The Long Man

Didn't mention the managerial issues then?

bit premature there, still a long way to go, with the odds against us. We've seen false dawns under Foran before, he is still capable of shooting himself in both feet.

Just open the fecking gates

Would you believe it. Onwards and upwards. Dundee, how much do you want to beat Hamilton on Saturday?

I just want to hear that whistle.

For god's sake Foran, what is the matter with you? Our most likely to score player for one who has shown nothing.

According to the radio 4-1-4-1. Guess what - a hitherto untried combination! If you roll the dice every Saturday, I daresay one day it will come up trumps. The bugle sounds!

If Dundee are not feeling the motivation tonight, what will they feel like on Saturday against a desperate and up-for-it Hamilton? Doh

Good question. Fisher must wonder why he had to wait the whole season to get a chance.

I hope so, because if Dundee get one back, which sounds possible, we might crumble with nerves.

we've been comatose all season, and now we've suddenly woken up. Our second away win of the season on the cards, lol.

I'm feeling light headed and confused. But I like it. Dundee not having to get anything helps - will it be the same at the weekend?

Lock up Foran in the team bus, and let the players sort themselves out. Best chance of doing something. I can hear the post match interview already..

Our hearts are with you, even if they're in our mouths. D-Day! It'll be torture listening to this on the radio.

Oh well, we're not quite dead and buried yet. Still on life support though. Divine intervention required.

We did try for him once before. But he falls into the camp of player turned not very good manager. We already have one of them.

That is the most worrying possibility - that after a mass exodus, including our best players, we will have to rebuild a new squad. Would you trust Foran with that? It has all the makings of a disaster if that were to happen. Surely his position is utterly untenable. He hasn't shown a spark of ability over an entire season, and has been making the same mistakes every single week. He should consider himself lucky to have survived the season, he wouldn't have anywhere else.

He was trying Draper up front in October. It didn't work then. So what makes him think it will suddenly work now? Six months later and same old story.

It's doubtful we'll be in a situation where we have the luxury of many candidates to choose from.

That is ancient history and irrelevant now. Please don't bring up that old nonsense as having anything to do with what is happening now. We have had a bad, ok terrible, season. That doesn't mean everything we have achieved in the past isn't something to be proud of. Take it as an opportunity to have some root and branch reform behind the scenes, bring in a new management team, and there is no reason it won't look a lot better next year. I don't assume we can bounce straight back, but we can build from the rubble of this year, if those in charge take the chance that change always brings.

Hartley was the favoured candidate, as i understand, but wouldn't move to the Inverness area for the job, and would thus commute back and forth. It was felt that meant he wasn't committed and he would follow the others out of the club as soon as a better job offer came along. Hughes committed to staying here. That was the difference. This time I could care less about that, and would take whoever I thought would rebuild us and get us promoted, even if not at first go. Bear in mind how difficult we have have found it in the past, and have spent significant amounts of time before finding anybody. So if Hartley was up for it (and he may not fancy it, who knows) the huge benefit would be that he could start almost immediately, and of course he knows the leagues inside out - not always the case with new managers.

Heaven help us. Draper up front. FFS

Playing 'whose fault is it' is pointless now. Foran owns it. What is far more important is that we get rid of the failure Foran, and appoint somebody who can rebuild us.

The question is what has he learnt from last week, and will he build on it? Prove us wrong, Foran.