STATEMENT: Thank you to the Purple Army!

Hi Purple Army,

Firstly we would like to thank everyone for their superb support during the 2016/17 season, it’s goes without saying the fans here are an absolute credit to the club and have once again been magnificent.

Everyone associated with the club is hurting badly today and it’s not a good feeling at all – especially when everyone is working 24/7 to bring the success we all want. The weekend was a massive disappointment, we were desperate as an organisation to finish the season off in style and make the playoff final weekend. We would like to take the opportunity to apologise to the fans for two very disappointing performances, they weren’t what this organisation should be about. All the best to Dundee this coming weekend, they thoroughly deserve to be there.

Our target from the start of the season was to compete for the league title and win some silverware, we were one point away two years ago and five points away last season – so understandably we felt we had made the adjustments to achieve that. It’s back to the drawing board, we can assure each and everyone of you we will be analysing where our errors were, where we need to improve with the aim of progressing the club further and competing for silverware.

As a club we are very proud of what we are, how far we have progressed in seven short years and are ambitious about becoming the best in the UK. I’d like to thank the whole Purple Army, sponsors, Clan Crew, the Arena – thank you to each and everyone of you.

On behalf of myself, Andy McLaughlin and everyone associated with the club we hope everyone has a fantastic summer and we hope to see you all back at the Braehead Arena at the end of August.

Gareth Chalmers

Hockey & Operations Director