Kmcalpin

A good appointment in my book, if its confirmed. Jim Gannon ticks all the right boxes. He has a track record, likes playing attractive football & bringing youngsters through and knows English football well. He'll have plenty of contacts down there.

Afraid not. When I bought tickets on Thursday evening they were all for the Main (West) Stand and tickets were assigned to numbered seats.

According to the Daily Express, Hearts submitted abid of £100,000 for him. At that price we'd be as well hanging onto him and let him leave for free next summer. The fact that cardiff are offering £350k for him, with one year left on his contract tells you that he more highly thought of than many of our fans would believe. All his previous managers at FP have rated him highly.

I really don't know what you're getting at Jim - I'd assumed that Flow was visiting relations in Bradford and fancied a spot of shopping at the Trafford centre.

Thanks for the info Charlie. Your quote below is a classic. "He is a controversial fellow, though. For the last 18 months or so he'd refused to speak to Sky Sports (there's a story that it was because he had a broken Sky box that they wouldn't fix)". Thats my kind of manager!

Of all the players leaving the club, Brian MacLean is the one I'm most disappointed with. We've stood by him and supported him through two bad injuries. He then comes back and pleads to be given a chance to prove himself. Mark McGhee gives him that oportunity by moving other better players out of position to accommodate him. He is then offered a new one year deal, which in the circumstances is very fair. How does he thank us? I don't think he'll be that great a loss in playing terms but he's certainly very mercenary.

How very true Weeyin. The club can try to speak to agents but some simply make themselves unavailable or just don't want to know. The club always seems to come out of this badly in some fans' eyes' but it can be very difficult to get a player to sign an extension.

Its ok Flow I picked this up on the site before I left tonight. Got there in time and collected all 16. Cheers Dave

Well there's this myth that all Hibs youngsters are great players. On a slightly, and I stress slightly, more serious note, Fletcher will be on a larger salary and a longer term deal. If Davie Clarkson is valued at say £600,000 by Bristol City then they'd double or treble that valuation if he played for an English lower league club. English clubs must read Scots messageboards and take the posts to heart - "Our game is rubbish.....".

I'm a bit surprised that nobody seems to be put out by the fact that LLanelli are charging us £5 more than their own fans. Still, maybe its no big deal.

For anyone interested, I rang the club today and was told that the ticket office will be open tomorrow evening until 7.30.

Spot on. You won't catch me laughing. It makes a lot of sense as every club knows.

Thats not how it works I'm afraid. If Cardiff bagged £5m for one of their players they'd be wringing their hands and telling us they were on their uppers/both players came from the SPL/were untried at a decent level/they would help us out by offering £500k for the pair.

Just an assumption on my part, but given the "interest" from various clubs the length and breadth of Britain, I'd say an agent was touting him around.

I don't undertand the confusion about this. I had assumed a month or two ago, from their comments, that the three players in question were all offski ...end of.

Thats a tad harsh. If someone gets mugged twice you don't blame the victim. We don't know all the facts but its premature to jump in and have pop at MFC. That said Wigan are a Premiership side and that gives them certain rights and privileges.

I know it won't affect most folk on here but its a wee bit annoying that Llanelli are charging their own fans £15 but ours £20. Shades of ICT.

Does anyone know the Ticket Office opening hours over the next week or so? Can't find it anywhere. Cheers.

A tad harsh on MFC I'd say. After the debacle of the Nancy allocation many fans would and should have known about this possibility anyway. I'd concentrate my fire on the differential ticket pricing.

Great site guys. Good luck.

Snap. My reading of it is that we have to turn up in person. For a few of us that means Saturday with no preference despite being season ticket holders. A round trip of 110 miles. Ugh!

Maybe not a lot to go on, but Mio's record along with John Philliben's a few years ago, whilst in temporary control, didn't set the heather alight by any stretch of the imagination.

Some interesting findings Gordon. Quite a few SPL clubs of course don't include any cup games (we get one) and sell "top ups", which are hit or miss.

I note that Raith Rovers have just unveiled their season ticket prices for the coming campaign. £270 for adults and £180 for students. There are other concessions however. By my reckoning thats the same adult price as the East Stand.

Agree that Clarky would be the biggest loss. Jamie Murphy may step up a level next season to cement a regular starting slot and he may not. I would not expect Robert McHugh to make more than the odd appearance. We would be left very short up front. The galling thing is that if Clarky is to move on we'll receive but a modest fee for him. However if he was playing for a club like Crewe or Port Vale he'd automatically be worth twice or three times that.