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I think he's a fair bit younger than Craig Brown, but then his health's probably significantly worse. He's the only successful manager we've had in my lifetime, surely there's someone else who could do the job though.

Definitely, that's more like it.

To back up what was discussed earlier, the Courier's coverage of what's going on in Dundee is far more in depth and interesting than today's ET's offering... http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Sport/Football/article/5321c2/dundee-fc-board-to-plead-with-calum-melville-to-stay.html

This is exactly what I was talking about in the Thistle in the Media thread of a couple of weeks back.

Has there ever been a manager who's run down their contract, like players do, and left for nothing? The closest I can think was D Lennon at Cowdenbeath who had a couple of months to run I think. If Gus can get St Mirren into the SPL, then I reckon he must have a chance of doing it with us. Not sure how the budgets compare right enough. My problem with McCall is that, as a manager, he's on the way down, and has been since midway through his Dundee Utd tenure.

Not familiar with him, and he's not been here in the three years I have. They may have missed a trick with the Purcell stuff, but a couple of years ago we had a "council in crisis" campaign and often run negative stories about the NHS. This hasn't stopped us being able to work with those organisations, and it shouldn't be an obstacle to getting access to players and info in sport. Having said that, I've never worked in sport so I don't know what it's like on a daily basis, just feel like it's all too cozy and fans/readers are being a bit short-changed as a result.

It's understandable they were eating out his palm at that point. They were the second highest spending club (on transfer fees at least) in Scotland at the time - you're hardly going to get stuck in to them about that. And the P&J has had a few rows with Aberdeen. I can recall a few, though can only find evidence of one which was in the Evening Express sister... http://www.allmediascotland.com/press_news/13835/evening-express-sent-to-coventry-by-dons-first-team-squad

The Evening News, which is Edinburgh's Evening Times equivalent. No scope for me to do anything, and I don't know anyone within the club, it was just a general question. I know if you read the P&J in Aberdeen or the Dundee Courier, they're always challenging what's going on, and not afraid to fall out with the clubs. This culture of being 24/7 mates with teams only exists in sport, where-as newspapers criticise NHS, government, councils all the time, but still manage to maintain a working relationship.

I'm a Thistle-supporting journalist in Edinburgh (though not a sports one) and have been thinking a bit about the coverage Thistle get in the media. Match reports aside, there's very little, even in the Evening Times and Herald, which thousands of Jags fans must buy. The daily coverage across the board seems to be quotes lifted from the official site, or a player saying nothing very interesting at all. I wonder what other Thistle fans make of this, and the reasons for it. Perhaps the local Glasgow press is scared to get on the wrong side of the club for fear of not getting regular access to the staff and players and the usual "we need to work with them ever day" excuse. It seems there is a lot going on behind the scenes at Firhill, none of which is ever reported, and instead fans have to rely on gossip and information on websites which could be posted by anyone (even imposted Clyde fans).

At least he had Tuffey to work with!

If he was to be player-coach, would he not effectively just be coaching himself?