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1 minute ago, port-ton said:
There was absolutely no need to quote me twice.
Young guys and the edit button wasn't working.
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Just now, port-ton said:
There was absolutely no need to quote me twice.
I'm not as good at this computer stuff as you
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3 minutes ago, port-ton said:3 hours ago, DeeBairn said:It's funny that they are run by a dynasty of apparent millionaires, but even on their best season they are still a bang average championship club.
Your club almost died in April 2018, so I wouldn't get too ahead of yourself #prayforfalkirk
#prayforCrawford.
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1 minute ago, port-ton said:3 hours ago, DeeBairn said:It's funny that they are run by a dynasty of apparent millionaires, but even on their best season they are still a bang average championship club.
Your club almost died in April 2018, so I wouldn't get too ahead of yourself #prayforfalkirk
Hmm, no it didn't. I suggest you read again, and maybe as for help. If we hadn't taken the steps we had, we would have run out of cash. Barring further funding coming in. We made the changes we had to with ample time, and carried on. Our future wellbeing isn't dependent on the whiny whims of a daddies boy.
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14 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:
Only if you don’t know the difference between infer and imply.
Nurse! Nurse!
He's escaped again!
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21 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said:
I care not a jot any more, I'm sitting at home stroking my lovely new Falkirk phone case.
Can it play right back?
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48 minutes ago, ilostmyself said:
Statement seems odd considering there's no real need for it. I would enjoy something like this to be put out quarterly giving us some real insight into how the club runs but this is basically her covering her own back. It's Hartley and Mitch who messed up, we hired them based on decent track records and were let down. It's probably true but seems weird that it's been put out by the club, must be feeling a bit of pressure.
If, as she says, we're now financially sustainable without relying on cup runs or player sales then it's maybe not all doom and gloom but the numbers didn't really add up for me. Academy cost £340k, would have needed £400k a year to stay viable, club lost £666k last financial year and we've reduced costs by £500k. Then spent £60k to punt Hartley and however much it will be to get McKinnon and co.
I'd be interested to know (but realise they're unlikely to tell us) where the sustainable budget stands in terms of other teams in this division. Anyone know how much we made from the Rangers game? Then we can have some pointless fun working out what the playing budget is for this year if that gave us an extra 18%.
Apparently there was also the cost of the dev team, so says Shodwall. The there's probably the cost of shunting Houston and CO on top of that?
I'd hazard a guess that the budget will be on a Par with the sensible teams, everyone apart from Dundee Utd, Ross County and I'm assuming Partick are still spending more than most?
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4 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:1 hour ago, DeeBairn said:We've been living rent free in his head for so long, I'm actually starting to feel guilty. Feel like we should buy him a rug or a spider plant or something. We can spend a tenner and he can pretend it's compo and go away happy.
Only compo you are getting
Why's that named FM 17? Was that your avatar on the game last year?!
That's what it downloaded as. No idea.
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We've been living rent free in his head for so long, I'm actually starting to feel guilty. Feel like we should buy him a rug or a spider plant or something. We can spend a tenner and he can pretend it's compo and go away happy.
Only compo you are getting
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1 minute ago, Branch Ton said:
You sum up Failkirk’s future rather well in that final paragraph. The smell of Admin is probably no worse than refinery fumes though.
Your Chairthingy obviously has some sort of sway over you lot if you think “we followed procedures” means it’s a baseless claim Crawford pulled out his arse. You probably think that a sustainability budget means Rat has £200k to spend in January.. Good luck with that.
Bet you are wishing you didn’t troll the Morton thread now.
You want us to phone Inverclyde Council and ask them where your carer has gotten to?
Of course it's baseless. He literally said in that tear stained press release that he decided that's what he wanted. Until his dad died , he was responsible for making chocolates, ffs. Now he supposedly is a legal wizard.
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5 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Branch Ton is having a fucking mare on this thread. Thats been nearly 3 weeks since Snakegate, and he is still thrashing around here like a heartbroken teenager.
Its funny, but quite harrowing to watch at the same time.
Like the Office, if it was set around an irrelevant football team playing at a dilapidated ground in a squalid, land that time forgot style cowp.It's funny that they are run by a dynasty of apparent millionaires, but even on their best season they are still a bang average championship club.
