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Hopefully we do OK for the rst of the season, he leaves in June and Richie takes over.

That's the best case scenario.

I'll give him a chance but if we lose to St MIrren he should be sacked.

Derek Riordan is pish now.  He can't get a gig in the lower leagues.  If Hughes tries to sign him we should sack him.

Absolutely awful appointment.  He did OK at Falkirk but succeeded with a bigger budget than his First Division rivals and he left them with a squad of raw kids and past-it old pros.  Then at Hibs he had a good start, mainly due to signing Anthony Stokes, but followed that up with a horror run towards the end.  If Yogi's last 38 games were taken as a full season then they'd probably have been relegated (they got 33 points).  Since then it's been Livingston and Hartlepool, doing nothing.

He's one of these managers who "tries to play football the right way" which is code for playing tippy-tappy garbage with no cutting edge, passing the ball back and forth in your own centre circle then either losing possession or knocking it long.  He's from the Alex Smith school of Scottish football management, no doubt we'll hear that SMith singing his praises in the press soon enough.  I can also see him making unnecessary changes to our team with the justification that he "has confidence in his own methods" and wants to "put his own stamp on things".  This is one of the things you get with an 'experienced' manager - managers who  have failed yet have the arrogance to persist with the methods that have seen them fail.

We didn't/don't need an experienced manager, we are the perfect job for a young new fresh manager.  As it is we've joined the Scottish football merry-go-round of pish managers.  Terrible, terrible move from the board.

Clyde would be good.  How do you get to Stranraer?

 

 

That beard he had made him look like a tramp.

Hartley also looks a bit like someone who has a cardboard sign saying "HOMLESS AND HUNGARY EX-SOLJER PLEASE GIVE MONEY FOR DRUGS CUP OF TEA" in his back pocket.

With these comments Im assuming you're a David Beckham lookalike !!!

To be fair when I see Chris I do think 'Is that Gerard Butler straight from the set of 300?'

 

I probably shouldn't wear a toga and sandals and carry a sword.

That beard he had made him look like a tramp.

Hartley also looks a bit like someone who has a cardboard sign saying "HOMLESS AND HUNGARY EX-SOLJER PLEASE GIVE MONEY FOR DRUGS CUP OF TEA" in his back pocket. 

Everyone hated Paul Hartley, he was one of those players.

He changed through his career, starting as a winger, moving inside to be an attacking midfielder at Hearts and then playing deeper.  Perhaps I'm reaching a bit but that bodes well for him as a coach I think - he's obviously shown that he can learn new skills, is good positionally and can develop.

To extend the metaphor i read in another thread - Its like once you split up with an ex, after seeing her with another man - you realise you have a six pack, fantastic prospects and your better off without her. Just then, you get laid after a night in hoots and she stays all weekend and ends up being your bird, your ex seems like a fat user!!

I actually voted Barry for the job, but I'm team Hartley now!

So you are saying that Paul Hartley is your new girlfriend?  Interesting.

I think CaleyDawson was ripping the pash.

I forgot Foran was suspended

--------------------------Esson-----------------------

--Shinnie----Meekings----Warren----Tremarco---

--------------Draper---------Polworth----------------

------Watkins---------Ross----------Doran----------

---------------------McKay-----------------------------

Are there highlights on Saturday night? 

I don't think we need a big personality to take the team forward.  Our team is good as it is, we are in our best ever position, we have leaders all over the pitch (Warren, Shinnie, Foran, Draper).  It's not as though a manager is taking over a down on it's luck group who need gee'd up.

No-one in the media or the bookies has any idea.  I doubt many of the newspaper or BBC Scotland hacks have any real contacts in our boardroom, they just appear to have listed out of work names, a couple of ex-ICT players and up and comers. 

The idea behind stealing flags comes from the Ultra culture in European football - an Ultras group were supposed to disband if someone else nicked their flag.  The idea being that you would storm their end and beat them in a fight until you could swipe their flag.  I'm guessing that this didn't happen in this case

 

Tomorrow we play one of our greatest rivals, without a rudder on the ship. It will not do.

 

Don't worry, Kel will do perfectly well. If nothing else his substitution numbers should be ok after all that maths help I gave him when he sat next to me in school. Taught him all he knows.

 

How old do you feel having an SPL manager who was in the same year at school as you?

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Bennett says his decision has been prompted by '.... growing reservations abt the boardroom mix and influence that is having.'

As above.  Reported by Tyrone on Twitter.

Top photo Mantis, it was a beauty of a free kick by Greenhalgh.

We were on top in the first half but Hearts had much the better of the second.  The only real chance we created was a late free kick by Liam Polworth. 

It was freezing.  My knee seized up it was so cold.

Richie Foran

I'm off work on Tuesday, am considering cycling over to Newtongrange for this.

South America eh?

Sergio Markarian ;)

There used to be guys who took a 'Leith Caley' flag to games, haven't seen it in a few years.

Leith is a great part of town.  Trainspotting was set in the early 80s, it's all gentrified now with Swedish themed pubs and latte bars on every corner.

Derek Adams joining would be like that weird time when Harry Redknapp went from Portsmouth to Southampton and then back again.

Neil Warnock was linked with us in 2007 when we appointed Brewster for the second time.

Given Hearts turnover of managers perhaps a Manager of the Month award would be better suited for Tynecastle.

Lazslo won the football writers manager of the year award and the SPL award