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That last paragraph amazes me. In the last 21 seasons since Rod joined the board we have consistently had the 5th highest crowds and therefore player budget in the league yet we have only managed a top 5 finish 4 times. That’s 4 times in 21 seasons we performed in line with our budget. It’s hard to see how anyone could give him pass marks for that.
Our average league position since he joined the board is 9th.
If you judge him on the building job alone then the stadium and training centre are great but on the field not so much.
Both cup win were amazing, although other clubs have experienced that as well.


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Thing is I don't think you can separate the on-field and off-field activities

One clearly impacts upon the others

If you consider the utter shambles we were when STF & Rod took over, to get to where we are is startling

Outwith the ugly sisters no-one is within a million miles of where we are.

My hope and expectation is that we will now kick on and establish ourselves where we ought to be whilst our competitors struggle with the issues we have faced and overcome.

See HMFC for an illustration!

That the time of their running the club has in large part been painful, there is no doubt, but we are only custodians of the club for the next generations.

Famous Five era not withstanding we have actually won 3 trophies in that time which would compare favourably with most periods in our history

I am comfortable that my children and grandchildren will reap the benefits of what we have sown.

Maybe having a bean counter running the club who understood the benefits of having the infrastructure in place to enable the business to perform will be seen as a good thing in the years to come?

One things for sure when we are dead and gone, maybe even before when STF and Rod Petrie bow out, we will be in a far better place than we were when they came onboard.

If that's not success that I don't know what is?

The problem with football discussions about anything is that its emotive and personalises issues on individuals and once folks minds are made up about an individual they seldom change. I am as guilty as anyone so its not a criticism.

Rational thought and thinking through the issues to arrive at a balanced viewpoint seldom occur. Once I had decided James Collins was pish, that was it.

Rod Petrie could become the next Mother Theresa, but many folk would remember only as the man in charge when we were crap for various periods and who should have spent £150k on LG