wellsince75

As a club I'd like to see us nudge forward and have a longer term plan. I first started watching us in early 80s and we progressed into the top league, spent a few years battling relegation and steadily improved brining in better quality whilst bleeding youngsters. Bringing through players like Boyd, O'Donnell, McCart, McMillan, Faddy, Pearson, McCulloch, Lasley, Hammell, Reynolds, Quinn Murphy, Hutchinson, Cadden, Turnbull, Campbell. Whilst being able to attract some very decent players who stuck around from - Russell, Cooper, Coyne, Lambert, Martin Craigen, Sutton. Recent years we've been able to show in patches the same approach to youth with some exceptional players, our attraction of quality players has generally been poor. Over this period the quality has got worse, the fan base reduced. As club be great to see us move forward sustainably. Reduce the squad size, bring in better quality who are likely to stay a few years whilst bringing through youngsters. The Faddy's, Turnbulls, O'Donnell's are perhaps once a decade type player but even to get back to the quality of McMillan, Lasley, Hammell, Reynolds, Cadden etc should be within our gift and their likely to give a damn. Appreciate this means we'll lose out on some 16 year olds having their head turned but I can't see any other obvious way forward. Really don't want to accept we've come as far as we can and every year it's a battle for mid table. Really want to see us slowly but surely progress - even a most increase to gates to get 5-6-7-8k people through the door would be great. With this is mind it may be more than a new manager we need.

Was thinking along similar lines. At the early stages Hamilton took a punt on Alex Neil and it worked . What’s not clear is whether he’d be interested and like you say lots of reasons why it could work , albeit lacks experience

Was that the Kilmarnock game under McGhee v1. We moved the ball brilliantly that day and applauded the team off the park even though we lost. Touch of class from the announcer

like what this weeks gaffer said. Well done Stevie, good to see you with a smile on your face.

happily take the points. Was always likely to be 1-0 , just glad it was us. Lots to work on over the coming weeks, be good to hear a timeline /next steps re the new mgr.

there's a time and place to bleed youngsters into the team. this aint it.

At least he’d offer something different - not someone who’s been kicking around the English game . to be fair to him he’s had a reasonable managerial career and shown he cares about the club - not sure what standard of manager people think we’ll attract

Can only assume that Sod is too far off match sharpness . on paper there’s not an awful lot that suggests any change to formation

A player who never really settled and I suspect was never played in his best position, He had potential and pace yet the ball was never put a few yards in front of him to push past his marker. Other than the Rangers game. Thought he flattered to deceive , partly down to him, partly down to how we played him. Equally I don't believe SPL is for everyone, making a move up from England to live in Lanarkshire and buy into Scottish football isn't that attractive.

Picking purely on who Irate as our better players + a formation that suits them Kelly Mcginn Solholm Lamie S'OD Spittal Cornelius Slattery Goss Tierney KVV

I agree with that, it rarely works out brining the same person back. This may be disrespectful but the best value Robbo brought to us was as a number 2. In an ideal world we'd unearth the next Alex Neil - but we couldn't lure someone of that proven ability to us. I've no real issue with having Hammell and Kerr a few games. It's a bit of a punt but then so must Alex Neil have been for Hamilton.

Please don't rehire any previous 'Well manager. With Robinson we went almost 12 months looking completely lost, he ran out of ideas GA for almost a year we played poorly , lost our way, ran out of ideas. Someone with experience who knows what to do will be fab, wound's be against someone like Hammell/Faddy as the number 2 but some experience is needed. Saw a few comments about don't expect great flowing football , I don't expect Barca but I see different games at all levels and there's plenty of entertainment, excitement when teams are well organised and play together.

There's a few options. I'd prefer to move to a back 3 we don't have a decent left back so I'd prefer to keep 3 man defence with Lamie on the left of it. Bulk up the midfield and create a bit of width .

Keep googling my way through experienced mgrs out of jobs . Martin O’Neill hasn’t managed for a few years and don’t suspect he would take this type of role but we’d benefit from someone of his calibre and experience . I’ll put my wine down now

I had a quick look at previous well players who are now managers. Lambert was the only one I could see out a job. Difficult to say , always is. Don't mind taking a few weeks to get the right person and have someone like Hammel look after things for a few weeks.

fair play to him. Very professional and complementary of the club. He has a great win ratio and will walk into another job. Completely the right thing for all parties.

be interesting to see what changes will be made on Sunday. From formation to personnel, be great to see how someone else will set out the squad.

way back when Brown and Archie Knox coming in - they really steadied the ship appreciate it went sour with the Aberdeen nonsense but a couple of older , wise pros who knew how to do it worked well . I’d like to see something similar

Honestly I've no clue who the next mgr will be but in truth is there's plenty of decent managers. Sligo for example have a guy who had them do the basics well, theres' plenty out there. Emotionally I'd love to see someone who has a 'Well background . I really like that we former players around. It's a shame Craggs didn't want to move into first team mgt as the guy was excellent with our under 21's. Be interesting to see what happens over the coming weeks.

I can't ever recall as having such a strong league position whilst performing so poorly. I thought he came close to being shown the door at the end of last season and after a sit down with the club came out and admitted he got some things wrong , with the top 6 position my sense was the club were happy to give him the benefit of the doubt but expected change. Not much has happened since (other than 2 awful performances) what doesn't help is he's not showing any signs of changing or tackling the issues, normally you expect to see new idea's , something different but the team looked tired and clean out of ideas.

The game being in Paisley takes a bit of pressure off. Can only imagine the scenes had it been at FP, protests before the game and chants for the mgr to get out. Being away from home relieves that pressure. Expect one of the teams to win with an ugly goal, either Ohara for them or Lamie for us from a set play.

I don't expect much flowing footy from either team. Suspect a defensive mistake will be the difference and someone will win 1-0..

My wife - not a football fan watched with me for 15 mins and asked if this was the first time the players knew each other . She said the team in white don’t look like a team , just a bunch of guys running round . the guys in red , the look like they have a plan . Think she nailed the issue . GA hasn’t created a team and there is no game plan .

I doubt that it's the financial impact that makes us hesitate. The question is what faith the club have in him to make good. Personally I've not liked our style of play under his stewardship - even when we were winning . We won games with 2-3 shots on goal, it was horrible to watch. When we stopped winning there's nowhere to hide with this style of play. Once the mgr has lost the dressing room it's rare for him to get it back. Gut feel is he lost the dressing room around the same time Watt left and other senior pros were dropped. The worst thing about tonight is the result wasn't remotely surprising , I don't see GA changing , the question will be whether the club have faith or not that brighter times are ahead.

I’d love Craigan to be back at FP . He called it out brilliantly tonight and was the best thing about the £15 I forked out