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Archie as his assistant? 🙂

I'm totally with you on this. in fact I'm absolutely beelin'.

Probably says more about me, but if we're not in the play offs I really hope they get promoted. In an ideal world they should be automatically relegated for having too many roundabouts in their town. But failing that just get them out of this League.

Spot on. Clearly defined roles imperative. Depending on the age and experience of the Head Coach there may require an initial level of mentoring. Something that having been thrown in at the deep end Doolan didn't receive.

We undoubtedly require a straight replacement for Martin. I thought we might have to get a player on a season loan but Wilson definitely fits the bill. Need that position covered to have other retained midfielders play in their more natural positions. Just listened to Mr Wilson's rather upbeat Jagszone edit on the official site. I guess sometimes you just have to draw ugly.

I suppose we've played worse but as an overall game I can't mind one so completely devoid of any skill whatsoever from either team. I doubt we won more than a couple of attacking headers in midfield. And given the aerial route we far too often opted for just exasperated things. I'm far from convinced that O'Reilly is a credible left back. One thing he most certainly isn't is a left wing back. That made it all the more important to play balls thru the middle. Unfortunately our interpretation of balls thru the middle are punts over the top to two of the smallest players on the park, Fitzpatrick and Lawless.

Maybe it's only in the top tier but I believe away fans have to be in adjacent stands. Agree that Falkirk were very accommodating when we won the League.

I think the only difference now is that we've gone from Dunfermline being more desperate for the three points to a situation where both teams will be equal on that score. Jagfox calls it right. Dunfermline's relegation fears are eased not gone.

Never again! The last tradesman left just the other week. Should never have let the Club talk me into it. Jack Storer was bad enough but when his faither turned up that was the end!!!

I'm not too clever with these sort of things but my reading of Charge 1 is of "out and out cheating".

Feel kinda sorry for Scott Robinson. Seem to mind he left mainly as he was offered a two and a half year deal.

Don't see why this will necessarily be an easier game, given Dunfermline will have more to play for than our next two opponents. Not that hopeful but I feel anything less than three points and Raith will finish fourth.

Morally you could get round it by not replacing divots, especially after playing your pitching wedge off a few greens.

A more subtle way of time wasting (in evidence a few times yesterday) is for a player (often the goalie) to try to take a free kick twenty yards up the park from where it should be taken. The ref will either let it go, which will be an advantage in itself, or as often as not wave the player back the stolen yards. If the player is cute enough finding the right blade of grass to take the kick will add on many a good few seconds.

That's true. Also helps that the current manager is not responsible for assembling the squad. A serious problem is by and large the current crop are contracted into next season.

Didn't look like Dan O'Reilly had been practising overhead kicks.

I'll leave the talk of manager to the other thread. Regardless tho' who is in charge how can we possibly get results with a midget midfield consisting of Crawford, Turner & Stanway? Do we really expect Turner in the holding role to win his fair share of 50/50 balls? Why he was left so isolated is anyone's guess. It's not as if we were compensating by attacking thru the middle. I realise Bannigan would normally have played but he can only offer damage limitation.

Thought Fitzpatrick was the only one to get pass marks.

Highly likely Neilson would have been Jags manager after Archibald had the Dundee Utd job not become available or we had sacked Archie a few weeks earlier. Instead we ended up with Caldwell.

No idea. I'd just like to step off the train in Inverness not having to head off to the wilderness in a howling gale dressed like Captain Oates.

Mind we're talking Head Coaches and not managers. There's likely to be a plethora of ex managers out there who were good coaches but failed in the managerial aspects of the job. Conversely we all know the characters who were no doubt fine behind the scene but were not the greatest when it came to tactics, coaching etc.

For my money Cammy Bell is the most prolific user of the "listen" word. Once even managed to use it twice in the one sentence. Rebel that he is, Michael Stewart himself no past stranger to starting a sentence with a "listen", appears lately to have broken the mould. He now prefers to kick off his sentences with the word "look".

I never wished ill on them but was hoping they'd have to move ground. Share with Clachnacuddin preferably.

Sense the overriding factor, above even defined roles and responsibility, will be the standard of compatibility between SD and Head Coach. A really good working relationship and the whole could be greater than the sum of the parts. The opposite can of course also apply. You get two well qualified for their respective jobs but somehow don't gel. You then run the risk of underperformance. I've seen examples of both in my past employment. I suspect many others on here can identify with this.