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The word is that King flew in late last night. Will that herald change before the Hearts game - who knows?

Are things so desperate that people are willing Steve Clarke and the likes of Alex Neil to get the job? Please, please, think it through.

Did I say let's blame it all on him? Come on, play fair. If you or anyone else for that matter want to give any of them a free pass for lack of effort, for whatever reason, especially against Celtic, then good luck to you. And for the record, I don't subscribe to the notion that Morelos didn't try yesterday before I'm accused of promoting that thinking. I was merely saying that his selfishness is becoming an issue.

A lot has been said about Morelos, some fair, some not so fair. Yes, he is given a thankless task due to Murty's system and over and above that he is frustrated at the lack of service and little wonder given that Murphy and Candeias are expected to provide it. But there is increasing evidence that the boy plays for himself. He shushed the Govan and the Copland for scoring a tap in last week (own goal right there) and since his head has been turned with the Chinese stuff his selfishness has rocketed. The clip I posted neatly illustrates how the guy tends to play now and Docherty was well entitled to go off his head at him - I'd have done the same. The way he ran towards Doc after it, I'd have been tempted to confront him there and then on the pitch a la McCoist and Gascoigne. But for f***'s sake, spare us this bullshit of excusing him for downing tools.

Docherty can clearly be heard shouting at Morelos. Alves needed to restrain Morelos after FT whistle before it kicked off between them in the tunnel. https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewmch/status/985655713199542273/video/1 I think things may very well be falling apart. Murty's media conference and club interview are not easy viewing. Something needs to give before the Hearts game.

Morelos boxing with Docherty as well apparently. As has been the case in the past, dressing room leaks. Doesn't look good.

The word is there were ructions in the dressing room between Murty and Jimmy Nic. Unconfirmed reports of Halliday and Morelos boxing. Seems like it's been threatening to fall apart for a while. If the above is true, Graeme is a dead man walking. Surely King or Park will put him out of his misery. The sad thing is it didn't need to be like this.

Murty's old man supports them so his boy will have been tainted growing up. Stevie Clarke definitely has affections for them rather than us regardless of whether he says he supports Kilmarnock with his big brother having played for them etc., etc. Surely, we can source someone who has no affiliations to that mob.

Can you imagine Graeme still in charge taking the players to the Glitterdome in a fortnight's time? For everyone's sake, he should be relieved of his first-team duties first thing in the morning. I don't see how he can continue at the club in any capacity going forward either. Time for some long overdue leadership.

P.S. Forgot to mention Joe Peña.

I remember back to last summer when Pedro was in the middle of his spree, I quipped to my old man 'I hope this time next year we don't have to pay off a scatter of Portuguese and Mexican diddies...for all we know it could be a case of Rob Cardoso and Martyn Herrera' Deja Vu.

Surely the words should be 'won't match' Graeme. F***in amateur!

Disagree - it's not about gaining a foothold Bill. It is about power and who exercises it. Turn the situation on its head. The BBC used to be viewed by the other ticket as biased in our favour. Did that deter them from trying to infiltrate and use various political agendas to their benefit in order to chip away and eventually assume a large degree of power? No. Look at BBC network sport in London for instance. That was viewed as a Liverpool biased outlet up until fairly recently. Did that stop Mancs joining the organisation? No. All it took was a DG who was educated in the Manchester region to gain power, use political agenda to his advantage and lo and behold BBC Sport is moved wholesale to Media City in Salford. I don't think that you can close yourself off in the way that you suggest. I can understand why you think in the way that you do though but I think it is ultimately self-defeating. Nature abhors a vacuum. We must make sure that the vacuum isn't exclusively filled by them and their cohorts.

Are we due any development compensation?

Fair enough. But I disagree to an extent. You need people on the inside as well as the outside. The problem is that power has shifted in the media and we are left with the shitty end of the stick. Stevie Thompson for one will be dying to call out some of the crap on Sportsound but can't because he has a young family to look after.

