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4 hours ago, DA Baracus said:
Injuries galore again incidentally.
Today we had Wighton, Comrie, Summers, Tod, Otoo, Allan and (presumably) Fenton out.
Had hoped we were over this.
I don’t think given our squad size that number of injuries is unreasonable. Tod and Fenton haven’t ever been really secure first team players, and Tod may have just missed out on a footballing decision and not injury. 5 players out may slightly be on the high end but is well within the numbers that should be manageable.
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6 hours ago, Jacky1990 said:
Working together for B teams
Working together for tours of Australia
Working together to hamstring the rest of Scottish football
Working together to clamp down on the rancid behaviour of their fanbase
Working together to profit from their rancid fanbase
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1 hour ago, GordonS said:
1.To me the entire point is to enjoy it.
With respect that's batshit mental. I want my club to win every game I go to, but I know they'll never reach the ranks of full-time professional football and that's fine with me.
2. You don't get to decide what makes someone a fan and what doesn't. I suspect I'm pretty typical of a fan of a non-league club.
3 And are you seriously telling me you'd prefer your club to reach the level where they're charging over £60 a game, a quarter of the ground is occupied by tourists and the whole thing is arranged for TV than be where they are now? Everyone has their line.
1. Yes the entire point is that you enjoy it, but winning is by far the biggest part of that, and winning is only enjoyable if you’re playing at a level where your pushed to be your best, it’s not enjoyable when it comes cheap.
2. I admit I was quite reluctant to use the not a fan phrase but I don’t really have any other way of describing someone who isn’t absolutely desperate to win every week. If it’s not about winning what’s the point? And if it is about winning then why settle for chasing anything less than the best?
3. Yeah I’m seriously telling you I’d rather that, I’m not justifying glory hunting, picking a club just cos their good is shit behaviour, but don’t you want your club to be brilliant? I want the pars to be repeated, unbeaten champions of the world and I don’t care if that means we have a bit of income from plastic fans. I may express some frustrations about paying over the odds or fan treatment, but to be great, f**k me that’s a price worth paying every time.
27 minutes ago, Jimmy Shaker said:I did see the improvement Cove had to make to make it through the playoffs at the third attempt, and Buckie aren’t anywhere near where Cove were when they blitzed East Kilbride and Berwick, however.
True, but cove really should have done a better job of their first two attempts, they cost themselves with a shit mentality
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1 hour ago, GordonS said:
I'd be fine with that. If I wanted to support a 'big' club, I'd be supporting a 'big' club. Following a football club isn't the same thing from Celtic to Saltcoats Victoria, they're materially different ways to spend your time.
I'll accept it for internationals because they're infrequent but for all the many other games I go to, I don't want to have to sit in one seat for the whole game - or so much worse, for the whole season. I love sitting on a grassy banking on a fine summer evening while I watch a game, and move round to catch (or dodge) the sun. I don't want to be segregated from the opposition fans. I don't want a police presence and a load of commercial stewards, it just creates a hostile vibe. I want to be able to go to a game with a bottle of juice and not get treated like a criminal for it. I don't want my bag searched - or banned from bringing one, making long-distance trips by public transport a pain. I don't want to pay £4.50 for a deeply sh*t mass-produced pie and another £3 for watered-down postmix juice in a paper cup. And I sure as hell don't want to be paying well over £20 to watch a game.
For me, the things that come with the top end of the game make it not worth it. Each to their own, everyone's different and I'm not remotely judging people who are happy to take those things as part of following their team. But it's not for everyone and it's really, really unfair and mistaken to be judgmental or critical about that.
There’s certainly bad things as a fan that you need to put up with playing at a higher tier but the entire point as a club is that you want to push yourself to be the best you can be.
If you enjoy the non-league scene then fine, go watch clubs at that level, but if you actively don’t want that club to do well cos you think you won’t enjoy watching a higher level then I don’t think it’s right to say your a fan of that club.
