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He is, aye. He's not getting much game time with Mechelen, 7 league appearances so far, but most from the bench, I think.

I assume he’s playing centre back for them? Like others have said, my memories of him are that he got consistently torn apart at right back. Looked much better when filling in at centre back despite not being the biggest, so was inevitably punted back out to right back at the earliest opportunity. The whole loan was a total waste of everyone’s time.

More statements published on instagram from the wee fannies…. honestly more statements than the mob from east end of glasgow. simple, behaviour and support the team and you wont be treated like wee fannies

Seems as though no one gets as many players on loan from Celtic anymore. Either they’d rather their young talent languish in a mediocre lowland league “B” team or clubs at our level just aren’t enticed by teenagers that have proven to be mediocre at lowland league level, this season being the first they’ve actually done quite well. Can’t say I’m devastated over it, for every Jamie Lindsay there’s a Luke Donnelly.

Quite like the idea of Clough being portrayed by Martin Sheen not slightly altering his normal drawl tbh.

He was terrible, but that was almost entirely down to Hopkin playing him at right back because we didn't have one (having loaned Tumilty out) so spent the first half of the season rotating between Welsh and Jacobs there. He had two appearances at centre back, once moving there in the first half after an injury to the starting centre back and once starting in the middle of a back three. In both those games he strolled through it with cigars out, I reckon he'd have been great if we'd actually played him in his real position. Incidentally we haven't had a loanee from Celtic since. Even though it was entirely down to Hopkin being an idiot rather than the culture of the club or anything, they were apparently so annoyed by our misuse of him that they decided we were cut off as a destination for their loanees. Somewhat ironic when Celtic have done far more to harm Welsh's career, hanging onto him to play about 10 games a season to the age of 25 because they can use him as a homegrown player to pad out their European squad.

You’re right of course. What a chump.

He was very raw and played mainly out of position at fullback, but no, he wasn't great.

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Stephen Welsh is currently on loan at Mechelen from Celtic. I got chatting with a Mechelen fan today, and it's fair to say he isn't super impressed with him. He asked what he was like during his time with us, but as he left us before Covid and live match streaming I really couldn't say. Was he any good?

Yes to all of this, except it was Michael Sheen

He can bank that money alongside the cash he got for being a Morton player for half a season without getting to kick a ball. Looked totally out of his depth on Friday night and not talking to Pars TV after the game (despite talking to BBC Scotland) suggested he knew it was over.

Sean Crighton is the interim assistant at Queen's Park, with Steven MacLean in interim charge. Going from Davidson to MacLean says they can continue the St Johnstone trajectory and appoint Levein next.

If you dinghy speaking to the press and you sit there with your head in your hands while your team gets battered then I don't think you have any right to stick to a philosophy.

There's something about the whole thing that reminds me of Ian Cathro's time at Hearts. They didn't like the way he talked and he couldn't get his approach to work on the pitch straight away, so that was that.

Brian Clough lasted 6 games at Leeds, plus one game each in the league cup and the charity shield - 44 days in total. If anyone's not seen 'The Damned United' film telling the story - it's well worth a watch. Martin Sheen's brilliant as Clough.

I think it’s harsh to rule him out of FT altogether on the back of one bad move. It sounds like he was adamant on sticking to a philosophy despite it never working, perhaps given a full summer transfer window and time to bed in it might work better for him in the future.

Wrong man for the wrong club. I can't see him working above PT level again as a manager. He seems to do alright in a lower-pressure environment but he looked lost at East End.

Dunfermline turning into a Scottish version of Watford for their turnover of hiring and firing managers.

Throwing a manager with a philosophy and set style of play into a relegation battle with a group of players incapable of doing it was always going to end well. Add in Tidser throwing the players under the bus, taking no responsibility and even shirking the interviews at the weekend due to a 'lost voice' and the fact the fans had turned on him massively already - it was never going to last. Still surprising they had the conviction to pull the trigger so early. Lasted almost as long as it took them to negotiate his appointment, and worked out almost as well as his big dream move to Falkirk.

I’m a bit of an advocate for giving managers time but whenever the camera cut to Tidser on Friday night he was slumped in his chair scratching his head while his team put in one of the most inept performances I’ve seen in a while. Should never have been in that position in the first place, but surely it would’ve been cheaper and more logical to just appoint an experienced assistant to see the season through as we did with Peter Houston. Don’t really see who wins with that decision.

The Dunfermline fans turned on Tidser because of recent results, his dogmatic sideways passing style of football and his willingness to throw players under the bus accepting no blame for the results. The problem clearly lies with the powers that be who appointed Tidser in the first place. If rumours are to believed this insanity has cost Dunfermline the best part of £200k in compensation to Kelty and now Tidser. There is also talk of Davidson being in the frame until the end of the season. Talk about re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

Another crazy decision by a bin fire of a club. I was quite surprised when he got the job not saying he isn't up to the standard but considering they were in a relegation fight I thought they might have gone for more experience but giving him only 8 games is extremely harsh.

That’s a nightmare for him. Fair enough his record since joining is terrible but think their problems run far deeper than the management team.

8 games? Wow, that must be something of a record. Once they pay off his contract he'll probably be on a record amount of money received for each game played with him in charge.