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If they've been utter shite - which many have - then they should leave the club. Your transition strategy would have been perfectly reasonable, had said players performed to anywhere near an acceptable level over the past 8 weeks. They didn't though. Stuffing next season's squad with the same dross because Dalrada is paying for it sends the worst possible signals about lowering standards - yet further - than they've already been. This squad needs purged.

So, err, why didn't he resolve those issues prior to putting out the same garbage game plan and getting gubbed 4-0 by a rancid, League One bound Ross County side last week? And why didn't he resolve this issues between that disgrace and last night's game - with the sole exception of Delaney (whose absence was a mystery in the first place)? Are the players added to the squad in January and punted to the fringes by April not part of Murray's grand plan - if so, then how will GMFC navigate a full season of signing and then casually ditching players, to fit square pegs into round holes instead? Actions speak louder than words. The idea that Murray is either playing 3D chess with us all - or was hopelessly hamstrung by the existing squad - is belied by the evidence. A horrendous nosedive in performances and results since early March - and a complete failure to take any sort of serious corrective measures. Previous managers like Grady were rightly not given the opportunity to bullshit any further in the face of reality.

Just because some jobber can be underwritten by Dalrada doesn't mean that they should be at the club next season.

Shaw was an abysmal, gutless chancer tonight, and the fact that this is earning a pass is why we cannot ever have nice things at this once-proud football club. I don't disagree about your other points but this is precisely the problem - the standards at this club plummet so low that being the least bad of several dogshit performers gets viewed as being within the acceptable range. It shouldn't - and unless we are finally ruthless enough to purge this club of such low expectations, then next season is already bounded between 7th and 10th. So Murray will be fielding them at centre back alongside Wilson next season then. An utterly rancid shout btw, given that Stevie Wonder could have picked a more logical team tonight than the 'proper fitba man' in the dugout. Unless you think that there was some stunning tactical masterplan at work tonight - and last Saturday, and the one before that - that only an innate experience of the game can possibly comprehend.

What goes around finally came around for Strapp, after his dying swan routine for a carbon copy challenge got Ballantyne sent off at their midden to turn the game.

+15 other players and backroom staff

Johansson and Grady were punted for lesser shitting the bed behaviour, than Ian Murray in the past 6 weeks. TTG.

Airdrie are not very good at all, but this has 0-1 written all over it. Probably with a red card based off the stupid yellows picked up so far.

Ambrose should playing in jeans in the second half.

He's clueless. He clearly doesn't rate Shaw at all - which is why he was immediately bombed out the team from January - yet he plays him in back to back crucial games at the end of the season. That is worse than the Wilson at centre back choice, because it's crystal clear that Murray has zero rating of Shaw and yet shoehorns him into this nick of a formation anyway. We cannot afford to give a summer transfer window to someone who has marginalised almost all the players he added in January, and ended up like this.

If Wilson is listed on the team sheet in an apparent centre back position, then Murray should be sacked before kick off. Worked very well indeed when Johansson was stinking the place out on a final day of the season.

What ambition does GMFC demonstrate exactly - and where does the earlier list of the past 30 years of dross fit into that? Even the now maligned Queen of the South reached a Scottish Cup final and briefly played in European football: Dunfermline have been up and down like a whore's knickers and yet are in a SC final as a second tier club. Never mind managers for a moment: how many executives have been emptied for such a lamentable record of non-achievements and zero progress as a commercial enterprise at GMFC too? If this is the sum total of our aspiration then we're as well shuttering the club after Friday's game regardless of the result. Surviving in this league - with no broader purpose or goal in mind beyond that - is categorically not an achievement.

• We have both lost to a team fully two tiers below us, and been gubbed 4-0 by Stenhousemuir in cup competitions this season. • It will be 35 years next season since we have reached the final of even the lower leagues' cup competition. • As of next season (removing 95-96 from the equation), we will have had one, very unlikely, sniff at top flight football in the past 30 years. • 2013-14 league campaign: all of it. Sounds rather like both the Banter Years and the wilderness are already here. Given all of the above, I fail to see any discernible impact of GMFC playing either in the second or third tier. It changes nothing of consequence. Unlike 2007-08 for example - when the hope was that if we could get survive, we would then consolidate and move upwards in the second tier - there is no such direction in place right now. If we 'survive', the tacit goal will be to get 44 points and finish 7th and do absolutely nothing else again next season. Meanwhile there is a similar lack of direction in terms of the club as a business. We are no further towards maximising revenue from matchdays, and have no concrete plans in place to start generating revenue on the other 300-odd days of the year either. So what exactly would playing in the second or third tier change? We have (or should have) little to no debt to outside creditors to account for, and by far the largest chunk of the operating budget is a first team squad and model of recruitment that is taking us nowhere, regardless of Friday's result. So the loss of divisional prize money (a risibly low, rentier-type aspiration for this once-proud club to have) can be balanced by simply purging more of the crop of players and backroom staff who directly caused that scenario. Let me be clear - I am not claiming that seaside league football will be a nostalgic improvement on our current status. But unless and until fundamental changes in the club's operations and aspirations take place, both scenarios are equally garbage. If there is a change in how the club and the first team squad operates, it will likely come through a successful partnership with Estrella regardless of what level we are playing in. That is the important thing in defining the club's future - not being a couple of places higher or lower in the middle of Scottish football's pecking order.

Murray has had an objectively easier set of fixtures though, as Imrie left before we played both QP and Airdrie at home to complete the first half. The interim team handled those two games, as well as the Saint Johnstone, Ayr and Partick games in the second half of the campaign that rather helpfully do not count towards Murray's record. Indeed, we are recording worse results in recent weeks than when the interim coaches were in charge. While there have been encouraging signs in the home matches in terms of how we have played and some good results recorded, the away league record under Murray is atrocious and today was just another example of that.