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Our New Manager, who do we want?


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  On 2/12/2025 at 1:55 PM, numpty said:

Hardly... our average for recent appointments is 16 days, McCall took 20, Barraclough took 41.

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41 days...and they came up with Baraclough ffs

  On 2/12/2025 at 4:12 PM, MJC said:

It’s not obvious either way however I tend to think that if he really didn’t want it then he wouldn’t be doing it atall and would probably have left with Kettlewell.

I suspect that timing is the factor here. Frail has only had one game so far - against Celtic which inevitability ended in defeat so he can’t really be judged on that. If we win on Saturday and pick up something at Tannadice the following week then it’ll be easier for them to sell the appointment of Frail to the fans just like they did with Kettlewell and Hammell before him.

If you think back Hammell got the job on a ‘temporary’ basis, we beat St.Mirren and he was given the job on a permanent basis a few days later.

Same with Kettlewell, placed on interim charge, won two games against St.Mirren and Hearts and officially appointed within days. 
 

I don’t see things being any different this time around and Stephen Frail is three, maybe four points away from a permanent appointment imo.

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I'm told Frail sees himself as a coach and not a manager...though who knows how he feels if he actually gets asked to take it even to season end

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  On 2/12/2025 at 5:36 PM, 0Neils40yarder said:

41 days...and they came up with Baraclough ffs

I'm told Frail sees himself as a coach and not a manager...though who knows how he feels if he actually gets asked to take it even to season end

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I will always cut Baraclough some slack for his masterpiece in the relegation play off.....though granted only reason we were in play off was because we finished 11th

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Three weeks in Thailand to look forward to this summer. Although the flights are costing a small fortune as we're tied to the school holidays.

Hopefully the new manager will be in before we leave.

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  On 2/12/2025 at 6:37 PM, Mad Dog said:

Three weeks in Thailand to look forward to this summer. Although the flights are costing a small fortune as we're tied to the school holidays.

Hopefully the new manager will be in before we leave.

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Nothing fancy like that for me I'm afraid. 

Craig Tara for the fair weekend , the bus fares from Motherwell to Ayrshire have rocketed this year but the kids should be out the remand centre by then so no holiday restrictions for them.

Hopefully a new manager after season ends with Friel keeping us in top 6, just and no more.

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  On 2/11/2025 at 9:44 PM, grizzlyg said:

Hi Folks,  what's everyone's holiday plans this year? Anything exciting?

Just looking for some chat seeing as hee haw rumours on manager front.

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Apparently my holiday chat had made it to pie and bovril forum!

Just to clarify it was tongue in cheek seeing as there was no new manager talk or rumours kicking about.

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  On 2/12/2025 at 11:43 PM, grizzlyg said:

Apparently my holiday chat had made it to pie and bovril forum!

Just to clarify it was tongue in cheek seeing as there was no new manager talk or rumours kicking about.

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I thought you had taken up cutting hair! 😆😆😆

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  On 2/13/2025 at 2:15 PM, Kmcalpin said:

IF true, Ketsbaia would be a risky appointment. He seems to have moved clubs fairly frequently. 

He doesn't seem to fit our past managerial model, but who knows? 

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I agree.......mental appointment.

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  On 2/12/2025 at 11:43 PM, grizzlyg said:

Apparently my holiday chat had made it to pie and bovril forum!

Just to clarify it was tongue in cheek seeing as there was no new manager talk or rumours kicking about.

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I wouldn't worry about their view of this forum, particularly given some of them often chat banal pish about their favourite pies and toast. 

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  On 2/13/2025 at 2:15 PM, Kmcalpin said:

IF true, Ketsbaia would be a risky appointment. He seems to have moved clubs fairly frequently. 

He doesn't seem to fit our past managerial model, but who knows? 

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Folk are always swayed by "foreign coach" and immediately imbue the applicant with "must be good" mantra. Seen northing about him that suggests he's anything better than all the rest of the names kicked about. So totally non committal from me on him. Its down to the board, so whoever gets it must have shown something in the interview process.

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For me and I shall stick with this the Irish market is a market I hope we are seriously looking at plethora of talent in the Northern and Southern leagues worth a punt.

Also getting a manager or assistant/ coach that knows those leagues well would benefit us on the player side of things maybe a few weeks could bring in.

And no I don't mean Tommy Wright lol he has had his day in the Scottish sunshine.

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