Phil Clement went AWOL after watching his lose tamely lose 2-0 to Manchester United at Murrayfield.
Last weekend the former Monaco boss was singing like a canary, telling reporters that there was no money to spend on new players, the board had deceived him over funds discussed when he accepted the job and the state that the squad was in for the fast approaching Champions League qualifiers.
Those comments provided four days of blockbusters, they prompted even more questions with David Edgar set to lead the post match interrogation in search of the truth.
With no advance warning, after the match the media were told that Alex Rae would be dealing with the post match conference, apparently Clement had to make a sharp exit to attend a wedding in Belgium.
Yesterday’s match finished at around 7pm Brussels time, even with a private jet on stand-by Clement was unlikely to be the heart and soul of the reception with his wacky Belgian sense of humour.
Hopes of a Revolution! for the travelling bears were killed stone dead when they saw the teamsheet that had Jefte and Connor Barron as the only new faces in blue Castore Kit.
Most of the deadwood was on display, led as ever by Scott Wright toiling up and down the right and choking anytime he got close to goal.
Ben Davies, Cyriel Dessers, Tom Lawrence and John Souttar were in the Starting XI with absolutely no sign of transfer interest in serial losers. The bench was very similar with Rabbi Matondo, Kieran Dowell, Connor Goldson and Ridvan Yilmaz going through the motions after the break.
Jefte looked like a competition winner throughout, showing former Ibrox loan star Amad Diallo inside to open the scoring in the 40th minute.
United went even more youthful after the break with Souttar and Davies going missing as Joe Hugill ran in on goal then flashed his shot beyond the £30m rated Jack Butland who barely got sight of the ball as it flew past him.
Afterwards Alex Rae served up some pre-season excuses to the media with the only question worth asking being- Where has The Proper Football Manager gone?
A wedding in Belgium? Maybe it was a misprint and they meant welding or even weeding.
Bottom line is these liars would give Trump a riddy.
Maybe the welding was at The Copland Road and the weeding in the envoirns of Liebrox…
And The Belgian ‘story’ was just another lie from Liebrox !
DEFO Weeding, Gardening tips courtesy of Fat Swallee lol! Surely only a matter of time tae wee Bawwy the Fud is appointed WHAHAHAHAHA!!
Just a thought but surely having Alex Rae at your club would sort of degrade it. It’s like he should be thinking the old ” Groucho” joke – “I wouldn’t join a club that would have me.”