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I think realistically Ayr, QP and Dunfermline are fine. They’ll be able to pick enough points up between now and end of season to be safe. So it’s between us, Raith, Ross County and Airdrie for the bottom two. I’d imagine by the end of the month we’ll likely be in the bottom two before having a favourable end to the season where we can hopefully go on a little run. Albeit I’d probably fancy us in a two legged playoff against any team in League 1 (regardless of the Stenhousemuir result in January).

Fully agree with D1874 above. I'd add that it's hugely pleasing to see the mercenary George Oakley having jumped ship for a well-funded wannabe title contender, only to realise that his new custodians are actually shite.

There's 10 points between 4th and 10th. Any talk of certainty for any of these teams is premature. We only have 2 fixtures left against teams who can play a bit of football, followed by the last 5 against similarly mediocre sides. I'm hoping Brophy and Main can do something to justify their wages in April to keep us out of serious bother.

That's now 4 wins in 6 for them and they're 4 points ahead of us, they're the form team in the league and it'll need a collapse for them to end up in the bottom two from here. Despite having played one fewer game and being on the same points though, Ayr getting reeled into the relegation battle isn't out of the question. Only 1 win in 8 for them, we can't lose down there next week.

Finished 2-1 QP. I fucking despise that horrible excuse for a football club.

Queen's Park 1-0 up at Ayr.

As provincial football fans we tend to be optimists even if most seasons are an ordeal. Voting yes is an act of faith. In our current circumstances, it is a struggle to identify an alternative suitor to take us forward. I look at the teams in the Scottish Cup semifinals and think why not us. With Dalrada heading for the exit, I just hope Estrella are the people to help us move on.

I voted yes on both and so did everyone I spoke to. Tbh we haven't had a lot of close votes in MCT, they've pretty much been all or nothing.

Glad they've both went through. Didn't expect it to happen with such a high percentage right enough.

Votes passed by 95% and 93% or so, so now the due diligence and exclusivity can begin.

The question as I recall was 2-fold, more along the lines of “is it true that Xander stepped down after months of protests against him, and has MCT reached out to Zwolle or fan groups for more details on this?” There was an awkward silence in the room & Xander said something like “Emm was that a question for me?”, then the MCT reps advised that the answer to their part of the question was “no”, before moving on. So from my perspective he did not answer it at all. Maybe a more specific question aimed at him would be useful along the lines of “how do you reflect on events that led to the fan protests prior to your departure?” Or something like that. If the answer is that they had to make a business decision and unfortunately upset a lot of fans as Bram van Polen was a club legend, and looking back could maybe have done a better job on how the situation was managed & communicated to Bram & the fans or something like that, then I would be absolutely fine with it (I don’t want to put words in the guys mouth and have just made this up as an example) Ultimately I would just like to see some acknowledgement of it from Xander and get his side of it, as without this it’s a bit of an elephant in the room. Seeing photos of Zwolle fans brandishing banners calling for Xander to leave could understandably make some people wary of him so better to address it. There’s every possibility that it was a tiny minority of vocal fans and that most of them were fine with him - I have no idea (which is why I would quite like more information on the matter)

I actually thought Zander answered the point well, as I remember was the online question wording not asking if the MCT board had looked into the circumstances of his departure from Zwolle and he rightly answered that the question wasn't for him to answer, one for the board and not sure i heard a response from there. i was online tho and did miss bits of conversations that didn't come through clearly ....

The whole point of an exclusivity is to find the red flags (if any). To kill that off before entering a period of exclusivity, which i presume to be non-binding, would be foolish. I hope it plays out that way and those at the helm get the chance to interrogate this properly.

Yeah that’s pretty much in line with my own findings & how I see the situation, but I would still like to hear how Xander reflects on it as it felt like the question was dodged (or maybe he didn’t understand it) at the Q&A. Ultimately a CEO has to make tough decisions & not every one of them is going to satisfy fans. It’s hard to argue with results on & off the field during his time at the club.

