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It’s not so much precious losses, last few years have been break even/small profit, but there is a large debt owed to the owner which I assume is the money put in initially to buy out Wotherspoon. Bit of a stick or twist decision for PH, do you take money out while it’s there, or reinvest it in the hope of making your investment even better. If we did manage a promotion then he’s bought a stadium that no o e could make work as a business and an ailing part time league 1 team and managed to get the operation to the level where that Stadium becomes a massive asset. Not by throwing cash at it Willie Haughey style, but by solidly improving things year on year. There’s been very little luck come our way between the Covid season (where we were right in the mix) and the agony of 2 play off final losses.

It’s another feather in McCabe’s cap how he’s managed to bridge the gap to the Pars from last season. Incredible run of form since the Ayr defeat and particularly beating Morton, Raith and Dunfermline within a week and being considerably the better team in each game.

Brilliant Episode guys. Weird hearing so much positive chat on Airdrie - it will never catch on!!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6i43ZNFgt25i7iRiDy0xDj?si=OBjBAZyTQDO32Hi8WuEHO given the title, I’m sure we wouldn’t be rushing towards this!! It’s a really good listen though. Craig Ireland and Craig Easton contributing, summary of every championship club and chat on Airdrie 1 hour in.

You’re closer to 9th than to Airdrie now. Don’t Look Down!

Found the money. Half a million pounds pumped into Raith in January. I’m not jealous It’s gone in as shares which means it can’t come back out and so a real good news story for Raith fans.

I don’t think Raith are awash with cash incidentally, it does feel as if you have had investment from new owners since the summer? Lots of talk about infrastructure changes, new deal for Ian Murray, exorbitant amounts on Social Media artwork etc. There seems to be an almost Monty Pythonesque fight to claim the smallest budget in the Championship this year. Got up at 4 in the mornin’, were murdered in cold blood, didn’t have a manager, didn’t have an assistant manager, didn’t have a sub keeper etc. I think we’re doing very well on limited resources, equally I think Raith are doing better £ for £ than United, but none of that really matters!

I would doubt that, especially when you fold in the coaching teams: I don’t think we could have spent much less. Typical Starting 11 Robbie Hemfrey (signed as a free agent with 1 senior game) Mason Hancock (released by Aberdeen) Kanayo Megwa (young Loanee from Hibs) Callum Fordyce (assistant manager, deal expired at QotS) Rhys McCabe (Manager, deal expired at QotS) Charlie Telfer (released by Falkirk) Adam Frizzell (deal expired at Dumbarton) Dean McMaster (deal expired at St Mirren B) Lewis McGregor (released by Morton) Nikolai Todorov (released by Dunfermline) I don’t think that you’ll be multiples of what we pay, but I’d guess you’d have significantly more in the way of spending power. In recent years Raith have been able to entice Murray, Easton and Smith from us and that isn’t really a surprise when you’ve been a league up and had higher attendances.

Kelty!

No idea on budgets but Raith were able to take players and the manager from us even before they had money!

It was the late Jade Goody who the press had reported on! Prize money has become a bit of an obsession of mine when I look at the league table. Jumps £75k between 3rd and 4th and 4th and 5th so it could make a big difference. I think last year we would only have had about £87.5k and no cup runs so hopefully this all really helps in tying down Rhys and giving him a budget to try and make the top 6 and hopefully Europe next year!!!

How do we define cult hero though? I’d have it for players who are loved even though their football doesn’t neccessarily merit it e.g. Wullie Wilson Toddy’s been really good since the QP comeback. He’s more of a straight up Bulgarian Andy Smith for me!!! Can look awkward but big, powerful, a nightmare for defences and can finish. A hero.

Good game I thought. Muirhead’s chance first half was a better opportunity than either of our goals. For those questioning the over-reaction, there was always going to be needle in the game. Imrie made some comments which felt like digs about Airdrie/Rhys (I think in response to style of play/Lewis McGregor comments from Rhys) when he’d got Morton into a strong position. Imrie also loves a comment about having the lowest budget in the league which I’d be stunned if it was true given our player manager/player assistant and not signing anyone other than Toddy as a big name to bolster our squad. A lot made by Morton fans about Airdrie being hatchet men at Cappielow, press ahead of this game was pretty pointed from Oakley and Imrie. The claims on this thread about the Ton being hammered because ref’s buy into the narrative was entertaining. Throw in Quitongo and Milne who have wound Airdrie fans up before and I think any gloating on our part is understandable. Both clubs have had successful seasons. Morton have sandwiched league winning form with relegation form And need to snap out of that to stop falling further down the table. Not seen a collapse in form like it since……… well Morton aabout 20 years ago! We need to try and keep our run going through some very tricky fixtures if we want to get 4th. You could yet finish above us with how this league goes, but we’ll savour tonight and how triggered Imrie seemed to be by it all.

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