Johansson's Future

[EanieMeany]

McKinnon would have this squad in the playoffs.

 

Yep, of course he would...any remotely competent manager would. The idea that Johansson is somehow getting everything that can be got out of the squad out of it is pretty risible, to be honest.

 

We wouldn't need to be miles better to be in the play-offs, all it would take would be to be a bit less of a disaster. When you look at how close we are despite being so chronically mismanaged,  I think it's fairly indisputable that we'd be a lot better off in other circumstances.

[hoodless]

Surely we’re at the stage where it’s going to be more costly not to sack him?

[TONofmemories]

Hounding commences.

[TONofmemories]

The personal shouts about his wife are fucking cringe. I almost want to leave

[TheGoon]

The personal shouts about his wife are ****ing cringe. I almost want to leave

Get whoever that is to fuck, no need.

[BluebirdTon]

McKinnon would have this squad in the playoffs.

Are you completely oblivious to how dreadful these guys are?

[TheGoon]

Are you completely oblivious to how dreadful these guys are?

Have you seen the shite around us? A better manager would have us in a better position.

[vikingTON]

Are you completely oblivious to how dreadful these guys are?

As opposed to the rest of the division, which currently resemble the 1993-94 Serie A cast of absolute superstars.

[Ray Von]

McKinnon would have this squad in the playoffs.

Not a chance.

[Madton]

Not a chance.

 

Yeah agreed. McKinnon's reputation seems to go up each passing week as JJs goes down.

 

He went into Falkirk and failed to improve their results and performances and needed a blank cheque to build a brand new team probably on crazy money to try and survive, and even then, he is still struggling to get them to safety and has a 25% win ratio at Falkirk ( JJ's is 23% with us)

 

Any manager worth their salt should have the ability to improve a poor team, you see it all the time but the snake needed a treasure chest to do that. Feck I'm sure even JJ could improve us with that kind of budget!

 

McKinnon would have potentially been a good manager for us, but that's all it was, potential. It could quite easily have went tits up and we would be exactly where we are under JJ. Same defenders making the same mistakes, a lack of width( MacLean and Tiff where his only wide options)  and a lack of goal threat with Denny being out.

 

Edit- McKinnon getting his fair bit of stick now from the Falkirk fans too over on pandb, lovely!

[cmdc]

Yeah agreed. McKinnon's reputation seems to go up each passing week as JJs goes down.

 

He went into Falkirk and failed to improve their results and performances and needed a blank cheque to build a brand new team probably on crazy money to try and survive, and even then, he is still struggling to get them to safety and has a 25% win ratio at Falkirk ( JJ's is 23% with us)

 

Any manager worth their salt should have the ability to improve a poor team, you see it all the time but the snake needed a treasure chest to do that. Feck I'm sure even JJ could improve us with that kind of budget!

 

McKinnon would have potentially been a good manager for us, but that's all it was, potential. It could quite easily have went tits up and we would be exactly where we are under JJ. Same defenders making the same mistakes, a lack of width( MacLean and Tiff where his only wide options) and a lack of goal threat with Denny being out.

And releasing Murdoch...

[EanieMeany]

It's not really about McKinnon being a budget Guardiola, it's about the fact that he's clearly a competent manager. 

 

As I said, if we accept that where we are now is the best that can happen, then you're saying Johansson is getting the most that can be had from the squad. That patently isn't true, no matter how hysterical anybody wants to get about this player or that. We only need to be marginally better to be in the play-offs and a competent manager would make that difference be it McKinnon or somebody else.

[dunning1874]

Yeah agreed. McKinnon's reputation seems to go up each passing week as JJs goes down.

 

He went into Falkirk and failed to improve their results and performances and needed a blank cheque to build a brand new team probably on crazy money to try and survive, and even then, he is still struggling to get them to safety and has a 25% win ratio at Falkirk ( JJ's is 23% with us)

 

Any manager worth their salt should have the ability to improve a poor team, you see it all the time but the snake needed a treasure chest to do that. Feck I'm sure even JJ could improve us with that kind of budget!

 

McKinnon would have potentially been a good manager for us, but that's all it was, potential. It could quite easily have went tits up and we would be exactly where we are under JJ. Same defenders making the same mistakes, a lack of width( MacLean and Tiff where his only wide options)  and a lack of goal threat with Denny being out.

 

Edit- McKinnon getting his fair bit of stick now from the Falkirk fans too over on pandb, lovely!

 

They had no points when he took over, so that’s not really true.

 

If you take the league table from McKinnon’s first game in charge of Falkirk and Johansson’s first in charge of us, Falkirk are four points bettter off than us having played one more game. He had a considerably poorer squad than ours to work with for more than half of that time and has still managed more points per game than Johansson.

 

I don’t think anyone is saying McKinnon is a brilliant manager, but he’s clearly a far better one than Johansson and we’d be comfortably safe already if he was in charge.

[EanieMeany]

 

McKinnon would have potentially been a good manager for us, but that's all it was, potential. It could quite easily have went tits up and we would be exactly where we are under JJ. Same defenders making the same mistakes, a lack of width( MacLean and Tiff where his only wide options)  and a lack of goal threat with Denny being out.

 

 

 

There was ways around that with a bit of imagination though. For example, we could have tried Telfer and MacLean/Tiffoney switching wings so they were coming inside and letting the two full-backs - who were playing well at the start of the season - to get more bodies into attacking positions and to attack the far post and free up McHugh to take the near one. Whether that'd have worked or not is obviously a matter of opinion, but flinging your arms in the air and saying "can't do it" doesn't really hold water: it's a manager's job to try to find solutions.

 

We also pressed high up the park pretty well with McKinnon, something that was starting to come together as games went on so again, it's something you can do to help relieve the pressure on the defence. 

 

There's things we done at the start of the season that were good, signs that it was clicking into a coherent side with a defined system and way of playing. None of them, absolutely none of them either individually or collectively are on show now, we've regressed in every conceivable way.

 

Trying to make out that we wouldn't be faring a lot better with McKinnon in the dugout is letting him being a massive **** cloud your judgement on it. Whether we'd be title-challengers or not is questionable, but we would nonetheless be far better off; if nothing else, we'd at least be approaching this summer with something less than an overwhelming sense of dread.*

 

*Although I suppose that's out the window with the demise of the 3 year plan that depended on Monty Burns staying alive.

[El gofer]

Interesting looking at Falkirk thread on pie and bovril.

One theme seems to be mckinnon being negative and the team lacking creativity.

They have invested a lot in him and the general consensus seems to be that it all boils down to Saturday.

[AyrshireTon]

My guess is that JJ will be allowed to limp us to safety until the end of the season. After that he should be punted if he doesn't walk of his own accord.

[Jamie_M]

Interesting looking at Falkirk thread on pie and bovril.

One theme seems to be mckinnon being negative and the team lacking creativity.

They have invested a lot in him and the general consensus seems to be that it all boils down to Saturday.

The Falkirk fans invading the pitch last night like they did at Cappielow, only for what came after is pretty delightful.

[Jamie_M]

Who knew snakes could cry. Salty tears.

 

[Hej]

McKinnon would have this squad in the playoffs.

 

Absolute nonsense

[TONofmemories]

The Falkirk fans invading the pitch last night like they did at Cappielow, only for what came after is pretty delightful.

According to Morton, those lads will be prosecuted and have been identified via our state of the art CCTV. Guaranteed they are not prosecuted. Just like every other fan who has invaded the pitch at Cappielow for years.