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I've actually went down a bit of a Maloney rabbit hole, looking at his tactics at Wigan and why it went wrong, and also at his short time at Celtic with O'Neill (he's actually still at Celtic as he's the pathway manager). And you (and me, considering my earlier comment) are being a bit harsh on him. Hibs - was his first job and he only got five months in it. Wigan - was a very difficult situation with points deductions and losing his best players, but his sacking was a surprise, and the general feeling is they've got worse since he left. I would actually say Wigan was probably his Bristol City/Derek McInnes and he'll be better for it. By all accounts he was pretty instrumental in the dugout at Celtic in getting them results. Favours a 4-3-3, attacking football, yet at Wigan and Celtic he improved the defensive side of things too. I'm not saying he's my first choice. I'd like us to cast the net far and wide before hanging my hat on anyone. However, I do think the club will consider him, and if they do I could warm to it. Like I said, ticks a lot of boxes for the club. Would be more of a head coach than manager, fulfills that popular phase "knows the league". Knows a few players as well - managed Shinnie at Wigan and was keen to keep him, tried to sign Kevin Nisbet. And hey, it might mean Mark "if you're no training with intensity, you'll no be in ma team" Fotheringham might follow him up the road. Fuck it, get the Maloney thread started. Bring him home.

Lycka till Jimmy, hejdå

I might have to rewatch too. No idea what happened despite really enjoying it. But might just tread the Wiki synopsis to see if that jogs my memory

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Absolutely not. Clueless when he was at ochilview. Loved the guy and he was great helping the youth coaches but on the pitch it was a disaster.

I’d be more than happy to look at him tbh. He’s done everything (& more considering resources) that JT was supposed to do. He’s been involved in management since 2015, and been a manager since 2018 so its a bit more than 20 games, though I appreciate you’re talking about his time in Scotland. If he leaves us for a bigger job so be it, that’s how fitba works. Would mean he’s been a success here first though. Isn’t Fergie the last manager to leave us & move onto bigger things? Be nice to have another…

Cameroon book their place in quarters against Morocco following 2-1 win over South Africa. Entertaining game with Cameroon almost chucking away a 2-0 lead at the end.

He leaves Motherwell so soon he'd do the same to us. It's a complete non-starter.

Surely it's the Tim fans that are bored. They are stupid enough to make such a daft spelling mistake.

The drones online are calling for the boy fae Motherwell to be appointed. 20-odd games into his first season??? No the fuck thanks.

Think that’s the feeling of most. Nice guy, just didnt work out.

I echo a lot of the words already spoken in that I'm really sad this is how it has turned out. From that POV it certainly helps that his last game was a narrow defeat (however limp dicked the performance was) away to Falkirk and not a papping off der hun at mordor 2bf. If there's any truth in rumours and he ends up at AIK that's a bonus as we likely will have had to pay minimum compensation, if any. So, moving forward, this is the first big test for LP. It will be interesting to see just how much free reign he gets with the new manager position given how hands on Cormack likes to be. My hope is though that fabled black book of his provides some candidates that none of us have heard of at the very least.

Failed Hibs manager Maloney would be up there with Warnock. I doubt it would happen.

Saw the thread and was impressed we were at 45 pages already, just one hour after Thelin's sacking. First up, Neil Lennon and Stephen Robinson should be nowhere near the conversation. At least there'll be no talk of Derek McInnes returning. Askou, I can't see him walking away when two points off a Champions League qualifying spot. Leven has little management experience. Got a new manager bounce when last in interim charge, and will be interesting to see if he can repeat it again. If he does, then maybe he is worth considering, but also takes some of the blame for the Thelin era (and Robson). Maloney - he ticks a lot of Cormack's boxes. A more experienced version of Stephen Glass, which was Cormack's original plan, and working under Lutz the club may see him as a good fit. I view him as more of a coach than a manager though, and his two stabs at management so far have been really poor.

Ach weel, 'at's 'at then .... best o' luck Jimmy .... next?

I had really hoped he could turn it around. I like the guy, but results weren't there with no sign of changing. Thanks for the cup and that initial winning streak Jimmy. Sorry it didn't work out and good luck in the future

Fun fact: Steven Pressley scored twice for Aberdeen in his playing career. Both own goals.

Askou for me. Incredibly impressive what he’s achieved in a short time at Motherwell - has shown JT up big time - and his style seems to fit our “playing model” - certainly way more than the likes of Robinson does. Put it this way, anyone who can turn Paul Mcginn into a ball playing defender is some sort of miracle worker - surely he could do something with our lot. Maloney can GTF…

By all accounts, the players liked him, but thought he was too soft on those who stepped out of line, and ultimately that loses you a bit of respect in the dressing room. Yesterday raised alarm bells. It's been poor for a while, but I kinda still felt he was slowly getting his head around things, but it was such a calamity at Falkirk that it was hard to make a case for him beyond the weekend. But I'm glad he left before I started to get so rattled by performances I began to dislike him. A throughly decent man who led us to the Scottish Cup, but hopefully we've made the right decision.

It’s not supposed to be up the manager - who I suspect will actually be a head coach - to sign players now anyway. That’s what pfannensteil is for. Same for outgoings. No point in a sporting director if you need a manager to buy or sell players. That’s the model we’ve got now so other than not being able to sell the club to prospective signings, the head coach position being vacant shouldn’t prevent progress being made on sales or signings.

should've parted ways end of last season But that cup win has also cost us the chance to possibly be involved in a very winnable title race totally unprepared at outset of this one also

Aksou and Valakari the options from the Scottish game for me. Maloneys name getting mentioned for some bizarre reason

Robson getting the job was also partly because he’d developed his coaching career within the club and with Cormack being big on internal succession (despite there not being much of a framework to support it). I don’t think Leven has that level of goodwill.

Fairly certain the St Gallen coach won't be coming here, even though we are Scottish cup champions of Scotland.

Not yet, I think is what he meant. Might fancy it now.