justin time

Lets be honest, we can speculate as much as we like on a new manager, but there are only two criteria the new appointment is required to meet; 1) will he keep Martindale as assistant? 2) will he let Martindale pick the team? Outside of that, nothing else is relevant as long as he has coaching badge,s that the club can use to fulfil its criteria, as DM is banned from even taking them.

Since hearts pretty much control what cowdenbeath do these days, its looks like this was all agreed up front with Levein calling the shots. ie we can have todorov as long as carrick goes the other way. it did seem madness to have 4/5 strikers with the league already in the bag.

Wow - that's even worse than i thought. He seems to always have been on the verge of the sack, then pull out a win from nowhere then revert to being crap again for 6-7 games, then the pattern repeats. One thing though, he cant complain about lack of support from the board, in this day and age, not many get the time and backing he's had. Ultimately though his future will be decided, not by what Dumbarton do, but how well st.mirren do between now and the end of the season. As we know Dumabrton will plod along as above.

Looking from the outside in, Aitken's been on borrowed time for around a year at least now. He's been fortunate that teams around dumbarton have somehow conspired to do worse than he has, rather than him being any good as a manager. Hopkin got him out of jail last year and St Mirren were providing the safety net this year until the last couple of results. His win ration must be around the worst in the country for any manager still in a job, but it looks like the board at dumbarton are just blindly clingin on hoping st mirren can remain crap and they can stay in the division via the play offs. 3 wins from 23 matches this season takes some doing, along with cup defeats to league 1, league 2 and a junior sides makes for an unbelievably grim record.

And the moral of the story ? Don't make a convicted drug dealer your secretary and head of admin - they don't usually play by the rules lol

Ayr are in a higher league than us because of Hopkin and that embarrassing trouncing away to Stranraer. We have a bigger budget than ayr and a far bigger squad, probably the biggest in this league. Our best midfielder is sitting on the bench as Hopkin plays all martindales signings. I'm with Daz on this one, early indications are we are in league 1 to stay.

No surprise there then, says it all really. Hopkin really is the utlimate puppet.

Did he show up to face the music?? I doubt he would have

Thats a legacy issue....nothing to do with this board

He's a good kid - gets wired in and gives his all. Left back he aint tho, bit crappy taking him on trial and shoving him in there for his first match. Hes not even left footed

Everyone knows its Rankine stil running the show with Martindale as gopher. Its not like they can come out and make that public is it?? One's banned from having any control and the other is a convicted drug dealer.

gibbons was fine in the championship with us, the whole cowdenbeath team were a disaster last season so i wouldnt read too much into his spell there. he was previously captain of aberdeen u20s when they won the league in 14-15

Given he is the only supporter of Martindale and Hopkin on the planet it has to be him or one of his mates. All drug dealers have gimp type mates that worship them, itll be one of them. Martindale's obviously not the brightest but surely he cant be as stupid as this guy?? can he?

cheers for the update davie