RichRJohnstone

Oh no! Who was the manufacturer? Cheers.

A little bit off topic, but did anyone buy a kilt when we had our tartan designed in February 2017? I'd quite like to find out who the manufacturer was to see if there's any way I could get a kilt now, but all the posts seem to have scrubbed from the website.

I remember an away game of ours that Willie Young was the referee for - might it have been Grenta away? - where I'd been in the high street pie shop before kick off and they told me the referee had been in earlier. Perhaps not the most athletic pre-match sustenance, but pretty much what you'd expect of Young at that stage if his career. When the teams came out, I shouted 'Did you enjoy your pie, Willie?', and, fair enough, he turned round and gave me a big thumbs up.

Thanks to the kids school holidays extending my visit home, this will be my first game if the season. I'd love to be category 1 but probably category 3. See you there!

The comms make my head hurt. If you go half the way home you do not, by definition, end up at home. Never mind that we needed fans to ask if we are selling half season tickets...

Maybe I'm over-egging it, and the Robinson comparison is a reasonable one, but don't think we have a lot of settling in time to spare either. No contact yet, apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67683734

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.

No connection to Neil other than him being my favourite player the first season I watched us - the 99/00 title year - and keeping an eye on his career since. I appreciate it is wanting two plus two to equal five every time we have a vacancy, and that he is doing well at Brentford, but he'll want to go out on his own eventually surely, and there might be some heartstrings we can tug at. The fact that Brentford does have elements of a model we could learn from makes it a good fit, and not just an emotional one.

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.

Yeah, I don't think your in the minority at all. This season is proving harder than last and I do think the squad construction left us very undercooked for this level, but Beuker's job was ultimately much bigger than one season. I worry whether the structure he's put in place are embedded enough, and if whoever makes the football decisions now will be able to resist pulling it up by the roots to check that it is growing. With Beuker we had a plan, with questions about the execution. I think we all want to know if we still have a plan.

Ah, ok. Well now I'm scared!

It's certainly a big test of the underlying thinking of the model, and the confidence the decision makers have to stick with it when there is both a natural break if Beuker goes and the team is struggling on the park. For me, the rationale remains if not sound, then the best chance we have of full-time sustainability. Develop young players that we can sell, with a long tail of solidarity payments, that can provide funds to supplement the (hopefully growing) support. It always had elements of a gamble, and this season feels like a crunch, but the idea is the right one - albeit I would definitely have supplemented the squad for this season. If the committee/ chief exec (usual caveats apply) think the same, then we should focus on making an appointment to keep it going. I imagine we found Beuker, rather than the other way round, and should look for an appointment to continue the work, rather than worry about the immediate problems of this season. I'd start at the Brighton and Hove Albion football department and see how far down the food chain we'd have to go to get a yes.

Aye. First time watching us live this season, but 20 minutes before the Airdrie goal I paused the game to.explain to my 6-year-old how we would concede a foal.with the high line, and lo and behold! If Tizzard isn't a broken man he's stronger than me.