Club Statement

The board of Forfar Athletic Football Club and indeed our entire management team are acutely aware of the seriousness of our league position. In recent weeks the Chairman and Vice Chairman have been meeting regularly with the manager to offer both additional financial support and to discuss the situation we find ourselves in.

Whilst not offering this as an excuse, we have to be honest and say we have been hit with the most severe injury list, one which any club would find difficult to manage. We find ourselves continually plagued  with horrendous luck on this front and we are struggling to get the squad that we hoped we would have available to us.

During the recently closed loan window at the end of September we found as did many other clubs, it extremely difficult to get the deals over the line in some cases despite the fact that we had been working for weeks  to conclude.  We accept that this is just part and parcel of football.

Gary is very much aware of what we require as a football club and rest assured no one is working harder than him and his back room staff to turn our fortunes around and he accepts that this can’t go on indefinitely. He does still have the full backing of the board and his playing squad.

While we accept that this statement will not be universally popular with all our fans, we ask that you respect what we are trying to do and that is to help a young manager through a very difficult time in his career.

Before closing the Directors do note the criticism levelled they feel unfairly on social media by certain factions that they are only interested in procuring sponsorship and hospitality bookings and promoting events such as Sportsman’s Dinners and Golf Days.
Nothing could be further from the truth.

The football side of the club, the supporters and share holders are and always will be at the forefront of all our efforts.

However without the many fund raising ventures that the Directors and a hardy band of volunteers put so much of their own time and effort into, the club simply could not survive these days on the financial front.

We would like to thank you for your continued support both on match days and at fund raising events, all of which rest assured is much appreciated.

Let’s all stick together moving forward in our one main aim at present to see the ‘Loons’ begin a climb up the league two table.