"Nottingham Forest are preparing a £1m bid for MK Dons midfielder Peter Leven. (Daily Star)"

 

Yikes, looks like this ex Killie freebie we were "linked" to a couple of years back will be joining the likes of Thierry Henry, Hermann Hreidarsson, Jurgen Klinsman and Ferrie Bodde as "one that got away"...

28 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Surely today he either walks or his sacking is announced.

If not we are a total laughing stock. 

I genuinely find this bizarre. As I said in the other thread, you can't ask a guy to do you a favour for a few weeks and then fire him for failing at it. He should at the very least be offered his old job back, and is probably due a public apology from the club for having monumentally fucked up the appointment of a new manager and hung him out to dry by having him in a post he's not suitable for and has no experience in for months on end. 

4 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

I genuinely find this bizarre. As I said in the other thread, you can't ask a guy to do you a favour for a few weeks and then fire him for failing at it. He should at the very least be offered his old job back, and is probably due a public apology from the club for having monumentally fucked up the appointment of a new manager and hung him out to dry by having him in a post he's not suitable for and has no experience in for months on end. 

I find your viewpoint bizarre.

Fair enough we all have different views on what is an honourable and right thing to do.

I do hope we read news of him being relieved of his position today. Didn’t think he was up to the job and boy have I been proved right. I wanted to be wrong ffs.

2 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

I find your viewpoint bizarre.

Fair enough we all have different views on what is an honourable and right thing to do.

It's not just dishonourable, I suspect it's not even legal! He surely must have had something written up to say that he'd be entitled to get his previous role back after agreeing to the poisoned chalice of caretaker with this squad?

10 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

It's not just dishonourable, I suspect it's not even legal! He surely must have had something written up to say that he'd be entitled to get his previous role back after agreeing to the poisoned chalice of caretaker with this squad?

Bloody hope not. He's what you call a constant and he needs to be fired out of a cannon back down to the central belt. 

4 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Bloody hope not. He's what you call a constant and he needs to be fired out of a cannon back down to the central belt. 

You or I have absolutely no idea what he does when an actual manager is in place. The new manager should be making that call, and until that point should act with decency and integrity like any other employer would. By all means remove him from caretaker, of course. 

Och well. It would appear the only activity down Pittodrie way is inactivity. 

Superb leadership.

Didn’t hear leven anywhere take any responsibility for the cup loss. All blame on the players?

looking a bit more at Leven, I suppose it’s optics. Cormack has also referenced sacking x managers in such a short period of time, does he really want to fire the interim. I do believe managers will be wary of trigger happy cormack, despite the manager firings being justifiable.

you can always tweak things internally, tell leven to take more input from doc for example, but it’s 9 games. We have an 8 point lead on killie, would take a lot for them to catch us. As much as we need to win games, so do they.

pre split we have falkirk and hibs at home, st mirren and rangers away. 
Killie have hearts, livi and Dundee at home, hibs away. Impossible to predict any of this, we are gash but killie aren’t exactly on form, won 2 draw 2 lost 6 in their last 10, including pumping us.

10 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

 

pre split we have falkirk and hibs at home, st mirren and rangers away. 
Killie have hearts, livi and Dundee at home, hibs away. Impossible to predict any of this, we are gash but killie aren’t exactly on form, won 2 draw 2 lost 6 in their last 10, including pumping us.

If their form and ours continue - notwithstanding the fact that bottom six games will be totally different in terms of pressure etc - then that will get far too tight for anyone's liking.

I've weighed it all up and despite there being a possibility of us going down it's still not very likely. I'd be totally relaxed about going into the remaining games with the Doc at the helm.

Although it's starting to look very much as if Leven has survived.

Bad Cormack.

 

Edited March 10Mar 10 by Bukta Bertie

I don't think more disruption is what is needed right now, we tried the interim interim boss thing with Warnock and it was a shit show. Chasing the "new manager bounce" dragon rarely ends well. Next person to be sitting in the manager's office should be our next permanent manager.

 

It's going to be interesting to see if the Harry Hotspurs do today what we should have done after the Dunfermline humiliation.

Sack the interim. 

Imagine the scenes when St Mirren take him in place of Robinson, he goes on an unbeaten run & leapfrogs us along with Killie over the remaining games.

Marvellous…

You do wonder if Leven has made it clear that he's unhappy at the length of time he's had to be caretaker and asked to be removed from the role. He had a fairly serious health scare last time he was in the role and I wonder if he's thinking that the club are taking the piss asking him to be in it for so long again. 

I think he realised after Saturday that he can’t do anything with that bunch of gutless, couldn’t give a fuck shitebags & in the best Duncan Bannatyne stylee at their meeting this week he has told Dave “I’m out”.

Cue panic stations and knee jerk Stephen Robinson appointment…

8 hours ago, The.Moog said:

I think he realised after Saturday that he can’t do anything with that bunch of gutless, couldn’t give a fuck shitebags & in the best Duncan Bannatyne stylee at their meeting this week he has told Dave “I’m out”.

Cue panic stations and knee jerk Stephen Robinson appointment…

Hmm ... o' aa the speculative guesses so far, this one actually maks perfect sense  

If Leven & Docherty have left, be interesting to see if that was a Robinson decision, a board decision, or if they left of their own accord (Docherty was only in a temporary role anyway, so I'm thinking more about Leven).

 

I could be wrong but I didn’t see Leven helping out with the pre match drills just now. 

8 hours ago, Kowalski said:

I could be wrong but I didn’t see Leven helping out with the pre match drills just now. 

Didn't see him or the Doc.

Not sure on the other coach we took in.

If they have left, it's poor on the club not to have announced their departure.

Can only hope he’s gone, simply not good enough 

9 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Didn't see him or the Doc.

Not sure on the other coach we took in.

If they have left, it's poor on the club not to have announced their departure.

Ian Birchnall was on the bench.

Doc confirmed on Premier Sports that he was away and that his contract was always going to end as soon as a permanent manager was appointed. Understandably, he wasn’t asked and didn’t speak about Leven or anyone else.

5 hours ago, wee toon red said:

Doc confirmed on Premier Sports that he was away and that his contract was always going to end as soon as a permanent manager was appointed. Understandably, he wasn’t asked and didn’t speak about Leven or anyone else.

Confirmed in a very cursory statement from the club. Nothing official about Leven or Birchnall yet.

I mean surely Birchnall is staying no? Thought he had links to lutz or was it just that he might help the assumed Norwegian manager at the time? Our club seems to be making a cock up of everything at the moment. Can’t buy good PR.

https://www.afc.co.uk/2026/03/20/peter-leven-departs-the-dons/
 

Leven and Doc gone, Burchnall staying.