Priti priti priti Patel
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13 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
It really is.
Many of us have tried, but it's almost impossible to capture the scale of how terrible he's been in the role. I honestly doubt if anyone, anyone at all, could have done any worse.
Let's discuss the elements that go into managing Queens and how he has done. I live out of country so mainly just see highlights, so others will be better placed to complete these than me.
Quality of Football
Negative, uninspired, players collapse at the first sign of adversity.
Results
Worst season for decades.
Signings
26 man squad but players out of position because, in his words, most of his signings aren't good enough.
Youth Development
Loan players over home grown, deliberately reducing Gibson's game time, no young players have emerged (loan or otherwise).
Player Man Management
Playstation gate, randomly dropping players, fallings out with various squad members, obsessive focus on individual errors, etc
Upward Management (BOD)
Well he's still in a job, so....
Public Relations
Repetitive interviews, shirking responsibility, Playstation gate, Arsenal, etc.
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5 hours ago, Slipmat said:
I hope our incoming one man board of director has deep pockets so that Bartley, Doherty, Hutchinson and McKechnie can all be "released". Grant Murray too, if he is contracted for next year.
Does anyone know if there is a minimum number of directors requirement in order for the club to be SFA/SFL compliant? At the painfully slow rate that we're going at in terms of assembling a new board, I fear that some of the current board members will still be around next season to make up the numbers.
Minimum three directors to transact business per the articles.
Also, "one man board of director"
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30/1 on an acca for Queens to lose and Annan to win.
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6 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said:
I wonder whose result he will be looking out for first?
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Accies,Carlisle,AnnanQueensArsenal have always been the club for me".FTFMB
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48 minutes ago, Frankie S said:
Looks very much like they’ve abdicated responsibility for sacking him, as well as abdicating responsibility for the mess the club is currently in. I agree they should have stepped down before, as the club has been drifting aimlessly towards the lower depths of Scottish football for years, with the stadium disintegrating before our eyes, and the fans drifting away. The board need to outline their succession plan ASAP, to remove uncertainty.
There is an inherent contradiction in your post. See bold above.
I see no reason to believe that Bartley remaining in post is a function of the board's imminent departure, rather than just the application of their usual poor judgment and passivity.
@Otis Blue see above - no need for me to repeat this on two separate threads!
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3 hours ago, Frankie S said:
Up until our board collectively abandoned ship, I thought we had (just) enough about us to avoid relegation. Now we’re a rudderless vessel drifting helplessly towards the rocks, and given our collective lack of appetite for the challenge, I really can’t see us prevailing against the likes of Spartans, Dumbarton or Peterhead in a play off, if we do finish 9th. Brydon’s latest setback, after only recently coming back from injury, hasn’t helped, as he’s one of a handful of players we have that isn’t a complete waste of space, but overall, this is the most hapless collection of imposters masquerading as a football team that I’ve seen representing the club in many years. Bartley is clearly delusional and out of his depth, but he’s effectively been left with the keys to the asylum. What an utter dereliction of duty by the board to head for the lifeboats just as the iceberg looms into view. Nevertheless, the club needs cleared out from top to bottom - board, management, players. Hopefully that will happen in the summer, after our new board (whoever that is) takes charge. Sadly, it looks increasingly likely that their unenviable task of rebuilding the club from the wreckage will begin in League Two.
Disagree with most of this. It is good news the board are stepping down. I think it has come too late. I hardly think the fact that we are in such a shit state under their leadership is grounds for them to grant themselves a reprieve from the axe. Their stewardship after our relegation from the Championship has been piss poor. There is no reason to think it would be better after our relegation from League One. You are applying the same logic Bartley has applied in his most recent post-match interview, suggesting he should stick around to "drag this club" out of the very mess he created.
In any event, we are not a rudderless ship, notwithstanding the board have announced they are stepping down. They can and are still exercising their powers as directors. They can still make decisions, including the decision to sack Bartley. There is no reason to believe that the fact they are stepping down at the end of the season has influenced their decision to retain him. Correlation does not equal causation.
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4 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
Your theory is fine in principle ... alas, we have no board to sack him ... the board threw in the towel and walked first - yes, it's hard to make this stuff up! There's a very good chance Bartley will be with us to the end of next season as he takes us into the Southern Counties league or whatever the hell it's called.
If Alloa don't take three points in this game and boost your goal difference at the same time ... then you really should just call it a day.
