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A good article and that's now been 2 saying pretty much why would Clarke leave. It seems he is happy, Billy Bowie is happy. This right place right time for both. Mj is away. Fans are positive. Steve is a hero at Rugby Park. Results on the pitch have been phenomenonal. Why not finish what he started. He does not need the money, he was irked by the way he was treated by big clubs in the premiership, championship. His family are killie fans.

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For the record - no pun intended - there is a final paragraph in Waddell’s story:

”He craves neither the spotlight nor the plaudits - and he can far more easily avoid the former where he is.”

It’s good to see that there are small outposts of sensible journalism - I make it three including Jim Spence and Stephen McGowan - where they can see past the viewpoint of OF inevitability. 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Riverplatekillie said:

Good article by Waddell,hope Johnston reads it and squirms.

Oh he will momentarily.....and then he will smile and think of the value the Steve Clarke turnaround has added to his ill gotten gains....still makes you want to wretch when you think of what this man will eventually take out of the club... 

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1 hour ago, fraz65 said:

 

You can understand a clamour for Steve Clarke at Rangers for the now near-certainty of a vacancy in their dugout come the summer.

He has, after all, handed them their a*** on a plate since he arrived at Rugby Park. Gers have taken just one point out of nine from him.

He gave them a masterclass in coaching, organisation and game management last 
weekend, with a bonus module in quality recruitment for good measure.

 

Who wouldn’t want the kind of calibre he brings?

Three things, though.

One, Rangers have had two recruitment drives recently when he has been out of work and they’ve been desperate for quality and experience, yet his name never even made it into the same postcode of their shortlist. You have to ask why.

Even this column had him down as a Celtic-calibre target when Ronny Deila was 
floundering two years ago, so what did they choose not to see?

Two, even if they did come in for him, even if they agreed to pay the compo to Killie to square up his two-and-a-half-year contract, who’s to say he’d actually want to go there?

Not for the spurious reason everyone seems to think, the perception that he grew up a Celtic fan.

 

More that he might take the same look Derek McInnes did and decide they’re just not for him.

Not for the want of doing your stuff in front of 50,000 supporters every week – that bit’s irrefutable when it comes to appeal – but more for who he’d be working for.

Look at what they did to McInnes when he knocked them back. Tried to leave him without a name. Are these really the guys you’d want at your back?

And three – which is the real kicker for me – every fan in the country, other than Rangers ones, should be willing him to stay right where he is.

And let us see what someone of his quality can actually do with time and a bit of support.

We want competition, right? Uncertainty of outcome? Great.

Because if he can do what he has done in six months then why shouldn’t he be allowed to turn Killie into a contender?

That might well be pie in the sky but if we’ve hung our hat on Aberdeen being in the mix for the past few years, why shouldn’t it be them? Billy Bowie, the majority Killie shareholder, seems like a straight-shooting kinda guy, he has gobs of money and seems to want to invest it in his club.

And he made it clear that he’s in no mood to entertain approaches for his man either.

There’s another thing worth noting about Killie under Bowie. When Michael Johnston was there, one business after another, one fan after another, deserted. They refused to put a penny more in on his watch and the place became a morgue, only minus the footfall and the atmosphere.

Now? They had 9000 there for the Aberdeen Cup replay, 7500 of them in the home end. They took a superb 1400 punters through the ice age to the first game at Pittodrie.

If they can harness that over the summer, make themselves more commercially viable, 
suddenly the place has the potential to be vibrant again.

Scottish football should be encouraging that, not willing it to be dismantled because of the sense of entitlement and hierarchy which suppressed an external challenge for more than three decades.

It’s nonsense that as soon as a player or a manager worth a monkey’s emerges, their first port of call is assumed to be the two-club dog because they wag the 40-club tail.

It doesn’t, it shouldn’t. Sure, there are financial pressures – most clubs have to hold their hands up, take the money and live to fight another day.

 

If they can harness that over the summer, make themselves more commercially viable, 
suddenly the place has the potential to be vibrant again.

Scottish football should be encouraging that, not willing it to be dismantled because of the sense of entitlement and hierarchy which suppressed an external challenge for more than three decades.

It’s nonsense that as soon as a player or a manager worth a monkey’s emerges, their first port of call is assumed to be the two-club dog because they wag the 40-club tail.

It doesn’t, it shouldn’t. Sure, there are financial pressures – most clubs have to hold their hands up, take the money and live to fight another day.

 

But what if you don’t have to? If you have the capacity to say no and a manager who’s happy enough that you’re saying it?

There’s not one shred of evidence to suggest Clarke’s not that guy. He’s as poker-faced as they come. Likeable but utterly stoic. He cracked a smile and a laugh in the Ibrox press room last weekend and it went on record as the first post-match emotion he had shown in six months.

 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/steve-clarke-can-make-kilmarnock-12247116

That's my views on it too. Let's improve the league, not tear it apart to subsidise two clubs. Finally an article worth reading!!

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3 hours ago, fraz65 said:

their first port of call is assumed to be the two-club dog because they wag the 40-club tail.

I’ve generally had a lot of time for Gordon Waddell over the years, think he’s a Falkirk fan so not as overly Old Firm focussed as most of the others. Surely he’s got this phrase back to front though - isn’t the whole problem that the Old Firm ‘tail’ is allowed to have disproportionate sway over Scottish football as a whole?

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Good article from Gordon Waddell.

Davie Provan also said this morning that "Steve would be off his head to take the Gers job", but only because "he'll be at a bigger club on a better contract before long. But it'll be back in England where he made his reputation" and where Provan obviously believes SC belongs.

Gianfranco Zola, on the other hand, would like SC to move to Ibrox so he could get tickets for the Old Firm games from his friend.

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