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It's not as clear-cut as that though, because despite the continuous neglect of GMFC to recognise this fact, MCT actually invests £150k of capital each and every year. That is not a gift - that capital is just as real as any dreamboat consortium or investor would be expected to offer, just to 'achieve' this level of utter incompetence. We choose to fritter it away on Ian Murray's fever-dream 10th central midfielder and yet another winger: we don't have to though. So there is scope for some differentiation here. If an external party (for whatever reason or background) wants a hands-on running of GMFC, like Douglas Rae clearly fancied years before the crisis hit and he finally stepped in, then MCT could shift some of its capital to invest in facilities - at or surrounding Cappielow - that are of benefit to the club but not owned by the club. The problem is that 'benefactors' (see Dalrada) as well as GMFC think that they have a divine right to MCT capital going towards their ambishun first team project. And with every ridiculous internal leadership struggle at MCT, we are frittering away the opportunity to ever turn that hefty amount of capital into tangible assets. This is why for me the EFG outcome is frustrating. There were absolutely, significant issues with the proposal - and I would need to have seen the mystery article before even considering voting in favour - but it offered the possibility of firmly separating the task of running a professional football club from the complementary roles that MCT could offer. I don't see a dreamboat alternative offer emerging, with GMFC now being fundamentally insolvent and a de facto seaside league outfit to join Queen of the South (£150k annual losses, in the third tier). Instead we are left promoting from within and the whole setup being a pitiful joke. That's what this once-proud club is attracting right now from Scottish football - pity - and that cannot continue. Which fan owned clubs, specifically, are even remotely analogous to our situation? How does the 'model' operate, exactly? But yeah so long as you're only speculating about your dreamboat benefactor scenario based on newspaper fluff, then that's in no way detached from the reality of this football club's predicament. The same approach that had certain folk claiming that EFG would surely return with a better offer after the AGM. Because that's how negotiations work apparently, except no they didn't. I've heard it's actually Elon Musk slapping down readies for a 50% stake, in order to launch all SpaceX craft from behind the WDE. It's only speculation though so don't @ me!

It's been his entire M.O. since January! FFS!

In what bizarre universe do you believe that; "it's local business owners who want to help put money into the club to keep us going." is in any way part of a viable route forward? Let's be quite clear - GMFC was on its uppers long before the Raes finally shuffled out the door. It was open to such a local consortium for years prior to and during the transition to MCR ownership. Where were these high-minded individuals back in the winter of 2020-21, when the club was at the brink through short term factors outwith it's control (though a long-term comeuppance well deserved)? And the door has been left wide open for any offers to invest in exchange for a stake in the club ever since - with one mystery approach, that withdrew after the slightest pushback, then Dalrada's semi-detached role, then EFG. So this disinterested benefactor idea is sheer fantasy - they could have jumped on board under Imrie when the first team had the potential to go places. Only Dalrada did so and it hasn't worked out to our advantage. Benefactor dependence is as cheap and lazy an attempt at ducking the reality and necessary hard choices now, as passing round a virtual charity bucket. They don't. This was explained at the AGM.

They are not empowered to do anything with that asset - this was discussed at the AGM. Ironically, in response to the obvious fiction that EFG would somehow get hold of Cappielow by virtue of owning a stake in the club.

The BBC interviewer set up a nice plump free header of a question for him to use, yet he made a monumental arse of it. If GMFC is a professional football club yet, he should be packing his things into a cardboard box and being punted out the door by Monday at 10am.

No, if there is a grand idea to use Cappielow's land and provide a ground elsewhere, then the existing arrangement is fully equipped to consider that. There is no valid reason IMO why control over that key asset should be on the table to any number of investors in GMFC.

@Chicken_Soup Given the 8 million posts since - where exactly are the contradictions here? • The club's situation was substantially worse than anything disclosed at the interim proposal meeting in January. • The squad was objectively worse and included signing players that the manager wanted but isn't even using (O'Toole, Carse, anyone?) • GMFC is a supposedly professional football club that is winless in 15 games. • It has been turned over at home by a middling tier 5 side • It has bottled out of playing Civil Service fucking Strollers to gain match fitness • It is marooned at the bottom of the Championship table. • The squad building makes zero sense whatsoever • Oh and there's a yawning black hole in the finances, because Uncle Brian getting on the blower to Graham or any else on the club board doesn't convert to actual payments. Trying to spot inconsistencies while overlooking the almost entirely valid external description of an absolute fucking binfire is bizarre.

Zero wins in 15 matches. So where exactly is the professional football club, that is supposed to be getting salvaged right now? This is Brechin City without shoving money in the shortbread tin.

Should have the thread renamed to this right now tbh. A 'professional', 'full-time', 'football manager' cannot see any issues here whatsoever though. Into the fucking sea.

And again.

Shall we keep our only dangerous threat and goalscorer on the park, Ian?

^^^ Finally kens the score. A team of 6 foot 3 hammer throwers is required. Bring Him Home.

The first goal at least isn't just down to luck: there are reasons (anticipation, movement, organisation) why almost no Morton player has arrived sweetly at any such ball at the edge of an opposition box since the season started. Being soft as shite creates opportunities around the edge of the box.

Here's the issue: MOH has been by far our most dangerous player in this game. But he is (and pretty much always has been at the club) nowhere near a goalscoring position. It is a screamingly obvious waste to put that skill, athleticism and know-how to beat players out wide because 'gubbins wingers R gud'. MOH should be playing in a front two, roasting a centre back and so getting a clear shot at goal. This worse than useless, CV-padding, monumental fraud of a manager can talk about how easy in the eye his team is all he wants: it has absolutely nothing of substance in either penalty box. That's how the game works. He should have been on gardening leave since the EF game, with any combination of Gillespie, MOH or my left bollock with a smiley face on it running the team instead.

Cappielow is not an asset for either GMFC or MCT to provide a stake in. The whole fucking point of the exit deal from the gormless Raes is that the property company is completely distinct from the other two organisations. It's jumping to conclusions (probably similar smears on the other side, to the nonsense 'majority control and owning Cappielow' claims attached to the EFG proposal), but let's be clear: Cappielow as an asset should be off the table.