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Scotty - can't you email those questions to the club? Or would the Supporters' Trust compile a list of questions ahead of the meeting? If ever the Board needed to listen to the Trust, it's now. I fear that the meeting may descend into chaos, and that nothing will be achieved.

That has to be the main question for the meeting on Monday. If £200K is raised by mid-month, then what next? £200K every month? Or what? And they have to be brutally honest about the chances of any major investments coming in. Note to Board: Assuming a second place finish in the league is not "brutally honest" - it's the kind of pie-in-the-sky thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.

Ain't that the truth

"The amount that is estimated to be required to get to the end of this season (in terms of cash requirement, potential claims and backlog creditors) is in the region of £1.4 – £1.6 million. This figure assumes a second place finish in the league... "

Why not? He's still the Earl of Inverness

The document they have seen is dated to last Friday, so that suggests that the enquiry is very recent. However, there's nothing in the rest of the article, other than the corny name "Operation Kessock", to suggest that the document is anything other than generic boilerplate outlining the steps and implications of administration. The type of document you'd keep on file and send out in response to an initial enquiry. Having said that, this is a massive breach of confidentiality at either BDO or at the club. Or a deliberate leak to concentrate the minds of potential investors? I agree that some sort of statement is required.

I'm cheap - I use GIMP. https://www.gimp.org

Never had that problem at Culcabock. Until they straightened out the burn from the 6th green across to the 10th - and turned it into a raging torrent!

One of my common faults, too, which is why my default camera setting has a grid in the viewfinder. Thank goodness there aren't airports close by

Going to see them on 10th October. I know I said I didn't go to see single band tributes, but they always sounded like fun. I first saw the ads for their tour early this year, or maybe even last year, but they were already sold out near me - Milton Keynes and the Royal Albert Hall. But then they added an extra date, at the London Palladium. (Some bloke called Gilmour is clogging up the RAH that day. I missed the announcement for that, and there just aren't any returns to the RAH - normally you can pick up good seats at the face value of the tickets. Turned out that I wasn't overly impressed by his new album, anyway.) Will let you know how the Aussies do.

Fraid so. All my wife's family are Stenny supporters. We have no option but to win. Or I'll never hear the end of it.

The only tribute band that I've ever seen, playing the music of one band only, is Think Floyd. Have seen them twice - the last time they did "The Wall" in its entirety. Without any animations, puppets, and the wall itself, it's not the easiest thing to sit through! I generally avoid such bands because if I wanted to hear slavish renditions of album tracks, I'd play the album. Having said that, Think Floyd had a female singer - I don't know if she's still with them - who absolutely nailed "The Great Gig In The Sky". Live versions of it by later Floyd and by Gilmour's band - I've never heard Waters live - never quite sounded right. It starts at around 6:48 in the video below.

A hair-raisingly accurate take on the live version of Highway Star from Made in Japan. Except that Blackmore would never have had another guitarist on stage with him Going to see the real Purps in November. A few days after I see Caravan. Can't be many more chances to see these guys now. I saw The Story of Guitar Heroes once, and would recommend them if you're really into guitar music. Everyone from Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly up to Slash and Steve Vai. All the usual suspects in there, and they even included Rory Gallagher when i saw them. https://www.storyofguitarheroes.com/ https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/the-story-of-guitar-heroes-63fa1a13.html?year=2024

I guess that there may well be two aspects to it. One will be looking at current finances - income and expenditure at the moment - and I would expect that to include things like accommodation costs. The other aspect will be historic - what happened to the money in the past, where did it go, and who knew what? I suspect that it might be quite a while before we hear about the outcomes of that, because at the very least there will be lawyers involved, and beyond that there could be the involvement of inspector Knacker.

Thanks. The BBC website doesn't mention that. However they do say that Cove committed 20 fouls (we committed 6), so did they take the referee out?

So what was the reason for 15 minutes of added time?

66% of possession, and we're one down. Must be the pitch.

Might just be a progress report. Keep folks informed. Like any decent club / management does.

So why isn't Everton on the phone to him right now? Mind you, we'd be looking for a lot of compensation - about a couple of weeks' of Dyche's salary

The spin will be that we got a point away to the leaders....

My favourite car from Shuttleworth - a 1934 Railton.

Yes, it's been very noticeable (and very strange) that their names haven't appeared amongst those former club officials and investors that Alan Savage has been talking to. As I said recently, I think that Rae has the largest shareholding in his own name of any shareholder. (Savage has more, but they are owned by Orion.) And his mates have quite a few, as well. Time to stump up, gentlemen.

An MG for IBM. And what to do with your war surplus aluminium....

And here is the promised picture of the Fiat Topolino. Looks like I took only one photo of it at Shuttleworth last month, although I have many older photos of it and can dig them out if Mantis wants to see them It's worth reading the info about the car to see how advanced it was.

This all looks so odd. 1) Can't they just ask Morrison if he approved Gardiner's contract? 2) The lawyer appears to be saying that it was not until Gardiner resigned that the existence of the contract, with 12-month notice period, was established or formalised. 3) Surely the contract - with signatures - should be on file at the club? Curiouser and curiouser...