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English and foriegn managers rarely make it unless they have old firm money, and any good players need to be out of Scotland for the sake of their careers before they're 21 and piss their career away. How many Scottish players have had short spells in England before returning to Scotland? The talent is there but the work ethic isn't. The culture in our game is terrible and any time someone tries to shake things up they get rejected. I don't think we should sack baraclough, not because I think he's particularly good, but partly because we can't have our wasters of players hold the club and the fans to ransom. The reality is that the relegation scrap will be between four teams and it will go down to the last two games. If we change our manager now it will just show us up as a shambles and cause more upheaval. It may please some of our players, but will alienate others. Our only chance of staying honors of this regime does it.

You're right. There should be more teams in the premierleagueship.

Aye, but we scored about 5 of them, pretty good conversion. Think Sutton has scored with every touch.

Seriously, when I saw the line up I thought we were going with the "win 5-4" mindset, and i was ok with it...

Is it true that York city added a clause in strakers loan deal that we can't send him back? Ever.

I agree

Thing that bothers me with these interviews is that he just tells us what the problems are. We know that bit, tell us how you're going to fix them, that is the specific reason we are paying you.

The board and the new owner interviewed him.

Post match interview

No baraduff?

Seems a nice guy though. Our next manager needs to be a right dick.

Is the post match interview out yet so that I can feel like we are going to win our next 12 games?

Rangers?

It is the managers job to deal with the players. If he can't handle that he shouldn't be a manager.

I really wanted this to work out, and was all for the long term outlook when making the appointment, but I was wrong, we should have went for a short term appointment to keep us up. It is too late now and we just need to hope the current team figures it out or other teams shit the bed.

To be fair, I think the fans are united....

If our club captain has downed tools then we really are screwed.

My post match interview prediction is that the blame will be on the flukey goal and the unfortunate injury to Johnson. Otherwise we would have ground out a solid 0-0.

Partick could be dragged into this, only 7 points above the joint bottom three. Unfortunately I don't see us being the ones taking advantage.

If we can't even show fight at home then we're done.

We were missing black for a week, so he probably stepped up then.

Summary of presser: Robbo - Back to basics, our defending is shite, not just a back 4 issue. Craigan sold the club to him. Bara - Pearo in contention, if not tomorrow he'll be back next week. Some of the players are unfit/lazy. Ainsworth came on before Dom because of pace. Leitch is coaching 1st team now.

Well, in the call for more people to come to the next three games they mentioned the need for the extra cash, so I don't see them dropping prices in that case. It was also made clear in Flow's podcast that one off price drops wouldn't happen again, as they don't work long-term.

Good call. We are where we are and there's nothing we can do about the past year or so, let's look forward and do what we can to make sure that were watching a premiership/league/whatever team next year. Or look at it this way, we might only have a handful more home games in the top flight for a few years, so make the most of them!

The baseball comparison is pretty interesting. The smaller market teams (such as my beloved Pirates) have seen success in recent years through using analytics to identify 'market inefficiencies' where they can find value in a player that other clubs may not see. This also extends to tactics, but I think there are more intangibles in football so I'm not sure how valuable analytics can be in that sense. I think this is the software they mention