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0-1!
Tremendous goal.
Chipped outside of the foot finish from Shankland from 18 yards.
COME ON!

Should have gave it to goody then....

Should have gave it to goody then....

A radio pundit and a taxi driver as our management team.
Only St Mirren could pull this one off.

The accounts show the board is essentially balancing the books, breaking even each year. The money available for wages is more or less competitive, certainly to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
We did that for a long time, more or less sat in our place in the Scottish League. Danny and Gus did not fail as managers. You point out to the clubs ahead of us but for a long time we have been sitting well above teams of a comparable size as well: Falkirk, Dunfermline, Ayr United, Partick Thistle. Morton used to be our big rivals and have spent much of the past decade bumbling about in the third tier, while we were appearing in cup finals and sitting in top division. You cant say things have been terrible for us or our managers have been complete failures.
Tommy Craig was a terrible appointment, but it this point it also started becoming obvious our own squad just are not fit enough, and there may be bigger issues at work behind the scenes. I think there couple be more backroom coaching support, we fired our sports scientist a few years ago which doesn't seem to have done much good. I also get the sense there is a culture where players are allowed to undermine the manager. I don't have any inside info on this at all, but it seems odd for Gus, Lennon, Craig and Murray to all run in to similar problems with having some disruptive players in the squad, but maybe thats just modern football....
Overall however, I wouldn't say our managers have been any better or worse than any other club with the possible exception of St Johnstone who seem to have a production line of top quality gaffers.
There are some wider issues now that are holding us back as a club, not all directly falling at the managers door. I think if we are to improve we need to;
1. Have a dedicated fitness coach / sports scientist and sanction any players that fall below standards
2. Have a much improved scouting system or manager with better contacts. Marwood, Ball, Arquin etc being signed for the top league is just shocking.
3. Learn how to be a bit more clever as a selling club and ensure in future guys like McLean and McGinn can be sold to generate proper funds.
4. Improve the commercial department dramatically and again allow a percentage of this to be reinvested in the squad.

Tenner on Billy Davies..

Actually that's the official betting from Macbookie unfortunately
Meiksy

Tenner on Billy Davies..

Total respect for Ian Murray few managers would resign from a club. Did not work this time hope it does in the future.

Gie's a break LPM - you've made your point for the past 5 months or so.
Maybe there's a chance you'll actually encourage the next victim/manager.

Has to be McCall, if he'll take the job.

What's Goodwin done, apart from being our best player this season...

He'll have his £95k EBT tucked away for a rainy day.

His overall contribution is below par? What exactly are you expecting from a midfielder in his first full season in senior football?It's not December yet and he already has 5 goals. How many goals would be above par for a teenage midfielder at this stage of a season?
The readiness of some of our fans to stick the boot in to our younger players will never cease to amaze me.

I'd rather we didn't go with a holding midfielder at all than Carswell. Why not put Malland and Agney in the middle in more advanced roles?

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

Taking Wycombe a fourth tier team to a league cup semi final, only to be put out by Chelsea after drawing 1-1 in the first leg. Then taking Norwich to the premier league after back to back promotions and successfully keeping them in the premier league before moving on to villa, who he kept in the epl for 3 seasons with a sh.it budget... not bad for being overrated..

It could be 1p admission and I still wouldn't give the cheating scum my business.

I don't care about it either , but I wouldn't bother opening the curtains if the Broncos and Patriots were playing in my garden.

Shankland should be starting ahead of thomo, of that I have no doubt. The big mans not got the legs now. Lost count the day how many times he was offside, always looking to back in and hoping to win fouls, when he does manage to get his head on it Gallagher is nowhere near him, the long ball simply doesn't work.

Wouldn't say he was having a "helluva game" but at the time in the game the sub should have been thomo for shankland.. Halloween I know but are you dressed up as elvis??