It’s been obvious for quite a while now that Hammell is completely out of his depth.
Bringing in 9 players in the last transfer window of the season is just sheer panic. I doubt that any club has ever brought in as many players as that in an entire season!
As for those “running” the club, it’s been obvious since they punted Alexander that they too were out of their depth. They should’ve been questioning Hammell as to why he thought it necessary to bring in as many players at this stage of the season, but they just let him plough on.
For me, today was the final straw. I thought it was bad against St. Johnstone, and it was but Hammell’s reading and management of today’s game was just embarrassing. Making 6 subs albeit one for an injury, with 20 mins to play, shows just how lost he really is.
He made 3 subs after 10 mins of the 2nd half going from 2 up to 1 up when we were 1-0 down and the performance deteriorated as the players didn’t seem to understand what he was trying to do. Thereafter, it just descended into farce and it was obvious, to me anyway, that the team had switched off.
Sure all the stats show we are bad; however for me, the true indictment on Hammell is that there’s been absolutely no discernible improvement in the team’s performance under his tenure - not even small incremental ones - and sadly, there is nothing there to suggest that this is going to change.
If Hammell can’t see that, perhaps because he’s too close to the coal face, then the board must step in, point this out to him and remove him.