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True, but we had people bankrolling us for most of that time, pumping money in that enabled us to pay wage premiums and accommodation costs. Pretty sure the vast majority of our seasons have been loss making? Nobody seems willing to fund us any more so it seems we have to live within our means - which is what a lot of our fans are saying we should have been doing all along rather than being in debt to Morrison.

Indeed but we tried to extend his contract before they came in and he was absolutely not interested because of geography. Dodds had also tried to sign him in the summer but he went to Dunfermline until that deal eventually fell through because they couldn’t come up with the money.

This season alone we lost Wetherspoon, Welsh and Carson with us being so far north a major factor. If they had stayed we would almost certainly have been the promotion playoffs, and would definitely not have been relegated.

This is quite a shock, and it’s a very sad day that it has come to this. I can however see the reasoning. We need to reduce costs and we must spend a huge sum on houses for players, a cost that our competitors don’t face, putting us at an immediate disadvantage. We just can’t afford it any more if we want to live within our means. For many years, our managers have made the point about hard it is to attract players north, it’s simply a fact that we struggle to attract and retain players that our competitors can get. Think of all the ones we have lost because of our location, this season alone before you even go back through our history, and there must be a very very lengthy long of good players we could have had if they didn’t have to move north. Not saying it’s the right thing to do and I’m still in shock about it, but I can at least see why the club feel the need to address the problem at a time when we can no longer pay over the odds and pay for housing to overcome the geographical disadvantage that we have always faced.

It’s like when I saw the Scotland Euros squad with 4 goalkeepers - are we gonna play them all at once?!

Sneak preview of our team for the pre-season friendly at Clach.

Just the same as when political leaders ask for unity!

I think that’s all fair comment, but is it not simply a case of he who pays the piper calls the tune?

The journalist wouldn’t know or care what type of contract he was under - and in either contract type he is still under contract until expiry of the gardening leave so we can’t conclude from that alone. If he was on a fixed term contract it would surely have been set to expire at the end of a season, not 9th June. 9th June is exactly 7 months from 9th November when he was relieved of his duties, implying an agreed/negotited notice period.

Pretty sure he is an employee with a normal employment contract and a notice period, not someone on a fixed term contract like a player.

When you terminate someone’s employment, you absolutely do not want them hanging around like a bad smell. The duration of it shocks me though, 7 months to the day. This seems unlikely to have been his contractual notice period, so either it was higher and they negotiated a compromise, or the club offered more than the contractual minimum, but I can’t think why they would do that when the club was short of money. All very odd and a question that should be asked at the next opportunity.

Have we stopped paying Hughes and Foran yet?!

When you say “the” restructuring it was actually just “a” restructuring they announced back then. The cost cutting needed for League 1 is obviously far more severe than for the Championship.

Hence the bit about further announcements to come. People are going to be losing their jobs and you wouldn’t want them to find out about it in a press release would you?!

Not gonna happen after we sacked him this season, but Robbo would actually be a great replacement for Ferguson to get us out of League 1 if he was cheap enough.

What a waste of money!

Have you got a link?

Great news about staying full time (but will obviously be a much smaller squad and cheaper players). No mention of retaining the youth set-up so I presume that will be axed as part of the cost cutting measures.

Oh and relegation will make it even harder to get the accounts signed off this month as a going concern.

I suspect only way we can trigger the required pay-offs and avoid it putting us into administration is if somebody is willing to inject a 6 figure sum into the club, ie dig deep again not to allow us to have a half decent team or to improve facilities, but to put more money in the pockets of people who have let us down. It’s hardly an appealing prospect, but if nobody steps forward the club dies.

Supporters Trust is a significant shareholder though.

Last nights board meeting reminded me of our recent transfer deadline days, where I wait up til midnight hoping for some good news but there’s nothing.

Are you asking, speculating or have heard something? Its a dead cert anyway, he is hopeless and way too expensive.

It was part of Robbo’s role

Yes, I fear we are hopelessly unprepared for building a new team for this league. It doesn’t help that we got rid of our head of recruitment who would otherwise have been drawing up shortlists for both league scenarios.