Oddly, the SNP today find themselves with almost exactly the same predicament as Rangers did on Saturday night - the guy at the top is clearly not cut out for it and absolutely has to be replaced, but despite that there is the issue that whoever they appoint next will still have to deal with the same players, who are also clearly not good enough. (There's also an uncanny similarity about them both being utterly strapped for cash, but that's a whole other topic.)
The big difference between the situations though is that Rangers do at least have the ability to go and find a manager from anywhere, and in theory they could find someone who can get more out of the existing crop of players and coax them through to the transfer window. The SNP's list of viable candidates for leader has exactly one name on it, and during the previous leadership election the powers-that-be within the SNP did a really good job of toxifying her in the media.
So, they're basically screwed. At this stage, the future for the SNP looks like being limping through to the General Election, taking a major kicking, limping through to the Scottish Elections, taking another major kicking, dropping out of government, and then maybe rebuilding from there.
In the meantime, Humza Yousaf must go... but don't expect much to improve as a result.
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