Jonesy

The most important part of this appointment is getting someone who can be trusted to spend their cut of the Miller millions wisely and not hand it over to a complete tit like McLeish and Davies as we did previously.

It's nowhere near the most important appointment post admin. The Wimmer appointment itself was much more important. The Kettlewell and Alexander appointments also. You could also add Craig Brown and Mark McGhee 1.0 to that list off the top of my head. Baraclough as well, probably. Livi and Falkirk being in the league should give us a fair bit of breathing space to the bottom of the league. Dundee deciding to become a basket case again after a couple of relatively quiet seasons, Killie replacing McInnes with SK and St Mirren potentially losing Robbo should make the season even more comfortable. We'd have to genuinely have one of our worst seasons ever (not one of the kid on ones everyone has claimed we've had for the last 15 years) to finish below 2 of that lot.

If that mentions a recommendation from Ange anywhere I'll pass. He recommended signing Danzaki.

I could be wrong but my memory of that is they were relegated under Gary Locke with a team of youngsters during the transfer embargo, then Neilson came in. It would be a bit of a cheek for him for bringing them through when they'd already had a full season in the top flight under their belt - a bit like the Kettlewell puff pieces giving him credit for developing Cornelius, who made his debut under Robbo and played dozens of games under Alexander and Hammell, or Miller a generational talent who made his debut under Hammell and only a total moron wouldn't have moved into the first team.

Yep, but if we go from an unpopular Option A manager to going all in on Option B and giving everyone a bit of optimism then suddenly back to someone from Option A in the space of 3 months - despite talking about using the same metrics in our search - it would show that we've really got no idea about what our plan is or what we want our 'identity' to be. Like a heavily scaled down version of Everton failing to get Bielsa so appointing Sean Dyche instead. Guys from complete opposite ends of the spectrum who teams that know what they are doing and what they are looking for would never have in the same conversation.

Dull and boring seems to be his style. He left for MK Dons first time round but the fans were already heavily on his back - they flew a plane over Tynecastle wanting him out. 2nd time round was much the same and he was eventually hounded out again.

I don't really remember him being big on bringing through youth players at Hearts, or even Dundee Utd. Was it not his Hearts team that was full of old guys like Naismith, Lafferty, Michael Smith etc? He was hunted from Hearts twice for playing depressing football. Apart from that we completely agree. Going from Wimmer to Neilson would suggest to me we don't really know what it is we want.

I actually had the thought this morning that this image of Fadinger might be a bit of a hint for the new kit. That would tie in a little with what you're saying

Who cares if he's any good or fits what we're looking for, his postcode is nearby. If that's the attitude we take I'll be after a refund on my season ticket.

If we're using the same data metrics to appoint a manger as we did with Wimmer Neilson won't be anywhere near it.

In a choice between Seddon or Thompson, Thompson should be 3rd on the list.

Here's hoping. Seddon, Casey and, at a push, Ebiye are the only ones we should be considering keeping on.

Queen's Park and Spartans would be home games. Ideally we want Queens Park from pot 2. By far the worst team in that group. (We'll get Morton because we always do) Pot 3 I'd take anyone but ideally a trip to Inverness, Alloa, QOTS or Stenny Pot 4 Dumbarton or Spartans at home. Pot 5 Away to anyone but Clyde or EK, thanks. Brechin, Brora, Stranraer, Forfar, Bonnyrigg, Stirling - in that order.

His Dundee team conceded over 130 in 2 seasons. No ta.

Norway brought in VAR, but similar to us are scunnered with it. Their top flight clubs voted earlier this year to get rid of it from next season, but the vote then failed when it had to be ratified by the lower league clubs and they bizarrely voted to keep it in place - even though they don't use VAR outside the top flight.