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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.

Ruby, Gartenmann and Jensen were signed to play in a back 3 - Ruby winning the ball and the other two covering for him. I would guess that Williams was Ruby's backup, but of course circumstances now mean that we don't have the natural ball winner in there, although MacDonald in for one of them makes sense at least until the big man is back. For now though, we should absolutely try and keep it on the deck and play to our strengths. Some of the criticism of Warnock has been simply infantile, but he knows Barron, Clarkson and Polvara aren't blood and thunder types - so lets play to their strengths and do what we can to avoid the next few games turning into physical slogfests at least, and see if we can find a bit of quality in the final third.

I still find it refreshing having a manager who doesn't treat the fans like idiots when speaking to the press - it's been a while. He's being very open about what we're lacking, and given no amount of man management with turn Polvara or Barron into a nasty c**t of a midfielder, I'd be surprised if he wasn't really keen to get another free agent in the door ASAP.

He looks like he has something, maybe more of a second striker but far from being pish. Talking more generally, the recruitment model we have is needed and long overdue - casting the net far and wide and using data to help us, is absolutely how we should be going about things. The problem as with replacing McInnes, is how we've executed it - we need to actually watch the players we're signing, because Stevie Wonder could've told us that Richardson, Morris, Roberts, Gueye et al weren't players. Executing McInnes' replacement and the new recruitment model badly seems to be making the latter years of his reign appear much better than they actually were.

It had been various shades of the same rubbish in the previous 2 seasons - poor standard of football, reliance on the league being appalling, and finishing behind Kilmarnock one year and Motherwell the next (league truncated by Covid). Things had gone completely stale and it was obvious by looking at him or listening to his press conferences that he wasn't the dynamic manager we had 2013-2018 and it was time to go - Glass coming in at least gave us a head start for the following season, as badly as the ended up going. Really, McInnes should've got a decent offer down south sometime between 2016 and 2018 and left. For whatever reason it was only basket case clubs who made moves for him, and the result was that he stayed long past his shelf life, in the same way that Jimmy Calderwood did. Not one of the managers we've had in since have been good managers, which is why the latter part of his reign looks better than it actually was. We should hire a good manager next time.

Pretty much the reason that Hibs exist is to appoint moonhowlers like this boy for the amusement of the rest of us.

Or implement a style of play which more expensive/better players can adapt to more easily, hence why his lack of experience up here isn't relevant IMO.

He isn't inheriting a hugely expensively assembled squad in the way that Ange and Clement did.

Potentially different on a non OF budget though -which could be why the rest of the top flight are generally hesitant to appoint a foreign coach with a style alien to the game here. I'd even argue that Glass failed with us partly because the realities of what games here are like was lost on him when he brought his philosophy over.

The "knowledge of Scottish football" issue might apply to managers from outside of the UK planning on tippy tappy football who doesn't know that 75% of the games will be a scrap, but I can't see that being an issue for Warnock.

Pretty shambolic state of affairs all round. Not punting Robson after the St Mirren game on 30th December appears to have humped the January window, and therefore the rest of the season - although I'd still hope and expect that an experienced interim should be able to get more out of the squad than Robson did. I feel for Gunn but tbh it feels like the same "well liked within the club" nonsense that kept Robson in post for so long. The DoF role is probably a thankless task at the best of times (remember the stick Willie Miler got when he was working with Calderwood) but if we're looking at maximising our potential as a club then there's no room for sentiment. I agree that an interim would be the best way ahead for now, the board need to take a step back to review the whole way we're doing things and what we're actually trying to achieve before even thinking about a longer term appointment.