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Annnnnnnnnnnnd always look on the brrrrriiiggghhhhtttt sidddde of life Dee dee. Dee dee dee dee dee dee 🤪🤪

Pragmatic approach - agree with the majority of what you’ve written . im really hoping the arse hasn’t already fallen out of it - other than mcinnes and levein not too many managers got past a 5 straight game losing streak . Some non defeats will have to come along pretty quickly - together with improved performances . Hoping Sunday is one of them

For me, I'd use the November international break as a checkpoint, not the point where I'd make a final judgement. Unless things completely collapse and the arse falls out of our season altogether I'd be looking towards Christmas. By then we'll have played around half a league season and he will have had a proper block of normal training weeks rather than the European schedule, travel and recovery that dominated the early part of the season. More importantly, we'll have played a good number of teams twice. That's when I think you can properly judge if the coaching is taking hold. If a team exposed a weakness first time around, have we adapted when we play them again? Are the pressing triggers, spacing, rotations and defensive structure becoming more automatic? Are the same mistakes disappearing? Is he changing things that clearly aren't working? Thirteen games can tell you there are problems. I'm not convinced it's enough to tell you whether a new playing model is going to work. Nineteen or twenty games is a much more realistic sample I'd think. The other thing is that the board and management team will have a far better idea of what's actually going on than we ever will. We see the 90 minutes. They see the training every week, the physical and performance data, how quickly players are understanding what they're being asked to do, how the manager communicates, whether players are responding to him, whether the dressing room is still with him and whether the staff themselves believe the process is moving in the right direction. They'll also be speaking directly to AJ, the coaching staff and senior players. If things look poor on a Saturday but the internal evidence says the team is progressing and the players remain fully bought in, that's an important factor. At the same time, if the results are poor and training is poor, confidence has gone and the dressing room is starting to turn, they'll know that long before we do. That's why I don't think we should try to set some arbitrary "lose X games and sack him" threshold based purely on what we see from the stands. By Christmas, though, the external evidence should also be much clearer. If we're still seeing the same structural problems, poor performances, little tactical development and poor results after half a season, then the transition argument becomes much harder to sustain. Obviously there has to be an emergency brake taken into account as well. If we lose another five or six on the bounce and become detached at the bottom, you don't wait for Christmas for the sake of it. But if we're competitive and picking up enough points to stay out of serious trouble, Christmas is about the point where I'd expect both the internal evidence the board sees and the performances we see to be pointing fairly clearly in one direction or the other. Just my take on it.

Well that escalated 🤣

I agree with most of that. But I dont think we were well beaten by Killie. The first 5 minutes of suicidal defending apart, we largely controlled the first half, played some nice stuff and should have scored at least 3 goals. So something was going right. Second half was absolute shite after we got the second goal, but that was mostly down to us rather than what Killie did. They basically fired long balls over the heads of our defence and looked to take advantage of mistakes. Deserved to lose? Probably. Well beaten? I dont agree. I do totally agree that we have regressed though. Can you imagine playing Freiburg now? 🫣🫣🫣

I think Ive got to the stage Id like to see Matty Connelly given a chance. I know for confidence reasons, a manager will always support his goalkeeper, but when part of the way we play requires good distribution, its hard to stick by someone when its harming the team. The mistakes I could actually live with for a while, but outside of those, his distribution still isnt great. Connolly has always seemed very comfortable with the ball at his feet. He is a little on the short side for me, but I think the other side of his game would have benefits. He is also "Our Player" and Id like to see us try to develop him if we are having issues with a loanee. Your thoughts would be appreciated YT.

Its 9 games in, 29 to go and 87 points on offer ffs, technically every one of the 12 teams can potentially win the league. So its time we all relaxed and dropped the manager must go, we are getting relegated chat, and lets see where we are in 10 games time at the halfway point.

I agree with your overall assessment Grew. In terms of our record to date, I reckon the Dundee United win is a known unknown. Would we have won if they'd kept 11 men men on the park? We'll never know. However, I'd settle for 5; most likely draw against Hearts and St Johnstone and beat St Mirren. On paper thats achievable. 4 points would answer little. Less than 4 and I'd say AJ was on borrowed time, but not quite there. We also need to take into account performances. Will they improve or get even worse? A lot of these games are down to very fine margins as we saw on Saturday with Killie benefitting from spadefuls of good luck. We on the other hand, are taking a shotgun to our feet.

It's at Fir Park!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Sack him tonight & give us a fighting chance this season

This should see the back of Johannsen. Coaching in non existent. Between a fud of a goalie and bomb scare defending. Sorry Alfred time to go.