Andy_AUFC Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 (edited) What an absolute omnishambles this is for the clan. What is Neil Black thinking? Surely somebody somewhere after this incident happened brief him on Raith Rovers? Edited October 7, 2022 by Andy_AUFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Shambles after shambles after shambles at the Clan. It'll be Paisley Pirates for my hockey fix this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 33 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said: Shambles after shambles after shambles at the Clan. It'll be Paisley Pirates for my hockey fix this season. No clan means no arena. No arena means no pirates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 4 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said: No clan means no arena. No arena means no pirates. Statement just released by Neil Black. Essentially the club is up for sale. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 58 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said: Statement just released by Neil Black. Essentially the club is up for sale. Had to happen. Neil Black tried to sell the club years ago. There were no takers then but as long as he was still getting his cut of Clan money then there was no real need to push for a sale. Now? It suits both the Clan and Neil Black for new ownership to be sought. It's still a car crash statement. Essentially blaming fans and sponsors for the reaction that has pretty much forced issues. Had he said half of that at the start of the week and made efforts to reach out to sponsors then we wouldn't be where we are today. But its something to work from. It's a start. New ownership will hopefully mean better leadership and more accountability. 2 things that have been lacking at the Clan for about 6 or 7 years now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 46 minutes ago, BallochSonsFan said: Had to happen. Neil Black tried to sell the club years ago. There were no takers then but as long as he was still getting his cut of Clan money then there was no real need to push for a sale. Now? It suits both the Clan and Neil Black for new ownership to be sought. It's still a car crash statement. Essentially blaming fans and sponsors for the reaction that has pretty much forced issues. Had he said half of that at the start of the week and made efforts to reach out to sponsors then we wouldn't be where we are today. But its something to work from. It's a start. New ownership will hopefully mean better leadership and more accountability. 2 things that have been lacking at the Clan for about 6 or 7 years now. Aye I hope new owners can be found. A hockey club in Glasgow could be a hard sell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 38 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said: Aye I hope new owners can be found. A hockey club in Glasgow could be a hard sell. No harder than a hockey club in Cardiff to an ownership group committed to making it work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Would running not just a club but an arena be a positive or a negative for owners? I know that the Cardiff model. There's a whole hockey ecosystem here where Fife and Dundee don't need the Clan per se but its a huge knock on if we don't have them. If Dundee and Fife have to go to an NIHL North the whole EIHL is fucked. I know the rest see Scotland as some sort of add on but we are a third of the league 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Paisley Pirates 1-6 Kirkcaldy Kestrels. Kestrels on a different level to the Pirates tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 07/10/2022 at 20:09, invergowrie arab said: Would running not just a club but an arena be a positive or a negative for owners? I know that the Cardiff model. There's a whole hockey ecosystem here where Fife and Dundee don't need the Clan per se but its a huge knock on if we don't have them. If Dundee and Fife have to go to an NIHL North the whole EIHL is fucked. I know the rest see Scotland as some sort of add on but we are a third of the league It depends on how successfully they could run the arena. Running costs are high before the added problems of utility bills being sky high right now. Ideally we need to see the rink used every day for leisure skating and for youth or amateur ice sports. Weekends we should see the arena open 6 am and close at midnight. Ice needs to be in constant use. As soon as the season is over then we need to see events at the arena. Every other week, if not once per week. Comedy shows. Concerts. Other live events. If we can do that then the arena income helps fund the hockey club and the Clan become a major player in UK hockey. If not then we'll continue to see more of the same regardless of who owns us. Watched the webcast from Coventry tonight. Blaze eventually won in OT, but the Clan put up a hell of a fight. Wasn't pretty and Coventry had near enough 100 efforts, with 59 of them being on goal. Muse saved 55 of them. We have so many injures and lost another 2 during the game that we'll struggle to ice 3 lines on Wednesday against Nottingham. This is getting to the stage we saw with Edinburgh/Newcastle. Cameron should be sacked given our woeful performances so far, and for much of last season too, but tonight isnt the game that sees him gone. That said, does he have the authority to sign players right now? Do we have somebody signing contracts? Are players going to want to join a complete basket case club? This can't continue and we're edging ever closer to the kind of hammerings that Edinburgh took regularly, because we're not far off having to rely on NIHL 1 level players to actually field a team. 2 called up from Solway tonight, including Scott Henderson. Both players did well enough, but thats not really a solution for anything other than a short term emergency. The clan need help ASAP, or things are going to get even worse. 3 DEL games for me over the next week. Die Adler at home to Iserlohn on Wednesday and the derby game v Frankfurt on Friday. Managed to get a seat on the supporters bus to Nurnberg on Sunday, so at least I'll have something a bit different to take my mind off all things purple. 5th trip to Mannheim and the first since October 2019. Nice to have something to look forward to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpar Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 On 23/10/2022 at 14:53, Craig fae the Vale said: Paisley Pirates 1-6 Kirkcaldy Kestrels. Kestrels on a different level to the Pirates tonight. SNL seems to be pretty competitive this season, every team has won at least one game so far and Kilmarnock seem to have improved greatly in the past two seasons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 52 minutes ago, Torpar said: SNL seems to be pretty competitive this season, every team has won at least one game so far and Kilmarnock seem to have improved greatly in the past two seasons. I've been to three games and I've really enjoyed all of them. The standard is a lot better than I was expecting. Proper Pirates fan now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Paisley Pirates 5-0 Kilmarnock Thunder. A really strong performance from the Pirates against a Thunder side who offered very little. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Glasgow Clan 3-6 Sheffield Steelers. A comfortable win for Sheffield who were never in much trouble throughout, although the Clan did manage to make something of a game of it in the third period after being absolutely rotten for the first two. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin_3110 Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 The standard of the SNL has fairly improved this season. Think it's mainly down to the higher number of matches each team plays, previously teams only played each other once home and away, it's now twice. There is a shortage of ice time at Dundee, so the two Dundee teams play once at home for double points. Not ideal but not a lot that can be done. It always ended up basically a two tier league with matches between the top and bottom sides being very one sided but the gap seems to have shrank a bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BukyOHare Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Just came across this thread. Really miss my regular hockey fix, was taken to the old Limekiln Road rink for years when the Bruins were there and then was a regular at the Centrum, cup finals and playoffs with the Eagles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Gary Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Clan to be sold to TDL Media - owners of Premier Sports Ireland & Asia, W Sport and have obviously had previous involvement in the Elite League through Premier Sports UK before they were bought out by viaplay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpar Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 Not quite Elite League but hats off to Solway on winning everything going and making the step up to the National League. Usual moaning for people in the South of England about the travel involved for them, I don't know if they think Solway are planning to teleport to away games or what! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Clan takeover completed. New owner saying all the right things. https://clanihc.com/statement-michael-orourke-proud-to-finalise-takeover/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 And the Clan also have a new Head Coach. https://clanihc.com/news-morgan-joins-as-head-coach-head-of-hockey-operations/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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