parsforlife

I’ve voted no and that will be the same answer if we lose by a goal or two on Friday but the needle is certainly drifting towards him needing to leave at a fairly quick rate.

Generally it feels like he’s being asked to play with one arm tied behind his back, injuries, being given little backing in the summer or January and only after the Morton humping a suggestion from the board that they need to wake up and realize proven experienced pros are valuable.

Given the mountain we’ve given ourselves to climb we need to get those signings right and it looks like Kane does meet that remit, Ashcroft would too and i would like to add one more on top of that. We would have a chance then, if he gets those signings and results don’t improve he’ll have no excuse.

12 hours ago, Tartan Army Par said:

Was there not a finance director that left in October? Maybe his replacement.

We did lose a finance director then but the experience seems different and ian doesn’t seem like a direct takevover

1 hour ago, Secure Par said:

I hope this is good but any work he is involved in will be due a fee etc.. 

I’ve raised this question elsewhere, but if he’s purely here as a consultant then there would be no need to be a director. That reasons the question of why would such a role be offered?

2 minutes ago, Al k said:

Can he negotiate transfers?

Transfer negotiations are part of the listed role of Lombardi 

I think against QP until we lost the first goal we showed plenty of fight but badly lacked quality, it’s a little more complicated than roll your sleeves up and graft.  Yes that’s important but so is knowing the moments to compose yourself.

Issues showed after going behind, the lazy way to describe that is to call players weak minded but I don’t think that’s a great way to describe it, what is needed is a better response to a adversity and I think that comes from a lot of experience, something that’s not going to change dramatically in a week.

6 minutes ago, Piracy said:

Overall our recruitment hasn't been too bad at all. We've a decent enough bunch of players. If we hadn't any injuries we wouldn't be in this situation. 

Its not who we have brought in, its who we haven't.

9 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Wonder when the next supporters meeting will be? 

No time soon by track record, nearly always deliberately timed for when the BoD have something to announce, they’ve not got the bottle to stand up and be counted against against difficult questions.

I felt this week was the first time since the crisis set in there was a strong enough argument to change formation to a back 4, it still wouldn’t have been great cos Benjamin who sadly so far looks not up to it would be more exposed.  Sticking with the back 3 didn’t work and if we don’t bring in the quality needed this week going to a Back 4 of Comrie Benjamin Otoo Edwards is the only card mcpake can play

On 11/02/2024 at 19:32, Secure Par said:

 

I know nothing of cook personally but the atmosphere of the board not being good to work for is slightly backed when our former GM states there’s not a ****ing chance he’ll return to work for them.

Edit- the spiral began well before cook arrived, he can’t be the only one

What i worry about isn’t them not investing in the first team, it’s that funds look to have been directed away from it to fund the ‘project’  2nd biggest attendances in the division and just received our highest ever transfer fee yet we are playing a team of kids, that’s not right.

4 minutes ago, Secure Par said:

Does Cook deal with all the transfers/agents?

 

He’s apparently part of the recruitment group of mcpake mackay meagle and himself but who actually has what role in that I don’t know.

Just now, kelty_par said:

With 2 rumoured signings to come in this week, with our recruitment I wouldn’t have much hopes of them being much good

It’s not a great scenario, I dream of it being a hardie/rusty combo but i fear reality is going to hit and we’re going to sign experience but not quality.

36 minutes ago, Grant said:

I'd agree, it's the system and players he's in with that is crushing him atm. Allan is flat out dreadful and I've no idea what's happened to Summers, he looked class but he's become a passenger. 

Agree similarly, allan would be ok to bring on in rotation for chalmers, like he was in league 1 but they are so similar(with allan being the poorer option) that playing them as a midfield 2 is a disaster. 

On summers and I could include moffat similarly, they like picking up spaces between defence and midfield, often looking for the infield ball once we've stretched teams.  Problem is clubs have noticed that threat and can easily drown them out with deep lying midfields and center backs stepping out.  The centre backs are happy to do that as our strikers are not threatening and the midfield have loads of time to drop into the space cos there's nowhere near enough tempo to our game in attack.

At least they were at the game! Owners yet again hiding at home watching pars tv, if they can even be ****ed doing that.

1 minute ago, Secure Par said:

It really makes you think WTF is going on at the club… All money is deffo going in the Acadamy training facility.

Yea, it’s bizarre, by far the most important part of the football club is first team success and it looks like it’s being treated as second or third best. I can’t understand that thinking. We are spending money(hence the losses) but we aren’t spending it on the important areas of the club.

36 minutes ago, Al k said:

Rovers sign a defender from St Johnstone, CBA googling the name no doubt has actually played some games and I'll get wound up.

James brown. 25 times more appearances than fagen-Walcott and Benjamin have combined.   Not a problem tho apparently 

Our board have an hatred of signing established experienced pros, your not getting transfer fees from them, just the prospect of winning and they’ve got much less interest in that

1 hour ago, GG Riva said:

so the conspiracy theories would go straight into the bin.

