"Things happened very, very quickly, extremely quickly. I spoke to Davie. He made it clear in terms of what was next for him and what the club wanted to be next for me. And then it was one of those situations. Is it something that you want to take on? Or is it something you prefer not to? I'm sitting here now as manager, so you can imagine what my answer was. I didn't expect it to happen. Probably the best thing about it, I didn't have any time to think. It's a privilege first and foremost, obviously. A club that I captained and then assistant manager before going away, and then coming back as first team coach. The buck now stops with me. I understand that and ultimately I have to prepare the players for each and every game."
"Sometimes a fresh voice, a fresh approach can kind of change things. And that's what I'm hoping for, that we need to do. And we understand that we need to pick our results up very, very quickly. I had a conversation with him, as I was all the time, being one of his coaches. But, yeah, in terms of going forward, I think i"
David Martindale moved into a sporting director role following a 2-0 home defeat that left Livingston six points adrift at the bottom of the Scottish Premiership. Marvin Bartley learned of the change on Sunday morning when he arrived for training and accepted promotion from first-team coach to manager, with his first match at home to Falkirk on Wednesday. Bartley previously captained the club, served as assistant manager, and spent 16 months in charge of Queen of the South before returning as a coach. Bartley says a fresh voice and approach are needed and that results must be picked up very quickly; he accepts ultimate responsibility for preparing the players.
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