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We haven’t won the league. Hence we didn’t celebrate winning the league.
We shouldn’t be using counterfeit vouchers obviously. But I don’t get the various omg-yoose-didnae-even-celebrate comments. We’ll celebrate properly when the time comes.1 -
A draw probably about right. Not many chances at all.
The time wasting right from the start was truly bizarre. What is Farrell telling them? “a draw suits us tonight lads”?
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4 minutes ago, WC Boggs said:
Wasn't that the first and only game we lost away from home all season? The same season Derek Johnstone never shut up saying we were only winning because we had a plastic pitch?
You're thinking of 5 years earlier. We lost a few at home but didn't lose an away game until the last game of the season at Ochilview. Though I barely remember that season. The 95/96 season was under Drinkell at Forthbank. We had 3 points after our first 3 games then skooshed the league.
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11 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
Excellent. That'll do. I'll make sure and credit BinoBalls with the info on the stream
It's available in the UK and beyond tonight for any far flung Binos. Quite often it can feel like talking into an empty void, so it'll be nice to know there will be a good few folk listening tonight.
Do you feel commentating detracts from your ability to enjoy the game as a partisan fan or are you so used to it by now?
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7 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
Just working on V5.0 of the notes for tonight (which is also a world record attempt for most sticky notes and layers of tipex on two pages). Any Binos know how 16 unbeaten compare to your record run of games without a defeat? Just to save me spending ages trying to find out.
It's the longest unbeaten league run we've had since 1995/96 when we went 27 games unbeaten. Ironically the game we eventually lost (0-1 to Stenhousemuir) was the one where we were finally promted. As for records before that, I've no idea.
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26 minutes ago, GordyBrow said:
I can't help but think that the most Dumbarton outcome here would be to win this game to "make things interesting" before subsequentlly captiulating at the weekend.
I think there’s a pretty good chance that’s exactly what will happen. In the meantime Dumbarton are 33/1 to win the league.
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As for the game. We are (as ever) not playing great but we are very hard to beat and we have Dale Carrick who is surely now due an international call up.
Think this one will be a draw and we will limp over the finishing line on Saturday against Annan, and probably only because Dumbarton won’t beat East Fife.
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43 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
He appears to be a wee fud who’s part of the daft ultra culture lower league clubs have started to attract. He seems to spend most of his time on Twitter having back and forths with the same we fuds in the Stirling support.
Times have changed since I was younger but I just don’t understand all that pish - when I was their age I was going to games with a crowd of my mates, gettin pished and having an absolutely rare time. Homophobic abuse and trying to act harder than the oppositions fans wasn’t on the agenda.
At a recent Stirling game I was sat behind our own ultras and their main thing was singing songs about “jumping on the heads of Stenny boys”.
Delighted to attract young fans but a lot of their ultra culture is ultra pish.
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I think the bookies were hyper-risk averse to whoever came into the league because of the way Cove and Kelty romped the league previously.
They would be anticipating a lot of people blindly backing Bonnyrigg and so they managed their liabilities accordingly, without necessarily knowing the intricacies of Bonnyrigg’s squad or the tactical acumen of their coaching staff.
They started the season like a train but look a million miles from that now. Brutal football, limited creativity, and poor discipline.It’s a shame as they have a cracking support and are a welcome addition. I’m just surprised Albion Rovers are somehow below them at the moment.
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21 minutes ago, WattersIsGod said:
With the weather currently looking fine, I'm wondering what freak event is coming this time.
Localised tornado?
Catastrophic ebola outbreak in West Dunbartonshire.
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That confirms it. Comfortable home win.
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11 minutes ago, miketheheadlesschicken said:
Two goals (and one red card) in his last ten games against us.
Don’t give me facts when I’m trying to be irrational.
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Should have been about 3-1 to Elgin but I’ll happily take it. Team looked tired in spells. Will be surprised if we win on Saturday but fingers crossed.
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We need to be winning this game but I’ve seen us lose to Elgin so many times that I’m a bit scared no matter how their form is. Hester always scores against us. It’s like the Law Of Gravity, or Pythagoras Theorem — a constant that has been proven time and again.
Therefore we will need to score at least twice to win. Hope we get at them from the start and score an early 5 goals to settle my nerves. In fact make it 6 then I can truly relax.
