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According to The Record: "Sunderland 'preparing' £10m Lennon Miller bid as Black Cats 'quietly confident' of landing Motherwell ace" Great money, but not the team for Lennon if he wants to play Champions League football. More likely to be struggling to avoid relegation.

I'd be OK with Neilson. He has a decent track record in the Premiership, he has experience developing youngsters with Hearts, and he likes to play attacking football. (And as an ex-full back, might know how to organise a defence).

Red card in a friendly isn't very sporting.

Given Morecambe finished 24th from 24 and lost their League status, I imagine the new position is leaning on the counter at the job centre.

It is back luck, however, when you do your due diligence with the candidate, explore their domestic situation and get their buy-in to the needs of the job before they sign the contract. In the footballing world, it's not unusual for managers to live apart from their families. Even Robinson used to fly back to Northern Ireland most weekends after the match and McGhee used to trek back to Brighton on a regular basis (which probably took longer than flying to Germany). It's not risk free bringing in someone from overseas, but neither is hiring someone from the south of England.

That's true, but the new manager's brief should also include "mutualling" any contracts for players he doesn't want.

He was a class act tonight. Delighted he was able reproduce his quality and range of passing. Must be worth at least another half mill after that.

Nice assist from Miller there...

Happy to see him secure a starting spot. Hopefully the European scouts are watching.

Heading off down south because someone asked him to mark Norway? Good luck to the man. Liked his attitude, energy and enthusiasm, but not a fan of his actual defensive abilities.

Professional football is supposed to be entertainment. Would be very boring if we didn't have some heroes and villains. Davie Cooper, Michael Higdon, Faddy, Skippy - to name a few - all loved playing up to the crowd.

We never complain about players who are true masters of the dark arts, because they are the ones who are never seen.

To be fair, Kyrk Macmillan has said much the same - that the data is only part of it, and all the interpersonal qualities are equally important. Like in any other field (VAR, for example), it's still down to people interpreting the output and making the right decisions.

If the "data driven" approach produces Foster as the new manager, then somebody needs a new spreadsheet.

Credit to the Board that the media, yet again, has no clue who we're even talking to. The bookies must love it when we have a vacancy, because they never need to pay out.

I'm not sure Antonio Conte has been so successful by overrating players; even Billy Gilmour (who made 26 league appearances for him on the way to the league title).

Clarke initially did the job that was needing done. He took an omnishambles of a national team and consolidated it into one that was difficult to beat and, most importantly, one that the players wanted to be involved with. And I give him credit for that. He did well to get us to the first Euros, but his tactics were an embarrassment in that tourney. The second Euros were even worse, because not only had he not learned anything, but he actually went backwards. That was when he should have been moved on. Friendlies and injuries aside, the national squad actually has some decent players available now. There were EPL, Champions League, Seria A, Coppa Italia and Austrian Bundesliga winners on the pitch last night that should have been able to play some football. We are crying out for a manager with a bit more creativity and tactical nous, otherwise we are destined to be one of the few teams who fails to quailfy for the new 322 country World Cup finals.

I saw him play once, but only in the "Motherwell Old Babes" team - I think at the Joe Wark testimonial.

Ironic that many of the posters cutting and pasting song titles from wikipedia as "jokes" are the same ones that complain about lazy journalists cutting and pasting "news" from websites.

I don't think you'll be any closer this time.

After his recent sacking, let's throw Michael Carrick's hat into the ring and see if any media outlets pick it up. (That's how you do it, right? You don't have to submit an application, you just have to throw in a hat?)

It hasn't dragged on, though. It's barely started.

At a time when we are looking for more ideas to generate income, intentionally removing a chunk of our revenue stream doesn't seem like good business. I'd also be curious to know how many fans in the shirt buying population want a sponsorless option because I'd imagine that, kids being kids, most of them want a kit that looks exactly like the one the players are wearing' sponsor and all. I'm not against it, but I'd need to see a breakdown of the financials before I was in favour of it. One thing is for sure, and that's you won't make the up the gap in revenue by upping their price.

Better they take time to get the right man in than make a quick hire like Maurice Malpas or Stevie Hammell.

I'd say it was also too fussy. Doesn't need all those extra fine pinstripes. Designers these days can't help themselves these days. Just because technology makes it easy and possible to keep adding things, doesn't mean you should.