Sweet Pete

That team sheet...

The sun is now blazing in beautiful Jimmy T. Heading to the independent people's Republic of Rockville in a few minutes. Death or glory* awaits. *Pints and lower league fitba

It's absolutely hooring it down in Jimmy T, I'd assume it's the same along the road in Rockville. This amount of rain will make the pitch and conditions difficult. I'd give up any hopes of either team "dominating from the first whistle" and expect both teams to be slogging it out in the mud.

Was it a bounce game for our fringe players?

Yes but the crucial difference here is that Russia was unofficially sending tens of thousands of it's troops to fight in Donbas from shortly after the Donetsk and Lugansk uprisings began. It was essentially a proxy war between Russia and Ukraine between 2014 and February 2022, much like how it was Chinese troops doing the fighting on the ground in Korea after the initial battles. Any private individuals from any number of countries who've volunteered to fight for Ukraine is not the same thing as a neighbouring nation sending it's armed forces into a country to fight and claiming that they're all just 'on leave' from the Russian armed forces and decided to fight in Donbas on their holidays and took their tanks and rifles with them, not to mention those who were actually in Russian uniform, or issued medals for action upon return.

Russia wasn't just supplying the separatists with arms, there have been Russian troops doing frontline combat in Donbas since 2014.

Weather supposed to be rainy on Saturday. Shaping up to be a festival of silky soccer.

Neither a secret nor a conspiracy.

Samesies. And a hoor of a lot of 5s and 4s. God knows where these people come from.

Did you guys go back down in one season last time? Would have been Division One circa 05 or thereabouts?

Stags is still there. More welcoming now as it was notoriously unfriendly in the past. Away fans are welcome in our club bar and if I'm not mistaken we've got a bar in the away end these days.

I'd definitely expect changes after that horsing. Though I suspect they're unlikely to be in defence as the back four we generally pick is arguably our strongest one. So probably changes from middle to front, plus likely back to the usual 4-1-4-1 formation probably, given Farrell's comments post match yesterday about his formation change not working.

Saturday 15th October sees Sons return home after a run of three away games during which we recorded one point and yesterday took a 6-0 pasting at Stirling. Rovers picked up a good win yesterday, but before Saturday they have a tricky Tuesday night trip to Elgin City to negotiate. Hopefully Dumbarton can get back to winning ways and the midweek efforts by the Vers give us the edge, but Rovers are no mugs. Looking forward to it, mainly because it's a day on the beer in my favourite local hostelries with 90 minutes of football thrown in. Predictions? Rants? Conspiracies? Let's have them.

Ach, lads, not only are we fighting relegation, but we're now also the worst Sons team in 50 (FIFTY) years: Where do these people come from?! I've been watching shite Dumbarton football for years and yet the verdicts are always worse online than in the flesh. What's the quote "y'all are getting too comfortable saying things online you'd never say to someone's face..."

I love a challenge. I just ventured into that Facebook group, where I'd never usually tread and emerged with this topper: That's us fighting relegation now!

Always have to one up me, don't you?

I like wee G as a person. He's coached both my nippers. But that's just about the daftest thing I've ever read. Even he'd think it's stupid.

If we only take 3 points from the next ten games then I'll join you all in pearl clutching hyperbole. Until then I'll keep my knickers untwisted.

How on earth is a 1 goal last minute defeat midweek away to Stranraer and a draw away to forfar a warning we'd get beat 6-0 today?! And we beat Bonnyrigg and kept a clean sheet! Let's not re-write history because we got cuffed today. Let's keep the baby when we slosh out the bath water, eh?

And so it begins : ) Hotheads and bampots only at this point. How's Craig Bryson doing?

If we beat Albion Rovers next Saturday will he have found the dressing room again?

He's got you there, Moj. You do do that right enough.

Yer man's in a right tantrum. Fairly undignified for what I assume to be an adult.

@lorenzo71 what's the "lost the dressing room" chat about? How can he have alienated all the players in the space of a week?