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Sums up our support for me. I really do not know what people expect our club to be achieving. Cannot believe we are three points off third place and firing a manager. It is a disgraceful way to treat someone who has taken our club from being a laughing stock to consistently challenging for trophies again and shown a fair bit of loyalty to us when he could have taken the money elsewhere. We've been here before with Calderwood and the years after that were horrendous. It is one of those sackings that if another club had done it you would be wishing the next manager gets them relegated. It is just over a year ago since Kilmarnock were fifth in the league and fired their manager.......................

Interesting view point above. I don't see it at all as embarrassing. It is an incredible achievement for anyone outside the old firm to win a trophy given the investment in their teams over the last 30 years. Our league is no different to England, Spain or Germany in that a provincial side winning something nowadays is becoming rarer and rarer. If you look at England, only 4 of their non "big six" teams have won their league cup in the last 20 years and their FA Cup is even worse with only 2 of the provincial sides winning it. That is 6 trophies out of 40. The gulf in cash between our top 2 sides and the rest is far greater than it is in England. The idea that our club should just be able to rock up and collect a bit of silverware every few years just because we spend a wee bit more on wages that some other clubs is massively underestimating how difficult it is to win something.

I don't think you will see Steve Clarke at Parkhead. He hates the sectarian nature of Glasgow so cannot see him ending up there. Would imagine they will want to get their fans back on side and therefore will end up with an old head beside a former player, someone who can take over from him in a couple of years like a Larsson or Maloney. Martin O'Neill alongside Roy Keane would also be worth a bet.

Would be surprised if we could afford this guy if the Celtic/Rangers interest is to be believed. You have to remember we have just had to offload McKenna, Cosgrove, Wright and Main and loaned out Anderson, Ojo and Hernandez. With no crowds likely until next season I would suspect the finances are pretty desperate at the moment as will be the case with most clubs. Think I am also right in saying that a number of players deferred wages last year so that will need to get paid as well, certainly Jonny Hayes did.

It would be madness to get rid of the manager. Most will admit that we are unlikely to ever see another non old firm winner of the league. Therefore realistically we are playing for third place each season unless something changes massively in how the prize money and tv money are split in this country. Football has never been the same since 1995 when the Bosman ruling came in. Money now determines how successful you can be. That happened 19 seasons before McInnes was appointed and in those 19 seasons we managed 2 third place finishes. On the flip side, there is really very little between the team in third in our league and the team at the bottom and it is not unrealistic to say at the start of the season that any of the 10 non old firm clubs could finish in any order whatsoever. Our club is only ever one bad season away from another relegation fight as we have seen in recent years from the two Edinburgh clubs. Changing the manager is unlikely to make us any better but could make things 10 times worse than they are at the moment. He will turn the form around if he gets the backing from the board and fans.