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What's impressive to me in the immediate reversal in form is the age of the team doing it. Harrison, Croker, Borso, Sandilands and Robertson are 20. Okike is 19. Cupps 18. We're not making many subs and the options are pretty young there too. There's good experience supplementing them but it's a very young team in a cutthroat league of much more seasoned players. That they have the character to knuckle down and change their style of play to get these results is remarkable.

Never in doubt.

I think they've yet to concede a goal at home and we have no strikers. Morton win.

Yeah we're not allowed to post on it anymore.

Not knowledgeable enough to know but I would hope borrowing against any assets would be a decision for the club board, of which the consortium would make up 2/7. I voted in favour of due diligence despite being heavily skeptical of the motivations of the group. There is still room for them to make it more palatable, shite a situation as we're in, if they truly want to help.

We were told repeatedly last night that Cappielow is worthless. I don't agree that the land - which is on a major trunk road, has rail and bus links directly to Glasgow, the ferries, Largs and beyond, is opposite a marina and historic sugar sheds - doesn't have value. That aside, assuming we vote to begin due diligence now, there must be a risk that we run out of money, including the fighting fund, before any deal is agreed. We'd then be back in the same boat of going to our would-be investors to ask for a sub and in an even weaker negotiating position than we are now and hoping the deal doesn't end up with unwanted concessions at the last minute. We will have to trust that having at least one genuine fan and MCT member in the consortium that none of that will happen.

If they agree to "tie Cappielow up in knots" and dig us out of potential points deductions I suspect most people will already vote for that. But there are many guarantees we would need written down, and I'm still not sure what would happen if MCT contributions drop below £12,500 a month. Do the consortium contributions always match it whether it goes above or below that? If MCT suddenly drops to £10k do the consortium simply drop to zero? It wasn't easy to follow online. I think there needs to be a more equitable split between the room and the teams chat to have questions heard.

Gillespie continues to lead by example and his penalty was a demonstration of how to wait for the keeper to show you his hand without some stupid stuttering run up. He has some record on penalties as well. From memory he's missed one against Hibs. The other time he missed he scored the rebound anyway.

Great day at the office. They never laid a glove on us for the last 45 mins. Borso was magnificent today.

Garrity chance to score goes up with difficulty. He missed 2 easier chances before that worldy. Ian Murray is a football terrorist.

The reason we're in this situation is absolutely not because of the supporters, it's not even because the MCT membership stalled the Estrella deal, because that is what happened before EFG pulled the plug. The reason we're circling admin is Dalrada not paying their bills and the GMFC board who budgeted based on them doing so. Anything else is blame shifting as if Estrella was the only way out, something it seems you still can't accept as the case. Was the Estrella deal better than the new consortium deal on the table? Yes. Does that mean that given the information at the time MCT members made the wrong decision? Definitely not. MCT board sent out the opinion of their lawyers that the Estrella deal amounted to majority control. Even if you don't think that was the case, were the board at that time to overrule their legal advice, or are you saying that they didn't receive that advice at all?

I might have skipped past the detail, but is it confirmed what will happen if MCT subs (inevitably) drop below £12,500 a month should this go through? It's extremely likely that over time MCT contributions will not match the consortium's. I don't see why they should, for that matter. "We want the bulk of the shares and we want the stadium, but only if you put in the same money as us" is no selling point. Also, would the forwarded £150,000 for this season be enough to see us steer clear of adminstration? Because if it's not enough to completely guarantee that, then the club could still end up in admin this year anyway, only we'll have given Cappielow up as a potential asset for proceedings. That doesn't sound clever.

So much for: Transparency Togetherness Competence Governance I'll retract the sentence referring to Alistair Renfrew seeing as no reason not to take him at his word that this wasn't him. I see nothing here that changes my mind that to move on it's best that Graham and John step down. The other board members, minus Thomas, might well do so in time as well, but it's telling that even Thomas Francis signed the majority board statement, having joined at the same time as the other three.

Need to bear in mind you've only heard one side of the argument, which was the whole problem with one faction breaking off to do their own thing. That thing being only their agenda, Graham should still answer the questions put to him here. Undocumented soap boxes don't help.

The appeal is unlikely to be seen as a piss take so the suspension at least shouldn't get any worse. And given the big game we have coming up, any chance of having Cupps available is worth it.