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1 minute ago, Duncan Freemason said:
.....but rare nonetheless!
All chickens could have teeth, just like we could have a good board one day. Positivity, mon frere!
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34 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Zander Diamond, Gordon Greer and Paul Quinn all available. Andrew Driver still available too, some nice players there. If we have any budget left, should we try get someone else to play alongside Ashcroft, or Driver for creativity?
Hands off, you.
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1 minute ago, Duncan Freemason said:
In terms of credibility, ML is very much in the last chance saloon. CC’s credibility is now beyond recovery.
Top 4 is now the aspiration. It isn’t going to be too long before that is recalibrated to “avoid 9th” and then “avoid 10th”.
Rallying calls from our BoD are ten a penny, but actually admitting to getting things woefully wrong is as rare as hen’s teeth.
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8 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said:
Sigh. This is why most clubs keep their mouths shut, because there are so many thick c***s on internet football forums determined to show everyone they're thick c***s.
I think most clubs keep their mouths shut because they treat their fans with even more contempt than ours does.
Then you've got the clubs that have fans so thick they think they are going to get mythical levels of money for something that didn't happen.
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1 hour ago, port-ton said:
Know what guys, keep your compensation. You clearly need the money more than we do. Have a packet of strawberry millions as well on us.
No thanks, fucking awful sweets.
38 minutes ago, wullie robb said:Bairnardo
She doesn't even need to mention the players.
How does she say the season is fucked without implicating the players and the new management team?
4 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:Maybe. However a Chairman’s statement which says we “followed procedures” but doesn’t explain the basis on which she rebutted the Morton chairman’s oral claim for £100k compensation, as mentioned in his own statement, suggests the matter has not been settled.
Clearly this Q&A is nothing but a PR release to keep the fans quiet. You know you are in for a mind numbing future when words like sustainability, procedures and spreadsheets are trotted and sod all about football.
Bit naive though to admit openly you had to pay £ 60k to remove the previous incumbents. The standard severance clause is usually three months salary.
Maybe she didn't mention the oral claim, because, as a lawyer, she knows it's a baseless claim that the sweetieman pulled out his arse in a pique of huffery?
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2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Imagine getting in such a state and hating, presumably, the country of your birth so much because your sports club were not given favourable treatment and then frothing because one of the clubs rivals felt that it would be unfair as well.
The state of Rangers. Literally get away with Financial doping when Ogilvie and Co were running the game and have the cheek to get worked up over this flimsy piece of press distraction.
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2 hours ago, Reverend Maynard said:
A catastrophic defeat away to Falkirk would hasten his exit, but overall I recon it’ll be late October at the very earliest before Martin would push the button. He would be able to save face then , saving he earned to give him a chance with his new squad etc etc.Calm down Rev, I don't think you need to worry about that. Have some faith. Just like St Columba drove the snakes out of Ireland, the might csambles will drive Ray the Snake away from 3 points.
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35 minutes ago, gmfc said:
It is in the hand of their legal team I would imagine and would have been told to make no further comments.
Or it could all be bollocks and Rae has run screaming into the woods, where he is currently rocking backwards and forwards, alternating between muttering about unicorns and asking for Nursie.
Essentially, f**k off, your getting nothing.
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2 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
If we kept the academy paid for by external sources and ditched the dev squad we'd have the same budget as we have the now and still had an academy.
Just need to find someone with a spare 150k a year.
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1 minute ago, Marshmallo said:
This bit is wild.
As a result of a full operational and financial review, we have reduced costs by over £500,000 in the past eight months. Had we not taken this action the club would have run out of cash in April 2018.
That's beyond wild.
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1 minute ago, Shodwall cat said:
Academy was approx 100k. The rest of the projected savings which was the biggest chunk was the dev squad.
How do you spunk 300k a year on a reserve team though?
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2 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said:
Question submitted by scruffylover@blueyonder.co.uk
I'm tempted to start another account just to greeny that twice.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Which is exactly what the statement from the Chair said. With decreasing profits and rapidly increasing costs, it would have continued to be a burden on the playing squad budget.
Shame we subsequently shat the bed with regards to rebuilding the first team. Still, Rome wasn't built in a day, and all that.