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The tribunal point is valid but the reputation point is not. The idea that GMFC will get blacklisted for cruelly binning a media gurning manager who is performing at an utterly abysmal level anyway - not just by a single, big, bad fanbase's standards but now at all Scottish football, East Stirling level joke club standard - is wide of the mark. This would merely count as something like Murray's 17th sackable offence since January. He might still get his much desired, soft soap exit interview with Scott Burns of The Record or similar, but he'd be fooling nobody with even a passing interest about the context of his dismissal. And let's not forget that Ian Murray has lasted longer this season than in his most recent role - which clearly hasn't put many off applying to work under the cruel Raith board that got shot of him, including Imrie. Rowan Alexander should be treated with greater respect by the game over his managerial departure than this now serial busted flush.

Unfortunately I very much doubt GMFC have a media communication/disrepute clause in the first team manager's contract. The bigger problem is that the first team manager is always expected to accept media duties (which are often thankless tasks) but should be held accountable to professional standards too. I reckon many managers would rather ditch those duties altogether rather than be constrained, but a media policy should be added as a general principle going forward regardless IMO. There should be a clear distinction between issues that the first team manager is qualified to comment on, and other comments or speculation that are clearly detrimental to the interests of the wider organisation they represent. If a new manager doesn't like that condition, then they should be passed over in the recruitment process. Any semi-competent organisation has an official communications policy to discipline unauthorised and damaging speculation from employees.

What? You're the one claiming the lack of pre-season friendlies wasn't Murray's fault. So the onus is on yourself to support this claim. What, specifically, prevented Ian Murray from fulfilling a fixture versus Civil Service fucking Strollers (!), and then playing any other outfit in a bounce game the midweek before the Stranraer home match?

Silence from the club... about what exactly? If you're referring to Murray's latest nonsense mewling, it was only out earlier today. GMFC should react but shouldn't rush out an ill-thought out, Rangers-esque statement that would only enhance the spotlight. The wider situation has been spelled out by the previous club update and MCT/Estrella's update on the proposed investment. It hasn't been ratified yet, and doesn't need to be just because we have some torn-faced loser on manoeuvres to get his 19th central midfielder on board.

Lol wut When was the club not utter chaos behind the scenes in the summer? Last season had a War of the Roses play out between Dalrada and various MCT boards. Long before the Dalrada deal, we had years of Imrie complaining about zero budget all summer or Jim Duffy turning up in the League Cup with a bunch of ringers from his big book of agent contacts. Never have the club operated one single pre-season match though; having cancelled the other one against the Galacticos of Civil Service Strollers. And never has the club then lost every single game of the group stage of the League Cup, without recording a single goal. The onus is on a professional at any organisation to do their job properly regardless of the shitshow at other levels. What exactly was Murray's reasoning for not having an actual pre-season schedule? Is it by any chance related to the horseshit he's giving out now about GMFC potentially forfeiting games? Ian Murray is behaving like an utter charlatan in his professional leadership role. Regardless of his tactical nous, squad building or motivational skills, that is a critical issue that GMFC has to address.

We clearly had something in the bank to sign our 17th midfielder just last week - money in the budget that could easily have gone towards paying a replacement manager while the current one is put on GL.

Fan power is exercised by the customers not putting their hands in their pockets, to spend their cash watching some fucking loser gurn constantly about how hard done to he is, while offering absolutely nothing to change his failed tactics and team selection. The club cannot seriously claim to be surprised that ST sales were lower than last season based on the direction that the first team took since January. Similarly, the club isn't going to achieve its goals in weekly gate receipts, hospitality and other merchandise income when the team on the park is considered to be a joke. Times are tough but GMFC remains a professional football club and a business, rather than a charity that exists for the wellbeing of the community. There is a clear and broad middle ground between running a club by plebiscite and any board thinking that they can stonewall fan discontent and not end up paying the price elsewhere.

