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McCall snaking Clyde for us would be the biggest patter outcome. Piss boiling all over the place.

If we want to fling something left field in, with a proven record in a competitive league, Stephen Bradley from Shamrock Rovers. Just won his fourth league title in a row and the League of Ireland has finished for winter. Would say much of the League of Ireland is on a par with the Scottish Championship and it’s a league where most teams can beat each other on their day. 300 games in management and isn’t even 40 years old yet. Whether he’d see it as an attractive proposition, I don’t know. However, if we could afford guys who’d been at AZ and Anderlecht, I doubt money would be an issue. He’d be the guy I’d actually ask the question to first, but I just don’t think we will.

Have to think Haughey might have access to an island. Could happen.

Given he spent years managing Celtic B and equivalents, you’d have to think Tommy McIntyre would be the logical choice to take the team next Saturday?

Money.

Coyle must be pissing himself just now. Would likely tell Bowyer to give us a wide berth and who could blame him?

A McClaren brolly moment. It’s a bold choice to wear jeans in a dugout. It’s a bolder choice to do it on a rainy day and couple the humiliation of being emptied 4-1 with looking like you’ve pished yourself.

No idea. Whatever the worst option is, we’ll do it. The people running our club make The Conservative Party look functional.

Tam Courts did a good job at United and also has experience at the coal face at a lower level. Youth development credentials as well. Ticks a number of boxes. Scott Brown. A “name” but also did a decent job at a decent level in England last season before a poor start this season saw him binned. Last season certainly enough to have him under consideration. Neil Lennon. Unlikely to work under Dempster, but she should be heading out the door anyway. Too much of a loose cannon for me. Not utterly against the idea, but the two above would be more progressive appointments. Gary Bowyer. Won the league last season. Not in a job right now. Wealth of experience in England and now has experience of this nuthouse of a league under his belt. Rhys McCabe. Extremely young for a manager, but an impressive job at Airdrie and I’ve been impressed by their style of play. Too early for me, though and too much of a risk when you really need results to stay in the league. Owen Coyle. The man who should still be in charge. Dispense with Dempster, apologise to him and offer him whatever he wants. The only figurehead who has actually “got” the club since this Frankenstein nonsense got underway. If it’s Malky, we’re as well just packing up. Trying to build a support in the most diverse area in Scotland and appointing a toxic racist would be the worst possible move. The fact that he’s an absolutely shite manager should be a factor as well. I have absolutely no faith that we won’t do this.

Can’t see it. Two and a half years left on his contract and would be due a healthy pay up. Wouldn’t expect many people to go of their own accord in that circumstance, particularly after moving their family over for the gig.

Some amount of money pissed against a wall. Guy is on a three year deal. Beuker compo money probably going straight into Veldman’s pocket. Genuinely the worst run club in the country. An absolute fucking shambles.

Dempster sacked McKinnon and hired Ellis. Dempster was the architect of the “project” which is now over. Dempster allowed conditions to develop that led to Owen Coyle leaving and Robin Veldman coming in. Could write several paragraphs on Lesser Hampden and lack of communication. Her position is untenable. The committee have proven to be toothless and disinterested in the concerns of fans. They want to be having a look at what they’re contributing, or indeed not contributing. A complete shitshow. Veldman had to go, that’s pretty clear. He’s a symptom of a much bigger problem, though. We’ve blown a massive opportunity to grow something here and it’s so fucking depressing.

A few things have to happen: 1. Veldman has to go. 2. Dempster has to go. 3. Don’t appoint a racist c**t.

Is there a bout of leprosy or typhoid ripping through the Inverness squad? Why are they 5/2?

It’d be the most inconvenient and cynical time to hold it, so I’m going with “yes.”

Is there any talk of what’s happening with Beuker’s role? No talk of looking for a replacement in the “cheerio” blurb. It’s just another example of fans being left in the dark. Even just saying we’re going to take time to look at how we move forward would at least be some sort of acknowledgement towards a plan for the future. Instead we get “he’s offski” and nothing beyond that. Why are we so bad at the most simple things? Nobody is asking for a detailed brochure here.

I’ve scrapped any expectations in favour of delusional hope. 1-3.

Aye, I’d just assumed he had gone when we turned pro. Real mixed bag in his time as manager. Signed David Anderson and brought on a lot of the generation through who went on to bigger and better things. In my view, we didn’t actually maximise what we had at that time. Squads that weren’t as strong went on to achieve more. Can’t argue with that number of years of service to the club, though. Wish him well for whatever is next.

A game I’d go to, but would need to give up four hours of my day to navigate shit public transport and watch the game. Could even offer all the free tickets they want for this one and it wouldn’t matter. It’s not cost that’s stopping people from going.

Four or five years into “professionalism” and we’ve not yet managed to get beyond a tactic of waiting until things are on fire before reacting.

My deep, deep fear is that it’ll be the racist.

Not saying Campbell hasn’t run his course. In retrospect, it might have been best to bow out after *that* season. The very definition of taken the club as far as it can go. I do, though, think McIntyre is rubbish and will be surprised if he gets a better tune out of that squad. Surely there has to have been better out there?

As a direct competitor, I’m not disappointed with this. Looks a huge downgrade.

Aye, it’s a bit like those folk tour TV studios and drop several newspaper columns per year, claiming to have been silenced. Other clubs can do what they want, but their involvement with Mackay leaves a stain behind. Worth noting, by the way, that Dave Whelan, who gave him his route back in also has form for racism. A real meeting of minds. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/31/dave-whelan-banned-six-weeks-guardian-interview

I’d be immediately banned for life, as I absolutely should be. I’d possibly take a couple of deserved hits on the way out for my trouble as well. By the way, we banned someone for life eighteen years ago for a racist remark to an Albion Rovers player. This sort of shite wasn’t acceptable way back then either. In my view, the age thing has always been an absolute cop out. Glasgow has been a multicultural and diverse city for generations now. There’s literally no excuse. I knew what was wrong to say thirty years ago when I was a kid at school, so if folk are still talking about understanding racists in 2023, what exactly are we meant to be understanding? Sometimes arseholes are just arseholes.