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Didn't take long to reach the stage where some posters would rather Hammell fails so they can say "I was right" than see him succeed and prove them wrong

That's the spirit!

Can he play at left back?

Transfer situation isn't ideal, but the window is open for another 3 weeks. And there is always the option of free agents which allowed us to bring in Skippy, Faddy and Watt in recent times.

I'm not sure who would be an exciting appointment for most fans.

Maybe we're trying to sign Healy as a striker.

100% having a laugh. It was just the talk of Simo and his trophies in Finland that reminded of Maurice Ross talking about his winning trophies in Norway and the Faroes, but still needing success in Scotland to be taken seriously by the footballing community.

He meets the Simo criteria. Won leagues and cups as a manager overseas, currently under contract and would be a step up for him. Just sayin'

And from Cowdenbeath...

I heard the devil turned us down because the environment was too toxic for him.

What's the work permit situation for EU nationals these days?

If we're looking for ex 'Well players that have won trophies as manager, Maurice Ross has 2 league titles and a super cup to his name.

It shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to maintain our Premiership status AND not do shitty things.

After you've finished reading all the Hammell Out jokes in the match thread, time to take your pick..

His performance was better than this feeble trolling attempt.

As someone who worked in Ipswich for a few years and went to watch them regularly, I have followed their plight over the years. It's pretty safe to say their demise was well in place long before Lambert was involved - started around the Roy Keane days and went downhill from there. Basically, when Marcus Evans was the owner. I have no idea how good Lambert would be now, but I wouldn't judge him on his record at Portman Road.

It's no coincidence we had struggles with full backs on both sides of the park last season when we had zero cover in the 3-man midfield and the opposition had free rein on the wings.

I don't know about poisoned chalice, but I'd rather have Hammy in his current role for the next 10 years helping our managers blood youngsters into the team than have him be the gaffer fir a successful 2 years then lose him to an Aberdeen or Hibs managerial vacancy. That's just mebeing selfish, though, and I'm sure he has ideas about his own career path.

Also, a key stat from Watt is that he's scored one goal since he left us. That's quite an important number for a striker (as Curtis Main will confirm).

Maybe we want to loan out Matty Connolly to get some game time.

The downside to giving the job to Hammell is that if he does well, he'll be poached in a couple of years and we lose a good man from our club. (And if he doesn't do well we'd need to sack mutually-consent him). So for purely selfish reasons, I'd rather he stayed in his current role.

Agree with this. I think that if we ever start passing the ball through midfield we have a few players that would thrive on that.

As I've said many times in the past, the entire point of an Academy is develop a quality of player we could never afford to buy - with a secondary important benefit of generating revenue when we sell players on. One of the bigger challenges we (and lots of clubs our size) face these days is getting any games from the young talent as bigger clubs come in and poach them before they sign their senior contracts.

I notice now that Stevie Hammell has as many wins as a manager as Duncan Ferguson.

I don't know where football managers fall in the new rules for employing EU Nationals post-Brexit, but I imagine that is a process we want to avoid unless there is an outstanding candidate available.