What MCT monies being blown are you referring to? There isn't any provision in the current organisation to retain significant capital year on year. There should be IMO, but that function has not been established. As for Dalrada, Brian Bonar's rich fan determination to spunk money on the first team budget alone was crystal clear. I wonder what happened to the fluffers who thought that this would work out as a free lunch because ambishun - such as @9 Strathblane Crescent? A full mea culpa seems appropriate then from every single one of those who bought into yet more unsustainable promises, while undermining both GMFC and MCT officeholders in May 2025.

I'm going to quote this because this description is a carbon copy of the last match played at Stenhousemuir, in January, when we had all the Dalrada money pumping and yet the new manager still couldn't take advantage of a free week to produce a credible game plan. He lost 4-0 instead. He failed to produce any such plans over the remainder of the season. He failed to even muster a goal in the League Cup group stage. And he has now failed to produce a credible plan against a frankly mediocre Stenhousemuir side, in the most obvious six-pointer match in the opening half of the 26-27 campaign. It is utterly ridiculous that this clown is still nominally in charge of this football club, while penning his cover letter to whichever gullible outfit might take him in next. It is beneath the dignity of this once-proud football club.

I expect a full-time professional football team to spend their entire week working out a threat from set pieces, even if they're not up to much in open play. I expect a full-time professional football team to show a demonstrable advantage in physicality and stamina over part time opposition - not least over the 5 subs used today (compare and contrast with Partick's subs last week). Zero goals over 6 games including Linlithgow Rose; East Fife: and Stenhousemuir - is entirely unacceptable. And for you to then try and call out anyone for criticising the team today, having spent 24 fucking pounds in to watch that drivel is risible, quite frankly. I don't think I was one of those you are referring to, but I still find your claim risible. Anyone who paid that for today is entitled to their view - and entitled to be called out on it in the away end too. We all indulge in gallows humour and cynicism from time to time - but your take above is legitimating the latest in a parade of abysmal performances and results. GMFC is not actually Scotland's official 2026 charity case here - it is a professional football club that still charges the going rate for 'McKenzie Carse' to transform a match today. There was no serious criticism of the team last week. There was serious criticism of the team this week. That's because the performance this week was objectively and significantly worse. Not even junior grades would allow a free pass for effort alone - this once-proud football club is finished if we gormlessly accept clueless hoofball as the best that we can possibly aspire to. You are Gus McPherson.

Italian football clubs do the gardening leave device and cope just fine. Bearing in mind our cashflow issues with a certain backer, we should absolutely defer payments to this chump rather than considering a lump sum now. The latter has a tangible impact on our cashflow that no deal about not getting paid after March balances out. The club will simply haemorrhage that money through the gate until he does go, and I'd be surprised and disappointed if Estrella haven't been watching this drivel from afar. He has no future in any partnership.

He's spent enough time bumping his gums - ever since he lost to a Lowland League side - about how thankless his task is. Topped off by his unprofessional nonsense about the crap terms offered to his love child Carse. So it's time for the CV padder to fall on his sword to preserve his exit interview with Scott Burns and find another club to slither into.

If the deal gets approved then Estrella need to move within the boardroom for him to go. Immediately. Gardening leave for that clown because he cannot be entrusted with a single penny more, if he thinks that 'McKenzie Carse' is any solution to this squad's issues. If they have a network of talent then a first team coach needs to be priority #1.

I'm disappointed to see some go but unlike around 15 months ago with the Dalrada fluffer nonsense - for which a reckoning is coming soon - I don't see an absence of those qualities in the interim board. It's simply a numbers game because the rump cannot be expected to do the administrative work of a full board. Perhaps instead of grand pledges we could have some steady time-servers - bearing in mind that this is NOT an appointment to the GMFC board. Honestly, sometimes you'd think it was the Barcelona presidency being opened up here instead of *entirely worthwhile* slots on a *collective* fucking enterprise.

The attacking threat could be boosted by actually pairing Brophy with another forward like Gorman - with hopefully at least one and different type of centre forward added to mix things up as well as offering cover. Sand dancing wingers should be binned (becoming a Plan B option if we're losing) and we should double down on our relative strength and options in the middle of the park, once Ballantyne is back to hold the right hand side.