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Tidser is never a full-time manager. Fine at a plucky (read: financially doped) social club perched on top of a coal pit somewhere in "thuh kungdom". I'd rather take a punt on McIndoe if we're looking at a manager from the lower leagues. If we pick Tidser we're just admitting all that talk about Morton in the top flight was bluster. Small mercies.

Bullet well and truly dodged if so

Can't believe how much we're spending for so little return. I'd have taken a plucky Imrie team over this season.

That's the thing, I'm not even necessarily saying "technical head coach" is doomed to failure, or there's no role for it at Morton or another club. I'm just not going to be told "oh it's perfectly normal, it's like a DoF." It's completely one of a kind.

If you want a laugh search Google for "technical head coach" in quotes. We made it up. It is 100% made in Greenock. Clydebuilt. An Inverclyde original, like James Watt or Catman.

I'll stick my neck out and say that when Davies leaves, whenever that is, we won't hire another 'technical head coach.'

It's not impossible that a club that loses its secondary benefactor would cease a DoF model, but given that a "technical head coach" is completely unique we have no idea whether or not it's contingent on the Dalrada partnership, or whether the position of "coach"-analogous-to-manager would exist without it, etc. The uncertainty is because they're making it up as they go along, which isn't necessarily a problem - every idea has to start somewhere - but it's pretty disingenuous to act like that's not what's happening.

The fact that you have to switch the titles around to make it make any sense indicates that it actually is pretty unusual. Reporting to a "technical head coach" until the summer (then what happens?) is unique. It doesn't mean it's destined to fail but it is the weirdest system imaginable. If a DoF is set to leave in summer it's obvious what happens next - a new DoF comes in. If a "technical head coach" leaves do we advertise for a new one? No, probably not, since it's made up. This is the biggest problem of all. He utterly failed at full-time management, completely and totally, commanded zero respect from his players, set them up badly, and suffered a string of dreadful results. Because he's a nice, driven guy and because Billy's lurking in the stand like the Phantom of the Opera he's going to suddenly undo all that? Aye, stranger things have happened, maybe he'll prove me wrong, but IMO his limit is League One with a part-time squad, a big budget, and zero expectations of success.

Additionally, cash-strapped Celtic just lost their fourth in a row.

Tightened up nicely in the second half.

What is the process that wasn't followed?

Any halfway serious candidate will have an agent, and any halfway serious agent will know how to get their name through to the club. The lack of an ad isn't a factor.

Hope you had a bet on.

I'd probably have to say, The Best of the Morton

What does a cash cow mean?