Prediction Elgin 1 Binos 2, attendance 689.
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1 hour ago, The Moonster said:
Stirling seem to have the baws about them and I expect them to deal with Elgin and better our results for the remaining games. Faz would do well to start mentally preparing the team for play offs but I'm afraid it feels a bit like last season and the wheels are about to fall off.
I understand the lack of confidence right now but I really wouldn't abandon all hope just yet. Yes we are favourites and Dumbarton have injury problems, but we really aren't a super-force at the moment. All our games are tight -- we could easily lose on Saturday and you could be top again. And you still have to play us at your place. William Hill make Dumbarton 11/4 for the league at this point. We are 1/4. If you allow for the over-round on those odds, it suggests they think Dumbarton have about a 25% chance of winning the league, so it's far from over.
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20 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
The thing I don't get is why VAR has to be current, young and fit, referees. Surely there are plenty of recently retired refs who have hung up the whistle because they can't keep up with a pitch full of 20 somethings who would happily become VAR?
That’s a very sensible suggestion, which means it will never happen.
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2 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
That is some incredibly dramatic intro music on those Stirling highlights.
Edited to add: fair play to the guy who edits the highlights not including a single incident of all that diving, time wasting and cheating we were doing. At least he had the decency to include the 1st Stirling goal that came from a corner which was quite clearly a Sons goal kick.
I think it was given as a corner because officials thought the ball skimmed off the head of the Dumbarton player who was challenging for the ball. But I’m not really arsed about debating marginal decisions. It was just a corner after all, not a penalty.
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On 18/03/2023 at 15:48, FifeSons said:
We have absolutely no chance of winning the league. Not a chance.
1 hour ago, FifeSons said:We will win the league.
A week sure is a long time in football.
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As an outsider, what seems strange to me is Dumbarton clearly have a large group of pretty fair-minded fans on here. I guess though the noisy, toxic element on your Facebook page are the ones that draw attention, giving a completely skewed view of the fanbase.
Every fanbase has its seething messes of course. Usually guys in their mid 50s coming to terms with erection difficulties and taking out their anger on their football team.
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4 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:
the Binos had a great chance to put a Dumbarton team which was down to the absolute bare bones and on the back of a hiding last Saturday to the sword at home today and you failed. And even the officials did their best for you.
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This is a proper title fight. Said earlier on this thread that fans often judge their team by the last performance, but Dumbarton are clearly a streetwise and effective side who shouldn’t be defined by last weekend’s aberration. They proved that today.
We haven’t been blowing teams away for quite a while. We’ve lost a lot of attacking threat since Kai Fotheringham was recalled to Dundee United. Fortunately we’re very good from corners which kinda makes up for it. We have experience all over the pitch and on the bench so we should win more than we lose in the run-in.
Onwards we go. Great crowd today and fair play to the Sons fans. May the best team win.
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Crowd prediction: 1172. Of which exactly 280 will be away fans, including FifeSons who will arrive triumphantly at the ground at 2.58pm.
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17 minutes ago, microdave said:
Tomorrow will be the 100th match between the clubs for anyone interested in useless nonsense like that.
Any idea what the head to head record is? I’m guessing Dumbarton probably edge it.
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1 hour ago, Clarko_son said:
Called off at 2.30 just out of spite I'm predicting...
In all seriousness I have no idea what we'll do in this game with the bodies available. On a more important matter, are the Baker Street pubs a decent shout pre-game considering the Scotland game is on? Any other suggestions? Not particularly arsed about watching it as the real game of national importance is at Forthbank but would like to be able to get a pint
The problem with Baker Street is you’d need to leave the pub about 2.30pm to walk to the taxi rank (3 mins away) and get a taxi to the ground. So while the pubs are better there, the soulless offerings near the stadium will ensure you at least get to watch the whole of the first half of the Scotland game. Saying that, I can’t be sure which pubs will be showing the game so I’d advise phoning ahead.
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Dumbarton vs Stirling Albion
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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There must have been 600 away fans … don’t let a couple of wee jobbies get under your skin.
Yes we are 99.9% likely to win the league but we will celebrate winning the league in full when it’s 100%.