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McCoist is an absolute joy to listen to on co-coms.

No denying he's a good coach. The average tenure in the efl in the 19-20 season (don't know the up to date stat) was 423 days. We have been blessed and got used to having longer term managers. So I personally don't mind a 'merry go manager' if they have had good experiences and haven't jumped ship at the first better offer. To me if we're going to appoint a young up and coming manager with limited first team experience then why rock the boat and change things when we have Grace and Vokes doing a good job so far? Replacing them with experience at this level or higher then fair enough. To me Dodds would seem an odd appointment.

Agreed. He might present non football related programs but why is that an issue.

I can't imagine anyone who watches football prefers the Dixon morose approach versus the uplifted Dublin, McCoist types.

Rumoured with us early on, Villa's Sil Swinkels supposedly going to Bristol Rovers on loan

Kudua and Morley to sign Monday. No information. No ITK. Just a nice way to end the window.

Hanlan and Wheeler exiting on loan to balance the squad a little.

Very different being chucked in as interim after a sacking. As has been pointed out elsewhere, he must be a good coach or he wouldn't have been kept on by a succession of managers / head coaches. Would honestly rather this than someone who's been around the merry-go-round countless times.

Hanlan isn't really effective through the middle though is he? Whereas Lubala and Udoh are strikers that we have to shoehorn wide for Kone.

any coach with a 22% win record and who has managed hardly any first team games unlikely to be a popular choice IMHO

Indeed. I think Dublin is great. Don't understand the antipathy towards him from a lot of people online. He's always full of enthusiasm while certain other pundits come across like being paid to chat about football is a huge chore.

True, his movement is a lot better than going round in circles