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He knows the Scottish game, and the size of the club, so if he's willing to talk he should pretty much know the score.

Just to add to the fear factor, the following are available: Danny Lennon, Steven Presley, Paul Dickov, John brown

Burley, coyle, Mcleish, simo, vdg, or Davies. Need to keep the comeback gimmick going.

Going on the past few years, the betting markets are a good indicator of who it isn't going to be. The questions I have are: Is billy stark still unemployed? Do we still need to contact nijholt by phone, or can we drop him an email? Is Stuart Baxter a real person? and who will the ridiculous foreign interest be this time?

Maybe he can do a Tommy Mclean and leave Raith after a week.

I can't see past Robinson getting it. I also predict that ainsworth will play out of his skin for two games and get another 2-year deal.

Bowman also called Robinson the assistant manager in his interview, which I'm sure was just a mistake, but good for the conspiracies anyway.

I love rumours, better than this new fangled fake news. I'm guessing that if we sack him, the replacement until the end of season will be announced at the same time. He will then keep us up, get an ainsworth and Laing style thank you contract, then we'll sack him next march.

Didn't say I was happy for him to stay, did you stop reading after first line? My point was that I don't see what it will achieve whether he leaves or not, other than the mythical new manager bounce, because the replacement will be internal.

They got to write another sign. That's nice.

I'm not sure what him leaving now will achieve, but I'm not keen on him renewing at the end of the season, so don't care if he goes now. If he does, I can only see a caretaker replacement from within such as Robinson or craigan, partly due to cash but mainly because it's too late to embed new ideas.

I think he's good enough to keep us up, evidenced by our decent record against the teams around us. Whether he stays beyond that? I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. I am pretty sure our next manager is already at the club, so I don't see how that would change our fortunes drastically, we're going to be a mid-to-bottom of the table team for a while. I would like for us to diversify our signing policy a little, and recruit guys who play in Scotland and aren't total punts, but I don't think a new manager changes our signing policy.

Didn't think Jules did anything of note, and took some pretty poor touches in the first half. When moved to left back he hardly stood out. Can take a throw in though. Lasley had one of his better games, and moult worked hard, but I'd go with cadden as he was the only player who looked like threatening.

We did get a free kick and a hearts player booked for ainsworth tripping up moult, so the ref was an equal opportunity fuck up.

We were terrible with 3 at the back, and ainsworth was anonymous as a striker. It wasn't a red, but with 3 such decisions in short succession we probably need to reassess how we go in to some of these challenges. We looked a better team with 4 in the midfield, as cadden was suddenly more effective. hopefully we set up more to our strengths in the future rather than trying to be too clever. Is hammel pretty much done now?

When did ciftci last play? Could signing him open up the old 4-3-3 option again?

Unless there was some sort of agreement between McDonald and the club, letting him go for nothing doesn't seem very clever.

Cheaper to live in the US too.

john hendry is in his back garden taking shots at an empty goal, I'll keep you posted.

I agree re: Lionel. I have always liked him, but if he has become a player we can only bring on when the planets are aligned, we need to give that job to a youngster and find someone who can compete for a starting place. If nothing else, both he and chalmers will be gone in the summer, but I'd really like to try and stay in the top division in the meantime.

I voted cadden, partly for the perfect cross he put in, and also because he was the only out ball we had until McDonald came on.

Also, Lasley was way off he pace today. He won the ball a couple of times but was then too fucked to do anything about it. Clay seemed to have a 90 minute warm up, showed no urgency at all. Chalmers wasn't the worst on the park, but that isn't what you should be aiming for.

Rangers should have been 2 or 3 up and coasting before we scored, but through some luck and poor composure by them we somehow got ahead. We created nothing until McDonald came on, and the whole midfield was poor in general. Have to be concerned at Caddens injuries too. It's hard to guess how the rest of the season is going to go based on that, but right now it looks like our only chance of not getting involved in relegation is if we can keep skippy, moult and cadden fit, and find someone to play on the left.

That's a "let's get them back to fir park" lineup if I've ever saw one.

Seems like he would have been a perfect fit, plays in left mid and is a former player, maybe we will go for him in the summer to keep the collection going.