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Its not lack of experience, its lack of tactical knowledge and not being good enough on the park.

You could have 8 strikers but you would still play 1 upfront and another on the right wing. All season at least 2 strikers have been available and AM has played 1 upfront.

That one hasnt worked out since day one. His signings were poor. They have more tough fixtures coming up so could go down.

Stepped in today for STB with a brieft preview as it wasnt posted on match day 8am GMT for a 12pm kick off

Doesnt take much logic to realise pushing it to start in 3-4 months time is a bit soon and unorganised. Not to mention unfair.

Come on STP, shake a leg

Yup including Ian Durrant

Its a bit of a catch 22. Sign a decent standard of players to get us up the leagues but when we get there we cant be sitting 3rd-11th and just fitting in. This is where planning from the management (Green down) have to have a plan in place. Likes of Sandaza on a 4 year deal is crazy.

I should add are we aiming for mediocrity? When we eventually do get to the SPL we want to use funds to bring in much better quality. If we go down this route of Daly, Davidson and others already mixed with what we have we are digging a big hole again for ourselves. We will have a large wage bill.

Platini needs to jog on. I dont like anything he has done in his job. His ruining the Euros by playing it in multi countries, ruling out goal mouth tech amoungst others. This topic doesnt have anything to do with him at this stage.

Aberdeen can have him. Im getting concerned about the number if incoming average SPL players we are being linked with. They will go on 3-4 year deals and buy that time we will be in the SPL again with a squad full of players who arent good enough to challenge for the title.

The play off teams should fight against the change from every angle.

Your right there. 79 pts and +62 goal difference at this stage. 9 pts and 11 goals better off than us. Just shows its consistancy that counts.

How does all this non Rangers stuff end up in here these days. I was about to start a thread in Footie Chat about QotS where it should be. Congratulations to them, they have won the league but dont have a clue who they will be playing next season.

As talented a player Durrant was he just comes across as thick to me and its showing. Does he think things are like it was in the 9IAR era where the strongest personalitites and squad bonding was there? He cant assume all youngsters are the 'laugh a minute confident type'....I know when I was 17 or 18 I could be a quiet person and often gave too much respect to elders. This can have an effect on self confidence. Instead of coming out with such comments, and Ally has done recently also, why dont they get on a man management course and realise humans are individuals. Some will react to a rollicking and some will react with a private word or arm around the shoulder. Handling inner pressure is within everyone of us, its just about finding it and sometimes you need a morale boost from someone / somewhere to bring it out of you.

We started playing the best football under PLG since Advocaat, yet while we got a few poor results and dropped behind Celtic you could clearly see what PLG was trying to do throughout the team, compare that to today and we are getting poor results, performances with no picture at all of what AM is trying to do.

And even that role is beginning to make him look silly with some recent comments. Im with the agreement he deserves to stay until the end of this season to get part 1 (out of Div 3) done, or in his own words "over the line". Terrific striker, terrific man, forever a legend, but not a coach / manager.

4 or 5 players in the team I wouldnt recognise if they bought me a beer. All time rock bottom Scottish game. National team an embarrassment and havent qualified for a tournament since 98 when the SPL was formed, clubs going into administration, financial struggles, 3 governing bodies trying to make up leagues for a new season which starts in 16 weeks time. Who have Regan and Doncaster been in bed with! They should be sent packing back down south.

Another expectation was to have the league wrapped up in march. Its going to slip into April.

No to Keegan and a Champions league winner but yes to Calderwood Id put David Icke in goal if he's available! As well as being a man who talks sense he was a decent keeper.

Saying its a missed opportunity is looking long term IMO. But we should be looking at both the now and future, the two are not mutually exclusive. We're not going to spit the dummy out about the Ramsdens cup but we should have strolled that competition. We will probably look back and wonder why we didnt win it. I dont agree with the term you're only as good as your last result. Everton got beat 3-0 by Wigan at home in the cup 2 weeks ago and nobody assumed Everton were a poor team over night. The odd shock or poor result is acceptable in football.

Ive always thought Kevin Keegan would be an interesting pick. At least 4-5-1 would be binned. Going English or foreign would be appealing. Bobby Di Matteo would be a good shout if he doesnt get a job down south soon.

Depends what the standards are. Off the field to come through what we did and have our future secured has to be a success. On the field is a mass missed opportunity which may be seen as a failure in 5 years time. Performances and recent results along with the Ramsden Cup is a failure.

This link has one back since the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when McCoist was commentating and made connections with Honduras. Steve Bruce and Wigan have done well in that market but that is Premier League.

That was going to be my point. He inherited a squad of league winners. What confuses me is when he took charge of cup games under Walter the team looked attack minded yet now they dont. It could relate back to the other point that for those cup games he had a sensible / experienced head like Walter next to him and now his coaching team is lacking in this. Ive said 100 times this season not having a stronger assistant could cost him his managerial future.