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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    Good to see him scoring.

    Anyone know how our youngsters are getting on at their loan clubs? Playing regularly etc?

    I seen the lad Kassarate at Bonnyrigg on Saturday and it got me thinking.



    Kyle Prior has been getting the 90 mins regularly for VoC, Jay Cameron has been injured but came on at half time at weekend and scored 2, Cameron at vics has been injured for a while but is back training with club and 17s to help him get fitness back
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    Sons' sorrow

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    Over the last year or so the club’s outgoings have been outstripping the income by some way and Directors are having to provide loan amounts to allow it to meet its day-to-day commitments.  By ‘Directors’ I understand that to mean the local guys as opposed to the Brabco nominee, and I doubt very much if Brabco have injected any sizeable working capital during their period of ownership.

     

    I also doubt whether match-day hospitality, functions and catering contribute any significant funding to DFC.  Ditto gate money, save perhaps for visiting supporters offsetting the increasingly grim home attendance figures.  As for Nowhereman’s contention about crowds (as distinct from home support), these may have fluctuated down the years but players and their agents demands have seen wages rocket  to an increasingly unsustainable level.  If you continue that trajectory there can be only one outcome.

     

    Brabco’s answer to all of this, rather than conduct a measured, planned, budgeted review and subsequent action plan based on the current location, is to embark on a wildly ambitious and I believe wholly undeliverable scheme in an awful location.  How in the name of God, given what I’ve written above, are we to proceed  from the present poor state of affairs to generating the turnover required to service both the team and this new stadium; it is fantasy stuff, utter fantasy.  And their primary intent is not football-related. 

     

    There’s a whole lot of things that could be addressed right where we are, Frank’s changing of the guard would assist in that process.      

     

    Benito Robles and his team have been thro this sort of stuff, we’d do well to heed his caution.


    You talk about outgoings surely the club seems to be carrying a good few players who are getting a good wage for no contribution to the club
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    Sons' sorrow

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    21 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:

    The fact Stevie was reminding us how tiny his budget was during every single interview should have had alarm bells ringing. The fact of the matter is that we don't have all that small a squad (despite the ludicrous chants of 18 players) and I don't believe for a minute that the budget is all that smaller than last year, minus maybe a Nade sized wage. After all the pissing and moaning we went out and recruited a decent crop of well paid players in Joe Thomson, Harvie, Stanton and Todd (expenses, obv).

    It screamed to me that it was simply him trying to lower expectations and have us believe we were only able to afford to pay players peanuts (not true).

    I also had a chat with a couple of players after the Clydebank game and the impression I got was that they were concerned about our prospects this season.

    An air of negativity was present from day 1 and as predicted by myself (I'm always right btw) that then rubbed off on our players and eventually it rubs off on the fans. We're then left with one big negative shite vibe when in reality the budget is adequate enough to compete.

    Never before have I experienced a manager being so negative about our prosepects before a ball was kicked. He may not have outright said it, but his continual bleating on about the budget screamed 'I think we're doomed'. What kind of a way is that to motivate the players and supporters?

    So what is the way forward, how do you motivate a team and manager that think there doomed and are lying down to the opposition.

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