DeclanG

Chalmers continues to underwhelm massively. Of course out of 10 players, he's the only one to miss a penalty.

I think third or fourth, depending on the Raith result.

It's wild how incapable we are at scoring against teams unless they're playing at a lower level, is it a mental thing at this point?

Honestly a bit underwhelmed, just a colour swap of our home kit. Nice colours though.

FIFA have decided to not proceed with any action against them, Ecuador will be playing in the World Cup.

You do remember that we got relegated and have a worse pool of players to pick from, aye?

Shame for them about the stadium they ended up with.

I forget that clubs entirely shut down when there's not a manager there. Not as if we have Meggle involved in player decisions now or anything.

Joke that we weren't able to sign him yet Falkirk were.

In my experience, if you're face-to-face/one-to-one with someone from the club, they're generally happy to just tell you anything.

Been good fun to watch the pair of you have the same argument over three different forums.

Did well at lower levels, had nothing when it got to the Premiership and lost their job.

For this level, he's a pretty good appointment. Reminds me a bit of AJ's appointment in terms of he has a level that he can manage to and will do a great job in League One at the very least.

Someone on P&B saying they messaged the McBookie Twitter and they've taken down the market because they think McPake to us is a done deal.

It sounds like he's going to go to Dundee with Murray to Raith.

Yep, they've suspended the market.

Is it just me or have McBookie pulled the market off now?

Does feel inevitable now that we're just going to keep him. Don't the board meet on Tuesdays? Hopefully we'll hear something either way late tomorrow or early Wednesday.

Up on the official site now, done deal. https://dafc.co.uk/story.php?t=Board_Statement_10/02/2022&ID=13618

You're right, he's talking nonsense. Three year deal.

To me, this is really the best case scenario. I don't think that many of us would have been surprised if they'd taken their ball and gone home after what happened with McArthur. I'm not surprised that they don't think it's the best time for them to take over fully since they can't actually be here that often and that's something that they've consistently said was key to their ownership. This shows that they are committed to the club going forward, regardless of what happened and it stops any delay to the academy or training facilities whilst allowing them to delay taking actual control until they feel like they can do a good job themselves, otherwise they risk damaging their own standing within the fanbase. Right now, I think a lot of fans feel like they're going to be the saviours that fix our board and the nonsense that's gone on for the past few years when they take control and them taking over during one of our worst periods would start them off on the worst possible footing, when they can't physically be here often. I have zero doubts that they're paying less £ per share now with the increase of shares from 75% to 80% even with the increased investment but it's more than a fair trade-off if it allows us to get going now. It's going to be continued short-term pain for a while, even if it means we land back down in League One but we have to have a long-term attitude to this (because it's the only way to swallow the sh*t medicine).

https://dafc.co.uk/story.php?t=New_DAFC_Youth_Academy_moves_forward&ID=13465 Looks like we'll have our own youth academy from January. I did think we'd have been aiming a little higher than the performance tier but it's still a great start.

He got the second yellow because he went back up to the fan after the push, can't do that.

A real shame that McArthur's gone, he made some very questionable decisions at times but overall was a massive force of good for the club, I don't know how it would have turned out if he hadn't been the one driving forward Pars United back in the admin days. For the future as well, it means less money for the playing budget as assumedly we'll now be taking on a paid CEO instead of McArthur as a volunteer. Worst part is that I bet the folk who spat on him, verbally abused him and slashed his tyres all feel pretty proud of themselves right now. I can't see this coming out as a net positive for the club.

Grant's had more tries to get it right than the Scottish rugby team today.