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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    31 minutes ago, HoBNob said:

    The other models we've tried usually have one startling flaw, we appoint utter dumplings as manager. 

    We have an advantage over most clubs at this level with our increased attendances bringing in more revenue, hindering ourself by spending however many thousands on the academy, or speculating on potential only serves to errode that advantage imo. 

    Our tendency to over complicate things has only been a detriment to us, appointing Grant was a case of thinking we were smarter than what we are, now our player recruitment is starting to look similar. 

    Couldn't have put it much better myself

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

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    52 minutes ago, Wacky said:

    I haven’t looked so only going by memory here, didn’t McIntyre win the championship 2011-12 and then administration hit us while in the premier league? We had debts of around 10-12 million and it almost finished us.
    I agree with Rob1885 about going down but for different reasons. I’d rather we went back down being frugal than staying up and spending money we can’t sustain. We’ve all looked with envy at the Rovers flying in the league, but many on P&B have said that they surely can’t sustain the spending they have poured into that position? Why would anyone think it’ll be any different for us?

    Either way I don’t think Rob will get his wish that the board will walk away. So for me our minimal standard should be to avoid folding as a club. (I’m not suggesting that’ll happen to the Rovers) 
    It’s funny how we all see things differently, I’m happy to go with evolution where others want revolution. We’ve had two shite seasons out of the last three, and the world hasn’t stopped turning. I’d rather we take our time and climb the leagues with a steady and sustainable balance sheet 

    I think the accounts will show we were hardly sustainable in league 1 last season. These guys don't know what they're doing.

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    The East Fife Thread

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, DDLL said:

    I did like McDonald and after what we achieved at the end of last season was looking forward to this season, it didn’t start well, but after the Dunbar game that is when he should have resigned.

    Football has been shite to watch and I for one have stopped going to games.

    New manager, don’t see Campbell wanting it, too early for Smith. I would suggest Gary Jardine at Civil Service, experienced manager, ex player and he did bring Edinburgh City up from the Lowland league.

    Be sort of appointment I'd be looking at too.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, Wacky said:

    Ok, you’ve already said that you felt the Germans were a bad fit for us? 
    would you be happier if Ross was still running things? 
    if not him or the Germans, then it would be logical to say that you have given it some thought and know what Ross should have done? I’m really interested to know you think should have happened? 

    Aye I'd be happier with Mccarthur than the current board set up. He didn't want to do it anymore though which is fine.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

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    1 hour ago, Wacky said:

    it is their baw and money, and to they can do whatever they want with it, but “if” the patrons don’t like what they are seeing they’ll surely come out and tell the wider fan base? That’s when we’ll rally around like the last time and do our best to sort it out.
    We have to hope if that happens we can find another Ross McArthur to champion the cause, because I’m sure that after the abuse he and his family suffered, being spat on, having his car damaged because some complete clueless fuckwits couldn’t see the man had tried his best for the club he loves, will rule him out from doing this again. 

    I would say our injury list is a major factor in our league position. The Germans will see that too, and will be frustrated like the rest of us. They won’t walk away as many on here hope they will, they’ll tread water and hope we don’t go back down. Even then I doubt they’ll sack McPake or walk away regardless of the losses the club have, because it’s simply bad luck that we have players out. 

    It was Mccarthur that brought them to the club so he's as culpable as anybody.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

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    1 minute ago, Wacky said:

    Some serious questions for those who feel our board should walk away.

    Who would we get to take over? Keep in mind that Ross McArthur had a whole lot of board members working for free to carry out all the many different aspects of running a football club to the best of their abilities, and he conceded that he/they had taken things as far as he/they could.

    Then there’s the question of the money the Germans have invested so far, do you honestly think a businessman would simply walk away from a project and large investment when they can potentially turn things around given time? 
    We’ve all seen the posts about the apparent overspending/debt that’s attached to the club, again you’d have to ask who’d take that over and manage to turn it around? 
    I once posted that fans want success immediately (I think I said yesterday), and it was questioned by some, yet here we have fans wanting investors and board members to walk away because they feel the board aren’t doing things the way they’d like, because we’re not winning enough, because they didn’t sign the experienced players they feel we should, because they want success now? 
    Do you really believe that there’s people in the sidelines that could come in the door and do it any better? And if you truly think there is, who are these people? What do they do right now that would allow them the time and resources to walk in the door and make the differences you feel they could? 
    If you really think our board should walk away then you must have at least thought about who could take it all over to your satisfaction? 
    I expect a mixed response to this, and even a bit of flack, but theses questions really need to be addressed if you think this board should walk away. 

    A fair post. They've been here 3 and a half years and we've regressed on the park. The rumoured losses are putting the shitters up a lot of the fanbase. No normal fan asked for this so I don't see why it's been forced upon us. This isn't revisionism either.

    Let us crack on with running as a normal football club in the Scottish championship not some pie in the sky European project.

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