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Id chip in to help pay it!!! He was quite restrained given the circumstances ?

It's an additional category we need. We have had a few that were terrible but McKendrick was something else. He was no where near as good as terrible.

I was hoping we'd heard the last of him. A man of course, who recently claimed on Sportsound that he'd been to the Partick Thistle match the previous week and his main observation was that Abdul Osman wasn't very good. Osman wasn't playing.

The speed Samson took off from his line to assault Vigurs would have made Usain Bolt jealous, and as for Chic the Neep, we are used to his anti Highland rants now,give him the contempt he deserves. Good after match comments from Robbo roll on Tuesday and hopefully 3 points

I am not sure I agree that that does take care of the football bit. Graeme Bennett did a fine job once upon a time especially in identifying and appointing managers and was a good Director of Football in his day. However, that day was a very long time ago now and, in my view, we need someone with more up to date knowledge of the current Scottish football scene. Turning the clock back with the appointment of Robbo was a risk which, after a very shaky start, now seems to be paying off but IO remain very far from convinced that we should be taking a similar risk in this respect.

1. Warren, Bell and Doran. 2. Adam Rooney and Billy Mckay - I know we probably couldn't afford them but their current clubs don't seem to see them as first choice any more.

it seems kenny cameron gets the nod for most of this cos all of the scottish cup acclaim went to his heed!

They were probably drinking Bells in the warmth of hospitality. Mind you, to be fair, I thought Connor did pretty well.

I noticed the sponsors MOTM was Connor Bell. He wouldn't have been my choice.

Agree 100%. There has just been another shocking penalty decision (and red card) against Motherwell in today's Bet Fred final. Yet more evidence for the need to use video technology.

In regards to last season's financial strategy, budgeting for seventh is fair enough, but it's how you use it. Bare in mind, the likes of Lewis Horner and Dean Ebbe were probably on buttons, so what on Earth were some of the others on?! I'm sure I recollect hearing that Scott Boden was somewhere in the region of £2,000 a week! If he had whacked in 30 goals a season then that would be one thing, but he was absolutely useless. To give Foran some benefit of the doubt, some of his signings looked good in theory but didn't turn out as expected. Big things were obviously expected from the aforementioned Boden, while Billy King was looked upon as a very good signing that summer but never really hit the heights expected. I imagine a lot of hope was put on Kevin McNaughton (and he may have been a big player for us) before he missed almost the full season through injury. Larnell Cole came with experience of the English Premier League but usually blew cold. Doumbouya was pretty hopeless as well, while Henri Anier had had a couple of purple patches in the past but was absolutely terrible. Other players didn't have the best of seasons. Fon Williams was often injured and on a poor run of form, Raven and Warren weren't at their best, Meekings and Doran got injured, Tansey and Draper weren't fantastic while Billy Mckay returned as the player he was when he first arrived at the club in 2011 and was nowhere near as good as the player he was when he joined Wigan. In saying that though, Foran did have a team that was altogether not actually that bad. We certainly didn't have the worst squad in the league and unquestionably, man for man, had a better squad than Hamilton Academical. On top of that, we probably had a side equal to, or better, than Kilmarnock, Dundee and Motherwell. Despite this though, it was poor management and poor tactics that killed us. Foran was tactically naive, began playing a very primitive desperate long ball game and his petty falling out with Alex Fisher (who was clearly the best striker we had) was the main reason we were relegated.

They do, on our stadium car parks?

Im fairly mild mannered but Id have thumped that ref today if Id been on the pitch. Thought the players did well considering.

3 scorers this afternoon (25 Nov)....... Jodran Roberts for Crawley Town Ibra Sekajja for Bognor Regis Danni Lopez for Arenas de Getxo in Spain

It’s easy to look back and learn the lessons. The hard part is taking the lessons and moving forward in a sustainable way and I believe that the coherent statement from the board is a positive step indeed. We can all share opinions and feel closer to the club knowing more about the goings on, which can only help encourage fans back to their seats. I’ve think there’s strong grounds for optimism here.

