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His biggest impact was claiming Hearts fans would abuse him for being RC.

There tends to be less of them around in January. Avoid relegation now, rebuild in the summer.

He scored an extra time winner in a play off game last night. Pearson or Vigurs? Easy choice.

I like Ainsworth and think he's a far better player than Vigurs but he's no use if he's not on the park. Both McCall and Black seemed reluctant to use him this season which is puzzling as they knew what they were getting them they gave him a deal in the summer.

We've played 20 games. He has played for more than a hour 8 times. With our squad size we can't afford to carry any passengers.

He's got two goals and zero assists. The reason we are the lowest scorers in the country is because the guys who were supposed to provide the creativity - vigurs, law and ainsworth - have been utterly useless all season.

How many assists does Vigurs have?

We had games. How many games did we have with a majority first team players playing?

I think we will make an appointment tomorrow and the new man will take over after the County game.

That is utter nonsense. The idea that there was nothing between our teams in 2011/12 and 12/13 and the Dunfermline and Dundee sides that got relegated is miles out. We played Dunfermline three times and beat them 9-3 which doesn't even tell half the story about how much better we were. it's clear that so far this season us, st mirren and ross county (combined goal difference -51) are easily the three weakest teams.

It's illegal to ask someone about their health during a job interview in the UK.

Van Der Gaag's possible health issues don't seem like the sort of thing we should be speculating on.

That doesn't require a public statement though. This is a sad attempt at face saving from Butcher after the media pushed hard for him at the weekend.

Butcher has issued a statement saying he doesn't want the job anymore. I wonder why he did that?

The message coming out of Fir Park at present is that ICT's player budget is around 2/3rds of ours and that is the level we will be operating at next year. I agree that we were always going to fall back but it shouldn't have been this season.

The Malpas season was poor but we had a lot of players who did well after they left fir park: quinn, reynolds, paterson, foran, clarkson, mccormack, murphy and mcdonald all brought in a fee when they left. I'd be very surprised if anyone over the age of 21 in our squad ever plays at a better level. The problem then was Malpas and Hegarty, the new manager is going to have a much harder time turning it round. The lack of goals makes it worse than either of those two seasons for me. We've scored 10 goals in 17 domestic games, under Malpas we scored 8 in league cup ties. You also have to factor in Rangers, Hearts and Hibs being out the league this season and that back then there weren't teams like ICT and Accies out performing us on a fraction of the budget.

My link That's a link to the table from xmas 2008. Joint bottom but also 9 points off sixth with a game in hand and from memory Craigan and Clarkson coming back from injuries. 9 goals from 15 games is the problem at the moment. We have only scored more than once in a game once in 17 domestic games. We haven't took a single point from a game where we went behind. This is the worst season i've ever seen so far.

By the sounds of things he's in the club with Lewis Hamilton and Mick Jagger where he doesn't spend enough time here to be considered a resident. It's quite an interesting interview and he comes across as a very intelligent man with a good perspective on the decline of scottish industry, it's just an odd comment at the end. The Saltire Foundation he is promoting and the magazine he is being interviewed by don't appear to be shy about taxpayer funded grants either. But that's not to say i'm not happy to accept however many canadian dollars they want to bung us

Whether he's a rangers fan or a well fan he certainly has a sense of humour to have a dig at scottish people being 'addicted to government support' after recounting a life story where he benefited massively from nationalised industry and the public sector.

More so than McCall in that he has tactics. His teams generally play with a narrow back four and get the ball and midfield runners into the final third as quickly as possible. It's not the most attractive style but when you saw his Motherwell and ICT teams you could tell that the players were playing to a specific plan.

We need wholesale changes on the playing side of things and for me Butcher is close to McCall in attitude even if he is a bit more astute than him tactically. I'm hoping for one of the Dutch to shake a few players out their comfort zone.

Who exactly do you think knows how to run a football club? All the people who are currently running the club and have been running the club for last 4-5 years are well society members. As Googles and Flippers says the proportion of members who are engaged is very small and the majority of the people who do make an effort to go along to meetings are generally happy to accept to whatever the society and club board say is preferable. The league reconstruction meeting proved that beyond any reasonable doubt (just think we could be looking at four completely meaningless games and then a reset to zero points if the board got their wishes). The society is effectively the status quo. The Well Society has cash reserves which the club needs and may be able to access cheap loans which the club cannot do. The society is underwriting the club at the moment, no one else is so it's correct that the society takes the controlling interest in the club. What is the alternative? People post about 'serious investors' as if there are people out there who want to throw their money away on a Scottish football club which has no prospect of ever making them a profit aside from selling Fir Park and groundsharing on the plastic with Accies. What we should take from the shambles of the last few months is that we need a chief executive who oversees the manager and makes sure that every contract given out matches the direction we want the club to be heading in. No more giving out two year deals to guys who are barely fit when they sign them never mind in 24 months time. No more 50 grand a year to guys who would struggle to hold down a starting position in the lower leagues.

Ojamaa has improved since he arrived but in terms of overall contribution he hasn't really added anything. I'd move him and o'brien on and give the new manager a chance to bring in his own players.

We could have signed Ojamaa and Clarkson and not bothered with O'Brien and Law. Clarkson has 8 in 8. Our entire squad has 10 in 16.

I don't think people would stay away if we had the same behind the scenes problems but were playing good football and winning games. The fact that we've only won 3 out of 18 games against the worst opposition we've ever faced is why people are staying away.