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Seal of approval.

Clarkson, permanent, 4 year deal, fucking hell.

9 goals in his last 12 games, 1 goal in the 18 before that. Hoping he isn't the Slovenian Sam Cosgrove.

Man City win Champions League - turns out money can actually buy you everything. When does the FFP judgement come in?

I find this a strange statement. A "fantastic leader" drives the other players to higher levels of creativity, passing, goalscoring (and defending, concentration, motivation). He's the catnip of the squad and it's been pretty evident we are less effective as a team without him.

Hearts confirming today his full title is Technical Hitch Director

Back of the net.

Or Craig Whyte pretending to be a 21 year old

We could be drawn against any team from pot 3 or pot 4, no?

Atalanta / Doric Atlanta final

What we need is someone with Glass's eye for a player, Goodwin's defensive stability, Robson's experience, and McInnes's gungho do-or-die attacking attitude.

something about miniskirts, i think

Somebody change the locks before Anthony Stewart's train gets in.

Meh. Onward to the next season.

As long as nobody gets injured does anyone genuinely give two flocks about this one? Was also surprised we didn't run out a few less familiar names though given its a free hit.

Robson out for bringing Morris on when we had Hewitt on hand.

Bloody anthem. Here's hoping for a royal kicking.

Tempting offer, but I would want a lot more than £9.99 to watch that. How high can you go?

Surely our searching will yield even better results next window, now that we know to filter out all the *aydens first.

Barry can stay.

That makes only 6 out of 12 SPFL clubs still having the same manager they started the season with. Given 3 of those are Hibs, Killie and Ross County, I wouldn't be surprised to see that number fall even further. On another note, Callum Davidson was the longest-serving manager in the league at 2yrs,9mths,29days. Martindale now assumes the mantle at 2yrs,3mths,26days.

Not sure about until the end of the season, but given it's importance I'd give him the assurance of to the split, and reassess then.

Hearts (45): Killie (A), St Mirren (H), Hibs (A), Ross County (H) Dons (41): St Johnstone (A), Killie (H), Ross County (A), Sevco (H) Hibs (40): Well (H), Dundee Utd (A), Hearts (H), St Johnstone (A) Livi (39): St Mirren (A), Well (A), St Johnstone (H), Dundee Utd (A) St Mirren (38): Livi (H), Hearts (A), Sevco (A), Killie (H) Dropped points by St Mirren, but the maths remains at the same - 3 more wins guarantees top 6 (although 2 should likely be enough).

In short: Insufficient data. Robson has been caretaker for only a handful of games, the names being bandied about are complete unknowns in the context of Scottish football, we still don't know where the players' heads are at. Think somebody said earlier to leave Robson in place and take our time over getting the right candidate in closer to the summer, but keep things under review in the meantime. I'd agree with that. If Robson is clearly making a pigs arse of it, accelerate the hiring. If Robson demonstrates he is the best choice, make him permanent. After all, it's not like there's a plethora of big name candidates available who will go somewhere else if we don't act immediately.

So with 5 games left, the run-in for top-6 glory looks as follows (matches against each other in bold ) : Hearts (45 pts): Dons (A), Killie (A), St Mirren (H), Hibs (A), Ross County (H) Hibs (40 pts): Celtic (A), Well (H), Dundee Utd (A), Hearts (H), St Johnstone (A) Dons (38 pts): Hearts (H), St Johnstone (A), Killie (H), Ross County (A), Sevco (H) St Mirren (37 pts): Dundee Utd (A), Livi (H), Hearts (A), Sevco (A), Killie (H) Livi (36 pts): Ross County (H), St Mirren (A), Well (A), St Johnstone (H), Dundee Utd (A) With the St Mirren - Livi game meaning guaranteed dropped points by one or both of them, my dubious maths makes it that we "only" need to win 4 games out of 5 to make top-6.