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That is the only silver lining here, and it also means we're unlikely to be willing to offer his replacement anything more than 18 months until we're confident that we're out of this current rinse/repeat cycle.

You're right, and I was pissed off. The defeat was disastrous, which we both acknowledged would be the case should that happen.

No, I was pissed off, although I wish I was pished instead.

You should pause this thread as I bet the Board fails to act (again) and Kettlewell gets the St Johnstone game to throw more darts at a map.

I think we could both agree that there is a very fine line between defeatism/fatalism and realism. It doesn't have to be extreme; surely we can have something better without requiring significant investment because it can't go on as is and we don't have a magic money tree. To be clear, I wouldn't trust the Board to employ the right persons to fix the toilets in the stadium, but they're currently the only Board we have. So, and perhaps I'll be wrong on this, we do need them to employ a semi-competent and football-minded CEO who will hopefully negate their need to get overly involved in footballing decisions anymore. Then the mistakes of the recent past and present may finally become mistakes of the past, not to be repeated again and again, again.

Yes, the players were shite, and he calls that out, but he also set them up to be a farce tonight. And then he takes zero ownership for the defeat, or the poor run, in what I hope is his final interview as our manager.

Just because I don't have the perfect answers to the issues at play doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to express a view on them on a public forum. Don't be so defeatist and challenging. A magical fairy certainly isn't going to appoint a permanent CEO, so, of course, I have to accept that it may well be the current Board who selects a potential CEO, as the Board isn't going to sack itself in the morning, is it?!

No, that's Stuart Little.

I don't know...maybe George fucking Jetson, as he has his head in the clouds as much as the current Board seems to have.

A permanent CEO and a 5 to 10-year strategy that is appropriately resourced and communicated would be a start. Or, quite frankly, anything that isn't what's been happening recently.

Pin this post just in case.

It may be broken, but that farce tonight was on the manager. However, that doesn't mean that the club doesn't need a complete overhaul.

No doubt the Board will promote from within again and we'll be in the same position again next year.

The Board made the same mistake with Alexander.

No, we won't. We're now 9th and four points off the bottom, and the three teams below us have a combined seven games in hand. We are plummeting.

Then we'll continue to sleepwalk into the Championship.

The writing has been on the wall for weeks - as several of us have noted here - but those in control of the club are useless and have been for some time.

In all seriousness, whoever gets the job next must be experienced but willing to take it on a 6-month basis, with the potential of an extra year if they save us from relegation.

Tick tock.

Yep, broke. Get him to fuck.

Not sure what to make of that lineup considering it only has two midfielders and it was the midfield that got overrun at the weekend, but it seems like Kettlewell is perhaps going for broke tonight.

That's not my point and you know it. We need to focus on getting results against those around us, such as RC, St J, and Livi, instead of hoping that they don't start winning games against others. It's simple; we can only affect the former and cannot control the latter. And if we start to win again, which we need to start doing again ASAP, we may just consolidate ourselves as an 8/9th place team this season, regardless of those around us and how they perform in other games.

If we can't beat the teams below/around us - with most of them having games in hand - then we won't be 8th for long. Furthermore, if we can't pick up more than the odd draw against our direct rivals in the bottom end, we'll quickly find ourselves fighting with Livingston for the position of the shittest. Scraping draws at best against some of our direct rivals suggest that we will likely continue to lose against all of the top 5/6 on this current run of form. So, I still do not think a draw against Ross County tonight, given the context and run of results outlined, would be acceptable. Put simply, if we can't start picking up 3 points instead of gutsy draws against those listed below, we will quickly plummet beyond shitfesting our way to 10th (to note that Aberdeen will have three games in hand after tonight) and deserve relegation. We need 3 points now, and to suggest otherwise is denying the reality of the situation and merely kicking the can down the road towards the inevitable. For context and with recent results: Ross County (3-3), Aberdeen (2-4 loss), St. Jonhstone (2-2), and Livingston (2-0 loss) are below us. Kilmarnock (1-0 loss) and Dundee (3-3) are above us.

We're getting to the stage where anything less than a win will be unacceptable, as a draw tomorrow would be five draws and zero wins in 12 games or 5 points out of 36. That is relegation material.

Is anyone else getting bored with these pre-match interviews in which he continually states the obvious and, worryingly, never seems to express one bit of genuine anger about the 11 games without a win? It feels like he's going through the motions and padding them out with his usual word soup, which doesn't exactly fill me with the confidence that he's got the passionate fire in his belly needed to get him out of the mess he's created. And before someone says that the players have to shoulder some of the blame, I'll say this: yes, they do, but the buck stops with the manager, always. I think he'd be doing himself a favour if he was a bit more honest about things and showed a hint of genuine anger and passion.