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If I had to choose between a winger and a CB, I'd go with the former. We desperately need pace. Sheilds and efford have a fair bit of pace and power, but having someone who can really threaten on the break would make a huge difference. We may just have to see if we can build a partnership out of the center backs we have. All off them have had good spells and shown glimpses of being good, but are too prone to mistakes. Having a functional midfield will be huge for them, as this should hopefully give them more options to get rid of the ball. O'Donnell was fine at left back, but with the other two injured for a while, we still need someone there. We're hosed if we ever need to rely on Lamie there.

Neilsen said that the reports of ginelly being free to go we're bollocks.

During Alexanders tenure every game was so stressfull to watch, as the only thing we could cling on to was a potential result, because the football itself is shite. You can forgive a lot when the team plays like that, with attacking intent and maximum effort. As shite as our inevitable losses are going to be, you can take it as part of the process, and be annoyed at the result without the feeling of futility you got with the previous guy. I reserve the right to take this back if we lose to livi :-)

In his interview yesterday he was coy when asked if signings we're imminent, he probably thought at the time he had a wee surprise up his sleeve, like Aberdeen with Clarkson last week.

Difficult one, everyone performed well, with no one player standing out to a degree. I thought the starting three in the midfield all had good games, and all three were involved in an attacking sense at different points. I went with Cornelius because it was one of his best games for us. He pressed really well and ran himself into the ground. I don't think comparisons to Alan campbell are miles off. I also thought O'Donnell fared well at left back, and him running across to put the fear of God into the guy who was one on one after Sol slipped was awesome.

Interesting, were they just not done in time, or did they fall through?

That was a huge difference from a few weeks ago, with the same group of players. I was impressed with how well organized we were, and how everyone was working for each other to stay organized. We didn't do anything fancy in an attacking sense, but we used the ball a lot better and played with intent from the start. The safety first, defensive, approach from Alexander had everyone playing too tentatively, which just invites pressure, whereas today the players were free to take the ball into space and play tight passes. It was interesting to hear Hammell's comment on Slattery about the positions he needs to take up, as we need more goals from our midfielders. Cornelius had a really good game. Hopefully he's going to keep getting time, as if he can add a bit of composure to his game he will be an excellent player for us.

Fuckin wooooo

We need some pace, and the way we're pressing it makes sense to switch out Spittal

Yep

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?