StAndrew7

Bet you're gutted, eh? Gonna need to change your display name and everything.

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I think you're probably correct on a couple of fronts; he always struck me as someone who wanted to be involved in everything (rightly or wrongly) so perhaps there wasn't as much autonomy as you'd have wanted after he left. I was always told the best compliment a manager can have is that when they leave, they don't need to be replaced because the team they've left just gets on with things. I know the context is a bit different for a football Club, like, it needs a CEO, but a gap of 6-months with Derek Weir as interim should have been fine. It does show that the length of time the recruitment process took has probably been more detrimental to the Club than anyone expected it to be.

Welcome to the club; your membership badge is on the door and we'll teach you the handshake when you're in the back.

Aye, I'm sure he said (maybe on P&B or The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter) that he wasn't able to put all the cash in up front?

I do think we need to recognise that up until the last 12-18 months or so, the Club has been run quite well. The results do demonstrate that. The issue we have is that people have stayed in post too long and things have gone stale/been left rudderless; I do wonder if once "all this" is over, we need to consider maximum terms for the Chairman/Board Members, or something similar. Some would argue it's not been that difficult a job (Turnbull's sale, Les setting things up etc.) but there does need to be an acknowledgement of the track record. At least a bit, even with "all this" still going on.

Finishes 4-2, Paton with our last one.

Aye, I can't see it not being met in such an emotive/important vote; but if it's not, that's good to know. Cheers!

Votes cast, just like any election/referendum. I'm not sure what sort of required turnout there is, but I would expect it to be significantly higher than the last vote (which was in the mid 30s percentage wise, I think?) so I don't anticipate there being an issue with that.

And all of the same questions apply to Barmark's proposal; where are the details of who will invest in his (shite) business plan, other than "celebrities", "tech bruhs in shitty chinos" and "hollywood elites"? The level of scrutiny being put towards one proposal, absolutely has to be put to the other (and also bloody well answered). There has still be no public acknowledgement of the inaccurate figures used in the plan EB published last Thursday. But hey; this isn't a vote for or against the WS proposal, is it? 🙄

Just to add to the lols, Jim's statement still has a reference to the Barmarks in it, after being changed everywhere else. 🤣

You mean Wild Sheep Sports/Barmark's, yeah? That reads like you mean the Well Society! 🤣

"McMahon is now attempting to encourage others to back the Barmacks in a statement that initially spelled their name incorrectly four times, published more than an hour after voting opened on Monday morning." 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣

Not bought a Tesla yet, probs.

https://x.com/TheWellSociety/status/1810207193636966752?t=y6JssgMTmmzvzTbuW63o-g&s=19

Aye, fair play to him; he's been absolutely outstanding throughout this and so has his old man in the last fortnight or so.

I did a bit of "informing" on FB last night to one of the (many) Colins who seem to be in favour; turns out he doesn't have a vote. 🤔 😅 I kept going, as it felt like getting as much information/explanation out there was a good idea.

Pity, I felt that's the bit that really helped hammer the message home.

Mate, his name's Barmark; can't you read? I think we've all been duped here and Eric Barmark is the actual investor.

Jim McMahon's message. I feel famous; he's even quoted me:

You really had me going there 🤣

Brian McCafferty speaks out. That's him definitely off Jim's Christmas card list.

Correct; the WS shares vote as a block as a result of the vote in whatever way the majority wants.

They did this last season as well; I think Souare and Wilkinson were both injured in the last 2 minutes of a session, so they started looking at reducing timings etc. Also, see my previous... Liam Gordon is an absolute animal 🤣

Nah. We'll be laughing on our way to the bank when our #GlobalCommunityClub is a market leader in Tuvalu.