Alex McLeish

[Ozyhibby]

Reform of the agenda. Appointed by committee.


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[worcesterhibby]

He did a good Job at Hibs for most of his time here. He brought Sauzee and Latapy and Zitelli to the club as well as a host of other fine players. Yes he left in the usual Glasgow media inspired cloud, but I liked him as a manager. I wish him well and hope that he brings some of the attacking football he had Hibs playing back then to the International matches.

[Zazu62]

McLeish done well for us seems to get a hard time from Hibs fans. He gave us Latapy Sauzee and 6-2.

[WhileTheChief..]

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Went to Brum.

Right enough, it was us he walked out of to Rangers!

I don’t mind him though, I was at the France game when McFadden scored which is the best Scotland game I’ve been to.

He also won a cup at Birmingham and had us playing some decent football.

[bingo70]

Must have taken the selection committee and various sub committees an age to come up with his name.

Can understand why it’s taken so long now.

[Billy Whizz]

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Must have taken the selection committee and various sub committees an age to come up with his name.

Can understand why it’s taken so long now.

Petrie probably is running the ship at the moment

[Pretty Boy]

Did a decent job last time with a couple of memorable results thrown in.

Could have done worse but it's still a bit uninspiring that in the whole of world football we end up with an out of work Scottish manager who walked out before.

[The Modfather]

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Petrie probably is running the ship at the moment

How long will we have to continue to suffer before the next Dempster comes along to bail him and his fellow utterly inept dinasuars out?

[Thecat23]

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He did a good Job at Hibs for most of his time here. He brought Sauzee and Latapy and Zitelli to the club as well as a host of other fine players. Yes he left in the usual Glasgow media inspired cloud, but I liked him as a manager. I wish him well and hope that he brings some of the attacking football he had Hibs playing back then to the International matches.

He had a ridiculous budget back then that nearly ****ed us. I liked him back in the day but he can’t go sign guys like Latapy at Scotland. I find it so disheartening we refuse to look beyond previous failed managers.

[Hillsidehibby]

Andy Walker as his assistant

[HoboHarry]

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Andy Walker as his assistant

Berti Vogts must be in contention surely?

[Hi Heid Yin]

I like McCleish, but whether the Scotland job was offered to him or another makes no difference.
I have no interest in the perpetual and predictable dynamic that is our national team trying to qualify for any competition.
It's actually boring and a distraction I'd rather not have.
Hibs are my bread and butter in terms of entertainment and investment, besides which, those damn fortnight breaks for meaningless so-called friendlies do my nut in!

[Billy Whizz]

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Andy Walker as his assistant

Ian Murray was his live child at Hibs and Rangers
I hope to god it isn’t Alex Rae

[IGRIGI]

Alan Hutton back into RB is a stick on.

[lyonhibs]

Totally unoriginal. No creativity or even remotely thinking outside the box from the blazers.

Still, it's not Racist Malky, which was a genuine concern, so that's a plus.

[greenlex]

Safe pair of hands. There will be places for everyone at the next Euros. Bar abouta handfulif countries. Even I could get us qualified. A few wins and the fans won’t care who the boss is.

[staunchhibby]

The circus returns to Hampden.

[HoboHarry]

Good grief how many time will these people go back to the same well? Maybe one day Scottish football will be able to keep up with major powerhouses like Iceland......

[silverhibee]

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Did a decent job last time with a couple of memorable results thrown in.

Could have done worse but it's still a bit uninspiring that in the whole of world football we end up with an out of work Scottish manager who walked out before.

And would probably walk out again if he was offered the Rangers gig in the summer.

What a f***ing shambles.

Embarrassing.

[SirDavidsNapper]

Wasn't even the first choice ex boss. Embarrassing.

[WoreTheGreen]

Yogi ‘ McLeish canny buy a job but forward thinking by the sfa

[bingo70]

I don’t want Mcleish and I think he’s a poor appointment that only got the job as he’s Scottish and unemployed.

Playing devils advocate for a second though, if we’d gone for someone more ambitious how could we have tried to attract him? We’ve no chief executive and even the stand in has disappeared. Who would have sold the job to them? How could we entice someone with the state of the organisation as it is?

I’d like to see John Collins as the new chief executive and spend the next 18-24 months trying to form an actual plan for the SFA and then if Mcleish is unsuccessful we’ll have a vision and a plan to try and sell to someone a bit more exciting than big Eck.

[Ricky Bobby]

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Totally unoriginal. No creativity or even remotely thinking outside the box from the blazers.

Still, it's not Racist Malky, which was a genuine concern, so that's a plus.

Agree with this. Totally uninspiring.

[Craig_HFC]

What I can’t understand is why a manager has been appointed before a chief executive has been appointed. Surely that’s one of the main parts of the CEO’s job & taking that responsibility/decision making power away from the job will just make it less attractive to anyone good.

[Smartie]

I liked McLeish as Hibs manager and I liked him as Scotland manager.

I didn't really like his departure from either of those roles but that shouldn't be allowed to detract from the fact that he did a good job in both of them.

My only concern would be that he's been out of the game for a while, although I'm sure he'll have been watching games and will have a fair idea of what he'll want/ need to do.

[allezsauzee]

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I liked McLeish as Hibs manager and I liked him as Scotland manager.

I didn't really like his departure from either of those roles but that shouldn't be allowed to detract from the fact that he did a good job in both of them.

My only concern would be that he's been out of the game for a while, although I'm sure he'll have been watching games and will have a fair idea of what he'll want/ need to do.

Hibs were in a mess when he took over and that's how he left us too. Some good stuff in between mind you

[blackpoolhibs]

Good Luck GJP, hated you the way you left us, but as you are now the manager it's my duty to get behind you and the team.

I suppose i could say i have no interest in the national team, but still mump and moan about it every time there is a game.

[bingo70]

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What I can’t understand is why a manager has been appointed before a chief executive has been appointed. Surely that’s one of the main parts of the CEO’s job & taking that responsibility/decision making power away from the job will just make it less attractive to anyone good.

Thats sort of my point in an earlier post.

Without a chief executive we could only really appoint someone that wouldn’t need ‘sold’ the job.

It had to be a dull safe pair of hands, Smith would have been my first choice but it sounds like we made an erse of that.

I can’t think of many other candidates that would fit this criteria, Malky Mackay would probably have done a decent job but his previous behaviour ruled him out, Scott Gemmil would have been a bit more exciting but i don’t know enough about him to know if he’d be any good or not?

[Eyrie]

I heard GJP was appointed earlier today.

Is he still Scotland manager this evening, or has he bolted for another offer already?

[McD]

Be interesting in the unlikely event that someone in the media asks him how it feels to publicly be the at-best 3rd choice for a role he’s already walked out on in the past