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As the longest-serving and most senior player, I imagine he is one of the top earning players at the club. These 3 players thing is bunkum - it’s reported as being to slash the wage bill and nothing else. The issue is not about what Gary earns - as I’ve said before, if it had been prohibitive the board would have made this move a year ago. We can infer that at least. The board in 2017 also forecast where they would be (I hope) and still didn’t act. Its not the wage. The club have obviously arranged for a reporter to come to the club (or phone) during the holidays with one story, that Gary had been told to leave. I guess that John Robertson was asked to give the interview. I also guess the decision to tell the press came after Gary had refused to take a pay cut and or early termination for a sum much less than his contract value. If that sits easy with some then that’s their prerogative. Personally, I think it was an overstepping by the board on the playing squad to allocate his wage else where. If hiring in backroom non-football staff and cutting at the football squad level is what is wanted and is the modus operandi then we shall have a very well operated stadium, submitting its accounts seamlessly, and very little stress for the directors, and hosting part-time football in League one. How many season tickets would we sell then? Is that what the board means when they talk about ‘sustainable’?

Correct and like any other business if you sign a contract and wish to break those terms you have to agree compensation otherwise expect the other party to take you to court otherwise suck it up and see the terms through. Going public and trying to put across bad press about the other party is not only a dangerous game, but also will probably do more damage to your reputation than the party you attack.

Well in that case Robbo should know better about how it works and its not just that simple - as to get rid of Warren he will have to pay him off with part or all of what he would be due for the remainder of his contract then pay for a.n. other player - therefore in real terms any replacement will actually cost more this season so not acually cost cutting at all!!!!

We aren't in the premiership we need to cut costs. Gary is on a large wage and not the player he was. Past two seasons he was poor. Don't see the problem. SEVERAL players now above him in the pecking order. Lots of folk on here keep harping on about not looking back but looking forward, time to look forward and let him go. It is a business at the end of the day.

What pay off will he surely get? He either stays on and sees off his contract and we pay him what was signed up for OR He leaves and goes to another club and the contract will be torn up. I don't have an issue with the club being willing to let Gary go it's the way we've gone public. We are terrible at getting out communications that people want to know about but we make public things that should be kept private. Bizarre. It's not even a current manager / board thing we seem to be atrocious at dealing with departing (or possibly departing) long term players.

Grow a soul, man.

So after long-service your employer, a year before retirement, says ‘actually -change of plan - better for us if you leave’. And you think that’s ‘staying the same’ and not at all negative... You also seem to be implying that people who have issue with this decision are just malcontents. Plenty of people who have an issue with this are ‘happy clappers’ towards the players. They are less inclined to give board decisions a free pass. I’d say that is good practice, indeed it’s what makes democracy to have robust opposition (or should do). Happy clapper or being positive does not equate to agreeing with the board’s decisions, certainly not when a fan has a rational objection to that. I find myself to be a ‘player happy clapper’, and perhaps you are a ‘board happy clapper’. Let’s be happy together.

It's symptomatic of the way the club was ran under the previous board....unfair that guys like Gary Warren should have to be forced out as a result. Yes, he was given a long contract which, I presume, didn't contain a relegation clause. You can hardly blame Gary for signing it! This is the same group of people that thought giving Richie Foran a 4 year contract as a rookie manager was a good idea, don't forget! I don't have a problem with the club saying to Gary "look, if you get a move to another club that suits you & your family, we won't ask for a fee & will let you go for free", but I DO have a problem with the club going public &, basically, forcing him out - it's a pretty shoddy way to treat a long serving player & captain, who would, clearly, run through a brick wall for the jersey! Said it before, but I feel that Gary still has a role to play at the club, even other than as a player. He's a great example to the kids on how working hard will bring you success.

The club can't afford to pay players off otherwise the likes of OFW and Raven would have been gone long ago. The ball may well be in Warrens court but only after we've very publicly made it clear we really don't want him to be here anymore. Not exactly a great way to treat a long serving player.

It would all be so much better if Gary Warren would stop being so selfish and just ask for that contract he signed in good faith to be terminated to save ICT some money so they can go and sign some other players. I mean they done the right thing by going public on the situation making it clear that he is costing them too much. He should really do the right thing and just leave! /sarcasm

As said before if the club want him to go then pay off his contract to terminate it and not try force him out via the press and turn fans against him. Evolving the squad is not the problem it's how we conduct our business with guys who have been professional throughout.

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I think the company are called Planit Scotland.

Perhaps the Cheif Executive?!

Theoretically we could be involved in the first competitive game at Cove's new stadium. Bizarrely, I've never been to Raith Rovers and I'd rather we got Cowdenbeath at home. One visit to their ground was enough.

Until I'm convinced we have a decent RB I'd be having him in with Donaldson and McKay on the right.

so if your employer asked you to take a pretty heavy pay cut you would be ok with it.

It feels a bit like one of those job adverts where they finish by saying "previous candidates need not apply".