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Worrying if true.

Come on the Bully Wee. Come on Clyde. Come on the Bully Wee. Come on Danny Lennon. Come on Clyde.

He's our venus, he's our fire; our desire.

Entirely reliant on the game situation that he isn't more aggressive and doesn't put his head through the ball when your man goes to do his overhead? Ma fuckin' hole. He might be the best of a bad bunch but he's still a woefully limited player, like Rumsby.

I think in trying to foster unity, you're doing the right, but some of what you say above is manifestly nonsensical when read in isolation. For example: "Allison may not turn out to be good enough, but the number of people ruling him out before the guy has even played one league game for us is embarrassing. Who the f**k would want to sign for a club like that?". Trialists and the concept of a trial period usually has its whole life in pre-season. Managers run the rule over players at that point and then offer them terms based on their performances, plus or minus their CV and what they might've seen of them with others clubs in the past. You don't typically give players a chance in the league before judging or signing them. I've seen Allison play for us three times now, once in a competitive match, twice in frendlies. And I've seen him play for Shire, believe it or not. I know what I see and it's enough to have a negative opinion; there's nothing embarrassing about it. Having him on amateur terms as a back-up doesn't bother me mind; I'd be clutching if I'd no money left too. Agree with some of the rest of what you say, of course. Particularly re individuals (McNiff, Rumbsy, Cuddihy). Not sure we'll be able to cobble something together to stay out of the relegation scrap though. Our best hope of that would be 3-5-2 with Rankin and Syvertsen back up top with DGW, IMO. I don't think anyone's really sniping on a personal level, are they? I 'wrote-off', contra some fellow fans, the Stuart Millar defence and most of the team after seeing them against Ross County in our first friendly; I wasn't wrong. Ditto Brown in the old second divison. I do have decent form for getting it right, and not just in re of that example. Patience is what saw Berwick Rangers out of the leagues; it's partly what saw John Brown hang around as long as he did. But you're right - and I've already written this - there aren't any better managers out there than Moore and Lennon and they do deserve a little more patience; but not an indefinite amount. Every manager, if he persists in getting it wrong, can poison the chalice. It is quite a tricky one for supporters, given the success Lennon and Moore have brought and our alternatives in the manager market, and our apparent lack of budget.

And the solid but unspectacular Montrose side Petrie put together, for that matter.

Once every few months, you make a post which has at go at the length of my posts. Here's the last one you made, when we were discussing McHugh (ex-Morton) possibly signing. I don't have a case to answer for talking shite. If I was going to start a slagging match, I'd point out that you predicted we'd finish third and you've just said, basically, that you'd wait until 27 points were played for until passing judgement on anything. Neither opinion glistens with wisdom, but we've all come away with something wrong or daft on P&B at some point. I've just twigged that I know you. In reality, I mean. I don't dislike you at all. But I'm puzzled as to why you persist in singling me out for opinions which are fast becoming, if they're not already, majority opinions among our support. Even above, people are saying much the same as what I am about the team. What's the script?

Jordan Stewart never had a bad game for Clyde and wasn't injured when we decided not to offer terms. All you need to know about the anti-wisdom of our recruitment.

We are very near bomber-brown/Stuart Millar level defensive ineptitude: Gair, Casey, Henderson, McGowan etc. The leaderless gang concept. I wasn't at the game yesterday - thank god - but I've just watched the highlights. Petkov can go back to Hearts immediately, he's timid, slow and doesn't talk. Howie to EK too, for all the same reasons. McNiff and Rumbsy, servants though they may've been last season, are now out of their depth. Cuddihy might cut it with better players around him. We need to have conversations with those lads and say look: we've cocked-up, but if we keep you, this club is going backward. Hopefully we can come to some arrangements, free up wages and get a better class of player in. Nobody has a defence anywhere near as bad as ours in this league, not even Dumbarton.

But the Annan fans said...

The political problem Lennon's now going to have is this: he and Alan Moore have impeccable records; they clearly know what it takes to win right through to Championship level. However, Clyde have a body of a supporters with a cultured eye for what failure and ineptitude looks like at all the same levels. Unstoppable force; immoveable object. Nobody's going to call for his head, including me. At the same time, everyone must now recognise that we're two players short of a serviceable defence; one of which will have to be a proper, experienced defender. If Lennon's not getting money, all we'd do by getting shot is delegate the problem. Grim.

Only surprise there? It wasn't four or five.

League 2.

He wears number nine etc.

Sick stuff.

Doing.

I'll join the caravan of Love for Ally here. The most experienced player we have outside Rankin and Goodwillie, really. Deserves a jersey now that he's back fit. Always makes good decisions in possession, finds space really well, bit of dig about him; can actually defend.

Well said. Been coming.

Debut against his old and first(?) club tonight.

Desperate times require desperate measures, and given these certainly are the former I understand the move.

We punted Michael Oliver; we can punt those lads.

A confidence player/team. A poor player/team

If anyone can measure it objectively, I'll take it back. Until then it's just 'think strong, play strong' baloney. Gary Arbuckle's employment was hung on the confidence unicorn; that and his Gareth Bale beating pace.

That full back line bar Cuddihy isn't good enough for this level. We're a leaderless, inexperienced gang at the back. We need to do something radical like offloading players; otherwise we'll prop up the league. Oh, and there's no such thing as confidence or momentum. Those things are fictitious. The early days patter is wish thought. Without sweeping personnel changes at the back, we'll have a c**t of a season.

Just watched the highlights. Exactly the result and performance I'd have expected from each side. The word 'gang' has now been used to describe our defence four times since the first cup match; initially by me and other Clyde and now by the supporters of other sides on here. We're desperately disorganised back there; leaderless and thoroughly inexperienced. I would carry on with a tighter backline notwithstanding the circus start it's had. But it's players we need, not tweaks. Send Petkov packing, waste of a wage. Get a sodding left back in. Get Duffie, McNiff and Rumbsy off the books if possible. Loan them out. Howie too. We've got to do something radical or this'll be a brutal season for defending. We've built from the front; an insane way to build a team at this level. Walter wept.