This is just factually incorrect. We do have a board in place. You can check Companies House. They are still required to hold board meetings and perform all the functions of a board. It's almost certain they are doing so, since there will be various expenses they will have to authorise are paid, e.g. HMRC bills, suppliers, players' wages, etc. They also have no clear incentive not to sack him by reason of the fact they are stepping down: again, directors do not spend their own money. They are effectively employees, just the highest pay grade within the company. The only reason they would have for not sacking him is that they judge it is not in the club's best interests to do so, for example because they think he is doing a good job, or he will salvage it, or it would cost too much, or relegation is a justifiable risk to let the next board have the decision. You can question that judgment, I think everyone questions it. However, it's just factually incorrect to suggest that either (a) they have already stepped down, or (b) it is in their own interests not to sack him: they have nothing of their own interests on the line.
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It's the wee bit at the end where he goes "I will drag this team where it needs to be at the end of the season" that gives me the fear. He obviously won't. He says it with total conviction whilst having no clue how to be a manager. It's just a deluded, self-soothing ramble. It really brought home to me that we probably are about to get relegated.
There needs to be a protest by the Lochfield Road entrance or something at the Kelty game because Bartley remaining in post is vandalism.
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2 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Get rid of this joker and give it to Bradley Walsh until the end of the season.
Looks to me like a man who didn't realise it would be this hard and is gutted he can't do it. But, if that's the case, just walk away. It's a year of salary for him but it's our whole fucking football club.
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3 hours ago, Dougie Mills said:
Yeah it used to be good, particularly with a bumper crowd in it……. those were the days!
Twenty years ago with the drummer and a middle aged man shouting Blue Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmy. Better days.
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20 minutes ago, Otis Blue said:
The timing of that announcement, just wow ...
Not sure if I've missed something, what announcement?
Beggars belief his sacking hasn't been announced this evening.
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10 minutes ago, Senator Frimpton said:
Good you spelt this oat or no one would know wheat you're on about
Time for Bartley to say his
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On a completely different subject, I see Dan Pybus has been called up by England (sort of): England C squad named for game with Wales | England Football
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I don't personally understand the logic that the board have dodged the issue by announcing they're leaving. Legally, they still have responsibilities to the club. Of more consequence to them, you would think, is their own legacy and whether they want to be the directors that see us relegated to the fourth tier for the first ever time.
Edit: Ah, @bod has just posted this while I was typing:
2 minutes ago, bod said:Why would they throw more money down the tubes to get rid of him when they're leaving in a couple of months?
That would make sense if it was their own money, but it's not.
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43 minutes ago, palmy_cammy said:
How I imagine the board meetings unfold at Palmerston.
Absolutely astounding and contemptible that they are sitting on their hands and doing nothing about the current state the club is in. Very clear they stopped giving a shit a long time ago. The fans deserve so much better.
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2 minutes ago, Dougie Mills said:
Nobody can tell me that this isn’t the worst manager we’ve ever had.
A lesson in how meaningless tv punditry is.
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50 minutes ago, HighlandQueen said:
Possibly not but hey better to consider all options rather than sleepwalk into another arrangement that may lead to no progress in the next 30 years. I’m open minded. It surely can’t be worse than what we have suffered in the last 5 years. I’m certainly not voting as a shareholder to sell to unsuitable owners but I can’t take another season as bad as this.
Neither your nor I (nor any other shareholder) gets a vote on who anyone else sells shares to. In any event, there's no need to buy a controlling interest to be appointed to the board. Being a director and being an owner are completely separate roles. Directors are appointed by owners. The line just tends to get blurred because often at football clubs the owners will appoint themselves or their relatives.
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Find it mad that people on social media (less so on here) are bemoaning the board's resignation. There can be little doubt that their tenure has been a failure. When they came in we were challenging at the top of the second tier. They're leaving with us struggling at the bottom of the third tier, our crowds between 1/3 and a 1/4 of what they were and should be, the stadium a wreck, and the relationship with fans in tatters. Yes, there is a risk the new board won't be great, only time will tell, but it's not as if the outgoing board has been very good itself.
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7 minutes ago, HighlandQueen said:
Well we won’t have to bother about that. The chance of us going in a run with these tactics is remote!
On the half time feature last night he described the bad run as "6 or 7 games".
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14 hours ago, Priti priti priti Patel said:
The line from Bartley will be "three set pieces. Three individual errors".
Fucking nailed it.
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Three players back at the corner there
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1 minute ago, Monkey Tennis said:
We were stitched up by the ref.
If he'd done his job, Kilsby wouldn't have been on the field to do that. When will we catch a break?
The line from Bartley will be "three set pieces. Three individual errors".
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1 minute ago, keptie said:
Pens galore now
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The Queen of the South thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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It won't cost the BOD a penny. Directors are employees, same as the bar staff, or any other employee.