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Hopefully we've got him on a month-to-month contract.

Alistair Fraser tweeting that it's Robertson.

Foran re-appointed, lol.

Scottish football is full of ideas that will never, ever die and this is one of them. A load of total *****.

Are we back to looking at managerial win percentages? Danny Lennon doesn't have a perfect record but he had several tricky jobs. He took Cowdenbeath to two successive promotions, which is probably the best outcome you could hope for with them. He kept St Mirren in the top flight and won a major trophy, again probably the best he could hope for. The fact they've dropped like a stone since he was let go is indicative that he did a pretty good job. They didn't ever set the heather on fire in the Premiership but the two 8th place finishes he managed were the best positions that St Mirren have finished in since the 1980s. Since then he's had two short-term appointments - he kept Alloa up but didn't manage to kick on the following season and then had a short spell at Airdrie to cover for when Eddie Wolecki had a stroke. He's not a glamour choice or anything like that but he has experience of managing sides at this level, and above. He has been involved in Scottish football for a long time so will hopefully have a good understanding of the teams around us and be able to prepare the team a bit better than we were last season. I wasn't particularly impressed with his St Mirren team but you can't argue with his achievements. Also, for someone like Danny Lennon, we are a huge opportunity, we are the biggest club he'll probably get a shot at managing at the moment. He'll certainly be motivated to succeed. If we do appoint him I would be happy.

Do other clubs fans and former players continually harp on about getting back previous managers/players, or is it just us?

Falkirk fans on P&B saying that we've signed John Baird. Ultra-experienced First Division striker. Good recent record. Solid signing I'd say.

The communications from the club have been pish for years, the club statements are poorly written, aren't clear and in many cases are actually infuriating. Things like the statement about Greg Tansey when he was targeted by Aberdeen, the bizarre statement when Hughes left, the fact that we were publicising a "one course meal and pay bar" for the Champions League final minutes after we were smashed by our local rivals. That's continued in this close season. A perfunctory statement detailing that Foran is leaving, a few puff pieces about the new board and then worst of all the announcement of season ticket prices. If the statement on season tickets had been thought through even for a couple of minutes then it would've included an acknowledgement that some fans would be disappointed at the prices but that the club need to maintain them to allow us to challenge then people might have come around to it. As it was there a single, throwaway sentence about the prices. You don't need to be a communications genius to anticipate what the reaction will be to something and try to head it off at the pass, as it were. When you look at clubs like Hearts and Hibs who have focused on communications from the board and club, it's night and day for us and it doesn't have to cost money. The updates Hearts issue from Ann Budge, the way Leanne Dempster has had an impact at Hibs - this is a cultural change and it doesn't have to cost money. Since the board talked about appointing a general manager, the role has been discussed as something like having a 'football man' on the board, like Malpas or Butcher. I think the role needs to be more than that, needs to encompass how the club engages with the fans, with sponsors and local businesses, with government agencies, with the wider community. A big part of that is having someone with overall responsibility for this and the GM could do that. I'm sure Don did lots for the club without pay and the YouTube stuff is excellent. The Twitter account was engaging and responded well to queries rather than just pushing out links to the website, which is a lot better than most clubs official Twitter accounts. I do think that perhaps the club have taken advantage of him a bit if he's been doing all this without pay though and there's surely someone at the club now who can operate a Twitter account to send out the latest fixtures? It's almost passive-aggressive to just not do anything.

As with Paul Sheerin, if Darren Dods hadn't played for us would people want him?

Dundee United have significant debts, we don't. Also, the compensation for Sheerin won't be significant. Recently Jack Ross was linked heavily with Dundee and it was widely reported that the compensation clause in his contract was £20,000. I'd amazed if there was any sort of clause like that in a Development managers contract.

Sheerin would be an underwhelming appointment but better than appointing some utter Scottish football jobber. Coaching under 20s is different from being a manager, please remember that when discussing his record at Aberdeen if we appoint him. He had a great start to his time at Arbroath, nearly taking them to successive promotions but fell away badly and got relegated. He has no experience of managing full-time players. He has spent the last twenty years in Scottish football, suggesting he'll focus on recruiting domestic players rather than casting the net wider the way we've done in the last few seasons.

Saw someone on Twitter post that we have interviewed Terry Butcher, Danny Lennon and Colin Calderwood.

