Gretna - Living (and dying) the Dream

[bluearmyfaction]

On 01/05/2020 at 19:41, mizfit said:

Still can’t believe people fell for the eco stadium.

To be fair, it has been recycled.

[Mark Connolly]

23 hours ago, The Mantis said:

Aye but we beat them every single time. Not everybody can say that.

f**k off

[Jacksgranda]

5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

f**k off

What he said.

[The Mantis]

1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said:

f**k off

Jeez,can you no see the guy's inconsolable. I was trying to cheer him up.

[The Mantis]

On 19/05/2020 at 10:52, Mark Connolly said:

f**k off

Ha, the penny just dropped  
Just checked. Never realised they actually won 5 and drew 8, and 2 wins against Yenitit. Aye we beat them 5 times that year plus a 5-0 skelping in 2003 when they started coming up the leagues.

[TheScarf]

It weird, The Caley only ever played Gretna when they were skint.  The start of 03-04 and then 07-08.  We never played them when they were paying guys 17 grand a week to beat joiners and uni students.

[MC70]

On 16/11/2017 at 13:20, Dunning1874 said:

At some point someone is going to enter this thread and say it was a shame because they only went under due to Mileson's health deteriorating. This is untrue: they stopped paying bills long before he was permanently hospitalised and were liquidated months before he finally passed away.

So what was the reason he withdrew support ?

I read somewhere he tried to disrupt the team when they were in div 1 because he knew they couldn't afford to go up ?

And what was the real reason he suspended the manager ?  Thank you 

[RandomGuy.]

2 minutes ago, MC70 said:

So what was the reason he withdrew support ?

Because he ran out of money. Gretna were financially fucked before they reached the First Division.

[bluearmyfaction]

Why did Mileson pile into Gretna in the first place?  He could have invested in Queen of the South and started at a higher base.  Indeed would not have lost so much money given the support and stadium. 

[parsforlife]

Batshit egomaniac does batshit ego driven things...

[Sergeant Wilson]

5 minutes ago, bluearmyfaction said:

Why did Mileson pile into Gretna in the first place?  He could have invested in Queen of the South and started at a higher base.  Indeed would not have lost so much money given the support and stadium. 

Didn't they chase him, could be wrong.

[Homer Thompson]

33 minutes ago, bluearmyfaction said:

Why did Mileson pile into Gretna in the first place?  He could have invested in Queen of the South and started at a higher base.  Indeed would not have lost so much money given the support and stadium. 

 

28 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Didn't they chase him, could be wrong.

Not sure if he did approach Queens but pretty he would have been chased if he did.

He wanted into Carlisle but was chased from there. Taken lowly Gretna to where he did was a finger up to them as much as anything.

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 minute ago, Mr X said:

 

Not sure if he did approach Queens but pretty he would have been chased if he did.

He wanted into Carlisle but was chased from there. Taken lowly Gretna to where he did was a finger up to them as much as anything.

Think it was Carlisle right enough. He sponsored the Nothern League and even though Gretna weren't in that at the time, he'd have been familiar with them and seen the opportunity to be a big fish when they got elected.

[RandomGuy.]

9 minutes ago, Mr X said:

 

Not sure if he did approach Queens but pretty he would have been chased if he did.

He wanted into Carlisle but was chased from there. Taken lowly Gretna to where he did was a finger up to them as much as anything.

 

6 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Think it was Carlisle right enough. He sponsored the Nothern League and even though Gretna weren't in that at the time, he'd have been familiar with them and seen the opportunity to be a big fish when they got elected.

He failed to take over Carlisle twice.

Clearly a club who realised that someone promising to punt endless amounts of money attempting to turn a tiny club into a giant within 5 years was a disaster waiting to happen. 

Always wondered how Gretna fans who supported the club before Mileson felt about it all. Promoted into the league structure with a chance to stabilise and grow with no relegation at that time. Instead he blew in, and within a few years they were dead and out the league structure altogether, the last 18 months weren't exactly great apart from the late Grady winner.

[Homer Thompson]

He failed to take over Carlisle twice.
Clearly a club who realised that someone promising to punt endless amounts of money attempting to turn a tiny club into a giant within 5 years was a disaster waiting to happen. 
Always wondered how Gretna fans who supported the club before Mileson felt about it all. Promoted into the league structure with a chance to stabilise and grow with no relegation at that time. Instead he blew in, and within a few years they were dead and out the league structure altogether, the last 18 months weren't exactly great apart from the late Grady winner.

I don't think either of them were very happy

[Distant Doonhamer]

He failed to take over Carlisle twice.

Clearly a club who realised that someone promising to punt endless amounts of money attempting to turn a tiny club into a giant within 5 years was a disaster waiting to happen. 

Always wondered how Gretna fans who supported the club before Mileson felt about it all. Promoted into the league structure with a chance to stabilise and grow with no relegation at that time. Instead he blew in, and within a few years they were dead and out the league structure altogether, the last 18 months weren't exactly great apart from the late Grady winner.

Carlisle had already had Michael Knighton as chairman, promising all sorts of stuff and a journey to the premiership. It took a goalkeeper scoring in stoppage time to prevent them being relegated to the Conference in Knighton’s tenure so they would be understandably wary of another messiah I would imagine.

[Tutankhamen]

2 hours ago, bluearmyfaction said:

Why did Mileson pile into Gretna in the first place?  He could have invested in Queen of the South and started at a higher base.  Indeed would not have lost so much money given the support and stadium. 

Remember a BBC documentary were he (Mileson) claimed he went along to a Gretna game and the two local old jakeys befriended him.

Going by the fact the original Gretna had about 40 fans at a home game, average age 73, i doubt there's anybody alive from that time 

[Tutankhamen]

On 16 November 2017 at 08:47, Poet of the Macabre said:

I remember this being hilarious to watch

 

Good laugh that night.

Even better was the Motherwell Statue Defenders fucking off before the end.

 

[craigkillie]

Carlisle had already had Michael Knighton as chairman, promising all sorts of stuff and a journey to the premiership. It took a goalkeeper scoring in stoppage time to prevent them being relegated to the Conference in Knighton’s tenure so they would be understandably wary of another messiah I would imagine.

And then they got relegated anyway 5 years later. Jimmy Glass just delayed the inevitable.

[vikingTON]

Jimmy Glass isn't even the most heroic last day saviour in Carlisle's history. That would of course be this utterly magnificent one man saviour act from Brian Wake, who would perform similar heroics in a Morton jersey in the last weeks of the 2007/08 season:

There's also a cameo role in the video for Gretna stalwart Mark Birch, who demonstrates how much of an utter haddy he was before proving it again in the Scottish leagues. A genuine Third Division level player whose faults got covered for by the parade of mercenaries around him.