Kmcalpin

No, you're not alone G & F. I agree 100% that the club should give interested fans the first bite to undertake work for the club irrespective whether its for payment or volunteering. Looking after your local community is a 2 way process. Well done to the club on that score. The club should however, have involved the supporters at a far earlier stage, as you rightly point out. The club submitted plans to the Council on 13 March and it was almost a month later that one of our own spotted, by accident I may add, the application on the planning website. Not a good look for a fan owned club. Now I'm not advocating that fans should have been consulted on the design, number of rooms, or the colour of the roof or anything so mundane. However given the substantial cost, scale of strategic investment, and the fact that the club does not even own the land on which the facility is to be erected I would have thought that the membership would have been informed, at the very least. A bit more transparency and accountability would have been sensible and justified. Thats before the issue of a POD replacement/stadium relocation is taken into account. I quite get that the need for a new training facility is pressing and won't wait 10 or 15 years or whatever. However, it would have made sense to consider this development as part of the wider issue. Maybe it has but we just haven't been told? The Society has generally improved consultation with members over minor issues, but this should also extend to major ones too.

I've no inside info whatsoever, but linking the various snippets together, I'd say its very likely. The question then is do we ship Wilson out and bring in an understudy or competition for Williams?

No. The land it will be built on is owned by the Dalziel High School War Memorial Trust and will remain in their hands. That has been a concern of mine.

The club has submitted an appeal against the £5,000 fine and quite rightly so.

Yes, I think questions would be justified if that scenario comes to pass.

An undisclosed fee.

I forgot to add that we are also receiving a contributory grant from the SFA for the development.

The training facility plans were approved yesterday by North Lanarkshire Council, with a small number of routine conditions and notes attached e.g. unrecorded mine workings; tree preservation etc. The application, for which permission lasts for 3 years, did not require to go before the Planning Committee, due to its straightforward nature and small number of representations, which were all addressed satisfactorily.

I take it then we are away next week?

Great result on the night and we progress to the next round. We done to AJ and the players. More gametime in legs and players returning but we need to tighten up at the back. So far so good.

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Yyaass!

The BBC is a publicly funded body, which has a duty to be impartial but of course it panders to the God of viewing figures and we all know what that means. STV is privately owned and is therefore held to less rigorous standards. Its primary responsibility is to its shareholders and therefore turn in a profit.

STV is a total joke as well. However, its slightly more acceptable, as its privately owned, than the BBC which is a publicly owned organisation but doesn't act like it. Scottish sports coverage is poor but we all know why.

Maybe its time we stopped visiting the BBC website?