Ray Vaughn
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My points in no particular order:
1. Does anyone think that the vast majority of the Colt players will ever get as much as 5 starts for the first team over any time period?
2. If the parent team has a promising youngster they are going to keep him for the first team. Anyone as promising as Tierney isnae slumming it away to Central Park.
3. Remember to take off 20% VAT from your gate money calculations.
4. This may be a Trojan horse should the old squirm ever get the call to move to Engerlund PL. No doubt they would try to keep a team in our leagues too.
If they f**k off to England - doubtful Rangers would ever be welcomed after Manchester - then it’s a clean break for me.
5. Remember when SPL teams had a crisis in 2012 when supporters held off renewing season tickets to see if Sevco were going to be parachuted into a higher league (they were as the LL is the destination for new clubs)
Don’t renew yer season ticket. They will shit themselves.
6. Old Squirm fans don’t turn up when there is nothing at stake. Celtic stopped opening the upper tier for a couple of seasons.
Early 80s attendances at Ibrox Folks!
The challenge cup shows they will not bring lots of fans.
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No that doesn't help.
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I though he did ok for us.
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I'm bitterly against this proposal but surely the proof of the pudding would be in the eating.
I propose that the system get three years and if at least five of the players don't make 25 appearances for the first team that season then the system is a failure and the team pulled from the league.0 -
The Away strip is always from the catalogue to save money. Kelt is growing on me.
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Lowland league. Start Planning now. If anyone finishes below the Beanos then they will be one almighty shite team.
Get the firing squad assembled for Dickson, McMillan, Smith D, Smith R, Ferns, Petrie, Mills, McCue0 -
Can we close this thread?
This pish has to stop. Fucking grow up.0 -
Just you wait until next Saturday. Almighty pumping heading your way.
As long as it's not a draw to avoid a replay. Might score a last minute own goal to go out rather than have endure that fecking replay.
Mind you it's Hobson's choice: Wick (A) in a replay or Berwick (A) in the league on Dec 3rd. Both are shite trips.
Actually, the Berwick away game being postponed for a few weeks might suit us. It (and Edinburgh (A) the following week) is a game where cannot afford to lose (too early for a must win game at this stage of the season) so an extra couple of weeks coaching with the new manager may get be of benefit.0 -
Forfar! f**k off, it must be Gayfield
I beg to disagree sir, Gayfield is crumbling already. The additional 12000 supporters would accelerate the process even further.
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Cunning - but returning to counties we used to be part of Berwickshire so that'll see us OK.
We could also merge clubs playing in similar strips? An added benefit would be that their fans might not even notice. Dunfermline Athletic, St Mirren, Elgin and Queen's Park (ok their fans would have to squint) could form Dunmirren City Park FC. Colourblind followers of Berwick could provide fertile ground for attracting new supporters.
I suspect you don't understand how colour blindness works. Mind you, I distinctly remember Berwick singing they were black and gold while playing in a black and luminous yellow strips so maybe it is me that doesn't understand it!
Decision time, which stadium in Angus should survive for the new merged team.
I vote Forfar.0 -
Yup, although being from Stirling doesn't mean you are the only club to think Central Park is the ultimate shitehole in Scottish football.
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Wouldn't it make sense to merge Cowdenbeath and Albion Rovers out of existence as their grounds are shitholes.
I like a wee trip to Angus as it's not too far and the grounds are relatively safe (see previous sentence) but I can't see any of the four sets of fans supporting a team that plays outwith their town.0 -
A bit like you turning up with offers of a pint in the supporters bar.
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Moses was our poorest player against Hearts.
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No-one getting carried away yet?
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I look forward to the Berwick complaints that there was "too much grass at Forthbank and they arenae used to it" excuses this season for getting pumped.
The pitch was the best in the league (2nd half of the season once they sorted the early season problem anyway) and I fully expect it to be far and away the best this coming season.
Unfortunately I will not be at our April visit to Shielfield as I've a wedding that day but if last season is anything to go by then a tattie field would be charitable as a description of your playing surface. Berwick's ongoing season after season seethe is appreciated though. Denying Berwick their once in a decade opportunity of promotion must have hurt. Well done that ref.0 -
Same manager, nae Shire.
Don't be so sure.0 -
I think the Beanos will scoosh the Lowland League the season after next!
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Lamont turned up one night to training, didnae fancy training so he fu<ked off.
Released soon after.
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16 days on from seeding and looking great after its first cut.
Some folk will be eating their words on here.
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11 days on and already a better pitch than Shielfield.
Unless the weather goes mental then I would guess it'll be ready for mid July.
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And yet it was Stirling Albion that initiated this move not the council. Don't understand the lack of control you speak us. Clyde couldn't play their playoff final at home so the games were switched and, I hear, Queen's Park heard about the switch on the radio not through the official channels so late in the day was the switch. Cowdenbeath had a similar problem two seasons ago and gave up home advantage in the playoffs over Dunfermline. Stirling Albion have priority for any date at Forthbank over any booking and that includes fucking cat shows Meadowbank/Edinburgh City! (Wee reference to late 80s/early 90s there)Get a pitch same as our. Oh sorry you don't own your ground so your not in control
We had a spell where a few games were cancelled and the owners of the club (oh aye that us fans) had a serious discussion about going plastic. That discussion has died a death as the grass surface is back to its magnificent best and will presumably be even better next year when the turf is fully grown. We are not talking about disgraceful surfaces like Berwick's, Brechin's or Motherwell's of recent years, we are talking about improving something which was already great.
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A Berwick fan criticising another team's pitch is like asking Gary Glitter his view on child protection procedures!
Once we sorted out the drainage problem we had, the Forthbank pitch returned to its former glory and was easily the best pitch in the division for the second half of the season.
The version I heard was that there is a specialised drainage system which prevents water from the nearby Forth getting in but the water can get out (pumped out?)
Anyway, no-one knew how to use the drainage system - possibly due to people changing jobs - so the Soutars Sportsturf company had people who knew how to work it and demonstrated the necessary know how.
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Pull out of the tournament if the pitch is not ready.
Think we should boycott tournaments sponsored by gambling companies. Could be undefeated next season if they get rid of challenge cup.
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Stirling Albion Thread
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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I was a Trust Board member from the very beginning until after the 2010 takeover.
The problems with the Trust Board and the Exec (the club directors) stem from the takeover in 2010.
There was about 4 weeks between winning control of the club and the start of the season.
There was no time to sit down and lay out a structure, responsibilities and remits of the Trust Board and Exec Board.
There has always been tension between the two as the Exec Board ignored reasonable requests from the Trust Board for updates on the finances during the first season after the takeover. Monthly Trust Board meetings after monthly meeting - no update on the club finances. Rumours of a cardboard box of receipts unprocessed would suggest that the Exec didn’t know what the situation actually was so that was why there no ability to give an update. For the record, a £5k profit was made that season (we were relegated tamely from the 2nd tier under John O’Neil then Jocky Scott)
There was an Exec Boardroom coup. Paul Goodwin and Steven lieper were ousted and the Brown era began with Alan Christie taking over the finances. This is when the club started to be run properly if looking at it with a financial hat on.
The procedures for the Exec reporting to the Trust Have never been properly set down. The Trust have owned the club for 7.5 years. It is a failure of the Trust ownership that they never fixed the roles and remits of the structure properly.