FWIW nearly all your complaints don’t change between HL and league 2
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5 hours ago, DA Baracus said:
Talking of which, do folk feel Jakubiak has done enough to earn a new contract?
Not really. He's not a terrible option but he's one of the guys playing in the area of the pitch which needs improving and we should be taking the opportunity of him being out of contract to try bring better quality in.
On summers, He's one of these young players you can see exactly why a club the size of celtic would invest in him, he has a few good qualities which they'll be hoping he can put together consistently whilst ironing out the weaknesses but they'll do that to maybe 20 or 30 players every few years in the hope that 1 actually does it and right now he's far more likely to find himself in the group dodging around in their 20's trying to make a few quid PT than he is making a good career as a FT pro, I'm not keen to get him back.
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It should never be a booking his actions anyway. He's only telling fanny's who think throwing stuff at people is acceptable to shut the f**k up and settle down. What offence has he committed?
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5 hours ago, HoBNob said:
I appreciate it's a viewpoint that won't be shared widely...
But I wouldn't have improving on the goalkeeper as nearly as large a priority as the other positions you've mentioned, or as much as a priority at all.
Get a cheap backup, apparently we've got a really promising keeper coming through the academy but he's probably a season away from sitting in the bench I'd imagine.
I agree with that, we’ve won the league with Chris smith in goals ffs but I can’t think of any team to win this division recently who haven’t had a few good attacking players.
I’m even slightly tempted to not even bother with a backup and just go too the emergency loan market if mehmet got injured.
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4 minutes ago, GordonS said:
. They're not being run by Mike Ashley.
They’re not owned by jack walker either, FSG may not be involved in taking everything they can without investing, but they will want to make money in the medium-long term and building stands, putting a team initially worth filling those seats and then cashing in on tourist cash after would be very worthwhile for them.
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It’s end of semester, can’t blame a player for wanting the same time off as his classmates…
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1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:
I want two players in to allow us to go 442. Sick of this 3 at the back when it stops working and we don't shift
I was tempted to put a back 4 formation of my potential team,
that would look like
mehmet/new GK
comrie bene/fisher Breen/MFW edwards
KRH/MOH Hamilton/Otoo chalmers/todd McCann/new winger
Kane/wighton 2 new forwards.
Even with new signings probably a harder formation for us to work too.
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2 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Agree re the second goal. Their lad put their hand on the ball to take the free kick right away and they scored from that move. We were fucking snoozing.
It wasn’t just the quick free kick, it was being slow to get out to the initial pass, and a ridiculous reaction to McGill having a fantastic shooting opportunity, he needs players(especially mehmet, who I think often is overly criticised) flying out to him, we could have made that chance so much harder.
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4 minutes ago, Mybitchunderprotest said:
Don't know why the f**k he was having a go at Lewis McGregor after it though as he did connect with him after the ball causing him to go down.
Benedictus claim was mcgregor put studs into his Achilles,
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41 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Kunts should do one for Cawder GC… and here’s the Par 5 7th hole, tough drive over the carry-out bags and White Lightning cans discarded at the weekend by the young local team…
Interesting pin position today, looking at the flag it’s either in the burn on 50 yards OOB depending on what half you’re looking at.
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37 minutes ago, Diamonds02 said:
Looked like a pen on the stream but yous would have had a much better view of it as the camera angle wasn’t great.
There won’t be any gloating from me. Dunfermline fans could have slaughtered us after their domination last season but chose to slag Falkirk instead even though they finished above us.
That is something that I will always respect.
TBF given the choice to do absolutely anything or slag off Falkirk, slagging off Falkirk is the only reasonable choice, it feels like cheating to take praise for that
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28 minutes ago, GordonS said:
Dalbeattie face a fixture scramble to get their league campaign completed in time for the Lowland League play-off. They're already scheduled to play Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and now they have another fixture to play. But three of their scheduled fixtures are cup ties, so presumably they'll shunt one or more.
