HighlandQueen

I concur

Agree

Very sensible post given where we are. Crucial to get the right Board in with the right vision, strategy and funding in place. Time is of the essence. As much as anything our communication with the fans is just awful. Partial or no info prior to games or about what’s happening at the club, no excitement generated, almost as if we just get in the way. Mark Blount tried hard with his infrequent fan updates but our PR and comms is a disaster. I appreciate it’s done on a volunteer basis but we don’t even have highlights that clubs like Annan and Montrose post. The stadium does look terrible, with rotting wood, peeling paint etc. The arena has holes in the roof with water damage and broken doors, sanitary fittings etc. perhaps excusable if the focus had been investing in the pitch with the club on the up and up but there is a stench of decay. This from a club with a Chairman in the buildins trade.!!! Rather than being excited, given the lack of Board activity I’m more in the nervous and worried camp at the moment. I hope I’m proven wrong.

It’s a shame it didn’t work out. I thought it was an exciting appointment when announced. Even though the football was eye bleeding I have to believe Bartley tried his best to organise the club professionally. It’s a shame his signings and tactics weren’t up to it. Sadly he has to come to terms with the fact that he failed. Saying that I have got to believe as professionals that some didn’t cover themselves in glory. In corporate life I gave it 110 percent irrespective of who my boss was out of personal pride. If we had a fully fit Mimnaugh and Brydon it would have helped. I don’t have any rancour for Bartley but he had to go as the season. Was a disaster. Personally I think it would be a massive retrograde step to go part time and I have the fear that we just end up settling for Murphy. Whilst the club has no massive debt I personally would like to have had new owners ( not necessarily local) to inject cash and ambition into our club. I don’t know Jim McLinden but we need a strong board and an able chairman who are prepared to use their skills and probably input cash to get us out of the hole we are in. After 2 false starts we need an experienced manager ( see what McGlynn did for Falkirk albeit with a decent budget) and I would go for McCall who has been round this track before. We do need to act swiftly on board and manager recruitment to be able to assembled and get game ready a decent squad. What a mess . Still. We have got one new board member in and cleared the managerial decks ( please god Murray is away as he was useless). Much to be done.

Dear good no. Utter donkey and failed with us before. If that’s the level of our ambition we may be in this league for a very long time…..

That’s my fear about McLinden. Seems very ‘confident’ already and if Murphy is his mate that will be a shoe in. Lacks vision and ambition.

Sorry let me spell it out. Peter Murphy manager of a part time Annan team that just stayed up with a bunch of old pros isn’t very ambitious imho…

I agree. It was fresh, exciting and looked a great score. In reality he had no idea how to assemble a balanced squad, motivate and select a team or change games. A pity. I don’t have the rancour most fans have for him but time for him to go. Onwards and upwards with a superior candidate. We deserve better. The last 5 years have been a brutal watch.

Agree not only options but you surely are having a laugh saying Murphy is more ambitious than McCall. I think McCalls track record shows considerably more evidence of promotional success than Murphy’s or am I wrong?

Yes but came in later in the season and to work with what he had. Look at him keeping us up and his record at Thistle and Ayr. View his career achievements….

Yup

Please no. The ego that guy has ….

I hope not. Lacking ambition

I agree

To me looks more likely he will stay due to Board inertia and lack of cash to pay him off. In which case time to get rid of that utter dud Murray and get a proper experienced assistant with any type of ability in…

Logan has been a massive disappointment this year as headless chicken, can’t cross/control a ball or defend. Efe is over the hill. Next….

I thought we played really well today, despite my misgivings about the line up ( I would have had Efe in and dropped Logan). Pass marks for all except Ferguson ( empty jersey again) and Todd who looked slow with poor control and gave the ball away too much. Our running off the ball up front was a delight and for once decent passes forward. I thought Stone, Houston, McLelland, Reilly and Connolly shone. Doesn’t alter the fact that we need a new manager and have to bin most of this underachieving squad. One more season FT for me. I can’t make Montrose next Saturday so thank god I don’t have to watch us until July as it’s been a horrible season

Actually I went through the fixtures. I’ve seen 26 games this season and only watched us win 6 times. That’s just horrible. I can’t put my liver through this next season!

Listen if it means I don’t have to watch the dispiriting and turgid crap I’ve seen this year great. I’ve watched over 20 games and seen us win in person 3 times. Awful.

Pretty good cv. I’ve changed my mind. Get him in now……

Did well to get them out of L2 and back end of this season has been good but no progressive forward player development strategy as seems to be done with a nexus of ageing pros, mostly ex Queens players. He has got a lot out of them but not sure how he would handle a bigger budget and no evidence of ability to get a team out of L1 or play on a bigger stage. Not for me but I could be wrong. Difficult to be worse than our last 2 incumbents. Still the proven track record and connections of McCall for me.

I see no long term track record that would put him on my list

Because of his proven track record and link to Dumfries. Happy to listen if you have a better idea.

I agree with this. I’ve sat on/ am sitting on a number of Boards and the Chairman with Board approval picks the ceo ( in our case also the manager), a strategy is agreed, then a business plan, with an appropriate budget and the executional plan is agreed then monitored ongoing with appropriate metrics. For what it’s worth ( only my view) it would be a retrograde step to go part time. I would pay off Bartley, approach McCall ( who I guess is only on a short term contract at Clyde) and then have a long term plan to start moving forward again. It may mean another loss but to a purpose. Much though I like Marv and his rhetoric, this year has been an abject failure with poor recruitment, hapless tactics and the football is awful to watch. Even if he hasn’t lost the dressing room he seems to have lost the fans. It would worry me to trust him once more with our summer recruitment. If we leave him in place it’s another lost season. I am deeply worried about the potential calibre of the new chairman and board ( I’m nervous about the info one can glean about Mr McLinden, on the one hand there is some evidence of success but also extensive PR about an ambitious business he was involved in being dissolved). Maybe I’m wrong as I don’t know him but I’m edgy. You all know my view. I still wouldn’t rule out opening the club up to investment and professional input from beyond just the local area. Only my opinion but seems that we are at a crucial inflection point for our future. I would hate us to become another L1/2 part time local club with no ambition. just a view…..

Looked more to me 250-300?