Nothing unusual for players to be vocal in the dressing room, or even showing dissent. Only ever gets mentioned when a team is losing. Total non story.
Whatever happens, this summer gives us a real chance to rebuild, with the higher paid guys like mick, lasley, hammell, and McDonald all out of contract.
I was hoping we'd be interested in him, mainly due to seeing his name on the scoresheet almost every week. Just like I hoped we'd sign Derek Adams and Neil Tarrant, but I'm confident about this one
Do other club's supporters obsess over their administrative staff as much as ours do? If AB left, would we have a thread discussing his replacement? The owner and the board decide where the money goes, the GM does what the board tells him.
As far as direction, we've had a pretty decent time of it post-administration with a decent few cup runs, league finishes, and European games. There have been some dips in there, but we are currently in a worse lull than the Malpas season, and we are getting by on other teams being worse right now.
Employing an unknown quantity after McCall was the wrong decision, and his signing policy has set us back a few years. We are going to see another large turnover of players in the summer, and I'll admit that I'm not too keen on McGhee being the guy to recruit our next squad based on his record with signings.
Sure the club said the other deals depended on other things falling into place, so probably meant the other club had to sign someone first (like hearts did with cowie before we got gomis). So those deals will be dead, and we have moved on to free agents.
singling out a player in front of the media is a poor show. However, what happened in the dressing room is a total non story. That sort of stuff happens all the time at every level of every sport.
last year's window was fun, but was essentially an exercise in throwing shit against the wall. The summer wasn't much different. The best thing we did in the last few weeks was to move on the ones that didn't stick, allowing us to add a player better than what we had and possibly one more.
We've been playing relatively well since McGhee took over, so the last thing we needed was another invasion, especially with wholesale changes pending in the summer.
I think Reid's departure was probably one of the things that needed to be tied up before we could proceed with bringing another one in.
Good luck to the guy.