Poor Jim. I can picture him sitting at Central Quay, Queen Margaret Dr and Pacific Quay trying his very best to keep his Poker face on when all around him he saw people who either spouted vitriolic venom willingly or those who should've known better and sold out to their agenda driven bosses. He must've been close to a nervous breakdown but instead galvanised himself to forgo toeing the red-top party line and start a PR company. I could be wrong here but I'd imagine he politely told Trinity Mirror and BBC Scotland to stick it up their Ronson. He doesn't like Mclaughlin. And let's face it, what's to like. Calling him a shill was the right thing to do and I only wish there were people financially secure enough and intellectually wide enough in PQ to do the same to other haters who pollute our airwaves. I saw him doing his shopping one day and I wanted to stop him to ask him a few questions but thought better of accosting a member of the public going about his business. I'd love to know what he privately thinks of Tedermeatballs...

Maybe Hamburger SV are anticipating life in Bundesliga 2 next season and are getting ready to cut costs. If they stay up, it'll be interesting to see how much game time he gets and how he performs. If him leaving means that Aidan Wilson gets more of a crack in the first team, then I'm not overly concerned. Having said that, it would've been preferable if the club could've negotiated a sell-on clause if he had left whilst contracted to us. But that obviously isn't the case. Good luck David.

It was not my intention to prompt any of the above. Since Davie left Ibrox in 2011 I have watched his career quite closely thinking that he could've been future manager material. His time at Bramall Lane was brief and brief for a reason. Some of the stuff he came away with when he was our assistant manager was as laughable as it was ludicrous. Anyone remember his sermon about how narrow minded Scots judge players and managers after one game - 'how it works up here' - and his spiel about how Rob Kiernan had the potential to be a Champions League defender? Surely he is savvy enough to know that what he says will be twisted by any unscrupulous hack. Which begs the question - why come away with stuff about the job being a hotseat in a vain attempt to cover his and his pal's arses when they couldn't measure up? Sounds like sour grapes to me and you wouldn't catch Richard Gough or dare I say it someone like Graham Roberts who was unceremoniously jettisoned, using language which could be twisted in order to damage the club. That said, maybe he is as naive as his defensive coaching at Sheffield Utd, Nottingham Forest and Rangers would suggest.

What does everyone think of this guy? I know that the press are probably twisting his words but given his comments at William Hill's press call does Davie not care about his reputation any longer? Is he so bitter about King that he's prepared to damage the club too to get back at him? I admired him up to a point when he played with us but ever since, especially during his time in the dugout, he has went down in my estimation. His latest utterances confirm to me that he is a quiet, measured, deluded and very much conceited individual. I could go further but this is a family forum. Thoughts? P.S. I'd love to know what Walter thinks of him now.

Before anyone says 'Silva???' I'm thinking of his record at Olympiacos in a league similar to ours which is mainly dominated by two teams. Albeit AEK are the current champions for the first time in twenty odd seasons. He wouldn't be my first choice - just trying to gauge opinion on him.

Who would make a realistic shortlist of five? (Pete, (Little aside here and not that I'm proposing someone with a name like Aloysius, but given where you are, what is LVG up to these days?) If another Portuguese was to be entertained and could be affordable, how about Marco Silva?

Where is Odious Creep employed these days? I know he was bagged as a staffer at the London Times ages ago and came back to the Herald with his tail between his legs. Not that I read the Herald at all these days but didn't he scuttle off in solidarity with Angela Haggerty when Douglas Park threatened to sink the Friday motoring section by pulling ad monies? No doubt he'll be freelancing somewhere, probably in PQ with English and the other beneficiaries of state sponsored nepotism. Well done to C1872 - at least they're doing something constructive on our behalf where this guff is concerned.

Fair enough WGS. I confess; I was too downbeat. Whilst I still think the gist of my thinking is okay, I could deliver my opinions slightly differently and articulate better. Thanks for your feedback.

My question was a rhetorical one. But Erchie could no doubt tell us who replaced who, led to this and that etc., etc. Look at the calibre of Rangers supporting ex-players that they choose to employ. Tells a story. That's before you even get to editorial control and equal opportunities as an employer.

