Uilleam

All hands to the pumps - that's what needed.

Makes the process of recruitment easier, if potential candidates rule themselves out at pre-selection.

The Board has their fingers up their bums; Murty has his fingers in the dyke; I hope to God no-one has his fingers in the till. I don't know if they are able to get someone in to firefight to the end of the season, without it being an audition for the job. The kind of fellow you want, in all likelihood, will be tied up until the end of the season, and not guaranteed a quick release. Mind you, one never knows.

You are looking for a guy to come in for, what 13 league games, and some in the Cup. I think it will be difficult to get what you are looking for, given the short term nature of the job. One never knows, of course, but someone coming in now, would, I expect, have to be the Man for the long(er) term, which means, I think, that the DoF would have to be in place, too. Therefore, short of somebody doing the Board a favour, this week, we are going to have GM for a few more games, and possibly to the end of the season.

This is not dissimilar to any no of cries from the heart about , and denunciations, condemnations, etc., of ,McCoist's teams, and I mean that as no criticism of your good self. I felt that McCoist's management was characterised mainly by laziness, and cyncism: sign experienced players, who looked good elsewhere, "knew Scottish fitba'", and rely on their talent and experience to ensure a winning combination, with the "efforts" being focused on building team spirit (darts tourneys, ffs). I have come to the conclusion that the current mob, the players, are for the most part not good enough, even to be the best of the rest. I think that you can criticise Warburton's idee fixe of one model of play, too; if it is not broken, don't fix it, of course, but when the ba' is quite clearly burst..... I feel some sympathy for Graeme Murty, precipitated into this mess. Any coach/manager, I think, would struggle to impose tactical change and flexibility (Plan B, maybe C) on players many of whom do not look like they are capable of adaptation, or are even willing to try. One cannot manufacture a Magic Hat from out of a sow's ear. Maybe, Murty, or another coach can galvanise the team, and get them over the line into second spot -second! second! I can't believe I am writing this!- but I am doubtful.

I don't think that's what's meant by "girding your loins for the fight". I do think that Inverness on Friday night (!!) is now a very daunting prospect.

A piece from Oz, earlier this month, re: The Confessional Catholic use of confession to be scrutinised by child abuse royal commission Church argues obligations to report child sexual abuse should not extend to divulging information given in confessional The confidentiality of the confessional box will be examined by the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Australian Associated Press Sunday 5 February 2017 01.45 GMT Whether what is heard in the confessional box should continue to stay there will be considered by the child sexual abuse royal commission as it again turns its focus to widespread offending in the Catholic Church in Australia this week. The former Victorian priest Paul David Ryan, jailed in 2006 for 18 months for indecently assaulting one victim, revealed during a 2015 private hearing that he confessed his sexual activity with adolescent boys to his confessor on multiple occasions. Asked if that was the way he reconciled his actions with God, he said: “Yes. Well I thought I was. I know that was very seriously flawed.” Over the next few weeks the royal commission will look at issues such as the sacrament of confession, celibacy, how priests and religious are selected, trained and supervised, and the church’s structure and governance as it examines why child abuse was so prominent in Catholic institutions. The body co-ordinating the church’s response to the commission argues obligations to report child sexual abuse should not extend to divulging information in the confessional. The Truth Justice and Healing Council chief executive, Francis Sullivan, believed there was no public evidence before the commission of someone actually confessing a crime of child sexual abuse under the seal of confession. Alerted to Ryan’s testimony, Sullivan described it as an absolute abuse of the sacrament. “If he’s saying he’s using the confessional as a way of alleviating his guilt so he can keep on abusing people, that’s an absolute corruption of the use of the confessional and it’s not what it’s about,” he said. “As a Catholic that’s repulses me.” The commission has also heard the Melbourne pedophile Father Victor Gabriel Rubeo used a confessional situation to “take out” his confessor, who had been alerted by one of the priest’s victims. “I gave absolution and, as he walked out the door, he laughed at me,” former priest Philip O’Donnell told a 2015 hearing. “In other words, he made sure that I couldn’t speak to anyone. I felt totally entrapped by that situation.” Sullivan says it is up to the royal commission if it recommends changing privilege laws. “If they do that and if governments change the law then priests like everybody else will need to either abide by the law and, if they don’t abide by the law, they take the consequences.” A spokesman for the victims’ advocacy group Broken Rites, Dr Wayne Chamley, says answering why the abuse occurred is complex. “It’s certainly not just celibacy,” he said. “I think what they’ll get into is this whole process of religious formation where essentially people were depersonalised, so they no longer were capable of empathy.” The royal commission has received information about more than 4000 institutions but Sullivan has acknowledged the Catholic church is the single largest institutional setting in which children have been abused. “It’s terribly important in these three weeks that that phenomenon of the abuse of power, people abusing their positions of power and privilege, is explored,” he said. In the lead-up to the final Catholic hearing, Perth archbishop Timothy Costelloe again apologised for the church’s failures and the pain it caused so many. “The prevalence of sexual abuse of children and young people in so many institutional settings in Australia, including the churches, indicates that there is a sickness at the heart of our nation which simply must be addressed,” Costelloe said. Sullivan said the church in Australia would take very seriously any recommendations or findings from the royal commission, although there may be issues that could only be dealt with by the Vatican. “If the royal commission is talking about changes in the Catholic church that only can occur in Rome, then Rome needs to deal with that,” he said. “The Australian church will deal with what the Australian church can deal with. It’s as practical as that.” Sullivan said the church had already made many changes, including putting in place an independent body to ensure Catholic entities adhered to new national standards to protect children.

