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A good away win for the women today well done!

"...plastic pitch..." Drink!

Especially if it's a 3G carpet.

Totally agree and whatever personnel/players we do retain or have at our disposal, must be fully committed to starting almost from scratch and looking forward. On the pitch it starts with the manager and for me DF needs to go. We need someone who is forward thinking, someone who'll set out with an attractive forward thinking style of play, be open to progressing both personally and progressing players with a 2 season minimum plan in place. Whether we can avoid relegation or not, we need someone who portrays a belief that we can, not someone who outwardly states we can't simply just to save his own skin by being able to say at the end of the season 'well I told you so meaning I haven't failed' - he's already trying to save his own credibility, whether he has any left or not. If we survive administration in any form, it needs to be treated as a complete reset, a new starting point with measuring points 1, 2, 3, 5yrs down the line. A playing team, coaching staff included, that has no negativity what so ever. It should be about fighting for everything that's left this season and building foundations for being in League 1 with a League 2 budget. If we go down then so be it, we're already working to that budget. If we stay up, it's a bonus. Anything right now is a bonus but sadly DF is not.

Sadly, the first employees to get let go are the hard workers behind the scenes who run the football club from day to day. The ones that everyone forgets about that need their jobs the most. Now I'm not saying that players, managers and coaches don't need their jobs, of course they do, but they have agents who can help them find further employment. They are almost always on the higher end of the payscale at the club and are somewhat protected by league rules and the Scottish PFA so are harder to oust. It must be an administrators nightmare knowing there's obvious outlays to reduce costs but the only way they can be freed is by moving them on or coming to a mutual agreement. Players and managers won't leave unless they have other employment elsewhere. Not as easy as making the receptionist redundant for instance. I suppose the biggest issue for a club our size is, where do those obvious cost cuttings come from as I can't imagine we have an abundance of staff behind the scenes. I hardly see DF as the type of person who'll step up and take strips home to wash or hoover the reception carpet when there's nearly no staff left and jobs to do.

Daily Mail - other than the Daily Sport is the lowest form of tabloid journalism going, on par with The Sun - not worthy of my time Scott Gardiner - lowest form of upper level management personnel in the market, serial liar, incompetent to the core, vicious, vendictictive and rotten through and through - not worthy of my time Put together - I wouldn't even read this is if it were on a roll of loo roll and I needed to whittle away the time in the toilet due to a bad bout of constipation.

The way that article comes across to me, it’s as if Gardiner issued a statement to the journalist making the points he wants to make, the journalist then added some background info to pad it out, and SG then had final sign of off what was being said, to ensure there was nothing critical of him. There’s certainly no evidence of any critical/questioning journalism taking place.

Fair play to the guys today. Gave it their best when few (if any) of our fans gave them any chance of pulling of a victory. The news that a good number of them will be shown the door was also looming over them. So I take my bunnet of to you lads. Going out 4-5 on penalties after a 2-2 draw oan a plastic pitch is OK in my book. Hope the journey up the A9 is an easy one!

Didn’t manage to get to this match, but it sounded like decent performance from those who were there. We took the lead which is something we are not in the habit of doing recently and seemed more up for it than in recent weeks. I did see DF,s post match interview, positive in support of the players, but seems to be resigned to not being able to stay in L1 if admin happens. Surely that’s the very point at which expectations are reduced and it’s a great opportunity to galvanise the team and supporters for the battle of our lives! Not sensing much fighting spirit from him. Maybe he knows he’s off whether it’s his decision or others!

We do have quite a lot of staff on the books, for a league 1 / ex championship club.

If Gardiner pursues his threats of defamation actions, some things will be easier to prove that others. One that should be easy to clarify is Gardiner's assertion that the Board and Savage agreed that Savage would become a Club Director, only for Savage to then resign the next day. The Club has stated that the communication to Companies House was an administrative error with, I seem to recall, someone simply assuming that he had been made a Director given the authority he had been delegated. If Savage had been appointed as a Director, this could only be done at a formal meeting of the Board and it would be recorded in the Minutes of the meeting. Whilst the Minutes will be confidential, there is surely no reason why the Board can't issue a statement to confirm the Savage had not been appointed as a Director, if that is the case. My concern here is that this is a strange thing for Gardiner to allege if it isn't true. If it is true, then Savage and the Board have some questions to answer. The Board have more important things to address in the immediate future, but hopefully some clarification will be forthcoming in the fairly near future.

So my first question would be "Where did you get the money for this?".

I’m not going to waste any more of my valuable time or energy on that man.

Since I haven’t fully retired yet, I’m reluctant to say too much, and must say that Stephen McGowan is generally pretty good. I seem to recollect that it said somewhere in the piece it says that “ICT/AS were approached for comment” but in this situation, I’m not sure that standard device is carte blanche to fire on with one side of the story - especially when it’s as controversial as this and it’s being fed to you from a clearly highly polarised viewpoint. I wouldn’t criticise Stephen for not being as intimately familiar with the story as our local press pack, but given that’s clearly the case, I think that makes accepting what Gardiner says without balance a bit risky - especially when you are likely to get bullshit steered past you.

Gardiner of course showed during his tenure how much he cared for the local community and businesses...

Not a question that can be answered until we see the impact on the football personnel/players as a result of administration.

If we retain the services of the current manager, then we are the lame duck and will be relegated. He all but conceded that yesterday and over the last two seasons has shown nothing to indicate he can get the best out of any of our players be those veterans, loanees, or youngsters. When he comes out in the press to say that with a 15-point penalty, we will be relegated then that is not a rallying call, but the talk of someone who has given up. He might privately believe we will be relegated, and he may be right depending on how decimated our squad becomes under an administrator, and he might even publicly say it, but I would expect any manager to also say that while it may happen, we will fight tooth and nail to try and prevent it. His on-field reputation is as a hardman, battling with opponents and not giving up, but it has not translated to football management. For me, we need to replace him, but the question is with who. I said in another thread about one of our former players like Tokely, Esson, Warren etc. but as pointed out, perhaps an administrator would not allow this, given it might cost compensation to the club any of them are at currently. Looking inward, I would be happy with Charlie as a short-term measure (if he were up for it personally) or perhaps there is someone else locally who has the qualifications and is currently not in a position or is in one that would allow a 'mutual termination'. If they are willing to get the players battling on the field to save the season and potentially the club, then that's already better than what we have.

Twice. Once on the way down and again when you throw it up

Can anyone explain what the point of Gordon Fyfe is? Sat looking like Joe Biden as in he might dose off. Then comes to life with a rapturous speech about the great work of the Community Trust, which has absolutely fk all to do with the issues of the club. Also him being the one as far as I can recall who's been there throughout this shambolic downfall yet never answered a damn thing.

Well done, girls. Great to get some good news.

Back to winning for the women today and a clean sheet.

The young teams have done well this weekend. Congratulations to our U14 North Squad who are the newly crowned North Plate Champions. Double cup success today! Congratulations to our U16s who are the new North League Cup Winners. Well done to all the players and coaches.

How many are there?

No we drew as Ferguson doesn't pay any attention to penalties in the same way as he doesn't pay attention to league tables. Is it a midweek replay?