PoohBear

I don’t really see the point in changing manager right now. We just need to keep clearing out players and reducing the wage bill and appoint a suitable manager at an appropriate time. Not sure what any manager can do with a shit squad and no leeway in the wage bill. We seem to be masters at sacking off managers mid season, bringing in a new manager, I rather wait to the off-season and make sweeping changes. I don’t know if there is enough time to do it by tgis summer in all honesty.

I think I'm probably in the minority here but I'd keep Clement, not spend a penny in Jan and try and clear out as many of the players as possible this year. Get the wage bill to a level where we can bring in a new manager and offer them some choice in the transfer market. We don't have a chance with this league, it's long gone. Better to prepare ourselves for the future. We also somehow need to get an experienced footballing person in at board level. I don't really know who that would be, honestly, but it's clear the board need significant help in making the correct choices. My heart says someone like Alex Ferguson, I doubt he would take it though and in reality my brain says that a manager may not actually be the right person for the job. There needs to be a person who understands both the running of the club and the footballing side of it at board level. Someone with current knowledge of the game and the financial aspects. It's a mess that we've somehow managed to make worse and worse. The board were fucking mental giving clement that extension, but I think they knew we were in for a mess and this was their way of telling the support that there is a project going on and nothing will get in its way. The project is to achieve financial stability no matter what, presumably.

What I mean is we should be using this time to bring down the wage bill drastically, accept that this is going to be a shit period, keep clement in place whilst this is happening, then when the wage bill is under control let someone else rebuild the squad.

The team should be cleared out under Clements watch and then bring in another manager with a clean slate. No hangovers.

I think all the talk about tactics really overstates how important they are. Of course you need a well set up team, but at the end of the day it's the quality of the players and their motivation to play for the team that will win us games.

We could make him manager? Kill two birds with one stone.

This feels worse than when we had Barton in the team.

I knew it was going to be a bad season, but not this bad.

I didn't say Aberdeen had anything to do with us dropping points. Aberdeen have a new manager and a pretty large change of personnel with fewer resources. The comparison of their fortunes and ours does not give clement a good look. I will bow to the XG god though, hopefully he strikes soon.

Unfortunately for Clement I think Aberdeen have killed him off. I've always said that it's going to take a season or more to get back on track and that this season is not worth judging him on. However, it's very hard to justify that when Aberdeen are going on such a good run with no where near the resources.

Bogging lineup! Need to win this today

I don't think there is any revolt going on (aside from our style of football), however, if there are any players kicking up a fuss then get rid. I'm tired of wanks.

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see much of Danilo this season. Can't feel positive about it at all.

Aye? Not being funny but the club has a tendency to feed untruths to these guys when it comes injuries. Lawrence and Igmame spring to mind.

That would be mad, and exactly the sort of behaviour that got us into this mess.

This is the problem, we have chopped 10 mil or more off the wage bill if rumours are to be believed. Trying to extract more from players on much less is going to be very difficult. I also don't think this rebuild is anywhere near finished yet. This is going to be multiple windows before we can get ourselves righted again.

McLeish restructured a team of 100 million or so, and we still had the financial clout and reputation to capture the two most desirable free transfers in the world at the time, when the restructuring really started we had to scrape the barrel and came 3rd in the league. We are unfortunately restructuring from a well beaten second best team this time round, and we have been psychologically rammed. The only way out I see is if we actually put a long term plan of action into place, and this probably means short term misery.

To be honest I sympathise with Clement. He is overseeing the largest financial restructuring since McLeish, and the football was absolutely bogging back then too. It's going to be like this for a while.

Bradaric sounds too much like Barasic. It's a no from me.

Thought we were pretty good tonight. I didn’t think I’d ever say this but I don’t see how we can sell Dessers. It would be a massive risk now, I’m not convinced with our other options, but to be fair Danilo has been out a while and needs game time.

😑 Groin strain. Really.

We’ve regressed but I think ultimately that is what we have had to do to move forward in the future. We need to clear players out and bring in players for the future, we are going to have a period of building and I don’t think there will be much light this year. I don’t see any point in moving on Clement, he has been given an overpaid and tired squad. It’s going to take time to turn it all around. I think there needs to be changes behind the scenes more than in our manager.

Well, that's bullshit.

We need midfielders. Not sure what his quality is like these days but we could do with Scottish experience in there so it could be a decent and cost effective option. Clearly the manager is going to be able to get a good look at him beforehand.

Who wouldnt want to head to Cyprus to retire? Lovely, good luck to Goldson.