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I was expecting more from them, given their result against Elgin. I don't think we were particularly solid but their end product was very poor. Left back is clearly a massive issue but it's definitely something McCall is seeing given he tried Craig and them hooked him at half time so you'd have to think he'll remedy that in January. Other than some balls in and the odd bit of panicky defending, I thought we dealt with everything defensively pretty well. Sula and Dunachie were solid, if we're going with a back 4 after January I'd expect those two to be the starters. I'm glad for Leighfield after last weekend, obviously he had a howler for at least two of the goals but do we really think Parry would be any better? He was at fault for a lot of goals when he was our starter and he's only gotten older.
Can we also get Forbes to f**k now? Another awful performance and I think he only managed one good corner before he was subbed. We then proceeded to score two goals from crosses without him. He's useless when the ball's in-play and his set pieces have been nowhere near as good as you'd think given how much game time he's getting. I'm not sure how fit he is, but we should be playing Grant there and move to it being Hynes, Scullion and Grant/King.
Leslie also played well when he came on, I'm not sure if McCall's trying to use Leslie's pace later on when defenders are tiring and it sort of worked last night, but I think he's too good to be sitting on the bench for half the game. Rennie has his uses but benefits from having someone like Leslie to do the running with him.
Great result for us overall though, 2 goals and a clean sheet should be a big bonus and hopefully starts the snowballing that he talked about with our confidence. Big premier league team away in the next round will do for me.
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1 hour ago, Clyde01 said:
He was in the dugout on Saturday too.
Fair enough, must be shite about the badges then. Definitely a preferable option to Kennedy, but so are most options.
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31 minutes ago, SouthLanarkshireWhite said:
Anyway for what it's worth- Allan Maitland is my guess.
I was told he doesn't have the badges required for the league, he was allowed in the dugout for the cup as they don't require them.
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Slightly surprised they have sacked him just because I don't expect decisive action from our board and losing 3-2 away isn't the worst result. Other than the Dumbarton result, the run hasn't been bad. Maybe they have an idea of who they want in already and that's what has prompted it, but that's maybe giving the board too much credit.
Shame it didn't work out for him because he seems like a nice enough guy, even if he's incredibly dull but ultimately he's had enough games and he's just not tactically good enough.
On to the next victim.
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2 hours ago, SLClyde said:
McLean spoke at a forum after getting the job and I don’t think anything he said he wanted his team to be, they actually are.
Blaming Duffy will be an easy out for him, and to an extent there will be truth in it.
However, he hasn’t shown anything to me that is convincing that he can change this. Continually changing shapes, players moving positions, sticking with under performing players(Sula and mcculloch particularly).
The board are entirely culpable for the appointments of Duffy and McLean, one is gone and it’s the time other went and we used the free week to get someone else in.
To be fair to him, he doesn't have much choice in McCulloch with Craig injured for the left side so Lyons having to play there and Cuddihy and Hynes out who could maybe play RB. I would expect when fully fit, Craig and Lyons would be the starting full backs. For Sula, he could maybe drop and bring in Peter Grant but he's had his struggles too.
I do agree with the changing shapes issue though, that was pretty evident today. He changed numerous times and didn't really address how much space and freedom they had down the wings. Lyons didn't play well today, but he was constantly overloaded. McCulloch was slightly better but didn't get a lot of help either.
I fear for us if we keep McLean on and it doesn't turn around. International break is usually a decent time to get someone out and start looking for the replacement. After the break we have 2 league games and the cup game before we have another bank of 3 against Forfar, East Fife and Elgin. It could get pretty dicey if we leave it and go into those 3 games and lose ground to those teams just to ultimately sack him afterwards.
I think there's enough quality in our team that we can't keep going back to blame Duffy on the squad. If the team is good enough to fight back against Stenny and get a draw, we shouldn't accept a 4-0 home defeat to Dumbarton.
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27 minutes ago, David W said:
Duffy should never have been brought back in November, or kept on at the end of last season.
He had one good season and was probably a bit unlucky not to get us promoted. However, he had a freakish amount of luck in terms of injuries during 13-14. We basically were able to stick the same 12 or 13 players out every week.
I don't think it's a totally wild idea to highlight injuries though. I think we possibly beat Annan with something approaching a full strength team. We played okay against Spartans but by halftime the following week had three more players injured.
It's possible for Duffy to have been a terrible appointment and for that to have been compounded by some bad luck. Add those together and you get rubbish like Wednesday.
I can't wait to see what our next step is. McLean will definitely need help, and we definitely need players.
He can blame injuries but Duffy's signed a lot of these players. It shouldn't be any surprise when players like Cuddihy, Hynes, P. Grant, Lyons and Rennie are injured frequently. Carswell seems to have had issues this season and Forbes is clearly not got the highest level of fitness.
Good riddance to Duffy. I'll give McLean more time because it was hard to say what was his fault and what was Duffy's fault in the previous set-up. But now he needs to start getting some results, or at the very least performances. If we've got some of this mysterious funding then use it to bring in 2 or more good players that will work in whatever system he wants and then we can see what kind of manager he is and judge him off it.
