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From the adver site. He wants to get players playing for STFC. If this means affecting promotion then so be it? A right move? I'm undecided/split. I want promotion but on the other hand I want players who want to play for stfc. I'm not sure on the whole do or die attitude.
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right move for me. Sturrock is here for the long term and i think we can rebuild in the summer (hopefully under the consortium!) and build a squad capable of winning this league by a street. i think if Sturrock starts afresh next season we are going places.

That's bollocks. If there really are players who could make a difference to us getting promotion, Sturrock should play them regardless of what he thinks of them, then get rid in the summer when we've been promoted.

Having said that, I don't think there are any players whose omission from the team would adversely affect our promotion chances. :shrug:

We've got a squad who 'SHOULD' (when i say should i mean along the same lines as we should not have been relegated, should have beaten brighton etc etc.) win this league, unfortunately we dont have a team who looks as though we can do it. They dont seem to care either.

Best case scenario = promotion this season, keep who really want to play for the club (Brezovan, P Smith, J Smith, Peacock, Evo and some others) then flush the rest out. Leg Luggy build hid own squad then go on a push for the championship! 8) Of course led by the consortium!  :soapy tit wank:

get us up then ship em out

Trouble is it's already fairly clear who's for the chop come the summer, which I'd guess isn't much help when it comes to motivting them to get their fingers out

I would be surprised if Luggy cut his nose of to spite his face to steal a phrase.

I don't think there any many players that will not want to be playing 1st team football so I expect them all to give it a good go as luggy requires, I think there are possibly 2 players that may not get a game again and that is Roberts & Shakes as you get the feeling that Luggy has had enough of their 30 min performances...although saying that you get the feeling that Roberts has a few gears to step up and if he does that then he can be a force...but the question remains...will he ?

True, but they still have to impress the watching scouts otherwise nobody will want them.

My belief is that if we dont get promotion THIS season - the fans simply wont keep coming as they have done this year - Season ticket sales are CERTAIN to drop - I cant remember the exact number that there were this year but there was a BIG increase .. with the drop in season ticket money and gate receipts in general there will be (if its possible!) even LESS money in order to get the players needed to get us up.

THAT is why this season is so important and Im not certain that Sturrock understands this at present or if he does has reason of his own to ignore it.

I know what I think but I dont want to keep going on about that ... so I wont!

Quite correct, just ask Gareth Whalley! :cry:

I think it really depends on the players if there up for it,and have they got it in them to get us promoted .To be honest the way there playing at the moment we dont deserve to get promoted. :(

the irony being, of course, that the players in the squad who are not performing and who we desperately need to start playing well, quite simply are not good enough for league 1.

so if we go up, their contract won't be renewed. if we stay down, chances are it will.

they all seemed to want to play for STFC when Wise was boss?

fatbury makes a good point (for the first time in a long time!) due to Wise ticket sales were up loads. They will go down next season if we're still in the basement.

Alot of people have stuck with it, but I cant see many wanting to come back next season. Lets be honest the football is dire.....the saving grace so far this season, is no matter how dire we win....

We could win this league and still not go up  :|

I found this peice earlier when reading about Dagenham and thought this is how our players should be talking but sadly they are not:

Since he came in we have been steadily rebuilding and the club is run professionally on and off the pitch.

"He is getting his rewards now. The players we have are hungry, fit and strong. We have a spirit now where we go out and we don't think we are going to get beaten.

"I can't see the lads giving it up now. They are looking so strong off the pitch too as a unit. They want success and I think they are going to get it."


Wouldn't it be nice to hear our players talking like this !!

How so? :shock:

If the cva isn't paid. I'm all doom and gloom me :D

we,re sacrificing our top three finnish in the gamble of reaching the play off final which would pay off the cva. thats my conspiracy theory. :x

If we won it then i'd say it was the best decision/gamble that they have taken with our club.......HOWEVER I severely doubt we would win the playoffs and secondly I can not see how this sort of a conspiracy is even possible.
Sturrock is NOT the kind of man who would allow such things to take place....he'd walk.....and he is showing no signs whatsoever of doing that - he is commited to going up automatically - the only question is whether his ideas and tactics are going to work.

I'm with him on this one though and think we will make third spot if not second come May (we wont be champion though IMO)

Ive no doubt that Sturrock has ambitions to stay here long term (3 or 4 seasons). But theres plenty of clubs in League 1 with much bigger budgets than us who would like Paul Sturrock.

I think Sturrock is finding out what we already knew. That the attitude of the players who got us relegated last season, and are still with us now was/is/continues to be awful. Im pleased that he is totally uncompromising and slags the players off in public. Because some of them have shit for brains.

On the other hand, getting stuck in this league is not an option. Average attendances next season would be around 4000 and we'd be in trouble.

Agree with most of that spence....not sure about the 4000 though!
This might all be academic anyway if the cva is not paid.

Millom