Possibility they can push a couple of league games back if they can get the league secure before playing them too.
Edit- There also seems a lot more room in the calendar than the SoS have allowed, they're trying to get everything finished a fortnight before EoS and WoS both have there last league games on the 11th of may.
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How much flexibility do we even have in the squad?
from what I remember we have the following due to leave at the end of the season.
Little, jak, Fenton. Allan out of contract
Kane, holmes, welch-hayes fagon-walcott, moffat, summers, benjamin end of loan.
we are probably very slightly too big of squad as it stands, so maybe just need to loose 2 or 3 just to bring things down.
I think most would want kane and fagon-walcott to sign permanently if we can,
Would leave us, based on 3-5-2
Mehmet/ new GK
Comrie/fisher bene Breen/Fagon walcott
MOH/KRH Otoo/Hamilton chalmers/new CM edwards
Todd/new AM
Kane/ McCann/ wighton / new striker
Its quite hard to put an argument together that any more of those leaving should get a spot in that squad, possibly welch-hayes if we choose to add an extra defensive option to avoid moving otto/hamilton back too much.
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59 minutes ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
Is Martindale not very deeply entrenched in Livi? He’s basically de-facto chairman in the midsts of all their legal challenges. I can’t see him just chucking it in the summer and they certainly won’t ask him to leave.
I think it once(If? It’s livi after all) the legal stuff settles down then it might be convenient for him to move on, whoever actually gains a grip of the club is going to want to put their mark on the club and having someone so heavily entrenched involved may not be desirable, especially if results aren’t right
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People are absolute idiots, waste days arguing with each other just incase they don’t get personal credit for something.
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1 hour ago, Hampden Diehard said:
To be honest, I wouldn't give a tinker's cuss about the criticism if QP played that way and it was working.
Educate yourself
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The desperation to sell this dive is hillarious.
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2 hours ago, Burnieman said:
Yeah agree with that, although you can already walk behind the "main" stand, that's where the toilets are and accessible from both ends.
23 minutes ago, cowdenbeath said:There is a walkway behind the stand where the toilets are could maybe do with another toilet block with the bigger crowds they are getting now.
Didn’t realise this, and the numbers who walk in front of the stand suggests many more don’t either, so instead of build a path we change it to enforce use of the path behind the stand.
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32 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
For some reason I can't recall Peter Grant popped in to my head earlier.
He hasn't had a managerial job in not far off two and a half years.
John Hughes hasn't had a managerial job after leaving us either.
Almost like they were both massively exposed.
They were exposed before they came to us TBF, we just had an utterly wild recruitment policy that year. Mcpake has been ok but I still utterly fear what will happen once he leaves.
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2 hours ago, Burnieman said:
Agree. These modular stands are great for getting seats into place quickly and reasonably cost effective but a lot of them could be doing with going on a plinth/platform so the front row isn't staring at the pitshside barrier.
I think the addition of a weight supporting plinth, steps etc would kinda kill the appeal of these. Bound to add a fair bit of cost.
It's not a terrible stand really and things could be made more workable.
1. provide terracing behind at least one goal, and possibly at north west side of the ground. That removes the need to provide any standing on the east side.
2. Build a walkway behind the stand.
3. provide facilities right round the pitch, especially on north side.
You just need to look at new central park on how to turn a old non-league ground into being SPFL appropriate.
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1 minute ago, Burnieman said:
They don't actually.
Witnessed it every time I’ve went, not directly in front of the stand but from immediately in line with it, this means anything on the near side touchline in the final third gets blocked. They should have a decent buffer zone to prevent that sightline being blocked.
Worst if your in the older stand is the general set up encourages everyone to walk in front of it constantly as the most obvious facilities are all in one corner.
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It’s like he’s got a bet on him conceding a penalty and is having to increase how easy they are to give