CaleyD

What's his connection to Bordeaux or ICTFC?

A letter has been delivered to CJT today (22nd March 2018) instructing the existing board to convene an EGM. The letter is backed, in name, by 37 society members. The purpose of the meeting shall be... to vote on the removal of all persons from the Society Board. to hold a fresh election to appoint members to the Society Board in accordance with the society’s rules. As I have said to people I have spoken with about this recently, it's not a witch hunt. The reason we are asking for the removal of everyone on the board at present is due to the numerous concerns and doubts over the legitimacy of their position/s. The first step in the society moving forward must be a board properly appointed by the membership. If those currently claiming a position on the board believe they are the people to take things forward, then there would be nothing stopping them standing for election along with anyone else who wished to put themselves forward. CJT now have 28 days in which to convene the meeting, communicate it's happening to to the membership and implement the process for the election.

Larnell Cole

One way traffic (us) at the moment. Just a matter of time till we score!!

It was reported that Robbo said this to the press earlier in the week....but I'm always wary of selective quoting and loss of context.

Probably as much to do with Robbo (the club) refusing/being unable to meet the cost of wages, accomodation etc.

Be interesting to see what line-up we go with today after talk of possibly resting players (!) ahead of next week's final.

I would have, but the short notice and early start make it impossible for me to rearrange other stuff.

I agree. My statement was more in relation to us wanting to push every replay to as late in the season as possible. Such a policy was always a disaster waiting to happen.

15 sold so far that I know of ?

That's one way to get around the bus alcohol laws....put it in your Macaroni Pies!!

When Butcher was here, he always wanted fixtures rearranged at the earliest possible opportunity. Building/maintaining momentum was important and that couldn't happen if you weren't playing games.

You actually wouldn't need the season to be so long as you could, happily, play midweek games in the brighter summer months with school holidays and no need to have kids home and in bed early. The only real obstacle then is the pitch as ground staff don't have the summer months to do all the work they currently do in preparing them for the next season....one of the reasons I think plastic pitches are an inevitability in an age when games are called off for the slightest sign a pitch isn't right. (safe travelling etc are a different issue, and should always be an important consideration)

Yeah...because we never have games postponed in March and December due to crap weather ?

It'll be good to give injured players a chance to get fit....we just need to hope contracts don't expire by time we get games played, now ?

Good news. Korrie and Subway have been long time supporters of the club in various ways and MFL signing up for a third year (and also sponsoring County from next season) shows a welcome commitment to the area.

So that will be a yes to you taking the argumentum ad hominem approach then ?

Really, Charles....you're going with the argumentum ad hominem approach?

Financially, they are self cancelling, but when people use those figures to create a picture of how people ran/run things, then they take on other significance. The board have not "come in" new to this. The Muirfield Mills group have had representation on, and a hand in, the decisions of the board for a number of years....so nothing should be new to them in regards how money was spent, or other things done. Again I make the point....if the playing budget has been cut by the same amount as the expected drop in revenue, and the £450k already "gifted" cancels out the additional "loss"....why are we still looking for handouts? Have costs risen elsewhere? Has the playing budget not been cut as much as claimed/planned? Did the club get the projected revenues wrong? We've been told that cuts are being made and income is being increased....but the numbers aren't backing that up. As a man of science, I thought you would be more disposed to looking at and testing the evidence that presents and not being lead by any sleight of hand or word that accompanies a performance! Kingsmills is right, if we had done as we did before and kept the squad as was in order to make a push straight back to the Premiership, then we could have expected a £1 Million "hole". What we are seeing though is the removal of the expected hole (by cutting the playing budget) and the emergence of another....for which there is no given explanation by the club. In response to your aside. People are free to make of my posts what they will, outsiders or otherwise, they have done for years. I ask no questions and make no point on here that I have not, or would not make directly elsewhere....never have....at any particular time. However, at particular times, those running the club have been more disposed to open, honest and direct communication (bringing with it the courtesy of trust) which has removed the need for the use of more public arenas.

You do know that it was IHE who coined that phrase? Which speaks volumes for it's credibility ?

See my post in response to Charles Bannerman. If the figures provided by the Manager and Chairman are to be believed, then there should be no additional deficit as a result of us being relegated. If we had a million pound, or someone was willing to bank roll that spending, in a push to get back to the premiership (as happened las time) then great....but we don't have that money and the current board seem intent on spending it and hoping that someone else coughs up the cash to cover it. I wouldn't argue with your last point, other than to say that you need to use the right professional consultants for the right reasons...or you end up throwing (other people's) good money after bad.

Any adjustments that were needed for the 2015/16 period would have been shown in the 2016/17 papers issued at the last AGM. It's part of the reason accounts show the previous years figures....so that ones a non starter. You, yourself, have made the point on many occasions that we have no clue as to what players are being paid. Are you now in possession of information on the current squad which changes that? The club had players, allegedly, on wages of less than £250 whilst we were in the Premiership....so, even if true, that would be nothing new. Robbo claims that £1.2 Million* (I think that's what it had grown to the last time he mentioned it) was cut from the playing budget. The chairman claimed that the impact on the club's income from relegation would be £1.2 Million. If both those figures are to be believed then they cancel out. If you take the loss from last year at face value....even though the Chairman has confirmed that it will reduce as a result of things I mentioned previously....then the loans (converted to shares) from earlier in the season cancel out the need for that this financial year. Why then, and again this is from the Chairman's mouth, do we need further substantial investment this season? The maths don't stack up. It also doesn't get away from the fact that the Chairman told everyone from day one that they had a plan that would remove the need for these gifts....and we've seen not a single iota of evidence to back up that this is happening or is likely to happen. They either lied....and I don't think they have lied in this instance....or they didn't know what they were getting in to and are failing, badly. *Robbo also claimed that the clubs income from gate receipts was down by £1.7 Million (you were in the press conference that day Charles), a number that doesn't match with the clubs claimed total loss of income, let alone one part of it....and also a figure I would peg at being about what the clubs total income from tickets (walk up and season tickets) would have been while we were in the premiership. Since we're not letting everyone in for free, then I suspect it's an inaccurate claim.

I'm pretty sure you were at the AGM Charles, so you will know that (albeit quite tacitly) the Chairman acknowledge that after adjustments which will be required during this financial year, the loss from last year will show as being significantly lower than the £422k shown. By my reckoning, it will reduce to somewhere very close to break even by the time you factor in the european money and rent write offs etc which were all earned/agreed during the last financial period. In respect of your comment on reduced spending....where exactly is the evidence of that? The squad size is pretty much the same, staff levels have increased with the addition of a COO (a position that won't have been filled cheaply) and a number of functions previously undertaken on a voluntary basis are now being done by consultants/agencies. The £450k already given is in addition to operational income for the current accounting period and there's strong rumours that a similar amount is required on top of that to see us through the season. So the £450k wasn't to plug any previous hole...and, indeed, the accounts show the club had cash in hand at the end of the 2017 accounting period. You'll not get much argument that the club has operated for a long while with a £200k to £250k annual "hole" that requires some good fortune or generosity to fill. If you use that as a measure of where the club is now, and even if you ignore the rumoured need for additional money, we're already twice as far into the hole than we normally go. For a board who claimed to have a plan that would get the club operating entirely within its own means and who were going to remove this need to "put round the hat"....they don't actually seem to be doing a very good job!!

From what I can see (and it was a cursory glance), the £450,000 of loans were converted to 450,000 shares.

You're worse than the SPFL!!!