Interim Management Team

[BobbyBiscuit]

Mad are reporting that the interim team will be made up of:

 

Neil Cooper

Neil Simpson

Paul Hartley

and a more hands on approach from Willie Miller.

 

I am almost certain Hartley will be in a permanent coaching position with us in the next couple of weeks.

[Kowalski]

From Michael Grant in the Herald:

 

Coaches Neil Simpson and Neil Cooper will oversee training in the meantime and may be asked to take the club’s next game, away to Hearts in nine days’ time, if the new manager has not been appointed by then.

[BobbyBiscuit]

From Michael Grant in the Herald:

 

Yeah, I know, i read that earlier. Not sure where they're getting their info from. Looks like a case of too many cooks to me.

[dunblanedon]

A more hands off approach for Willie would be a result. Time he also headed out of Dodge. Great player, but failed as a Manager and businessman.

[Kowalski]

Great player, but failed as a Manager and businessman.

 

Neither of which are his current role.

 

I thought he was a pretty decent manager for us.

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

Yeah, I know, i read that earlier. Not sure where they're getting their info from. Looks like a case of too many cooks to me.

 

This.

[stoney]

Neither of which are his current role.

 

I thought he was a pretty decent manager for us.

 

You would certainly take his acheivments as manager now i would think

[Kowalski]

Absolutely.

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

Neither of which are his current role.

 

I thought he was a pretty decent manager for us.

 

Changed a very good team to a mediocre one but probably more capable than McGhee.

[BobbyBiscuit]

Changed a very good team to a mediocre one but probably more capable than McGhee.

 

That's true, think he just tried to change too much all at the one time and didn't have the financial backing to do it effectively.

 

Sound familiar?

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

That's true, think he just tried to change too much all at the one time and didn't have the financial backing to do it effectively.

 

Sound familiar?

 

Indeed. 

[baggy89]

As BB (I think) hinted at a couple of days ago Miller seems very friendly with Hartley and Hartley seems a good captain and as such link to the players. Given the list of candidates being touted we could do a lot worse especially when you also consider Cooper and Simpson will know the younger players (who we are going to be relying on) better than anyone.

[Jute]

If Miller is to have a more hands on role then would suspect that he will be the manager in all but name. Cannot see him playing 2nd fiddle to any of the others.

[BobbyBiscuit]

If Miller is to have a more hands on role then would suspect that he will be the manager in all but name. Cannot see him playing 2nd fiddle to any of the others.

 

totally, he'll have the others there to take the flak though

 

Would like Cooper involved with the first team on a permanent basis in some role.

[Kowalski]

totally, he'll have the others there to take the flak though

 

He's learning from Milne then.

[Penfold]

Willie on RedTV saying Cooper is taking first team training with Simpson assisting. A short term arrangement while they draw up a shortlist of candidates.

 

Only mentions Hartley in that "he's captain and will help with communication".

[maverick sheep]

Can't you see??? What we need is for every gothenburg great to take turns completely and utterly fucking the job up. Only this will stop us harking back to the glory days as all our heros will be dead to us.

 

My friends, I have seen the future! It's shit.

[tlg1903]

to be honest im quite happy with cooper and simpson looking after things, none of the new management options is particularily inspiring so may aas well give these boys a run

[tom_widdows]

Neither of which are his current role.

 

I thought he was a pretty decent manager for us.

 

Only when Mcleish was still about. Is it a coincidence we nose-dived from 2nd to 2nd bottom the first season Mcleish left for motherwell?

[BobbyBiscuit]

Only when Mcleish was still about. Is it a coincidence we nose-dived from 2nd to 2nd bottom the first season Mcleish left for motherwell?

 

We had also lost Bett, Richardson and Mason at the same point or in the previous year. McLeish's last season, although we finished 2nd, we drew almost half of our matches (I think had we won three of them, we'd have won the league).  We were nowhere near as impressive in that season as we were in the previous one and to an extent the writing was on the wall.

 

Of course, any team losing a player of McLeish's ability is going to suffer, especially when it leaves Irvine, Smith and Inglis as your centre halves. But as I said in another post the other day, replacing those midfielders with Kane, Heatherston, Mckinnon and Joe Miller was suicide. Basically the only midfielder left of the required standard was Brian Grant who was left with an absolute shit storm of work to get through because the other guys were simply gash.

 

And then picking Dodds ahead of any one of Shearer, Booth (when fit) or Jess really just isn't a good idea.

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

We had also lost Bett, Richardson and Mason at the same point or in the previous year. McLeish's last season, although we finished 2nd, we drew almost half of our matches (I think had we won three of them, we'd have won the league).  We were nowhere near as impressive in that season as we were in the previous one and to an extent the writing was on the wall.

 

Of course, any team losing a player of McLeish's ability is going to suffer, especially when it leaves Irvine, Smith and Inglis as your centre halves. But as I said in another post the other day, replacing those midfielders with Kane, Heatherston, Mckinnon and Joe Miller was suicide. Basically the only midfielder left of the required standard was Brian Grant who was left with an absolute shit storm of work to get through because the other guys were simply gash.

 

And then picking Dodds ahead of any one of Shearer, Booth (when fit) or Jess really just isn't a good idea.

 

Is the right answer I couldn't be arsed typing!!