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I still see Robson as a short term fix guy, win games now and do whatever it takes. You know the players, do what it takes. That’s hard to implement long term. He has impressed me too but being a full time manager with short and long term goals is different. Experience matters. Repeating myself but we failed with the last two guys being inexperienced, we won’t do that again. I just don’t see it.

There’s different types of experience though. Glass’s inexperience led to him thinking he could bring the like of Gurr and Gallagher over from the States and tiki taka his way to the Super Bowl. Goodwin’s inexperience meant he had no idea how to carry himself and behave at a club of our stature which led to him alienating just about everybody and focusing more on being perfectly groomed and klarna’d up to his bleached teeth on hugoboss.com Robson has already shown he knows the sort of player you need to grind out results with your backs to the wall, he knows the club inside out, he’s even aware of his own inexperience (hence Agnew). He does however, have experience of being part of a championship team, playing at the highest level and shitehousing his way to 3 points when plan A isn’t working. Ultimately we have invested years worth of time and resources into developing him into a coach that could one day become head coach. It’s difficult to say if he’s at that stage yet but he’s passed every challenge that’s been thrown his way and if we’re going to be the sort of progressive club that attracts up and coming coaches to work at all levels, we really need to give him the chance to succeed (or fail) because there’s no other stand out candidate out there that has any kind of track record of prolonged success or the coveted level of experience.

I've just got quite emotional when our Commercial Director Robert Wicks in a Twitter direct message said he was 'humbled' by the length I go to support my team. He asked if one could give us a phone call so don't know what this will be about.

Yeah, I was at that and really enjoyed it. Maybe my expectations were too high but I thought the new venue would be competing with the Hydro for booking bands.

Hearts are very clinical, with some good individual players and a manager that knows how to get points at any cost. Our midfield was weak until we changed things against utd, so I wouldn't be starting with the same team. I'd go a back three with either Scales or McKenzie (or both if Pollock injured). Coulson in on the left wing back role and McRorie on the right. Three in the midfield with Clarkson pushed forward rather than backwards and a front two to keep Duk away from defensive duties, which will be absolutely critical against a side which scores every second chance they get. I think that if we start the way we did against utd we'll be two goals down in the first 30 minutes.