GiGi

The Tele have been quick enough to get every piece of bad press out in the paper and online. It's their round now. Club should be asking for a front page on Friday for a call to arms to get us a big crowd out for the game.

If nothing else, the collapse of the EFG proposal seems to have been a hefty boot up the arse for GMFC off the park.

Sticking a bunch of angry guys in a room has been largely unproductive so far and would only be more so now. In work you'd say don't have a meeting that could be an email and this is one of those times. Just tell us the factual, financial position of the club and avoid a night of listening to rehearsed petty recriminations.

I don't see the need to have an EGM, but we do need a consolidated, cards on the table update on the club's finances that is supported by MCT as the majority owners. Facts only, without Dalrada are we projected to run out of money to pay wages, and if so by when? At some point later we will need to know who made the decision to run with a Dalrada-reliant budget and who went to a potential investor to ask for an emergency loan to avoid a points deduction. The fact that we're at fighting fund point now and not then is a pretty brutal failure in transparency but that can be dealt with after laying out the immediate concerns.

I think given the issues Dalrada have been having since last year coupled with 6 figures worth of late payments, it was madness to build a break-even budget around their sponsorship again this year. Especially given Brian Bonar was happy to give up shirt sponsorship anyway, you have to think we could have found an alternative to Dalrada to act as the baseline for the budget on what would probably be much reduced terms. And if the Dalrada money did appear it could be used to supplement the budget or kept back for some other purpose. Easy to say with hindsight maybe, but I can't see that anyone would have been comfortable placing the club's financial security with Dalrada had they known what was going on, for the sake of trying to stay full time.

I get the need to make every effort to raise more funds. I don't think this is the best way to go about it. Competitions and introducing a bit of fun and participation can raise money without calling it a fighting fund, making it look like a choice between a flat donation or oblivion for the club.

Someone has already had the idea to chuck the free cup weekend's ticket money at the Morton lotto. The most likely people to chip in to dig the club out is still the regular support.

We have absolutely nothing to show for Dalrada's backing but crippling cash flow issues.

Personally I can't be voting for this. The amendments vs the original proposal are preying on the vulnerability of the club given the Dalrada situation. I'm also not happy with the leaks to the media about David Moyes Jnr and the carrot of two experienced championship players once he gets in. There's something a bit underhanded about the timing of that article after they've just vastly tilted the proposal in their favour.

Even at that - it's more control for less money than was originally agreed/proposed.

Without having read much of it - the paperwork suggests Dalrada owe us £340,000. That's disastrous. 6-8 good players worth of wages with enough to pay off Murray and keep some back for unexpected bills. Hopefully that's a total amount due and they've already paid a good chunk but it sounds bleak. Also, majority control for a minority shareholder purchase can't happen so it sounds like both boards are currently against selling shares to EFG. Sounds like we owe Murray no thanks for poisoning the well recently.

Murray is causing reputational damage to the club on a national level and it's embarrassing. He definitely needs his knuckles wrapped. It's one thing to basically give up on the task at hand but quite another to go nuclear on your employers because they've been stiffed by a major sponsor. Fanny.

For perspective, we also won 3/4 league cup games scoring 10 in the process, and we only lost one league game in the opening quarter thanks to all the draws. Not comparable situations. If it took Imrie that long to win a league game last season, imagine how long it could take this time.

Hopefully after his payoff he'll be flush enough to consider a few months pro bono.

He chucked his toys plenty of times over not getting what he wanted to build the team, and his constant applying for jobs all over the league to leave was a pain in the arse. But Imrie fell out with people because he's combative by nature and is a winner. Imrie never wasted a pre season before throwing in the worst performance ever seen in the league cup by a team at our level. He moaned about the state of things off the park but ultimately delivered on it regardless and went into every game talking about how he was setting up his team to win. The drop in standards since he left is catastrophic. Murray had a better squad last season and still got horsed by Stenny, a relegated Ross County and nearly fucked the Airdrie game up had one of their best players not got himself sent off. So it's not just that he's had no budget or too many injuries this season, he's simply done a terrible job and wouldn't be here if we had the funds to get shot and replace him.