Kelty/ Is this a joke - merged thread

[Yngwie]

5 minutes ago, Satan said:

At our current trajectory he'll be jettisoned with sweet FA, and can line up with the rest of the creditors...

He’d be a football creditor and would have to get paid every penny he is due, otherwise the club is finished. 

[IBM]

6 minutes ago, RiG said:

Kelty move off? 

I hope so!

[robbylad]

23 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Unfortunately it seems more likely than ever before. But it’s what the fans want…

Not sure the fans want administration.  They probably want a properly run club with a sensible plan to go forward. It says a lot about the club that administration is preferable to the current plan.

[STFU]

Absolutely spineless to walk away and tell the board that's left that Gardiner is their problem.

No acceptance of accountability from beginning to end.

[+DoofersDad]

10 minutes ago, robbylad said:

Not sure the fans want administration.  They probably want a properly run club with a sensible plan to go forward. It says a lot about the club that administration is preferable to the current plan.

I would suggest Administration is more likely with the plan than without it. Not a shred of any argument has been given as to why we would get a better team through this plan or why targeted players would choose us over central belt teams. And because players are not locally based, it is inevitable that a lot of fans would increasingly lose interest. 

[vinnie87]

8 minutes ago, STFU said:

 

Absolutely spineless to walk away and tell the board that's left that Gardiner is their problem.

No acceptance of accountability from beginning to end

 

Totally agree. I had some sympathy for him before this but to just walk away and say it’s your mess now, you deal with it is ridiculous when he’s allowed it to get to this point. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

17 minutes ago, STFU said:

Absolutely spineless to walk away and tell the board that's left that Gardiner is their problem.

I was reminded of David Cameron after the Brexit referendum.

[Charles Bannerman]

4 hours ago, KirkieRobRoy said:

From the Ewan Murray Graun article;

A blunt reality is that Inverness could win their first eight matches next season and nobody would care where they train.

I don't think that's true.

 

Interesting, isn’t it, the difference between the views of some people who take a central belt perspective and the local or locally sympathetic view.

Also “Inverness could win their first eight matches next season…” Could they REALLY?

[IBM]

And as usual nothing on the official site I presume they might issue a statement next week 

[robbylad]

4 minutes ago, Charles Bannerman said:

Interesting, isn’t it, the difference between the views of some people who take a central belt perspective and the local or locally sympathetic view.

Also “Inverness could win their first eight matches next season…” Could they REALLY?

If we win our first 8 games without a goalie,  I'll put a pound on us romping the league

[gingerjaggy]

 

[IcyT]

56 minutes ago, RiG said:

Kelty move off? 

Beeb suggesting it could be - board meeting tonight?

Just read Alan Savage’s piece in the Courier. Doesn’t pull his punches about the imbecilic move and how he needs to ringfence his financial support and won’t deal with Gardiner. Ryan Christie bought footballs last year because there was no money? What kind of priorities has the board had? Crazy.

Edited June 3, 2024 by IcyT

[+Fraz]

4 minutes ago, IBM said:

And as usual nothing on the official site I presume they might issue a statement next week 

I'm shocked we haven't put out the club shop opening hours! Something must be badly wrong.

[+DoofersDad]

9 minutes ago, Fraz said:

I'm shocked we haven't put out the club shop opening hours! Something must be badly wrong.

The club shop!  Is that where you can buy the club at a discounted rate?

[+DoofersDad]

12 minutes ago, IcyT said:

Beeb suggesting it could be - board meeting tonight?

Just read Alan Savage’s piece in the Courier. Doesn’t pull his punches about the imbecilic move and how he needs to ringfence his financial support and won’t deal with Gardiner. Ryan Christie bought footballs last year because there was no money? What kind of priorities has the board had? Crazy.

Yes, an interesting read.  Nice to hear some common sense from a former Chairman.  Someone who would like to see the club become a football club again.

[IBM]

This will be like the transfer day deadline waiting for any news to come through and usually there is nothing.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

31 minutes ago, Charles Bannerman said:

Interesting, isn’t it, the difference between the views of some people who take a central belt perspective and the local or locally sympathetic view.

I occasionally read his articles, when they reach the front page of the Grauniad's website. 

I actually thought that was one of his better articles.  Until that bit

[+Gringo]

37 minutes ago, robbylad said:

If we win our first 8 games without a goalie,  I'll put a pound on us romping the league

We're not going to win eight all season with DF in charge...goalie or not. 

[Jack Waddington]

In other news, Clach have put their season tickets on sale. £150 for adults, £75 for concessions of 60+...

...just incase Mr Gardiner's stubbornness prevails and Kelty goes ahead

[Satan]

40 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

Yes, an interesting read.  Nice to hear some common sense from a former Chairman.  Someone who would like to see the club become a football club again.

The last line he states football clubs shouldn't be doing any daft stuff like battery farms.

I seem to recall an open letter he wrote supporting the proposal .

Strange.

[ICTPaisley]

11 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

In other news, Clach have put their season tickets on sale. £150 for adults, £75 for concessions of 60+...

...just incase Mr Gardiner's stubbornness prevails and Kelty goes ahead

Ideal for the turncoats 

[CaleyCiuin]

27 minutes ago, Leaky Blinder said:

Statktraft have walked as well

 

2 hours ago, DoofersDad said:

I'm not a fan of Ferguson but I think the reality here is that whilst we need the CEO gone and the Kelty deal reversed, we simply can't afford to pay Ferguson off.

He has had 34 games to keep us up, he hasn’t. What cost in keeping him. Can you see him wanting to stat in L1 ????? Bad times

[Charles Bannerman]

2 hours ago, DoofersDad said:

The club shop!  Is that where you can buy the club at a discounted rate?

Maybe even undercut the £1 paid for Rangers.

[STFU]

40 days to sort out the mess the club is in off the park and find the money to sign players to put a team on the park.

Given everything that's happened there's no way the board can trust Gardiner to play any part in that.

[Achfary]

It was Kelty that brought it forward by a month: '...due to the loud negative opinions from the fans to the idea of moving to Kelty, I feel that bringing this forward might be better timing' 

Another of the ex-Chairman's Evel Knievl logical leaps there. 

• fans...and... Alan Savage, Roy MacGregor, former players, staff, ex-staff, Richard Gordon, Tom English et al
• It wasn't an idea, it was announced and agreed
• They weren't opinions - more like sound and reasoned arguments and reservations

“Hearing fans saying they would prefer administration to training the first team in Kelty sent a shiver down my spine". 

• Aye, a shiver because of ex-Chairman's director loan account and other assets, I'll be bound.  The depth of feeling, and lack of alternatives/consultation from the board, led to such extremes.  No doubt, that'll be his mantra when it happens.

Quite aside from the actual plan itself 

--announcing Kelty without any consultation with A N other was - and remains - an act against the club

--Announcing as 'delighted to...' was massively crass in the extreme

--Announcing and agreeing it without having checked that Fife Council were even aware/had agreed was amateur and gross dereliction

When administration does come - the Kelty smokescreen will recede, and the late accounts, neglect of professional football's basics in favour of failed speculative gambles, mismanagement of contract and application writing, treatment of fans with disdain and contempt, partisan infighting, throwing scarce resources away needlessly at unqualified and incompetent CEOs and managers, to the extent that ex-players were having to buy the footballs, will be the legacy.  

Edited June 4, 2024 by Achfary