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Bad habits? Like having to have the last word? I'd rather read posts by someone with strong opinions - whether I agree or not - and provides reasoning for those opinions.

They're getting worse Grizzly. 🤣

I think this is sugarcoating things. The reality is that we haven't won a game under him in over 3 and a half months.

It's the fact that the run has went on so long. He's only held on via penalty saves and injury time equalisers. He has zero credit remaining. Considering the fact that we haven't won in 14 games over 3 and a half months and have only scored 3 first half goals in the past 19 games people need to start admitting to themselves that Kettlewell is having a negative effect on the club. This is not a normal bad run of form, the manager is contributing to this shit show more than anyone one.

I'm of the opinion he should've been away a couple of months ago. If we get narrowly beaten I don't think he'll be gone but if it's an awful performance and a 5-0 defeat I think there's a chance. It's fucking ridiculous, no other manager in the world would survive this run.

In the words of the late Danny Blanchflower, we’ll have to equalize before they score.

What's most important is, who will replace him? Who's available in December/January that's in our budget and willing to come in? I'm not sure we'd get someone any better. In fact, I'm fairly sure we'd end up with Frail and Clarkson.

So if he fails to avoid defeat against Rangers he's done? Good luck with that.

If we get beat on Sunday he has to go.

Go back to splitting gate receipts, let them get their revenue from their TV streams and hospitality, revoke 90% member voting and rebuild Scottish football.

Absolutely agree, but the stakes are too high to give youngsters the chance to learn (and make inevitable mistakes and form dips). A sixteen or eighteen team division might though. In my lifetime (which is a long fuckin' time by the way) every change that has been made to Scottish football has made things worse. The move away from Div 1 and 2 in 1975 was supposed to 'make football more competitive and improve the international team' and all the reincarnations of the 10/12 team top division since have literally made things worse, although, for me, the biggest and potentially fatal blow is TV, which ploughs BILLIONS into the EPL, which trickles to the championship and below but not to Scotland. I said in an earlier post that English Sky money is the very reason we're compteting financially with Tier 4/5/6 sides for players. I'd much rather see a league set up with proper financial sustainability rules, that stops the likes of Rangers only existing because of constant shareholder and investor 'soft loans' and teams, while free to buy and atract players, have to breed their own and crucially, can't build up debt year after year after year. I could go on all night about this, but basically, finance has fucked Scottish football, whether it be Celtic and Rangers spunking money to try to compete in Europe, or the rest of the SPL teams spending money they don't have to try and compete with Celtic and Rangers or stay in top league to keep the income the SPL gets from TV. Lets get rid of Celtic and Rangers out the league, make teams live within their means and that will ensure a more competitive league.

So who is lacking experience and competence?

Given those twin definitions, it would be interesting to hear who people think the professionals are in Scottish football.