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Shame. Thought he had potential and would have done well with better management this season. We might see his career develop elsewhere and regret this.

I’d be inclined to view the playing conditions before pitching him in on Saturday. It would make sense to play him in many ways, but I wouldn’t risk him getting an injury on a frozen pitch. Although that would fit in with our luck and decision making. Injured GK for rest of season to join Stewart seems all too predictable.

Good idea, but who is going to sanction it ? The only person who might put this in place is Dragan, and as Dark Munster points out his chief adviser is the one who probably obstruct it. Why does Dragan or anyone else need input from a dinosaur like Warnock when they already have the genius of Rasmus on hand to tap into ?

You think we might win ?

Final comment on Tisdale, taken from a BBC article by Tom English (who was equally damning of Russell Martin, good read):

From what I remember from the time Cortese wasn’t sacked or kicked out. But he wouldn’t stay with Katherina Liebherr and her team overseeing the club, and its finances. Why ? I agree about our improvement under him, but shame he wasn’t prepared to remain and work with KL and her team. Interesting he hasn’t appeared at another club in the last 12 years.

Not sure Cortese would want to return with Dragan overseeing the club.

Having read this thread, and seen another on Sunday asking for the top three morons, the tune popping into my head, is Jilted John, and the continued : “Rasmus is a moron..” repeat ad nauseum

This is increasingly the sad reality of how many clubs, including us it seems are run. The DoF role seemed to start as an older head to offer guidance if needed to a younger manager, and a link between manager and board. Now as you say, it gives others, (often nerds and administrators) the option at playing at ‘football management’ without getting their hands dirty, or worst of all having to have any close day to day dealings with the players.

He described himself as a ‘football doctor’ when he went there, although little sign of any achievement in his time there. I had a look at a Celtic forum a few weeks ago, and there were several criticisms. Poor transfer activity where he was supposed to be identifying targets ( although this might be outside of his control), but also lack of any communication and any interviews to explain what the club were doing. Sound familiar??

Interesting that you mention Tisdale as when it was first announced (Dec 23/Jan 24 was it?) that we’d be appointing a new DoF I wondered if he’d be a good fit. By reputation he did a great job at Exeter involved in both the football * and business side of the club. Obviously Saints would be a massive step up, but I’d certainly reached a stage where I’d be happy with someone grounded who might stay around and build things. This seemed a better option than some fucker with their head in the clouds with a “philosophy” on the game, dreaming of Champions League, but not cutting it in the Championship. I wasn’t initially aware at the time that he’d gone to Celtic but having read about his time there I wouldn’t be so keen a year on. This was the bloke widely credited with appointing Nancy, their worst manager ever ( and overseeing a dismal transfer window there). *Also worth remembering that his success at Exeter was working with a DoF in Steve Perryman ( but he was a former player, and not a spreadsheet nerd)

This is the way the game has gone.

Can you give me the name of the prick with a shaven head and beard, who has been sacked at Bristol Rovers, Charlton Athletic, and Colchester United before going on to coach in a kids academy in Africa , then returning to the UK having been head hunted by Rasmus Ankersen ? Pure coincidence really. I heard it on University Challenge the other night.

I don't think anyone really knows what went on , if at all. It was bizarre that he was widely touted, but didn't get off the ground. I always felt the Sheff Weds compensation was possibly a convenient smokescreen, and as he was intent on leaving them there would have been a deal to be done. We spend £5/6m on Downes, or £15m on Archer but the funds dry up in obtaining a manager.

Perhaps the initiative to get rid of him should come from the terraces. Yes, counterproductive jeering our own players, but questionable if this would cause him a drop off in form to lose us more points than he already is.