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1 hour ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I'm not a fan particularly of Colin Steven but he got pretty much nothing wrong last night. Certainly nothing of any consequence.
Kennedy had a bit of treatment. Minute maybe. Clyde made no subs (because they couldnt). Annan made only one - if they'd been truly time wasting they'd have made three. The goal celebration was about a minute or so. Two minutes wasnt far wrong. Game was dead and buried anyway. I thought the Gibson booking was slightly harsh but I doubt he cares. Fleming took an age to pick the ball up until forced to but ball's in play when he's doing that. Ref cant add time for it. He can only add time for time wasted on a dead ball.
The ball went out of play a considerable amount of times and a few times on the far side behind the tiny stand requiring a new ball, 2 or 3 times the Annan players passed the ball between 2 or 3 of them before it got to the throw-in taker. Same at goal kicks. 3 or 4 minutes should've been added at least IMO.
It's petty and wouldn't have changed much, but it was incredibly frustrating before they scored.
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12 minutes ago, haufdaft said:
Not disputing the result last night, Annan deserved it. However, some of the refereeing last night was incredible.
An example, two minutes added time? Kennedy had treatment from the physio for a couple of minutes as well as the longest goal celebration I've seen in 45 years of watching football.
Not to mention Annan's constant time wasting which is absolutely understandable but shouldn't have been rewarded by the referee.
No complaint about the score but I thought it was worth commenting on.
Thought the ref had a bit of a shocker, not sure who it was and if he's a highly ranked ref but if he is, says a lot of about how poor our referee standard is. Obviously it's sour grapes from me about the time wasting and whatnot, but he had a word with Fleming just before half time and seemed to signal there'd be no more, and then just let them away with it for most of the second half too. I think only Gibson got a booking for time wasting in the second half at 81 minutes? 6 minutes added in the first due to the injury but only 2 in the second half was an absolute farce.
Not just against Clyde mind, it looked a penalty at the end instead of a free kick and there was a double foul from McLean and one slide from Sula that both looked like yellows he didn't even give a foul for.
Not that it'd matter because we're so toothless upfront. I hope the money we got for Allan was worth it, how much are we going to lose in attendances next season by being in L2.
All the best to Quitongo, he was playing very well in that first half and looked like he gave a f**k, noticeably more than the others when Quitongo has barely featured since January.
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I'd keep Scullion, he's been poor in the past couple of games but he had a very good month or so prior. When he was on it, he was one of our best players and it coincided with us getting better results from this season.
Cameron can absolutely get fucked, he doesn't give a f**k. He puts absolutely no effort in and just jogs about. He puts no work in defensively and not even offensively. He is an absolute wage-stealer.
McDonald is a strange one, he showed against Montrose that he can score goals but he is incredibly small and just gets bullied. Not sure who it was but he literally just bounced off an Annan defender on Tuesday night. I don't think he's shown enough all season to justify being kept on, even if we go to League Two
Mullen, Sula, R.Grant, Roberts, Salkeld and Scullion would be all I'd keep. Maybe Cuddihy but his injuries are certainly a worry, Duthie if he's going to be on reduced wages, I'm sure he's on a fair wage this year so he'd need to take a paycut to stay.0 -
4 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
I get the Clyde fans negativity at being behind going into the 2nd leg, but like in any game a 2 goal deficit never means that the winning side can relax (unless it's in stoppage time of course) as momentum can change quickly. The oft used adage of "the first goal will be key" will be more than relevant in the 2nd leg. If Annan score first it should be job done (barring an Alloa-esque collapse), but if Clyde score first to reduce it to a single goal margin then the Annan boys could get nervous big time and it's game-on again. Clyde need to come out of the blocks sharp on Friday.
I'm all for having a positive outlook, but we simply don't have the players required for overturning a deficit. We haven't scored 3 goals in a game since drawing with Falkirk in November and haven't won a game by 2 or more goals since August, both before we lost Jordan Allan.
We'd need to play Rennie and Docherty upfront with maybe Salkeld in behind and hope the players give a f**k. Maybe we'll get 2 goals and somehow hope Mullen pulls a blinder and keeps a clean sheet.
Scullion has been poor in the past 3/4 games too, which is a shame because he was playing very well for a good wee spell. Made me think he was one we'd want to keep for next season and maybe he still is because of how young he is, but he needs to show up on Friday.
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2 minutes ago, Clyde01 said:
Losing 3-1 so here comes 2 more cbs.
Only other options are two LBs
, just trying to get some fresh legs so we don't concede any more. Our squad is painfully thin and unbalanced.
We need Docherty and Salkeld back for Friday if we've any hope of pulling two goals back.
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2 hours ago, Clyde01 said:
I don’t disagree with a lot of what you are saying, tonight’s performance was a shocker but we were much better and more composed in the first leg so tonight was a surprise in that regard. Our home form has generally been better in the second half of the season too.
