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Could you blame him, if I was advising any of them (youth players) I would tell them to get out as soon as possible if Ally remains manager.

Turns like a supertanker and looks like he plays in concrete boots, was a waste of a wage when he had his contract renewed last season and it's an utter joke he was given another for this season, only here because Ally requires a 30 man first team squad.

Agreed 100%, Plenty of mobility in that side and no weak links that players are currently having to cover for, the only question mark I would have is Sinnamon because I haven't really seen him play but to be honest he can't be any worse than who we've played at right back for the last few seasons.

Nothing will change until the captain is dropped or moved up front, he is the main reason(other than the coaching staff) that the team is so imbalanced. Playing him at the back means that the gaps due to him playing so deep between defence, midfield and attack make it difficult for the team to function properly and don't get me started on him playing in midfield where he is even worse charging about like headless chicken with his arms flailing about desperately trying to grab a hold of someone, its either up front or not at all for me.

Any side without McCulloch at the back or midfield would be a huge improvement on what we are lining up with at the moment. I would go with Johnstone Burgh's line up but swap Moshni for Faure, I think there's a decent centre half there if the correct manager got a hold of him told him to keep it simple and keep disciplined( positionally ) we could have a reasonable central defence with a bit of pace that would allow the team to push up and have less gaps between defence, midfield and attack, because at the moment we have 3 different units on the park with miles between them and every team that plays us knows this and exploits it.

I am at this stage now, bin the coaching staff and out of contract players recall the loanees bring in a coach that has had his teams playing a more technical style of football and I would be very confident of promotion through the playoffs, and if done early enough I think we could win the league.

Not completely, get a decent coach in bin the out of contract players bring back the players on loan and start playing with the ball on the ground bring in a few young hungry players with good sell on value and if we do this now we can still be promoted this season and be challanging for Europe next season. I don't think the sides in the premier are much better than us even them across the city are not that far ahead of us if we change soon and get the right coach in. If its not done soon or the wrong coach is brought in then i'm with GOAT and they'll get very close to 10 before we can stop them.

I would go for Gio van Bronckhorst current assistant at Feyenoord and went through similar problems we did but went about it the right way, the Dutch squad at the World Cup had over a third of their players come through the ranks there after their fall. I would gut the entire coaching staff and let him bring in his own men and start again.

For years our domestic competitors have mastered the dark arts of simulation and intimidation of officials to win freekicks and penalties or to get players booked or sent off whilst we have for the most part have seemed to of found this to be beneath us and try to play by some sort of long dead moral code of fair play. Judging by our pathetic attempts at simulation during games it is obviously something that is not worked on since even if we benefitted from it our pathetic set pieces would render the effort useless. For years we watched O'Neill's team with Sutton, Hartson and Larrson fall over as soon as they got in range for a decent set piece. Nowadays its a tactic and something we should learn to use to our advantage since everbody else uses it.

Ally was my hero when I was growing up and I desperately wanted him to succeed as manager, I was very optomistic about him taking over when during commentating during the 2010 World Cup when it was widely known that he was going to take over from Walter when he retired after the next season he was asked how he wanted his team to play football and he stated that he wanted his team to be like the German team that played during that World Cup playing expansive high tempo pressing game with mobile quick young players which was the opposite from Walter's percentage defensive minded football which I was never a fan of. I even gave him the benefit of the doubt for the cup games he was in charge of thinking Walter picked the sides and all Ally did was take the team talk but his first league match as manager seeing McCulloch given a starting berth in a position he has no idea how to play (the holding role in midfield i've always seen him as a striker and nothing else) I started to have serious doubts about how he was going to fare as manager. I wanted him gone after he managed to turn a 3 time championship winning team into a losing side in a matter of months and only admin saved him from the chop after a season. I gave him another chance after he helped hold the club together during admin and hoped he would build a side like the one he spoke about 2 years earlier, young, energetic, high tempo entertaining football using the youth that remained merged with the handful of experienced players that TUPE'D over but once he ignored that and decided to spend a fortune (and give McCulloch the captaincy and a 3 year contract extension) and try to bludgeon his way out of these leagues and pretty much ignore the youth I gave up with him as manager and wanted him moved upstairs into a role similar to what Greig had with us. I have now reached the point where I want Ally gone never to be involved with the club again and the clubs coaching staff completely gutted and all out of contract players released and we do what should have been done at the start of this journey and live within our means become a selling club by playing our youths for a few seasons selling them on and replacing from within or with young hungry players from other clubs we need to start to become a club that can make a profit from players like Porto and Ajax do, incidentally clubs that Ally talked about modelling the club on when we started this journey.

If we can't afford the only way is to make him quit and that happens by letting him know in no uncertain terms that he's not wanted and we do that by protesting outside the stadium every day in large numbers, at the training ground and during games. It's the last resort but it should have been done long ago and we have only ourselves to blame for the mess we're in now for not doing it sooner.

That's down to the fact we have a manager that plays a system that doesn't suit the players and shoehorns a captain into the team to the detriment of the team, I'm all for McCulloch taking over from Ally because I think it's the only way we'll never see him play for us again. The only way we'll move forward is if the entire coaching staff are removed and all out of contract players released and the new coach is told to use what's left and supplement them with youths. We need to start to become a self sufficient club and that means producing our own players selling them on and replacing from within or with one or two new signings that are young and hungry to make a name for themselves, something that should have been done at the start of our journey and Ally's biggest mistake.

