not hitting top form
11:35 The first derby of the season
15:30 Defensive exposure
16:40 Last dance for Rodgers
18:01 Boyd and Sutton in the dugout
20:15 January is pivotal
22:00 You’re just making stuff up
22:30 Edinburgh derby predictions
23:59 “You got me the sack”

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With Rangers failing to score in their UEFA Europa League defeat to Genk and Celtic wrestling with the question of what to do with a problem like Maeda, The Warm-Up asks which of the Old Firm sides will be the first to get their frontmen firing.

Will Daizen Maeda persevere up front for the Scottish champions or is it vital that Brendan Rodgers gets new signing Kelechi Iheanacho match fit and starting in a central role.

Russell Martin faces a different issue at Rangers. Will £8 million man Youssef Chermiti start to make an impact or could Russell Martin even opt to pair him in attack with former Aberdeen frontman, Bojan Miovski.

Also, up for discussion is:

Jimmy Thelin’s desperate Dons

What happened to two up front?

Motivational tools at Ibrox

Dressing room favourites

00:23 Celtic in Belgrade

01:01 Concerns for ‘Celtic’s Maradona’

05:06 Iheanacho making his mark

06:38 Brendan’s special talent

09:30 ‘Celtic are still a work in progress’

11:40 ‘Has Russell turned the corner’

12:45 ‘Stimulating... in a different setting’

13:53 Background Ibrox noise

14:50 Price tags in Scotland

16:40 Playing with two strikers

17:30 Dressing room dynamics

18:40 Nico needs Russell. Russell needs Nico

19:35 Time to talk about Jimmy

20:55 ‘I'm not a fitness expert...’

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