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weeyin

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  1. Didn't fancy 6th place anyway. Take your pick...
  2. You are wrong, as we have beaten many teams that were on a bad run - the most recent being Livi, and a few games before that, we hammered Ross County. You (we) just tend not to remember them. Doesn't mean we won't have a tough game today, because Aberdeen are going to be fighting for their league survival (or at least they should be). So we need to make sure we are on it from kick off.
  3. Given they are top of the league I know this can't always be the case, but any time I have seen Utd in the Friday night game they have been pretty ordinary.
  4. He said he wouldn't "walk away and abandon the club" if CEO wasn't' in place before the end of March. More importantly, we'd be crazy to appoint a new CEO before a new investor comes in as they will want to impose their own structure and staff on the board. We don't want their first piece of business to be paying off the new CEO.
  5. Well Society Board meeting is on Monday. Might be a good question to submit to them. You can email questions to the same address that you receive the weekly emails from.
  6. From what I read last week, it seems to have been a directive from Cormack to avoid social media:
  7. Having seen us finish 2nd a 3rd a few times, win the playoff against Rangers and make the top 6 from a last minute goal at Livi (to name just a few) I don't buy in to the old story about incapable of dealing with rising expectations. Of course, the truth is that there isn't much to choose between 6 or 7 teams in our division, so any minor drop in performance can lead to a defeat against an evenly matched team. If we're going to string a few results together, now would be a good time to do it, but Dundee just made it a wee bit harder for us to make the top six. Being at the expense of Aberdeen did soften the blow.
  8. I completely agree there needs to be a proper financial assessment and plan in place. Like all businesses that should start with an annual forecast and reviewed monthly to see what's working, what's not working and if anything needs to be changed. Then it needs a proper review at the end of the year and fed back into the next year's planning. That also feeds into my concerns about a new investor. As a fan owned club, a plan to break even every year is ideal as it gives us the maximum amount of cash flow to run the club without having to worry about dividends or profits for shareholders. If an investor is expecting a financial returns then decisions could be made that are in the best interests of them rather than the club. There will be some overlap, but not always. The biggest challenge with a football club is that in many ways it's not like a regular business. It's obviously a lot more difficult to attract customers from a rival product regardless of how attractive you make yours, so expanding your reach in the market is very difficult. Likewise, you can't really introduce a new product line because football isn't working. I also doubt there are many, if any, new ideas available as it's difficult to innovate for the same reasons. There are quite a few successful businessmen who have failed at football club ownership because of these built-in restrictions. As I said, however, I am open to persuasion by a new owner, but I'll want to see all the details of the plan.
  9. There's no money to be made operating a football team in the Premiership. That's why the majority of them run at much bigger losses than us. For me, that's why having an investor take control is a risk. They need to be a philanthropist with a passion for the game and the club, with no aspirations of making a profit. Even then, the club can be left in a major hole if they decide to walk away for any reason. A secondary question is why would I (or any Society member) want donate money every month for the new owner's benefit so they can cash in a few years down the line? I understand the current financial pressures too, but any new investment needs to be nailed down with multiple guarantees to safeguard the club - and I'm not sure any investor would be willing to meet those conditions. I'm open to being persuaded, as I would love to see someone with the right intentions invest in us. I'm just not sure who that would be.
  10. Given their recent track record there's a chance I could be on Aberdeen's shortlist.
  11. He was on $81,375 guaranteed in his last season in Vancouver, which is about £65,500. That would be quite a drop in wages if that site is accurate. (The Vancouver one is accurate because MLS teams have to publish their salaries every season).
  12. Hopefully Moses is fit enough to take his place on the bench.
  13. I think there is (or was) something in the charter about donating 10% of Society funds to charitable causes, but maybe one of the Board can confirm if that's still in play. I'm more concerned about losing majority ownership, tbh, because if that happens I'm not sure where I stand when it comes to my contributions.
  14. Do they have enough money to buy out another manager's contract? I thought an out of work candidate would be thier approach.
  15. Do you not maybe think that the people that would make good refs have no inclination to be abused by cheating half-wits every week?
  16. They were supposedly cracking down on it again this season, but that lasted about 2 games. It is ridiculous though. Football is really the only game where players can backchat to officials for an entire game with no consequence.
  17. And holding him up as an example to potential new signings of how our club can be a stepping stone to develop your career. When we don't have much money to spend, that is often a good selling point.
  18. It feels like Warnock and Aberdeen quickly realised it was a disaster after the first few weeks and have been working on this exit strategy. Very strange to appoint someone with little or no knowledge of the Premiership to steady the ship. If you want to make an appointment like that you need to be doing in the summer when they have time to figure things out. Still a shame he's gone though as he was doing a great job of underperforming.
  19. Or, indeed, almost any other team in the Premiership given the well understood psychology of the game,
  20. If there is a new investor coming onboard, especially if they are going to take a majority shareholding, they decide who becomes CEO - assuming they want to run the CEO model as that's only one option in structuring a business. As for the game, as long as we keep the tempo up for the full 90+, we should have enough to keep the lead this time instead of surrendering it.
  21. Turns out a professional football manager knew more about coaching players than random punters on a message board.
  22. We don't usually injure our players in training until the day before a match.
  23. I noticed even the BBC text commentary took a sly dig with "McCausland rises off the bench"
  24. Somebody must have lit a candle for him.
  25. That's my biggest gripe. I saw it used in a competition a couple of years ago - I think one of the CONCAF ones - where they had 30 seconds to decide to overrule. Anything longer than that and the decision on the pitch stood. Worked really well. The fact the VAR officials are from the same pool of refs that make poor decisions on the pitch doesn't help either. And the fact that the VAR officials often get to pick and choose what to review opens the whole process up to accusations of bias (rightly or wrongly) in favour of the "big" teams.
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