Yngwie

Just spotted a D&E coach passing Perth so looks like the supporters bus has made it through the worst.

No matches called off (yet) and ICT have just posted their match preview a few minutes ago. All very surprising when the police are advising against travelling tomorrow.

I see Keith Haggart has joined Nairn as head of commercial.

Yes it seems inevitable, but I wonder how long they will wait? It’s Saturday itself that will see the really bad weather across Scotland.

Hmm, we’re not good at relegation playoffs!

Easy to see how that could happen, especially if we don’t start getting more goals from strikers. Top scorers in league matches: 3 - Devine 2 - MacKinnon 1 - various others including Billy

In pure financial terms, the biggest match in our history was the 2023 Scottish Cup Final (wow, it was as recent as last year?!) If we had somehow defied the odds against Celtic one more time, we would not only have won the cup (again) but would have earned guaranteed group stage European football, which would have been amazing for the fans and would have earned us £5m which we could have used to strengthen the squad and quickly get back into the top flight.

True, and we were just one win from survival that season.

I was going to say the appointment of Foran as manager, but you are right to go back a stage further. The relegation that followed under Foran well and truly set us on the slippery slope we’ve been hurtling down for years. Having said that, maybe a different course of action then would only have delayed the inevitable? We punched above our weight for years, and relegation was simply bound to happen to a club our size.

Ta for posting that. Some really interesting stuff there, like him only taking up football aged 16, and now having aspirations to get into the Gambia squad.

Today’s result takes Kellacher’s win rate to 33%, overtaking Ferguson’s 29%.

You are right that conceding the first goal is usually fatal for us - but I think the last comeback was at the end of January when we won 3-2 at Raith (when we thought Alex Samuel was going to be our saviour after his hattrick)

First away win since Queens Park 7 months ago.

Great win. Can finally enjoy a Saturday night!

Ah that’s right - I think the favouritism they got was that ambitious non-SPFL teams were not given the chance to apply for league membership when the vacancy arose.

I don’t think a new company is an option, that means starting afresh as a new club and applying to join the bottom of the pyramid system doesn’t it? Albeit The Rangers newco was afforded special treatment and was allowed to start in the 4th flight rather than the West of Scotland 5th division or wherever any other new club would have started.

No absolutely not. If a shareholder’s shares ever get sold, the proceeds go to the shareholder. A new investor wouldn’t really want to buy shares from current shareholders unless it was the only way to secure a controlling stake. They would want their money to go into the club, not to current shareholders. But if they had to, they would make an offer to shareholders, probably targeting the largest ones privately and negotiating a price (fair value now is probably a few pence per share, not the £1 everyone paid). Offering to buy up the small shareholdings would seem pointless to me, but they could make an offer to everyone, and each shareholder would choose whether to accept or to keep their shares. I think the only circumstances when a shareholder can be forced to sell their shares is when someone owns >90% and wants rid of the remaining small shareholders.

Administrator has to write to all creditors and members (shareholders) explaining his appointment, and I guess it is just easier to do it all as one mailing but it is confusing as you say - but shareholders are not creditors and couldn’t claim anything even if they wanted to. The Supporters Trust 10% voting right is contained in the club’s Articles of Association and is still there. I nearly used the word “enshrined” in the articles but that would be wrong because that clause can be removed or changed - it has been changed (reduced) before and could be again if a Special Resolution is passed. A special resolution requires 75% of votes in order to be approved.

Shareholders will remain shareholders, unless they sell their shares to the club’s new owner (which I can’t see happening, certainly not for small shareholders). You might have been sent a claim form because you are on the club’s list of suppliers and there is therefore a chance you are owed money.

Latest press release today says the administrators have had 20 expressions of interest. I guess that is very good news, but these are not bids, and some will be time wasters who will be weeded out by the administrators and not given access to the confidential information.

😮 😮😮 3 year deal too.

Ft 1-1 Just not good enough, again.

Flynn Duffy has signed for Airdrie. Think he’s the first of the players made redundant to get a club.

I’m assuming that cost (wages and accommodation) is why Brooks was ditched. He definitely has something to offer the first team, and his departure leaves us severely short of strikers, so it can’t be for footballing reasons.

For all of his faults as a manager, there is absolutely no way a Duncan Ferguson side would be conceding 3 goals to Dumbarton, or to any team in this league for that matter!