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9th in the lowland league isn’t where we should look for a manager, if it comes to the point we need one.
I’d rather go for a young upcoming manager than one of the handful of dinosaurs like jim duffy who seem to get touted for every job going.
If Ricky Waddell has indeed built an exciting young squad on a small budget why would he not be worth a serious look?0 -
I don’t have a problem with Danny staying on in principal BUT the recruitment has to be much much better. If some of the money that was tied up in DG can be released to make better signings then Danny needs to make that happen.
Coaching and man management wise he’s great, in fact the tune he has managed to get out of our very limited squad this season has so far been remarkable.
A lot depends of course on the run in and whether we can retain our league one status. Peterhead and Dumbarton look better sides than us and with alloa finally punting Ferguson I’m really not sure any of those sides will still be below us by the end of the season.0 -
I think if everyone is fit, it probably makes a bit of sense to revert back to the 3-5-2 that worked quite well before, where the wing backs tucked in to be quite defensive.
Parry
Page Elsdon Docherty
McAllister Gomis Livingstone
Cuddihy Splaine
Jamieson Love
Doc has been one of our best performers in recent months. Gomis is done but realistically is the best we have at playing that pivot role to receive the ball short off of the centre half's. The wing backs line up on the classic proviso that if one goes, the other tucks in to make a back four. Splaine is frustrating but is definitely one of our better midfield players. Love is also fairly done but he's still an absolute nuisance and has a goal in him, so having him up top works for me. Jamieson in there simply because I don't think Jones or Tade should start.
That’s not far off what I would go for as our best line up. Probably Rumsby in for page and Cunningham for gomis or splaine.
Makes it more of a 343 with livingstone and mcallister as wingbacks.0 -
Tell me why my post is pish! Be constructive not critical. Believe me the last bit of my post will become reality unless Clyde FC gets some serious investment or sponsorship. If the club stays as it is it will be lucky to stay in SFL.
So part of your strategy to attract ‘serious investment or sponsorship’ is to bring back a high profile rapist and the associated back lash?
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So DGW is rumoured to be going to Darvel????? So does this mean the boycotting of Rooster Chicken , nandos and Browning pies ? Which I think are owned by the Darvel owner. Will Nicola Surgeon come out and denounce this. If their is silence about this then this shows what hypocrisy there is in football and in Scotland. What's good enough for Darvel is good enough for Clyde. Bring DGW back to Clyde! What are going to lose? A few sponsors and supporters . You cannot treat the guy as a pariah. Get him back or be relegated this season and maybe in a few years further down the pyramid.. Bring him back! All Clyde fans deep down want him back. Do it or the club falls into oblivion anyway!
New account, check
First post, check
Talking pish, check5 -
Is the MOM vote on official site a wind up. Either that or I need to book an eye test!!
Jones, seriously! Oh my days, he barely broke a sweat and rolled the ball into an open goal. Very difficult to pick motm as they were all rotten but balatoni and Jones were the first two I’d have hooked at half time.1 -
Give Raith their money back.
Donate all of it or 50% to charity (Ive already suggested to board)
Dont fucking know...However i.d personally rather have few days in media or lose a few so called fans than potential a play off or plenty of seasons back in L2
Danny and squad have steadied ship last 1/3rd but yesterday and lack of threat last week confirms we need our captain back..
Yer Mithers Pride[emoji1267]
f**k that, raith bought him knowing full well the baggage. That’s our money now and should be used to build a more balanced squad in the summer.
As for DG he was lucky to have the platform we gave him, thought he could get it better elsewhere and it blew up in his face. f**k him…
I spent most of the first half yesterday watching through my fingers and yet the most embarrassing part of the day was hearing c***s singing about DG.10 -
Let’s say we moved to the east end again, would you advertise games there or just work on the basis that folk were never going to turn up anyway?
A ground share with shettleston is what we need to take the club to the next level, don’t you know?0 -
Guy behind me in the queue at half time said Rumsby was away on a stag do, the stag being the son of someone who he sits beside.
I’ve never been a fan of Rumsby and I’m in no way convinced (even still) that he’s good enough for this level but he has been quietly effective for the most part this season.
By comparison, balatoni today made him seem like maldini.1 -
That was truly awful. A disorganised, ill disciplined rabble. Even the usually reliable parry tried to chuck one in by throwing it straight to an attacker.
