vikingTON

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.

My expectation before the game was a leathering and instead it was a marginally unfortunate, narrow loss. Full credit to the first team squad and management: they asserted a pride not just in terms of effort but also performance levels today. There was plenty to build on today looking towards next week's game, and then after our imposed break. With the Estrella negotiations moving towards a decisive phase, it has been a very encouraging 24 hours for the season. Two particular points of credit IMO: 1) The team actually defended from the front at times with some effective pressing. We picked our opportunities to squeeze Partick (and with Brophy's fitness a constant press was impossible) and when we did press, the midfield three took turns to add pressure without leaving us wide open. We lost that trait under Imrie long before Murray's arrival. If we can restore it, then in the narrow confines of Cappielow we will be well in every game that we play. 2) While we can't rely on them on a weekly basis, the young players showed all the merits of energy, aggression and doing the basics right throughout the game. They weren't fazed by the occasion or the subs by the match situation. The starting XI would clearly benefit from extra quality but having options who can step up is important too. I wouldn't be massively concerned if Black (apparently a midfielder) was brought on for 20 minutes in place of a tiring veteran, put it that way.

No it couldn't.

I'd hope that Estrella's backing could at least solve the obstacle of cashflow. If GMFC are serious about ensuring break even and paying wages in full until June (as they should be), then they need to make provision right now for both delayed payments and the possibility of a significant debt defaulting. That has to limit the operating budget. If Estrella are willing (which they may or may not be) then GMFC could tap into some of that investment right now and possibly have assurances of funds going forward. That would allow the club to commit to a few more additions, while still projecting a break-even position. I agree that it should not mean running an operating loss because ambishun. If our external sponsor then fully meets their commitments, then great - the Estrella investment is freed up for its rightful purpose all along.

The fluffers who leaked information against the club's owners last May and demanded that we hand over control to Dalrada because ambishun should be acknowledging their own folly first - which would have certainly plunged the club into administration within just 14 months.

Gillespie has played there but was terrible, frankly - not his fault, but he has none of the attributes to be defending against skill or pace in wide areas. The reality is that we went into the League Cup games woefully underprepared, and are still heading into the league in the same position, bar a hopeful fix to the GK issue. If we avoid getting leathered tomorrow then it will be a relief. And we then need to have a credible squad by next week's game at Ochilview for everyone at the club's sake.

Hopefully the beaks at SPFL towers don't do anything as severe as strike out our points or goals tallies.

I'd give it 15 minutes.