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7 minutes ago, Anonymous Spider said:
we don't know
3 minutes ago, an86 said:This is genuinely staggering, even by our low standards.
I'm choosing to believe it's O'Ware and Kelty aren't too keen on publicising the fact that they've given him the day off for it, but there's probably a higher chance that they just don't care enough to share any information with us as usual.
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I can't see anything other than a comfortable home victory. Our record against Morton is dreadful, and unless Nuijten/O'Ware/whoever is actually taking the team happens to be the world's greatest motivational speaker then our powderpuff defence will be easy pickings for them. Genuinely don't remember the last time I was looking forward to a game of football less than this.
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On 10/12/2023 at 08:16, Savage Henry said:
Seemingly he has offered to defer most of his salary. I would think the commissioner’s office will want a word, because there has to be competitive balance repercussions for throwing $70m a year at one player.
He's getting paid $2m per year, with a total of $680m deferred until the contract ends. That's absolutely ridiculous and shouldn't be allowed.
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1 hour ago, TxRover said:
That’s where I think you’re wrong. Hampden isn’t the solution, it’s part of the problem. The club faces a decision, Lesser Hampden is either a ridiculous white elephant, in which case all the monies spent there are effectively lost, or their home, in which case QP is a League One/Two club.
Either way, you face a lack a the stability any competent and interesting manager would look for in a speculative job…and don’t under-estimate that, QPFC is a speculative job, nothing is assured.
Lesser Hampden, with a demolished/reworked Royal Box, could conceivably work as a Championship stadia, but as is it simply isn’t suitable to purpose. If you are a manager, are you willing to move to a team with no home? The clusterf**k that is using Hampden for home matches simply can’t continue.
The SFA already has commented on the increasing fixture load and need for facilities. Could it be QPFC will resume wandering next year because the SFA decline to allow use of Hampden and after selling Lesser to the SFA? I think it’s a genuine possibility, as the clubs leadership doesn’t seem to have a clue.
I'm not disagreeing with any of this, I just truly do not believe it's going to factor into anyone making a decision on whether to apply for or accept the job if they believe they can work with the squad and decision-makers at the club, and are promised resources.
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14 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Pretty sure IM is gonna have options in the Premiership soon enough...either with Raith or where ever.
Interestingly, I suspect with LH sitting there unused a lot of possible managers will look at that and wonder why they might want to work for a club that thought that was a good design. Let's face it, that's not a Championship "stadia", and says something about the vision of the club leaders.
I don't think any potential manager is going to even remotely care about Lesser Hampden when we're not actually playing there (if the offer is right), to be honest.
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24 minutes ago, RichRJohnstone said:
Scott Brown isn't much better than a rookie manager, given his one stint was short and unsuccessful. Had my doubts about Bowyer last season, and think Dundee made the league harder than it should have been, but think he would help us out of trouble.
Brown strikes me as the Owen Coyle man manager type, he'd probably get the players on board. With an assistant who's a bit more tactically astute I think he could do well.
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2 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Losing the Director of Football, the Head Coach and the Director of The Academy all in the same week (ish) is remarkable. If it’s a cunning plan by the club and a top team are waiting in the wings to inspire our playing staff to greater things, awesome! If all three of these posts have been vacated by the individuals, because they’ve seen the inside, we’re down a very deep well.
I fully agree with the rest of your post, but I also think despite the timing if it all there's a third more likely option than either of these. Beuker got offered a job he couldn't turn down, Spiers is 60 years old and simply decided to step down, and Veldman was shown the door because he hadn't won a league game in almost 4 months. I don't think there's necessarily some master plan to fix all of the club's issues nor do I suspect anything malicious is going on.
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9 hours ago, RossBFaeDundee said:
Mulgrew
I estimate there's about a 0% chance this happens. 2 of our last 3 managers have been rookies given their first job, and both were punted after about 6 months. Can't see us going down that route again.
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Scott Burns in The Daily Record is linking us with Scott Brown and Gary Bowyer. Would much rather either of them than Mackay.
Edited to add that he mentions Charlie Mulgrew too, but I can't see us making the mistake of giving someone their first job again after neither Ellis nor Veldman worked out.
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1 minute ago, jagfox said:
Do you think they'll go for a Scottish manager or at least with experience here, rather than another team from The Netherlands to continue the project, whatever that is?
There's no Dutch connection anymore now that Beuker has left for Ajax, I'll be amazed if it isn't a name we all already know.
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10 minutes ago, Dti said:
Kettlewell may be available soon
As much as I absolutely love Ketts, I don't think he's the man to get a tune out of this group of players.
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22 minutes ago, RichRJohnstone said:
I refer you to my previous post regarding Neil MacFarlane but Tony Mowbray would be fun. That's the kind of appointment that, if the club was where it was 6 months ago, would have seemed very unlikely but not impossible. Now feels like we're shopping in a smaller market.
Surely MacFarlane will be on a fortune at Brentford?
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As much as I wanted to vote for Yogi as is traditional, I was far too scared to actually manifest that into happening.
Tam Courts is the man for the job IMO.
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13 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said:
Most the salary is deferred.
Has a 10 year contracy ever worked out value for money for any team. Some like Cano and Pujols were absolute wastes of money
Bobby Bonilla springs to mind. The Orioles are still paying him half a million per year until 2028 even though he retired over 20 years ago, and left Baltimore in 1996!
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I love Shohei but that is wild. They're going to be paying a 39 year old DH $70m.
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I've mentioned his name previously on this thread, but I still think Tam Courts would be a decent appointment assuming he's given a bit of backing in January. The issues aren't purely due to the manager, the squad is simply not good enough either.
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Raith Rovers 1-1 Partick Thistle
Airdrie 1-0 Dunfermline
Arbroath 2-2 Morton
Dundee Utd 4-0 Ayr Utd
Queen's Park 3-1 Inverness
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Rumours beginning to circulate that Baltimore native David Rubenstein, worth twice what the current ownership is, has begun discussions to buy the team and it could be complete in the first half of 2024. This would be a bigger win for the organisation than any single trade or free agent signing. An owner willing to spend money, along with all of this young talent, is a recipe for serious success.
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56 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said:
All Scottish fans live in hope.
By the time Saturday comes it'll be 113 days since we last won a league game (the only victory in any competition in that time was against Bala Town). That's enough to knock the hope out of anybody.
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Yet again, I feel the need to point out that Malky Mackay is simply not a good manager even beyond his controversial behaviour and opinions. His record at Ross County, where he was well backed, was very poor. I fear that we're destined to be linked with him forever due to the family connection. No thank you.
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4 hours ago, Diamond1924 said:
Sounds like excuses to me
Not an excuse, we know our fan base is small. Just highlighting that yours is as well.
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2 minutes ago, Diamond1924 said:
Gretna, of course, famous for also having 16 fans and buying “success”.
An Airdrie fan crowd wanking is some laugh. Your average attendance is 200 more than ours, and that's with us being shite while you have your best season in decades, having played one game where the capacity was limited to 900 odd, and being yet to play Dundee United at home.
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1 minute ago, Diamond1924 said:
Great to see the Gretna 2.0 plan failing miserably.
Gretna, of course, famous for members of their backroom staff being so highly regarded that they moved on to roles at the biggest clubs in the world.
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Ton v QP - clash of the titans
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Posted · Edited by Zanetti
Please watch the highlights from our game on Saturday against the team you beat last night. There is unfortunately lots of evidence that you don't need to actually play all that well to beat us comfortably. Our squad is comprised primarily of players who although talented, are not ready for this level of football (at the very least without a few more experienced heads around them for support). There's a reason it'll be 4 months on Saturday since we won a league game.