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True. Although the reporting has mentioned they're expecting a similar loss next year for this season so @thisGRAEME is just 12 months ahead of the curve. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68768050

Bailey Rice getting his arse handed to him is it? We cannot be stopped.

What is this witchcraft?

Someone else can explain in more detail but you need to have 38 games maximum or something like that to allow for European/International commitments which means you can't have another full round of fixtures as that would take it to 44. It's essentially why the split exists rather than all the "it adds excitement/meaningful games". It's purely functional.

"Far from ideal build up..."

Lads, honestly, I'm still giggling watching this.

Aye. Fwiw, I don't think we'd lose 5 either. We'd definitely draw a couple.

I'm kind of the opposite on this tbh. Like, don't get me wrong - all things being equal, if we have a good team I'd far rather be in the Top 6 than not and to be clear us getting Top 6 next week would be very, very funny but I think there's definitely an upside to being best of the bottom 6 in a season like this. Not least we've already seen the no wins in X games crowd getting bent out of shape this season and given Kettlewell is still getting grief even after we're winning games at the moment per @crazylegsjoe_mfc's excellent post earlier I can't see that us losing 5 on the spin in the Top 6 and getting leathered on someone's trophy day is going to do anything for vibes. Assuming we're safe early then landing the plane in 7th or 8th with the sort of post-split run we had last season would be absolutely fine for me.

I'm not exactly an Andy Halliday stan but aye, it's not even the injury he picked up with us - he'd hardly kicked a baw for Hearts this season when he signed. It feels quite daft for anyone to be making any sort of assessment of him given how little football he's played. Prior to signing with us in January he'd played 46 minutes. As it stands he's only played 458 mins total.

This is it for me as well. I think the noise around Kettlewell is very similar to the grief Robinson got: some folk have just decided they don't like him and that's that really. See when you hear stuff like "I hope he proves me wrong"...generally people don't actually like being proved wrong.

Wholesome.

Oh...

"A few" = 15 years.

Keyes and Nelms looking at an unplayable pitch after overseeing the managed decline of Dens.

In fairness, if things are as rumoured on our thread the level of investment we're looking at is much more modest largely because we're not actually looking to sell the club (despite the impression our chairman seems to have inadvertently created). In that respect I'd imagine your scenario with the Browns selling up has much more riding on it than ours.

In fairness there are a number of inconsistencies with that article. I mean, it's semantics but Barmack wasn't Vice President of Netflix as an entity as implied by the article. He was VP of different departments including Independent Content and International Content. If you look at their current leadership structure they have loads of "Vice Presidents" - https://about.netflix.com/en/leadership More factually we're not "partly" fan-owned. We're fully fan owned and have been for fucking ages. Also, that quote you've (fairly) picked up on was rumoured to have been the other bidders who comprised Australian/Middle-Eastern/US "investors" whose approach we seem to have binned. They were the mob who wanted to bring in their own CEO and what not. As it stands it's not actually that clear what's in it for Barmack in terms of ROI but the wording in the STV article is a bit of a mess: It's two separate approaches.

I enjoyed him taking shots at Dundee.

It's Ewan McVicar's da

I suppose for balance it's worth pointing out he was at Netflix when they did the Juventus series in 2018. He's quoted about it in the article below: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/juventus/news/netflix-set-to-launch-juventus-documentary-series-in-2018/1abhdnfbb4c3l1u4w3sv7ir5xm

There you go. $14.54B https://companiesmarketcap.com/netflix/total-debt/#:~:text=Total debt on the balance,current and non-current debts.

I doubt it. The Wrexham thing is just a pretty obvious link for clicks. See also the Record calling him a 'mogul' he was an employee of two admittedly very large companies (and very successful with it by all accounts). It's worth mentioning that Weir was quite open at the AGM in saying that the deal on offer wasn't 'transformational'. If you actually look at the content his production company puts out it's generally originals from non-US territories LatAm, Scandinavia, India. His focus seems to have been developing international content and placing them with streamers eg: Amazon, Netflix. The question remains as to what he'd actually be getting out of it but I very much doubt it has anything to do with a documentary. I mean, for a start he wouldn't need to purchase a stake in the club to do that - the folk that made Sunderland Til I Die weren't obligated to buy into that particular shitshow. They just made the series. I clocked your post on Steelmen just there but seeing as I don't post there I thought I'd chip in here. He was Senior Director at ESPN in Business Development for 6 years so there's your sports angle. Again, as @Handsome_Devil mentioned when the name first appeared on the thread, and this is possibly what you were getting at, there's no history of him having been involved in an actual sports team before. Which tbh, I take as a good thing - his background is almost entirely business development rather than seemingly wanting to own a football club. I don't know if you're being facetious about the contacts book thing but he wrote a book, published by Simon and Schuster in 2006 called Why Fantasy Football Matters: (And Our Lives Do Not). What's interesting about that is that it was co-written with Max Handelman - who is Max Handelman you might ask? As well as being a sports writer he's also Elizabeth Banks' husband and partner in Brownstone Productions who produced the Pitch Perfect series, the Charlie's Angels Kristen Stewart re-boot, Cocaine Bear and Bottoms amongst others. Long and the short of it their estimated net worth according to the internet is $50m. I mean, it's not them who are investing but taking things at face value Barmack seems to be an actual, real person rather than a Walter Mitty type of the Craig Whyte 'wealth off the radar' school. I guess one of the criticisms of the board/club over the past while is that it's been populated mainly by...erm, old men whose business experience is on the traditional side. I'll admit that I'd be quite curious to see what inserting someone who has held senior positions at companies such as ESPN and Netflix might bring to the club in terms of approach to infrastructure etc especially since his business is literally doing deals on an international platform. Again, you have to ask the question what he'd actually be getting out of it though. Probably aye.

The latest last resort (according to The Sun…f**k The Sun) is behind closed doors in Airdrie on Monday at 3pm.

It’s the Netflix guy that was mentioned on here ages ago and was the offer that seemed to be preferred at the AGM. I see Bret Easton Ellis is following him on IG (as is Dee, which is more pertinent to this thread I guess).

I'd be lying if I said I'd been keeping up to date with the pitch chat through the day but while I get that the inspection being held today seems a bit pointless I guess if it had failed earlier then there would have been a push to discuss alternate venues given forecasts and what not. I suppose it passing today and them working towards that means it's more likely just to be P-P on Saturday rather than relocated after it pishes down between now and kick off. (and also as @Ludo*1 says Dundee get to keep up appearances by showing everyone that they *really* tried)