There are plenty of other names who know the division that you could throw into the mix for the Thistle job. Stuart Kettlewell, Callum Davidson, Ian Murray are all on the available list.
Dougie Imrie has impressed with Greenock Morton. Would any of the current interim Rangers management team fancy it if they don’t get the gig full-time at Ibrox? And what about David Martindale?
Nobody was really touting his Livingston side as major promotion hopefuls when the season started, let alone potential champions.
However, Martindale and Livingston were unwilling to slip quietly into the night. Instead, Livi have rallied and roared with renewed vigour.
However, their manager admits himself his own future is far from clear with potential fresh investment on the horizon for the West Lothian club.
In his straight talking way, Martindale is not a man who wastes time talking up trivialities.
“I know they’re speaking to a couple of groups just now,” he says.
“At this point, I’m out of contract at end of May, so there’s nothing really progressed. We’re not looking to progress. I am not looking to sign a new contract, club’s not looking to talk to me about a new contract. I think, for me, I’m fairly irrelevant in all this.
“That’s a future without me. I’d be more than happy to shake their hand if it’s going to safeguard the future of the club. And then I’ll go and look at what’s next for me.
“But somebody comes in, they want to have a conversation with me and they’d like to keep me about, I’m open to having that conversation.
“But, for me, I’m really just focused on, in all honesty, the next game, the next game, and the next game. And I’ll maybe look at me once we come to the end of that fixture list – whatever that’s going to be, one game or three games.
“I think I’ve tried to come into Livingston every day and put Livingston first and today’s no different, tomorrow’s no different. So I’m quite happy. Whatever the near future is for me, I’m comfortable with that.”
A night of intrigue awaits on the pitch, but the intrigue off it is almost as fascinating.