From what I gather it was due to supporters being dissatisfied with his handling of communicating with the club/fans & for treating a club legend poorly, There is also a mention of a conflict but I am struggling to find any concrete stuff about this but given the timing & his cv/timeline this could well be the start of his involvement with the investment group. I don't think should read too much into this as it is a different role/circumstances his involvement with Zwolle & with ourselves, Yes he has been put forward as a front man for the proposal & I do have a feeling he may well be EFG man on the board & if that is the case then there is a cause for caution with him. I am prepared to give the benefit of the doubt as I thought he came across well at the meeting.

I believe the vote was due to close last night so hopefully we will see an announcement of the results at some point today. I have heard enough at this stage to vote yes/yes, but before going all in on this, I would like the following details to come out during the exclusivity period (assuming we proceed) 1. the reasons behind & timing of Czaikowskis departure from Zwolle 2. assurances around what happens in the event of Estrella defaulting on their financial commitment to the club (eg shares being transferred back to mct) 3. confirmation that there aren’t any tax issues arising from a sale of shares 4. exact details of how & to what extent EFG can exercise veto rights over financial decisions (eg setting first team budget) if those points are answered I would be happy to see us go forward with the deal

St Johnstone number 3 is a strange player. Looked uncomfortable on the ball in the first half yet nobody put pressure on him. For st Johnstone corner he was pulling moffat and pushing him when moffat moved away he followed him. Then he picked the ball up and went on an unchallenged adventure into our half that led to the 2nd goal. Overall we again played well in spells the foul that led to their first was stupid foul to give and agree that keeper should be doing better. Other than a few flashes and runs at defenders gsrrity was pretty anonymous today.

For Taylor and/or Crawford not to come on after the first goal today was very disappointing. If there's some inherent issue why they aren't playing then it should be communicated, but asking a tired Moffat to play up front with Garrity still somehow playing out wide made the outcome a foregone conclusion. We had relatively few resources available today but decisions in the final 15 minutes made it worse.

Worried at the top end of the pitch going into this run in. Long balls and crosses into the box to absolutely nobody who can do anything with it anyway. How we haven’t went and got someone in on an emergency loan up front was surprising, knowing Main is out for ?3 games and Brophy is injured. The timing of substitutions is definitely an issue, but there’s an argument who’s there to come on and improve things. For me, Taylor and Crawford definitely should be involved. Centre halves done well, Wilson, and Gillespie in spells.

Why has there been absolutely no mention of Storer by the club, just completely vanished back down the road and nothing said.

The keeper leaves a yard too many to his left for the first goal. From the Sinclair Street end, it was almost goading McAlear into trying a shot. The keeper wasn't up to the challenge set. Other than that he had a good game, and given the circumstances of finding another player we've done well. The league position will look worse before it gets better, but that's purely a function of our ludicrously distorted fixture list. March (final quarter) has us playing the top two at home then Ayr/Arbroath, as the teams beneath us will inevitably have more winnable matches. Queen's Park capitalising on their Airdrie at home chance today is a case in point, but they don't get that fixture back in April when needed.

The absolute double standards on display here in assessing Shaw and Garrity's performances is risible. Half the crosses from Garrity were shanked out of play FFS, yet for some curious reason the latest dauphin of GMFC's internal talent factory earns a free pass. Both were equally piss poor today.

I don’t know if it’s quite in the “expected to save” category but I do think Storer saves the first goal. Thought everyone put in a decent shift til they ran out of steam, except Shaw. Made some decent chances that we really need to be taking if we’ve any hope of lifting ourselves out of this mess. I don’t think we’re as bad as the teams that are currently below us so I won’t panic yet, but we need to start finding ways to get points on the board quickly.

Would be better giving a youth player a game than Shaw. Garrity naturally drifted out wide but had to a lot of the times and probably put in more crosses from there than out actual left winger.

Johnston is such a downgrade on Storer. Thought he could have done much better for the 1st and his kicking is terrible. Today wasn’t really the issue. The two previous defeats were. Taking 0/6 has got us in proper bother when we were starting to look up. I really hope we can scrape 3 more wins which I think will probably do it and end the season, get rid of half of the shite and start again.