unitedbino

We got relegated on Saturday. Then sacked our manager on Monday. The season is over. Yet there still hasn't been any meangingful communication from the club. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Does anyone actually know who is running the club? Who is putting in place the plans for next season? Who is leading the search for a new manager? We shouldn't be left in the dark like this. As a season ticket holder and trust member, I think this is unacceptable.

Very surprised at today's news. While there were questions to answer over the way this season finished, do we really have any faith that the board will be able to find someone better for the job than DY? DY also deserved a better send-off than that statement the club put out. Really poor stuff that perhaps highlights some issues behind the scenes.

Don't need to beg, mate. You don't have to wait very long for a Falkirk disaster.

Ultimately a huge missed opportunity to consolidate in L1. It shouldn't have been beyond us to stay up this season. Now we're back down in the L2 quagmire which will be just as difficult to get out as it was last time. My fear starting this season was our midfield would be too weak and we wouldn't have enough attacking creativity. The first few months had me thinking I'd called it wrong. I'd started on the humble pie, but ultimately my fears were realised. Not enough was done to improve the squad. By the time new players arrived (Crane, McPake, Offord etc) DY was chopping and changing so much in a desperate to find something that would work no chemistry was ever likely to develop. Ironically, the 3-4-3 shape we ended up using in the second half today seemed to suit us. I wonder if we'd attempted that before the final 45 minutes of the season, maybe we would have finished eighth and not ninth? Hypothetical, of course. Some big decisions are needed this summer. A lot of the squad needs cleared out. The midfield has to be a priority. We also need a new Robert Thomson-type striker. Our attacking options were too similar this season. Not enough variety. A strange season, but ultimately we can't complain. We got what we deserved.

Congratulations on your one season of not being the punchline of Scottish football. Enjoy it while it lasts

Can you blame us? We scored one more goal this season than an Edinburgh team that was playing its goalkeeping coach in games

Congratulations Dumbarton. Deserved to go through over the two legs. We've got a lot of decisions to make as a club over the summer. A lot of players need to be moved on.

Great day for football. Too much to expect a crowd of 1,500 for this one? I think it was 1,600 last weekend.

If we play like we did against Annan last weekend, we'll have a chance today. The more I think about it, the more I think Annan really got away with one that day. I know this is true of most teams, but we're much stronger at home. Didn't lose at home to anyone outside the top four this season. First goal will be so important.

Just can't see us overturning the deficit tomorrow. Confidence at a low. No cutting edge. L2 beckons.

He's been really poor, but we don't exactly give him a lot of service. He has to work with basically nothing. But yes - he's been sloppy.

This has been the paradox of our season. Yes, we got cuffed a couple times (away to Falkirk and Hamilton), but by and large we've been competitive in every match. You couldn't argue that we've been out of our depth. And yet we just didn't do enough to grind out results. Not enough goals in the team and too many defensive mistakes, particularly towards the end.

- Thought it was a match between two poor teams tbh. However, that pitch makes it almost impossible to play actual football. Saturday will be interesting. We will probably play better, but Dumbarton likely will as well. Can't see us overturning the deficit. - Cammy Clark had probably the worst game I've seen him have. Loose touches, not feeding McPake, poor decisions. He steadied a bit in the second half, but his first half was a disasterclass. - I appreciate the pitch might have dictated the strategy, but have to question the ploy of repeatedly lumping straight balls up to Carrick/Hilson, completely bypassing the midfield, when they were always likely to be bullied by the two Dumbarton CBs (which is what happened). Leitch is far from perfect, but we missed him tonight. - Thought it was probably a penalty. The ball seemed to change direction, but suspect McLean came through the Dumbarton player's foot first. Rash decision to go to ground. - I've been critical of Kyle Banner this season, but he's had two decent games in a row now. Thought he carried it through some crunching tackles well at times. Crane, on the other hand... it just bounced off him all game.

Ehhhh ok. Not sure how our two 5ft strikers against your man maintain centre backs lumped you about the pitch but fair enough. I’d love some players who did some lumping about. Can we have some of yours?

No matter which league we’re in next season (L2, likely), we need to find more physicality. We’re far too lightweight. Annan bullied us all season and got bullied again tonight. Nothing between the teams in terms of actual quality, but that has been the marginal difference in too many games for us.

I mean, you’ve just explained why it isn’t unnaturally bigger? He kicks it off his own hand. Maybe that should be a handball, bit that’s an issue with the law rather than the referee. Everyone in the ground saw it hit his hand.

Body wasn’t unnaturally bigger. Wasn’t deliberate. Clearly struck his hand. Referee surely saw it. Had to be a quirk in the laws. But then I would say that.

Bobbly pitch, eh

Yup. I certainly had my doubts, but has proved me wrong.

My only hope is that we can somehow stop ourselves from a defensive f*** up and grind out a 0-0 or 1-1. By the time Saturday comes around, maybe we'll have faced up to the reality we're in, but we need to be level in the tie. We sure as hell won't be scoring many goals over the two legs.

We did, but the young lad who led that now works for Raith Rovers. And our current 'media team' can barely be arsed putting up highlights.

I suspect a bigger factor in putting us off is a lack of people at the club who have any idea how to do something like a livestream.

Tired of your tedious shite

I'm concerned about the mental turnaround than the physical load. Dumbarton have been preparing for the playoffs for weeks. Our players won't have given it a thought until Saturday night. Will we even have a training session before Tuesday's game? Any prep time at all?

I can't see us winning on Tuesday. I think Saturday will have taken a lot out of the players, more mentally than anything else. However, if we could somehow be level in the tie heading into Saturday, I think we could do it. If we have a deficit to overturn, though, I think we'll be slipping into L2.