Gordon Duncan

For that reason, it came as a major surprise to later be informed Neil and I would need to reapply for our positions as part of a new process.

We don't feel that situation we agreed on and we're now...

The one we agreed on And the one now being presented Are the same thing So they've stepped away Ultimately Let's bring in Ewan Who is a Livy fan What do you make of all this Ewan?

What did you make of it?

You need jokes aside, because I know you like winding the big man up.

I think if we look at it from the outside, I don't think Marvin or anyone ever came out and said, right from day one, I've been told I can keep this job for next season.

But clearly, you would only take it under that kind of...

Maybe not cast iron promise, but certainly that idea, that suggestion.

Now, football's football.

So say Levy had lost every game from Maverickman to the end of the season, battered every week.

He might not even want to do it next season.

That's then not going to happen.

That situation probably changes.

But as Ewan and others have pointed out, the results have been...

fine they've been quite good at times you look at even performances against some of the bigger teams and I'm thinking when Rangers went to Livy and when Hearts went there is it only is it two defeats in the last nine something along is it something along those lines so that's enough to get I understand your point Gordon if they lost every game then excuse me then question when they'd answer so but the fact of the matter is he's thought he was getting the gig next season in the championship because as I said earlier

There's a principled element to this, Ewan, where if Marvin feels...

He was told he could get the job next season.

He's now been told to reapply.

There's a principle thing there where he's saying, no, I don't think that's right.

But ultimately, do you think there's another layer listening to what you're saying that even if he was willing to reapply in the most general sense, and even if he was to then get it, do you think you're then, if you're Marvin Bartley, you're almost a bit worried about what that means or why you've had to do that and what that looks like going forward and where the control actually lies?