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Again there's evidence of discussions happening with MCT members separate from the board. Given the mewling about breach of NDAs, were these members subject to the same NDA to allow them to be party to negotiations and declared as such to the MCT board? If not, they're guilty of most of their accusations.

Looks the person responsible for that email (again all the others are signed by a comms director) has overplayed their hand.

Someone has made the point on a fans group that if the new directors wanted to oust the existing board as their first act, they should have explicitly written this intent in their personal statements before standing for election, and not going about it in the underhanded way that they did.

Agree. Apathy and not taking action won't do. Can't sit and grumble when a one liner email is all you need.

Agree. This kind of grubby, backroom snaking of fellow directors to try to railroad through something the members don't want can't be tolerated. And the person who sent that message round is naïve, at best, if they thought it wouldn't end up public. A terrible look.

Suffering fuck. That's come from a sitting director?

Every other comms email in the last year has been signed by the MCT communications director who sent it. Be good to know which director(s) specifically approved of this one because it reads as an apology for not having voted them through already. I can't believe we're still talking about Estrella, after them briefing members who are not MCT directors behind the scenes and nuking the AGM with their huffy statement by proxy. So for transparency, full ownership of this message needed.

Bonar wouldn't have the money spent on anything other than the first team, so you can then only look at the managers who spent the money. The people that enabled Dalrada are not there any more. However the club board made a huge mistake this year in allowing the budget to be pinned to Dalrada funds, when they were already behind on payments and their business struggling was known. I'm sure if the wider support, or at least MCT members as club owners, were aware of missed payments we'd have agreed it would be madness to bank on them propping up the budget again this year due to the potential consequences if it went tits up. Now it has and we're asking for money to pay the contracts they were meant to pay. We shouldn't turn out in the home kit again without their name blocked out, it's a kick in the teeth to see their logo on the hoops while we're in this position.

Good look for the parent clubs checking on their loanees to see we had spare subs and Murray left them sitting down. Fuck sake.

Ye have single handedly destroyed the spirit of all true football people at this special time of year.

I don't think it's appropriate that Renfrew was "briefed by Estrella before the AGM" as claimed. I get that he was part of bringing EFG to the table but it's bold to claim MCT were not being open with members while evidently still talking to Estrella. It sounds like the accusations of going behind the MCT directors backs was not too far off if that is the case. There are reasonable points made about the decision of the board to hang their hats on the unreliable Dalrada this year which has left us in this situation, but the personal attachment to Estrella over all else is clear and makes Mr Renfrew himself an unreliable narrator.

They're loan signings, so it'll likely be freebies. Do clubs usually tell you how much (if any) of player wages they cover? Probably not even allowed to.

Given his age I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt that he will come good or at least better when his confidence isn't on the floor. But he has looked really poor.

Yeah we've potentially burst the budget for a full time squad that's less fit than Arbroath and Stenny's. What was the point?

Just what we needed. Too soft, and not because of the teenage fullbacks who seem the only ones willing to put themselves about. Waste of a worldy save as well. I get scoring a goal and stuff is a nice step forward but I can't bring myself to happy clap a home defeat to Arbroath off the park.