Slim

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.

Ramadani really isn’t very good is he?

Tam Courts might be worth a shout?

I think we’re about his level, he’s not that good.

At least they warn you in advance unlike this outfit:

Herb Brooks sounds a bit like John Collins, no ta.

Walk away from it then.

From being Stevenage sub to being immortalised in a David Squires cartoon, he must be enjoying his 15 minutes of fame right now: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/jan/10/david-squires-on-shocks-and-awe-in-the-fa-cup-third-round

A bit of a Kenny McLean type from the sounds of it?

That’s a proper air puncher of a signing. Makes sense to get him in for the 6 month loan initially and sort out his player-manager contract at the end of the season.

Looks like Reid scored a last minute winner on his Elgin debut. BHH.

Is Hayes lacking fitness or something? Wouldn’t have Coulson on ahead of him otherwise.