Balatoni’s first half performance was something else, in an all round shambles and against strong competition, he shades it for the worst player on the park. Please never play him again.
Jones was rotten too, despite his goal which was laid on a plate. The way he meanders about like a heavily tranquilised giraffe really boils my piss.
Tade is absolutely done, he contributed next to nothing when he came on. The thought of Jones and tade being our main focus up front for the next 11 games is depressing.
That result was absolutely no surprise, we’ve been riding our luck for weeks and our position in the league is false imo. We will be extremely lucky if we manage to limp to the end of the season and avoid 9th (or 10th).4 -
Problem is that we are dying club with little means to generate extra revenue other than match attendance and with a dwindling support we will realistically be a lower level L2 or LL club in 5 to 10 years time.
Wow, I hope you aren’t the chairman, is there no limits to your ambition?0 -
The long term damage of re-signing him now far outweighs the short term benefits of him returning for a couple more seasons.
This is a key point for me, what will we really gain for having him another season or two, as realistically that’s all he’s got left. Sure with DG we will probably stay afloat in League One for another year or two but even that’s not a given if his salary takes up so much budget we have to fill the rest of the team with shite.
As more and more kelty’s and cove’s make their way into the league a lot of clubs our size face a real battle just to stand still. We need a proper plan in place for where we want to be and how we are going to do that over the next 5 years. Rather than relying heavily on the ability of one player who is far too good for this level.2 -
Its not all her fault though - that's my very point.
Its not a Val Mcdermid hate campaign, its an off the cuff dumb random song sparked up for the reasons I've outlined above that someone's made up 3 seconds prior mocking her hair and it was forgotten about by the final whistle - its not as deep as folk are interpreting it.
Some folks just love to see the world through rainbow coloured oppression lenses and seek to be victimised at any opportunity so that they can go home and tweet about it, nobody cares about her sexual orientation.
You’ve accused her of dragging Goodwillie’s name through the mud, that’s up there with the wildest takes on the events of the last week.
I’m not feeling victimised or personally offended by any of this but I do find it distasteful, cringey and embarrassing to have idiots posting/singing stuff like this and being associated with the club.4 -
Thats one take on it yes - which you're fully entitled to.
Another take might be that the woman has been responsible for dragging the name of an ex player through the mud who conducted himself with exemplary professionalism during his 5 years at Clyde - leading to the mass spread of misinformation about the case causing outrage majoritively from people who just read a tweet and make assumptions without even looking into the facts of the case.
A man who has not been convicted of any crime and only lost a civil case on the balance of probability based on zero evidence from a judge who is about as qualified enough to hand down a judgement in a criminal case as a joiner is.
Her sexual orientation does not change the fact she looks like Guy Fieri and thus has a shite haircut.
Aye, it’s all Val’s fault, she’s the villain in this….0 -
Please stop desperately seeking oppression where it doesn't exist, there is absolutely less than zero homophobic connotations to be taken from this.
Homophobia is disgusting - but those who constantly strive to be victimised by anything and everything are just as much of a problem.
The world is not out to get you.
Glad you created an account for this wonderful insight.
If you can’t connect the dots between a high profile lesbian and singing about her having a short back and sides then clearly your a fucking idiot.
Why was she even being mentioned at all?
DG was happy to jump ship to Raith so not sure why is he getting sung about either.8 -
f**k knows why cretins were chanting about val mcdermid or david Goodwillie. Both irrelevant to todays game. 0-0 as predicted. Zzzz
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Personally I think there will be no story after a day if he was to come back
There would be no sponsors pulling out as they were all there when he was there
There will be no one in the club who will leave as they were all there when he was there
There will be no celebrity fan looking to kick up a fuss - we only have Dougie Donnelly and John Mason and neither of them has the influence of Val McDermid
There will be no disassociation of the woman’s team as we don’t have one (as far as I’m aware and even if we do they were there when he was)
There will be no harm with the local community as we never have had any community links for years
There was no impact on attendances when he first joined - the average home attendance for the first 6 games after he joined was actually higher than the 6 games before he joined
All the club needs to do is take the stance that it took 5 years ago and since - every individual has the right to rebuild their life once they have paid their dues to society as deemed by the court of law they are tried in. We aided DGW in his rehabilitation in getting his life back on track
If you think that someone doesn’t deserve that then it goes against the whole moral fabric of a civilised society.
