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  1. I think that's possibly one of the biggest problems in the running of the club. Cormack is a fan with a software business Milne is a fan with a (failed) construction business Burrows is a Motherwell fan who got a job in football Gunn is a fan who started out making the tea & coffee Garner was Fergie's assistant 40 years ago and had the ignominy of scoring two own goals on his Celtic debut Only one of them has ever played the game and that was decades ago in a different era. There's not enough football knowledge to make informed decisions or gain the respect of football people. At a minimum, Cormack needs to take a step back and we need a DoF who is capable and actually respected in the game. Gunn can go back to making tea, preferably at another club.
  2. I think the important word there is legacy. Dave's ego isn't content with owning the club, he wants to be spoken about in the same breath as the likes of Dick Donald, Fergie, and Willie Miller. He wants to be a club legend.
  3. That's what I reckon - we've tried to attract someone from outside of the Scottish game with a bit of rep/experience and they've all knocked us back so now we're having to look at the usual SPFL managerial merry-go-round and sifting through the pile of crank applications that were destined for the shredder.
  4. I reckon it's Gunn. He's allowed 10 minutes on the internet after he's made Dave's tea.
  5. Are the candidates being interviewed familiar names from the merry-go-round and are they currently not in a management position?
  6. If that's the case then I would suppose we've approached and been rejected by all the people we actually wanted and now we're reduced to considering all the no-hopers and retards like Yogi and Lennon who applied for the job.
  7. Northern Ireland are playing 5-3-2 tonight. Just sayin'
  8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hlxghd BBC's Scottish Football Podcast from today. Skip to 16:00 to avoid the chatter about the game tonight and they spend 5 minutes on our manager hunt and the possibility of it being Michael O'Neil. One of the guests is an NI journo so it's interesting to hear his perspective on it.
  9. Seems like the sort of operation a competent DoF should have sorted out and running smoothly.
  10. There could also a case of respect for Romania and Scotland here. They've arranged and prepared to play O'Neill's NI. Switching the fighter before the fight means their agreements, preparation, and what they were hoping to get from the matches are out the window to a certain extent. If it is MoN we're after, I think taking the friendlies shows he and NI are operating in good faith and being respectful of all parties. We may also have already had a tacit agreement that we would talk after the international break because we still expected to have Warnock in place, but his leaving made our need more imminent, which is no fault of MoN or NI.
  11. If it is O'Neil, I don't see how that would work with the Technical Director model we're supposedly going to implement following the review, unless the plan is for him to manage the team for 12 months, possibly with a relatively young assistant, then O'Neil moves into the TD role and the assistant into a head coach kinda arrangement.
  12. What's quite sad about that thread is seeing all the regular posters who don't post anymore, some of whom were quite entertaining. What's even sadder is seeing the names of all the folk who are still posting here eleven years later. Nothing better to do with our lives? Move on, eh.
  13. O'Neill until the end of this season or next, then he moves upstairs into the Technical Director role and we bring in a Head Coach type. I'm not advocating this approach, it's just a thought that wondered across my otherwise empty mind this afternoon.
  14. I think everyone likes to see a football club run well and efficiently and that’s a challenge for owners. I do think at a lot of football clubs there is a lack of football knowledge in the boardroom, I genuinely do. I never see the game as a fan, I am in it. There are a lot of people in football who see the game as a fan. “Sometimes people who put their money into a football club need protection from themselves! And I mean that with the best intentions. The hardest thing in football is to have patience because supporters don’t have patience. The reality of the situation is that churn never works. Don’t lose good people out of your organisation.”
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