BobbyBiscuit

Totally understandable, there is a real edgy feel about things at the moment and again I echo your sentiments re the importance of this appointment. It's always a horrible time this, I remember seeing on an Evening Times billboard that Alex Miller had been appointed as our manager after Aitken, I remember kind of slowing down in the street and wanting to take a temper tantrum there and then. Well, I know I love you despite knowing you're a joyless cunt. I knew you'd cave in eventually....

Absolutley not mate. I am convinced that even once we have the new man in place folk will still be saying "Marcello Lippi seen looking at houses in Westhill..." I would be very surprised if there wasn't funds made available to a new manager, it may only be a sky diver and a crate of empty Irn Bru bottles, but funds none the less.

I really can't see that happening CTS. It's obviously possible that certain managers may not take it, but I think it would take a rather strange set of circumstances for all the "A-List Candidates" NOT to want and then take the job. I can fully empathise with your "damage limitation" comment re Levein. Certainly not someone I'd necessarily want off the bat, but he's a damn sight better than so many being mentioned.

Real Betis relegated from La Liga. Diego Forlan wins the Pichichi again. Averaging 18 goals a season in La Liga since arriving there, phenomenal record.

It was a joke you joyless cunt!

Provan has just become a parody of himself, slagging off everything and anything while never taking a job within the game and therefore never the one putting his neck on the line. I read elsewhere today that Murdo McLeod stated on radio that our new manager would have £2m to spend on new players! Now, I don't for a second believe this is true, but where does that trumpet get a figure like that? Is this going into the potential takeover again?

GEEK!

Never said you did wise guy.

I'd suggest that's more to do with our players (both the supply and the target) than Wilkie being the Dundee version of Alex McLeish.

And yet the performances in the cup is what essentially lost JC his job. A solid league placing with cup success? It would be worth all the money it cost to get rid of JC and his two mates if we got silverware back at Pittodrie.

We'll be playing what now? Never rated the guy. Remember Mackie ripping him to pieces at Dens Park at Christmas a few years ago and Wilkie ended up being sent off. As he went off he motioned to us that he thought we were all tits. Which is fair enough, but we weren't the ones who had just been embarrassed by Darren Mackie, ye know?

I'm a tad undecided about Levein. For someone who was a fairly cultured centre half (and a very good one at that) his team's can be pretty hideous to watch. His Hearts team should have been done for crimes against football. If he's going to come to us, he can bring Margaro Gomis with him. Just as long as Lee Wilkie and Darren Dods remain in Dundee...

Gordon Waddell can take a flying fuck to himself. In all the years he's been "writing" about football, the world is still waiting for him to say something useful. It shouldn't hold it's breath.

I just don't think I could handle his interviews with the press. The guy currently holds the world record for saying "And I'm saying..." 234 times in 2 minutes. He's also got a strange fixation with Adidas Tango footballs (see 1990 Scottish Cup Final commentary)

Have to agree JJ, I'm pretty disillusioned at the amount of support that he seems to have for a position in our management team.

2-1 to the London huns, Frank Lampard with a good strike, but Tim Howard was a bit pissy at it.

Not surprised at that at all. Blinding day. Ian McCall is a fucking trumpet, eh? I saw him in the bookies the other day and he was still wearing his Fatprick Thistle training gear... the season's finished you tramp!

Might as well put this in here. Noel Whelan was on Setanta saying he has applied for it and has already assembled a back room team which includes Big Racist Ron Atkinson. There are some amount of zoomers applying for this job, eh? EDIT: If Big Ron's involved, the players better start reading up on this http://www.ronglish.com/

There's a difference to playing the game without fear and playing it with an expression on your face that makes you look a gormless idiot. Couldn't give a fuck what expression is on their faces, as long as they can play football. Mixu's best years certainly weren't with us, and out of the forwards at that time, he was certainly the weakest, and I'm not too convinced about his managerial attributes either.

Not a goer for me. Had he not played for us, none of us would even give a second thought to offering it to the sacked Chesterfield manager. Paul Sturrock

I'm sure any pro footballer would hate to hear that about themselves! That's the sort of thing you'd say about Derek Young if you were pushed for an attribute!

That was my first thought too. I was happy enough that he was still involved with England youth set ups.

He was supposedly the stupidest footballer at Anfield for ten years or so until Jason McAteer signed. Doesn't mean he wouldn't be a good manager, but that statement always springs to mind when he's mentioned. That, and his miss v Uruguay. I mean, really, how was that possible?

I didn't say it was an article, wise guy.

It did, actually, Barcelona B... do try to keep up. Thought you didn't like immigrants anyway......? You have the right idea! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpcBkpOf4z8