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Interesting article https://www.scottishfootball.info/p/the-troubling-task-of-replacing-elijah

I’m done in that front for various reasons. I have a different view on what fan ownership looks like, how it should be implemented. Most importantly my stance on transparency and accountability doesn’t align any more.

Flights to tallin in Estonia are better priced then jump on the ferry, its only 2hrs 30 mins direct to Helsinki.

I hope so too- we definitely need someone who can bang them in.

I agree, but im cutting him some slack due to his limited game time, if we are starting to get more cross balls into the area as we saw last Thursday, then he might be the player we need, time will tell

I cant believe he didnt run with "quacks" me up!

After all the work you done during the Barnack debacle , i was extremely surprised that you were not voted onto the society board at the time . Would you consider standing again if the opportunity arose in the future. I think you would be an excellent addition to the board.

The prices are quite grim. Finnair were doing direct flights from Edinburgh for about £350 return a week ago. But they have gone thru the roof. Everything else is a bit of a trek.

Thats hideous, but the basic concept is good, no open corners, fans close to the pitch etc

No disrespect to Dykes but don't want him anywhere near Fir Park Would be a complete waste of a wage

Manager interviewed on SSN today at Dalziel Park on the building up to the start of the season………says work ing on another couple os signings

Sure it's Thursday week Aug 6th

Anyone quoting or showing marx brothers goes up in my expectations. Mirror scene in Duck Soup always cracks me up. As for Dykes, couldn't afford him anyway

You're very welcome: those lyrics and his "performance" always make me laugh. We could do with yon lanky man on the right with the stetson up front this season. When you see the negative comments on this thread about Dykes it astounds me that he (and Ché Adams) kept getting selected by Clarke, who didn't seem to rate Shankland (or anybody else) at all.

Tony Watt left years ago.

Brilliant and thanks for the illustration. 😂😂😂

Beatles being over rated certainly wasn’t on my steelmen online bingo card today. football related- assuming we get through this week, when is the away match v Helsinki? Checking to see the affordability of a flight from Edinburgh

What colossus of the contemporary music scene do you propose to replace it? Doechii? Chappell Roan? Psychedelic Porn Crumpets?

We sang it before then. The first time I heard it, and I used to go to all the away games back then, was at St. Mirren. I'm not sure how it started, possibly just played on the tannoy?

It’s just little things too @Kmcalpin a new POD or stadium needs a large production/commercial kitchen, the training complex as shown has one (however, only catering to 40? at any time). The new stadium/POD would probably have a hot and cold plunge, the new facility has both, more doubling up. All significant costs in isolation but minor in the overall sums discussed. Everything on one campus has economies where spaces and functions imperative to put on football matches on Saturday’s at 15:00 can be utilised every day without having a satellite clone which has its own costs (construction and ongoing).

Typing into the wee hours on here in a specific thread is my only outlet on this subject.

I think this in itself creates a whole different level of increased local backlash than you maybe assume. A sandstone school (listed?) building with an emotive history of its own being moved to a site elsewhere would be a lot more of a rallying call for a wider set of residents than those inconvenienced by matchday crowds and car parking. Knowetop’s catchment goes down into Greenacres. The school grounds themselves are about two acres, would you be advocating for what is currently the Hunter stand to be the new main stand? One five a side pitch would have to go. If you’re proposing an increase in the capacity of the Hunter it’s dead in the water. Under this you’d image we’d have to contribute to the new school cost, demolition, replace the POD as it’s on life support, then start of the Hunter then the McLean roof and seats. We’d be at £20m all about keeping the centre circle where it is currently? I’d ask when the council is talking about closing libraries and sports centres because they’re broke then asking them to finance a new school is a hard ask. It would be a brace set of councillors to support such a move. Remember our previous Academy was shelved because the Bullfrog (God rest her soul) pub team objected. @Wee Alpha the issue here is you’re dropping our capacity by 2,500-3,000 because I guess 10k is a round number? Our gate revenues are reduced from their current levels. The current operational gap would increase so there’s a lot more emphasis on the hospitality to make it up. using 2,500 seats x 6 games x £24 = £350k, that’s quite a lot of extra cash to find. Maybe scarcity would allow us to charge more? On Thursday we had 8,000 Well fans inside FP due to the nature of the fixture but not far off the heights at the tail end of last season. Move the fans in the McLean into the covered bucket seats in the POD and we’ve maxed out our home availability. Why would we consider capping the easiest revenue source we have available? I’ve tried to stress so much through this, 5,000 extra OF tickets realises £10m over 20 years. The OF orcs finance 25%-35% of our stadium and we don’t touch our current income.

The cost of buying the school out would be prohibitive. The Council would be looking at our club coming good for the cost of building a replacement school, IF a suitable nearby site could be found. That wouldn't come cheap. I'm with G &F in that the case for a training centre should be examined again. His costings make sense. We'd be forking out at least £1.5-2.2m initially for this development and it would be physically distant from either Fir Park or a new stadium. Its implied also that there would be further phases all coming at a cost. My concern too is that this would be located on another organisation's land and outwith our control. Yes, it might be a charitable Trust but personalities and policies change over time, especially over 99 years. Still, it is an improvement over current arrangements. At the very least the options for stadium improvement and relocation should be assessed with the need for the training base. Now is the time to do it.

I mean all.i want is a good team.on the park