Docherty puts in a power of work for the team usually, he was just back from injury tonight. He’s not a natural goal scorer but can’t fault his effort and attitude. I find Rennie far more frustrating, he is so lacklustre most of the time. Yes, he’s won us the tie with both goals but he doesn’t offer much in general play at all.
Rennie has a much better goalscoring instinct than Docherty does, both his goals in these ties show that. Too often we'll cross a ball from wide or the byline and Docherty just isn't where you need your striker to be. Where Rennie has scored a few from rebounds and being in the right area for cutbacks etc.
I thought Docherty was hard done by tonight though, Duthie was poor and Salkeld clearly isn't suited to being out as wide as he was in the first half. I think he's sacrificing Salkeld or Scullion by putting them out wide to accommodate Duthie who's not really shown enough to merit starting. Rennie and Docherty upfront with Salkeld, Roberts, Cuddihy and Scullion forming up a diamond or 3-1 midfield is how I'd proceed if we've got all 6 fit.
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It's all fun and games going to see Broomhill until it's winter at Broadwood. They'll be lucky to get 100 numpties still supporting their team at that point.
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I saw the fans up the right hand side holding a banner/flag up but couldn't read it from my seat, what did it say? I presume that was in support of Goodwillie or against the council.
I also heard fans talking about boycotting the food stands and it was noticeably more quiet.
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11 minutes ago, Cannibal said:
I honestly find it hard to believe we are putting anything more than a pittance towards his wages. I mean surely he was guaranteed his Raith Rovers money and they couldn't get out of that so why would we pay anything more than a token amount (or maybe some bonuses that he'll now not get)? (I'm well aware that there is one potentially obvious answer and it is that we are fucking idiots.)
I thought the same, if we've somehow lost money from the Goodwillie saga compared to the position we were in a week ago then the board need to answer for it. Should've bitten Raith's hand off for the ~£50k and never looked back. Now we've potentially squandered some of that money, made our club look even worse than Raith and we're right back where we were once we sold him (in footballing terms) but with a worse relationship with our landlord. All in a week's work, smashing.
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1 hour ago, SLClyde said:
It’s quite clear that some of our own support think Goodwillie is bigger, better and more important than the club itself. Even now after the council’s announcement, utter madness.
They can f**k off with Goodwillie and the sponsor(s) trying to blackmail the club into signing him. They're not true fans of the club.
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Even if he can't actually be banned from the stadium legally, if we are to challenge it and then play him then we're definitely not going to be playing at Broadwood anymore when the lease runs out. So come 2023, we'll be looking for another place to go. By that point, Goodwillie will be 34. Assuming we are stupid enough to take him in the summer, we'll be out of a place to go and have a 34yo striker. Even from a footballing point of view, that clearly is a stupid and braindead move.
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33 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Just can't fathom what the conversation must've been like when this loan agreement was set up. Raith probably can't believe their luck that there was a board even thicker than them that would not only take the player but save them some money and take the centre of attention from them completely .
What makes it worse is the board came to the right decision and rejected Raith's offer only to come back and think "nah, we'll have some of that" because of an ultimatum by the sponsor. The board should out who the sponsor(s) is/are, name and shame the idiots who might be responsible for putting our club to the wall.
19 minutes ago, stuthejag said:Is the support split with traditional area 'Glasgow Branch" and a Johnny come lately "Cumbernauld Branch" ? Is there still a Rutherglen supporter's bus ?
The Rutherglen bus is from the Castlemilk Branch, I've been going on the bus for years but the numbers are dwindling season on season. I think the pandemic has really reduced the numbers and it being an aging support who either pass away or stop attending.
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Fucking joke. Get him to f**k. I hope all the arseholes who post on the official forum and from the Glasgow Branch are happy. How much is it going to cost us to go to another stadium now? Are the sponsors who threatened to pull their support gonna put up the money to move us now? Who the f**k is going to touch us now?
It's absolute beggar's belief that anyone thought we'd just be able to sign him again without picking up the shitstorm that Raith got.
Brilliant.
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Just now, John MacLean said:
People have Green dotted this slavering pish?
"People" might be pushing the definition.
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41 minutes ago, Mamtora said:
How will you ensure the balance on your season ticket will be donated to the Red Cross ?
I understood no refunds on ST balances would be made and all outstanding balances would go into the Club's coffers.
Perhaps this wish was in the body of your email to the Club. A copy of your request would clarify this.
I'm not sure if it was just for last year, but at the end of the year they said that balances either had to be spent on the club shop, donated to the club, forwarded onto next year's balance or could be refunded back to you.
So they clearly have the facilities to refund the balance back to customers.
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2 minutes ago, Bullyweeno1 said:
but plenty of us have been the same in our younger days
I'd hope that there isn't "plenty" of people who have been accused of rape and then taken to a court and found guilty of it. Nevermind the charges of assault and all that that he's also got to his name.
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Why are we the way that we are?
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1 hour ago, FREDDYFRY said:
I can only assume Splain and Rumsby were injured today and Cuddihy not 100% yet?
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.
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Clyde Season 23/24
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Mine arrived today, hadn't heard anything since the confirmation email in October and didn't receive an email saying it was dispatched either.