Steve Burr's Severance Package

These sort of agreements will be covered by a settlement agreement so will be confidential by both parties and costs most likely included within the pay budget of financial report so impossible to split from the rest of the budget , in short we may never know.

I had heard this also. Despite the general feeling of hate from many towards Burr, I don't think he was out to screw us. Indeed, I feel his role at the Club was almost more a 'Director of football' and in my opinion, Jon McCarthy was running the football coaching and management side of things for most of Burr's tenure. I think Burr himself said this to be the case although obviously he had ultimate responsibility. Great managers are there to delegate after all. I had serious reservations when Macca was appointed to replace Burr as it would just be more of the same. Sadly, this has proven to be very much the case.

Indeed looking back, Steve Burr gave us some great times and I feel with the support of a Chairman (Durkin) that appreciated the concept of speculate to accumulate and didn't mind dipping in his own pocket to make it happen, things were moving relatively nicely at that time with hope and support from the fans. The accusations from some fans of Durkin stealing from the Club (which incidentally is ridiculous if you know anything about Durkin and his wealth!) ultimately forced him out of the Club and I feel this was the turning point in the financial restrictions being placed on the managers and the decline in performance and supporter goodwill.

I guess it's a classic case of 'you don't know what you've got until its gone'. I think we have some really tough times to come.

My respect for Steve Burr fell into question when I heard that he and Ben shared the same agent and that the move to Motherwell may have been arranged against the best interests of the club.