steelboy

i've just realised your avatar isn't actually higdon

when he first came into the team he was immense at centreback. we had clean sheets against rangers, celtic, dundee united, aberdeen and hearts with saunders at centre half. since gannon left he has only played there a few times by my reckoning. the 3-3 game at ibrox, the 1-0 win at killie on a sunday and the win over hearts on a sunday last august.

if it was that easy why hasn't mad vlad done it instead of paying a king's ransom to david obua? because it can't be done. there is a difference between a fixed term contract and an ordinary contract, footballers can't exactly give notice can they? mcfadden is a multi millionaire! quinn and clarkson might not have played much but they will have been earning a small fortune. reynolds is supposedly up to ten grand a week without kicking a ball. the wages of randolph, hateley, hutchinson, saunders, law, jennings, murphy and ojaama will all be going up rather than down the next time they sign a contract.

the cost of stewarding is overstated as well. there is no chance we spend 40 times the amount on stewarding and policing when the old firm bring 4000 than we do when ICT bring 100.

there is no chance we can do that, the players are on fixed term contracts. it's a stupid idea anyway. the majority of squad are worth what we are paying them and a good number of them willing be getting paid significantly more when they move down south next summer.

do we really want people who would abandon their club during it's darkest hour?

clancy did alright for us but we'd have been better off giving page the opportunity imo. he did well in his starts at the end of the season and looks like he can contribute. hutchy and saunders should be the first choice pairing with page as back up. we also have cummins who did well on his debut and euan murray who has been in the scotland age group teams. bringing in a guy who at best will be a par player when we could be developing better players is a waste of time and money imo. also i don't understand why mccall is so keen to bring in so many players that got him the bullet at valley parade. very strange.

brian mclean got injured on the 2nd austria trip i think. we played a romanian team doing their preseason in scotland in 2008. burn_broomfield and myself went up to dalziel park to watch the game on a saturday afternoon only to be informed the game was finished and was played at bellshill's park

steve jones. law has been a great signing but mccall hasn't handled him too well. he spent a large part of the season trying to change a dangerous winger into a centre mid playmaker and it didn't work. it's pretty obvious law is his favourite and he even gets a hard time from the other player's on twitter for being the gaffer's pet. omar is a bad joke but mccall still chose to give him a two year contract despite the fact that there wasn't one other team in for him and he is a very inconsistent player. that deal was clearly based more on sentimentality than reason and we can't afford that with our budget. this guy is 31 in december, has never played above league two and has only managed 20 games out of 104 for his club over the past two seasons. not the sort of player we should be looking at.

because 2 out of the 3 signings he has made from his old club have been duds and he doesn't seem to have any sort of objectivity when it comes to his old boys. we've got 5 centre halfs at the club already and i'd be quite happy to go with them next season.

any chance of signing anyone who hasn't played for bradford?

we can probably look forward to a few more televised games than usual next season. you would imagine without rangers in the league our fixtures against the likes of hibs, united and hearts will be high on the list of games that sky and espn want.

if this was anyone else i'd assume it was a piss take.

just pointing out that even if we replace jenno there is a decent chance we will sign a dud. omar might up his game this season but it's more likely he'll continue to contribute fuck all and take up a wage.

he had a couple of difficult years but he came into the team very young and burned out. he was our player of the year in each of his final two seasons and had a decent goal scoring record in both of them.

falkirk and accies would have had clauses cutting their players wages if they got relegated. we haven't been relegated and have to pay our players what we agreed to. we have no overdraft or benefactor so if our outgoings are more than our income and we can't pay our bills we will have to go into administration.

looks like a high horse to me. multi year contracts are why we might end up in administration. if we only offered one year deals it would be easy to cut our cloth to the new financial reality. but if you want to build a decent side multi year contracts are a must and you run risk of an unforeseen change in circumstances leaving you without enough money to cover your liabilities. anyone who was truly concerned with us not being financially dependent on the old firm would have been screaming from the roof tops not to sign any player to more than a one year deal.

i'm sure he's far too level headed to spending everything he's earning. i suspect he will have been saving the majority of his wages. he doesn't seem like the bentley and cristal type anyway. i'd imagine hammell, las and reynolds were/are the same. quinn is probably skint.

an idea for getting clarky on board might be to offer him a low wage this season with an increase in the second and third years. even with a budget reduction we will still have a lot of wages freed up next summer. if we can't do it, we can't do it but the prospect of bringing in a quality centre forward with the club at heart who would be the focal point of our team for 6 or 7 years isn't something that happens often. clarky is a guaranteed hit for us and will stick with us for years. jenno's would be replacement could well be the next omar daley. i'd take my chances with las, law, hateley and carswell and go for goals.

there's not one self sufficient football club in the entire world! why wouldn't we rely on income from the old firm? they've been a large and reliable stream of income for most of the existence of the club. we are on a precipice financially for the next 12 months because we budgeted for rangers and celtic to be in the top league - as they have in every other season of scottish football since the league began. if we can through the next 12 months then we have plenty of scope for changing our financial model. i don't recall you warning of us of the dangers of signing players to multi year contracts when we signed randolph on a three year deal or extended hutchy's contract so don't be getting on your high horse now.

i'm going up to buy my season ticket on wednesday and handing my stamp back. i'd urge all well fans to do the same. if we cut back on stamps we can probably bring back shaun fagan to fill the number 8 jersey

stamp addressed envelopes, a4 paper and printer ink?

i am voting yes! pissing in the wind but i'm genuinely worried about a potential cash shortfall this season.

dunfermline have a guy called gavin masteron who they owe £10 million to. ronnie macdonald allegedly uses some dodgy methods to balance the books at accies. also they only have two low maintenance stands and all their players are utter shite.

only if they get a game.