Jamie_M

Yeah, fancy title of Media Officer aside, that's not a Press and PR person, that's a conduct shite interviews and post what you are told person. The board should definitely be reining in what is said though.

You were called out for advocating that fans should vote with their feet and basically reduce our income further during a financial crisis. What comms team?

Hopefully Aaron Greenock sticks the heid on him for this one: “Thank God we don’t have a game on Saturday. Of the 13 players we had at training, Jayden and Grant could only do part, and one was Aaron Greenock,” Murray explained.

We have a window of 2 weeks without a game. What the fuck is he playing at even talking about games let alone forfeiting them.

Regardless of bank balance, loads of people are pro bono around Christmas. "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you."

Correct. Imrie fell out with the club several summers. Because, just like Murray, he always also had budget constraints, shifting goalposts on budgets and chaos behind the scenes. Even last summer with the much stated bigger budget it wasn't as simple as that. He started the summer with no budget, losing players because he couldn't offer deals at all. Then when the Dalrada thing was agreed he got a vastly reduced budget. Then finally later in the summer it was increased. Regardless though, the 'terrible start' you refer to - whilst wins were hard to come by we were still competitive, hard to beat and picking up points not surrendering before we even started. I don't think the criticism of Murray is unfair. He almost sank us to relegation last season by being the worst of anyone that stepped into the dugout, saved by a rush of blood by Lewis Strapp and games running out. With no credit in the bank, he needs to be showing something, anything. Not this 'there's nothing i can do' act. We're in turmoil right now, but were very nearly in real crisis had we added relegation on top.

The pre-season criticism goes beyond the fact we only played 1 game. While every club in the land came back and were doing tried and tested fitness programmes and drills, we were boasting about sacking that off, getting the ball out and having a kickabout. In terms of games - obviously we had 1 more scheduled and cancelled it but lack of players did not have to be a barrier. Imrie started pre-season a few times with similar low numbers. But competency invites in a busload of ringer trialists to make up the numbers for both sessions and matches to ensure our signed players and likely signings got proper preparation for the season. If he was worried about public perception of performances and results, they could have been done behind closed doors as bounce games to limit that. Giving a free pass because we didn't have many signed players while the team look woefully unprepared and are dropping like flies as a result - again, not buying it.

Nah, not buying that.

Both options are not mutually exclusive. Gardening leave as the cheaper up front cashflow option often converts into negotiated settlement if/when they find a new gig and the negotiations under those circumstances could be essier.

Greenock on. Signed 4 days ago.

Eli. Ee Lie.

Confirmed.