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I hope the discussions involve the words fuck and off.

agree with that - better going forward than he was in defence. What I really struggle with is how many players we offered further contracts to. Do the club really think he'd be part of the solution. I know there were clauses in likes of SODs contact etc but honestly we need to get our act together in this area. As a club we hand out too many contracts to players we should be moving on.

I’d be quite happy if we were to go for Scott Brown even though I detested him as an opposition player. And can anyone deny he is a winner? Then again I’m against all this analytics bullshit. It all feels like a bit of a cop out to me. I can hear it now ……’Ah but the data suggested he was the man for the job’. Pretty sure even Kettlewell would have come out well using that system. Did that route not steer Hearts to opt for Cathro, as well as Critchley who outscored McInnes at the time? Crazy and hardly a strong recommendation for its use. I’m old school so let’s draw up a list of favourites from home and overseas, invite them in for an interview/presentation and offer the job to the one that comes across best whilst meeting the ethos of the Club…community, youth development, Society interaction etc. I wonder how many very successful managers would ever have gotten near their first appointments had analytics been the primary driver? Sometimes gut feeling and what you see with your own eyes might just be the way to go. As for Scott Brown, let’s set aside the Celtic connection and the Kipre red card. He had a job to do for his Club and did it very well. Just as he did as a player with Hibs. He is a young, ambitious Manager who is doing well and is highly regarded at Ayr. Did a good job at Fleetwood who were flirting with relegation before his appointment. He left after a season or so with the Club in turmoil behind the scenes and up for sale. The Ex Chairman was jailed for fraud. We could do a lot worse than Brown. Whoever we appoint has a huge job on their hands so we need to get things sorted soon.

We'll only have ourselves to blame if we go into next season with the majority of the same squad and wonder why we're still crappy.

He was a class act tonight. Delighted he was able reproduce his quality and range of passing. Must be worth at least another half mill after that.

Lennon Miller starting for Scotland in Liechtenstein.

I liked Casey. Good defender at our level and wore his heart on his sleeve which always endears a player to fans. But he isnt worth breaking the bank for so if he thinks he can get a better deal elsewhere good luck to him. Seddon Id keep for all the reasons above. Thompson - punt Davor - punt Paton - punt Moses - if he has been offered peanuts and is happy to be our 80th minute chaos maker Id keep. Just because players like that arent easy to come by. Id also be looking to move on Nicholson, Robinson and Stuparevic as soon as they are fit, so wouldnt be including them in our squad numbers as I dont expect them to contribute.

Why only since he joined MFC and not throughout his career for a fuller idea?

Just the type of player Scotland have been needing , albeit against not the best of teams but who cares Faddy was very complimentary towards Lennon

There is no evidence we are talking to anyone. And credit to the Club for keeping matters under wraps. So this is just a general discussion about possibilities with various names thrown in.

To 'pursue options' it said. Sure he did the same a couple of years ago and pitched back up early in the season (having missed pre season training).

TBF I've seen them live 3 times in the League and they played some nice stuff. I suspect he changed his approach specifically for the play off games. A moot point anyway as I don't think he'll be in the running.

True SOD has the right back berth sewn up for the next two or three years

i watched there games in the play offs and they were brutal,if that's how brown wants his teams to play then no thanks.

Leaving aside Brown's history, IF and I stress if we're looking for a young manager with a half decent record, seems to have done well at Ayr according to their fans and who hasn't yet been indoctrinated into the SPL shit tactics managers club, we could do worse.

Club are dong a great job as always to keep things quiet . from the available Scottish managers Robbie Nelson feels like the most credible and a decent benchmark . In reality expect it to be someone unknown /unexpected . Suspect we’ll know by the end of this week .

Credit to the Board that the media, yet again, has no clue who we're even talking to. The bookies must love it when we have a vacancy, because they never need to pay out.

My boyhood hero. Was heartbroken when he signed for Liverpool - a second division team at that time.

Played schools football with him and then watched him through the Ancell years. It's a good month to be 87.

Not sure he would get the time to build at Motherwell. He only wins trophies in his second season!

What strikes me about this thread is that the club almost do too good a job of keeping it under wraps and going leftfield for a thread like this. It's got to the point where we all know there's no point speculating or suggesting who it could be because no one has a clue.. So we're left with Fleetwood Mac jokes and discussions about Steve Clarke....

I get that - but when folk say I think we are talking to this person - there's nothing to substantiate it Of course it's a general discussion. My point was there's nothing to suggest we are talking to Brown - did anyone think we were talking to Wimmer?

Well quite. According to someone on Facebook who knows a "source" it's taking so long because we have had so many applications from overseas