Kmcalpin

It is indeed but our long term future is not secure. Ok there's no need to worry but the club needs to create what it calls a "buffer fund" to cover "cash flow and crisis risk" ie through the Society. So far so good but the club must plan ahead without John Boyle.

Very true Haggis. We should learn the lessons of Ibrox. Craig Whyte and David Murray wielded far too much power at Ibrox without being questioned. I hope that never happens at Fir Park.

Hearts are blowing hot and cold this season and by all accounts they were shattered last night after playing a very hard 120 minutes. Thank you St Johnstone. Its up to us now.

Its towards the back.

I would agree with that. Don't understand why the deadline has to be March.

It would cause far more problems than its worth. For a start the Police would not agree and what they say goes. Secondly folk who had paid for tickets would complain in large numbers.

No worse than in the POD

A thoroughly professional performance and great to see us hit six goals with so many different scorers. A great team performance. I can't recall the last time I saw us score directly from a corner - can anyone else? Well done to Stuart McCall & Kenny Black.

I'm not in the least surprised. Our support is very diverse and there will be all shades of opinions. Leaving aside the important issue of cost and assuming all our "fans" could afford to join.... there are those who will join willingly to help the club, there are those who are lukewarm and can be persuaded to join, there are those who simply don't care, there are those who are scrutinising the small print if find out if its value for money, these are those who think they give enough already to MFC and there are those who are vehemently against the scheme. Many of our fans simply turn up on matchdays to be entertained and believe the club runs itself. Thats life I guess. Its interesting that Dundee is heading the opposite way. As you'll all know, the club was bought by the fans after the Callum Melville and other disasters. A good thing you might think. They recently took a vote to sell the controlling interest to "white business knights". The vote was lost. However another vote was organised and as far as I know the original decision was overturned. The reason being that Dundee is by right a Premier League Club and ok it will reach the SPL again by bringing in and developing its own young players. However this could take years and the fans simply don't have time. Dundee should be in the SPL next season. Very short termism in my view and a very dangerous path to go down. You'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson. I sincerely do hope that the scheme gets underway but am concerned that the deadline of early March is cutting it too fine as quite a few folk I know are saving up and hard.

I'm a shareholder at Fir Park and although I' no financial expert would agree 100% we are NOT in a mess. At no point in any of the meetings did anyone from the club say that we were in a financial mess. We're not rich, but by the same token are not in any financial trouble.

A very good bit of business by the club. If Henrik continues this progress we'll have a very good player on our hands for a short spell and recive a get hefty fee when he moves on.

I suspect that didn't come into it. In short, we know next to nothing about the proposed deal, and why Jamie turned it down. .

I would have thought that 1st March was a bit quick for a cut off. Maybe the end of April - that would give fans more time to think things out, recover financially from Christmas and commit themselves. If the 1 March is indeed the cut off then the club needs to mount a full scale recruitment drive this month. Home games would seem a perfect opportunity to collar potential recruits.

Look at the business Falkirk did yesterday. One youngster left for Huddersfield for a "six figure fee" and another went for £300k rising to £700k.

Thats my understanding. I'm 100% certain the Directors made this clear at the launch in the Alona Hotel. I'm sure they said that most clubs, including us, have a lean spell around the turn of the year. There are two ways of plugging that gap 1) sell players during the January window. This isn't the best time to do business as we know to our cost and the club don't like transfers then. 2) use a cash float, which was in the past supplied by John Boyle At the end of the season the cash float is paid back to the benefactor either JB or the society. Thus the cash float shuttles back and forward. Its not to plug a one off financial black hole.

Its a vicious circle isn't it? The whole point of the cash float is to avoid the need to sell players in January at knock down prices. Some fans are saying that they won't join up because the club is selling players cheaply in January. My understanding is that the club requires £250k to make the scheme viable - the equivalent of about 850 fans signing up at £300 a time shot and participants can withdraw any time they wish. .

Some good posts. The timing of the recruitment drive was far from pefect but that was largley outwith the club's control. Money is tight for many and thats a fact. However, like others I don't want to think about the alternative of putting the club up for sale. The club is not in any short term financial pickle but long term the Society will have benefits. I've been able to sign already and would urge others to do the same IF they can afford to. I know quite a few who are saving up to join. However its a personal decision.

Watford indeed? What was their rep doing at Fir Park?

This is precisely the purpose of the Society.....to give MFC a cash float to prevent it having to flog off players in January for knock down prices.

Maybe we were courting suitors that didnt appeal to Jamie?'

No great surprise given the respective squad sizes.

Thanks for that. Given Mr Broadfoot's personal comments you have to ask how impartial he is going to be when dealing with our club and fans in an official capacity. Very, very unprofessional and not what you expect of an employee of the SFA. .

Indeed. The fact of the matter is that there are all manner of opinions and views within our support. These Boards are most certainly not representative of the support as a whole but they do give an insight into the thinking of our fans. I've learnt the hard way that I and indeed everyone else cannot assume anything about our support. I happen to think that Stuart McCall is doing a good job, but the fact remains that some supporters are still not convinced and I daresay some still don't think he's doing a good job. However, if folk want to continue debating this issue about the merits or otherwise of SM then so be it. You, and I, might well be right in that it is no longer a burning issue but whether we like it or not there are those who think otherwise.

I'm a great believer in big physical teams Star sail and have been roundly criticised for that on these boards. However, I like my sides to be physically robust and strong and not dirty. Saints crossed the line yesterday. Steven Anderson quite cynically hacked Henrik Ojamaa twice yesterday. The first he was yellow carded the second he slyly committed off the ball. On just too many occasions our opponents led with an elbow or went in high/two footed or followed through. To me thats just plain dirty. That said they are a talented team. Being physical to me is being tall enough to win our fair share of aerial challenges, win 50/50 challenges fairly and not being pushed about.

I don't see any need whatsoever for him to finish the thread. He reflected the thoughts of some fans by asking questions and to a large extent they have been answered. Its a very sorry day when you are not allowed to ask questions on this Board. Some may not like the questions but thats no reason to denigrate them.