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Decent game so far. We're far from solid, but have been well organized and dominated that half. Aberdeen have more pace to hit us on the counter, but we've done a good job so far in stopping that. Shame to lose that goal just before half time, we gave him too much time to put in a perfect cross, must have been the first time any of their players had time on the ball all half. Not getting carried away, but there are good signs of improvement, and that was all I was hoping for from this game, hopefully we keep pushing for the 3 points, this team isn't build to sitting in.

Long long way to go, but this is so much better, forward runs, dribbling, breaking lines. You can see what GA was coaching out of them.

We did the right thing by him by giving him a testimonial match despite him playing about 60 games, because of his injury, but he still feels the club owes him something. I'm sure he was whining about not getting a coaching job at one point, despite him not being a coach and doing nothing in football since finishing with us.

Sad, bitter, man. He has lived off his cult status with us, and some weirdos still feed into it.

I think it's important to do due diligence and go through a competitive process for appointing the manager. First, you never know what you might uncover or who will apply, and it also sends the message (to both the fans and players) that the internal applicant in this case was held to the same standard as the others, and earned the job. Hammell said himself that going through the process was important to him, as he was able to see the the club bought into his vision. Also, with us being fan owned, it was key that the well society reps were involved in the whole process for transparency. Now, wether that was all performative and they had hammell picked from the start, who knows (I don't think so).

Aye, but Slattery is back at least.

Scott Burns reported that it wasn't Lambert, Ferguson or Thomson, and he is rarely wrong when it comes to us.

On the hypothetical Lennon situation, he knows our club well enough, and the player pool we swim in, so if he was legitimately interested I doubt he'd be expecting a serious transfer kitty and to be challenging for the league. As such, I don't see any reason why he'd be interested in moving.

I don't hate him as much as others do, but there is a lot of baggage that comes with him, which isn't all on him. Don't really want the attention from the obsessed and paranoid Glasgow lot.

I think we're off the hook on that one, we'd need to approach st Mirren first, and I doubt that would be kept quiet. It's prob some coach at an OF team.

Stolen from p&b, but this source says the interviews are Simo, Hammell, and someone else under contract, https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/arti...unelmapestia/8484990#gs.8p47ia

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I'd imagine we could get some better TV money as well. I could see it being an issue with contracts though, as our windows wouldn't align with England , and you could be in trouble if your club got to the latter stages of Europe, and there are players who's deals ended in Jan. I'm for it though, just to be different.

Good on the club for reading the room and keeping that one quiet.

Personally I'd steer clear of these assistant manager types. We did ok with Robinson, but the likes of Cathro and Maloney have failed miserably. My worry for guys that have managed for a while in the English lower leagues is that they often underestimate our game, and play boring as fuck functional football, i.e. GA and Mickey Mellon. They have those long seasons of almost 2 games per week, which requires a totally different approach. Regardless, whoever comes in is going to either be inexperienced or had a failure or two if they have experience. I sincerely doubt that the new guy is going to get unanimous approval from our support. Is there anyone in the lower divisions that's making a name for themselves?

In agreement on the recruitment team. We had Nick Daws talking up the advantages of the scouting network thing we joined, and how we can use the work permit rules to our advantage to bring in good players from mon traditional markets, and that has brought us Sol, Ojala, and Efford. Not sure how much he would have been involved in mcginn and spittall, and I assume Morris was an Alexander production. Either way, I'm not enthused by the prospect of him bringing the signings we need in the next couple of weeks. Slattery looks to be a decent signing, and Tierney certainly has promise. I can see the logic behind woolery and shields, but for two fast and strong players they/GA found ways to nullify their strengths. Maybe they take instruction from the manager, which in this case seems to have been "sign shite players that I can make worse."

Someone mentioned Mark Fotheringham on Twitter. I know bugger all about him, but at least it's another name to play about with until we find out who it really is.

Our success rate with signings hasnt been very good lately. If we need 3 good players, we're probably going to have to sign 10.

O'Donnell is no longer the captain, it's Kelly now. He's probably better at left back than Carroll, mainly because Im not worried that he's going to maim someone out of nowhere. We do seem to have a habit of letting runners do what they want. Some of that may be tactical, but we fail too often on fundamentals. Our overall football intelligence is about as low as I've seen it. On the attacking sense it's the same, we're way too static, it's like table football at times.

Whether it is hammell or someone else, we need someone that knows the Scottish game and has a realistic vision for a style of play. We've seen the likes of Maloney and Glass try to change the style too drastically and it was a disaster. Our recruitment team doesn't fill me with confidence either. They brought in Slattery and Tierney who are decent, but they also landed Sol, Ojala, shields and Efford. We can't afford to miss on any of the players who come in before the window closes. I assume the contracts for mugabi, mcginley and Maguire were more to do with Alexander, as was Morris.

I'm disappointed we didn't at least get some manager speculation today, I guess the candidates chose to watch a dodgy stream instead of sitting in the main stand.

Goss played well, even though nothing much was happening in front of him. His delivery is usually dangerous, and he did a thing we're he played the ball to someone further up the park than he was. Game changer.

Really sloppy to lose that goal after equalizing, O'Donnell too slow to get out after the corner, but we had chances to stop it even after that. We frequently got caught out by simple punts forward. It's clear that we need two or three good signings to get anything out of this team. Having Slattery back next week will be a bonus, but we'll be up against it with the form aberdeen are showing. Efford looked lively for a minute, then reverted to killing off every attack, and shields was caught on his heels way to often. I thought Goss was good, and Cornelius fared better than Maguire, and Mahon is in fact real.

I was hoping to see Mahon today, just to confirm he's a real person.

We were never keeping a clean sheet with those two at the back, but to lose a goal to a long ball down the middle is woeful. Weird that I'm sitting here wishing lamie was available. We still need anotjer competent defender. Morris and Spittal are miles off the pace, and Sheilds isn't much better. Goss and Maguire are picking the ball up and trying to show some composure, but they've got nowhere to go. We aren't much different than a couple of weeks ago. We're trying to take the extra touch and pass into midfield, but it's not sticking. When it does land with van Veen he's not in a dangerous position, and it falls apart.