I think this is key. I feel like we might eventually look back on Lee McCulloch as a good "recruiter", he signed a few good players to the club in the summer - but his abilities as a coach and a tactician were lacking inasmuch as getting them to play effectively. Now we've got a guy who is a specialist in the latter, and I can't remember feeling so upbeat about us in a long time.
You can see such an appetite for the club again after this appointment. We're bringing supporters to matches home and away, and we've been virtually a permanent fixture in the press over the course of the last month. Billy Bowie and the rest of the board have to be commended on this move - I'm sure Steve Clarke isn't cheap, but we've had our fingers burnt from going for the cheap option too often before, and the club have at last responded to this.