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It is a good excuse but no reason why Cormack needs to wait until the sporting director is appointed before firing and re-hiring. If you know who you want as your manager, just go out and get him. You do not need to advertise it in the P&J and do a dozen interviews. People make it sound like it is a complicated process but it really should not be. If you look dan sarf at clubs like Everton and Spurs (far bigger clubs than ours), they just quickly identified who they wanted and went and got them. Jimmy seems like a nice bloke but he needs to exit. It is getting laughable and he is also speaking in absolute riddles in the post match interviews now, a classic trait when a manager is under severe pressure. Another drubbing incoming tonight at Rugby Park. We will be bullied off the park by Killie.

I mean, 5 years as sporting director of St Louis City. He is just basically the German, Carlos Bocanegra.

Two weeks off then two games in five days. Poor lads need a holiday.

Fascinating story actually. There are a couple of videos online about it. I think there were a couple of players that would have been banned from their last Highland League game that season had it been played as originally scheduled for the Saturday. They brought the game forward a few days so those players could play and after a lot of debate the league that year was voided. Awfully controversial at the time.

I don’t think we should offer them more than about a couple of million for them to take him off our hands

That sounds awfully simplistic Rico to suggest the reason we made Greece look like Brazil was down to Hanley playing as a left sided centre half and it would have been a totally different game with McKenna in there instead. If you watch Liverpool, Robertson plays next to Van Dijk all the time, who is right footed but their whole team approach is just totally different. There are hundreds of examples of successful sides with two right sided centre halves, I really don’t see that as too big a deal. The ability (or lack of it) in our players to keep the ball and string more than two passes together was much more to blame on Wednesday. Our best keeper of the ball in Gilmour being on the bench did not help.

It's more square pegs in round holes though. Robertson is a full back rather than a wing back and used to playing in a back four. McKenna has played most of his football in a back four. Doak definitely ain't a wing back. I think Robertson's demise is very exaggerated by everyone. He is only 31 and played 45 times for Liverpool last season and another 9 for his country. He has plenty left in the tank. He bombs forward for Liverpool and has world class players to cover him but I suppose it is a different story for Scotland where you are relying on the likes of Hanley and Souttar to be filling in the gaps you leave.

It is starting to look like another case of Robertson and Tierney all over again. Clarke seems intent on trying to fit all of his best players in the same side and to fuck with the formation and tactical game plan. We started with four central midfielders last night and it became five for a while once Gilmour came on, which is ridiculous. He needs to have the balls to just leave a couple of his big name players on the bench and stop putting square pegs in round holes. John McGinn is no more a wide player than Keiran Tierney is a centre half. I'd far rather we played our best wingers regardless of who they play for. It must be a better option to play a winger that plays there week in, week out for St Mirren or Motherwell than persist with a stupid formation which gives us little width or crosses into the box. McTominay, Ferguson and Gilmour for me would be the certain starters in our best side if everyone is fit. No need to be shoehorning McGinn and Christie in there too. We are masters of turning what looks like a good group of players on paper into less than the sum of their parts. We made Greece look like Brazil last night, I would have hated to have paid for a ticket to watch that. If we persist with that kind of approach, there is no way were are beating either Denmark at home or Greece away and unlikely to get past a similar standard of opposition in the plays off either. Clarke has to be braver.

Very early to judge any player. If you look back this forum to some of the early comments posted about guys like Nilsen, Duk, Besuijen and Rubezic I'm sure it would make interesting reading.

The title is maybe a bit far fetched at this stage but they are 11 points clear of the hunnery which makes things interesting. The nack of scoring last minute goals is certainly more of a positive than a negative and something that most good sides do consistently.

Have they really figured that out from one decent game against the mighty Dundee?

I think we have to be a bit more positive in the approach in this match and go for the win if we want to qualify. The Greeks are decent so the away fixture will be very tough. Lob Dykes and Adams up front and push for the win.

Decent side. If half of those had been in our first team of late maybe we would be off the bottom of the league.