If it is bad enough watching Motherwell at times, goodness know how he'll cope with doubling up on the misery of trying to encourage Scotland to better things.
Of course, Motherwell is a small club with limited resources and Scotland are probably the equivalent on the international stage. So failure is not necessarily surprising, even if that logic does not make a mediocre home draw with Lithuania much easier to take.
Gordon Strachan's time at Hampden is surely coming to an end and that raises the interesting question of whether we'll be getting our manager back full time or losing him for good. It's hard to imagine him as favourite for the job but on convenience and cost he'd certainly tick two big boxes for the SFA.
Real football resumes at the weekend with a trip to Parkhead to face Celtic – it's enough to make you wish for more Scotland games!