Oleg_Mcnoleg

Big Eck, on the other hand, is free to roam Porkheid to his heart's content.

Postecogliou just signed for a J League team. Hard luck. Pulis would be short-termist though I can see the temptation. Suspect the board are also torn between trying to build something sustainable and the need for instant results and that’s led to indecision (pure speculation, of course).

The argument I've heard made about RdB from those who know more about Dutch football than me is that he's struggled outside the clear structure that Ajax have. There he had collection of players who were used to doing things in a way he recognised and could work with. Outside that established way of working, he's found it difficult to get his ideas across. On that basis, unless he's learnt to be more pragmatic, he might struggle to make an immediate impact. Either that, or we'll have to learn to be patient whilst the entire squad complete PhDs in Rinus Michels Studies. I'd add that, of late, Dutch managers have stunk, wherever they've been.

You'd have thought... We have high expectations and a limited amount of cash with which to meet them which will scare some off. The flipside is we're a prestigious club with a decent "brand", albeit one that's waned a bit over the last five years away from Europe. But, unless we're prepared to gamble a bit, the pool of 'safe bets' is pretty limited and the EPL seems to have hoovered up a few of late.

McInnes was the clear favourite for a reason.

They very definitely have made a mess of it and a run of decent results under Murty won’t change that.

looks like we can agree that we've made an arse of the process of appointing a manager

you can be relieved he's not coming but you surely can't think the process has been handled properly?

he's hardly disguised the fact that he had wanted to come. he applied when Pedro got it and, until we evidently pissed him off this time, seemed very keen

cabinet ministers whose incompetence or sexual deviance had become embarrassing to their government used to resgn to spend more time with their families. That had nothing to do with their familes realky and neither does this

of course we fucking haven't. somebody's rumaging around in the recyclung trying to find the CVs we binned after finally deciding to go for McInnes. Titted around for so long we've managed to miss out on a bloke who's dreamt of managing us. Made an absolute cock and balls of it.

Haven't we abandoned the 'do plan A better' inflexibility? The footballing vision thing doesn't have to involve playing 433 from the age of two through to the first team.

Nobody had heard of PC which allowed some to place quite inflated expectations on him. We think we know what we're getting with DM so can't do that in the same way. It's disappointed some, hence the 'there's this bloke in the Serbian third division. If we can't have Carlo Ancelotti, he'd do a job for us'-type posts.

Good luck to him (and hopefully saves us a few quid)

I know what you mean but we, as a support, don’t seem to have the patience to be ‘a project’ that takes years to develop. We don’t have the cash to buy instant success either so we need some pragmatism. You’d hope that, behind the scenes, ‘the project’ and the style of play will continue to develop and that that ultimately benefits the first team.

That’s sort of the problem, isn’t it? If he’d been appointed a couple of days after Pedro went (or even after Warburton) I think more would’ve shrugged and said ‘fair enough’. But after a month and a half speculating about the world of managerial possibilities, he seems a bit of an anticlimax. I’ve no idea who applied but some of the names being thrown about social media have been unrealistic, over the hill or high risk, despairing punts.

Indeed. We either need a more pragmatic manager or a lot more money and patience.

It is gloomy but it's all fixable. The conclusions of the article are sensible but they're also readily achievable and don't require us to discover a diamond mine under the Albion Car Park. That's surely a positive after where we've come from over the last few years.

That dance? At Ibrox? Chills the blood, doesn't it?

Impression is they've talk d themselves to inaction: 'can he overhaul Sellick, is he past it, too inexperienced, too much of a gamble'

He has done well in Oz though it's a pretty piss poor standard (yes, even by Scots standards). He might be an absolute genius but he'd be an absolutely enormous risk. His temperament is deeply questionable too. Plenty seem to be looking for a silver bullet. As I said before, it's a response to the unpleasantness of the situation we find ourselves in: there's managers we've heard who we want but who won't come, there's those that we've heard of who would come that we don't want. That leaves us hoping the ones we've never heard of turn out to be the next Guardiola.

sod that. He's been a decent manager at A league level and gets some credit for taking a poor Australian side to the world cup. But it's a hell of a step up to a ckub like Rangers. His temperament is doubtful too: touchline rage of Di Canio-levels which would be a concern, given the presdure at Rangers. Had an amusing touchline scrap with Muscat in the Grand Final a few years back. That Muscat was the innocent party forbthe first time in his career should be a warning!

survey's ok. Would have liked the opportunity to give some more context/perspective to a couple of answers. As somebody who made a living from academic research for many years, would liked to have helped more but in a moderately sensitive job these days so regrettably have to decline the follow-up interview

can barely muster the price of a new tin foil hat, I'm sure. I'd be more interested to read an expose of what happened after Whyte, personally.

When you see posts like this it makes me think about the amount of time we spend conversing with people on here who, in many instances, we'll never meet. It's been fun sharing time and exchanging views with YB on here. Condolences to his family.