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There are plenty of options. From the more experienced like Stevie Clarke, John McGlynn or Michael O'Neill. A current SPL guy such as Robinson, or someone lower down the chain like Scott Brown or Gary Naysmith. I'd argue that any of the above would stand a better chance of success than taking in someone from Norway that knows very little about either our club or about fitba in this country.

The "strategy" that Deadly Dave has implemented makes all of that very difficult to achieve on a consistent basis. We want to sell on all of our best talent so as soon as we produce a few decent players they are offski. It means you will have one good season followed by one shite season and so on. You are never going to get consistency if you are changing out half of your squad every season. Even just the loans make consistency a problem. Think I am right in saying we have signed seven players on loan this season. How can you get any kind of cohesion going when you only have players for six months at a time? You can never build for the long term.

His CV is very underwhelming. Must be about the equivalent of if Callum Davidson were to get the Rosenborg job. Pretty obvious Horneland would be nowhere near the top of the list if Lutz had not been around and it makes a mockery of the whole recruitment process. Said it before on here but Lutz may as well manage the team himself. He's now on the bench at matches, he has already told us how we are going to play, we are signing the players only he has seen play and now about to appoint a manager because he has been trailing him for ages. Really hope this falls through and we revert to someone who has experience of managing in Scotland.

Alarm bells are ringing already with that line. Are we just writing off this season? If not, there must be a hell of a lot less risk playing someone like Polvara/Shinnie/Nilsen for the last 15 games than taking some dude over from Germany that has barely kicked a ball all season and never played in this country before. He got his sole Nigeria cap aged 17, nearly 9 years ago. He sounds like the latest in a loonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng line of players we have signed because he was once promising and was signed by a big club so that automatically must mean he is good......Palaversa, Lazetic, Karlsson, Aouchiche, Gyamfi................... Remember this: Starting to wonder if someone in the recruitment department is on the wacky backy. We all know deep down this boy is gonna be shite. Going throw this out there but is there any less risk in the transfer market by just asking Peter Leven if he has seen anyone in the Championship that he thinks can do a job at a higher level?

Hearts pretty direct at times. Not hearing too many moans from the fans about their playing style

I think signing players without a manager just brings more potential problems. For starters, what kind of player is signing for a club without knowing who his boss is going to be? More importantly, when the new manager comes in, what if he just does not rate the guy? We are unlikely to win the league , probably won't get relegated, just hold fire for a minute and wait to get the new guy's opinion before signing anyone - even if that means waiting until June. No one really wants to qualify for Europe anyway.

Maybe Cormack does not intend to employ him til the summer

McGlynn is the sort of guy I think we should be appointing. He's kind of done the hard yards to move up the chain and be deserving of the chance to work at a bigger club which was always the way it used to work. I get the clamour for Eskou but we would be appointing him purely on the basis of six good months at Motherwell which sounds very knee jerk. If he stays at Motherwell it is a safe bet that they will be fighting relegation a years time. A McGlynn type has a proper body of work over a sustained period. I'd be stunned if it happened though. My money is on Ian Cathro or the German or American equivalent.

Say it quietly but he looks miserable.............we need a striker.... Bung the huns half a million, get Bojan to make a grovelling apology. Fans are fickle as fuck. Once he bangs in a few goals we all move on.

Exactly the words that were going through my mind watching the game yesterday. We play like a bunch of wifies (if you can still get away with that saying). Allowing somebody like Raskin to be winning headers speaks volumes about what is wrong with the team. With each game that passes it actually makes me think someone like Robinson is exactly the kind of manager we need. ....and the director of fitba should be absolutely nowhere near the bench. Like watching Cathro and Levein all over again.

No doubt a bit of tongue in cheek in your post but in all seriousness, a few folk have been touting Leven and I think his very brief spell in charge when Robson left has clouded people's views. He was in charge for just 11 games after Warnock left when the season had basically petered out anyway and there was nothing to play for. Have to remember that he has been a main part of both Robson and Thelin's reigns as manager.

I thought that game was absolutely horrendous last night. Liverpool getting a lot of praise from Neville and Keane in the Sky Studio but my god, I was barely awake by the end. If was basically 90 minutes of Van Dijk and Kerkez passing it back and forth between them. If you are into stats, Liverpool had an XG of 0.36. They made 509 passes and only 150 went forward. Arsenal made 459 passes, 108 went forward. That kind of stuff will get the game stopped. Wenger's Arsenal team of Vieira, Pires, Henry and the like would have ran over any of those two teams last night.

^^^^^^This, absolutely. Dealing with corner kicks is primary school stuff. Again, all the new age laptop boffins will try to convince you that you need some set piece coach with a PhD in fitba tactics. Jist heed the ba awa. Nay difficult.

I get the theory but it's a mighty restrictive policy and also makes life easier for your rivals. Does that mean you play the same system and same way in a European tie against Barcelona where you will have little of the ball as you would in a league cup tie versus Dumbarton just because that's your philosophy? Can we not have a six foot six striker that we go long to when we play against a small side or have a couple of nippy wingers that we can chuck on and play a different way when we play a side with a couple of slow full backs? There is no need to be so rigid in the thinking, football changes season to season. The club philosophy thing is modern day buzz word shite that chairman seem to churn out in the same way that they fire managers who win but don't have a nice playing style and a year later they find their club fighting relegation. You are spot it, it absolutely is and there are numerous examples of it not working. It is normally a manager ending up with a player he does not want who has been forced on him. At the level we are at it really should not be that difficult. We should only need 3 or 4 new players in a transfer window, a manager with a decent eye for a player could easily deal with that. I am not suggesting the manager is involved in negotiating transfer fees or wages but he could easily be the one picking the players he wants in his squad if they are guys that are known to him.