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Canning watched the last game, Pretty sure he'd apply. I'd guess Houston is one, I'm sure he said after he left Falkirk that he'd retired as as a manager. The other one....Young maybe because he is in a job currently.

Unfortunately for you, none of these things make him any good at management

Finding out the wage might cut the six down. My thoughts are, it would suit someone Glasgow or south, with media work to supplement the wage. By that reckoning I would say Huston fits the bill. John Hughes travelled through as a player and does stuff with the SFA in Glasgow. My gut feeling is it'll be one of these two. Huston was number two at a dreadful Morton team but is the under 21 assistant which might be appealing to Camerons stipulation about developing youth. Canning has put the time in and done his homework but I think he needs to build a reputation first, like Darren Young, take on a poor or mediocre team and make them better, I don't think he showed that at Hamilton. Darren has done well building part time teams, my concern is, he would follow the trend of Iain Murray, Paul Hartley, Barry Smith that do well to a stage but don't really thrive at full time level like they did at part time. McIntyre looks like a mediocre appointment, seems to keep clubs at a level, apart from Dundee obviously without ever being exciting. Wouldn't have the money Ross County used to bail out managers with at Christmas to keep them up. Has experience at this level and will have contacts. Sandy Stewart looks to be well liked at the club and I hope he will be treated better than Andy Millen was.He Was away from Scottish football for a while and hasn't been a number one for over a decade but is obviously a very capable coach. Backed up by an experienced Kenny Brannigan and a popular player in Mark Kerr I think it would be the appointment most fans could get behind and hope that it worked. Unless there is an absolute showbiz wildcard that would come in and take the pressure off them, let them do the training while they are on TV and radio, inflating the worth of our players and talking up the club.

I was talking to someone who lives near Burley in Ipswich recently, I don't think he will be getting the job.

Slightly worrying news this week, Prague and Beijing cancelled a joint partnership agreement meaning China is withdrawing investment in the city, Slavia are currently part owned by the CITIC group, a Chinese state owned company. The deal was always a bit sketchy and there were protests when the new owners re-named the Eden stadium The Sinobo arena last year. The finance helped pay for a stadium museum, team bus and a Slavia liveried jet and a team to reach the group stages of the Champions league but the Czech president has called in to question the continuation of the funding after the ending of the sister city deal. The deal ended after the Prague council objected to the "one China" principle. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-czech-china/prague-city-council-moves-to-axe-partnership-with-beijing-idUSKBN1WM1KS https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/13/slavia-prague-fans-czech-club-china-investement-champions-league-kyiv Slavia's Eden stadium holds under 20,000 fans, the domestic TV deal is much the same as the BT sport deal in Scotland with the majority of Czechs choosing to follow English football, the ability for Slavia to perform at this level without the current level of investment is pretty slim.

Slavia opened up a six point gap over Plzen at the weekend after a 2-0 win away to Jablonec, another clean sheet for Slavia means that they have conceded just two goals in the 12 league games to date. On the European front, they earned a credible draw against Inter in the Champions League but were unfortunate to lose 2-0 to Dortmund last week. They play Barcelona in the next round of fixtures. Plzen suffered a second defeat of the season to Mlada Boleslav who moved above Jablonec in the table. Sparta won 4-0 at the weekend but currently sit in 7th place, They have a horrendous defensive record and have one of the worst footballers I have ever seen, Costa Nhamoinesu think of a combination of Effe Ambrose and Pepe.

I thought the level of performance was fairly high on Saturday, finishing aside, Inverness had 3 shots on target and two went in, we had 7. That result could and probably would have happened had any previous manager been in the dug-out. The thing about the game, We were playing reasonably well but only had forwards on the bench, McCall would have taken off Moffat and brought on Doolan, Stewart took off Geggan and went 424/442 with Forrest and McCowan out wide to try and change the shape slightly. Didn't work but it was a positive adjustment I don't think McCall would have made. I'm not against Stewart getting the job full time, my only concern is the amount of time he has been a coach and not a manager and I can't think of too many instances where that has worked. If Stewart applies for it and Coyle applies for it, I would immediately bin Coyles CV, what kind of snake would do that to his number two for all these years.

I wore an Ayr hooded top to a pub the first weekend after I moved to the Czech Republic, mainly so that people would see me and immediately think, there is no way this fud speaks Czech It worked but the drawback was, I had my afternoon ruined by a stag weekend who decided to involve me in all of their conversations, Call me Ayrton Senna (Ayr toon centre) and then try and stiff me with their bill. I never wore anything that identified me as Scottish at weekends after that and quickly found a bar that showed streamed sports that stag parties wouldn't find.

