TRVMP

Day ruined. Shrinkage.

The Dirty Wee Frew pulled off a 3-1 upset at Pollok today to record their first win of the season, with Louie Murphy appearing for 33 minutes, and Joey O'Toole and Dean Black both coming on in the 77th. Bob McHugh was a used sub for the hosts.

I'm tumescent. Please be true.

I'm sanguine about this. If you're ambitious and either looking for a first gig or looking for a comeback, this is really a no-lose proposition. Murray is stinking the place out. It would take effort to do worse than him. We're a "turmoil" club so expectations from the wider football community are low, and arguably lower than they should be. (We have a full-time squad with some decent players, we're not Sheffield Wednesday of last season.) If anyone can come in and right the ship, that speaks very well to their abilities; if they fail to do so, they can tell people convincingly that we were a lost cause anyway, winless in 16 with kids on the bench. Someone would take it, I absolutely guarantee it. Whether they'd help us avoid 10th is another matter.

If it's true that we let Murray dictate the terms of our recruitment over the last couple of weeks then that's a damning indictment of the BoD's judgement.

We are in no moral position to speculate to accumulate. Even if we were, with zero disrespect to any of our new signings, it's not exactly Pele signing for the New York Cosmos, is it? I'd be happy with a sclaffed 1-0 win at some point but I'd rather we put ourselves in good stead for the administration that's scheduled to occur in January.

If Ritchie really thinks that 10k from one of his mates buys him veto rights over the entire organization then he's got a screw loose.

Adding 100 to our home gate, while definitely good, isn't going to forestall administration unless our gate receipts grow by 300k

This is exactly what I said was going to happen, btw, and if we don't get investment between now and January and enter administration as a result, we've squandered a heck of a lot of goodwill from fans of other clubs.

Been rumininating on this for some time. I don't think clubs at our level should get more money because if you look at tiers 5 and 6 in England you see how it ends: an arms race for wages for a similar pool of players who end up on unsustainable amounts if the music ever stops.

Looking at it dispassionately and trying to put my bias for Morton aside, in terms of eyeballs the Championship and below clubs actually provide, we get a pretty decent amount of money as it is. Perhaps it is in the interest of Scottish football to further subsidize full time football at the national level, but that point will need to be forcefully argued, because if I was a Rangers or an Aberdeen or even a Dundee I'd be asking what's in it for us if we have to shell out another 150k between us to keep full time football alive in Dumfries.

If the figures are true I would be ashamed to put my name to it as well.

The entire point of majority fan ownership is to safeguard the club's future, and I'd be telling anyone who makes such a paltry offer as this for 51% to get stuffed. The entire point of majority fan ownership is to safeguard the club's future, and I'd be telling anyone who makes such a paltry offer as this for 51% to get stuffed. 12k a month from a consortium is a complete fucking embarrassment. If that's anywhere near true it's an absolute riddy.

Absolutely nothing against the likes of O'Toole but signing a guy for the first team squad then punting him out to the fifth tier just isn't serious management.

2 is what we've been doing since the Bosman rule through to MCT and it works as long as, and only for as long as, the checks clear at the bank. 3 is what we did for the last few years. We got off to a great start in no small measure due to favorable cup draws (and Dougie's steering us through the early rounds often enough.) Again, it works as long as the checks clear. When they don't clear, we're in an absolutely grave position. Short of selling the club completely, and to whom that would be I don't know, 1 is the only option that gives us a chance at long-term survival, although that depends in huge part on the future of the ground, which grows more precarious each year. I think with the amount of money currently on offer in Scottish football, thinking that we'd be anywhere near the Championship on a break-even MCT model is very ambitious. We'd do well to get the League One playoffs most years. And I think that outcome is absolutely fine if the alternative is what's happening now.