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Very few people know that Colin Montgomery was an above average golfer before joining Hibs as manager.

Defend them As the grandaddy, I was orchestrating them

I actually called him Adam Montgomery today in a conversation too. I will never get his name right.

You could be right, but it's very important to note that this is not what the club think. They've intentionally gone down a route that takes a lot of the role an experienced manager would take on (Scottish managers anyway, not the case in Europe) in-house to provide a support base for the manager. That's why we got rid of McInnes (who wanted to retain control of transfers, sport's science etc) and employed three inexperienced managers in a row. It's going to take a lot for the club to admit defeat on that (in my opinion they shouldn't), and I suspect that the type of experienced manager that you or I might think are a good fit for us may not want to give up complete control of key functions. For me, the obvious route is to get a good football director in first and let them try to get the best out of Robson (he does have some good attributes, I think he can motivate the players, and there's no question of them not playing for them like what happened under Goodwin). If/when that fails, then we let him go, but retain the structure in place for the new manager. We then go to the market to find a manager willing to work to our structure, and not one who will rip it all up. I believe that there's a real danger that we get the next guy in and hand him the keys and we're up shit creek again when his shelf-life is reached. We've taken a long time to recover from McInnes leaving, and I would expect the same again. I'd like to see us sticking to our guns and getting the right strategy in place and let the young managers fail on fair terms, when we can really say that we've done all we can to make them a success. That hasn't been the case for the last three.

If Robson is wrong then he's a symptom of the actual problem rather than the problem itself. Changing manager is another sticking plaster until the structure of the club is changed. Forgive the obvious analogy but we're kinda similar to Man Utd in that regard and against that backdrop I don't think it's particularly fair to heap all the blame on a manager in his first job.

What do you think this is a BBC Scotland article?

He got Norwich promoted so not sure he was hated. PNE hate all their managers.

If the fmb had been honest with supporters, told us that they were giving a young manager a chance to learn improve and asked the fans for a bit of patience. Perhaps if they'd said that this season would be largely a free hit to bed in some players and a system, because the turnover in the past few windows has meant an imbalanced squad with a lottery in the window that would likely result in a squad a little below par. If they'd said that they wanted to design a structure around inexperienced managers with a strong background team that would hold that manager to account, whilst giving him a sounding board for advice. They didn't say, or do, any of those things. They got us an inexperienced manager and asked him to do the role of an experienced manager in a season that saw us have our largest number of fixtures in a long time. The fmb should be aware that the fans aren't happy with the fmb.