No posted for ages so no better time to do so than the manager buggering off.

totally agree TA is in a world of shite now. He goes for the cheap option to keep his overall control then the backlash will be likely too much to continue for any length of time. It’s no secret now that a manager or ‘head coach’ is expected to dance to his tune, given we’ve lost two managers in 12mths it’s not overly appealing to experienced managers.

in the end of the day the customer is king and given the emotiveness of football once we turn there is no going back, this is the last Roll of the dice for him. If he fucks it up then he’ll know it’s going to end in tears.

On a slightly more positive note can we just take a minute to be thankful that the bland football offered up this season is hopefully gone and up until the Aberdeen game very few of us would have been upset to see Mellon go.

Over to you Toni, we wait with baited breath and pitchforks at the ready.  

Cheers guys, ye changed password and it’s working now. SRYB

I’d agree that the longer it goes the more likely compo will be the verdict, if it were to be in Hearts and thistles or thrown out altogether then that would be a reasonably quick process. Think they will be taking into account the impact on them and a ‘fair’ price to be given.

You look at  Jack Ross , Given all the plaudits here for his managerial style and ability, Hibs doing well under him and did well at St Mirren, however you look at the disappointment he was at Sunderland, well backed in league 1 and still didn’t get them promoted so I’m no gonna dispel McClaren after having had a hard time at a few other basket case football clubs in England.

For me if we were to get him and Daly or Robson in to be mentored then I too am in.

Great point and completely agree. These 'random' names who have never been to Scotland let alone played or managed are a big risk. I'm not saying they can't work but it's a massive risk. 

I'm going for Wright, he proven to get results in the league. With a shoestring budget he has secured European football over the years and a Scottish Cup win. Would you take that as it stands today?? I know St Johnstone have never been seen as a pretty team to watch but i'm sure with the freedom of a bit more money Wright would like to play a bit more expansive football. 

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Tek wrote:

Sky Bet have added Nigel Clough to the betting odds.

See the likes of Clough and Lehmann - these guys have been on another world for most of there careers.

What I mean by that is, even Clough at a small club (in English terms) like Burton will have a budget that dwarfs ours.

These kind of guys come to Scotland thinking they will skoosh it and then get hit with reality when they see what kind of money they have to play with.

I honestly think we need to go for somebody like Wright - knows the game here inside out and did brilliant with Saints.

No way they can not have us in the top division. We have sold over 5000 season tickets, re-signed players started testing and training with our squad and staff on the back of being a Premier team again.  

Any sniff of this being taken seriously then oor lawyers will be on the case too and it goes on and on and on leaving the game in limbo for possibly months and months with appeals and counter claims.

Nice lad and i wish him well, at time he gave us some real forward momentum in the midfield and will certainly deserve the winners medal, as long as we go on to win the league (surely tae fuck) 
 

You'd like to think we would be looking at the Queens or the Inverness game as possible title winning weekends, Imagine the Tangerine invasion of Inverness if there was a chance that weekend.

As you said we have a habit of hibernation over the December to March period and have gone on some horrendous runs during this period for a number of years now so Champers back on the shelf and we'll revisit in March one the daffies are back on the go.

I’m sure every fan of every team is feeling the same at the moment. Unless they have destroyed everyone in the cup games. That isn’t the case and im sure the Dee fans are concerned about their manager and having loads of new players. ICT have not been great, Ayr are rebuilding and we’ve taken two of their best players off them. You could go on and on.

We just need to hope Neilson will stop being so bloody minded and will have a go in games and we can get another 2/3 players in and out things might seems more positive if we get off to a decent start.

There is the opposite to this but let’s not go there 😳

Was less than impressed with many aspects last night, thought we looked without shape and never looked to have any game plan once we scored apart from 10men behind the ball.

There are individuals you can pinpoint for having a shocker and again questions over players being out of position. Would have like to have targeted their young left back much more with McMullan being pushed forward on top of him as they did with Sporle.

Credit to Hearts who handled the weather much better thank we did as some of the passing was atrocious at times.

Positives in the cold light of day:
Shankland got one chance and scored clinically from it.
Appere and Banks did very well and definitely didn’t look out of place against a good Hearts side
Liam a Smith looks an upgrade at right back
We won’t play Hearts every week so will have much more of the ball
1-1 at Tynecastle is a good result at any point of the season
The defence stood up well to real onslaught of pressure
And finally we look sexy as fuck in that strip