No matter your viewpoint on Mr Petrie he has ran a business well selling all it's good assets at top prices and invested in infrastructure.
Every year he has had at least 1 star player available to fund his strategy right up until the £1m for Stokes last year. Now we are reduced to selling Bamba for a pittance.
There is nobody left to flog and we have overstretched ourselves on the new stand leaving us a team with massively diluted talent on the park and contracts running out soon.
With the financial enviroment for everyone, crowds down, commercial income down we are now at the thin end of the wedge with little room for movement in transfer market.
Petrie your luck has run out!!
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Thread: Petries's luck has ran out.
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08-01-2011 04:16 PM #1
Petries's luck has ran out.
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08-01-2011 04:20 PM #2
From what I gather, we have a more than competetive wage budget with all of those around us competing for 3rd, bar Hearts. As long as that is the case IMO we cant really have a go at Petrie, he's sold players that wanted to leave, and if they were to stay, they would require bigger salaries which we cannot afford.
Yes, we may have used the wage budget poorly, but thats down to the individual managers' signings...
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08-01-2011 04:29 PM #5
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Nothing left tae sell
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08-01-2011 04:32 PM #7
Hands off Rod Petrie.
Remember the golden rule. Regardless and whatever else he's doing a grand job.
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He keeps making bad appointments, Calderwood probably being the worst yet. So he IS culpable, more than anybody.
I agree about the budget thing though - a decent manager should get us 4th with the wage bill we have.
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08-01-2011 05:03 PM #10
Petries time is up. We are a joke of a club just now. We need proper investment in the team and a chairman that knows how to run a football club. Am not buying all this rubbish Petrie has done a grand job, he has done an ok job. It was not him that got rid of the debt, it was Hibs, we had the car park which we got 10 million for, that belonged to Hibs not Petrie, we had excellent players and sold them for decent cash but to be fair I think we got what they were valued at so that was not all Petries doing, any decent chairman would have done the same. We have invested in rubbish managers and rubbish players over the years, that is Petries doing.
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08-01-2011 05:14 PM #11
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stop defending petrie !!!!!!
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08-01-2011 05:42 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-01-2011 05:47 PM #13
That's some lucky streak Petrie had, over 10 years and nothing to show for it but a healthy balance sheet, training complex, completed stadium, CIS Cup win and four (?) European place finishes.
Oh wait a minute, nobody's thinking more than a week ahead.
(Another thread full of people on low post counts, what can it all mean?)
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08-01-2011 05:56 PM #14
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08-01-2011 06:40 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The point of my OP was to suggest he has done all this in the 'lucky' position of having top talent on long term contracts which he could sell for big bucks.
That gravy train has dried up and our team is so weak it needs strengthened in every position just to stay in the league.
As for thinking a week ahead, we have been in transition so long now when all these other areas have been strengthened that surely someone , some day will actually consider putting team improvement first priority, surely.
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08-01-2011 07:12 PM #16
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you will sell players throught thwo factors - 1. good recruitment/scouting and 2. youth products
on 1. we have nothing, well we have something but it would be as well being nothing
on 2. hanlon and wotherspoon - are they sellable? cos if not we have nothing left to sell with no sign of anything coming through
we will be making losses as a business
SHAMBLES
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08-01-2011 07:16 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't think that's down to luck, but down to skill and judgement.
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08-01-2011 07:41 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
My personal view is they will come up short - and some way short also.
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