Too many duds, and too many of them know it, too.

This is a car crash, a wreck, and the write off value is sod all.

Killie should have had a pen, at about 87/88 mins.

We will be lucky to get somebody decent, with decent experience, to galvanise the squad, on a short contract until the end of the season. Still, you never know.

Is that a 4 - 4 - 2?

We have to assume that the Dof & Chief Coach (or whatever terminology) model is not something that sprung fully formed from Dave King's forehead when the resignations from the unholy trinity were made. Therefore, we, likewise, have to surmise that the Board is not starting from scratch, that, at least, someone has been working on possibilities. That process, again, we must fancy, will now be in the "candidates" stage. We must suppose, too, that the DoF post will be likely to be filled first. How long this, and subsequent appointments, will take, is, well, anybody's guess, but it seems unlikely that the Board will wait until any fallout from the resignations has been dealt with. That would be conceding a position, I think.

Going off topic, Moderator Pete..... I am happy to concede that M. Hemdami is not the pseudonym of Mr. English. Nor does he need lessons, which were never offered, in Rangers' history. A contrarian, clearly, hence my little misconstruction. I can hope, merely, that he will not be travelling the road and the miles to Dundee, in that peculiar, and often perilous vehicle, the High Dudgeon.

Skunk or weed induced paranoia. I think may be more likely.

Blimey, unless I have misinterpreted statements, references, nods, winks, info from men itk, and from people in and around Auchenhowie, the Club proposes to have 1. A Director of Football/Technical Director/Head of Football 2. A 1st Team Coach/1st Team Manager 3. A man in Charge of 1st Team affairs until the end of the season. Therefore all the debate about McLeish/McInnes/ others needs to be seen in the light of the above. The Rumour Factory (on 2 nights and a Sunday, double time) suggests as follows 1. DoF/TD: current favourite, the boy from So'ton, Ross Wilson 2, !st Team Coach: current favourite, Frank de Boer 3. Interim 1st Team Charge d'Affaires : current favourite, Graeme Murty, assisted by Kenny Miller. Further hearsay suggests that Murty is popular with playing staff, seems a good coach, and that 'senior players' have been consulted and contributed to discussions to date. Miller is much respected at Auchenhowie, it appears Without prejudice, and E & OE.

Tell them you are Kenneth MacKellar, there to sing for the guests, and you'll end up getting paid. Your sonorous baritone rendering Scottish Favourites is sure to wow the crowd.

I've never observed them that closely.

They got you expelled from The Elbow Beach Surf Club, a 'strict liability' shop, right enough.

Maybe you offended the 7th Day Adventists.

You should have used your Erse.

That latter suggestion may be accurate, given the Club's many historical links with Wounded Knee.

A Sloan Ranger! About time the Club tapped in to the posh tottie market, i m v h o.

What song did you sing? The public has a right to know.

And hey, if he beats fhilth fc......