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"Why does he not do better when I shout bad things at him? It works with my dog."

I might still owe my folks some money for those bills. Here's an austria vienna game from 2023 if you want to see his tactics in effect, or scout potential signings. https://youtu.be/S8TxRyGVOXk

This is kind of where I am. It's an interesting appointment, and I'd prefer we thought outside of the box, because that's our best chance of improving or finding value where orhers haven't. In an ideal world he's good enough that he gets poached by a bigger club after a couple of successful years. It has its risks too, but most of us would have been very underwhelmed with a scottish football stalwart, and any known quantity would have been divisive based on all of the shouts in the new manager thread. My preference was someone like Ryan Lowe, who reportedly priced himself out, but even then there's just as much risk with English managers. I don't know what is so unique about scottish football that causes foreign managers to fail. Progressive managers seem to struggle too, is the standard of player just that bad? I hope this works out, but I dont expect us to immediately be world beaters. There's gains to be made in the short term just through building confidence and freshening things up, but he can't change the squad or fix injuries, or make SOD not shite, etc.

He went off inhured about 20 mins into last nights game, and was apparently stretchered off.

They meant "balance" not "bellend" * * hopefully someone else caught that in the presser or this joke won't make sense 😄

Yep, classy from Frail. Shame he got caught up in the whole SK thing. He mentioned that he didn't want to get back into coaching until we reached out, so wonder what he will do next.

Clarkson is the academy director and Foster is the lead development coach, so unless there's an issue with the academy or young players, they don't need to be replaced with a new manager. I know they assist with first team stuff, but i cant believe they're much to blame for results on a Saturday. They'll have their own targets that they have to meet. The same goes for Daws, it depends on what his actual job is and where his influence starts compared to the manager. As with the others, it would come down to whether we can get someone that can do better. For Saturday, I wouldn't be surprised if the squad is pretty much the same with maybe some subtle tweaks. It would be nice if it turned out Ward, Koutroumbis, Andrews and Dickson were all world beaters in hiding, or if a simple instruction turns harry paton into the motherwell modric, but most likely they're going to stick with the experienced players and introduce incremental changes. Watt can't play though, which is nice. Miller and Slattery having a game under their belt is a good thing, and hopefully we see AP back soon.

They pulled it all off P&B, hilarious. Could be great, could be a disaster, but I'm happy with the approach and rationale in the appointment at least.

That article smacks of reading here and pie and bovril and churning out some column inches. Lieberknecht was literally sourced in P&B from folk just throwing names around looking for baldy foreigners.

The 2 baldy germans came up on p&b initially due to some of us messing around on transfermrkt. That tweet from a non-account probably came from someone seeing that. MvdG came up because one poster said he was at the game yesterday, which I believe led to that pic of the baldy guy with the hat. Frail said the manager had pedigree. Stephen Mcginn said it was a foreigner.

The usually reliable Scott Burns said it wasn't MvdG

It would be funny if it was lieberknecht, but he wasn't at the game yesterday, meaning we internet sleuthed it correctly by total accident.

Could just be speculation based on the pic from the main stand, along with the mention in the media that the new guy is foreign, then the German link with the chairman. A search for baldy German unemployed managers on transfermarket brings up a couple.of guys, Lieberknecht being one of them. He looks like he has a decent record of promoting a couple of teams to the Bundesliga, and relegating them back. I'll enjoy the speculation for now until reality hits tomorrow.

Tierney was injured for a huge chunk of his time with us and when he was out on loan, and seems to have landed at his level. He had the knack of getting on the end of things on the box, but was anonymous in midfield.

German cos of the chairman's links to there? (stole that from P&B, I forgot about that link).