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    Clyde Vs Bonnyrigg

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    Can only echo what others have said about the new boys and Ray Grant being major differences today. And a great feeling getting a win. 

    But really just coming on to say it was a great touch today by the club to give out a few signed jerseys pre game to some of the younger fans. I know my wee man was absolutely buzzing after it. 

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    Dumbarton vs Clyde

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    26 minutes ago, Replays said:

    That was an absolutely brilliant end (from a Clyde perspective) to an already entertaining game given the conditions. Accounting for our obvious limitations, we played the conditions pretty well. We probably used the wind better than Dumbarton managed but I feel Dumbarton played better against the wind than us. Had Martin Rennie brought his shooting boots, we could have been a couple of goals us at half time, granted the Dumbarton defender produced an amazing block during Rennie’s second attempt after fluffing his second one-on-one.

    I’ll need to see the penalty incident back but I saw nothing that warranted the award at the time. The Clyde award seemed more clear cut and you would think an experienced player like Tony Wallace probably would be disappointed in himself for giving a very inconsistent referee a decision to make. Young’s goal was a really nice finish from the edge of the box and Dumbarton’s second certainly has a bit of fortune about it aided by some poor defending and some possibly poor goalkeeping. I say possibly poor as I’d need to see it again to see how at fault Leighfield was as the deflection off of Stevenson obviously wrong footed him. Corners into the box, particularly from King (who I felt had a much more effective game today) and we really ought to have taken something from one of those opportunities.

    In the second half, as expected, Dumbarton were the stronger team with the wind behind them and whilst it wasn’t a constant siege on our goal, once they did edge in front, I couldn’t really see us coming back from that. I felt our midfield was starting to look leggy just as Dumbarton scored their third which was understandable given the conditions and the fact Cuddihy hasn’t played in months. Lynas scoring with five minutes to play had me lamenting the missed chances from the first half as we’d struggled to get the ball put of our half for an extended period much like Dumbarton in the first half. The substitution at half-time was interesting - I’m assuming it was tactical and we were setting up for Dumbarton playing the ball over the top of our defence. After their poor performances last week, I wonder if Craig and McCulloch have been jettisoned ahead of a January exit seeing as both were absent today? Whilst I felt Logan was uncomfortable as a wing-back, he did compete well in the air (as you’d expect) and popped up with the equaliser so fair play to him! It was great to see Ray Grant on the pitch again and there were glimpses of him settling the midfield when he came on. Undoubtedly, he played a key role in Leslie’s goal too. Leslie did well during his cameo too. There’s definitely a player in there but is it enough for McCall to look at extending his deal? Rennie and Young both did their fair share of hold up play and linked together pretty well all things considered.

    As for Dumbarton, it was obvious they were really struggling at the back. Having their usual two full-backs and Durnan missing was massive for us, alongside the conditions. They absolutely battered us doubling up down the flanks at NDP so Shiels playing at centre-half undoubtedly helped. I was interested to see Harry Broun, particularly after hearing the Terrace podcast describe him as a bit better than your usual second choice keeper at this level but unfortunately, he looked every bit a ringer out there today. Whilst it’s not easy for a goalkeeper in those sort of conditions, I certainly would imagine Dumbarton may join us in looking for another goalkeeper in the January sales.

    Overall, it was brilliant to have something to cheer about given the season so far and McCall has done well to pick up a couple of points from his first four league games (plus a cup win) and I’m not really counting the East Fife game seeing as he’d quite literally just met the players. He’s given all of the players a run out at some point and I’m sure he will have a much better idea of who he wants to keep and punt heading into January. It sounds as though Maitland and McCall have been sounding out a number of players to come in and I’m hoping we see some positive business fairly quickly come January - with Lee Hamilton to come in already of course. I’m sure it’ll be an exciting month and at present, whilst there’s a long way to go, I’m feeling relatively optimistic about our chances of survival going into the second half of the season.

    Josh McCulloch was sitting in the stands in his Clyde tracksuit. He was right in front of me and my son. 

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