El Grew
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Can’t understand why we’ve made this appointment. The guy is a troublemaker.
April 2017
Brought St Johnstone in to disrepute after an on-pitch brawl with teammate Danny Swanson. Both suspended and subsequently fined four weeks' wages.August 2019
Involved in incident with manager Tommy Wright on training pitch. Dropped from first team.25 May 2020
Released from contract for criticising the club chairman for not taking advantage of government's furlough scheme calling it "morally shocking".Boy can our board pick them!
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We now have only 6 games left before the split:
Ross County (A)
Rangers (H)
Hibs (A)
Livingston (H)
Dundee Utd (H)
Celtic (A)
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7 minutes ago, santheman said:
91% of their total points total this year have been won at home according to a poster on P&B.
When you look at that stat a draw isn't too shabby.
Including yesterday, they’d played 14 games at home and only lost 3 times - Celtic, Rangers and Livingston and only 4 other clubs had taken a point from them - Hearts, St.Mirren, Dundee Utd and us.
Up until yesterday they’d played 14 games away from home and failed to win a single game and have only managed 2 draws - St Mirren and us.
Now I know usually teams away form is worse than their home form but you can’t help thinking that this is an abnormal balance.
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These artificial grass pitches are notoriously hard to play on. They certainly seem to afford clubs that have them an advantage above that of a ‘normal home advantage’. Maybe it’s time the SPFL made it a condition of being in our top league that all clubs have grass pitches.
In terms of today, I posted last week that I’d be happy with a point from this and the Ross County game next week so I’m fine with today’s result. We were poor in the 1st half but were the better side in the 2nd and overall I think a draw was maybe a fair result.
A few weeks ago if we’d have been offered 7 points from these last 3 games we’d have grabbed it with glee. If we get a point next week then both Ross County and Kilmarnock will have failed to make any ground on us and that’s vital at this time of the season.
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17 hours ago, grumpy said:
And no one has even mentioned Willie Watson yet.
Ah great memories. What a right-back. On full throttle he galloped up the wing like a rampaging bull elephant and when he tackled somebody they invariably didn’t want to go near him again. Hard as granite but fair - well most of the time.
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This does seem to be taking an inordinately long time to get sorted out.
It’s pointless to speculate but maybe the board do want him BUT they’re only offering the job until the end of the season then review. If that’s the case I can understand their reluctance to offer more at this point given their experience with the last two managerial appointments.
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5 hours ago, Clackscat said:
Being old enough to remember Roger Hynd starting his tenure with 5 straight wins before it all went pear shaped
Roger Hynd!! Now that’s a blast from the past! I can still hear the chorus of “Roger, Roger shut your mouth” from the Rangers fans!!
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Stuart Kettlewell
Option 1
Offer the job until end of this season then review. If we stay up he gets it on a longer term basis and if we don’t then he returns to his academy job.
Option 2
Offer job on permanent basis with either a rolling 12-month contract or a term contract and let him choose his own assistants etc…
Option 3
Thank him for what he’s done and let him go back to his academy job. Choose either Holloway or McCann.
I accept this may be an over simplification of things and if anyone has other options I’d like to see them. All 3 options carry risk, some more than others but a decision needs to be made soon as it’s unfair on the candidates involved and the players to let it drag on.
Personally, I don’t fancy any of the 3 in the frame but we are where we are and if I had to make the choice it would be option 1 because it carries the lowest risk.
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Our league record at Rugby Park:
P116 W45 L52 D19 GF147 GA187
Win 39%
Draw 16%
Lose 45%
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It’ll be the battle of the beardies then. 😂😂😂
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For me the two players that have made a huge impact and difference to the team are Jonathan Obika up front and Calum Butcher at the back.
Obika is a very clever player. He has the strength and ability to hold defenders off, take the ball in, hold it up and bring others into play. He also looks like he will be a really good foil for Van Veen who looked re-energised today.
Butcher has brought a calm presence to the defence. His experience, positioning and organising ability together with a bit of steel has spread confidence through those around him. Looks like he and Casey could become a good partnership.
