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Good point....perhaps an option would be two levels of membership? Silver and gold...with the gold maybe £20 and with current benefits, while the silver would have slightly reduced?

To be fair...pretty much the whole of Dumbarton is underwater just now

I think its the government trying to force the hand of the football authorities to deal with issues like sectarianism....their preference is for clubs to accept strict liability....I get why the old firm don't want it...but surely it's a win win for everyone else?

This is assuming Aitken is saying the same things in the dressing room....he wouldn't be the first manager to privately say the complete opposite to his players

Except there are a fair amount of shout happy rabble rousers against the proposal.....to be fair most of the opposition on here is measured and thoughtful Personally, I take very little interest in the comings and goings of the board of directors....they generally seem very remote from our club....or indeed most businesses, but I would guess the current lot did take us out of Rankine's sticky mits? I fully accept that from a supporters point of view, there appears no real need to relocate, and indeed staying in the east end of town, it will actually be inconvenient for me personally One of the questions I will be interested in hearing an answer to though, is who will get the income from the new training pitches. I would guess if the club , rather than Brabco, were to be able to invest the profits in the team, this is surely beneficial All I really want is for the proposals to get fair and genuine scrutiny , rather than the current daily record response from some

I'm not quite sure what relevance a former director being disqualified from being a director has on the new stadium proposals I have an open mind on the plans.....they look good.....no major surprise there, and I do have questions needing answered regarding financial implications for the team, not temporary ground sharing etc It does seem to me however that a lot of people have already decided that this is bad and just want to heckle the board members If the answers are not forthcoming, then fair enough, but let's at least hear what they have to say It would be interesting to know if the main opponents were also against moving from Boghead

That implies he is no longer championship level....IMHO he will not be the solution to our striking issues

They do this at St Mirren

I'm still not sure how he concludes that the club is dying though

really???? we are sitting 8th in the toughest championship we've been in....we are competitive in most of the games....we are not getting pumped every week which tends to happen to relegation fodder, and our owners are looking at getting us a brand new shiny stadium....this doesn't sound to me like a club that's dying is the football crap a lot of the time? yes it is...that is quite clear, but all the talk of Aitken being naïve is probably naïve in itself....Aitken has clearly been given the task of keeping us up....I would suspect he's reviewed his options, and concluded being hard to beat (and only 2 games where we have lost by more than a single goal would agree with this) is more important than playing attractive football, but ultimately getting beaten by better teams

By this logic though St Mirren will only have 12 ppints and Dunfermline 27

I noticed him applauding them when he took a corner in front of them. I assume they had applauded him first

To be fair......rovers first two goals were both horrendous deflections, while the third was an unstoppable hit Seems to me this is when the fans should be getting behind the team, not trying to get rid of the manager. This season IMHO was always going to be the toughest of the 5 in the championship due to us now clearly being the minnows. We are easily the favourites to go straight down Both Saturdays game and the dunfermline game shows the team are playing for each other and the manager, and are still fighting even when the cause looks lost So come on guys...let's fill the next bus

Scottish transfer window shuts at midnight

is he any good? I know the name, but cant recall him from games against you

Both full time. We're only team in this league that is totally part time. Ayr have a mix of some full time and some part time All premiership teams are full time

When we saw players playing with passion till the 94th minute, I would have to disagree with those who say the dressing room has been lost

That happens in all work places and will have been that way every season. I'm sure Nade was earning more than most last year

quick google search reveals he is a LB and has also played for Scotland at U19 level

cheers for all your hard work DR - the pitch was looking as good as I remember last night are you off somewhere else now? any particular reason why you're leaving?

Sorry. But that is just nonsense. We are living within our means. By all accounts we overspent last season. The books have to be balanced, so therefore wage bill has to be reduced As for Stevie's article..... Fairly standard response.....I wouldn't expect him to say anything else.....its about him managing expectations..... If we get relegated (and odds are will will be fighting it all season), then he can respond by saying "what did you expect?..... If we stay up, then his reputation is enhanced

A little surprising we're not going for Tatar. By all accounts he sounded like a quality player? Is that injury he picked up serious or were his wage demands too high?

I suspect the actual numbers probably would be closer to 100 too, but would be interesting to know if the trust have considered this as an option

I wonder if the club or trust have thought about getting fans to sponsor a players wages? See if we could get say 300 supporters to pledge £1.50 per week, that money should be able to bring in someone decent

Is it him? Any good?