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As someone who worked in Ipswich for a few years and went to watch them regularly, I have followed their plight over the years. It's pretty safe to say their demise was well in place long before Lambert was involved - started around the Roy Keane days and went downhill from there. Basically, when Marcus Evans was the owner. I have no idea how good Lambert would be now, but I wouldn't judge him on his record at Portman Road.

It's no coincidence we had struggles with full backs on both sides of the park last season when we had zero cover in the 3-man midfield and the opposition had free rein on the wings.

I don't know about poisoned chalice, but I'd rather have Hammy in his current role for the next 10 years helping our managers blood youngsters into the team than have him be the gaffer fir a successful 2 years then lose him to an Aberdeen or Hibs managerial vacancy. That's just mebeing selfish, though, and I'm sure he has ideas about his own career path.

Also, a key stat from Watt is that he's scored one goal since he left us. That's quite an important number for a striker (as Curtis Main will confirm).

Maybe we want to loan out Matty Connolly to get some game time.

The downside to giving the job to Hammell is that if he does well, he'll be poached in a couple of years and we lose a good man from our club. (And if he doesn't do well we'd need to sack mutually-consent him). So for purely selfish reasons, I'd rather he stayed in his current role.

Agree with this. I think that if we ever start passing the ball through midfield we have a few players that would thrive on that.

As I've said many times in the past, the entire point of an Academy is develop a quality of player we could never afford to buy - with a secondary important benefit of generating revenue when we sell players on. One of the bigger challenges we (and lots of clubs our size) face these days is getting any games from the young talent as bigger clubs come in and poach them before they sign their senior contracts.

I notice now that Stevie Hammell has as many wins as a manager as Duncan Ferguson.

I don't know where football managers fall in the new rules for employing EU Nationals post-Brexit, but I imagine that is a process we want to avoid unless there is an outstanding candidate available.

Best outcome we could have had, given how unsettled things have been the last few days. Always a relief to get your first points of the season on the board, and even better when it's a win. Should help settle things down while for next week.

That was unexpected - I never knew it was ever sunny in Paisley. Time to vote...

100% the "story" about Robinson originated from the jokes about it on here.

These days I'm not putting my soup thermos down and taking the rug off my knees to stand up for anybody.

I might be easily amused, but I always find it funny that the anti-science crew are quite happy to use the science that gave us global instantaneous communication to share their insights.

The way reporting works these days, a journo reads a forum like this and writes a story (with no quotes or attributions) and then other outlets report on that story.

When I log in I see it listed in Events after the Motherwell v Sligo Full Match Replay link.

To quote "Mr Wonderful" on Shark Tank (the US version of Dragon's Den), the notion of rehiring Robinson as manager needs to be taken behind the barn and put out of its misery.

I think O'Donnell might start with the expectation he'll do the captain thing and provide some leadership on the park. Then it will be time to look for the sacked manager bounce.

Guys like Simo have shown interest before - and then they get told what the budget is and suddenly they aren't so interested. We need stability on one hand, but progression on the other. Not an easy combination to find for any club. Basically, a young old hand with solid fundamental expansive conservative ideas.

He won a cup with ICT and led Hibs to the Europa Cup group stage. Only Wee Tommy has managed one of those in my lifetime.

John Hughes always gets mentioned in these threads. John Hughes.

Given that Faddy's getting his UEFA badges (and his stated interest in coaching/management), I wouldn't be against having him in one of our coaching roles - but I wouldn't have him anywhere near a manager's job at this point. Right now I'm more curious about which role GA fills at St Mirren.

We could do worse that start both of them.

I'm just waiting for the first "Tommy Wright" shout. In different circumstances I'd have been happy to take a punt on somebody like Shaun Maloney, but the timing is wrong on that one.