Now he's in the door, I can only echo the above. This just feels like a solid, well-thought out appointment. Probably about the best we could hope for in the circumstances. As I outlined in a post yesterday, the options appeared bleak when you categorised the potential candidates so I feel the club has played an absolute blinder in finding a willing and available candidate who ticks pretty much all the boxes.
Look, we're St Mirren. We'll lose games, we'll go on bad runs, we're far from favourites to win the QF at Tynecastle, and it's not beyond us to conspire to fail to make the top 6 again. See last season. Sometimes not being a complete basket case/laughing stock/relegation stick-on is all we can aim for. But sometimes the stars align and we manage to assemble an above-average squad with some attacking flair and if we get a bit of luck with injuries and suspensions then perhaps we can do something special.
Best of all we've got a guy in with experience of the league and plenty time to start prepping for next year, too.