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Point of order: this season actually started with Murray/GMFC bottling out of playing Civil Service Strollers. It's important that the Banter Years fully records both the depths and immediate flashing red alarm signals of this nick of a campaign from June.

It's not apathy but rather a total disconnect between fan actions and club response. The GMFC board have - for no fucking intelligible reason - chosen to marshal their PR resources around defending Saint Ian Murray from day 1 of his abortive campaign in June, when hiding from Civil Service Strollers. It is quite frankly less stressful and a lot less expensive to detach engagement and just let the architects of this specific campaign own every record low that they're achieving on a weekly basis. I won't be back this season until Murray is gone because there is zero evidence that the current GMFC board will respond to fan sentiment whatsoever. As opposed to 'suggestions' for a charity bucket, where Barr and co. clambered over themselves to reflect The Will of the People within 24 hours.

I mean he did shite out of playing Civil Service Strollers way back in June, so in one way he is actually correct here. All his breathless enthusiasm for mediocre, losing performances in between is of course nonsense window dressing compared to his revealed outlook. But nobody at GMFC has had the gumption to hold the fraud to account, which is why this must be a collective resignation.

Potentially an infamous second tier record we can add to some of top flight performances - unless both the board and Murray GTF.

All of them who were in place in May/June have to go. A failure as comprehensive as this - both in financial and sporting terms - requires collective responsibility.

He already claimed that we might not fulfil fixtures this season. Never mind gardening leave any more, his wages should just be stopped and he can take his chances with either an administrator or our potential backers to get his money. It won't be our concern this side of 2028.

He missed that boat in July, when he was trying to peddle the Passion of Mackenzie Carse as the last straw that would break his loyalty to the club. Inexplicably, he chose to remain in place while doing absolutely nothing to rectify the obvious failings of his tactical approach. And since then, he has been either shipping out or freezing half of his own summer signings and we haven't even reached the first quarter of the campaign. When replacing Imrie mid-season we could have done worse than Murray and were always going to decline. But the clear time to take corrective action was in April when every alarm bell would be clanging at performances and results - had GMFC's supine board not been too busy filling Brian Bonar's voicemail with mewling suggestions for payment.

Die on the pitch, die in the changing room as punishment for failure, or die on the training ground like Kevin Finlayson, who was 'deliberately injured' by a proper training routine rather than the Dean Keenan table tennis sessions preferred by his predecessor. Regardless of preference, there is only one qualified coach suited to this back to basics task.

He also praised their tremendous efforts for the club and the fanbase last Saturday - when we struggled to register a shot on target at home. This utter cunt - there's no nicer way of putting it now - either genuinely thinks that he's been tasked with coaching the equivalent of Wigtown and Bladnoch in the Scottish second tier, or genuinely thinks that he can fool anyone else into buying his horseshit. This team is not good, but it is not substantially worse than the team that Gus McPherson also had set on course for the seaside leagues before being gunged. Yet even McPherson did a far better job in terms of both collecting points and 'not failing to win 16 fucking games in a row' than this clown. He couldn't even face Civil Service Strollers in pre-season without bottling it. Sack the board that has let this persist.

That money being spent to: a) accumulate extra gate receipts from watching Allan McGraw 63-64 reincarnated and b) placate a buffoon CV padding (and failing at that too) manager who didn't want to let one of his summer signings slither off to the seaside leagues without replacement is looking a better and better 'investment' with every passing week. If GMFC wasn't riddled from top to bottom with people who display a total brass neck - including quite a few golfists, which is when you're really in moral disrepute - they'd be offering full fucking refunds on the Fighting Fund that they've shaken out of subscribers.

Wilson and Ballantyne need to step up to the plate too. The levels of recent performance - individual and collectively - are unacceptable across the board with the possible exception of Harrison in goal.

The supine indifference with which the GMFC board treats this outrageous fraud's performance - compared to the breathless pace to set up a charity bucket and panhandle the fanbase and Scottish football in general after a 'suggestion' at the MCT AGM - sums up the fundamental problem with this once-proud football club. It is rotten to the fucking core and the board should be resigning en masse at the same time as their darling first team coach leaves the building. This is now an issue of collective responsibility.

Any additional and unnecessary spending when you are facing an existing £300k plus shortfall in the next 9 months for a club of GMFC's turnover is highly irresponsible. Any additional and unnecessary spending in that situation increases the material risk of GMFC going into administration. It really is that straightforward. So you can either clutch your pearls about the terrible outcome of administration, or support signing players for ludicrous, speculative reasons like a bad debtor sticking their last tenner on the 3.50 at Ayr Racecourse. It'll pay for itself!

Except that • when your goal is to maintain fiscal solvency above all other costs - the logical conclusion of your (correct) hostility to administration, and • when you are already having to make up a shortfall of about 1/6th of annual turnover you are in absolutely no position to speculate based on ifs, coulds and whataboutery regarding potential gains from a cup draw, or any other utterly specious potential benefits from adding unnecessary costs to the existing shortfall. If you want to avoiding administration, you cut costs above every other priority. If you're not actually that bothered, then you can throw money around using the same 'logic' that had Nacho Novo et. al. signing in a very similar situation on the park in 2013-14.

I don't recall you cutting up onions to emote at the Terrible Consequences of administration, barely one week ago when you were justifying adding yet another wage to the first team bill on the spurious grounds of higher gate receipts. If GMFC is at any risk of administration before June '27, then it will be because the club board and too many enablers of said board in the fanbase have conflated financial solvency and Championship status as the same goal of interventions since August '26. They are completely distinct from each other - which is just as well because our gormless efforts to achieve the latter are not going to happen.