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Heartsplaining.

Aye, success is relative. My comment is about the weegie media guff about foreign managers. It’s basically just churn for their closed shop pals.

My mistake.

It’s a gamble, every managerial appointment is. As for the weegie media, you have to laugh, there’s a piece on the go atm that asks “when/who was the last foreign manager, outside the OF(sic), to be a success”? FFS, who was the last Scottish manager, including the cheeks, to be a success? Walter Smith? Stein? Rodger’s first time around? Ferguson? McLean?What about success up to a point? McInnes in his early years? Two cup Davidson? Of the recent bunch Naismith could be but early days yet. Fact is, like politicians, most manager’s careers end in failure, getting the best out of them and knowing when to move on is the most you can ask for. In any event if a job creation Lennon, Mackay or Ross is the answer you’re asking the wrong question.

Élite? Apart from Miovski and Shankland there’s not a player in the SPL outside the cheeks who wouldn’t sign for Barnsley in a heartbeat and some of them would as well. We’re in the failed, free, Bosman, project market with the occasional SPL deal and have been for years. That’s not a criticism, it’s fine with me, but enough of elite.

They could write down a few guesses in envelopes marked penalty, offside, red card etc and send them in. Save a lot of VAR expenses.

I imagine that the VAR teams' guesses even out over the season.

Did wee Shug not star with Steve McQueen in that film about the Dons 99-00 season?

I’ve witnessed some amount of crap over many years supporting the Dons but I think panicking into a quick fix manager to placate the media and a few bloggers would be right up there with the worst. Warnock was a good example of being just as well leaving the coaching staff in charge until someone decent is landed.

That’s a good point. I have to say that “ lives in Aberdeen” or “unhappy at living in ( insert city) or with his family” really limits our choices.

Well that’s at least four of us who know plus Klopp himself of course.

I have no idea what’s happening, nor should I, but what worries me the most is that we appoint someone now because we said we would or the fans “ demand” it. If we have a genuine contender ready to go fair enough otherwise I’d rather stick with Leven and the coaching staff until we do.

Only one penalty over the two divisions that day as well. Have a guess.

Correct. And, in my time, there have only been 4 who have left for another job. Turnbull, McLeod, McNeil and Ferguson. Massive we are. There were only 5 before Turnbull and I think they were all sacked?

It’s the fundamental tribalism in fitba that I love the most. Take “Sevco are shite and McInnes is better off with Aberdeen” and replace with “Aberdeen are shite and Docherty is better off with Dundee” and repeat with your team of choice. Personally I think the latter but who knows, money talks.

I hear also that he phoned in the substitutions during Robson’s spell, drafted the Truss/Kwarteng budget and wrote the Horizon programme for the Post Office. What chance do we have?

I’m warming to this. The manager’s job is a rolling tenure, just like presenting HIGNFY. Lennon to get a few weeks, then Hughes maybe, give Robson another crack for a fortnight?

I’m happy to “not know about that” for the moment so here’s hoping. I am, however, always impressed with how the yoyo teams recover. I’m not sure we have that resilience.

Agree with this. The St J game last Wednesday was a clear indicator that we are in trouble. Home game against a bottom 6 team with a performance required and we were well beaten by the better team. Follow that up with a collapse from a winning position to defeat in extra time and we now have a team who have bottled it in the last few months now completely out of it. I’m not usually this negative but can any dons fans be confident that we could beat any hard working team of half decent pros? No, me neither.

You obviously haven’t been watching us. I can’t think of a single post Miller manager who hasn’t put out a team just as dross at some stage.

Penalties may be required.

When you sack your manager nothing is expected and anything is possible. It’s a wee high that lasts about a week.

Maybe or, at best, why not? I can only go with my experience. A company that does nothing but advise is a consultancy btw but fair enough one consultant’s advice is as good as any other’s.

Don’t really have an issue with an interim manager until end of season as long as Leven remains alongside so we don’t completely start from scratch. It’s not as though we expect Warnock or Leven to do any more than get some performance out of a decent squad and at least let us get some enjoyment out of watching them! I realise a traffic cone could manage us better than where we were and would be cheaper than Warnock but it’s worth a punt imo. The luxury factor is that no matter how well they do as interim management we will not be giving them the job full time. (Leap of faith here. )

Ooooh a consultancy. Seen that done a few times. Weeks of “analysing” (ie interviews) your prawcess and procedures then a final report recommending out sourcing, synergies and redundancies. Canna wait.