Oleg_Mcnoleg

There were plenty of 'Senderos should never wear the shirt again' posts after his last outing against Morton. Not from me, I should add. He certainly wasn't great but thought a couple of (admittedly pretty terrible) errors overshadowed his overall which was okish, especially as he's been out of the team for so long.

I agree, of course, but the first half wasn't any improvement on some of the performances under him and these are supposed to be better players.

Players who were playing shit under Warburton are playing shit under Murty. It's almost as if there's a pattern. Who would you have liked him to select who would have made a great difference? Kante? Iniesta? Baresi circa 1990? In apportioning blame for the performance amongst club employees, Murty lies slightly above the staff in the ticket office.

I'm beginning to genuinely hate these players.

It's good that we've got a consensus emerging: none of the options are good enough and it's all shite.

He can. He was terrific in a number of games last year, including Celtic and that utter doing we gave Dundee. He's playing badly at the moment and has his limitations. Had our summer transfer window not been such a bollocks, he wouldn't be playing every minute of every game in a position which he says is not his preferred one. He's no Makelele but your criticism is just daft.

we seem to alternating between calls for some obscure Dutchman who's doing extraordinary zen coaching shit in the Congolese division two for blind kids ("I read about him in The Blizzard but already knew all about him. You reckon you've heard of him? Well I meant that other one you've never heard of") and demanding Pep Guardiola or nothing.

Eh? do you mean he's got the next two games and, if he avoids a car crash, will stay for the remainder of the season?

Add to that get some bodies in the box when we're attacking. If we get the ball in wide attacking areas, Miller seems to head for the centre circle. It's fine if he's trying to draw defenders out the way but it needs somebody to fill the fuqing gap he leaves. On playing it out, yes. Fine to persist with but no to the exclusion of all else. You'd hope a couple of quick long balls might deter teams from committing too strongly to a high press. Of course, how teams seem to manage to defend against us with nine men in their own area whilst simultaneously pressing high is something somebody cleverer than me will need to explain.

Mayor of Gosford, I think. Met him and Muscat watching on old firm game in the Canberra RSL a few years ago. Good bear and nice bloke. Did a decent job at CCM too (though that should not be taken as a recommendation for the Gers job!)..

quite. It's really not good. I'm not convinced Muscat would even be the first pick from the A league, other than that he's a bear. Perhaps we should just ask Lawrie McKinna to come out of semi-retirement: good record at CCM with a fraction of the resources of the big city teams and a real Rangers man (no, that wasn't a serious suggestion!). Muscat might be inspired but has real Deila mark 2 potential

Can't believe Muscat's in the frame. He's done well in the A league but, to be honest, the standard is pretty lousy. He might be an inspired appointment but hell of a step up from Melbourne Vicotry to a club like Rangers.

You could both be correct. You rightly say that you don't want just anyone who has coached in Europe. But he rightly notes you completely lose your shit at the mere mention of Eck and can't think about him with any perspective.

Whether you rate McInnes or not, given his resources I'm not sure how close he should be running Celtic. With rather less resources than us, he is currently closer to Celtic than we are. On that evidence he would improve us.

Indeed. 433 is popular because it so readily transforms into something else. But we seem to have lost the ability or willingness to do that. Too often, our movement with and without the ball is shite.

Either the club has made a total bollocks of this or, rather more likely, everyone's arguing about technicalities which will end up being settled out of court for an undisclosed sum which is more than we want to pay but less than they're asking for. If there's no recording of the agent's discussion we're into the 'he said/she said' realm.

Don't think we have a choice but to improve incrementally: the amount of money we have available is not going to buy us 12 or more players of a standard that will improve us markedly. A bit of robustness in the midfield and somebody who could hit coo's erse with a banjo would, IMHO, make us look a very different proposition. As you say, we tried it last summer but, for reasons we've trawled over plenty, we did it badly. I'd also add that the players mentioned have all shown they can contribute. For xample, Halliday's been getting it in the neck plenty but he was never supposed to be starting every game in that position, regardless of form, He's had some excellent shifts over his time at the club and would've thought he'd continue to be a very useful squad member even if we look to strengthen there (and I really hope we are!).

In terms of numbers, it slightly depends on who the the five or six players are. Could players like Halliday, Holt, Wilson, Waghorn, Tav, WIndass etc not be useful players if they have some genuine class and experience alongside them?

As I said, it was a collective cock-up. Hill's header puts the ball right into trouble, Halliday's touch isn't great but it was a crap header, and Hill and Senderos are flat-footed, and Wes goes down in monthly installments. That's Hill mentioned twice so if you insist on blaming any one individual, there you go. Hill doesn't puts his header wide or, better, out, none of it happens.

Several things went wrong for the goal so no point in blaming one player. Hill's header was a stinker (though was a only a metre away from Halliday so we might have got luckier); Halliday's man got goalside of him; Senderos charged at a ball he couldn't get, leaving his man free in the process; and Wes went down in slow motion. A collective balls-up.

It's a slightly semantic debate: by that point, the game opened up and we had the ball to such an extent that the wide players--whether midfielders or forwards--were able to spend most of their time pushing forwards.

If he could just finish. At least a couple of times he had fucking to score but didn't. Summed up the team as a whole, tbh: clearly some ability in there but they're all absolutely terrified.

look like they've just met at times.

In partial defence of McLeish, he was in charge when the finances started to bite (something he's repeated down south, for his sins). In his poorest season, he had that ridiculous supermarket sweep for players shortly before the season started to try and put a team out. He's also probably the manager that's given our youth players the most chance, albeit as a consequence of dramatic cost-cutting. At his worst, he had us playing a pretty but ineffectual passing game. But he's only being touted as an interim manager to the season's end. Unless we go on some extraordinary unbeaten run under him, winning the cup and smashing the Tims in remaining fixtures, he wouldn't be looked at for the long term. It's not particularly inspiring but can't see anyone we might really like the look of taking it until the summer. And if he does ok, he's refreshed his cv and has a route back into management elsewhere.

What absolute bollocks.