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I was also told that they hadn't given Celtic the authorisation to do the work agreed for the old firm games, hence why Celtic wouldn't give us tickets, but put the blame on us due to us having issues.

I'm sure Clement would love someone better than Dessers but given we don't have the cash for that then he's going to continue to play him as his number one striker.

3-0 Dessers

Official fan media (H&H). If it's said on there then presumably it's come from the club. We don't have proof or verification but they're hardly likely to lie about it.

I have a recollection that there had been a previous meeting with the fans, prior to the "lie" meeting you refer to, and the CEO was asked about a contingency plan and the fan was told that such a plan wasn't required as everything would be on time. Does anyone else recall hearing that, or was what I heard a misquote from the documented meeting?

I wonder whose recent appointment could have prompted King to say that?

I can't see it myself, John, but let's hope you're correct.

It's never going to happen in the near future. It could have happened in the early 90s when Sky had so much power and they could have forced the EPL to accept us, but now the EPL has grown exponentially and they don't need Sky and don't need us. UEFA will prevent things like the Atlantic league from happening with moves similar to the new (dreadful) CL and Europa League format. The only way that it could happen would be for a club to win a EU case on something like restraint of trade, but even then we would presumably still be reliant on the EPL voting to accept us, and why would they? We need to accept that we're here in Scotland and plan to improve our situation here.

Because we can't get promoted to the EPL?

Fan media are certainly suggesting that he was and it was him that pulled out.

Gilligan? 🫣

Dundee Utd 1 - 2 Rangers FGS Dessers

I'm not sure how any of us can assess whether Gillespie would have made a good or bad CEO for us.

I don't think you cam blame the keeper for Scotland's goal.

Clarke is generally OK in games like last night where we are playing defensively against a much better team. He doesn't have a clue when in comes to us playing against a team of similar quality where we need to play a more attacking style, as was shown by our inadequate showing in the Euros.

Hitc? I'm surprised that you even have to question whether it's reputable.

Not when we couldn't afford it and had to finance it by selling part of the club's footprint that is now lost forever.

It seems to me that there must be injury concerns about Matondo if we aren't registering him, given our left wing deficiency. We've just got an injured Cortes, whereas Matondo could surely be brought in to replace Dowell if we've already got Diomande, Bajrami and Lawrence who could play in the 10 position. Maybe we don't need to register King and he qualifies without being registered? Not sure about the rules.

It seems that the the pain is understood as long as it means we don't lose to Celtic.... There needs to be a realism about where we are. The days of new investment coming along and sticking cash into the club to improve the playing squad are gone due to FFP. There's no quick fix. That's not to say that we can't get a big improvement in the basics like attitude and fitness but it's going to be a long grind.

Does that mean that Matondo's injury is a bad one? Only 2 wide players and one of them is currently injured? Makes the club's decision to pull out of the loan deal for the Southampton boy an even worse one.

You can't save spreadsheets with multiple sheets as a csv file, so it's a non-starter.

I'm not sure of the relevance of the Parks being involved (or not in the case of Douglas), other than to have a gratuitous dig at them. There's not going to be a significant increase in the capacity, no matter who's in charge.

Yeah, his form has really fallen off a cliff this season. Half his passing goes to the opposition and his lack of pace means he's not contributing from an attacking standpoint. We've relied on him driving us forward for so many years and now that's away the team struggles.

I disagree with some of what you've said, both from a factual and from an opinion point of view, but happy to leave it there, mate.

I think it's too complex to change it to csv.