2024/25 Squad and Transfers

[irnbru]

12 hours ago, Hands of Cowan said:

I thought the point of signing players was to increase uptake of ST's. That's that fucked, well done all concerned.

Aye, that's the point of signing players

[Deego]

5 hours ago, irnbru said:

Aye, that's the point of signing players

 

[Tubes]

On 8/2/2024 at 5:37 PM, Tubes said:

He was truly awful last time and looked completely disinterested and devoid of any confidence. Where does he fit in? As an alternative to Lyall? Worrying.

Nice to see Ali shutting this prick up today with a good performance

[TONofmemories]

Sam Murdoch goes on loan to Port Juniors

[dunning1874]

Good with that, it's a low level but with goalkeepers the important thing is getting games. He's better starting games in the 9th tier than sitting on the bench in the 5th or 6th and especially while he's still so young there's no need to worry about getting to a higher level.

[Tink]

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this, but it is a depressing stat for a club who claimed (in Sam Robinson’s YouTube update) that our financial viability depended on developing and selling young players. You can’t sell unless you put them in the shop window, and the manager won’t do that unless the youngsters are good enough. We are miles away from that target.

[Rossco1874]

1 hour ago, Tink said:

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this, but it is a depressing stat for a club who claimed (in Sam Robinson’s YouTube update) that our financial viability depended on developing and selling young players. You can’t sell unless you put them in the shop window, and the manager won’t do that unless the youngsters are good enough. We are miles away from that target.

What season is this from ? Last season?

 

Our current squad has O'Boy, King, Corr & Lyall all under 21 

Last season we had o'boy, king (who was out on loan)  & harkness (injured)  under 21 with Murdoch on the bench a few times.

[Tink]

I think it’s based on last season. O’Boy hardly played, then went out on loan and hardly played for his loan club. Murdoch never played (not surprising given the form of our keeper). King played sparingly before going on loan, so I’m guessing the 66 minutes is largely him before going on loan.

[TRVMP]

I think trying to make a club sustainable off transfer fees is a bad idea anyway, and I would be concerned if it was a serious part of the business plan. No Scottish club has been able to make a go of it for more than a few years at a time. Back when the Raes were in charge there was a 'dodgy dossier' of how Falkirk and Accies were rolling in it; even if we, without the benefit of an elite academy, were somehow going to replicate that, it was far from clear that it would actually many any of the three clubs sustainable, rather than the cost center eating its own lunch and our just spending money on players when we had any (like Falkirk and Accies did.)

My belief is that the only way to run a club sustainably is through year-round, non-footballing revenue, which is to say that I don't think you can run a club sustainably, because if it was sustainable the revenue would be sporting, rather than subsidized by completely unrelated stuff like offices.

Whether or not we play youth players is completely immaterial to me, but I do accept that if the club really does have designs of being a selling club of young players, the current trajectory is not encouraging. I would, if I were them, take that opportunity to recognize that we can be reasonably successful on the pitch and make decent prize money without young players, and given that prize money exists every year, that is perhaps a more reasonable path to sustainability than gambling on transfer fees that so far have not materialized for us.

[vikingTON]

To add to the above, if you were starting from scratch and deciding where to set up a youth product 'conveyor belt' to phuree money your club to success, GMFC would be in the bottom 10 of the current SPFL:

• A firmly geographically constrained* realistic catchment area

• Which is also in inexorable demographic decline, so any talent pool is shrinking 

• Which is also half an hour's drive from the largest city in the country

• Which has at least four clubs sniffing around said catchment area as a matter of course, in addition to the likes of Aberdeen etc. 

All of which is underpinned by the SFA's funding which now gives 'elite' setups a huge and perpetual advantage in covering running costs, attracting coaches and therefore ambitious young players. 

We cannot afford to let rose-tinted, nostalgic sentimentality obscure that reality. A youth-development based model is one that will in the long run doom GMFC to be also-rans in the third tier. 

 

 

 

* i.e. Where people actually live and aren't playing shinty. 

[LargsTON]

I may have missed it but where is Nathan Shaw btw?  Also Broadfoot appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

[Scott]

2 hours ago, LargsTON said:

I may have missed it but where is Nathan Shaw btw?  Also Broadfoot appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

They were both at the game yesterday. Would be nice to hear what’s happening with Shaw, as there’s been zero mention of him for weeks. 

[dazza]

The pre and post match interviews are getting a bit tiresome imo. Same questions all time. Dougie says something and then Gareth asks him a question which is a rehash of what Dougie has just said. I know he's a member of staff and can't be expected to press the manager. But we are entitled to know what's happening with people like Shaw. Especially when we've been told we won't be signing injured players and then proceed to sign Shaw and Corr who were clearly injured with what appears to be significant injuries.

[RossMcC1874]

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/scottish-championship/vertragslosespieler/wettbewerb/SC2

Just having a look at this didn't realise there is still some half decent players available.

A striker is obviously the target personally and some cover at full back maybe even another midfielder if we lose Wilson to an injury I think the midfield would fall apart he holds it all together. 

 

[Ferguson]

4 hours ago, dazza said:

The pre and post match interviews are getting a bit tiresome imo. Same questions all time. Dougie says something and then Gareth asks him a question which is a rehash of what Dougie has just said.

I’ve thought this for a while. Don’t like to be critical as the social media output has drastically improved since the lad Gareth came in, but the interviews are really poor. He makes generic statements to Dougie followed by “wasn’t it?” and there’s rarely anything insightful in them. Possible that Dougie just wants to keep these things under wraps, but would be nice to have a bit of clarity with Shaw specifically. 

[Mr.Blue]

7 hours ago, RossMcC1874 said:

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/scottish-championship/vertragslosespieler/wettbewerb/SC2

Just having a look at this didn't realise there is still some half decent players available.

A striker is obviously the target personally and some cover at full back maybe even another midfielder if we lose Wilson to an injury I think the midfield would fall apart he holds it all together. 

 

Kerr Mcinroy, Tomi Adeloye and Gabby McGill are players I wouldn't say no to.

[LargsTON]

2 hours ago, Mr.Blue said:

Kerr Mcinroy, Tomi Adeloye and Gabby McGill are players I wouldn't say no to.

Slag.

[Mr.Blue]

11 hours ago, LargsTON said:

Slag.

I'll add you to the list.

[Boogs49]

I see Nathan Shaw is pictured with Jordan Davies in promoting Morton's latest partnership with Pyper's Superstore. I'm guessing then he's at least back training and hopefully we see him on the bench in the next week or two.

Dylan Corr tweeted yesterday that he's had a successful operation on his shoulder and that he'll be 'Back kicking a ball soon'. I'm no medical expert but would think it will be around mid December before he's ready for first team action.

 

[Tubes]

3 hours ago, Boogs49 said:

Dylan Corr tweeted yesterday that he's had a successful operation on his shoulder and that he'll be 'Back kicking a ball soon'. I'm no medical expert but would think it will be around mid December before he's ready for first team action.

 

Usually in a sling for minimum 6 weeks and then a gradual build up to return to sport. Surgery has a really high success rate though and he’s a young lad so definitely “could” be back within 12 weeks if all goes well. Keeping fingers crossed his rehab goes well, it can be a tricky process once they start integrating contact. Looking forward to him getting a run in the team.