dave_c

Yes that's what makes it unlikely. But in our current situation we just need someone who - has actually managed a football club before - is forceful enough to tell Cormack to stop interfering - is desperate enough for a job to not be put off by having to work for idiotse. Neil Lennon comes in, hopefully steadies the ship and stops us getting relegated, then has a massive bust up with Cormack and leaves of his own accord BEFORE he alienates all the players, meaning we don't have to pay any compensation for another sacking, and we can pick this thread back up in a few months.

He's not fucked off to the Caymans, he's still here. He's released a photo to prove it.

She's deid. They're sourcing a replacement but it's taking a while. They'll bring in Warnock for a few weeks till it's sorted 👍

Makes sense. Fuck knows who we've unearthed though

True. Warnock said they'd decided a few days ago he was off though, so why wouldn't they just have announced the new guy last week? Sit in the stand for the cup game etc. On the other hand, maybe the club know it's definitely going ahead because the new guy is as desperate for a job as we are for a manager.

Even if club were close, Warnock walking means this new guy knows we're now fucked if it doesn't get over the line. He can turn around and demand double the wages, a ten year contract, free rowies every day and Cormack to beg in a girl's voice.

Yes but Ash was a bombscare at first: he improved with decent coaching (and a settled position). Without that, our "raw but there's a player there" types will remain shite and any player trading model has no chance. Can't remember now what decent coaching looks like now though... Something like an outfield version of whatever turned "2016-2020 Joe Lewis" into "2022 Joe Lewis", or "2022 Kelle Roos" into "2024 Kelle Roos" - but in reverse.

Yes it was weird, like you said he initially got loads more money than Pele for likes of Barry Nicholson, Scott Severin, Charlie Mulgrew, then late Jimmy/early McGhee it was all Bertrand Bossu, Jerel Ifil, Davide Grassi. And yes the Velicka/Foster thing was nuts

Aye well obviously he was a regular starter and played loads of games and everything but just seemed to be sorta invisible... Even Velicka and Dave Bus got half a dozen appearances each

Gary McDonald was on our books but never appeared on the pitch

For whatever collection of players you've assembled as part of your trading stradegee, you need a manager with the expertise and flexibility to find formations that work for them. Otherwise you get talented midfielders reduced to watching the ball get repeatedly punted over their heads, or Anthony Stewart trying to be a silky, ball-playing centre half.

Some prick probably made a deal like that in the 1990 final - win this shootout and that'll do me for Scottish Cups for the next 34 years.

Get him in for the final!

Feels like everything started going to shit shortly after the training ground opened. As if that had been keeping Cormack busy, but then he suddenly had the free time and misplaced confidence to start pissing around with the footballing side of things, well outwith his area of expertise. Glass and Goodwin would have talked their way into the job by nodding and agreeing to implement whatever cheesy footballing philosophies he'd been spouting about, then they had to do that with him looking over their shoulder. It seemed alien to Goodwin's normal style, and that must have constrained him a bit (obvs he was a rubbish manager too though). Robson coming in coincided with him being forced to take a step back for health reasons, and Robson was free to manage as he saw fit, which gave us a bounce at the time because of how messed up it was before. Not a long term solution though, especially if Cormack keeps signing players to do one thing, while Robson sets up to do the opposite. Not the best setup for someone learning (or not) on the job.

True - still currently has more of a chance of getting to Germany than Haaland though