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Post by Time4aPINT on Mar 13, 2008 12:29:15 GMT
Looks like Gretna are in serious financial trouble. Here's another club that have spent money they didn't have in the quest for success. Now their rich investor is ill it looks like they will slip back down the leagues quicker than they went up them. It's a shame for their fans. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/7291519.stm |
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Post by knowles on Mar 13, 2008 12:32:27 GMT
They won't slip down the leagues, they will just fold A sad end to an incredible story Read their history- it makes for interesting reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretna_F.C. |
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Post by Time4aPINT on Mar 13, 2008 12:35:35 GMT
R.I.P Gretna.
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Post by Done it for scfcbuxton on Mar 13, 2008 12:39:58 GMT
Any decent players we can get in
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Post by knowles on Mar 13, 2008 12:42:28 GMT
No- I saw them the other week against Hibs and they were pretty poor. Their best player was Jon Paul Kissock but he's on loan from Everton
'Legend' Kenny Deuchar got out before the ship sank- he has gone over to the States
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Post by sovietonion on Mar 13, 2008 13:11:03 GMT
They're a funny club Gretna. There is truly not a lot of sympathy for them over the border, they were always onto a loser. Few fans, own ground a shithole in a village miles from anywhere. SPL Ground sharing 90 miles away in Motherwell whose pitch is a ruin and lots of fixtures postponed due to bad weather costing money The single person bankrolling them at a big loss every week smokes 120 fags a day and is at death's door with a brain disease. Disliked for buying their way into the league whe Airdrieonians folded (albeit Airdrie bought Clydebank and did the same to them) Loads of players already laid off last season. As popular as Rupert Murdoch buying Droylsden and going all the way pinching the pick of the players in each division on the way to the Premiership... By the time they were promoted they had a squad that would struggle in the Scots first division and only their big poitns lead stopped them being caught by St Johnstone. Rumour had it that Mileson's money was already running out then... Mileson's family hates the fact that their inheritance is being pissed up the wall at Gretna and are probably relieved he's so ill. Also, half the kit and the players pre packed dinners were nicked from the club overnight too. Talk about the roof falling in! Living the dream but dying in a nightmare- just rank mismanagement, poor business plan and all their eggs in one basket!  |
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Post by knowles on Mar 13, 2008 13:16:29 GMT
There were just 501 fans for a home game against Dundee Utd last week There will eb an announcement on their future at 2.15 |
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Post by knowles on Mar 13, 2008 15:00:13 GMT
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Mar 13, 2008 15:16:15 GMT
Looks like Gretna are in serious financial trouble. Here's another club that have spent money they didn't have in the quest for success. Now their rich investor is ill it looks like they will slip back down the leagues quicker than they went up them. It's a shame for their fans. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/7291519.stmWould we be in similar trouble if Coates Carked it? |
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Post by knowles on Mar 13, 2008 15:46:25 GMT
I wouldn't have thought so burger. It has been announced that just 10 Gretna players are willing to face Aberdeen at the weekend  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2008 16:27:02 GMT
Would we be in similar trouble if Coates Carked it? I agree with Knowlesy. We'd be in a bit of a similar position, but not in as much trouble. Other members of Papa's family own the holding company which owns SCFC; as far as I know only old-man Mileson owns any shares in Gretna. So we would be left with owners; where as Gretna have no one. What our owners would then do is another matter - The holding company must be making some hefty loans to the football club (scfc ltd) to keep us in cash-flow at the minute; whether that would continue, if Papa departed, is open to debate (if you want) ah |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Mar 14, 2008 11:11:56 GMT
What our owners would then do is another matter - The holding company must be making some hefty loans to the football club (scfc ltd) to keep us in cash-flow at the minute; whether that would continue, if Papa departed, is open to debate (if you want) ah Well they must be in pretty deep so hopefully they would have to carry on Papa's good work and take us to the promised land to recoup any of their outlay!  They could then sell us as a debt free premiership team! ;D Or are we just a loss making part of their business that means they pay less tax which in effect means we are free to run? I wish someone would explain all this to someone as thick as me!  Lets have a mass debate! |
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Post by RAF on Mar 14, 2008 11:18:21 GMT
Well, as it goes fuck them!
H ;D
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Post by Miniman on Mar 14, 2008 11:22:20 GMT
Let sput together a save the Gretna fund and give them donations like one fan tried to do to his beloved club last month!
I pledge a funny video.....
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Post by RAF on Mar 14, 2008 11:24:19 GMT
I pledge my sputem the jock league kanoutes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2008 11:43:52 GMT
They could then sell us as a debt free premiership team! ;D Bingo! Lets have a mass debate! Possibly ... but I doubt on this topic ... start one on the Mosque and see what happens ... ;D ah |
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Post by Time4aPINT on Mar 14, 2008 12:32:22 GMT
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They could then sell us as a debt free premiership team! ;D
