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Lambert apparently on the point of going to Wolves...

Always hard to say what's going on when the SFA are involved, but this looks very much like a 'mutual consent' announcement after the England game... My guess is they're looking at Wembley as a write-off or a free hit and that there's nothing to be gained by having a new manager start with a skelping, especially there. Either defeatist or pragmatic... take your pick. Beyond that, only Lambert or Clarke (with reservations) make any sense, unless (dream on) they restructure what they pay on a speculate-to-accumulate basis... not convinced by Michael O'Neill, who's probably in exactly the job he should be in; no guarantee he can do something similar with Scotland (best part of their squad is probably central defence, for example).

Tell me that's a wind up?

Any manager currently employed in the EPL is out of the question (whether or not you'd want some of those mentioned)... Either somebody currently out of a job, or somebody further down the foodchain, somebody who'd take on an unpromising situation for a relatively low (for them) wage... so probably a Scot.

It doesn't... it has to be the best manager we can get. If there are foreign coaches who would come for what the SFA will pay who are better than Lambert, great. Said above that I'd love to see someone like Bielsa, but I think we're probably kidding ourselves on. In retrospect, we know we'd have been much better with Lagerback than Levein, but that ship's sailed. So... if not Lambert, who?

If not Lambert... who? Looks like it's become a non-question overnight, though... I've had a lot of time for Strachan, but failure to acknowledge he's done in this job is disappointing... managers know when they're done (as he did at Middlesborough... and as Lambert did, by the way, much quicker in different circumstances at Blackburn).

Don't think it is... there's no planet on which Lambert is even vaguely comparable to Levein... especially on the planet where we need a manager pronto who might stop this descending into all-time humiliation territory... What Lambert did in his three years at Norwich are something no current Scottish manager has on their CV and Villa -- like Sunderland -- is a graveyard for managers. Levein had moderate success at Hearts, then bombed at Leicester... and ended up doing the near impossible, taking us lower than Vogts and Burley had done. Strachan's done, so if not Lambert... who?

So you'd be OK with Lambert, aye? And if you're comparing Levein's time at Leicester with Lambert's at AV (quite apart from the rest of their careers), you really have lost the plot.

In what way does Lambert compare to Levein? Whoever we end up with, that's total garbage.

He did a phenomenal job at Norwich, his spell at Villa looks less and less bad with every failure that follows him... he's the best we can get, quick (rather than dream about a Bielsa, etc.) If that team tonight go a goal or two behind at Wembley under Strachan... well, we can all imagine what might happen. Forget the structure, the SFA, the long term for a minute (that's for a different thread): we need a new manager in right now who will help stop us degenerating into a total laughing stock. For me that's Lambert...

Thought I'd pop back in to say... Lambert, immediately... I'd love to see someone like Bielsa manage Scotland, but we probably won't be able to tempt that kind of manager... and this isn't the time. Lambert, immediately.

Reflect less, think more.

'No friends on the park'... RIP Dave Mackay, Scottish footballing legend.

Consistent 48% in official polls must give us the basis for a narrow victory... Over and out. It's been good. Scotland forever...