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Our New Manager, who do we want?


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I like what John McGlynn and Rhys MacCabe have been doing. And Ian Murray had a good spell at Raith.

I'd be surprised, however, to see any of them installed.

It's strange for us to be shedding a manager while in a decent spot in the league, so not sure if we'll be looking for a "consolidation safe pair of hands" or "expansive footballing man promoting the youngsters".

 

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Its very hard to say. We don't have a low down on out of work English managers or foreign possibilities. Also which Scottish managers with other clubs are not under contract or if they are would be "amenable to being approached"?

John McGlynn has a patchy record in management and fans of Hearts, Livingston and certainly Raith Rovers might have something to say. Of the early names to be mentioned I'd say Scott Brown could be a possibility.

 

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I have given this issue some thought and have approached it from the position of who has the necessary skills and attributes to fill the role.

Given that the two qualities that I have identified as being crucial in any candidate are those pf outstanding leadership and having a particularly thick skin, the somewhat left field solution I have come up with is Babar the elephant. The biggest stumbling block may be our inability to lure him away from his current position as king of the elephants.

 

 

No? Okay, Stuart Baxter? What's he doing these days?

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I don’t see anything other than Frail being made ‘interim manager’ until the end of the season, along with the current coaches etc. That scenario, which may or may not be pretty, will give the club a decent amount of time and space to find the right candidates for the entire management and coaching team for next season. The pool of potential candidates will also be better by the end of the season. 

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This was my issue if we did sack Kettlewell, who would we get that was better? I know I mentioned Lennon who I think would do ok but I don’t know if I necessarily want him? 
every name mentioned I don’t fancy

 Mcglynn McCabe Brown…… no thanks. Someone even mentioned imrie lol….. he fkn hates Motherwell lol 

then we have the usual van der gaag stuff…. Christ knows what’s for the best, I don’t envy the person or group choosing him as I have a feeling they’ll be slaughtered by a number of us.

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Leeanne Crighton. She's an expert on all things fitbaw , specialising in VAR , critical tactics, what the tactics should have been after the game has been played , pointing out what players should have been doing and where should have been standing to prevent /score goals , played the game at the highest leval and has contacts in the bbc meeja . She's a total expert sign her up now. Can't be any worse than the last one.

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3 minutes ago, Richie said:

That’d be an interesting one. I’d like this 100% more than the other names mentioned.

an experienced manager with contacts (not lenses) would be beneficial for us as a club.

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28 minutes ago, Benson said:

Thought all the folk that were desperate for ketts to leave would have been on here with their suggestions,pretty quiet.

It's not their job to come up with names, what difference would that make?

27 minutes ago, mio said:

This was my issue if we did sack Kettlewell, who would we get that was better? I know I mentioned Lennon who I think would do ok but I don’t know if I necessarily want him? 
every name mentioned I don’t fancy

 Mcglynn McCabe Brown…… no thanks. Someone even mentioned imrie lol….. he fkn hates Motherwell lol 

then we have the usual van der gaag stuff…. Christ knows what’s for the best, I don’t envy the person or group choosing him as I have a feeling they’ll be slaughtered by a number of us.

Imrie can't hate us that much, he's applied for the job twice before.

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10 minutes ago, Richie said:

 We have a decent record of not giving the typical Scottish Mgr the gig .

my immediate thoughts took me back to when we brought in Craig brown and Archie Knox - this would be a similar ish appointment re a seasoned mgr who can help us .

i do think we’ll appoint someone who wasn’t mentioned as the bookies favourites yestersay

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Frail probably has 3/4 games to show what he can do.

Thats assuming he would be interested in throwing his hat into the ring.

Will be interesting to see if he has a different mindset in terms of tactics and formation to Kettlewell and gets a reaction from the players.

Long term who knows but don't think it will be any of the ones mentioned. 

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38 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Whoever gets job there needs to be a total reset from some of fanbase.  Constructive criticism totally fine but personal abuse is not on .

Media having a field day with us. Shame they never come out criticising old firm supporters behaviour

The media are portraying us something like Millwall in the 70s and 80s you have folk on sky sports that have never probably heard of us and know about us talking alot of bullshit!

It was a pocket of people at most going over the top more so the cup game than anything else.I am no excusing any form of abuse but the stuff I have seen and heard is nothing more than I have heard from other fans of other teams.

 

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36 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Whoever gets job there needs to be a total reset from some of fanbase.  Constructive criticism totally fine but personal abuse is not on .

Media having a field day with us. Shame they never come out criticising old firm supporters behaviour

The personal abuse stuff is bullshit, it's SK trying to keep his reputation intact to deflect from the fact that he had lost the dressing room and ran out of ideas.

And it's worked, he's now the victim a good manager forced out of a job by the foul mouthed fans. As a rule anything written about football clubs outwith the ugly sisters by the west of Scotland media is best ignored as its mainly pandering bullshit with a blue or green tinge depending on what "big team" the journo supports.

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10 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:

The personal abuse stuff is bullshit, it's SK trying to keep his reputation intact to deflect from the fact that he had lost the dressing room and ran out of ideas.

And it's worked, he's now the victim a good manager forced out of a job by the foul mouthed fans. As a rule anything written about football clubs outwith the ugly sisters by the west of Scotland media is best ignored as its mainly pandering bullshit with a blue or green tinge depending on what "big team" the journo supports.

This is exactly the way that I feel.

Let's remember the facts here.
1. Put out the cup by the bottom of the league with a whimper. Fans boo. He effectively states they know nothing, effectively inciting them.

2. Lose to the bottom of the league with a whimper. Already irritated fans give him abuse after being incited. Walks his ticket out of the door covering up the cracks.


3. Our whiter than white board,  wet behind the ears board,  help him with his narrative and against the FAN OWNED club.

 

What I will say is well played Stuart Kettlewell, came out looking like the victim.
He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy.

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