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The REA offer was as good an offer as the club were ever likely to receive but Gilmour and some fans didn't trust the support to come up with the cash over the few years it was required to fund the deal. Meanwhile HMFC and MFC are getting on with it. Talk about shooting ourselves in both feet!

We played better when we used two up top.

Someone somewhere will be able to tell us what the exact drop in income will be from being relegated but I reckon £500-600k at least. Perhaps that explains the number and level of signings. We are where we are, and I don't think there is much scope to go beyond three or four more new faces, but hopefully they will address some of the concerns listed above. I am more than happy to give Murray the chance to prove he is a good manager. After all it took Fergie a while to pull a team together before we were promoted.

Like Thommo did?

I honestly don't care what they say about the town. These guys don't have two brain cells between them. If they thought it would sell papers they would pretend Rangers never died.

An 18 year old. I suspect this isn't going to appease the fans. Utterly shambolic. The sooner the BoD leave the better.

What kind of fee is involved?

I thik that just about sums up the would be SNP candidate for wherever quite well.

Depends on ownership but GT has the players on his side and scoring goals

There was no risk to the seller. £1.5million in thee bank and they walk away. 10000 hours took the risk, not the club as they were separate. Ultimately the ones who might not get their cash were the social funders but they were happy to proceed. So how would the club have lost out, remember as well that the assets would have been ring fenced to prevent anyone from loading debt in the stadium.

The point I answered was the plan only required 1/3rd of those who eventually signed up for Direct Debits. If what you are saying is only big clubs can do this, then what about Motherwell? It surely depends on how much you owe, the terms of the deal and the amount the fans or others pay in. The numbers of members is only one part of that equation. My recollection is that there was enough support to offer £1.5million. A genuine offer which met their amended price but they turned it down. Makes no sense at all, and as it is now developing, wholly counter productive.

No way. Three times as many fans signed up to pay £10 per month as 10000hours were looking for initially. So how is that too few or the cost too much? Ultimately the loans could have been forgone assuming 10000hours met the funders community engagement targets, so we might never have had to repay the full sums. If anything the deal on the table was better than Hearts and that is pretty good. In any case it was miles ahead of where we are now in my opinion. Not one of us knows what is going on, if or when something will happen and we certainly won't be asked to be full or part owners. Now we can just wait and hope for the best on and off the park.

The monies coming in to pay off the loans was new money and wouldn't have affected the existing income. Likewise, the idea was to bring in new types of income by engaging even more with the local community, such as the church using space on a Sunday morning. All this was possible in a quite short timescale. Once the loans were paid up any contributions would have increased the playing budget or anything else that was needed. As far as I can tell Hearts fans are making their similar scheme work, and Hibs have a variation on the table. Why were we so special that it wouldn't work? Now we face the prospect of new owners, a short time to get the manager and players sorted and the potential for the club and its assets being put at risk!

That is my point. They snatch defeat from the jaws of victory even though it seems to be against their interests - knocking back 10000 Hours being the best example and possibly the English consortium falls into the same bracket. In light of where we are, both seem to be strange decisions.

I find it incredible that there has been virtually no communication from the BoD and little by way of action in relation to improving the playing side. Something is clearly happening in the background but the silence is a bit ominous. I no longer know whether to trust the BoD or just assume the worst. In either case it seems we as fans are not able to influence anything at present. Oh for those halcyon days when Coughlin, Hendrie, Fitzy et al were in charge.