Dick Dastardly

Unceremoniously removing his representative from the board would probably piss off most people I don't know what happened between Colin Weir and the board, or what was said when whatever happened. I also don't know who from the board had the responsibility to do/say anything with Colin Weir. Whatever the case, it was clearly insufficient to keep him engaged, even if only as a stop gap until more was known about the take over. I find it incredulous to thing that the club had no means to get in contact with Colin Weir, even indirectly, for urgent discussions. Whoever was directly responsible, David Beatie is the chairman and figure head and is therefore culpable, in my opinion, for losing our benefactor. Can I ask why you think that we are in a better situation now than when JLow was in control ? The way I see it is We have a board who don't appear to want to be in control long term. We have a possible takeover that we know very little of their plans and in any case is only 50-50 to go through. We have burned our bridges with a major source of ad-hoc funding that threatens the future of our academy and we have a squad which by the manager's own admission is incomplete. If this sale doesn't go through, the situation is completely untenable. If it does, who knows what will happen

What would happen if Barnsley were to suffer a few relegations and then drew us in the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Cup ? Or if we both made it into the Europa League/Champion's League and were drawn together

What I am saying is that in my opinion, having Colin Weir's money available has to be better than not having it available.

I agree with your first statement that the pool of fans with cash has gone. However I do not agree that non-fans with no investment wont work. There is no reason for it not to. As for the benefactor, we will never agree that it is a bad thing. I'd hate to think where we would be ("find our level") had Colin Weir not being involved. Yes the benefactor can pull his funding at short notice, but providing the board, however it is made up, don't piss him/her off, and you do not rely on him for day-to-day running costs then any additional funding has to be a good thing. I will never ever forgive Beattie for whatever happened between him and Colin Weir

I stand corrected. He never had more than 8.92% and was stopped from raising that to 29.9%. I always thought he owned much more than that. Also proves that you can’t believe everything you read in this thread.

Mike Ashley had more than 10% of both Newcastle and Rangers. He also made several loans between the clubs

Even so, they will still prove what ever it was that you wanted them to prove

I think what we can say is that we have 2 boards with different ideas on how the finances should be structured. Probably neither is right or wrong (in terms of mismanagement or creative accounting), just different.

Or dipping into our cash reserves, or delaying other outgoings (like stadium maintenance) We just don't know

I don't think that there are any conspiracy theories, more like trying to understand if the budget deficit that required money to be pulled from the player budget is real or not. Is it going to impact on the clubs long term operating conditions, or is it being used to facilitate the sale ? If it is the former then we have a bigger problem than the latter. We don't have many facts, but the ones that we do have don't add up which is why we have the speculation

I predict that it won't be spent until it is in our piggy bank. It might get released to GC in January if he needs it, but I don't expect any additions to the squad this window. The potential sale appears to be all about saving where we can, so until that is completed/cancelled, don't expect any major spending.

I think that is what I am speculating. We used up some of our reserves last season to support an increased player budget. This season the new board want to replenish that and are taking the money out of the playing budget that GC thought he had.

The only way I can square the circle from all of the statements is that we used up some of our reserves last season (again conjecture). That is hardly financial mismanagement

Except that according to JLow and Springford, we didn’t.

is that one of those the older I get, the better I was stories ?

I guess that if we dipped into our reserves, that would be technically living beyond our means without going into debt. However what are we supposed to do with the reserves if it is not used to avoid a relegation ? Maybe that is where the mystery £200k is. Perhaps the board wanted to take it out of the player budget and instead use it to replenish the reserves

I think he means it is sick that you want to make improvements to Cappielow

And what do our stadium sponsors say about this release of energy ?

I have every confidence that the number of new players arriving will be 3 less than that.

You beat me to it. I read that and dismissed the rest of the article as being lip service. If you are going to try to improve the PR, first step is to get the ****ing facts right.

But follow that and all the pay at the gate and away fans gate money goes into someone’s piggy bank. We do have to forecast some income and add it to budgets or next seasons manager will get a massive pot to spend

And what a coincidence that the OF draw the lowest ranked teams that remain. Anyone might think the draw was rigged

I'm on 2 if you include the Challenge Cup

As good a freekick as I have seen at Firhill

Since January we have become a team that is hard to beat. I think the record is w14 d8 l6. A 50% win rate at our level is not too shabby