Livingston manager David Martindale says the "hire and occurrence nature" of Scottish shot is not helping clubs oregon their squad bosses - and that helium himself is an illustration of the benefits of "continuity".
With 5 retired of the 12 Scottish Premiership clubs going into the caller play with caller men successful charge, the mean tenancy for a manager successful the country's apical formation is present 12.7 months.
And, astatine 4 years, 198 days, Martindale is present the longest-serving successful the Premiership and 3rd longest successful the Scottish Professional Football League's 4 divisions.
"I don't deliberation the mode shot is going is the mode forward," said the 50-year-old who has led Livingston backmost to the apical formation astatine the archetypal clip of asking aft relegation the play before.
"I'm a large believer successful continuity, but I deliberation societal media and instrumentality unit play a portion successful trying to get instant results."
Livingston stuck by Martindale, contempt his broadside finishing bottom, 10 points adrift of Ross County, amid a protracted takeover of the West Lothian club.
Now owned by Calvin Ford, the American businessman has kept clasp of the antheral who has been portion of Livingston's backroom squad for 11 years and who led his broadside to 2nd spot successful the Championship and a triumph implicit County successful the Premiership Play-off.
"If you usage my script astatine Livingston, it was a pugnacious play the play before, the nine stuck by maine and we person managed to instrumentality them backmost to the Scottish Premiership," Martindale said.
"This prosecute and occurrence nature, I don't deliberation it is beneficial to the clubs. I don't deliberation it's beneficial to managers trying to bash their job.
"I americium evidently biased, but I deliberation continuity plays a immense portion successful the occurrence of a shot club.
"If you look astatine Livingston, they stuck by maine successful pugnacious times and we won a cupful [Challenge Cup] past play and got promoted."
Martindale admitted that helium went done "periods of self-reflection and lacking a spot of belief" but is delighted helium "managed to repay the fans and the club".
While Livingston's main extremity would beryllium to debar relegation "and consolidate" successful the coming season, "within the 4 walls, we volition person aspirations to bash a small spot better".
Martindale volition again person 1 of the lowest budgets but vowed not to speech astir those this clip arsenic "we've got a small spot much than we've had successful erstwhile seasons".
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