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I guess it was only a matter of time before the burrows chat started. I think the fact that he is a fan, and that he came from/started these here boards has a few folks thinking that they might be equally qualified. He has also chosen to put himself out there on social media, which many of us appreciate. Otherwise most folk probably wouldn’t even know who the CEO was. The facts are that he worked his way up through the ranks, and has been highly regarded by his peers for some time and multiple execs, owners, managers, board(s) have been happy with his ascent through the club structure. I don’t know what he did professionally before he joined the club, and neither does most folk on here, but it doesn’t matter. As for his current performance, we have made significant improvements to the pitch, facilities, and “matchday experience”, season tickets are up, revenue is up, we’re knocking off sizeable chunks of the club debt, the commercial arm of the club has seen huge improvements, our media team is excellent, and we succeeded in being selected for project brave (let’s not kid ourselves on, this place would have been at him with pitch forks if we hadn’t qualified for that). All this without a rich owner. You may not want to give him a knighthood, but to suggest he should be fired is ridiculous. He recruited the manager (I’m assuming some of the board and les were involved too) and robinson has been responsible for two cup finals. I’m kind of sick of people dismissing that fact, we don’t get many finals and both were great days with great build up. No one complained about our football in those cup runs. Who was the last manager to do that? He also gets the plaudits for signing kipre (if he gets the stick for the shite ones too). So regardless of how Robinson is doing now, if you think the chief exec should go because he signed Robinson, you’re an idiot. The alternative is hardly setting the heather alight in his new job either. We have shown that as a club we have prioritized stability and paying down debt, and won’t make knee jerk decisions. Unfortunately that may be to the short term detriment on the playing side, but it is the right thing to do, that’s how we all budget in real life and the club should be no different. We don’t have individual board members paying players wages like the Dempster / McCall regime had. We’re fan owned whether you like it or not, and whether the club likes it or not, as the fact is that no one has wanted to buy the club since Boyle put it up for sale all those years ago. I don’t think anyone likes our current style of football, I personally hate it , and there is fair debate over whether a new manager could do a better job, but let’s take a breath - this is far from a crisis. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If he goes in the next month and it's a move to a bigger club down south, a loan back for the rest of the season maybe something we are keen to look at when considering a deal.

Turnbull is far from the finished article for sure but let’s make no mistake he is a class above everyone else at the club. Even when we struggle he shines with his overall ability, his maturity and composure is high for one just breaking into the first team. People say he should stay and gain experience, I think he would be mad not to take the opportunity to head down to the premier league. First of all his wages will rocket but even taking that out of the equation he will be playing with better players, better coaches, and I have no doubt will pretty quickly establish a first team place, he won’t be phased. He’s very much premier league quality in the making and in my view will go on to be a regular International. We are going to take a financial hit at first but hopefully gain a percentage of future transfer fees when he moves to a top six team, and I have no doubt he will.

If and when we do move from Fir Park we should definitely incorporate some kind of replication of that entrance at the new stadium as a nod to the past.

Recently acquired match program from my birthday, we won 5-3 as well

Dunne left back and Frear left mid......all about opinions but jeez that's scary

In Robinson’s interview today he said we’re a good bit down the line with a couple of signings, highlighting that we need pace and width, so it will be interesting to see what central midfielder we sign [emoji1] Also said that a couple will probably go out. I wonder if we will see some more of the reserves move out on loan for the second half of the season too.

Shoehorning McHugh into the midfield is part of the problem. Certainly hasn’t the nous to go up against Killie’s midfield pairing of Power & Dicker. Aldred proves his worth with pace alongside. Under little pressure until our management decided on substitution.