Kmac

I’ll try to answer some of Yorky’s here too. Perhaps signaling solely English clubs wasn’t correct of me. However, a very quick snapshot of livi or ICT would’ve also hinted that there were severe doubts regarding both Polworth and Lamie (more so the later). White has never played at the top level and Hastie had a purple patch with us before doing nothing for a full season. Basing our entire strategy on ‘punts’ has come home to roost like it was always going to with short contracts and loan deals serving as the base with no youth crop on the horizon. We’re a selling club, yes (like everyone bar about 10 clubs in Europe) but I’ve always maintained that our strategy should be a solid 6/7 senior pros with proven pedigree and experience at this level supplemented by the youth, both to secure our positioning and the procession line. At the moment, we have neither. I completely understand that we have to be prudent. Again I have no qualms over investing in training facilities or keeping cash reserves, but the reality is, we have reinvested nothing to note. Neither burrows or the board came forward following two of our largest player sales in our history with the space of 6 months and said “this is the plan”. I’ll repeat it again, we are fan owned, Thus the raison d’etre for us as a club should be maximum fan value which basically means the best possible product on the park. Neither myself or others who have purchased shares or contribute to the society do so because we feel that there will one day be a buyout and we will make a few quid or indeed, the bank balance is healthy, we just want the team to do well. We are not and have not been strategically acting to the core principals of fan ownership.

Indeed, as would ours to others. There’s also mechanisms for corporate finance which allow for this in terms of salary etc.

Wrong. Investing 1m is similar to what I also posted. That doesn’t necessarily mean spunking 1 m on fees, it means using a mil on a combination of fees and salary rather than using presumably having an even lower player budget than last season (at least I pray McGinley and Lamie aren’t earning anywhere near the same as Hartley and Tait). There has been absolutely no visible squad investment which considering we must’ve raked in about 5million in player sales during 2020 is a bit of a piss take for a fan owned club. short term contracts on punts from English lower leagues is exactly what has got us into this mess.

After a deep breath, the reality really does come screaming home. The rot set in at the start of the year. I wrote on hear calling for a statement of strategy from the board / Robinson when we sold on Turnbull and received the money from Scott, which I think we were entitled to as a fan owned club ie. What did we intend to do with our biggest transfer fee/fees? Instead, we got White and Lamie. This is a situation that is 100% of our own making and goes beyond Robinson into a lack of strategic management at board level. We should/must have the financial power to get ourselves out of This mess however that starts with a vision and a clear statement. I won’t hold my breath however I would like to hear from Burrows before the weekend is out. What’s the plan? If the plan is to support Lasley (who has been a great club servant and should be treated properly) and bring in a couple of loanees then the clear out needs go much higher than the dugout.

We’ve been shite for ages. If we have any competency on the board, we’ve already started

Polworths worse than a man short

A new manager, centre half, central midfielder, full back, right sided midfielder, left sided midfielder and 2 strikers; it will be the biggest week in years

It’s uncertain for everyone. Outwith the old firm, we were the ones who finished third (ie wel over budget) brought in a rake from Player sales in the past 12 months and had a million euro in prize money from the 3 European matches. No one other than the arse cheeks if Glasgow, Hibs ,United and Aberdeen had such fortune yet we have regressed big time due to an ill advised policy of pursuing the bank balance over maintaining long term fan acquisition and development by ensuring product

Agreed. The absolute stupidity and difference between us and those other two is that we are a fan owned club. There’s no owner trying to make a profit or recoup costs. We’re supposed to be ‘by the supporters, for the supporters’ but we haven’t kept to that mantra in our actions.

This shite transfer policy was always going to bite us In the arse. ICT tried this years ago, signing lower league English journeyman, they also had success abd then the time came when the contracts coming to an end, lack of quality and commitment all collide. It was always going to happen.

Liam Polworth is fucking murder

Well, I’m sure the new sound system will sound great in the championship

So that’ll be game over

The pieman fucked it

Added to the fact he’s shite, it puts him in a footballing realm of his own

Stevie Kirk

I'm presuming the fact that we've been utterly shite for an entire calendar year means that we will be starting our search from a running start....

Robinson out

“Safely taken” as he tries his best to throw it into the net

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And we made a shitload of money whilst our contemporaries scrambled for cash, yet we fluttered it on a sound system and a lot of shite players

Farcical

That livi reserve is utter shite

Just go Robinson.

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