Wardy Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raith1974 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 18 minutes ago, tazz1903 said: Rat Rovers You are a twat, a seaside league twat at that now f**k off back to the 1st Division forum where your shit team belongs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumswall Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Can we not just stick to the traditional yearly post from stevo of a horse being our only interaction with ef fans? Cup games are obviously an exception to this long standing agreement we once had and mutually benefited from. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Michael W said: How much of our income is derived from season tickets v pay at the gate? Ultimately we are losing whatever the difference is at the moment although at least the season ticket money allows a fall back (albeit I don't know where we're at v last season). We'll so have had 5 months of absolutely zero income from pitch hire which is not good and probably would've been anticipated. No fault of anyone, but the finances aren't going to be looking great and bear in mind Sim is/was an auditor. New signings can't be furloughed either so we are incurring some expenses as well. Guess you probably shouldn't have thrown two year deals to sign average players weeks before you even began training then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basher brash Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 1 hour ago, tazz1903 said: Begging So is East Fife you Twat but unlike our fund raising your fans can’t be arse £12k wow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brashy's Boots Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Guess you probably shouldn't have thrown two year deals to sign average players weeks before you even began training then.Which "average" players, plural, are you referring to? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumswall Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Guess you probably shouldn't have thrown two year deals to sign average players weeks before you even began training then.Should just have signed Oliver and Omar who was a massive success at Elgin instead... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Slightly more detail in the FFP, just to say that both Clark and Sim acknowledge that the reason for leaving is "confidential between the club and [Clark]" and that no more will be said. Not much that you can read into that beyond what's already been said, so I suppose it's just a case of buckling in and seeing what the future holds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Raith Against The Machine said: Slightly more detail in the FFP, just to say that both Clark and Sim acknowledge that the reason for leaving is "confidential between the club and [Clark]" and that no more will be said. Not much that you can read into that beyond what's already been said, so I suppose it's just a case of buckling in and seeing what the future holds. Aye, that's a falling out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Yeah, quite clearly a falling out. Sim has seen off a fair number of people in bad blood who worked with the club since he joined ‘properly’ upon relegation in 2016. Seems he’s very difficult to work with. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily but we don’t know enough to judge. It’s a shame to lose Clark and have the Board dwindled down to four members, including Sim and Sinton who is there at the behest of Sim rather than any other reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 It's now been a week since we last signed a player from the English non leagues, are there no more left? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Yeah, that's very much avoiding dirty laundry being aired in public. Not really much more you can say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 11 hours ago, grumswall said: Should just have signed Oliver and Omar who was a massive success at Elgin instead... If you're attempting to run a very tight ship in the middle of a global pandemic with no guarantee of crowds coming in all season then that's the market you're working in, yes. I wouldn't be handing out two year deals to anyone right now never mind someone who will slightly upgrade the right back position: that's a hostage to fortune that your club has created for itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Brilliant Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Eyes peeled for a new Superhans/Martin style account appearing here to tell all... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, virginton said: If you're attempting to run a very tight ship in the middle of a global pandemic with no guarantee of crowds coming in all season then that's the market you're working in, yes. I wouldn't be handing out two year deals to anyone right now never mind someone who will slightly upgrade the right back position: that's a hostage to fortune that your club has created for itself. As much as I'm not massively comfortable with agreeing with VT he occasionally makes a good point in middle of his ranting. This is one of those times. Quite why any football club, with the degree of uncertainty around at the moment about the future, would start handing out multi season deals to anyone is beyond me. Unless it's a player with a clear onward resale value that they probably can't afford NOT to tie down for longer then it's pure folly. Or unless it contains a cancellation opt out in the event of football closing itself down again. We might be fine. We might have Championship sized crowds back by October, we might play an uninterrupted season, all may be well in the world and nobody will bat an eyelid but if we get a second spike, persistent local lockdowns, football closed down again either due to national outbreaks or persistent breaches of required protocols by players, closed doors for the whole season, etc and a Govt that has already ruled out any return of a furlough scheme they clearly can't really afford in the future then there will not be much sympathy for clubs who are left with multi year contracts they can neither fund nor get out of. We're emerging out the other side of this initial pandemic relatively undamaged. Nobody's gone bust yet. But we did so because the shut down happened about 10 weeks from the end of most contracts and with the Govt picking up payroll costs for everyone for 4 or 5 months. If clubs have to go a medium term length of time again without that cash support then the majority of them won't survive it. Edited August 27, 2020 by Skyline Drifter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Just now, L. Brilliant said: Eyes peeled for a new Superhans/Martin style account appearing here to tell all... Clark proved incapable of digging up the treasure trove down by the corner flag. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) I am glad that my unfounded speculation as to why Clark might have gone, coupled with my caricature of Sim as a hawk, have yielded serious serious responses. Edited August 27, 2020 by Michael W 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Sandy Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 12 hours ago, raith1974 said: You are a twat, a seaside league twat at that now f**k off back to the 1st Division forum where your shit team belongs. Now, now..that's no way to talk to TAZZRAT!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 9 minutes ago, Michael W said: Clark proved incapable of digging up the treasure trove down by the corner flag. Only the one true chairman will be able to haul it up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spot on Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Raith Against The Machine said: Slightly more detail in the FFP, just to say that both Clark and Sim acknowledge that the reason for leaving is "confidential between the club and [Clark]" and that no more will be said. Not much that you can read into that beyond what's already been said, so I suppose it's just a case of buckling in and seeing what the future holds. So much for transparency, if it had been a personal reason then fair enough I fully understand but they are not saying it was a personal reason , just that they wish it to remain confidential suggesting it has been a Board room issue. So not so transparent after all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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