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  1. I could swear blind that Duffy added Stefan McCluskey to his usual coterie of ringers this summer - apparently he's inexplicably* ended up at Kelty instead. * only explicable in a coaching/doing the kit man job capacity - at League 1 level.
  2. He's a central midfielder in a squad that has got about 17 of them now. There's no actual evidence to support the roles you're shunting him into, Jim McInally style. And presumably the club wouldn't be letting King go out on loan of Crawford is injured for an extended period of time. That's information that they have at their disposal.
  3. He could certainly get competitive game time at a higher standard than an absolute nick of an outfit like Clyde. Presumably their clear effort to run as our tribute act (McLean, McCluskey, Millar - Duffy until a few weeks ago) explains the choice. I'd rather we used our Annan link even if they're well up against it in League One this season.
  4. The first one was attributed to something called 'Regan Mimnaugh' AFAIK
  5. What is the added value of this 'productive relationship', if the club can just produce content* and the paper will print it anyway because it has literally nothing else of value to fill its garbage publication? It therefore doesn't matter whether the club has a friendly relationship with the Tele in terms of engaging with the community through a single, crap local media source. Any key information will be published regardless. Which takes us to an issue that your point of view has to address: what behaviour would sanction a break in cooperation with the newspaper? Are the Tele allowed to publish anything it wants about the club in perpetuity, on the grounds that they're Valued Local Media? As owners of the football club, I see no reason why we should welcome a rag that is undermining the precarious foundations of successful fan ownership model through false reporting. That very real cost has to be recognised alongside this increasingly intangible sum for how the Tele relationship benefits the club. And even if they only balance each other out, there's still value in punitive action. * not that there's too much of that to reproduce so far this season
  6. What content would they be using to maintain their current level of coverage? They would have their own vacuous thoughts and fan letters. It's notable that your argument has now warped so much that it's flipped completely on its head. First you were hand-wringing that the Tele needs to be kept on board for the club to engage with its vast and important readership; now you're saying that GMFC denying access would not substantially change the level of coverage. It can't be both things at once. But if we were to take your new argument at face value, then the principal losers from a removal of privileged club content would only be the very journalists and editorial team who have damagingly misrepresented the club for their own interests. Making them Scrabble around to fill their pages is itself an appropriate punishment.
  7. Well no, because Morton content produced by interviews with players and management is their entire halfway credible pack section of the newspaper, Saturday and Tuesday-Friday. Other than expanding the Gisbey Gazette, that's 4 editions out of 6 for which there can be no content (based on existing types) without voluntary engagement by the club. They should get absolutely none and be forced to pretend that 'the joon-yurs', cricket and other such utter nonsense are legitimate items of interest. There'd be only one loser in that contest and it wouldn't be GMFC.
  8. Would the Tele change its editorial line if it found itself shut out of any content it couldn't generate on its own? Quite possibly. In any case, the only organisation burning bridges is the one peddling utter shite in its rag. The demographics of Tele buyers makes their circulation figures completely redundant. Senga (74) from Braeside is not the marginal customer at Cappielow. The football fans of Inverclyde are not waiting every day for the Tele as their sole source of information because it's not 1997.
  9. They don't write the headlines but the content of the articles this week - on Imrie's interview and the club statement - is misleading too. Even if there's an editorial line to spin hysterical nonsense then that's something that a journalist has to own and take their share of responsibility for.
  10. We really aren't reliant on the Tele to do that. The club has social media, it has a website, it also has MCT and it has community work as well. The Tele's back-up plan involves running wall-to-wall coverage of 4th tier Junior jobbers or full page epistles from Gisbey. They need the club more than the club needs them. I understand your points but I can't agree with them at all. If this week's parade of fabricated shite isn't enough to take action, then what exactly is? Does the Tele get free rein to publish whatever it wants regardless of the facts or the negative consequences for a club that we own?
  11. The BBC is a public funded broadcaster with a global following; the Tele is merely one irrelevant unit of a crap media conglomerate across the UK, that publishes court cases and funeral announcements. The power balance is different. The Tele's editorial line (not necessarily the writers themselves - but they ultimately carry the can too) has been consistent in exchanging facts for sensationalism, including the misuse of the manager's interviews and club statements. So what is the point in the club investing its limited time and energy on a patronising 'reaching out' exercise? The pattern of behaviour has already been set - the only response that the Tele can listen to is to have their access to the club curtailed. Tit for tat is exactly how you should respond to any repeated abuse of trust.
  12. The Tele have had more than enough chances to act like an honest broker - this is only the most recent of several such fake news stories this year alone. Until the club responds with punitive action then it'll only continue to get taken for mugs.
  13. The Tele should be shown the door for its fake news agenda and its reporters forced to try and fill their rag with news of 'thu joonyurs' massive clashes with 'Ardeer' and 'Finnart'. Enough is enough.
  14. The update is fully informative and professional in nature. On the other hand, we need to be moving on from this radio silence, then enormous, one-off update as soon as enough folk complain dynamic. More regular and reliable communication would have defused at least some of this in advance. If we're putting some of the money into a fund then that could have been stated shortly after the Rangers game was played: we don't need the exact revenue figure to signal that intent. It's possible that a board meeting was required first, but that only underlines the need for a serious GM to have responsibility for keeping things ticking over.
  15. Imrie was discussing adding one or two players about a fortnight ago. Since then, literally nothing has changed. This is just the standard way of folk turning their understandable frustration about not getting players added (although what credible targets exactly? People have already been halfway clamouring for a return of Doyle FFS) into the usual, back of an Inverclyde Taxi nonsense about there being No Money At All. If that were the case, we'd very much know about it given Imrie's media strategy just six weeks ago in that situation.
