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What is this utter nonsense??? Don’t you know Billy Davies, Barry Ferguson and Tony Docherty are available!! just lets all stop with any progressive thinking….. it only brings sorrow. 😉

I trust anything AI says about as much as anything the Daily Record says.

Great post and I agree with most of it. I’ve been selective quoting sections to highlight. in alternate universe if we swapped squads would McGlynn have had same success with his tactics and JBA with Falkirk players I wonder. Both approach’s seem to trust the players. I probably wouldn’t be disappointed if Jøhn Glynnæssøn 😉 came in but it may feel a bit like replacing Klopp with Slot

He is.

Brilliant. Sums the whole farce up. And highlights the misleading information being pushed out of HQ. Maxwell also stated that no way was VAR being withdrawn. Out of curiosity, is that his call or is it up to the teams in the top division? If they united (this is Scotland so unlikely) could we do a Sweden? Was reading yesterday that after discussing VAR with numerous Clubs, Rangers approached Maxwell with funding and improvement suggestions. Dismissed out of hand. Appears we have a Dictator running his own little empire.

Hibs maybe but doubt Celtic would sell to Hearts. And he enjoys his football too much to fit into the Robinson non football approach. Aberdeen fans are in for a treat.

VAR in Scotland is hindered by one key factor - resources. In England they have a minimum of 28 cameras, sometimes more, available to VAR for each game. In Scotland there are a minimum of 6 cameras, sometimes going up to 12, for games selected for live broadcast. In Scotland, the estimated VAR costs are around £1.2M per season. The technology and operational expenses are funded by the 12 top flight clubs on a sliding scale according to their final league position. For a full season the estimated annual contributions from clubs are: - top placed teams £195K - lower ranked clubs £67K These contributions cover the stadium camera equipment, additional match officials and technology calibration. When asked recently about VAR, Ian Maxwell, CEO at the SFA said “There is a narrative that we have VAR-lite and that it’s a cheap VAR system but we have exactly the same VAR system as over 50% of European nations with the same technology and number of cameras.” It would be interesting to know which European nations he’s referring to - perhaps the likes of Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, San Marino, Gibraltar and the Faroe Islands! 😏

We have defintely shown "a who dares wins" attitude this season so SAS might be appropriate 😂

At least our new manager won’t be Steve Clarke.

Yeah am waiting to see it in the tabloids as an exclusive

You do realise "purstate" that all your work will now appear in the tabloids as investigating journalists work. 😉

That was my initial experience as well because source was gambling odds. I adjusted to exclude odds sites as source and prompted about European second tier countries or leagues. All listed appeared to have spells and sometimes seasons of 60%+ win rates although thanks to fizoxy for further detail as I hadn’t got that far of validating at individual level.

Gaute Helstrup - current assistant at bodo/glimt - so unlikely Thomas Nørgaard - 39% win percentage over 290 games, with it being close to 47% over that last two teams, was the assistant coach at Sparta Prague in between. Seems to be under contract . Andreas Brännström - looks like hes been out of work for a year. About 1.5 points per game average over a lot of teams, all short stints. The only one of the list that looks lile they're available. Daniel Scherning - also looks to be under contract, about 45% win rate at 2 Bundesliga, although thar started high and dropped at each club - could be from moving to a higher level. Rogier Meijer - he recently became Sparta Rotterdam manager, so can be ruled out.

That's more detailed than the system a lot of SPFL clubs use. They usually ask 'has anyone got the numbers for any sacked Scottish managers'

Excellent research and analysis: thanks! It seems a long way from Big Yogi's "Honest, hard-working boys".

That’s it for me. I’ve had the luxury of being able to watch the replays time and again and under no pressure and I can’t come to a definitive conclusion. I simply can’t understand how Andrew Dallas could do that in a few seconds under pressure. It’s neither clear nor obvious and for Willie Collum to say that it is brings the process into disrepute. The games a bogey.

I reckon thats a deflection tactic...change the narrative to tje unruly fans.

One point that really gets my goat is context of what's happening around a player is completely ignored. For example with Nicholson, there's no aknowledgement that the Celtic player nudging him could result in him handling the ball and completely ignoring the fact that he must have in part used his head to project the ball 20 yards out the park. Similar with Longelo- because it hit his upper arm he's ok - what about the player pushing him into the position. Putting any MFC bias to the side what is clear that a) we don't have technology and b) we don't have professionals who understand the context. For me there's no question the game is much worse for VAR and needs binned.

The dammig remark in that Var review is Gollum saying that the two views shown were all they had to go on, thats a direct result of the Teemu VAR we use in Scotland, add that to the incompetence of the officials and we have a system not fit for purpose.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if we’re keeping VAR, then the KMI panel and Collum’s clown review show need to go. They serve no purpose other than exposing unaccountable incompetence and winding fans up even more.

I know it's all conjecture but with the reported £4.5 million for LM and if we were to sell Maswanhise, Watt and Just all for £4 million each the clubs sitting on potentially £16/£17 million quid. I'd rather keep Watt and Just but think we may keep Just for one more year and sell Watt surely with that kind of cash we could attract some decent talent. Well decent for the SPFL. Should we bite the bullet and sign Welsh? He's reportedly on £6500 a week and one more year on his contract. Give him a signing on fee to cover that years wages (£340,000) and agree a wage we can live with. Anyone think we should.