DAFC. Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Reading the "Into The Valley" book at the moment. Tremendous stuff. Had a chuckle at seeing our wage bill was 111% of income during the promotion season of 99/00. We didn't even win the title... Calderwood 3rd highest paid manager in Scotland as well. Mental. Absolutely mental. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Calderwood 3rd highest paid manager in Scotland as well. Mental. Absolutely mental. Skerla signed for a six-figure sum that they were too embarrassed to even make public. Gambling on getting crowds of 8000+. Would be funny if it didn't almost lead to the club dying. He put together a great team though. Wasn't worth the price but good memories all the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Skerla signed for a six-figure sum that they were too embarrassed to even make public. Gambling on getting crowds of 8000+. Would be funny if it didn't almost lead to the club dying. He put together a great team though. Wasn't worth the price but good memories all the same. The whole thing is pretty frightening. Mind that game at Stark's a couple of years back, everyone was convinced it could have been our last ever game. Scary stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I thought it was going to be. Think I'll go find the thread in the Championship forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I thought it was going to be. Think I'll go find the thread in the Championship forum. IIRC we got a bit of good news (can't remember what the news was, something to do with a decision going in our favour instead of GM's) which gave us a glimmer of hope. Mind you, it was a glimmer and no more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMessiah Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Skerla signed for a six-figure sum that they were too embarrassed to even make public. Gambling on getting crowds of 8000+. Would be funny if it didn't almost lead to the club dying. He put together a great team though. Wasn't worth the price but good memories all the same. Reminds me of those books about WCW failing. Farcical stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Not read it yet but any mention of the wage bill under Kenny? I seem to remember Yorkston letting slip that he had more than doubled the wage bill in an attempt to dodge relegation. Also remember from the admin period that sacking McIntyre was Yorkston's doing and that it wasn't budgeted for - some poor sucker on the creditor list probably inadvertently coughed up for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordieBoy80 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Not read it yet but any mention of the wage bill under Kenny? I seem to remember Yorkston letting slip that he had more than doubled the wage bill in an attempt to dodge relegation. Also remember from the admin period that sacking McIntyre was Yorkston's doing and that it wasn't budgeted for - some poor sucker on the creditor list probably inadvertently coughed up for it. Only goes up to Leishman keeping us up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Aye, since it says "Volume 1" on the cover I'm guessing a second book with the next decade is planned for the future. I'd hope so anyway, very much enjoying this. Yorkston admitting the club would lose £600,000 on crowds of 5,000. Saying a £1 million bid for Rossi or Skerla "would have to be considered"(!!) Felt sad reading about Jack de Gier and Nicholson saying he would have become a legend if he hadn't had to go back to Holland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Research is already underway for the second volume. No idea when they plan to write it though. Where did Yorkston and the rest of the board think crowds of 8k would come from? Why did they think it was realistic? There was zero basis for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMessiah Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Research is already underway for the second volume. No idea when they plan to write it though. Where did Yorkston and the rest of the board think crowds of 8k would come from? Why did they think it was realistic? There was zero basis for it. This is the same board that couldn't understand why we couldn't get as many fans for a friendly against Aberdeen as we could for a league cup quarter final against them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 This is the same board that couldn't understand why we couldn't get as many fans for a friendly against Aberdeen as we could for a league cup quarter final against them. Scottish Cup quarter-final. On a Saturday at 3pm. Compared with a rainy summer night for a friendly. Yorkston's quote from the book said we might need money from a transfer fee "for survival"(!) due to the lower than expected crowds. He'd been disappointed by the low crowd for the season opener against Motherwell (4830). He said they were hoping for 7500-8000 and believed that was reasonable because...we'd almost got in the top six the previous season. Of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMessiah Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Scottish Cup quarter-final. On a Saturday at 3pm. Compared with a rainy summer night for a friendly. Yorkston's quote from the book said we might need money from a transfer fee "for survival"(!) due to the lower than expected crowds. He'd been disappointed by the low crowd for the season opener against Motherwell (4830). He said they were hoping for 7500-8000 and believed that was reasonable because...we'd almost got in the top six the previous season. Of course. We're pulling in 5k+ in league 1, we should need a bigger stadium if we manage to get to the Premiership 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 We're pulling in 5k+ in league 1, we should need a bigger stadium if we manage to get to the Premiership ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yorkston found. How's the Gav statue coming on? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMessiah Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Was watching the highlights of the challenge cup game against the wee team from the start of last season, the fucking boos from the Rovers fans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Yorkston was a total zoomer. Some of the mistakes he and Masterton made were incredible. These type of people have worked in industries where nobody says no to them and they think they can do or say anything. Publicly threatening posters on dot net with legal action for talking about transfer rumours while at the same time spunking away hundreds of thousands on a plastic pitch twice! Also 140% of turnover on wages while we are 7 million in debt?! What were these people on? People lost jobs because of them, I think it was bordeline criminal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Speaking of criminal acts, in a totally unrelated matter, money laundering is a crime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 It's quite amusing to think that we get more fans to one match than Cowden get over two months, then they struggle to understand how our budget dwarfs theirs 5600 at Cowden in 2 months? Eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMessiah Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 5600 at Cowden in 2 months? Eh? Genuinely don't know if you're saying it would be higher or lower than that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Talisman Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Genuinely don't know if you're saying it would be higher or lower than that. Lower surely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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