Thought Stewart interviewed well after the game today. Didn't do to much wrong, the shape was ok, any subs would have disrupted the style of play. 4-2-4 for the last 20 min in a game we were down 2-0 at this stage of the season was a decent gamble. 7/10 a decent afternoon

The old firm passed on Shankland 10 weeks ago for free when he had a reputation of being a free-scoring championship player. They didn't see enough in him to have a punt on him for nothing so I don't know why they would pay money for him now when he is doing the exact same thing at the exact same level.

Reid had relegated us twice, his time was up, I think both parties agreed at the time. As for Roberts, on paper, an appalling appointment and in reality, an appalling appointment and it took three years to get rid of him (and about 1000 fans)

The last three games seem to have been a different level from any of the performances of the last few years, we just haven't won games, we have outplayed teams and done it with flair. This season we have a better balance, with McDaid you had no-one to play wide on the other side, you had 4 central midfielders which resulted in one being pushed out wide or Forest playing as a wide player. The players we have, with the exception of Geggan are all playing where they should.

After the first quarter and teams get wise to what we are doing, things will need to be mixed up slightly when the front three aren't having much success. Moore and Doolan are completely different to Moffat, McCown and Forrest, it will allow us to change our style of play with two proven goalscorers. Doolan is in a worse situation than Harkins was, not really anywhere to fit in to the team, doesn't fit the formation and just looks a bit crap. Injuries, suspensions and players looking jaded in a couple of months time and we will need them.

You are probably right, Ricky Sbragia springs to mind. Great coach but was very quiet in interviews and never made it very long as his own man.

You did, you went on for days about it as well, going on about studies you had read online about it. There are a few ways of viewing archived websites if you are so inclined. There is no desperation either, The facts are, Jack Ross spent more than any team in the league and avoided finishing in the bottom two by goal difference despite having taken over after nine games. According to transfermarkt.com He signed 11 (eleven) players in his first season but you are right, he didn't sign many players in his second season, here is the list of players he signed https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/st-mirren-fc/transfers/verein/465/plus/0?saison_id=2017&pos=&detailpos=&w_s= But I am sure you will dispute all of it

I take it he was with him at Airdrie but he's been with Owen Coyle since. McCall seems to be fairly loyal to former players and staff who did him a job before. I was slightly surprised that he took Scally over Sandy Stewart if he was only taking one.

I would doubt it based on the passive aggressive comments Cameron has been coming out with. Thought Stewart was a but shy and uncomfortable during that and it is maybe why he has been happy to be a coach/ assistant all these years. The guy clearly knows how to coach. He has a month to make the job his own and if we win most weeks..........I don't care how he interviews.

Says the person who said on the honestpage we shouldn't sign Alan Lithgow because he'd molest kids.

“They didn’t darkly stay up “- finished joint second bottom but survived on goal difference “They were far better “- they were less shit than Ayr and Raith. Dumbarton had a better survival that year and Stevie Aitken isn’t a managerial genius you are making Jack Ross out to be

McCall didn't have a comparatively huge budget and the ability to sell his best player and get him back on loan. They won three of the last ten games, including Ayr and Raith who were at that point in freefall. He took over after the first round of fixtures and survived thanks to goal difference. "far better" is using poetic license

https://spfl.co.uk/league/championship/archive/264

There is a miracle and there is spending more than Raith and Ayrs budget combined in a panic at Christmas and barely staying up. Raith played Ryan Stevenson in goals at one point remember

There are signs of the stages of grief, Shock, upset, resentment and then acceptance. I think a lot of people are at the resentment phase just now. McCall was a very good manager for Ayr, maybe even close rivalling Macleod (third time) in terms of achievement. He is the first manager in my lifetime who has left for another job, baring in mind most have never worked in senior football again since leaving Ayr. I think that in 3-5 years time, he will be remembered fondly.

Alex Ferguson never took training, We had Scally and Stewart along with Kerr and up till recently Higgins doing coaching.

Jack Ross spend the money they got for players, including 300k for Lewis Morgan on a whole new team in January and still only scraped survival and won the championship which was wide open all year and a newly promoted Livingston went up through the play-offs. A bit of perspective on the managerial ability of Jack Ross.