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Seriously, when I saw the line up I thought we were going with the "win 5-4" mindset, and i was ok with it...

Is it true that York city added a clause in strakers loan deal that we can't send him back? Ever.

I agree

Thing that bothers me with these interviews is that he just tells us what the problems are. We know that bit, tell us how you're going to fix them, that is the specific reason we are paying you.

The board and the new owner interviewed him.

Post match interview

No baraduff?

Seems a nice guy though. Our next manager needs to be a right dick.

Is the post match interview out yet so that I can feel like we are going to win our next 12 games?

Rangers?

It is the managers job to deal with the players. If he can't handle that he shouldn't be a manager.

I really wanted this to work out, and was all for the long term outlook when making the appointment, but I was wrong, we should have went for a short term appointment to keep us up. It is too late now and we just need to hope the current team figures it out or other teams shit the bed.

To be fair, I think the fans are united....

If our club captain has downed tools then we really are screwed.

My post match interview prediction is that the blame will be on the flukey goal and the unfortunate injury to Johnson. Otherwise we would have ground out a solid 0-0.

Partick could be dragged into this, only 7 points above the joint bottom three. Unfortunately I don't see us being the ones taking advantage.

If we can't even show fight at home then we're done.

We were missing black for a week, so he probably stepped up then.

Summary of presser: Robbo - Back to basics, our defending is shite, not just a back 4 issue. Craigan sold the club to him. Bara - Pearo in contention, if not tomorrow he'll be back next week. Some of the players are unfit/lazy. Ainsworth came on before Dom because of pace. Leitch is coaching 1st team now.

Well, in the call for more people to come to the next three games they mentioned the need for the extra cash, so I don't see them dropping prices in that case. It was also made clear in Flow's podcast that one off price drops wouldn't happen again, as they don't work long-term.

Good call. We are where we are and there's nothing we can do about the past year or so, let's look forward and do what we can to make sure that were watching a premiership/league/whatever team next year. Or look at it this way, we might only have a handful more home games in the top flight for a few years, so make the most of them!

The baseball comparison is pretty interesting. The smaller market teams (such as my beloved Pirates) have seen success in recent years through using analytics to identify 'market inefficiencies' where they can find value in a player that other clubs may not see. This also extends to tactics, but I think there are more intangibles in football so I'm not sure how valuable analytics can be in that sense. I think this is the software they mention

So, is he out of contract this year? Or are we just creating another hypothetical situation to piss our pants about? It was mentioned on the GMs podcast that we were looking to tie up the younger players on longer deals, so I assume that's being worked on. However, we can't force folk to accept contracts so it will probably take some work.

How many recognised right backs do we have? i.e. one who mainly ply's their trade there and would get a game for another team in that position (rather than "can" play there)? I don't see Kerr getting dropped since he had more chances to score than anyone else against RC, and scored one, and I don't see McManus being dropped due to his "experience". However our defense has been woeful all season and I don't see Laing being left out, so with Reid being the weakest link I think that the way all three will be accommodated would be to have Kerr at RB. Personally I'd have Watt there if that's where he plays for the u20s, or even Ramsden, but based on what I've seen from Baraclough so far, the above is what I think he'll go with.

It will be interesting to see how Baraclough lines up on Saturday. I think this is the first game where he is facing opposition for the second time (not sure if the first RC game should count since he didn't set the tactics for that one). It may be hard to tell if an improved result this time is down to the new players or the manager learning something from the last encounter, but either way it will be a reasonable measure of how far we have/haven't come. As for lineup, I think that Reid will be dropped to make way for Laing, and with our weakness at the back post I wouldn't be surprised to see Kerr return to Right back (can also see him being in there for set pieces up the other end). I doubt Hammell will be ready, but surely Pearson will be. So I see the likely lineup as: Long Kerr Laing McManus Straker Lasley Grant N.Thomas Pearson Erwin Sutton Personally, I'd have Erwin up front and D.Thomas on the left, but I don't see Sutton getting dropped.