It was only last week that he came on as sub and won the free kick that lead to the goal that won the game. There was no issues with him then so why now
I was expecting there to be some fall and sure DGW and his advisors would think the same. They and the RR board didnt foresee the influence that Val McDermid would have in making it a national and an international story - as was shown in RR first and second statement.
If he had moved to Falkirk, the other club interested in signing him, I have no doubt he would be lining up to make his debut tomorrow
The high profile cases of Mendy and Greenwood were news at the wrong time for him.
I think you are being incredibly naive if you think it will go back to the way it was. How do you know sponsors won’t pull out if the club is suddenly at the centre of massively negative media attention? I don’t see that public outrage is going to disappear if he drops a few places down the SPFL.
Your argument of there wasn’t any outcry before is flawed because the story has been absolutely massive for the last few days. Front page on bbc website and news papers. Everyone who had forgotten DG existed is now fully aware of this and we don’t want to bare the brunt of that.2 -
Quite interesting to see Clyde fans suggest that they don't want to take him back. I think most people are just under the assumption that most of your fans who decided to accept Goodwillie now see him as hero for what he's done and would have him back. I'd not factored in that people might be frustrated at how he'd left. Any club in the SPFL who bring him in will clearly end up being in the same shitshow we've ended up now it's become a major talking point.
When he signed our chairman at the time released a statement around the club taking on the responsibility of helping to rehabilitate DG (whether you buy that or not is a different matter of course).
By jumping ship to play full time DG clearly mistakenly thought his rehabilitation was complete.
The statement released by the Raith board was also unbelievably crass and certainly did nothing to ease the clamour. If they had gone for something along the lines of DG continuing his rehabilitation of the last 5 years, focusing on the fact he has a young family and is rebuilding his life and most importantly some recognition of his actions. I understand he perhaps can’t issue an apology for legal reasons but surely he could have said something along the lines of deeply regretting the distress the full episode has had on the girl and her family. Anyway ‘we know what he did but he’s good at football’ didn’t really do anybody any favours.
The contribution he has made football wise over the last 5 years is appreciated but a big mistake to bring him and the associated heat back to us now imo.1 -
0-0 looks very likely and actually wouldn’t be the worst result from our point of view if we can follow it up with a win (somehow) at home to Dumbarton next week.
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I'd bring him home ASAP. We are unlikely to have same issues as Raith have had with sponsors and fans etc as fans that have been going for last 5 years I assume will continue to go and our current sponsorships were arranged with him already at the club.
He chose to jump ship as he thought he could get away with it. He should not be allowed to come back here with his tail between his legs to play for us again. I don’t care what a great lad Danny Lennon or his team mates think he is, he’s untouchable now.
I only hope we had the sense to get cash upfront and not instalments or some other agreement. Raith knew all about his baggage and took him on anyway, that’s their problem now.2 -
I'd love to see DG to come back home and scoring a hat trick as we tan RR in the playoffs.
50 grand for a loan of a player for a week or so, plus they pay his full time wages for a couple of years. What's not to like.[emoji1787]
Do you think RR would like to borrow a few other players for a few days for 50+ grand?
A member of this site for nearly 9 years and THIS is your first post? Away to f**k please….4 -
Was thinking as Goodwillie never paid the compo to the victim. Perhaps Clyde could direct the transfer fee her way.
Perhaps Goodwillie could direct some of his now considerably enhanced weekly wages her way seeing as it’s him at fault and not Clyde.0 -
I see one possible solution Raith fans are floating is quietly loaning DG back to us. No way we should entertain that with the massive attention this story has now gained. DG didn’t realise how good he had it flying under the radar of most while with us, he was very lucky to be playing football at all. Now it’s completely blown up on him.
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Given that Goodwillie has now left, I'd prefer to avoid having a convicted racist as the captain. That just pours more fuel on flames that will hopefully start to burn out.
Absolutely this. It was bad enough we harboured Goodwillie for 5 years making him captain was a step too far imo. Yes, he was a great player and pulled us up from the brink of the lowland league but at what cost to our reputation. Idiots on here saying he was their hero clearly belong on the register too.
Love is a committed player but not the character we want as captain for me, although given he’s had the band recently I assume he will inherit it.
Cuddihy is a good player and great servant to the club, although maybe not vocal enough to be captain.
I think Parry is the stand out candidate even though he’s a goalie.3
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Line up is not bad but I’d have elsdon in there for sure and probably Cunningham too even if he’s not fully fit.