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1) What, yet again, is your definition of 'improvement'? That was your original premise - could we risk improvement? (a curious situation for a professional sporting organisation to be in) - so WTF does that actually mean? 2) You are once again asserting - not asking the question - that There Will Be A Financial Cost: well what actual, concrete evidence is there for this claim about the practical elements? Counter point: A GMFC board that has proven so gullible and incompetent to rack up a £300k budget black hole because an already defaulting sponsor pinky promised some money, may not actually be Ruthless Titans of Industry when it comes to deciding whether to gunge a first team manager too. A counter point supported, notably, by their supine indifference to the plummet in form and performances in March and April 2026 - when there was a clear opportunity at the end of the campaign to balance the costs of a new management team against a new first team budget. So this mewling will not do. What actual evidence is there that the GMFC board really want to remove Murray, but have their hands cruelly tied by a lack of funds? Be extremely specific. 3) Murray leaving of his own accord is irrelevant to the discussion. And once again - GMFC has added more than half a dozen first team players in the last month, so this lack of agency problem (for which there is zero evidence) would be entirely self-inflicted anyway. Murray's failure was screamingly obvious in April - our next game will be in October. It still is not the responsibility of the fanbase and paying customers to dig the GMFC board out of any such hole, nor give them a free pass for such utter incompetence.

Is it an eco-friendly washing machine, in line with their position at the frontier of energy-efficient technology? Disappointed that we didn't at least get a new toaster to avoid those randoms in a cupboard in the club office setting the main stand up in flames.

That doesn't answer my point: you're wondering if we can take the 'risk' that things might improve. What exactly is the criteria for improvement you're setting here? On the park - off the park? But while we're at it, GMFC could have diverted some of the half a dozen (if not more) players added to an already bloated squad since the end of August alone - and/or emptied more and/or not signed a few of those already in the building. So let's not continue this horseshit premise that the club is literally incapable of acting. They have had countless break points since at least the Ross County game in April, and have chosen not to take them. They have instead doubled down on Murray. Each decision was an active choice, not a default option. That the club board have made as much of a total arse of first team management - in much the same way as they have by setting the operating budget and counting on pinky promises from Graham Barr's long-distance phone buddy - is 100% not the problem of the fanbase and paying customers.

No, because GMFC doesn't own Cappielow. And it never should given the parade of charlatans and busted flushes that attach themselves to the club.

What exactly do you mean by this?

...And the supine indifference from the GMFC board seemingly continues, beyond another standard opportunity for this toxic loser of a manager to have his belongings dumped in a cardboard box outside Sinclair Street this morning, after our Highland trip. I won't be wasting my time on Saturday's home match or any future ones while Murray is in charge. GMFC is insulting the credulity of the fanbase by keeping this clown in place.

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.