JobbieSandwich

All the full-timers away? Hope the people that have bought the houses being built at Tarriebank haven't put a payment down yet.

Really makes you ask the question who benefitted from these signings. In other news, I hear they've completed another sale at Tarriebank.

Before we get too downhearted, remember it has been a successful year for some.

I can lead you to water but I can't make you drink it. The last I'll say on the matter is that the club should be very careful bringing in board members/directors from a business background with no history of support for the club. Will come back in a couple of years in the hope that I've been proven wrong.

I would imagine the accommodation will be a payment in kind as the paperwork I linked to earlier clearly states that the property is leased to the club and it's not a tenancy with the players. Very worrying that the thought of Directors potentially syphoning funds out of the club would not be high on your list of concerns though.

Are you referring to the board member who got his Doctorate while at Her Majesty's pleasure?

I see you've not answered the question. Would you be happy if the club were paying an inflated price on a long term lease for a flat to a director?

It'd maybe be fine if it was transparent and it was actually business connections. As it is, it's actually a director and his brother, now our 'hospitality manager' using club money to secure themselves a guaranteed income and better collateral for bank loans. The details of that agreement between the club and the Booth brothers needs cleared up. What if it's a 10 year lease at £1k per month? Are you still OK with it?

You don't see any problems with this, not even the issue of conflict of interest?

Charge - Find and update company information - GOV.UK (company-information.service.gov.uk) There's the charge the Booth's have taken out on one of their properties where it is documented that they have an agreement directly with the club to lease said property. They draw up a long term lease with club to house players. That lease makes it more attractive for a bank to lend them money. Money that can go towards developing the properties at Tarriebank and Inverkeilor.

Well, well, well. Seems everyone is beginning to finally get what's happening.

Have you ever heard of an outfield player missing matches with a broken finger?

Heard a rumour that TOB has failed a drugs test and will not play for the rest of the season as the club deals with it internally.

You know that won't happen. Just look at the comments from other fans when we appointed McIntyre. Players end up hating him and he has that reputation in the game now. He has to now scour further afield like Ireland for players who don't know of him. This suits certain members of the board as those players need somewhere to live.

I'm not saying it was an active policy but who has seen the most benefit of signing these players on full-time deals, yet not one of them from a Tayside club who had already settled in the area and would not require accommodation? Dick has made a fortune through the schmoozing he and his associates were able to do in the boardroom suite. Something that had dried up as the prices for the sponsorship/boardroom passes have exploded in the last couple of years. So it's now the same people in there week in, week out. Makes you think.