Dunfermline Athletic chairman Bob Garmory has conceded the current board of directors are unlikely to be in post for “forever and a day” but stressed they will not leave the club high and dry either.
Unwilling would be the wrong way to describe Garmory and the other seven board members who took control following Pars United’s successful CVA last October, although unwitting would probably fit the bill given the state of the Fife club last year.
Since then though, a great deal of work has gone on behind the scenes to not only salvage the situation at East End Park but also to provide a platform from which the 129-year-old club can move on from.
That, as Garmory rightly pointed out, will take time, and it is still very much a case of the new board feeling their way.
“We’re not in it forever and a day,” he told The Courier.
“We’re in it until we can get to a point where we can get to the club to a reasonably sustainable form and then walk away.
“None of the board members, apart from Jim Leishman and Kip McBay who were on the board, have been involved in this before the rest of the board was new.
“We were Pars fans before we started all this so we interfaced with football on a Saturday afternoon, but there are no night classes at Fife College for what to do in a football boardroom.
“We’ve had to learn things very quickly.”
Fellow director Ross McArthur echoed the chairman’s sentiments, admitting everyone on the new-look board had been “consumed with the whole thing” since it became clear Pars United’s takeover attempt had a chance of succeeding.
“We don’t have any aspirations to be on the board for the rest of our years, but what you want to do is pass it on in a proper sustainable manner, create a proper succession plan and have everything documented,” he said.