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Cannot believe the amount of fans that think bringing back Gerrard is a good idea , it is utter madness.

Champions league 2nd qualifying round: draw - 18th June 1st leg 22-23 July 2nd leg 29-30 July SPFL fixtures published 20 June SPFL season starts first weekend in August.

I'd rather we didn't refer to a fitba club as an ecosystem, but here we are.

An intelligent man, who has been learning and developing his coaching skills since he was a teenager, and has since built up a good body of work at various clubs, implementing a progressive, possession-based style that dominates games even with little financial backing while showing an ability to develop players. His burd is fit.

Callum Davidson wants a word. 😉

His last 2 years he was hardly here , coaching staff ran the team. Its madness to let him anywhere near the club. He knows he has no chance of a big job again , thats why hes desperate to get back in.

These trendy kids nowadays, they don't half talk pish.

I’d rather we employed Muscat rather than Gerrard

If we never had a back row full of terrible defenders Dessers would have been a hero this season , McCoist used to miss sitters like him every game but always had a solid backline that never threw goals away every week.

Yes, you meant the group of clubs sitting under the Red Bull banner. However, the term 'ecosystem' is still just as deplorable in that context.

We have little idea of who's on the shortlist. Our lists are largely generated by the bookies.

Much as I'm underwhelmed, concerned even, by everything going on at the club currently, appointing Steven Gerrard as manager is hardly the act of lunatics. Assuming that Advocaat, Souness and McLeish are basically retired from club management then Gerrard's record in Scotland is better than any other manager who isn't a former Celtic manager. His departure from the club left a bad taste and his subsequent record is fairly ordinary. But then Walter Smith's time at Everton was mainly spent fighting relegation, Souness had some success but also failure as did McLeish. So success elsewhere is no guarantee of success here, and vice versa. I loved Stevie Davis as a player, my favourite player of the last 20 years, but I'd prefer an experienced number 2. I've no opinion on Henderson, he's playing for Ajax this season so clearly able to make a contribution on the park. If it's Gerrard, and i've no inside knowledge that it is, then he won't get the time he was given last time around. He won't get 3 seasons to build something, he'll get one if he's lucky. So I doubt there will be no 'building a system' or player development plans, it'll be about creating a side that can win the league next season. That will need experienced players, guys commanding bigger salaries and with very little future sell on value. Gerrard might be a better manager than last time, he's certainly more experienced. But the Tims aren't managed by Lennon this time, and whatever we might think of Rodgers he knows how to win the league.

Well done Spurs. Cant stand Man U

Out of that three, I'd be hoping it's Ancelotti.

Think Shankland is available for nothing just saying as his names not been mentioned in a while

She never came the first time, he would drive straight down the road after games to see them. Pretty sure his eldest daughter lives in Dubai where she is shacked up with the son of one of the Kinahan cartel bosses, and is pregnant to him. Not ideal baggage that.

Yeah, which is why I'm surprised he's the favourite. I can't see him coming in for a 3 year project, I don't think the fans will give him the time he got before and I don't think he'd come if he wasn't being guaranteed a side that could challenge for the title in year 1. Now, some would argue the current side, properly managed, could compete for the title, but I suspect Gerrard will want a number of players in first.

I have a little fear with some of these RB Salzburg guys that did well there, went on elsewhere and couldn't replicate the same quality outcomes. Perhaps the issue is that the RB Salzburg model is the value add and difference maker, and not the coaches. Who just happened to be a good fit for that club at the time. Jesse March, Matthias Jaissle(spelling). Roger Schmidt, Adi Hutter. Are they good enough in their own right or did they just 'fit in' with the RB Salzburg model which led them to success, then rinse and repeat this elsewhere. Without replicating the success. If only we could replicate that successful club model..

I never said we should keep him. I'm basing my opinion on the fact that when he got injured, it was reported that he was being sent back to Rotterdam, we were done with him as a loan player. Yet he ended up back, playing with the youths in their cup final, before being involved in the final squads. It would appear we have something in place with him.

The suggestion is Stewart and Steinsson. I guess the logic being that each represents and reports to current board / AC&49VC Tha band is getting together ACVC 😂😂😂 Andrew Cavenagh & 49ers Venture Capitalists.

You've lost me !! 😂 ----------- Should we rename them the 51'ers otherwise things might get confused 😂😂😂

The new manager is the most important appointment the club are going to make and the present board should have no say in the appointment without getting the okay from the new majority shareholders I know that the deal isn’t signed yet but no way this present board should be making the decision to appoint the new manager.

What a dreadful game, was like watching St Mirren v Kilmarnock

The "Don" will ensure this.

1-0 to the Hotspur at halftime. I’m surprised the goal was allowed. The ball wasn’t much more than a foot over the line.

They are taking full advantage of a clickbait hungry audience readily swinging from one rumour to another then back again. A week or two more or less isn't the issue. It is making the right choice and having a viable plan in place. Last summer, we knew what was coming and it wasn't good. At least this year, it is completely up in the air.

Ancelotti Martin Gerrard In that order of preference

I think you have a valid point, as it is a very specific in-house style. I would suggest Hutter and Schmidt are good in their own right. Rose has done well at a couple of sides outside the RB ecosystem (A German Club and Dortmund), so I would suggest he's good in his own right also. I'm a fan of Jaissle, but while he is doing well in Saudi, it's only Saudi and that's his only experience outside the RB ecosystem. Marsch, in contrast hasn't done great outside the ecosystem - and even struggled within it at Leipzig. I think he's doing OK at Canada NT but I don't know how much we can read into that. Salzburg has done poorly recently. Struber has loose links to the ecosystem, but wasn't great. And most recently Lijnders (Klopp's assistant) failed spectacularly.

Russell Martin has become my preferred candidate. (I suspect Marco Rose is a little out of our league still, but I would obviously prefer him.)

I fully believe that no one has much of a clue of names. Our new owners are keeping the names under wraps, and the usual ITK folk aren't ITK any more. I reckon we'll have an unveiling at the same time as the new owners announce the takeover.

I wish to know why Marco Rose has dropped out of the running. Did he rule himself out? I thought the owners wanted a Red Bull connection.

Let's do it great suggestion! 51’ers it is. I'm hoping for a truly 100% collaboration effort by all board members! Yet as things stand we just don't know who is pulling the strings, will the “51’ers” be taking advice from the experienced 49% club or will they be stamping their mark with good intentions? Time will tell and I can't wait for next few days/weeks to find out who we have as a manager 😂 I’m sure you can clearly see my brain isn't fully wired and I’m jumping to all sorts of scenarios /conclusions.

He shouldn't be because he is injury prone. Do we try and learn our lessons for once or do we keep repeating them?