Monk

Nigel Pearson - the great escape

Smashing lads

From a footballing standpoint absolutely not we are not ready at all, and although I’d enjoy a playoff final at Wembley I can’t see a situation where we could finish 17th or above in the premier league. But the longer our tenure in the championship the more the finances of our club change, the harder it is to re-establish ourselves in the top flight. So we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. I think the best we can hope for is a continued reset of the squad over the next 12-24 months, ship out the deadwood, try to hold on to our more valuable players. We need to lose the poisonous identity and get the fans back on the side of the club before anything good can come of it. And they have to earn that it won’t come easy.

They could have been 3 up at half time if they were more clinical and organised. Instead they let the doubt creep in and panicked.

Just on my way home from Tynecastle. No way are Hearts winning the league playing like that. Allowed themselves to be bullied and get caught on the break time and again by Dundee United, physical and bullied Hearts at times. I expect MON will have normal service resumed before long.

When Kevin Poole picked up the ball outside the box against Everton thinking he had a free kick, and the referee gave handball, the Everton player lobbed it over Poole and into the net. Mind blowing on all counts.

If they do we will never hear the end of it but I’d love to see someone else win it.

I was at the REAL Edinburgh derby today, Spartans vs Edinburgh City in the away end. Good times. If it weren’t for a 15 point deduction we’d be challenging for promotion. Think we have enough to escape relegation anyway.

Except a few individual runs we’ve looked pretty poor so far. Very unwilling to put a foot in when defending and not much ideas getting it forwards.

SPL is there for the taking this year, if any of the contenders were good enough to mount a challenge to an extremely average Celtic. Hoping Hibs can but based on what I’ve seen so far, defence is too leaky.

Great post, and whilst I’m as annoyed and disillusioned as many posting in this thread I’m far from convinced we’d be better off with a new owner. And so much of what we are living with now is the hangover from Rogers.

87 year old Mandaric? Interesting choice.

- Ruud was purely incompetent, but likeable. The meekest manager we’ve had. - Taylor was incompetent whilst making a lot of changes to the squad, dismantling the team by accident. And he was a tw*t. - The end of Roger’s reign is the worst for me. He was competent, perfectly capable of managing us out of the mess, but deliberately played weakened sides, blamed the players and got us relegated. Threw his toys out the pram and cost us a decade of progress.

Took my wee lad down his first game at Easter Road at the weekend. Hibs aren’t a bad side, they should do well this season. Some tired legs after their extra time defeat in Poland midweek. Good fun reminded me of Filbert street in many ways. id love to raise him a Leicester fan but we will get to a lot more games locally. just need to tell him the legend of Conrad Logan now.

Prediction - we sell BEK and Fatawu and sign no one.

Nightmare start for Mads, should've saved 2 of them

68% posession and xg of 0.1! Will we never learn!

Wash your mouth out!

KDH wins the club World Cup with Chelsea. V happy for him, as much as I dislike the club!

COULD BE MEGSON

Bossman

You gotta love seeing Kingy coaching. Great stuff.

Our squad is a mess We have no money We may have a points deduction and or transfer embargo We have a bloated wage bill and misaligned contracts. The club is extremely unpopular with the fan base We are in desperate need of stability - a manager who can be here for 3 years, rebuild trust in the club, get us back to an established premier league team. Who knows, Rohl may well end up being the better choice here but he is certainly a bigger gamble than Dyche who has done this before, actively wants the job, and is less likely to jump ship if he becomes a maresca esq media darling. It depends on what question you are trying to answer - if it’s ’who will stabilise the club, overhaul the squad and get us back to prem mid table’ I’d choose Dyche every day. If you want excitement and risk then go with Rohl. But after the shit show of the last 3 seasons I would definitely choose stability and overhaul.

Conrad Logan. loyal club servant. Probably not a very good goalkeeper.

It’s Mads, our goal difference would have been south of -100 without him.