smedDUm wrote:

I sincerely hope MM's departure didn't cost us any money. Anybody know?

 
The wording was very much geared towards an amicable parting of ways, so I'd be surprised.

Imo the board have given MM an ultimatum of play X youngsters every game and not supplied the cash to get good enough older heads into the team to support them....then he's gone looking. I can't blame him - I'd do the same if i were being told how to do my job when it will hinder my performance.

Sad times but hope we get the right manager in. Just hope we avoid crony-ism and picking the cheap option....

LarsErikKjell wrote:

Stewart Petrie shooting up the betting lists. 2nd favourite. Assuming he has been interviewed.

 
That would be an interesting appointment and certainly Petrie has more than earned a chance to manage a bigger club given the magnificent job he has done at Montrose.

He certainly came in and turned a side that Hegarty had made a disgraceful shambles in the games I had seen before he left including a 3-0 Betfred Cup group loss to Cove that should have been 8 or 9 *shudders in horror at the memory* .

For Petrie to come in and turn a side I feared was Highland League bound into one that  reached the promotion playoffs that season was a fantastic achievement and also showed the squad was far better than the had showed before.

And since then thing have just got better for Montrose under him reaching the League 1 promotion playoffs a couple of times.

smedDUm wrote:

I sincerely hope MM's departure didn't cost us any money. Anybody know?

Almost certainly did.  Ashgar will want Mellon to keep schtoom on the clear fallout that happened.  He will have signed a non-disclosure in return for a severance payment, unless he's totally stupid.  Suspect that will have been for a percentage of what he would have earned in the final year of his contract.  How big a percentage is a guess though.  you can't imagine any smaller than 25% and presumably no bigger than 75%.
 

Wish this would just hurry up and be over

LarsErikKjell wrote:

Wish this would just hurry up and be over

 

This I fully agree with.

Forgetting about the potential of appointing an untested rookie manager at this level I am growing uneasy at the potential effect the delay could have.


First any potential signing targets could well decided to go elsewhere while the manager appointment saga drags on.

Why would a potential signing go to a manager less club to then run a risk of not being wanted or liked by the new manager and frozen out the first team squad.

Secondly the time the new man would have to bed in and get to know the players at training and to get his ideas and style of play communicated at training given the league cup group games kick off in a just over a months time.

If its Courts then how will a group of players react to a manager who has no experience of playing or managing at a high level or even lower leagues of the SPFL.

Doing it at Kelty Hearts at junior, EoS and LL level is not exactly great to judge management ability at top flight level on.

+ Compounds the situation where every silly season we never know new signings till final hour final day.

Tek wrote:

LarsErikKjell wrote:

Wish this would just hurry up and be over

Same.

Every other club seems to be releasing new strips, making signings, appointing new Manager's and generally getting their supporters excited for next season.

We are sat (as supporters) desperate for some positive news to come out of Tannadice once again during a close season.
 

 
Stagnant as usual.

Not even a season ticket total update after the Early Bird deadline had passed. Some will say it doesn’t matter, it’s on pitch that matters. But it does, and it’ll be someone’s job to do stuff like this. And they’re half-arseing it

Tangy wrote:

Derek Adams just left Morecombe after promotion - 🤢

 
Sure he is heading to Bradford City.

Big tam the bam playing hard ball??

We are appointing Courts. 100%

There’s no real hold up. We have been interviewing for an assistant coach, all the while making it look like a thorough process is going on. ‘Promote from within’ has been the plan all along. And it’s cheap.

I’ll back the guy 100% but I don’t think now is the time for an experiment. We are trying to avoid being a yo-yo club at this stage.

I love the positivity on this site. Cheers me up every time I read it.

John Carver is rumoured to be the assistant to Courts

Given he has got a lot of experience I would not be unhappy with that but given he is currently involved with Scotland I wonder how accurate that is.