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I want the guy who plays 3-4-1-2, often omits a sub goalie from the bench and had his team nicknamed Barrowcelona.

His second best decision would have been listening to him.

I think Frail was the smartest appointment made by SK. If Hammell had appointed an assistant with similar experience he might still be our gaffer.

Except spouses, of course, so you have unrestricted EU travel and residency privileges while demanding they are removed from the rest of us.

He's never managed here, but he played his football here for quite a few years, including a short spell with Dundee. Regardless of nationality, though, we're hardly like to be hiring an elite coach.

One thing that will be interesting is seeing if the new man injuries as many players in training or whether it really was SK's methods that were crocking our team.

Ibrox is going to be quite a departure for him.

I'm involved in recruiting at the moment. While I'm not a football club, we always estimate about 3 months from start to finish to get someone in. Less if we hire someone currently out of work.

I think that was the longest game I've ever seen. Exeter did incredibly well to take it to pens, but not too hot in the shoot out.

I just like to help out in case the correct information is in a book that's banned in Texas.

Meanwhile, at Fir Park...

It's been less than two weeks. If they found the right man on day 1 it could easily take 2 weeks for lawyers, agents, managers and the candidate to hammer out the contractual details.

Liverpool built a dynasty using that approach. With no insight whatsoever, I suspect it will be a new face. Frail always strikes me as someone who much prefers assistant roles or coaching roles to being the man in charge. (So you can expect the "Frail signs for 3 more years" announcement in a couple of hours)

Brief progress update: Filtered the 100 applications to a short list. Started talking to the candidates. Not in a position to announce yet. Can't set a timeline because it depends on availability of people for interviews and how long it takes to sort out contracts. More important to get the right person in than a person in quickly. I just made that up, but that's the kind of progress report you would get. Saying nothing, because there's not much worth saying until a contract has been signed.

Was expecting to see Queens Park captain Dom Thomas play a part in the Rangers debacle. Didn't realise he had signed a 2 year deal at Derry City a few days ago - that's what happens when you don't bother following the transfer window threads.

Maybe we could hire Callum Davidson as a cup tie consultant - he knows how to win those games. His St Johnstone team was brutal to watch, though, so wouldn't want him as a gaffer. On the same topic, glad to see Tommy Wright wasn't mentioned as an option this time. There were many East Stand experts who said he was the man for our job just before he applied his eye-bleeding brand of football to steering Killie into the Championship instead.

And we lose to Airdrie in the replay. Same pain, different method.

Wonder if he'd already applied for our job. Between Rangers and Liverpool today, our loss away to same league opposition only looks poor now instead of abysmal.

Media money seems like a great way to go, but for lots of ex-players and ex-managers, getting involved in the day-to-day is obviously a habit they can't kick. That's why you see many commit thousands of thankless hours to worse than average lower league clubs for long spells in their career.

You can be dynamic, enthusiastic, have an encyclopedic knowledge of lower league players, and still be Jim Gannon.

And Sturm Graz only paid £4 million for him - an absolute steal in today's market - and they made about 10 million when they sold him on. I hope all our youngsters picked up on how much continuous effort it takes to be a top player, regardless of how much footballing talent you might possess. A shame Dunne robbed us of a few more games from him.

I'm fine with disrespecting both of them as managerial candidates

Given Arsenal's well-documented search for a goal scorer in recent seasons, I'm surprised they didn't give him a chance rather than offloading him.

Ian Murray and John Hughes!

New manager and his assistant on Sportscene right now?