As long as as said coaching badge was not earned at Largs I'll be delighted

The players we have don't suit any system that requires wide players since we don't have any, the players we play wide are much more effective playing from the centre. I think the 4-4-2 diamond system(the one Liverpool played last season) suits the players we have perfectly. To be honest for any formation we try to play McCulloch has to be dropped unless he is played as a striker, because he goes missing in midfield much like Law does and if when played at the back we defend far to deep to protect him. I would go with, when all fit Bell Foster McGregor Moshni Wallace Black Law McLeod Templeton Clark Miller To play this system you need to get your attacking width from your fullbacks, Wallace is a shoe in for left back and Foster is the best of a bad lot to give balance on the right, I would pick McGregor and Moshni in the centre because they both have pace which anyone else we play there do not and therefore we can defend higher up the pitch. I would have Black playing a disciplined role winning the ball back and moving it on to the more attacking players staying behind the ball at all times, Law and McLeod are the best options ahead of Black as attacking players from midfield who can score and create goals and will not have to worry as much about defending since there will be someone behind to cover for them when they go forward. Templeton is the best player we have to play the role behind the strikers, he's a threat from distance and playing more centrally he has freedom to take people on more than if he was out wide. Finally the front players have to be mobile and Clark and Miller are the most mobile strikers we have with the others being fairly immobile. In football nowadys the most import trait for a player is pace or change of pace and in the line up above the only one paced player there is Black.

My main problem with him is that he has decided to play with a system that is pretty much obsolete in the modern game which is a 4-4-2, now the most important part of this system is the midfield 4, the 2 wide players main priority is being able to get to the byline and get crosses and pull backs for the strikers with ocasionally cutting inside to get shots away or let the fullbacks overlap. We are now 2 1/2 years into our journey back and in all his signings we dont have 1 nevermind 2 players that can play that position properly. Getting on to the central players we only have one player that can play in a midfield 2 and in all his wisdom he wants to play him wide, the 2 we play in the middle can only play in a central midfield 3 with Black (Probably would be ok in a 2 if McLeod was playing alongside) being a sitter and Law playing almost all his career as an attacking midfieder in a 3 or wide in a front 3, Law doesn't know what he is supposed to be doing and in turn exposes Black who has to do the work of 2 men which in turn exposes our extemely fragile defence. When setting up a team you either pick a system and recruit players that can play in it or play a system that suits the players you already have and imo McCoist has went for the 3rd option that never works, the forcing of square pegs into round holes and failed miserably.

He thinks he's doing a good job because nobody is telling him any different especially us the fans. McLeish and PLG for far less were chased out the club with protests outside the front door why is this not good enough for the worst excuse of a manager I have ever seen at my football club, as I've said before the only way to get rid is to have a protest with at least a thousand fans preferably a lot more that is the only way he'll get the message.

He's never leaving of his own accord, never seen money like he's on now in his playing days. There is only way to get rid is to protest outside the front door but to many of us think that's beneath them, if I was still living in Glasgow I would've been protesting at the front door over 2 years ago to get rid we only have ourselves to blame that he is still here.

But it still should be lower than it is, imo no player playing for us right now should be on any more than 5 grand a week, at the moment Wallace and McCulloch are on between 10-15 grand and the rest of the current first team are on between 5-10 grand a week except for our best player McLeod who is on between 1-2 grand a week. If you look at our competitors in this league or the premier no team will be paying anyone anything near 5 grand a week except for the dhims. Just think back to when McCoist was at the peak of his playing powers(early 90's) he was only on 2 grand a week as were players like Hateley and Gough etc. Right now McCoists salary alone dwarfs the directors annual renumeration. Really right now we have to get the playing and coaching staff salaries under better control as they vastly outweigh the total of all other staff costs.

Wasn't around when they were out but got a taxi out of the city centre about 5 years ago and the taxi driver was Alan Hansen's old centre half partner for Thistle and he showed off his card which was laminated to all his customers, he spent the whole journey moaning about how he made Hansen the player he was and now he was on Match of the Day getting paid millions whilst he was stuck driving his taxi.

I think they keep on trying it because it works all the time in training because the metal dummy training wall never closes them down

I think the last time that worked was during Boyd's first spell!

Govan front yellow section, pretty much in line from where Wilkins hammered in the volley in the 5-1 game, those were the days.

Out of the 20 to 25 thousand that are staying away most are staying away because of the football and not the boardroom nonsense

I agree 100% with you there and it wouldn't hurt to try him till Christmas and get rid of Ally and Durrant now.

The trouble is Ally and Durrant have learned most of what they know about coaching from their old boss who was never a particularly good coach but he was a brilliant man manager (much like Fergie, who had great coaches to take training whilst he dealt with everything else) sadly Ally and Durrant have inherited all of Walters poor traits and none of his good ones. Even under Walter training was very poor and the majority of players regressed under his training except a handful of players like Naismith and Hutton.