The New Manager Mega Thread - Please Post Rumours In Here

**Hal Jordan** · 18-10-2010 03:07 PM

It did before they edited the headline!!!!!

***7Hero*** · 18-10-2010 03:08 PM

brilliant post mate.

**Dashing Bob S** · 18-10-2010 03:08 PM

I know there's all the stuff about giving somebody a chance and getting behind the new guy, but compared to Steve Clarke, Colin Calderwood is a dull, uninspired and ultimately hugely disappointing appointment. So let's not fanny about by trying to put a brave face on it.

It smacks of an unimaginative holding job, he'll clear out some players and bring in some others, but its hard to see much in way of progress taking place under his eighteen month tenure. At least the new east is high so the necks won't get as strained watching the hoofball.

Would be delighted to be proven wrong, but as they say, watch this space.

***Golden Bear*** · 18-10-2010 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by hibee_boy

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....so Im hearing

Guid yin.

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**RickyS** · 18-10-2010 03:08 PM

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how sure are you?

**allezsauzee** · 18-10-2010 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by sesoim

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The WRONG Calderwood. This guy failed at Notts Forest and hasn't done much else. He doesn't come across as too bright either.

.....take away Forest and replace Aberdeen for Tangoman

**paxtonhibby** · 18-10-2010 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Golden Bear

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Wait & see time.

Whoever the guy is we've got to give him our full support so hopefully there will not be too much bitching if it ain't Stevie Clarke!

Sorry,I draw the line at Strachan.Horrible little man that.

**hibee_boy** · 18-10-2010 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Seanduff

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What player?

Edwin

**sesoim** · 18-10-2010 03:11 PM

If it is COLIN Calderwood, I am shocked and VERY disappointed. The other Calderwood has a much better record in management. Colin Calderwood strikes me as a bit of a thicky, and we've already had one of them in charge very recently. But insults aside, he did not do a good job at Notts Forest, he was unpopular there, so why are we interested in him?

Petrie should not have been allowed to make an other appointment.

**Alex Trager** · 18-10-2010 03:11 PM

calderwoods....Pash

**~~Mr Jolly~~** · 18-10-2010 03:12 PM

They had a chance this time to push the boat out a little and pay the wages to attract a decent manager. Im very under whelmed if he is the man. He has to get a chance though, like everyone else.

**Lofarl** · 18-10-2010 03:13 PM

Just been reading what the guy said after Phil O'donnels death. As far as Im concerned I dont want a classless phanny like that anywhere near the ER, never mind the dug-out.

**Andy74** · 18-10-2010 03:16 PM

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They had a chance this time to push the boat out a little and pay the wages to attract a decent manager. Im very under whelmed if he is the man. He has to get a chance though, like everyone else.

Why? did Rod win the lottery?

We pay to the limit of what we can already.

We've also seen that no matter who we appoint its what happens on the pitch that is the telling factor.

Guys like Collins, Mixu and Hughes were supposed to be exciting and inspirational leaders and have us playing exciting expansive football.

I don't think we can really tell what we will get with anyone until we get the guy in and he has a chance to get on with it. Even then as we have kept changing he'll also need a couple of years to get a team sorted out.

**fishybeaver** · 18-10-2010 03:16 PM

He has already got 2 teams promoted...Clarke is unproven and only ever been an assistant..perhaps he hasnt worked with Chelski etc but he has already got two teams promoted so he cant be as bad as some make out

***Baldy Foghorn*** · 18-10-2010 03:16 PM

Pretty apparent Calderwood was not first choice, Clarke was not happy at the wage offer and that is why he turned the role down....

***Golden Bear*** · 18-10-2010 03:17 PM

If it is CC then it seems as though some have written his epitaph before he's even started.

We're all doomed I tell ye!

***bingo70*** · 18-10-2010 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Lofarl

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Just been reading what the guy said after Phil O'donnels death. As far as Im concerned I dont want a classless phanny like that anywhere near the ER, never mind the dug-out.

what did he say?

**talking_wiss** · 18-10-2010 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by fishybeaver

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He has already got 2 teams promoted...Clarke is unproven and only ever been an assistant..perhaps he hasnt worked with Chelski etc but he has already got two teams promoted so he cant be as bad as some make out

Ask a Forest fan what they think of him.....

**blueisthecolour** · 18-10-2010 03:18 PM

Strachen to be sacked and walk in to hibs job straight away

ok maybe not.

**Andy74** · 18-10-2010 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

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Pretty apparent Calderwood was not first choice, Clarke was not happy at the wage offer and that is why he turned the role down....

Vintage hibs.net. We make a name up and then assume he turned us down!

**TheEastTerrace** · 18-10-2010 03:18 PM

if, as the BBC seem to insinuate, Colin Calderwood wasn't good enough for the job ahead of John Hughes last time around, what makes the Hibs' board think he'll be good enough this time around? Just a question every fan should be asking of Petrie and Lindsey, who let's face it, don't have a great track record in managerial appointments on the pitch.

I would love to be proved wrong, but if Calderwood is the man, very uninspiring.

***blackpoolhibs*** · 18-10-2010 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by fishybeaver

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He has already got 2 teams promoted...Clarke is unproven and only ever been an assistant..perhaps he hasnt worked with Chelski etc but he has already got two teams promoted so he cant be as bad as some make out

Thats a good sign for next season.

***Golden Bear*** · 18-10-2010 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Lofarl

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Just been reading what the guy said after Phil O'donnels death. As far as Im concerned I dont want a classless phanny like that anywhere near the ER, never mind the dug-out.

An over-reaction or what.

Calm doon man.

**fishybeaver** · 18-10-2010 03:19 PM

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Ask a Forest fan what they think of him.....

Ask a celtic fan what they think off Mowbray..bet its different to our opinion of him when he was our manager

**Lofarl** · 18-10-2010 03:20 PM

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what did he say?

Cant find the direct quote that was in the Sun but

There was no minutes silence at the Forest game yesterday, and Calderwood said he didn't want a minutes silence/applause as there are too many nowadays and the fact that someone died in Scotland may have well been someone from Colombia who had died (pointing out that minutes silences should only be held closer to home.

***Baldy Foghorn*** · 18-10-2010 03:20 PM

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Vintage hibs.net. We make a name up and then assume he turned us down!

Really

**Cropley10** · 18-10-2010 03:20 PM

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Pretty apparent Calderwood was not first choice, Clarke was not happy at the wage offer and that is why he turned the role down....

He'll be making more income on his investments than we - or anyone else in Scotland for that matter - could offer him as a wage.

It's not about his wages - it's about what he could make of it and move on to, IMHO.