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1 hour ago, Beachcomber said:
Difficult to name an East Fife team for tomorrow.
Last week we were down to the bare bones due to injury and illness. McDonald did say in the after match interview that things should be improved for this week but Healy, Docherty, Page hopefully these three make it.
It's difficult to be optimistic, our recent record at the Rock is awful. If Dumbarton get an early goal i will fear the worst ,which will pile more pressure on Mcdonald especially if our team is stronger.
Ideally we will go :
-Fleming-
-Docherty-Page-Easton-Murdoch-
-McManus-Trouten-Walls-
-Shepherd- -Austin- - Healy-
Austin Healy?
Sounds like a 1950s car.
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4 hours ago, Beachcomber said:
Anything less than 4-0 for the Sons will be looked on as a failure.
"It should have been six."
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21 hours ago, Sweet Pete said:
We could win every game 4 nil and there'd still be folk whining.
"It should have been six."
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1 hour ago, Sweet Pete said:
I reserve the right to be absolutely wrong and no-one is allowed to slag me off if we get beat.
Apologies to all other Sons fans but I'm supposed to be attending this one, (I normally don't because I live in Fife but for a big birthday my two sons are treating me to hospitality.)
Therefore it's likely to be a Clyde win.
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23 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
At least in the juniors, men didn't call each other "sweetheart" or "petal".
Was it a man's game?
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Is it too early to say, "Faz out"?
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20 hours ago, Hauzen said:
Interesting to note that the four former league sides occupy the bottom four serious side spots (no offence Gretna and Edinburgh Uni fans)
I think people in general seriously underestimate how big an adjustment is needed when a club drops into the LL.
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5 hours ago, WC Boggs said:
To be equally fair mate, we seem to have lost every gear except reverse.
Again to be fair, it's not straightforward going up a division.
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4 hours ago, Cambuslang Fifer said:
What do we do on a Monday and Thursday night at training is beyond me gave away number of balls and when we have possession of the ball we dunno what to do with it that’s been our theme this season and today was a prime example of that.
we mustard only three shots yesterday and Dumbarton could of beat us 4-0 and I’m at the point loosing faith for mcdonald is under statement with every week passing this side is nowhere near last season team that got us to the play offs and should be bin before it’s too late given Elgin changed their manager and Clyde has lost theres.
I thought East Fife knocked the ball about quite well but overall they couldn't do much with it where it mattered.
If it's a youth policy you've gone for it's probably worth sticking with.
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23 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Current league positions (start of November):
Interesting to find Bonnyrigg + Spartans top half in SPFL2... Cove + Edinburgh City + Kelty are SPFL1... while Albion Rovers + Berwick + 'Shire all bottom 6 in LL, and Cowdenbeath bottom half.Entirely predictable that, given the trajectories these clubs were on and the relative monies involved.
Brechin not conforming to that stereotype though.
Any long term SPFL side is going to struggle with the change of status if relegated to the Lowland League. Their attractivemess to potential players is bound to be much less there.
I note it took Edin City and Annan long enough to get promoted one division in the SPFL.
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1 hour ago, Neilly said:
#FazOut at half time and #FazIn at full time guys.
All those crying at half time surely have to give the man the credit he deserves?
Doesn't suit the agenda obviously but this could be a huge turning point in the Farrell reign.
He's still got a lot to do to convince me.
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6 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said:
So what exactly is your relationship with Stevie Farrell? Brother? Father? Secret love child?
All of the above?
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1 hour ago, stanley said:
If the champions were guaranteed promotion then, yes, it would be an easier route back into the league. If relegation was opened up more from the SPFL then you'd also eventually see one of the clubs promoted into the SPFL be relegated back down and one of the clubs relegated into the LL promoted back up. Right now, it's generally the historically weaker league clubs coming down but once most of them go down, you might see one of the slightly bigger clubs get relegated out of the league too.
If the champions were guaranteed promotion.
Then you're talking about two automatic relegations from the SPFL (to be replaced by one from the HL and another from the LL if it's guaranteed promotion for champions.) That would be two relegations from a league of ten clubs. Which would be insane.