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Two wins would be great but I’d happily take 2 draws as it would mean these two don’t make any ground on us.
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Well, I must admit I didn’t think they had that in them.
Terrific performance from everyone and an absolutely priceless 3 points especially with all the sides around us all losing yesterday.
Kudos to Stuart Kettlewell who in 2 games now has not only got his selection and tactics spot on but seems to somehow have galvanised the players confidence.
Surely if the choice is really between him, Holloway and Grant he is now favourite. COYW.
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13 hours ago, johnny71 said:
If that is the case surely it would be Kettlewell then we look for a manager for the new season either for premiership or championship football.
I’d not be averse to that mate.
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11 hours ago, David said:
What benefit would the board draw from sacrificing the right candidate to save a few quid? Why would we go for "the cheap option?"
Rhetorical question?
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10 hours ago, grizzlyg said:
I'm getting chills also pal, in fact......they are multiplying!! 🤣🤣
Boom, boom Grizzly. 😂😂
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Up until Tommy McLean left in 1994, we had only had 7 managers which equates to about 1 every 12 years. Since then, excluding caretakers, we’ve had 15 which equates to about 1 every 2 years. IMO that screams volumes as to why we are where we are as a club. No continuity!
I don’t think we can afford another screw-up. The club must now take time to ensure that whoever they appoint really wants to come to the club and stay with a view to the longer term.
That’s why I maintain we should appoint someone until the end of the current season and then re-assess the situation at that time.
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12 hours ago, fizoxy said:
However, it's been about 40 years since we brought in a manager with top flight management experience in Scotland (not counting McGhee's second go), and only Craig Brown with any Scottish experience going back to McClean, so it's not something we tend to put much stock in as a club, and that pre-dates our current board.
Aye and during that period, just look at the wahoos we appointed that came under that category:
Kampman, Gannon, Baraclough, Alexander.
I get chills just thinking about this lot.
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2 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:
Hopefully we'll have a choice of at least 3 candidates. If not not the Directors should look at their short leet again.
Absolutely right. It’s very likely that applications would only have started to arrive say by Monday and yet the board are at the interview stage already!
They’re now on their 3rd go at getting “the right manager” and I just do not trust them one bit to get it right this time round.
Of the 3 supposedly on the shortlist the only one I would have been happy with was Jack Ross. However if he has indeed dropped out then I think we have a problem. The other two have absolutely no knowledge or experience of Scottish football whatsoever and indeed one wonders how the board placed them onto the shortlist in the first place!!
Maybe they’re going through the same charade as last time when they appointed Stevie Hammell. If that’s the case then I’d expect an announcement quite shortly that Stuart Kettlewell’s been appointed (until the end of the season?).
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Daily Rancid reporting that 3 English Championship clubs showing an interest - Preston, Sheffield Utd and Luton Town.
Utter bullshit. Somebody has a decent game and this shit-sheet picks 3 English clubs at random to make a story up.
The guy is just 19 and in the foothills of what looks like a highly promising career BUT I just hope he shows better sense and judgment than two of our previous “potential stars” Slane and Hastie.
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3 hours ago, Spiderpig said:
No it's not, the phrase you used translates to
"Pure and will bring them to the stars"
Onwards and upwards literally translates to
"Porro et sursum
Ego arcum ad superiorem scientiam.
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5 hours ago, stv said:
Are you bloody diiilerixic
It’s Latin for onwards an upwards.
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Looked as though Kettlewell’s objective was not to lose the game. tonight.
It was a really turgid football match but a very welcome win and 3 points.
Puram et ferent ad sidera.
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BBC can’t make up its mind.
On one internet page they’ve got Tommy Wright as the favourite and on another it’s John Hughes or James McPake.
Richard Foster - Head of Coaching
in Club Chat
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Information easily accessible via internet. Time will tell.
My employment record has got nothing to do with it and is my business but for the record, I was an exemplary employee.