  16. Boycotting any sham 'democratic choice' that doesn't have Parma hoops winning with 107% of eligible ballots.
  17. Here we are in late August again with an incomplete squad and hoping that a couple of deals - and better luck with injuries - will allow us to be competitive in the right half of the division. Going forward, the issue that MCT as owners of the club has to address is whether this is genuinely sustainable. Despite the best efforts of the Scottish football authorities, we can't actually bank on an Old Firm cup tie every season. Getting out of the League Cup group itself is probably about a 1 in 3/40% shot each season. So what was the plan for this season if we didn't have any extra cup revenue - and how do we avoid being in that position in 12 months' time? One possible answer might be greater use of youth players as there seems to be a gap between the underage squads and the first team - perhaps next season will be appropriate to bring some of them into the matchday squad. Part of the answer could involve increasing matchday revenue - though there was little progress in terms of development of the fanzone project (on the surface at least) yesterday. But addressing this needs to be a pressing task as I cannot see the current first team model working for long without it going spectacularly wrong.
  18. Money explains his signing for Johnstone Burgh now (as well as his last few clubs). A completely overrated 'prospect' in his spell with us regardless and I'm not surprised to see his career wash up in failure.
  19. I don't think he got roasted at all by 'away game at Old Firm' standards. He got booked and didn't win every one on one (who did?) but the number of serious opportunities down our right hand side was limited given the amount of pressure they put on that side of the park. The biggest blow to us today was when they took that ringer 'Sterling' off the park as he was securing our left hand side and gifting us possession every two minutes.
  20. Blues had a tough task today and had players doubling up on his side after the yellow card. He still did fine, especially whenever they tried to switch play. To get through that game on a booking for an hour is worthy of credit. While I'd very much like a natural right back I'm not buying that we'll get found out at Championship level if we can't get one. Blues was our best player playing RB at Ross County in the group. O'Connor has also played well there. If it's a choice between a 'natural' right back like, say, Michael Doyle, or waiting to land a genuine prize like Sir Richard (or any similar quality elsewhere - like Grimshaw last season) later this year then we absolutely should not spend our resources on a second rate option to fill that position. We need a quality and ideally versatile player to improve the squad more than a specialist in any position now.
  21. To update our semi-regular feature of 'Poland: the true laughing stock, diddy league of Europe', Lech Poznan slumped to a second leg defeat and exit in the Conference League to Spartak Trnava from Slovakia last night. A mere 8x smaller neighbour, dishing out a swording to the Poland's top-ranked UEFA crack entrants. Meanwhile a glorified bus stop (stadium capacity: 5,500) is busy representing the country as its league champion from last season, as Poland (40 million+ population) continues to defy all iron laws of demographic and economic scale in professional football.
  22. The incentive to the player is patently obvious - not being held to ransom by a club owner if a desirable offer in terms of club and pay is on the table.
  23. What proportion of Man United fans, or Juventus fans or indeed 'Rangers' or Celtic fans regularly view their matches live and in person? If it will always be a live spectator event, then why are Inter Miami highlights from a tinpot league suddenly swamping media feeds when next to nobody is actually going to travel to Miami to watch a game? The football = live spectator event model is nowhere near as secure now as you claim. There is no reason to assume that it will survive further undermining of that idea without undergoing a complete collapse in the lower levels at least. As for your sustaining revenue by streaming argument - there's no credible model for doing so. GMFC or any other Championship club have a fairly inelastic group of customers - there are not hundreds of millions of people in SE Asia wearing Robbie Crawford jerseys on Saturday nights (although they really should). So if the revenue generated by customer drops by half or even more - bearing in mind that the current market price for streaming a game is zero - then you need double the customer base to avoid losing money overall. It's as unworkable a model as when Albion Rovers or other have tried chucking open the gates for spectators to donate their entrance money - the numbers simply do not add up. It's quite possible that the numbers won't add up in the near future in any case - but a football club would be beyond stupid to directly facilitate that outcome.
  24. The music industry has adapted by pivoting to an emphasis on the 'live event experience', which is why artists are constantly touring now at ever-higher prices. Although the increasing number of festivals folding due to poor ticket sales this summer suggests even that strategy is reaching its limits. People often look sideways at the comparison with cinema or live music but that is precisely the sector that Scottish football is located within. You pay high (sometimes extortionate) entry costs, you are expected to buy crap refreshments within the venue at an enormous markup, everybody involved takes a marginal cut of your cash and then you go home satisfied or not. Those industries might well be fighting a doomed, rearguard action against the hugely disruptive alternative, but they're not actively facilitating their own downfall on the spurious grounds of 'revenue' or widening access.
  25. ^^^ verge of tears The Rafa Benitez approved facts that the club was literally at death's door merely 18 months ago; couldn't put a serious squad together this season until it progressed and drew a fortunately lucrative 2nd round cup draw; and still probably won't have more than 4 subs on the bench for the game tomorrow are for some reason more impressive to me than your Benelux-sized sense of entitlement. Scotland is in the grip of an enormous crisis of falling disposable income and massive price inflation across the board. Football fans are being priced out of attending games as a result of clubs' response to their own rising costs. We'll see the reality of that tomorrow and every other week this season. Facilitating the total undercutting of the primary source of income for a football club in this environment is the height of business folly. And as a fan-owned club with no daft sweetie merchant backer any more, GMFC are indeed the canary in the coalmine. When the club can no longer sustain a credible first team squad, I'm sure we'll all be grateful to the overseas subs for allowing us to still afford utter dung like Stefan Milojevic mk. II in the seaside leagues again.
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