Piracy

Done

Gordon Rowan & Mike O'Reilly playing Charlie D's prematch on Saturday, superb. Great way to see out this season at our last home game of the season. COYP

Lewis McCann, I think his positional sense is poor, his ability to header is poor, his finishing is poor and some of his decision making is suspect. However, he is a strong runner, good stamina, and he committed. No doubt there's a player there, I just think don't think he's an instinctive player and needs a lot more coaching. I think times running out for him in our team, that's my honest opinion.

Fantastic result. Good to see.

Tbf the whole defensive set up missed Benedictus.

Don't know about overspending on players but we've been overspending as a whole given the losses last season and projected losses for this season. No detailed profit and loss information means some fans won't get the specifics they'd like to understand where the money had been spent. It'd obviously be good to understand what proportion was allocated to the playing side but I suspect we won't be seeing that type of detail anytime soon. In relation to balance, yes, I agree we can't overspend on players but maybe increasing the budget at the expense of other aspirations can be achieved as part of the overall financial strategy. Increasing player budget doesn't automatically mean it's an irresponsible choice, it just depends how it's managed.

I agree, it really is crunch time and the board need to really read the room with fans and understand growing frustrations.

I'm not sticking up for David Cook but what you've heard may not be accurate, just saying. How does anyone know how transfer deals are conducted?, I'd have thought that's pretty confidential compared to most club business. Mind you maybe our negotiating style is a bit like a school dinners menu when I was at school, take it or leave it! I do remember Ross McArthur being quite clear about how frustrating dealing with players agents can be. If our club has a set budget and some agents want more then maybe it's right to walk away. My own thoughts are maybe we should be more ambitious with what's available to the manager and aim just a wee bit higher in the market in key areas of the squad. But I can't see this really happening given the losses for last season and this season combined which will surely have a profound effect on what's available to the manager given they've said them aim to reel in the clubs spending. Maybe a significant actor in all of this is James McPakes judgement on players and what we offer them. The club has backed him with giving players 2 to 3 year deals rather than the 1 year deals we'd previously been dishing out. Obviously trying to create stability in an effort to build a team, and I think that's a good ethos, but, they obviously have to be of the right quality. Some players are evidently not good enough but we can maybe attribute some of that to McPakes inexperience being a younger manager. That was last season and he obviously now needs to get things right over the summer to give himself and the team a real chance of competing for the league. Like yourself I'll probably wait to see what transpires over the summer and make a judgement before committing to renewing my season ticket.

This is a difficult game. ICT were decent against Rovers last Friday, but hopeless finishing on their part. I'm going to go 2-1 Pars.

I went fishing for Salmon the other week rather go to the game. Might head out this weekend too. I'm about done with this season. Sned have a rant at a game is predictable but usually amusing 😆 Personnel changes afoot, not heard anything on that front tbh, but no surprises in football.

Yeah, the vegetarian option I forgot about. But tbh I'm not built like a vegetarian.

The food is what is is, no menu choices. We had soup, ham potatoes and veg, then chocolate sponge with ice cream. I have to say the quality was good.

We've hopefully survived the league but missed out on the play offs. Mediocre at best, disappointing at worst. James McPake deserves to take us into next season and the aim must be the play offs as a minimum. If we start poorly then it will not take long for the fans to get on the clubs back. It's an unrelenting pressure but we need to take all this up a notch.

We don't have any consistent flair or consistent opportunities in front of goal, we see it in odd games when it can click, like against Dundee United. It was really the same last season. Its becoming boring now, like yesterday's game for example 😴. I'm now thinking about not renewing my season ticket for the NW.

Everything's under control regardless of the high spends last season and this season. They're also committed to driving down costs going forward. That's been the message from the board. So, they'll be judged on their merits as far as I'm concerned. I personally won't be getting involved in any further correspondence or communication with them, think my names **** with some of them anyway after the fairly recent efforts to gain clarity on concerns. As one fellow fan asked "what's it got to do with you", the answer to that is sod all.