Ivo den Bieman
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What happened to Ashfield's traditional park? Have they been booted out?
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1 hour ago, RossBFaeDundee said:
It is quite simply remarkable how quickly Queen's Park has gone from the last bastion of amateurism and playing for the love of the game in senior football to a rather detestable franchise indeed. Kudos.
From loveable eccentrics and principled amateurs to detestable self-interested scumbags in what, two or three seasons?
No criticism of the Spiders fans who I know will be almost entirely against these proposals. But a bit of a sign of desperation from the few weirdos behind the B team proposal that it's not the "done deal" it was claimed to be.
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On 06/05/2023 at 23:28, ScottishLoon said:
I'm out of the loop when it comes to the midland league but having seen how consistent carnoustie have been last two years, What's the chances of them meeting the sfa licence criteria anytime in the near future?
slim to none I'dve thought.
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This is another excruciating waste of time, this exercise.
It will not garner the required votes at an AGM and will fall.
Maxwell and the people behind this should be sacked as they clearly do not have a fucking clue how their own organisation works.
If the bigoted arsecheeks and assorted others want to form a B team league why does it need to be in the pyramid at all? Just go ahead and form it. If it will have the obvious benefits then let them demonstrate it in practice.
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Really poor game (was never going to be a classic) but Brechin were the deserved winners in the end. Just a little bit more quality in their team. Two fine finishes to snatch the title away from Buckie.
Would be great to see Brechin back in the league but a long 2-3 weeks lies ahead.
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Comfortable win for a Montrose side who rarely got out of third gear. Peterhead worked hard and were quite well organised but had absolutely nothing going forward.
Hard work and organisation are no use if basic errors are committed. Brown and Bilsland left it to one another to deal with a looping cross & Gardyne was happy to nod home as a result of this miscommunication. That was the difference between the sides at half time.
Second half was poor fayre all told. Peterhead keeper McKenzie, clad in a bright orange strip with a shattered bathroom tile pattern, made some fine stops, one at his near post from a Webster header being the pick of them. He could do nothing about the second though, a rapid counter attack which saw Paul Watson, of all people, bearing down on goal. His low shot brushed McKenzie’s right palm on the way into the bottom right hand corner, 2-0.
Shanks got a late consolation from close range but Peterhead had lost in their minds as soon as the first went in. Neither Fosu or Oyinsan was anywhere to be seen, these big guys usually give Peterhead a physical presence & ability to hold the ball up, but without that they carried little if any threat. Shanks on his own was anonymous despite the late strike.
Not a game that will live long in the memory but pleasant enough in the sun and not freezing at a game for the first time since late October so will take that.
Montrose need four or five new players to be competitive next term in my opinion. The squad needs refreshed . As for Peterhead, this pretty much confirms automatic relegation. Even a win against Clyde at Balmoor will only prolong the agony as it really is hard to see this team winning twice in the remaining fixtures. Suspect a big clear-out and a new manager will make for a busy summer in the Blue Toon.
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Sandy Clark was actually doing an alright job at the Shire, re-shaping the squad and making them much better organised / hard to beat after Derek Ure's long overdue dismissal last year. Yes Shire had a poor season but could have been much worse.
Hope for Rovers that it works out, can't believe that they fluffed their lines in consecutive games against Bonnyrigg & Stranraer.
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Great result & performance, fair play Scotland. Such a tonic- didn’t expect much from this game at all.
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16 hours ago, anotherchance said:
In any case as a foreigner he'd have to have sat in the home dressing room listening to Willie Miller berate him about how much the club means to the city before he could reasonably be considered for the job.
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They really are the unflushable turd. Defiantly carrying on with three fans post-Ferry; little more than an ever-changing badge, a few training bibs, a couple of sets of balls & kit, and the league membership.
Broomhill are at this level because when the LL was set up Kenny Moyes (Davie's brother) had a lot of influence at the SFA. No other reason whatsoever.
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very much doubt anyone's on £600 a week at Peterhead.
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4 hours ago, doulikefish said:
Si Ferry just quit at Broomhill
Off to join the staff at Darvel apparently
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In fairness Peterhead were quite competitive the games I saw them, at home. Clearly not the case on the road although the support appears to be divided on whether this sacking was a good idea from the official facebook page. Many blaming a lack of investment from the chairman.
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Yep signing boys from tier 9 in England to play at this level is, well, optimistic. Ikwa has looked completely out of his depth at this level and cost two goals in his first two appearances.
I felt in the few times I've seen Peterhead recently Davie Robertson had at least improved home performances and organised the side a bit but clearly I wasn't privy to the meltdowns at Falkirk and Airdrie. No surviving that really.
From the outside the club would appear to need a total re-set and new investment in the summer.
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Just over 40 years ago and keeping in theme of the current weather: Berwick 0 East Stirlingshire 3 at snowy Shielfield, February 1983
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Cockroaches will be chasing a rusty Coke can around the radioactive remains of Hampden.
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11 hours ago, tamthebam said:
Mad Bill unfortunately passed away a few years ago.
