Quote Originally Posted by darrenshedtastic View Post
I really hope we don't go down this route. Don't get me wrong, If he does get the job then I will support him like many others however I feel it is a massive risk to appoint a rookie with little professional experience. By all accounts he is well respected and liked within Tannadice but this is too far left field which could set us back if it goes wrong. If this was the way we had planned then he should have been put on the coaching staff under Neilson or Mellon to gain that experience of coaching with the first team with the view of becoming manager 2/3 years down the line rather than the way it seems now. Thrown into it out of nowhere.

For me McInnes is the man. Safe pair of hands and can help push us on to the level we want to get to. His track record is very good. He will have a point to prove to the Cormack boy at Aberdeen for the way he left there. He knows the club and the league so its a no brainer for me. We should be looking for someone like McInnes or Robinson. Managers who have a track record of getting teams into the top six. A show of ambition from the club is needed to suggest we are fancying top six next season. Going for Courts only suggests one thing.....we are skint.

I'm hoping this is Ashgar leaking stories to the press to "test the water" He seemed to do that last year with MacKay and McClaren then ended up with Mellon. So hopefully this is all smoke screen to the unveil McInnes or someone like him as manager
This for me, would make sense for Courts to have been close to the first team for continuity sakes.