STFU

Gordy is a lovely guy, but he's a total dinosaur and (as with our CEO) a dyed in the wool blue nose.

It's not surprising our comms have got so cringeworthy and our social media so bland and generic.

Credit where it's due.  At least they stopped short of signing off the statement with "We Are The People!!".

2 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

That is a bit harsh. Nobody, as far as I can see, is claiming that we played well in the play off matches but we did play well enough, albeit with a bit of good fortune, to get through.

However, you don't beat the team that finished second, sometimes down to 8 men and frequently down to 9, without showing grit and determination.

Right now, I prefer to concentrate on the positives and hope that the players and coaches are too.

The time for a post mortem is if and when our promotion hopes are finally dead and that very well may not happen.

Your first line states "with a bit of good fortune".  That itself is an explanation of how you "beat the team that finished second, sometimes down to 8 men and frequently down to 9, without showing grit and determination." 

There seems to be this delusional misconception among a lot of our support that we somehow reached the play offs and the play off finals by playing great football and showing some kind of gritty character.  The truth is that we finished 3rd in the poorest Championship we've seen in a long time, with a points total that would have struggled to find 5th place in previous seasons.

I celebrated our wins as much as anyone else and I'll be over the moon if we stick it to St Johnstone, but let's not kid ourselves that this squad or the manager is anything special.

Anyone who thinks that removing the cost is somehow removing the barrier to entry is very much mistaken in my view.  It's more likely that it builds the expectation that it's a product which should carry no cost for the consumer.  Anyone who wouldn't pay a few pounds to watch is not a supporter and never will be, no matter how many times they get to go for free.

The club have charged and/or asked for donations to junior games in the past.  Why do they think these games are worth more than women's games?

#UnconsciousBias

It's a shame that the club don't value women's football enough to charge an entry fee.

I have no doubt that Dodds will have a game plan.  The problem is that it will be the same game plan as he's had all season.

Maybe someone like Caley D might have it?

Thankfully for our league position we seem to have found a couple of fortunate results.

Unfortunately it's papering over the cracks and keeping Dodds and his Diddy Men in a job.

Delighted to get 3 points on the board. However, celebrating our first win in 12, against a part time team who looked like they were running on empty, as if we'd won the league, just shows how far we've fallen and how desperate we've become.

Unless it's to tell us he's resigning, Dodds needs to STFU.

Nobody gives a flying fig how well training is going, we don't win matches on the training ground.

As for the assertion that the fans haven't been doing their part?  Embarrassing ramblings from a man who still be out of his depth even if he was more than 4 feet tall.

A Chairman who openly admitted he knows nothing about running a club, with a CEO who got the dunt for forgetting to order seats for a new stand in his last job, appointments a sporting director because it was a nice thing to do, who gives the managers job to his matchday commentary buddy and then brings in the village shopkeeper to assist.

It's hard to see where it all went wrong

1 hour ago, buckett said:

Can't help feeling the club is seeking some sort of financial stability before making the costly push for promotion.

Perhaps the Championship is considered a good base camp for now and maybe for the next season or two until the time is considered right.

And maybe this season's sole target was to avoid relegation.

 

So what you're suggesting is that after getting off to a flying start, the board and/or CEO pulled the team aside and told them to stop winning as we didn't want to risk promotion.  The entire playing squad and staff then went, "aye, ok, we don't mind comprising our own integrity or damaging our chances at playing/working at a higher level and earning more, so we'll just lie down for the rest of the season"?