Toby

It’s an Annual General Meeting. I won’t pretend to be an expert on the law, but I suspect that if it were to be postponed MCT would have to give 14 days notice of the new date. It couldn’t just be “pushed back a few days”. Even if the majority were to be fine with that happening, I can guarantee that at least one member would see MCT hauled over the coals for such a breach. And with so much going on, what would happen if the goalposts moved again in those “few days”? Does it get moved back again? And again? And again? Allowing the valuation of the shares to drop further and further as the club’s situation becomes increasingly perilous? Perhaps they could have sent out a holding email. However, perhaps an over-stretched MCT board with only three contributing members are working flat out to reach an agreement and communicate it in full with the members are so busy that they barely have a minute to put out extra comms that don’t actually tell you anything.

And you ignore the point about the transfer window and recruitment. The board are caught between a rock and a hard place, and nothing they can do will please the members. Either they give false information that you won’t be happy with, they give you accurate information with a short window to review that you won’t be happy with or they delay the meeting, impacting recruitment and almost certainly condemning us to relegation, that you appear to be happy with. I prefer option two, personally.

As outlined by Dunning above, the information, if released soon as I believe it will be. And of course, delaying the AGM until after the transfer window is closed, as would be the case given the need for a notice period, would work out brilliantly for all parties.

Yeah, you’re right. They should just send out anything, regardless of how accurate it is. It’s not as if the members need to know the terms before selling off their 35% stake in the club. Giving inaccurate information is of course far preferable to giving a short window to review watertight information.

Or perhaps given the events of the last few weeks there have been a number of moving plates that have prevented them from throwing out communications that don’t give the members an accurate picture?

To clarify, I don’t have an issue with fan power, and it should have an influence on how a club is run. Your examples are all relevant and to take things further, the club would have gone 25 years ago were it not for fan power, or renting Cappielow from a disinterested landlord were it not for the fans putting the foot down five years ago. What I do object to is the assertion that the board should be pandering to the whims of an over-grown man child who has thrown his toys out the pram and spending money that isn’t there to bin a manager with no regard for the financial consequences, as if this is a game of Football Manager.

Yes, they do. The club doesn’t have a pot to piss in and can barely keep the lights on. Nobody’s saying Murray’s doing a good job, but we just won’t find the thousands it would take to pay him off down the back of the sofa, never mind whatever else it takes to pay off his staff, especially with members’ contributions being cancelled when folk decide they’re not happy with MCT. You may disagree with the board’s stance, but “fan power” as you put it shouldn’t and won’t make them pay off a manager that they simply can’t afford to pay off. Since MCT came in, the club has never operated that way. It’s all well and good saying the consequences of not paying him off are more brutal- that’s not the case, we’re going down anyway. And having seen the pool of potential appointments when Murray got the job, I wouldn’t get too excited at who’d likely replace him. Your best hope is that Murray throws the towel in himself, but stamping your feet and demanding the club spends money sacking him only to bring in someone of a similar ilk is a pointless and costly exercise that will likely garner no real positive outcome.

Words fail me.

While I was on the board, the subject of asking people to raise their contributions was discussed- let’s be honest, £10 went a lot further in 2019 than it goes in 2026, but the reaction would, in my opinion have been one of outrage from many of the members that we would be going cap in hand to them when we couldn’t garner any sponsorship beyond Dalrada. One of the straws that broke the camel’s back for me was seeing someone on Twitter accusing us of “getting the begging bowl out” when Cappielow150 was launched, as if trying to raise money for infrastructure projects was actually a bad thing, while on the night I made my final decision to step down, two members withdrawing their subscriptions gave a clear indication to me that we were fighting a losing battle. For the TLDR version- I’d love to see the members look pragmatically at why MCT would want them to contribute more, but I don’t believe there is the appetite for it, and the mere suggestion would be met with disgust in some quarters.

I voted for Thomas, Brian and Andrew. I was never going to vote for John McMaster anyway, as I’ve been a critic in the past and he generally rubs me up the wrong way, but I’ve got my concerns that the three I haven’t voted for would seek to elect a particular individual onto the club board, either immediately or further down the line that I wouldn’t be able to support on principle. Should that be the case I couldn’t bring myself to being party to allowing this to happen and to allow said individual’s voice to represent me as an MCT member on the club board. Each to their own, however.

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow?

Do we know who the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow were?

Apologies to everyone for the delay in getting this month’s update out. As some will know, I’ve been away at the World Cup so have had a busy time of late. I’m hoping to have one out before the month’s end, but failing that I’ll have something out to you all by Friday at the very latest.