Sweet Pete

There's nothing on it just now. Just an aborted road off the roundabout and an empty field. Think it may be below the water table though due to the burns there.

I quite like Station Park. Something like that with more seating would be good.

I'm not suggesting that I necessarily endorse a move to full time football, I'm simply suggesting that if managed in the right way (not spunking money on silly wages for example) it could be achievable. If I was going to put my backing behind the idea, I would first want to see realistic plans for an increase in matchday revenue, plans to garner more support and plans for the transition. Edit to add: I do think part time football should be the order where clubs have a level of support that would not naturally sustain full time, but where a club is borderline I think it is healthy to prevent a natural dwindling by lack of effort. For example, Dumbarton are better supported than Alloa, Montrose, Forfar, Cove, Edinburgh City, Annan etc etc. but if clubs are reluctant to try and increase their profile both in the immediate community and the wider community then they can natural dwindle away to a few elderly diehards as generations of younger fans are passed by, which is something which Dumbarton were previously guilty of. Remember the stooshie when some younger fans started to go to Albion Rovers games and the club was so shocked that anyone would want to support them that they banned them? That's the kind of thing I mean.

My understanding from the statement was that the existing stadium land would be developed to fund the new build at Renton. Sounds like they're planning to go through with the "sign obscure foreign youngsters and sell on" model. Which has had hilarious results for other teams in the past, but success for some. On the full time point, I don't see that as being unattainable. The likes of Raith, Ayr, Livingston, Hamilton, Airdrie, Clyde, Queens Park, Queen of the South have all been or are full time or a hybrid of FT/PT players. Even Cowdenbeath had full time pro-youths a few years back using the modern apprenticeship scheme, so the size of Dumbarton's support isn't necessarily a barrier to that. Dumbarton are one of the better supported perennial wee diddy clubs, so it should be achievable if done in the right way (which is a huge "if"). All the above being said, I reserve the right to decry the entire thing when it turns out that it's all just bread and circuses to disguise / distract from the plan to sell off all the assets with little concern for the future of a historically significant football club.

Nightmare result for us to not turn up on a day when the 2 teams below us both won. Not only at risk of a playoff now, but could be automatically relegated. Football? Bloody hell.

I didn't realise she worked in a pet shop

It ain't matter the year. Burds are for fingering.

Hi Throbber.

Your best pal is a burd?! Hella friendzoned.

That's where I'm at these days. Trying to be all about the positives and not waste energy. Think the counselling is working.

That's just because they want your money.

Will we get a chance to grill the latest shower of c***s at the Abbotsford like the last? (Well technically it was their proxys)...

I see your confusion. It didn't used to be that. A few years ago, the official Hibs Twitter handle was different. They changed it as they were being laughed at.

I wasn't playing in that match. Though the players being drunk may explain their performances. I was asking if Hibs' Twitter account is still run by the same person who used to get upset and block people for enquiring why they had a daft Twitter username. It wasn't difficult to understand.

Is the Hibs Twitter admin still the same knicker wetter who used to block anyone who asked why they were at that time called Hibernian FC Club? That was pretty tin pot.

Yes mate. Ran straight out in a shoplifting spree because he'd been verbally abused. That was the beginning of the fall of humanity. If only we'd known not to verbally abuse rehabilitated offenders, our society would never have collapsed. Don't make the same mistakes we did.

He is employed though. We have a game left. As Neilly says irrelevant how long his contract is. He won't be if the investigation takes a while. Like I said, not a massive issue, just struck me as slightly redundant.

On the news today that Julia James, a police community support officer, has been found dead in woodlands in Dover with "significant head injuries". Apparently she wasn't working or in uniform at the time. Will we see a Sarah Everard style reaction, albeit from a slightly different angle here?

I just feel it's not really a leave if he's no longer employed by the club anyway. Not really a big issue as it's mostly a moot point anyway.

Out for the season from trying and failing to shoot. Belter.

See his taking a "leave of abscence". Is he under contract for next season? If not then his leave seems a bit redundant if his contract is up in a couple of weeks anyway.

Part of it will always come down to personal perspective. Yes, everyone would prefer to have no restrictions at all, but plenty will just be happy to accept any easings rather than none.

Perhaps I overstated, but yes I've seen loads of people out together in West Dunbartonshire, crowded in streets, gardens, pubs, shops and inside houses. Yes things are shut and restricted, but people are definitely taking less notice of the restrictions. The shops at the weekend were busy, weren't queued to get in and were only 2m distancing at the tills.

There's another wee left footed midfielder in the killie reserves who looks a better prospect, kid called Warnock who played for the first team against Dunfermline when the senior players were isolating. Still a bit young and slight though. I haven't seen much from Brindley to mark him out as any different to the rest of Dumbarton's dross currently, but that could be said for them all collectively at the moment.

Aye that's a dreadful bit of linking. "If you enjoyed Bulletproof starring Noel Clarke, stay tuned for sexual harassment allegations featuring Noel Clarke!"