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12 hours ago, Spider Rico said:
In other news, guess it’s going to be another AGM in the zombie period between Christmas and New Year?
It’d be the most inconvenient and cynical time to hold it, so I’m going with “yes.”
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Is there any talk of what’s happening with Beuker’s role? No talk of looking for a replacement in the “cheerio” blurb. It’s just another example of fans being left in the dark.
Even just saying we’re going to take time to look at how we move forward would at least be some sort of acknowledgement towards a plan for the future. Instead we get “he’s offski” and nothing beyond that. Why are we so bad at the most simple things? Nobody is asking for a detailed brochure here.
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I’ve scrapped any expectations in favour of delusional hope. 1-3.
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50 minutes ago, QP's in my DNA said:
I just wonder where this fits in with "blazers plans ????
I must admit his role was low key, I'd forgotten he was at the club.
https://queensparkfc.co.uk/gardner-speirs-leaves-queens-park/
Aye, I’d just assumed he had gone when we turned pro. Real mixed bag in his time as manager. Signed David Anderson and brought on a lot of the generation through who went on to bigger and better things. In my view, we didn’t actually maximise what we had at that time. Squads that weren’t as strong went on to achieve more.
Can’t argue with that number of years of service to the club, though. Wish him well for whatever is next.
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27 minutes ago, Spider Rico said:
Sunday 10th December QPWFC play their biggest home game of the season, a top of the table clash, at ……..….New Tinto Park.
Wednesday 13th December Celtic under 19s play Feyenoord at……..…Lesser Hampden.
A game I’d go to, but would need to give up four hours of my day to navigate shit public transport and watch the game.
Could even offer all the free tickets they want for this one and it wouldn’t matter. It’s not cost that’s stopping people from going.
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1 hour ago, Anonymous Spider said:
That's interesting stuff. Add this in to the long-term planning, 4D chess lottery...
Four or five years into “professionalism” and we’ve not yet managed to get beyond a tactic of waiting until things are on fire before reacting.
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My deep, deep fear is that it’ll be the racist.
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17 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Maybe a DC in his prime or even a good version.
Dick Campbell of 2023 is not the same guy or manager he once was though. Nowhere near it
8 minutes ago, RedLichtie86 said:Another one who has not watched our dire football over the past 18 months.
Not saying Campbell hasn’t run his course. In retrospect, it might have been best to bow out after *that* season. The very definition of taken the club as far as it can go. I do, though, think McIntyre is rubbish and will be surprised if he gets a better tune out of that squad. Surely there has to have been better out there?
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As a direct competitor, I’m not disappointed with this. Looks a huge downgrade.
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54 minutes ago, Skeletar Spider said:
Since outing himself as p***k Mackay has been appointed manager of Wigan in the English Championship and Ross County in the Scottish Premiership. Between those jobs he spent four years in a lucrative position as performance director with the SFA. Sounds like an odd sort of punishment to me.
Aye, it’s a bit like those folk tour TV studios and drop several newspaper columns per year, claiming to have been silenced.
Other clubs can do what they want, but their involvement with Mackay leaves a stain behind. Worth noting, by the way, that Dave Whelan, who gave him his route back in also has form for racism. A real meeting of minds.
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1 hour ago, Southsideforever said:
To be challenged and asked to consider where these views originate from and to understand they are wrong. Be supported and guided to understand that prejudices need to be addressed and become a better person. We need people to be open about prejudices and seek help to address them. Not be fearful of opening up and looking to change for fear of the consequences.
I’d be immediately banned for life, as I absolutely should be. I’d possibly take a couple of deserved hits on the way out for my trouble as well. By the way, we banned someone for life eighteen years ago for a racist remark to an Albion Rovers player. This sort of shite wasn’t acceptable way back then either.
In my view, the age thing has always been an absolute cop out. Glasgow has been a multicultural and diverse city for generations now. There’s literally no excuse. I knew what was wrong to say thirty years ago when I was a kid at school, so if folk are still talking about understanding racists in 2023, what exactly are we meant to be understanding? Sometimes arseholes are just arseholes.
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24 minutes ago, Southsideforever said:
Veldman needs to stay to continue with the long-term direction we are moving in. It will come together. I would like a striker added in January as we are asking too much of Paton. However, I would have no objection to MM. Yes, he made mistakes which many of his generation have also done. If we are to move forward you cannot banish people for mistakes forever. He undertook training and apologised. Why would anyone admit to faults or try to improve if they are chastised and labelled forever? Moreover, he has considerable Queens Park heritage, football experience, and knowledge north and south.
If I were to stand up at the next home game at Hampden and start saying things about Jews, black people, Chinese people and women, what would you expect the consequences to be for me?
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11 minutes ago, qpfc said:
Absolute drivel
Even though the comparison with Martindale has almost zero relevance, does that mean you’re seamlessly willing to accept someone in charge of a club based in one of the most diverse areas in Scotland?
