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.

Hopefully we have a wee word in Ronan Hale's ear on Sunday to join us if County go down. It wouldn't be terrible if we could get Noah Chilvers from them as well

It was/is only their money that is lost until they then want it repaid.

Yes.

Sportsound are reporting it'll be a foreign manager but that it's not Ketsbaia.

I thought Wright had moved to St Johnstone from England, so aye that's fair enough. Stephen Kenny, Pat Fenlon and Ian Baraclough were the names I had in mind, all pretty terrible. St Mirren had the guy Kearney for about 3 months who kept them up in the play-offs then left to go back to being a PE teacher. Don't know if he's viewed as a success or not.

Just about every manager that's moved here from the Irish leagues has been a total disaster. I'm struggling to even think of 1 success? Our signings from there have been pretty poor as well. Blaney being the most "successful" says a lot.

McBookie take bets but they close it down at around 4/5pm every day and it re-open it again at about 9/10am.

That's the exact reason the club know they can come out with the sort of shit they have this week and keep treating fans like shit in general - they know we'll keep piling our money in through the turnstiles regardless. The club won't give a fuck about your Well Society payment so long as you still turn up on a Saturday and hand over your cash. There's only 1 way to break that cycle. I completely missed them making an argument about the 3rd kit.

That's fair enough but they don't run the club day-to-day. The best way to make the point and pulling any funding would be to stop buying any tickets/tell them you won't be renewing your season ticket?

The Well Society wouldn't have been the ones guiding the club's reaction to anything this week, so not sure what cancelling that direct debit achieves.