parsforlife

I’ve voted no and that will be the same answer if we lose by a goal or two on Friday but the needle is certainly drifting towards him needing to leave at a fairly quick rate. Generally it feels like he’s being asked to play with one arm tied behind his back, injuries, being given little backing in the summer or January and only after the Morton humping a suggestion from the board that they need to wake up and realize proven experienced pros are valuable. Given the mountain we’ve given ourselves to climb we need to get those signings right and it looks like Kane does meet that remit, Ashcroft would too and i would like to add one more on top of that. We would have a chance then, if he gets those signings and results don’t improve he’ll have no excuse.

We did lose a finance director then but the experience seems different and ian doesn’t seem like a direct takevover

I’ve raised this question elsewhere, but if he’s purely here as a consultant then there would be no need to be a director. That reasons the question of why would such a role be offered?

Transfer negotiations are part of the listed role of Lombardi

I think against QP until we lost the first goal we showed plenty of fight but badly lacked quality, it’s a little more complicated than roll your sleeves up and graft. Yes that’s important but so is knowing the moments to compose yourself. Issues showed after going behind, the lazy way to describe that is to call players weak minded but I don’t think that’s a great way to describe it, what is needed is a better response to a adversity and I think that comes from a lot of experience, something that’s not going to change dramatically in a week.

Its not who we have brought in, its who we haven't.

No time soon by track record, nearly always deliberately timed for when the BoD have something to announce, they’ve not got the bottle to stand up and be counted against against difficult questions.

I felt this week was the first time since the crisis set in there was a strong enough argument to change formation to a back 4, it still wouldn’t have been great cos Benjamin who sadly so far looks not up to it would be more exposed. Sticking with the back 3 didn’t work and if we don’t bring in the quality needed this week going to a Back 4 of Comrie Benjamin Otoo Edwards is the only card mcpake can play

I know nothing of cook personally but the atmosphere of the board not being good to work for is slightly backed when our former GM states there’s not a ****ing chance he’ll return to work for them. Edit- the spiral began well before cook arrived, he can’t be the only one

What i worry about isn’t them not investing in the first team, it’s that funds look to have been directed away from it to fund the ‘project’ 2nd biggest attendances in the division and just received our highest ever transfer fee yet we are playing a team of kids, that’s not right.

He’s apparently part of the recruitment group of mcpake mackay meagle and himself but who actually has what role in that I don’t know. It’s not a great scenario, I dream of it being a hardie/rusty combo but i fear reality is going to hit and we’re going to sign experience but not quality.

Agree similarly, allan would be ok to bring on in rotation for chalmers, like he was in league 1 but they are so similar(with allan being the poorer option) that playing them as a midfield 2 is a disaster. On summers and I could include moffat similarly, they like picking up spaces between defence and midfield, often looking for the infield ball once we've stretched teams. Problem is clubs have noticed that threat and can easily drown them out with deep lying midfields and center backs stepping out. The centre backs are happy to do that as our strikers are not threatening and the midfield have loads of time to drop into the space cos there's nowhere near enough tempo to our game in attack.

At least they were at the game! Owners yet again hiding at home watching pars tv, if they can even be ****ed doing that.

Yea, it’s bizarre, by far the most important part of the football club is first team success and it looks like it’s being treated as second or third best. I can’t understand that thinking. We are spending money(hence the losses) but we aren’t spending it on the important areas of the club.

James brown. 25 times more appearances than fagen-Walcott and Benjamin have combined. Not a problem tho apparently

Our board have an hatred of signing established experienced pros, your not getting transfer fees from them, just the prospect of winning and they’ve got much less interest in that

That’s where the go anyway tho, nobody actually treats the loonballs with any seriousness

It’s Thursday, the hurt of the previous defeat begins to fade and hope creeps into the horizon despite the nagging feeling that more suffering is coming, you push it to the back of your mind and dreams begin to form. I ****ing hate Thursdays.

They’re old firm fans, they’ll find conspiracy wherever they want doesn’t matter the system, we’ve been accused of being ‘one of them’ from either side continuously and always will be. GD Is accumulated over the course of the season same as points, one team outscoring the other on final day is the same as one team winning and the other not, not that stops conspiracy as anyone who speaks to a more deranged hearts fan about 1986 knows. You can’t have H2H only counting if GD is close, the order needs decided first. Would you consider it unfair if H2H decides the title by one goal when there’s 20 goal difference between the clubs? Or is it not the sporting debate over what one is better you want to speak and just what one you think is more corruptible?

GD at least is a show of your ability across the full league rather than against one or two opponents. The team with the best GD has done that all season, not just the last game regardless of what spin is tried to be put on it. I don’t think Italian football has a particularly good reputation on anti-corruption, but maybe that money was just resting in referee accounts Here we wouldn’t have playoffs for non-vital places(no promotion/relegation or European spot) the clubs are given equal placing and prize money

Yes, it’s not exactly headline grabbing tbh, given I can’t remember goals scored needing used, possibly only for minor placings nevermind needing to move further down the list.

He was bankrupt, not the pension fund he was the sole recipient of… Regardless his bankruptcy status will have been served.

Points, goal difference, goals scored, H2H points, H2H goal difference, neutral ground play-off is the order of separating clubs.

They left recs years ago, it was the fallen through lidl deal that they left for, but one of the potential sites for the new ground was potentially at our training ground. I think we were guilty of poor communication, opening discussions and not formally ending them isn’t great. But I think shafted is a bit of an exaggeration. They were shafted by the council being forced out of recs before a suitable ground had been built I’d say. It wasn’t our responsibility to do a deal tho

Probably not by much, an hour once a fortnight is nothing compared to the other time commitments he will be putting in. Rab Douglas put out an article predicting it wouldn’t take him long and it’s no surprise, the man just can’t stay away from football, it’s been his life until this point and he’s no interest in changing that