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I think Robson is at the stage now where we have to give him a chance over a longer term, including the chance to recover from any inevitable future dip in form. Anyone else we bring in, unless they have us right up there from the get go, is always going to be unfavourably compared to Robson at every minor set back. Vital we sign Shinnie on a permanent deal at the same time though.

There’s Fiona Bruce “both siding” domestic violence too.

Regarding Rodriguez, this taking his team to the Asian Champions League final then quitting before the final on the odd chance he picks up another job (like a mid-table Scottish league team who have won 1 trophy in almost 30 years) doesn’t sit right with me. It’s a bit shitebaggery.

Wilder taken Watford job until end of the season. Daily Record must have been talking pish.

The article seems to suggest Wilder was physically in Aberdeen to meet Burrows which, assuming I read it correctly, would be a fairly big step forward.

He’s not wrong about point 6 though is he? Dundee United have been a yo-yo club for about 25 years now, relegation isn’t the end of the world for them and they’ll inevitably slither their way back up sooner rather than later.

Is predictable mediocrity what you really want as a football fan though? Let Cormack worry about KPI’s and balancing the books, it’s our job as supporters to have hope and be excited about the unknown. I’d much rather roll the dice and make a risky appointment if it meant an extremely small chance at real glory. Cormack seems to be all about the fan experience, he’s not going to get much success on that front hiring the least shit plodder with SPFL experience.

I won’t claim to have any kind of idea about the standard of the J League or the stature of negotiating the eastern side of the AFC Champions League draw but I would assume the standard is being somewhat overstated if the striker for the team in question is Alex Schalk of Ross County “fame”.

Still not convinced by Coulson. He has a ratio of 50/50 good games to terrible games at best and in his good games he’s still not nearly as effective as an uninjured 35 year old Jonny Hayes.

Problem with Wilder is that any hint of a good run of form is going to see him getting a job back down south almost immediately.

Scott Michie’s Polish uncle throwing his hat into the ring: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Michniewicz Would still rather have his Poland predecessor but quite a good record domestically, in European competitions and internationally.

It seems him being released by Swindon is part of the “deal” to bring him here, not that he’s surplus to requirements as such. He’s been playing fairly regularly for them and they have a new manager in the door today too.

He had time to give Cormack a big bosie first apparently.

Watford have form for that, Tommie Hoban had the same issue.

No Richardson or Besuijen in the squad, any news if they’re injured?

Mattie Pollock in from Watford presumably on loan, 21 year old 6’3” central defender with a couple of years first team football under his belt. Looks fairly promising.

Lose against Hibs, Curtis Main opens the scoring after 5 minutes at home to St Mirren, can you imagine how toxic the atmosphere is going to be?

Some interesting analysis on Goodwin v Glass using data that I don’t understand and therefore must be super clever:

I wouldn’t understate the involvement of our American directors in this. Cormack has managed to grift £1m+ out of each of them with promises of high returns from player sales and European competition revenues and has squandered probably in the region of half a million sacking his chosen management team after 11 months and paying compensation to St Mirren for their replacements, we’ve issued an annual financial report showing significant operating loss and now he’s back again after another 11 months looking for a further significant sum to fire Goodwin & co. I highly suspect they’ve told him to bolt and make do with what we have as the league position is still salvageable. They won’t give 2 shiny fucks about a one-off game against Darvel, it makes little difference from a return on investment point of view. Having worked with lots of blue sky thinkers like Cormack, his statement reads like he’s just been given a complete arse kicking in the board meeting and he’s making a futile attempt to look like he’s in charge.

So what now? We go game to game waiting for more failure before we pull the trigger? Putting the manager and the players in some sort of nonsensical purgatory is going to achieve nothing. The board need to fire him or back him, no half measures.

Calm down, it’s probably not too easy to get all of the board members together in a day’s notice, particularly when we are a secondary concern (at best) to the American-based directors who probably don’t understand the severity of the recent result and will want to question spending a significant sum on a severance package when the league table tells them we’re close to qualifying for Europe. It’s not practical to release a statement before a decision has been made and doing so only leaves us exposed from an employment law point of view.

Board meeting this afternoon, hopefully the Yanks will give their approval to get rid.

Paulo Sousa: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Sousa

Letting them keep the ball in the corner for 4 whole minutes just sums up how pathetic we have been.