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Tend to agree that it’s not been the best environment for Barron to thrive in, but often feel that there’s been games which he could’ve grabbed by the scruff of the neck and imposed himself more, but didn’t. Italy will be great for him though, albeit expecting his trajectory to be more Josh Doig or Liam Henderson than perhaps Ferguson.

In an interview situation, any manager worth his salt i(i.e not a desperado like Lennon, Fotheringham etc) would surely be asking questions as to why we've sacked 4 managers in as many years, where things have gone wrong, what they're going to do to fix it - essentially interviewing Cormack/Burrows as much as they're interviewing him. I'm confident we won't go down or even for it to be a consideration come the split, but the last few years of utter chaos is probably going to be the thing that puts the better candidates off.

My best guess is that they’ll announce early this week that the process is ongoing Leven is in charge until further notice. The shit will really hit the fan if we get a bad result against County and potentially Livvy under Leven, with no permanent manager imminent.

Never really understood people who seem to want an "inspiring" appointment, especially given Glass, Goodwin and Cormack himself have been shown to be all mouth and no trousers when taking over after offering "inspiring" words when they arrived. I'd be meh about Neil but I'd probably be a degree of meh about anybody until they showed they can get us playing and getting results over a period of time.

The other potential consideration is that he’ll do a Calderwood (or to a lesser extent a McInnes) - improve us, stabilise us, then things go stale, then we’re stuck in the position where it’s hard to sack him but we know it’s time for a change. No English clubs were remotely interested in Calderwood as he didn’t have a profile down there, and McInnes only got offered jobs at basket case clubs. Neil would possibly have the profile down south to get another job, but I’d like for the board to plan for this sort of scenario and think where we’d go if somebody leaves us when we’re relatively stable.

Looked Rosler up and he's been sacked at Wigan and Fleetwood, so no reason whatsoever to think he's the man we should be going for.

In that scenario I think Leven gets it on-going until the end of the season.

Agree, he gave Beaton an excuse. Not devastated by the draw tbh. We might have a bit of momentum under a new boss by then, and Celtic have had vulnerability about them all season.

P&J reporting that he chucked it. Can't really blame him, and those who were outraged at him being here and calling him everything also can't complaint at him leaving us in the lurch. Anyhow, unless Cormack has undertaken a period of self reflection then he will know exactly who wants, and no sham interview prawcess will sway him from his preferred candidate.

Bojan will be fine. Couple of quieter games (which good strikers will have) but he'll be back scoring soon enough. Warnock said he was the best striker he'd ever worked with. Then a couple of comments in the following next week or two about him missing a chance due to a heavy touch and losing his man at a corner, which aren't really remotely controversial comments to make in the context or critiquing a team performance - but much of our support seem to have a huge heads gone about him being thrown under a bus as a result.

Pretty much as "effective" away from home as we've been for a while - never really felt particularly threatened until the world caved in during injury time. Useless if we don't get the result of course, but grinding out results away from home on the back of performances like that are what'll probably get us through. It also hinted that the players are playing for him (albeit were mentally weak once the penalty was scored) which again is probably a good sign.

The slightly concerning precedent is a similar collapse against Sevco last December as we saw on Saturday, which then completely spiralled into being destroyed at Hearts and Hibs, Darvel etc. In terms of mentality, as much as Shinnie was involved in last last January's debacle, I think he's responded really well in the last couple of games with decent performances - feels like he's got the bit between his teeth, albeit evidently he can't stop calamity defending on his own. Still think it'll be a non issue unless we lose him or Miovski through injury - we've been relatively lucky on that front this season thankfully.

Still don't think it'll happen and would guess the gap with be a few points wider come the split given the respective run ins.

He talked Miovski up as the best striker he's managed, then only criticised him for losing his man at a corner. He said that some players lacked a bit of aggression, emphasising that they just weren't that sort of player. If anything that's taking the heat off them, because it's not as if they are shite or not trying, it's a point about the squad deficiencies. Shinnie he had a pop at, but then he played his best game for a while midweek (and thought he was ok today) Understand that a lot of us are used to mundane managerial interviews where nothing of value is said, but none of this should be/is destroying motivation or confidence. We're just shite.

The absolute last thing we need is Cormack panicking and rushing the next managerial appointment.