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I grew up, football wise, in the Rangers-Souness era. So it seems natural to dislike Rangers more than Celtic. Indeed we had Celtic in our back pocket for long spells in the 80's and 90's. There is also the fact that Rangers were a bigoted club. Some of the younger fans probably wouldn't believe the fuss that happened when Rangers signed Mo Johnston and broke with tradition. Whether you like it or not Celtic were not a bigoted club in the same sense. I mean I don't like Celtic and the current Celtic support is really very high up on the list of the most irritatingly entitled supporter bases of all time but when you you take everything into account I think the 'culture' around Rangers to me it's quite a bit uglier. Manchester and George Square being two fairly recent examples of depravity.

Maybe a swede

Thought good, honest, straight forward talking. Here's some snippets/my interoperation of what was said. Worked hard to replace CEO initially - interviewed 4 but didn't work out. Looking for new CEO to be in place before end of March. Retaining players - we worked hard to keep likes of Max J, KVV, Sean Goss but couldn't match what they wanted/needed. Investments had on pitch and hard to solve the draining issue. It was right to do so but mistakes were made in that project that cost £££'s How club is run is 50% getting team on park and 50% running the business. Our current spend currently matches that. We live within our means. Investment on players. Aim to sell on some players, some seasons it works, others it doesn't. Have someone who can bring investment into the club and can provide financial security for when we need it. We're currently OK but would be great to have investors who are Well fans willing to sit along side society. Comms/Media. We used to spend more money on this but it cost us/impacted playing budget. We decided to scale back when people left to rebalance the on field/off field spending budget. Views of pyros - they are illegal and we'll follow the law on these issues. Governance. Club is running well off the pitch. 4 exec directors running club, 2 are from society and included in all decisions that are made. On the pitch. When there's bad results on the pitch there's always the look for manager to go (not unique to us) 2 previous managers have left. There's always a big impact/expense when managers leave. We've just had 3 poor months of results which he broke down game by game. He believes we have a superb management team here and players are behind. We can't just go churning through every bad run. The management team need to be given time and when you look back over time we've done well with longer term mgt team. Budget. Having investment will help but will sit down and we're recruiting. We've had players move on and others injured, we're looking bring players in. He will continue to support. Number of directors/governance. We're looking to increase this to help club run. Jim and Derek will be standing down. Final thoughts. Recognise that results matter and appreciate frustrations but have confidence that we're running the club, doing our best and it's key that we get on the pitch performances back on track.

as i said BB not my argument but yes all clubs do it but i sometimes think we are leaders in it, for a few years we were giving out deals to injured players which in some cases is fair enough but we were guilty of doing it regularly oh and you can add barry mcguire to that last list come on yodo answer the man

Fair point, but if giving new contracts to shite players is what he meant by rewarding failure, we are absolutely not the only club who do that.

if every well paid a pound a week every week so say thats 4000 fans = 4k a week = 16 a month = well do the maths the money would just accumulate over time giving us a reserve, silly wee easy solution just need the doner, i for one wouldnt miss a pound a week,,,,,,so lets go guys, just send yir pounds to smiddy@5starhotel,mauldeves,com yous can thank me later

not my argument but yodo has a point if he means the shite we have signed who have been shite but got new contracts, ie mcginley, etc ( ps not getting involved just my tuppence worth )

Maguire is a reasonable squad player and can help us see out games for the last 20 minutes if we're ever winning. I know he isn't rated that well by our support but being a guy who's come through the ranks here I hope he gets a decent reception if he ever gets game time.

Two points: The current trajectory of 1 win in 16 games does not suggest to me that we will finish in a Euro qualification spot. That's my opinion but it's based on the evidence before me. If you actually read and understood what I wrote in my post you would see that I acknowledged (based on what Weir said) that we cannot afford to empty another management team mid-contract. This means they'll be here until the end of the season regardless of performance. However, if we remain crap, the Club doesn't have to, nor should it renew their contracts when they expire at the end of the season.

Yep more updates would be great, maybe been otherwise occupied tho The sections of the support you mention probably won't listen to it...easier just to fire off a one liner criticising something or other

Or maybe a yellow rose of Texas?

Grizzly will be after you for that.

sorry grizzly but it was far to straight forward hammil &partners landscape gardeners Ltd GA grass cutting services and nearly u want the - KETTLE - on, for all your eye bleeding on the grass jobs 3 of scotlands premier league gardening experts

Nae need to dig the boy up..............

Celtic fans already wrecked seats in the South Stand. Can we really afford to replace more with his shooting?

It's bloody hard running a professional football club with 5,000 supporters. Supporters don't take into consideration non football related expenses (50% of our total budget). The club isn't in financial difficulty but there are massive variables in income depending on unknowns. (league position/cup runs/transfers). Club has to make difficult budget decisions and new investment would be helpful. Explained the difficulties of appointing a new CEO. 4 targets approached but none of them came to fruition. Explained reasons behind important players leaving the club. Club has decided to put less money into communications. Pyro issue is a potential problem for the club. The managerial team is here for the long term. I generally don't get involved with behind the scenes stuff, I'm a football guy, I buy a season ticket every season, put some more money in via merchandise etc leave it to the guys in charge. I thought it was a good interview. Derek Weir seemed honest and forthright and gave a decent insight into the finances of the club and the difficulties of allotting a budget in a period of increasing costs. Think he also allayed fears that the club is in financial trouble while also explaining that it's no easy task for a club our size to invest in every area that we'd like and any additional investment would help a lot. I think you could take issue with some of the things he said. I am still to be convinced that our youth system is really linked up to our first team operation and seems rather ad hoc rather than there being a strategy in place. He also said our player in/out count wasn't anything unusual in the league but that doesn't mean it's not dysfunctional. Overall though, decent listen.