Jonesy

I remain to be convinced. But, as with everyone else, except Malpas, I will obviously give him the chance to prove he's the right man for the job.

What about Tommy Craig's contacts? I can remember him working at Newcastle for a while, so might still have some contacts there, or perhaps even with Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool depending on whether there spells at Newcastle overlapped. Not sure where else Craig has some influence.

Accie have previous. Remember last season around this time they had to narrow the pitch because their undersoil heating failed and one side of the pitch was frozen solid.

It doesn't really. If the ref was involved then perhaps he saw the Jennings incident as his ideal opportunity to guarentee his money, seeing as there were no really over the top, dangerous tackles he may have been expecting given Hearts' style of play, history between clubs, Motherwell's manager situation etc. etc.

That was a stonewaller if ever there was one.

Slightly different route, could be Kelsey Grammar?

They usually have a temporary set up at this time each year for a few weeks somewhere up the Street. Don't know if we have it this year, haven't been through there for months. That sort of set up is beneficial but I'd reckon to have something like that set up would be pretty negligible having to pay rent and wages to have it staffed all the time.

I heard from a couple of Rangers seasons ticket holders at work that parts of Ibrox are falling to bits and they can't afford to fix it due to the upcoming bill they are due to receive from the taxman. Some of the toilets were wrecked at a game months ago which were reported and they were told there was nothing could be done. They also heard a rumour that they might have to stop serving hot food at the kiosks as they can't afford to keep that running either. Probably utter pish, but heard it a while ago off a few people.

Aye, I don't believe it for a second, it's as irrelevant as the McGlynn rumours.

Unless McGlynn has a clause that allows him to take over an SPL team with zero compersation due then I doubt it will be him. We're not going to spend money releasing him from his contract. FWIW, I got a worried text earlier from a cousin working in Edinburgh with a few Hibs fans. They are pretty convinced that Hughes will be taking over. I hope it's not either or them.

IF the club have gone down that route then they are even more stupid than they make out to be. That was the very deal they made with Celtic and McCart when we let him go back to Celtic for nothing. Didn't exactly work first time round, they would be plain stupid to try it again. Especially after the way it seems Brown and Aberdeen have already acted in the last week.

It's long past time the club grew a pair. Fucking shitebags.

There's not a hope in hell of McGhee agreeing to come back and hold the fort 'til the end of the season, while we weigh up our options. Leitch might well agree to it but if that's the route we are going down then that role would be just as well leaving Young to get on with it if we can't get someone with decent experience behind them. Really the last thing we need now is to be looking for yet another manager in the summer, everyone is sick of this recently, imagine what it'll be like if we are in the same boat in 6 months. We need to get a permanent manager in who's going to, hopefully, be here for more than a fortnight.

Chances are we are going to need yet another new team put together in the summer and McGhee has shown he is not up to the task to rebuilding teams. And that's not just going with the shambles he put together up at Pittodrie. He couldn't get out of here quick enough when it became apparent he would have to assemble a whole new team. He knew he wasn't up to it, and their is no doubt Gannon done a better job with that than McGhee ever would have. When he first joined us people were pointing out that when McGhee first joined clubs he hit the ground running and they would have a brilliant first season or so. Then, when some of the players started to leave and he had to start putting his own team together things started to go downhill. McGhee had his chance, he couldn't wait to get the fuck out quick enough, time to leave that one well alone.

What about the 2nd season though? It was pretty turgid at times. Are we willing to forget that, and all the other problems, just because we played brilliant for 1/3 of the season.

We'll revert to Sutton and Murphy, no?

I'd say he did a pretty terrible job of things at Lincoln.

Malpas tried to claim compensation despite the fact he quit. Don't know how he got on either. I'd imagine he went down the 'constructive dismissal' route?

Don't know if he's been mentioned yet, just back from a few days away and can't be arsed reading 15 pages on the subject. The first name that came to my mind was to go for Mitchell Van Der Gaag. He done a pretty good job at Maritimo, turning them from relegation strugglers into European qualifiers. He was sacked at the start of the season, but I think that was due to their European commitments meaning they got off to a slow start in the league. But I think I remember reading that the Maritimo fans wanted Mitch to stay and were not at all happy with the club's board/president for being far to hasty in getting shot if him.

That's unreal. Thing is too, if we do tell them to fuck off then all the paranoid c***s will start all their 'h*n without the bus fare' pish.

Perhaps the thinking is getting him a few games and then have him back by January when/if Reynolds is sold.

That's where I'd be inclined to believe the rumour they were told it was for a referee exchange program rather than to cover a strike.

The Israeli head of of refereeing only found out the reasons about the strike yesterday whilst doing a live radio interview on either talkSport or 5 Live. After the interviewer had to tell him, on air, the story behind the strike he admitted he had no idea about it and was shocked. Said if he'd known all the ins and outs before hand he wouldn't have agreed to send his ref's, but it was too late now as they were already on their flight. Clearly they've had a change today. That in itself shows that the SFA have either been lying about why they need ref's or withholding info about the strike hoping no-one would ask too many questions.