And a relegated club would still have to be champion to make it back up. Which hasn't happened yet in the LL (and I would suggest won't for a very long time.)
btw Brechin were not historically weaker. Arguably neither were Berwick. Cowdenbeath weren't habitual bottom feeders either.
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22 hours ago, stanley said:
Although things move incredibly slowly, I'm confident that the relegation spots will finally change. I think it's more likely that the Lowland League will open up relegation first (as the member clubs change over time and more ex-juniors gradually enter the league they'll likely have another vote at some point that is passed). I think the SPFL will change in time too but it could take several years. Hopefully the stream of clubs out of the SPFL (five of the established league clubs already gone) will eventually make clubs wake up and realise that they need to have an easier route back in.
What easier route? Maybe from the HL but have any of the clubs relegated to it even fnished second in the LL? A club relegated from the SPFL isn't exactly an attractive proposition for ambitious players, ie the ones they'd need in order to do well in the LL.
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4 hours ago, Greenmachine said:
Given the lack of finance outwith the SPFL you should have no problem in depatching ex Juniors Banks o Dee on Saturday then…..
Where is it written in stone that clubs in a higher division will always beat those in a lower one in a Cup game?
I take it Celtic have never lost such a game .........
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19 hours ago, Greenmachine said:
Isn’t that the case with a club getting relegated from any division?
So the answer is not to have any?
No it isn''t. The difference between say the bottom two divisions of the SPFL is not as great as that between the SPFL and the Lowland/Highland Leagues and the ability to attract players is therefore affected more acutely. In any case the vastly overwhelming majority of lower division SPFL players are only on one year contracts. They're not at all likely to re-sign to play in a lower league for a lower wage and the club concerned is going to be seen as on the slide and so not going to be as attractive a proposition compared to other clubs.
And my comments did not in any way argue against relegation from the SPFL (that was only in your head.)
I only said that this particular relegation is a much bigger barrier to being promoted back than it might appear to someone looking on it from a distance.
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3 hours ago, Greenmachine said:
Nobody that goes to watch Dumbarton supports either half of the OF then?
Maybe some that go to watch do but I would suggest no Dumbarton fan does. I certainly don't.
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3 hours ago, Greenmachine said:
Funny how none of the clubs who’ve gone down have ever came back up and none of the clubs who came up have ever gone down.
There are excellent reasons for that. Among them the fact that a relegated club is unlikely even to hold onto the players who weren't good enough anyway and also unlikely - especially in the short term - to attract players who are capable of a promotion push. Not to mention the drop-off in prize money in the Lowland/Highland compared to the SPFL (parachute payments notwithstanding.)
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46 minutes ago, berwicksfinest said:
ASLEF agreed to all this
You want to get yourself a better union then.
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23 hours ago, lithgierose said:
It was more what they were upto in the club toilets.
Oo'err, Missus.......
Do tell.
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On 09/09/2023 at 17:44, LongTimeLurker said:
Maybe Forthbank has better facilities set up for broadcasters than some of the other possibilities.
It undoubtedly has.
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16 hours ago, Black Pennel said:
Hats off to Larry.
I see what you did there. Goodbye.
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4 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:
Darvel were in the playoffs and lost to Tranent, so not sure what you are talking about. Beyond that, obstacles placed in the way of progression are not healthy for the quality of the Lowland League. If there had been two promotion places available last season as there should have been, an ability to replace Edinburgh University who were way off the required standard with Auchinleck Talbot when Beith ran into bizarre planning permission issues where floodlights were concerned because it wasn't clear who actually owned the land would have resulted in a stronger and more interesting Lowland league in 2023-24.
I suspect the point was that Darvel didn't make it to the LL. No West club has as yet.
Auchinleck's performance so far this season doesn't say much for their standards.
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38 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:
Those Dumbarton fans were the biggest collection of simpletons I've ever seen in my life at a game.
Proper inbred oddballs.
Yea, well. Only nutters would want to see their side play against a B team.
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Dumbarton V East Fife 6/1/2024
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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I can't help it if I have more experience than young whippersnappers.