It’s just an absolute shambles really and surely the players won’t feel any reassurance if there’s no head coach on day one considering the amount of time they’ve had to find someone
I think Clarke will be away regardless. The club are probably banking on that happening to fund this season's youth recruitment drive in France
First hand knowledge here. No it isn't. These are professional athletes playing at an extremely high level against other professionals. Detail will be instilled from day 1. Prep should've already started so I hope the new coach likes whatever Dodds has planned.
If it is an ex-midfielder, as suggested by someone OTR, the obvious one would be Alex Rae. He's been a manager a couple of times before and seemed to do well, cretainly at Dundee. While hardly an appointment to set the pulses racing but he's someone the fans could get behind.
There would be hell on it we’ve waited this long for that level of appointment like edit, he’s not even managed since 2016 at st mirren if we were up in arms about the current st mirren manager imagine the backlash if this
Bashing the club? It’s an accurate feeling to feel. It’s a joke. If this was any other profession it would be looked at as a disaster. They have this week to get a head coach before it becomes a major major problem imo. A load of players will be reconsidering their options if it gets closer to day one of pre season and still no head coach
Ten laps of the pitch to blow away the hangover and then off to the bookies before the pub opens again man. Tactics are for birds and ****ters. If we're going full on 70s
Also the longer this takes and the more stupid it becomes it’ll not be long before the football world starts judging us from it. Potential players wary of what they would be going into etc. uncertainty all over the place especially for a club that wants to attract young talent. Not good at all
You are optimistic if you don't think there will be hell on about whoever is appointed. I'd like them to go back to Rosenior but that would result in hell on. Alex Rae would be a bizarre appointment but once the 'hell on' had subsided he's someone we could get behind him unlike the awful Mick Beale. I'm not saying I want Rae but he has managed a couple of clubs and then had lots of coaching experience in England, Scotland and Belgium.
Support who comes in and being happy with the appointment are two seperate things though, bit of a mute point re Rae anyway as no way in hell would it be him
Fair enough but if you genuinely don’t think this is a problem at all or disagree with the fact that players wouldn’t be very happy with it. I’d love to know what you know that I don’t on how that wouldn’t be the case
I won't bash the club while they are trying to employ a new coach. Best chill and relax until it's sorted.
Some won't like to hear this but I am starting to feel like the club are scared to move in any direction due to most of the names being linked with the job splitting opinion (Lampard, Heckingbottom etc). The club made a rash of mistakes in a very short period of time with the Mowbray sacking, Beale appointment and the derby fiasco. It feels like they're sh!tting their pants that whatever option they land on will cause more discontent.