I think that is the vital area of concern. Firstly, we must accept that there will be "football" costs other than first team wages, but wages are bound to have grabbed the lion's share of that £2.7M. You therefore do indeed have to wonder about "stupid wages". Furthermore, this third largest football budget ever has been spent in a season when performances were so poor that there would presumably have been very little paid by way of bonuses. This large sum will hence have been overwhelmingly for basic wages so you do have to wonder how excessive these were? I woyld also guess that the two bigger football expenditures will have been in seasons where there were big performance bonuses - and hence a quid pro quo to the club of team performance earnings. I wonder how last season compared with others for total basic wages? And for doing what? My impression since returning to the SPL in 2010 under Butcher is that he was pretty good at squeezing extra cash out of the board for players - but justified that by making some superb signings and achieving generally good results with accompanying windfalls. Then enter Hughes who initially looks like a hero, largely on the strength of Terry's signings. I am guessing that he squeezed even more cash out of them, but when he started to have to rely on his own signings - very expensive ones, I suspect - the whole thing begins to unravel. The next step along the road - then appointing Foran - is a further rung down the managerial ladder and he is entirely unable to do anything at all with a team increasingly peppered with over priced duds, to whom Foran also added. The result - a hugely expensive dysfunctional team which can no longer perform well enough to bring in the windfalls, nor even to remain in the Premiership, so the end product is relegation and a £422K loss. That is merely my impression of what may have happened based on fairly regular observation.

Make that three - Larnell Cole for Tranmere at Macclesfield!

Two scorers tonight (21 Nov)......... Jordan Roberts with two for Crawley Town and...... Andrew Shinnie with one for Luton Town

18 Nov 2017 Rory McAllister (2) for Peterhead And in Highland league............ Martin Laing (Inverurie) Michael Finnis (Clach) Dale Gillespie (Rothes) Jaimie Wilson (Rothes)

Sat 11 Nov Alex MacDonald (Mansfield) Jason Brown (Peterhead) Zander Sutherland (2) (Brora R) Michael Finnis (Clach) Stuart Soane (Forres) Jaimie Wilson (Rothes) Stephen Rennie (Rothes)

Dennis Wyness scored for Huntly tonight (8 Nov)

Scorers Sat 4 Nov Doug Imrie (Hamilton) Jordan Roberts (Crawley) Rory McAllister (2) (Peterhead) Gary Wood (Formantine)

I had promised to keep everyone updated unfortunately, i have had to step back due to the death of my grandson. however, the wheels are in motion and an AGM will be held prior to the football club AGM Notices are currently being sent out with the guidance of supporters direct. we are also looking for people to step forward to fill office bearer roles. please bear will us, but i can assure everything is being done to protect the voting rights of CJT Liz MacRae Chairperson CJT

My tuppence worth... Turnover was about £3.7m - they haven't given a figure but we know what the drop from last year is, and what the drop from the previous year was. That was our lowest turnover since 2013-14. Budgeting for seventh isn't as crazy as it sounds. Firstly, there is a big leap between sixth and seventh in terms of prize money, income from post-split games etc (assuming one at home against Rangers or Celtic) compared to between seventh and tenth. Moreover, the nightmare scenario is relegation. Budgeting for seventh should get you a squad which at worse finishes tenth - in which case you run at a loss for the season, but its not a disaster by any means (Of course, we gave said budget to Richie Foran, which resulted in said nightmare scenario). Our footballing budget was £2.7m, the third highest in club history (but I assume a little bit lower than in Yogi's last season). Whilst I daresay that includes coaches, we don't have too many of them. Given that 20 players on £1k a week would give you an annual bill of just over £1m, it begs the question - what sort of stupid wages were we paying our players - particularly some of the complete duds?! That said, an oft-recommended ratio of playing staff wages/turnover is about 60% so we should have been close to that mark. The main worry is the prospect of being outwith the top flight beyond this year. Whilst the board seem to have got us sorted till the summer, obviously significant cuts will be required if we are still in the Championship next season (as is likely). That in turn will weaken the playing squad, and we are at risk of being stuck in a cycle where the longer we are out of the Premiership the harder it will be to get back.