Here's an article from 23rd October 2005 by Alasdair Reid of the Herald which goes some way to illustrate the dismay felt by many as to how the BBC in Scotland has evolved in last decade or so. ON the day that one man's departure from Scottish football sent shock waves reverberating through the sport, another took his leave in a far quieter and more dignified fashion. After 40 years behind his BBC microphone, Alastair Alexander yesterday delivered his last radio commentary as he described the action from Ibrox, where Rangers defeated Motherwell 2-0. At the finish, you might just have caught the slightest crack of emotion in his voice, but for the most part he played the part of the consummate professional, and simply got on with the job. In recognition of one of the legends in his field, and a master of his art, it would have been fitting if Alexander's employers had marked his departure with a tribute that allowed him to recount some of the experiences he acquired in his four decades of travels and travails on the coat-tails of Scottish football. After all, what could be more compelling than the reflections of an intelligent and articulate man on an era of sweeping changes to the game, on the highs of Celtic in Lisbon, Rangers in Barcelona and Aberdeen in Gothenburg, and on the lows of Scotland in Argentina in 1978? It was, you might say, an open goal for Auntie. And, in the best traditions of Scottish football, she responded with a dismal sclaff. When yesterday's edition of Sportsound was over, BBC Scotland simply did what it always does at 5.30pm on a Saturday, and carried on with Your Call, the phone-in show hosted by Jim Traynor. Fair enough, it could be argued, given the hoopla that was unfolding over George Burley's departure from Tynecastle. Except, that is, that not much was actually unfolding at that point, for the BBC, like every other media outlet, was playing a waiting game in the build-up to the 6pm statement from Hearts chairman George Foulkes that would, er, clarify the reasons behind Burley's going. So last night's edition of Your Call was like every other edition since the programme's inception: a deeply depressing sequence of slurred voices and ill-formed opinions that served to illuminate nothing more than the suspicion that the average Scot is still struggling to shake off the shackles of Neanderthal inclinations. It is a worryingly precise reflection of the standards of our national broadcaster that a combination of intoxication and indignation that would make you a menace on the road or an accident and emergency ward seems just the ticket to get you all the airtime you want on the BBC. To which, of course, the mandarins of Queen Margaret Drive would probably witter on self-righteously about their responsibility to give the public a say, without revealing broadcasting's dirtiest little secret: that the public is also conveniently cheap. Such drivel as that programme produces might just be tolerable were it the exception to the norm of BBC Scotland's early-evening output. Yet it has become all too painfully clear recently that Radio Scotland sees its target market in a sector where tying your own shoelaces is an act of high accomplishment and parts of Little Britain could easily be mistaken for outtakes from a fly on the wall documentary. As a consequence, Radio Scotland, a station that came into existence around a quarter of a century ago with a worthy, Reithian brief to serve the country as a whole, is now driven by an agenda as narrow as it is inane. Sure, it still throws up the odd cultural gem, but its weekday prime-time 6pm-7pm slots are now given over completely to football. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are taken by the crashingly pointless 90 minutes, a programme whose sole virtue is to be shorter than its title suggests, while the Thursday slot is given to the dismally unfunny Off The Ball, that carnival of contrived accents and grunting populism of presenters who are clearly still struggling to master the glottal stop. Such output might be acceptable from an independent station, but it amounts to a calamitous dumbing-down to those of us who still cherish the idea of the BBC as a public service broadcaster, with all the noble obligations that status ought to entail. The BBC's most basic duty is to reflect the broad range of public interests, and that duty is all the more pressing in areas that are neglected by commercial rivals. Increasingly, however, the BBC's coverage of any sport other than football sits on a spectrum between tokenism and downright negligence. Nobody would argue that football should be given anything other than the lion's share of the BBC's output in sport, although many would argue that it deserves a far higher quality of coverage. At the most lowly level, there is an obligation on the BBC to provide a basic news service encompassing other sports, but it is failing to do even that. Yesterday, for instance, the Borders rugby team won a notable victory in Italy; it merited not a cheep on the Beeb. Instead, we were assailed by the incoherent opinions of the dregs of the Buckfast generation and their slobbering contributions to a phone-in show. Alexander got out just in time.