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That's not a slight caveat - a payment schedule wasn't in place and the GMFC/Dalrada line about this was as @dunning1874 stated. You are reading the facts backwards to justify your current judgment. "This led to Laird travelling to America to explain that cashflow would imminently become a problem if payments weren't made. Bonar had been ill and that's why no payments had been made." If you believe John Laird's massively self-aggrandizing account, sure. But there's absolutely no reason why we should, in terms of the details at least. I've no doubt that he went to the US - but to preserve the going concern of the football club out of the goodness of his heart? Not buying that. "The big FAQs around the new Dalrada deal opened on a question about the "missed" payments and then went on to talk about how the new deal would be structured to avoid a repeat of the situation which has arisen." These were really not the 'big FAQs' compared to those relating Dalrada's ambition to assert control over the club, in exchange for renewed sponsorship (or else Dalrada takes their toys away). Once again - if an actual default of Dalrada's payments was central to discussion in May '25, then they wouldn't have had a leg to stand on when attempting to co-opt the GMFC board.

Okike was - at least today - ropey and ensured that QP could use our left hand side to see the game out in the closing stages. Despite adding a dozen ringers I don't think that we have a better left back option than Longridge, which just isn't good enough to survive.

No, this simply isn't true. Brian Bonar's pitch, once invited to join the call in May 2025, was that Dalrada funding would be extra, strings-free money for the first team. MCT were free to take that funding - in exchange for a board including his son in law etc. - or could leave it. There was ZERO discussion by BB in his transatlantic intervention about 'already defaulted payments because my company is skint', during his charm offensive. The issue raised in the room was actually about succession: what would happen if BB became infirm, or handed over his business to the next generation (the dauphin Raes, essentially). I've no idea what these attempts at gaslighting are supposed to achieve, given that the actual fucking meeting was only 16 months ago.

The flight to America was categorically not cast as 'dodgy sponsor can't deliver funding - until Laird saved the day' - it was 'I'm securing BB's ongoing commitment to the club, in spite of the shitshow amateur structure that Dalrada needs you to rip up'. What else do you actually think the May '25 meeting was about? The Dalrada and their flunkies position - quite clearly in May 2025 - was that they were the brains trust and financial muscle who needed to make the amateur hour organisation more efficient. There was discussion of 'what if' funding consequences once BB joined the meeting remotely - but that was categorically not the premise of the meeting. Edit: Reposted because I accidentally deleted the original.

You keep restating these claims and yet there is no factual relationship between them and the actual premise of the MCT meeting at the Morton club in May 2025. What payments in the schedule were disclosed as missing in May 2025? Be extremely specific. And there is still no credible explanation as to why these rather significant facts were entirely passed over by the many different speakers - above all The Professor! - who would have obviously highlighted an existing default from Dalrada as relevant evidence, had it been made known to MCT members. The alternative, Occam's Razor explanation is that you are simply reinterpreting the sequence of events based on later information. And that 400-odd random people in a room weren't engaged in a conspiracy of silence about some key facts that You Knew and now want to blame everyone else for not considering.

1) Did they? Did we? What payments were missed? Because I was present at the May '25 meeting and don't recall any such missed payments being disclosed. It was a pretty long meeting TBF, but I also don't recall any such information being discussed among others who attended said meeting, either at the time or over the following 12 months. 2) As someone who was highly critical of Dalrada's manoeuvres last summer, such as: • the drivel peddled to the Tele's pet rube journalist about the club going bust • the defenestration of an MCT board for not following the Bonar, Laird, Robinson, Barr axis of decision making I think I would have registered 'Dalrada defaulting on payments' as a relevant issue, had it been disclosed. You don't pass over such critical information. 3) Even The Professor did not raise this issue in his 4 hour lecture to urge against accepting Dalrada's proposals either. An intervention that was incidentally correct, even if their alternative didn't work out well swimmingly either. A curious absence, if Dalrada had just publicly defaulted on payment prior to that meeting taking place - it would have been the clinching evidence for that case. That all considered - is it possible that you are simply misremembering the actual passage of events?

Did they, aye?

Dalrada were not defaulting on payments in April/May 2025. In April/May 2026, Dalrada were defaulting on payments. So while there should be lessons learned about the transatlantic charm of Brian Bonar - who I'm sure means the best, but couldn't back it up - trying to tag MCT members with responsibility for the massive black hole created by the club board this season is risible. It's 99% on those who had a defaulting sponsor, were exposed to a third of a million, and chose to lollop along regardless.

Of all the terrible decisions made over the summer at the club, offering Michael Garrity a new contract is unquestionably the worst.

"It is also clear that Greenock Morton requires external investment if we are to create long-term financial security. We recognise that this is not a challenge that can be solved through fundraising alone and that a sustainable long-term solution is required." This, predictably enough, rips my knitting - GMFC already receives external investment of ~£150k each and every year. MCT are providing that additional capital investment to the first team budget, while being under absolutely no obligation to do so now that Dalrada has gone AWOL. This should be recognised by official club communication - it is not an indefinite gift. To me at least, the statement adds further evidence that two goals are conflated at Sinclair Street: 1) To maintain GMFC as a going concern through to May/June 2027, and 2) To maintain the first team's status in the Scottish Championship for the 27/28 season. While the second goal has substantial revenue implications too, it is not the same thing. If viable, I think that the club should pursue both until January - but at that point there needs to be a hard-headed choice if we are substantially adrift of 8th. Given Stenny's start and no obvious candidate to struggle other than QP (8th this season could require 45 points or something, from early evidence), that is a decision that GMFC should be making contingencies for. Hope for the best, sure, but we need to prepare a nuclear option for January if needed.

Care to remind us all how long Golden Casket retained such a mutually beneficial relationship, once their paterfamilias left the scene? If it was such an obvious winner, why didn't they retain the partnership, but simply at a sustainable level? More utter delusion at work here. This is not an actual investment model.

We were actually talking about business investment champ. Of which, football clubs - and Scottish football clubs in particular - are very much the junk bond level category of options available. Your claim that the EFG or any other group were somehow winning a watch by merely paying a sizable sum for a shareholding stake - for a business with zero tangible assets - while also being asked to chip in extra cash for no extra stake to keep the lights on remains utter, utter nonsense. Do you seriously believe this argument? Do others reading this thread believe this delusional tosh? If so, then don't start crying crocodile tears yet again when such claims meet hard reality. This is Dundee levels of stupidity and hubris on display.

Launching a Fighting Fund shortly before signing about 8 regens to create one of the largest squads in the division is already in the scam-adjacent category tbh.

I said investments in competent businesses - as opposed to football clubs, which are incompetent money pits. What examples outside of 'dafties sticking money into professional sports teams' exist of external investors both a) buying shares in exchange for a designated, capital stake and then b) handing over phuree money for absolutely no further influence or value on top of that stake, as the price of being involved Do you think your pension fund or any other professional investor are chucking money into glorified charity buckets, to turn around the fortunes of the businesses that they invest in? Delusional.