kevin1869

Fans will be skint or just getting back on their feet too. Have a bunch of volunteers/ex-players behind the turnstiles with buckets and let the fans that can afford to throw some extra money in do so, charge a bit extra for a special edition programme... there's a bunch of ways the club could still make money. discounting prices (we're all in this together) and getting a big crowd in are great ideas, and reopening Rugby Park with a derby (under the floodlights for that wee bit extra imo) is a perfect way to bring fitba back to Ayrshire.

Take the money, he already left the club (in his mind) in the summer.

Yup, i totally agree. A rare good decision. Hope they hunt any payday loan companies too. I for one am glad to see that not all of our club's values are so easily bought.

Here's the link for those that want to relive it (the corner is @ 2:38):

then off they can f**k.

Gets on great with the players too and he lets them run about! Can't fail!

Birth of first born child . . . . . . . WHELM LINE . . . . . . . . Seeing the latest Star Wars movie . . . . . . . . . The last season of Game of Thrones . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilmarnock appointing Alex Dyer as manager

Haha I knew it. Never an intention to hire from outside. Take the easy, cheap and lazy option. I don't think AD was/is ever going to resign of his own accord (and why should he?) and I can't see any way he remains on the coaching staff under a new manager given the events of past six months and the chatter on the rumoursphere. I feel pretty confident in saying that I can guarantee that the players were "consulted" over this decision, and we all know a managerial popularity contest always works out well. This was always Dyer's job, he just made it more awkward for the board by, you know, losing every match in largely abject fashion. It's honestly quite sad. What a fall* in just 12 months. * though i suspect we haven't hit bottom yet.

I think he's trying to force the board's arm into giving him the job till the summer, which seems to have been the board's intention but they were hoping for a new manager bounce to announce it off the back of. Unfortunately, we're s**te so more of a wet splat than a bounce. I think Dyer's either the caretaker till the summer or he's gone by next week.

Aye, Gary's stock has dropped a lot in my eyes this season. I actually thought if any player on our squad would benefit from the more technical and tactical approach of AA, it would be Dicker. I was looking forward to seeing him be Killie's Pirlo for a couple of years. While I can't speak to the clashes or falling out between AA and Dicker or who was at fault, Dicker's words and actions over the past month or so scream of a guy who thinks he's bigger than the club and that i know i don't like. Gary Dicker doesn't get to decide who the manager of Kilmarnock FC is. He's been a great servant to the club for sure, but Killie has been good to and for him too. We really need to make a strong appointment, BACK HIM, and root out any of these "coffee house cliques". A fresh slate.

Haha, the 150th. What a total cock up that was/is.

Not even a generic "large amount of applications to go through" response. They either don't care or genuinely have done nothing in the hopes that AD bags a win they can hang a 6 month "trial" contract on.

At least as we stare down 6 games without a goal and the kind of form that would give even Gary Locke a dose of a vapors, the players are happier at training now they can just run about a bit, so silver linings, eh?

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I'm not sure we deserve to. The board caught (or more accurately, were given) lightning in a bottle with Clarke's appointment, but from the second he walked in the door it seems the blinkers went on and even though every man and their dog could see that we had SC for, at most, a couple of full seasons, there was nary a thought given to succession or long-term planning. The Head of Football Operations appointment should have been (at least) a year ago, with a proper plan put in place to ensure a smooth bump. Instead, our board seemed to just assume that their door would be beaten down by similar calibre candidates as SC, panicked when it clearly wasn't and picked the guy who did apply with the snazziest CV and then sat on their hands for 5 months as the club lurched into and (seemingly) out of crisis before making a snap decision to sack the guy as we were in 5th on the eve of a transfer window and hope that some of the SC magic dust had rubbed off on his assistant because they seem flat out of ideas otherwise.

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"Just one more spell..."

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I don't think Holt's name necessarily leaps out at you when you're first drawing up lists of potential managers (he wasn't my first choice) and there's still a chance that there's someone out there that you haven't thought of might be interested and apply, but when you go through all the lists and bookies' odds and you strike off the clear fantasy choices and winnow it down to a realistic list, Holt's the one that stands out with the experience as a manager and a coach with younger players, contacts north and south of the border, a passion for and deep knowledge of the club, he clearly works well with his players and is used to working with a DoF-type, and he strikes me a level-headed guy who can get on with his job without tripping over his own ego. He ticks a lot of boxes and presumably won't break the bank but he'll never be the glamorous choice and that's going to put him at an insurmountable disadvantage with some, unfortunately.

"Do we have a striker yet? creative midfielder? full back? Did you read the list i gave you? The *new* list? Hello? Billy, I know you're in there, it'sa me, Angelo."

It couldn't have ended any other way.

I'm assuming it'll be up and searchable soon enough, but in the meantime you can open the pocketcasts app, go to Discover then enter https://www.spreaker.com/show/4154270/episodes/feed in the search bar and you can add the podcast that way. the same way you add patreon podcasts and the like.

Yon guy doing the scores can save himself a second or two and just tell us how many goals Killie scored, we can assume the rest.

they're worse than the supermarkets getting their christmas stuff out in october. gies peace, we get it, can we get on with what we're all here for now?