I saw his passion at Shire games certainly but there was another side of Bill- his daughter played (and still does) for a women's team and he was very supportive of her in a more calm way that when he was watching the Shire. He was a good lad to talk to on those occasions
Yes Bill & Sophie were there supporting Montrose when we ejected Edinburgh City from the Cup at Meadowbank c. 2010. Probably the last time I saw him- behind the "jakey with a plastic bag" image which he played up to, he was a good guy.
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East Stirlingshire 5, Dalbeattie Star 1
Was passing through the pebbledashed suburban skidmarks in between Edinburgh and Glasgow yesterday and it was a toss up between this and the Stenny game. As I hadn't seen the Shire since the day they dropped out of the SPFL set up in 2016, I opted for a freezing afternoon in the echoing Falkirk stadium..
Entry was free but I donated my ticket money to the collection for a local hospice. It was good to see that Shire still have a reasonable following of jovial eccentrics and outsiders although sad to recall that Mad Bill is no longer with us. Reckon there was 150-200 there and fair play to the half-handful of Dalbeattie fans who travelled all the way to watch this pish.
Shire, clad in a strange black shirt that seemed to have had white artex sprayed on it, were in front almost immediately and accumulated steadily. Pick of the goals was the nutmeg of the keeper for the second or the rifling drive for the fourth but the fact that Niyah Joseph scored four of Shire's five gives you an idea of the overall quality. Dalbeattie scored late on in rare breakaway and the Shire keeper was beside himself with rage at losing a clean sheet against the divisional backmackers, berating his defence for a good minute after the goal went in.
Dalbeattie's no 10 was ordered off for (?) I really don't know, maybe dissent or badmouthing the referee, and protested long and loudly on his way off the park. Rumour was the Police Scotland wanted to speak to him for being in possession of an indecent moustache, which had got in a time machine from Stevie Maskrey in 1983 straight onto his top lip, the poor lad.
The Shire fans are a friendly, welcoming bunch and long years of deadening failure have learned them not to take the game too seriously. They had one or two decent wee players but hard to judge them against such poor opposition. Sandy Clark is trying his best with virtually no resource it seems and his side did try and pass and move at pace, with mixed success. Decision making was patchy and a good cross was often followed by a dismal, aimless sclaff into the yawning empty whale's mouth of the south stand.
Dalbeattie tried to be organised but largely failed, and seemed to have accepted their impending relegation some time ago.
A quick detour to see the Kelpies on the way home so not bad overall
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Peterhead are a bit more spirited and better organised than earlier in the season, but having seen them on a few occasions recently would be shocked if the Pars don't win by 2 or 3. They frustrated Falkirk for an hour last weekend but then the roof came in spectacularly
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The relegation powerjet has not yet been invented that will scrape the Coatbridge roughcast off the gable end of the SPFL, and long may it continue.
Rovers will be fine and would much rather have a club like them in the league than "Spartans", or some diddy made-up podcast team.
The Rovers fans seem mostly to keep to their own company on their own forum these days which is a shame. Still, must head along to Cliftonhill before the end of the season.
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pretty much yep. A real shame.
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I thought Inverness' Scott Gardiner was quite pointed and funny- he clearly stated "There's not many sports journalists left in Scotland anymore" and "I know you guys are focused on the Premier League anyway". I get that he's not a popular guy in Inverness but fair play he came on and had the guts to recite a couple of the regular groans on this thread.
30 minutes on which Rangers fringe players to punt was excruciating though.
Sportsound needs a total clear out of these time served hacks and ex-pros taking a day off the golf course. I'd bring in Richard Gordon as caretaker for the rest of the season and would only retain Derek Ferguson (his enthusiasm for a dreich 0-0 at New Douglas Park as though it's a later stages Champions League game never fails to amaze me), Rory Loy and Leanne. Get the rest of them to f**k- put £100 behind the bar at Tennents on Byers Road and wave bye-bye.
Of course there's no chance whatsoever of awful numpties like Biscuits let alone the loathsome Weegie bluenose "Kenny Mac" being emptied. They really don't give a f**k what the listener thinks.
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Poor fayre largely today but Montrose got the job done. Only Scullion will know what he was trying to achieve when he passed the ball into his own net after five minutes, a ludicrous moment of absurd lower league comedy missing only a sad trombone.
Montrose are never comfortable just one goal to the good so it was a relief to see Dillon skiff home a glancing header from a near post corner midway through the half. The referee missed a clear handball in the box and there were several other close shaves. It could have been four or five at half time.
Second half was an afterthought, Montrose came close from corners on a few occasions. In fairness Duffy tired of watching his side’s pish and used a lot of subs to try and freshen things up with some effect. Matthews in the home goal caught and saved well on a couple of occasions under pressure.
Credit also to CJ, Paul Watson & Blair Lyons for good shifts.
The game deflated into a protracted exercise in futility in the last quarter, a low drone from an abandoned accordion. Clyde look like they’re trying to find something to hold onto from an absolute shuttlecrash of a season, but have forgotten why.
Oh well. Next.
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if not malaise then "somethin's not right there "
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The "take it to another thread" thread
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Hm, leaving your park with nowhere to go always works out well
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.