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Good win and a special congratulations to Freya Soden who made her 1st team debut at only 15.

I'm sure he'll make them the commercial powerhouse that he did with us.

It's an interesting question. The issue that we didn't let Hughes go to DU is one that that I can understand why people consider. However I think that if we did let him go and things still went pear shaped, people would be looking back and asking 'why did we not do more to keep him!'. In my view Hughes was the person who was in the wrong in that situation. Foran as manager was a mistake and KC has admitted as much. I said to him myself that I felt it was too soon for him and it would have been better to have him as assistant to a more experienced manager. As a club we've made poor decisions but usually balance them out by making good ones too. It seems that all we've done since signing Robertson as manager (not a bad decision but keeping him as DOF was) has been one bad decision after another taking an administration event to force change. To answer the question, in recent history I would say the decision to make Graeme Rae chairman. Without that we don't end up with clueless Yvonne Crook and then of course he brings in the man himself Scot Gardiner and the massive list of terrible decisions and unchecked consistent failure for over half a decade.

#TheGardinerEffect

Good lord I wish some of that crowdfunding could be used to buy a camera that's above 360p and has an optical zoom.

Having a pop-up restaurant franchise may or may not work. Look at something like Tiger on The Wall which started during covid and became very successful. Doing takeaway initially then sit in later when allowed. The Caley Club also have a similar setup where the restaurant pays X amount a month (presumably under some kind of rolling contract) to use the kitchen and serve food within certain times. The kitchen facilities at the club are at best used once a fortnight during the season, or at the moment not at all. So it seems reasonable to use that space to generate some income. No different than if we had a 4G surface as a pitch and let it out when not required. So long as there's no risk financially or reputationally to the club and it doesn't take up huge amounts of staff time to manage I don't see the harm in exploring it. The main issue with the Concert Company and BESS was that the board seemed to bank on these for the financial future of the club before it was guaranteed that they would be successful, causing a huge crisis when they have failed. I very much doubt that'll be an issue with renting out a kitchen space.

While I'm delighted that non football staff have been kept on, we really need to up our game quickly in the commercial dept. It's been awful in terms of promotion or offering for ages. Any kind of revenue streams need to be looked at and local promotion of the club and associated activities addressed. Need to be more professional and proactive. I was speaking to someone from a business recently who has advertising boards at the club and dispite contacting the club several times, hasn't received an invoice to pay them for over a year. Madness. I know and see far more about the activities of the ICT Community Trust than I do about the club itself.

Was starting to get irritated by the lack of info about the 12 noon press conference. Then I remembered I'm 2 hours ahead

Thanks for the input. Many fans from Dundee/Hearts warned us of Gardiner's 'abilities'. However we had two successive chairman/boards who seemed to be quite happy to sit back and literally give him 100% latitude with zero KPIs, targets or accountability. To this day the previous chairman says he's been vilified . Despite the evidence being that he's not done ONE THING that's improved or furthered the club in over half a decade. We've been failed by Gardiner due to his arrogance, narcissism and hubris but we've been failed by the board too with their inaction and utter gullibility. Some fans saw this coming ages ago but were dismissed as trolls etc. What did they know eh?

Thanks, eventually got it to work. Seems to me he's under the impression that there was a 12 month 'budget' that would be in place if we went to Kelty. My take is that he thinks it's crazy we (fans/board) didn't back the Kelty plan. This is similar to what Gardiner has said in the press that there was a 'recovery plan' that would have saved the club. Of course any sensible person could see with little scrutiny that this was doomed to failure. Just like the Gardiner backed Mr Phygital. Like most things over the past few years the club's saving grace was always just round the corner - Concerts, BESS scheme, freeport, park & ride, Kelty, Makwana etc. All of which failed spectacularly or were plainly ridiculous. However I get that Ferguson is probably just looking at the small part he's been promised on face value. Which as most fans realise is worthless with the Gardiner/Morrison cabal.

I can't get the video to work, Internet is a bit hit and miss here in Turkey. However just going by the quotes he (Ferguson) seems to be under the impression that going to Kelty would have solved all our issues, cleared the slate, given him a budget for presumably 6 central belters who could/would not come up here. But the board (via fan pressure) went against Morrison and 'decided for admin' so, he then took his ball and went off. It's nowhere near as simplistic as he's making out. Other factors push us towards where we are, not least of course him being the manager who got us relegated worsening our already fragile situation but he's hardly going to highlight that. I've some sympathy for him in the sense that he was most likely sold some story when headhunted for the job (I still think it was a huge ego massage signing for SG) about all of the SG/RM schemes working out and he'd get a huge transfer budget, his 3k a week, gold plated training cones and the like. And why would he doubt these local titans of business and football club management?

Much of what he says does indeed, deserve to laughed at. Doesn't it? The fairytale that Morrison was going to bankroll one more year of huge losses, only if we move to Kelty, with Gardiner at Ferguson at the helm is hilarious (and monumentally daft). Then all would be wonderful. Just like all the other hair brain schemes what worked out. Didn't they?

Best of luck to Motty in his new role. Like Scott Young, probably not one he was expecting or planning for but a good local lad wish him the best and hope the fans get behind him.

Always good to see a new moderator join up. Or isn't backseat moderating against the rules?