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Probably the same people who think zero wins in 15 games is a marker for managerial success.

7 weeks here. Enjoy the madness.

Correct. This fact gets in the way of the arguments put forward by some of the Kettlewell apologists. Enjoy your hiatus. I assume fatherhood has also arrived for you.

If you think I’ve nothing more recent to cast up, then you haven’t been reading my posts. The guy isn’t a good manager and we’ll not move forward under him. Him surviving that run of zero wins in 15 means the bar has been set very low for him, and that’s likely why a few victories have triggered a contract renewal.

15 games. Zero wins.

His tactical ineptitude has been exposed on numerous occasions during his tenure and I am yet to see him progress/develop in any way as a manager with us.

Yes, but as usual, Kettlewell is always the last to realise a good idea.

The option to rotate Tavares with Maswanhise should be to our benefit. And I very much agree with starting Moses supported by Vale.

If Kettlewell does continue to do so, which is ridiculous given the other options we now have, he’s single-handedly doing his best to stifle Miller’s development in his best position and potentially impact his financial value to the club. It’s nothing other than idiotic, but I bet he thinks he’s being clever in continuing to try this crap.

Would you have preferred if I suggested that Vale should play in the space created by Moses?!

Tavares for Robinson would be my choice. The latter has done nothing to keep his place and the former deserves a chance to impress on the wing from the start. I’d also put Vale into the hole just behind Moses.

Kettlewell’s blind loyalty to certain players like Robinson and playing Miller out of position for most of the game again is what cost us today. More worryingly he’s signed a shit load of players and I’m still not really sure what his approach and style is yet, other than to throw the kitchen sink at it once we’re losing. Changes in starting personnel and approach are required for Friday night or another cup exit beckons.

I said above that the club didn’t do its due diligence, so I wasn’t solely pinning it on Kettlewell.

Given both their form and ours, a draw would probably be a fair result for us, although a win against them at Pittodrie isn’t beyond us.

I see Kettlewell has more or less admitted that the club didn’t do its due diligence in signing the Aussie boys, which means we’re now basically paying to nurse a couple of crocks for a while. Here was me thinking we learned the lesson of the Danzaki debacle, but clearly not. It seems to be that the majority of the A-League guys available to us don’t seem to be up to it for our league when they arrive. Time will tell on these two, but it’s been an expensive few mistakes so far.

A little story with a happy ending: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl10lvz14o

I repeat. Look at how the Spanish international team isn’t afraid to blood their youngsters in the A-team, let alone the U21s. The Scottish national team has a long way to go, but it’ll continue to go backwards under the current regime. Miller not getting any minutes is genuinely ridiculous from Gemmill. Ask any fan of Scottish football and they’ll likely echo that view.

Gemmill 🤝 Clarke Two clowns.

Including the reasons given by others, I imagine the club didn't want to potentially risk losing his Scotland cap money.

The Clarke era is over. His recent shit is embarrassing and offensive to those of us who shelled out to go to Germany. It’s the beginning of the end for him now, which is a shame because he’s generally done well in terms of getting us to tournaments. Delighted for Wilson. It must feel good getting called up after all those years of not being considered for any of the earlier age groups.

Do you think that fact will get in the way of Gemmill (and Clarke) picking their favourite players regardless of their current form and minutes with their parent clubs?! I hope my cynicism is misplaced and that Wilson gets the start he richly deserves.

But Kettlewell is a genius. How dare you/we question his methods.

It is a bit premature, but perhaps the ‘rolling’ nature of the contracts suggest we can terminate them without having to pay out the remainder of a defined deal period, other than say the remaining one year guarantee they had in their previous contracts. Someone will be able to better understand and explain this better than me.

Kettlewell and Frail have signed new rolling contracts, whatever that means. Their previous contracts ran until the end of this season.

Levein (4-6-0) vs Kettlewell (3-1-6)