MelvinBragg

I get one right from time to time...

My money is on Billy Stark...

No thanks. Last thing we need is a rookie manager...

Don't even say that in jest...

The reaction to the potential appointment of Stark is very reminiscent of the reaction when we appointed McCall. In no way am I saying that he'd be my choice but we as fans have been known to be wrong before...

Just realised that this thread was missing something so decided to address that failing. What's Luc Nijholt doing these days..?

I genuinely don't mind if the new manager has managed us or managed in the SPL before. If he's the right man for the job, he's the right man for the job. Looking for several things -Ability to work with a tiny budget. -Track record of developing young players. -Eye for a player playing in the lower leagues in Scotland that can step up. -Ability to tighten up a defence I know, not asking for much...

Well, most of them fit the leftfield criteria...

Good job we're no longer in the McCall era then... Seriously, they do seem to have our number at Fir Park. Our performance against St Johnstone was slightly improved but we'll need to lift it again in order to get anything from this game. I expect I similar lineup to the one we picked against St Johnstone as Stuart McCall did suggest that planning the team lineups for games was a collaborative task so would imagine Kenny Black will be thinking along similar lines...

We're a selling club?!?!?

Have looked on McBookie and still can't see it. Even looked under manager specials...

Can't find any online bookies offering odds? Anyone got a link...?

I tend to agree with all of your assessments there. McLean isn't as out of the loop as some would believe and he would make us difficult to beat and get us fit. Those two things would be a start...

Could live with Burley, my own choice would be Tommy McLean...

Someone til the end of the season with the remit of keeping us up? I've made it clear who my choice would be...

Better decision than signing Higdon, Nicky Law or Ojaama? Really? Sad that even after his resignation, you can't give him any credit for three incredible seasons...

Comparison I'd make is putting down a dog. You knew it had to happen but you feel sad that it's come to this. Any manager who loses five games on the spin is lucky to keep his job. Like others, I have nothing but respect for the job he's done. But I feel it is the right time for a change...

Any new manager still has the same problems with the squad we have...

Here's the obligatory Josh Law appearance...

Awful defending...

Let's be honest, these days you know that we have to score at least two to win any game...

Ainsworth hits the ball. Hard...

Really? Not keen on that at all. A midfield of Reid and Lasley with Angol and Law wide? Against Aberdeen's five man midfield...

Who is the player that McCall reckons is shining? Who do we have that can play in pretty much every position because every position seems to have been lacking this season...?

I tend to disagree. The second half of 2012/13, we essentially played 4231 with the front six looking like Law Lasley Humphrey Ojaama McFadden Higdon Anyone who says that Ojaama was playing up front alongside Higdon was not watching those games. Any highlight reel from that period, when you see Ojaama doing his best work, he's picking up the ball about 30-40 yards from goal (remember when McCall signed him, he said he saw him as a provider rather than a goalscorer) . Higdon (and I believe) Sutton can play up front on their own. But you need movement off and around them which we had in that period. Also useful if you have someone with a bit of passing range as one of the defensive two. Mind you, for 45 minutes against Hibs that season we destroyed them without such a player, with a front six of Carswell Hateley McFadden Ojaama Higginbotham Higdon It worked for us because it lessened the amount of tracking back our creative players had to do. Which I think is why so many see it as a system that could get the est out of Vigurs. Problem is you need high tempo, high energy players in that three behind your target man. And for all his obvious qualities that clearly isn't Vigurs' strength. I'd be tempted to play him as one of the defensive two, similar to the role that Charlie Adam plays for Stoke (or even Gerrard for Liverpool), deep lying plamaker. He certainly has the range of passing for it. Playing him alongside someone with a bit of energy, could work.. Carswell Vigurs Ainsworth Ojaama _______ Sutton/Erwin It would requre a lot of work on Vigurs' positional discipline but would hopefully lessen the amount of running he would have to do. Our problem is (and it's no secret) wehave no players with the movement or pace to trouble defences right now, or are not getting the ball to them in the right positions. Maybe playing our bes passer of a football in an area where he'd see more of the ball would change that. And might improve our ball retention. Helping our defence. 4231 did and could work us. Just needs some creative thinking and hard work on the training ground...