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Forest are doing a good job of employing those tactics in the English Premier league right now, and that's pretty much Robinsons philosophy at St Mirren as well. Possession isn't the be all and end all. It can be exciting to watch if it's employed properly with the right players. The difference is having the players that can make it work for the 30% of the time when you do have the ball. The last couple of seasons we had the right kind of striker and wing back combo to hit teams quickly on the counter attack. This year we don't, and we didn't really sign players of that profile this season for some reason, so we should have adapted our tactics accordingly. It's funny that when each new manager comes in, players will rave about how the new guy has simplified the message. Hammell and SK both got that, then they seemed to over complicate things. Wimmer is getting the same treatment, so hopefully he doesn't go down that road.

"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).

I think the ketsbaia stuff is all from his agent, it definitely cones across that way. Either way, I hope the announcement brings a bit of excitement and sets us up for another win against utd.

Without the numbers in front of me, 3 weeks seems to be about normal for new appointments, with some taking longer. The surprise nature of SKs departure, and the CEO reportedly mourning the loss of a close family member not long after, probably slows things down too. If we are still interviewing, I'd guess we're at least a week away, but we've been less leaky since Caldwell came in (or others left), so who knows? We're not guaranteed to get this appointment spot on, but at least we're doing our due diligence to get close. We're still in a relatively good position, with decent points on the board and our better players coming back from the dead (I'm sure someone is crocking themselves as I write this), and woth the new appointment getting the checkbook for a rebuild I'm the summer, we need to take our time and be careful. I'm not going on holiday, don't want to risk not being allowed back in.

They said McGinn was pretty much done for the season, and seddon was months in the last update that SK did on injuries. I'd only expect further updates there if something changed. Think they're just hoping we forget callachan.

We have been a lot less leaky with stuff recently. I'd see that as a good thing. Not sure what info the club is going to put out other than that we're reviewing/interviewing candidates. Pretty sure it takes a few weeks usually. The initial names that came out would have been from those guys' agents, making sure the names were out there while people were paying attention. Also, the Scottish sports media will be focusing on other more sensational things right now to be hounding our dinner lady to find out who's been stopping by.

Thought Forbes was going to be a big deal when Gannon started playing him, then it turned out he doesn't like running, at all. Some left foot though.

Does Lennon have a backroom staff that he sticks with?

Most of the league outside of the OF play a back 5, and it's been successful for us to date, so I don't see us switching system, at least until the new manager is in (and fheres a good chance they will prefer a 5 as well). We would probably benefit from keeping things simple until then. Getting the right players in each position is probably more important. I don't particularly like a back 5, but when the wing backs are on form, it can be effective. I think it was Robinson who played down the importance of formations, stating it's just moving players a few yards either way, and what you do in each box is more important. We have definitely been poor in our box, with our suite of right backs being equally poor at that. The formation didn't lose us the game against St J, it was being soft as shite in our own box, and not being clinical in theirs. Hopefully we have Casey back in, he has his flaws but is better than SOD or Blaney.

That first line doesn't come across well on a phone screen 😄 I'm confident our fans will be behind whoever is in the dugout and on the park next week. In general, we read the room well as an overall support. Seeing slattery back in training, and hopefully Miller and AP to follow, is encouraging. I wouldn't expect any of them to start, but they're all capable of making an impact from the bench. I don't see Frail changing the system or personnel to a great degree. He will likely see the 2 week break as a solution to our lack of energy, and that our home record is pretty good to date, and want to stick with what worked previously. it will most likely be subtle changes. It will be interesting to see if any of the new loanees start, and at who's expense.

Who would we consider as "forward thinking" or "dynamic"? Courts? Fotheringham? Maloney? Are we looking for someone that switches up tactics in a horses for courses way? Because that seems pretty rare. We're never going to accept someone coming in and changing a philosophy (whatever that means) because that takes time. If our new manager starts the way Simo did at St J, there will be pitchforks aplenty. Even though it looks like their patience could pay off. Of the names touted so far, lowe looks like a great option, with success at multiple teams in the english lower leagues. However, he was getting slated for defensive performances and not scoring enough goals at preston, so we may not get the swashbuckling style he was lauded for at bury. This is a great opportunity for someone to come in and figure out the league in preparation for a big summer, where there will be scope tonreshape the squad then all the loans and out of contract folk are away. As such, I'm good if it takes a bit longer to get someone in. Ultimately a portion of our support is going to be underwhelmed, or furious.