diegomarahenry Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Potentially knocking back Murrays money in the 80's. He basically wanted the club for nothing and was going to loan it money and "be ambitious" His time at Rangers showed he was in football for the long game and could have maybe built something at Ayr. It is easy to say now it would be a car crash but who knows. We knocked back one of the most successful football chairmen of the recent Scottish history. Who knows how it would have gone. The Barr era was the same as Murrays era at Rangers but on a much smaller scale, spent a fortune and stuffed the club with a tax bill. which we paid. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accies1 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Probably not the craziest thing Accies have done but certainly something odd that this thread has made me think of. We signed Tomas Cerny from Sigma after a loan spell for, what still is, a club record fee of around £180k. Cerny was a great keeper for us and is still held in high regard, arguably the best keeper we've had, between him and McGovern for me. I don't know the full story but he then had some sort of disagreement with the club and his contract was cancelled which is a very peculiar situation for an asset that we'd invested a lot of money in and, at the time, could have sold on for a fee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eindhovendee Posted August 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2021 I'm a Dundee supporter. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Kenny Cameron gets a lot of credit for being chairman at the time we won the Scottish Cup and came third but literally every decision made after that was a complete disaster Appointing Foran as manager, who showed little interest in coaching/managing when he was coming into the end of his career, giving him a fucking 5 year deal then not bothering to sack him when it was obvious to everyone he was taking us down. Some of the contracts given out to players were absolutely crazy. The Mulraney one as mentioned and I think Warren had a similar type deal as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Gregor147 said: Claude Anelka 44 minutes ago, roverthemoon said: Claude fucking Anelka. By a country mile This, we win this thing end of. No other club has done anything so utterly fucking reckless in living memory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standman Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Wasting thousands on benching the Wee Dublin End when if any improvement was needed , a roof was surely the priority. Also, spending that money instead of investing in the team was criminal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardle is Magic Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Just now, pub car king said: This, we win this thing end of. No other club has done anything so utterly fucking reckless in living memory. Oh, I don’t know… -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red23 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said: Oh, I don’t know… Could have built a 3rd stand for that, then they'd only have one more to go. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, pozbaird said: Falling out with Alex Ferguson. Oops, sorry, I’m in the wrong forum. Still, what a great decision that was. I’ll leave now… which may or may not have been Fergie’s final words in Paisley. That was a long time ago, and let's be honest, Ferguson would never have had the resources at Love Street to do what he did at Aberdeen. You turned Riyad Mahrez down in the last decade for f**k's sake. 41 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said: Potentially knocking back Murrays money in the 80's. He basically wanted the club for nothing and was going to loan it money and "be ambitious" His time at Rangers showed he was in football for the long game and could have maybe built something at Ayr. It is easy to say now it would be a car crash but who knows. We knocked back one of the most successful football chairmen of the recent Scottish history. Who knows how it would have gone. The Barr era was the same as Murrays era at Rangers but on a much smaller scale, spent a fortune and stuffed the club with a tax bill. which we paid. Had that gone through then today there really only would be one team in Ayrshire. And this is not intended as a compliment. Edited August 10, 2021 by Thumper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Not firing Gordon Dalziel and hiring a competent manager in his place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 We hired the goalkeeper who relegated us to be our goalkeeping coach. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 The terracing thing will always annoy me. Not just for the general look of the stadium, but when we won promotion and had the novelty of playing top flight clubs again the stadium would have felt brilliant against the likes of Hearts, Hibs, Dundee United with four stands at least over half full. As it is, we're probably stuck with what we have until we relocate to some 5k capacity legoland midden in Scotstoun. Selling Liam Lindsay for about £300k in 2017 was one of our diddiest decisions in recent years and arguably led directly to our relegation. For all that is made out about >£100k payments - whether from transfers or whoring out most of your stadium to the Old Firm - being too big to turn down for any Scottish clubs outside the top 6, it didn't prevent a double relegation and the loss of income that comes with that. Related to this cravenness for additional income regardless of cost was our ground share with 'Glasgow Warriors'. A genuine game of football was impossible such was the effect on the surface and I chucked most of the 2011/12 season as it was just unwatchable. Hiring Gary Caldwell was obviously a woeful decision, but I think we eventually punted him at the right time for that period to be looked back on as just a bit of a laugh, rather than any permanent damage being done to the club. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 A tragedy in 3 acts: 1) Overspending in the 90s, leaving the club in the shit financially and vulnerable to shysters. 2) Allowing a shyster to "invest" in the club and take control of the entire team, making a predictable c**t of it. This is undoubtedly the worst decision any club in Scotland has ever made. 3) Loaning our best player to a team 4 points adrift of us in the league when we were in a relegation fight. I am convinced Locke's aversion to Vaughan was solely on the basis he's a Hibs fan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, FuzzyBear said: Letting Colin McGowan get involved with the club. I can't believe he ended up at another club after the mess he left with us. He threatened to sell the stadium for flats of the fans didn't stop saying nasty things about him online. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Appointing Richie Foran probably set us back a decade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 39 minutes ago, standman said: Wasting thousands on benching the Wee Dublin End when if any improvement was needed , a roof was surely the priority. Also, spending that money instead of investing in the team was criminal. Wut The Raes did buy a roof from the spoon-burners but didn't bother putting it up. Benching of the WDE was a basic condition of getting the stadium anywhere near the criteria for the top flight, back in 2012/13, when we had a capable team to do so and were spending more than enough on the first team squad anyway. If we didn't add the benches then we wouldn't have been able to use the WDE at the end of last or beginning of this season either. It'd probably have been condemned altogether by now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 GMFC has been more of a low-level, constant omnishambles rather than having some great and inexplicable lurch into incompetence. Douglas Rae signing Marc rather than Mark McCulloch and so landing us with a total fucking haddy from Arbroath is symptomatic of the way the club has been run on a daily basis for the past twenty years. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhursty7 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Rapidly looking like Dave Smith being convinced Hopkin is the man to take the club forward. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Jacqui Lowe........Gary Caldwell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 27 minutes ago, AMMjag said: The terracing thing will always annoy me. Not just for the general look of the stadium, but when we won promotion and had the novelty of playing top flight clubs again the stadium would have felt brilliant against the likes of Hearts, Hibs, Dundee United with four stands at least over half full. As it is, we're probably stuck with what we have until we relocate to some 5k capacity legoland midden in Scotstoun. Selling Liam Lindsay for about £300k in 2017 was one of our diddiest decisions in recent years and arguably led directly to our relegation. For all that is made out about >£100k payments - whether from transfers or whoring out most of your stadium to the Old Firm - being too big to turn down for any Scottish clubs outside the top 6, it didn't prevent a double relegation and the loss of income that comes with that. Related to this cravenness for additional income regardless of cost was our ground share with 'Glasgow Warriors'. A genuine game of football was impossible such was the effect on the surface and I chucked most of the 2011/12 season as it was just unwatchable. Hiring Gary Caldwell was obviously a woeful decision, but I think we eventually punted him at the right time for that period to be looked back on as just a bit of a laugh, rather than any permanent damage being done to the club. I'd need to double check but from memory the groundshare with Warriors started out ok; the pitch held up remarkably well considering how much use it was getting for rugby + football, but it was because the Scottish RFU were paying for the groundsman and any of the equipment/materials needed to keep it in good nick. I think after the first season that part of the arrangement stopped, after which the pitch did indeed start chopping up and became a bit of a tattie field. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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