Was thinking that on Saturday actually. Was sat behind them and could see Murray was trying to tell him something and Bartley wasn’t having it at all. My guess is that Murray is effectively no use anyway as any input he has which is different wouldn’t be heard because of Bartley’s ego/delusion.
He had a clause in his contract that he would automatically get another year if he played x amount of games. As the season was called off early he never hit that target despite the fact he would have if the season continued, so we released him.
His ambition is to be a manager/coach though, he has to think more longer term. I agree it’s unlikely and I am likely reaching, but I wouldn’t be shocked he walks just so he doesn’t have it on his CV.
No chance he gets another managers job in Scotland by relegating a full-time side in the third division. He seems settled living here so he has that to think about.
The people who are in the “be careful for what you wish for” camp do my head in.
I don’t think it’s expecting too much for a full time team to be making an attempt for promotion in this league (as the minimum) and our ground not being left to ruin. The way others will have you believe we should be happy to just have a team.
Yep, that’s why we were signing the likes of Rico Quitongo and Dave McKay and you were signing Liam Grimshaw and Alan Power. Yeah makes sense that our budgets are the same!
I know for a fact we tried signing a player under Gibson while in League One and we offered him £350 basic wage. A few weeks later he signs for Arbroath on a part-time contract on quite a bit more money.
Are you honestly trying to suggest that we spend similar to Morton/Arbroath/ Airdrie regarding playing budget across a whole squad?
We could afford to offer a decent enough deal to one or two players, but I could guarantee you across the whole squad we have no where near close to a Championship budget. Not really that difficult to understand.
I’ve read that statement as if they already have someone lined up. Otherwise would they not have said something along the lines of that they are open to inviting others to take over?