 

That’s where the go anyway tho, nobody actually treats the loonballs with any seriousness

It’s Thursday, the hurt of the previous defeat begins to fade and hope creeps into the horizon despite the nagging feeling that more suffering is coming, you push it to the back of your mind and dreams begin to form.

I ****ing hate Thursdays.

3 hours ago, GG Riva said:

Not sure I follow your logic. If two teams reach the last round of games level on points and GD, surely both have performed more or less equally and it is all on the last game. The accusations levelled at our club in 2003 were horrible. Why could the SPFL not decree that H2H takes precedence over GD, to ensure such a scenario is not repeated? 

At least if it does happen this season, the Pars won't be involved. Still, I wouldn't like to see any other team accused of "lying down."

They’re old firm fans, they’ll find conspiracy wherever they want doesn’t matter the system, we’ve been accused of being ‘one of them’ from either side continuously and always will be. 

GD Is accumulated over the course of the season same as points, one team outscoring the other on final day is the same as one team winning and the other not, not that stops conspiracy as anyone who speaks to a more deranged hearts fan about 1986 knows. 

You can’t have H2H only counting if GD is close, the order needs decided first.

Would you consider it unfair if H2H decides the title by one goal when there’s 20 goal difference between the clubs? Or is it not the sporting debate over what one is better you want to speak and just what one you think is more corruptible?

7 hours ago, GG Riva said:

Just looked at this again - nothing has changed since 2003. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that Celtic and Rangers could go into the last game of the season level on points, with similar if not identical GDs and it's all down to who can bag the bigger win on the day. 

In Italy, they're so scared of corruption that GD is much further down the pecking order. H2H may count in certain circumstances, otherwise teams finishing level on points have a playoff to determine final placings.

GD at least is a show of your ability across the full league rather than against one or two opponents.  The team with the best GD has done that all season, not just the last game regardless of what spin is tried to be put on it.

I don’t think Italian football has a particularly good reputation on anti-corruption, but maybe that money was just resting in referee accounts 

Here we wouldn’t have playoffs for non-vital places(no promotion/relegation or European spot) the clubs are given equal placing and prize money 

13 minutes ago, GG Riva said:

Was this brought in by the SPFL, parsforlife? If so, I must have missed it.

I don't remember it grabbing any headlines.

Yes,  it’s not exactly headline grabbing tbh, given I can’t remember goals scored  needing used, possibly only for minor placings nevermind needing to move further down the list.

3 minutes ago, scottyboy said:

I thought he declared himself bankrupt and was mentally unwell? Has his circumstances changed regarding bankruptcy?

He was bankrupt, not the pension fund he was the sole recipient of…

Regardless his bankruptcy status will have been served.

10 minutes ago, GG Riva said:

A casual glance at the Scottish Premiership table is eerily reminiscent of the table of the 2002/3 season, going into the final round of games. Then, as now, both Celtic and Rangers were tied on points and had almost identical GDs. Still a long way to go this season, but if it happened before, it could happen again.

Apologies for reminding Pars fans of this but our team visited Ibrox and Celtic were at Rugby Park. A 4-0 victory for Celtic was not enough to secure the title because the Pars lost 6-1 at Ibrox, so Rangers were Champions by a single goal. There followed lots of conspiracy theories and allegations that Jimmy Calderwood had set the Pars up to lose heavily because he was "a Rangers man."

I was sure the SPL bosses would have wanted to ensure such an unnecessary state of affairs could ever happen again, by adding extra layers to separate teams level on points and GD, such as H2H records, but no more than 20 years on, nothing has changed. In 2003, there had been talk of a playoff between the Ugly Sisters if they had finished level on points, GD and goals scored and conceded.

Strangely, the Glasgow Polis were none to chuffed at the prospect.

Points, goal difference, goals scored, H2H points, H2H goal difference, neutral ground play-off is the order of separating clubs.

33 minutes ago, Rossmcno1 said:

My heads not in it in terms of timings, when did Rosyth leave Rec Park?  I thought the timings were very different between that and the investment coming in?  I don’t know enough and haven’t gone looking into the detail but I’ve seen it thrown a few times that the club has supposedly shat on Rosyth, but then never seen anythin concrete that says why.

They left recs years ago, it was the fallen through lidl deal that they left for, but one of the potential sites for the new ground was potentially at our training ground.

I think we were guilty of poor communication, opening discussions and not formally ending them isn’t great. But I think shafted is a bit of an exaggeration.

They were shafted by the council being forced out of recs before a suitable ground had been built I’d say. It wasn’t our responsibility to do a deal tho

2 hours ago, Superally said:

The Bunnet is now Manager at East Fife, No slowing down for him - less traveling though. Good Luck to him

Probably not by much, an hour once a fortnight is nothing compared to the other time commitments he will be putting in.

Rab Douglas put out an article predicting it wouldn’t take him long and it’s no surprise, the man just can’t stay away from football, it’s been his life until this point and he’s no interest in changing that