What message is that sending to the community in terms of enticing them to come to games and grow the fan base. It’s polar opposite of what the club are trying to be. You’d be sticking 2 fingers up to large parts of the southside appointing him
Football is a privileged position to be involved in career wise and anyone who has such views on particular communities deserves zero relevance in the sport
Outwith that, he’s an objectively terrible football manager in general
Yep. Carefully built sponsorship relationships and links with community organisations would need to be factored in as well.
I think most folk are capable of rehabilitating their character, but he wasn’t a daft kid. He was a man in his 40s. Even with apologies and reflection on actions, it should still rule him out of any leadership role. Not saying he shouldn’t ever work in football, but he’s wholly unsuited to being a leader and I don’t want him at our club.
My own opinion is that he’s sorry that he got caught, rather than genuinely remorseful about the things he said. An absolute c**t of a man, in all honesty.
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4 hours ago, DA-go Par Adonis said:
With Bene, Breen, Fisher, KRH, Moffat and Summers all out, it's a good time to play us also.
There’s no way I’d be putting the undersoil on in your position, despite how rancid we are.
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1 minute ago, Diamond1924 said:
Gretna, of course, famous for also having 16 fans and buying “success”.
The thing is, if we’d really wanted to do what Gretna did, we’d already be sitting mid-table in the Prem. The guy bankrolling us can afford it. They were buying experienced players directly from Dundee United and Aberdeen. We’re signing kids who’ve never played meaningful football.
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Just now, Diamond1924 said:
Great to see the Gretna 2.0 plan failing miserably.
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Is one full season of stability too much to ask for? Nobody is turning down Ajax, whether they’ve signed a ten minute or ten year contract, right enough.
Can we please use this as an opportunity to re-enter the real world, with a clear vision of who and what we’re trying to be? I don’t think this is something that can be done under the current Chief Executive. Her leadership has been farcical since joining. She should follow and allow fresh ideas to move the club forward, preferably in a way that acknowledges the existence of fans.
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43 minutes ago, CTQP1867 said:
Do you sincerely believe that the Committee exert any power or decision making whatsoever under the current set-up?
They are not essentially the Cabinet in the next Trump Dictatorship?
You could swing it another way. Do you think they’d ever say no to Haughey or Dempster?
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9 hours ago, The Toun Clock said:
Going down to -5 between Friday night and Saturday morning, this one might not be on.
Would be our best result in the league since August.
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EEP likely to be ok after several nights of frost/ice for the QP game?
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15 minutes ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
He is not a nice guy
Have to say, anyone I know who has personally encountered him only has good things to say. Doesn’t mean he is or isn’t the man for the job, right enough.
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3 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
I somehow got an O Grade in Chemistry and the only part I remember (apart from don't wind-up Mr. Sharp who was handy with the belt) was when doing an experiment you should only change one element at a time. If Beuker is definitely going, and our committee will know this by now, I'd be inclined to let Veldman have a spell on his own. That's the only way we can be sure they're not both playing the pantomime horse.
That however now becomes a timing issue. We've seen twice in recent history where inexperienced coaches (Roberts and Ellis) were fired at New Year because the club couldn't trust them with the cheque book in January. Would the committee support another 2 or 3 year contract for a guy who might not be with us in Spring?
If the club are serious about getting to the Prem at some point then retaining their position in this league must be a priority. Retreating to league 1 is perilous. Ask anyone at Cowdenbeath or Brechin. Or Falkirk, Alloa, QoS, Dumbarton or, dare I say it, Clyde. No thank you!
Don’t necessarily disagree, but if we take a 4-0 or 5-0 at EEP, that’s the sort of result that ends tenures. Even in the event of a narrow defeat, it becomes a question of how long you give it? If we don’t take a win out of the next three, we’re staring down Dundee United at home.
If Beuker’s going, just let him go now and let Veldman get on with it. We might not be able to afford the luxury of time and risk to see how things play out beyond January.
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2 hours ago, Southsideforever said:
Money has gone into structures rather than established players' contracts to build for the future rather than short-term success.
Our budget is competitive. Our team is not. I expected us to be inconsistent, but we haven’t even reached those heights.
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7 minutes ago, Southsideforever said:
Things are not going well on the pitch at the moment for sure. However, a new model to serve for many years in the future is being introduced and this takes time. We should be giving maximum support to the players and management at this time. What is the worst that could happen? Relegation? I would take that for a new model with young players being developed and playing football correctly, and consistent future success. We are not relegated yet, and we have every chance of surviving in this transition year and then moving onwards next season.
I think we could all accept inconsistency. What we can’t accept is being consistently guff. We haven’t won in the league since August and our record against full-time opposition is one win in thirteen.
It would be deeply embarrassing for us to be relegated, given the shouting from the rooftops the club has done about “the project.” It would actually be inexcusable given the amount of resource that’s been poured in.
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Is there a bout of leprosy or typhoid ripping through the Inverness squad? Why are they 5/2?