O'Kelly Isley III

Yep, and Hoyle attempting to justify it on the basis that many other MP's sought to intervene in the debate. That weak argument quickly falls apart on the fact that as far as we know none of these other MP's had been targeted as Diane Abbott has. In the context of the PMQ session she should have been allowed to contribute. Hoyle has become a liability as Speaker.

That's all very fair comment. As another Trust Board member I'm in the same situation as BSF and I can tell you that at times these meetings with the DFC Board can be hard going. There are several fundamental issues in play and communication is certainly one of them.

I think everyone needs to calm down before posting - some of this stuff is wild.

Archie McPherson was hilarious up there on windy days - his pretentious patter undone by his hair blowing across Haymarket station.

And that would be what direction ?

Well it does in your case as the present day Queens is a different club from the one that preceded Lord Haugh Haugh's money. I've often wondered what attracted him. For many of the rest of us our past is about all we've got.

It is indeed way worse on a couple of metrics, and whatever anyone thinks of the team management the injuries to Long, Young and Durnan have been hammer blows. There is also the waygoing of McLean, Shiels and Wallace to consider. But shit happens and you need to respond, but in truth the with the exception of Newbury, the loanees and recent signings have fallen short of the mark. As in truth have a couple of the close-season additions, eg Malcolm and Hilton. We're now a long way from a settled, reliable team and there is an over-reliance on certain players. The other deterioration is the pitch. Last season we had several postponements due to frost and lying water, and whilst we haven't lost a fixture this time the surface has become a muddy nightmare. It must be really dispiriting for Sons players knowing that for a couple of months of the season every home game is played on a midden. We must be truly desperate for Broomhill's money

Colour me shocked.

It's good that a minnow has made it through.

What's the chances of an Old Firm semi-final ?

Give us a goal Morton.

Yep, and we are watching on very nervously.

Indeed, but I don't think he's fully through his initiation process yet.

I think you'll find that other than attention seeking bams there isn't a great hatred for Clyde - I certainly don't hate them but that's maybe because I'm old enough to remember the very good team of the 1960's which finished third in the First Division in 1967. Add in the two Scottish Cup wins in three years in the decade before and without disrespect to any of the teams which have already dropped, the loss of Clyde FC to the senior league would be on a whole different level. I wish the Bully Wee good luck in avoiding tenth place.

Moonster is correct, there are three active Directors at DFC although Paul McPherson's role and duties remain unknown. Which leaves two actually running the show. Some of us have developed a part-time hobby in recent years trying to keep up with the blizzard of comings and goings on Companies House involving DFC, Cognitive Capital, MoreHomes DFC and MoreRooms (RIP). That should perhaps tell even the most starry-eyed optimists something.

As a former contributor to TAG I thank you and award a greenie.

I would say two of the three person Board.

I'd encourage everyone who can to attend the Trust AGM on April 22nd, noting that non-Trust supporters can attend on provision of joining on the night. There is a plan in early progress and it would be the intention to discuss it in open session on that occasion. I'm not going to attempt to cover it here.

The DFC Board, such as it is, has adopted a policy of trying to manage the ownership situation as opposed to confronting it, especially in the matter of securities which were established at the time of the Cognitive Capital purchase of the club's majority shareholding in April 2021. Knowledge and understanding of these securities is vital, because if Cognitive through their created entity MoreHomes DFC fail to gain planning consent to build houses on the Rock site, then the securities could financially detonate under DFC. Simply put, the situation is worryingly very murky and although the Trust has pressed for clarity none has been forthcoming. And in fairness to the previous Board, such was their frustration at the lack of transparency that the then Chairman, Company Secretary and two Associate Directors resigned their posts. That was a highly significant act. The current club ownership is like a wheel hub, and every other activity, including the football aspects, rotates around it. And of course one party stands to benefit from any decline in the club's fortunes and finances, yet worryingly there are still those who believe that Cognitive can be a force for the good of DFC. I don't know about heartbreaking but it's certainly extremely worrying.

Aye, but for 50% of games he's playing on a pitch of raw mince with pakora stirred through it.

I've given you a greenie Jan as that would have cost you about 800 quid in the obituaries column in the Lennox.

GIRFUY Ireland you smug gits.

I don't think any of the players we've had under Stevie Farrell are or have been bottlers but there has developed a very unfortunate pattern in that no matter the line-ups, the tactics have been so repeatedly one-dimensional, ie one man up front, and the substitutions so randomly baffling that the outcomes become the same on a repeat basis. That's either down to the players themselves or the team management, and when we consider the balance of the squads, or rather the lack of it, IMO it's definitely the latter. Faz's managerial record at both Stranraer and Dumbarton is not brilliant, and it would be a bold person who would expect anything much to change during the remainder of his contract here. As such the club needs bold leadership in the Boardroom right now, but I fear that's exactly where you might have a bottle problem.

Painting that garden fence was definitely the correct decision. Twenty quid saved and a case of Peroni to come from LWL

It's easy to label your post as cynical, but as the writer Ambrose Bierce once observed, a cynic sees things as they are and not how they should be, and I think you are bang on the money. There is a strong feeling of drift and decline about this club, and that's primarily because the controlling interest is concerned with speculative housing development and not football. And the local Board seem unable or unwilling to challenge that. As regards an artificial pitch, Clydebank are already there, the Vale Juniors are embarked on a sizeable project, and there is flux over East End Park which will have it's own fall-out regarding pitch provision. And all of these examples are or have been driven by autonomous local input. DFC can certainly advertise their intentions on a pitch but based on the current evidence whether they can actually deliver it remains a matter of some considerable conjecture. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.