Kunter

Well he certainly wasn't told to sign a promotion fighting team or else he wouldn't have signed at least 50% of this gang.

It was the club's choice to go down the young route and bring in Bartley to develop them. No football manager would pick a team of primarily youngsters in the hope of pushing for promotion. Was always a development program not a promotion push.

I totally agree it would have been better having quality over quantity but I don't believe for one second that Bartley thought bringing in lots of young players was the way to get out of this division.

29 players on peanuts. The board wanted a development squad and they signed the players off. It was never a promotion team. No one could honesty look at this squad prior to the first league game and say, we were in with a good chance or, good quality squad.

It's been on repeat for most of the season on every internet page going the line "talked himself into a job" and quite frankly it's a load of nonsense. He's a rookie manager assistanted by a complete no hope given a budget of £2.99 working with a school camp. It was always going to be a gamble from the start. Where the major problem has been is this comple basket case of a board made a major f*** up by giving him a 2 year deal so when it inevitably did turn sour we were financially stuck with him.

I had the idea in my head the board would be assembled by the way of say a couple of known local businessmen who would hand pick their own team.

Someone said there is two sides to every story but we know the court case was the reason he was sacked, pretty obvious, the being told not to play and only manage, that's hard to be a misunderstanding and the medical bills thing , iirc hasn't we had previous for this with other player(s)? Id sooner trust Wullie over Hewitson any day if the week. If you know you know....

Which player was this ?

The club has been slowly dragged down the last 6 years through lack of investment. We had the best part of a million quid in the bank and didn't do anything with it. A change of board will freshen things up no end. People who want to be there to take the club forwards. Last thing we need is millions getting pumped in. Just some half decent quality will do.

I wasn't at the game today so just a general observation; The problem Bartley has imo is he doesn't have any natural defensive midfielders so if he tries and sets up too attacking then it's a guarantee we'll just leak goals for fun. He also badly lacks height so long balls are usually pointless, not that I'm advocating that kind of football but it does have it's place. I do think he should start the new striker though as he's looked useful but that would mean dropping either Reilly or Connolly and 3 up front would just be suicidal as per the first paragraph.

The squad was never built on a championship budget, that's why we signed 90% youth because they come cheap and if they come good you can sell them on. It's clear the idea was throw one experienced player in every position and surround them with young hopefuls to learn and hopefully develop. I don't believe anyone thought for one second this was a seriously good team well capable of a challenge. Maybe a hope of a top 4 but it was always a work in progress from the start. A team full of young players just doesn't work. Look at Chelsea. They're fans are fed up with the inconsistenty and calling for the managers head. It's just a recipe for disaster in terms of the quest for instant success.

Someone said on social media they reported at the AGM there had been interested parties local and down south. When this was no idea but Hewitson always said he would stand down if anyone wanted to take over. Would have thought he would have mentioned if they were in talks just for reassurance if anything. If no one was lined up and they did just walk then wonder if Davie Rae would take temporary charge being a majority shareholder?

Can't wish for any worse than what we are currently getting. Remind them where we were and where we are now.

Have we got confirmation yet ? The Champagne's getting warm here

The times iv been it's been pretty tame. Start off with how difficult trading has been and need to cut back financially or we'll go under kinda thing, this usually keeps any difficult questions towards the board at bay then move on to questions and answers towards the manger which are usually watered down by compared to internet ramblings. They'll be no flying chairs or finger pointing.