Billy Reid did a great job at Hamilton and basically laid the foundations for all their success. The emphasis on youth and the organised system that they play is down to him. I'm not sure he's the person you want to come in and make a diffference straight away though. He was given a long run as Accies manager and waa able to out that in place. We need someone to come in, out a squad together and get us competing straight away. Billy Davies has an excellent track record as a manager in the second tier in England, I think it's highly doubtful that he's want to drop down to our level. He's also a notoriously difficult person to get on with, although the lesser press scrutiny up here might be a good thing for him. I'd say there's little chance of him coming here though. I wish he would, if only so I could hear Bannerman try to interview him.

I'd be amazed if we go for someone like Aitken. I doubt (and hope) that none of the speculation is relevant - we've just revamped the board so it's doubtful that journalists will have relevant contacts with people at the club to get inside scoops on what is going on. Our fans do seem to be obsessed with returning to previous managers and ex-players. If Sheerin hadn't played for us, literally nobody would be suggesting him as a candidate

The Caley Thistle Massive are loving it

I don't think it's really surprising that any of these players are leaving. Meekings already intimated that he would be leaving at the end of his contract, he's far too good for the Championship to be honest. Billy Mckay isn't our player and is probably well outside our price range. Alex Fisher would've been a good signing in the Championship though, that's a blow that he is leaving but if he's got a better offer elsewhere then you can understand it. Ainier, Ebbe, Cole, King, Laing, Horner and Brown? None of them are going to make any real difference to the team. Anier is one of the worst players I've ever seen for us, utter, total garbage. Cole showed a few sparkles but really, what was his contribution? Nothing. King is the same, a player who just took up space on the pitch without doing anything. Laing had a couple of decent games but was also in the side for some of our shellackings that saw us pushed into the spiral of doom. Horner is a bench-warmer, I hope he gets himself out of the hole he's found himself in though. Jason Brown I've not seen so can't say anything about. Ebbe may have done OK in a few Development games but there's a big jump from that to being a professional starter. Hopefully he's learned from the experience, he seems a decent guy. Looking at it, we haven't had a summer where we made significant improvements to the team since 2013 - we are stale and ended up suffering due to it. We tried to add players of quality to the 'spine' but added dross and when the established spine didn't perform we couldn't buy a win. We need a manager in place to change the ennui around the club at the moment and keeping the list of players above isn't really going cut it. Sadly, I think we'll recruit some useless jobber who'll sign complete *****. Oh well.

The statement is terribly written as well, a single throwaway line about why the prices are staying the same. Every time the club put any sort of statement out there's something off or annoying about it. From announcing Yogi had left without saying he'd left, to that farce about the "routine board meeting". I don't know who is writing these but they have no idea about communicating clearly and honestly.

No idea where they get these rumours from. Highly placed secretive sources IMO.

Ian Murray was the hot Scottish manager when he kept Dumberton in the Championship and established them there as a part-time side. He got a move to a bigger, full-time club in St Mirren and it was an absolute disaster, binned after 20 games. Often successful managers have to pick their club as much as be picked.

Or try and get things moving so we could have something to tell the fans when putting season tickets on sale? Considering board members were resigning six weeks ago over the position of Foran I don't believe that we haven't had a chance to try and get things moving in terms of finding a new manager or recruiting for next season. The comment about next season's promotion really sticks in the craw though. Who puts something like that in a statement telling the fans they'll be paying Premiership prices for Championship tickets?

Absolutely pathetic. We've got ten outfield players and no manager. We haven't announced anything about players to be released or retained or anything. But we put out a press release saying that we are keeping Premiership prices in the Championship with a line like that in it. We aren't in a position to be arrogant. I understand that we probably need to keep those prices but FFS, at least sugar coat it with some sort of positive announcement.

Fairly sure we're going to get some completely useless jobber.

Malpas has issued a "come and get me plea" according to today's P&J. Hopefully the fact that he has to issue a plea means that we aren't considering him. I do get the feeling that we didn't plan following the sacking of Foran and will probably end up appointing some useless jobber in a hurry.

I wouldn't mind a team of thugs who hoof it up the park to be honest, as long as we win. I just don't think we would under McPherson. I'm very wary of appointing youth coaches as first team coaches. It's a completely different type of coaching, you are developing players in the under 20s, professional sport is about winning, we need to get a winner, someone who will give focus and drive and understand how to arrange the side to win games. Malpas isn't a number 1, I'd expect him to get the DoF/GM role.