Cannot, simply cannot believe that Maitland, Hughes and Duffy are on the wanted list.
- Maitland has presided over the steady decline of Alloa from Division 2 promotion hopefuls to relegation candidates.
- Hughes is a moronic bell-end, whose mastery of the English language falls beneath that of most on here. Also, hasn't got a clue how to change a game, use the players he has, use the media etc. I would gladly swim across the channel to prevent him becoming manager. He is so typical of the type of manager that keeps scottish football back in the stone age.
- Jim Duffy has relegation written all over him. The mini-revival at Clyde means nothing unless he can really improve them next season. Anyone under the sun could have improved that Clyde team.
Some other names:
- Calderwood: Another "scoatish fitba" man. Big centre-halves and long punts. No thanks.
- Jimmy Nicholl: See above. (Also seems to get on with Donald Findlay)
- McGhee: A clown and too expensive.
I just pray that things will go well with Jackie McNamara, as the alternatives look awful. It will be interesting to see how he performs, specifically as hiring young managers seems to be the fashionable thing now. My only fear is that it fails so often e.g. Pressley at Falkirk, O'Neil at Stirling Albion. Hopefully he can be more like Eddie Howe at Bournemouth for example, showing a freshness in the team and some new ideas, not just the same tinkering between 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 as seemed to be the only meangingful change we could make under McCall. On McCall himself, thanks for 4 reasonable years and some good memories.