CallumPar
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Fair play to the 1 Pars fan who stood for a good minute doing the finger to a jubilant Lichtie support from behind the goal. It’s that sort of dedication I enjoy seeing
Probably Grant still upset about the ‘no alcohol before 11am’ rule.1 -
Apparently some Pars fans attempted to get into the Pars changing room after the game.
I guess we can look forward to another car crash statement from the board telling the fans off and backing up their clown shoe manager.
They’ll think the booing at full time and actions like that are the cause of this defeat. Cause events/actions after the match clearly have a huge impact on the team’s performance during the match.
I have never experienced the fans booing the players or not being supportive before things start going wrong, despite the board’s claims.0 -
Get him out of there. 2 goal lead and we lost 4-2. We will not win under him, never mind achieving this promotion target he was given. The guy can’t manage a football team. This was proven in his previous roles, but this is just embarrassing.
If he isn’t sacked, I won’t be there next week, despite loving 5 mins away and having a season ticket. I’m not wasting my time. The board simply don’t care about the club anymore if they leave him in charge. So why should we?0 -
Connolly must be injured? He’ll be a big loss, he’s very much the leader in our defence.
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Arbroath - 0
Dunfermline - 1
Wind - 3
Fully expecting the bitter wee guy writing for the official site to lead with this, after we get pumped 3-1 today.
Hopefully one of Vytas’ punts up the park gets caught in the wind and goes into the top corner for our goal too, but we don’t acknowledge that.0 -
Would like to see our club make a statement about this. Get this pish out of football
Honestly, if anyone recognises anyone in the video, or knows this Jay Herd boy, I’d recommend identifying them to the club. I’d also hope their families can see how vile these kids are.
I hope that the same happens for Dunfermline fans (or those of any other club) singing vile songs like this. All for the banter with rival fans and winding each other up. The celebrations at both goals were what these games should be all about. It’s a shame that a handful of fans can sour things like this.1 -
Just seen people talking about this on Twitter… hopefully Rovers are able to track him down and ban him.
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Hadn’t read the match preview until reading the above about it. It really is horrific. At one point it mentions our 5 goals in 11 games. Then the league standings section mentions our 6 scored and 15 conceded. To be fair, with the last one, I think they just haven’t bothered updating post Tuesday - although they’ve updated the points tally and form, to show that extra point… add in Arbroath being x points ahead of us and the conditions bearing us, rather than the football team (seriously, how disrespectful is that?!) and it shows how amateur and unprofessional we are, even down to our website. I don’t care if it’s run by volunteers, we’re a professional football club and shouldn’t have our official website reading like a teenager’s fan blog.
Screenshotted examples, so that people don’t have to waste their time reading it all.
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It's incredible how confident I feel about an Arbroath win against you this Saturday, ridiculous situation you find yourselves in just now.
Got to be fair, a large part of that is because Arbroath are a very good championship side. They just beat Inverness away and have had a very impressive season so far. We have been awful and I’d back any championship team to get at least a draw against us, but Arbroath would quite rightly be expecting to beat the likes of us, Morton, Hamilton, Ayr and QoS wherever the game is right now.
Our home game v Arbroath was abysmal from our perspective, but Arbroath did look very good and could have scored more. If our players turn up with the attitude we showed there in February, we’re in for a hammering.0 -
Has Leon Jones even technically made an appearance since the original Rovers game was abandoned?
He played away to Ayr and hasn’t been seen since.0 -
I read they have not won an away game in the league since October 24th 2020? Could be wrong. But the 4-0 win actually came against Peter Grants Alloa. Burst out laughing when I read it.
This is true. Except that it was 4-1. Bizarrely, when we appointed Grant it was revealed that this was the game that convinced our board that he would be a great manager for us.0 -
The guys in the NW make a good noise and help the atmosphere a lot at times. However, any chants about paedos or “takes it up the arse” are beyond embarrassing.
We have loads of other songs without resorting to that shite.
Absolutely this. They do a good job creating an atmosphere and EEP would be a terrible experience for fans and players without these guys turning up in numbers and making that noise. But I’d much rather they focused on supporting the team than making up rubbish like that to sing about opposition.
To be fair, most weeks it’s all about us. It’s when it comes to these ‘bigger’ games and that section is twice as full as usual that we tend to get these songs. The ones there every week don’t appear to be the issue and should be encouraged to continue making noise and getting behind the team. Not excusing what happened last night. But I’d imagine a lot of those who were singing these songs won’t be back at a Pars game until the new year derby.0 -
It was Luke MaHadry (sp?) He didn't have a wiki page and couldn't see any news articles so presuming it's complete nonsense, better songs to sing.
Will be interesting to see where both clubs end up in Jimmy's fans league in the mid week special.
Wait, our fans are singing about a 17 year old who is on loan to Cowdenbeath being a sex offender? Sorry, but that’s truly awful ‘patter’. Assuming it’s this guy…
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It’s true sadly, probably around 10 folk up at the pie stand at half time. Was in response to Pars fans singing about John McGlynn being a ‘mongo’ but still absolutely no excuse.
Both unacceptable. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Unfortunately for both teams, these will be the guys that won’t turn up at all until the next derby. Then we’ll hear the same stuff and both supports will look bad again.
We also seemed to sing (again) about someone being a sex offender. I’ve got no idea who that was even about (Luke someone I think?). But there’s no need for that stuff - unless I’ve missed something with someone at Rovers being placed on the register?3 -
Read all my post - I said why I applauded DT. I also think it's appropriate to try & lift the players as they looked utterly dejected at FT, I think most of them actually give a f**k, unlike you clearly.
Like a lot of us, chubbychops is pretty regularly posting about the disappointment we have had so far. I’d actually say he’s fairly reasonable with that vast majority of his posts. If he didn’t give a f**k he probably wouldn’t get so worked up about it all and post a lot of those emotions on here. Trying to argue that he doesn’t give a f**k because he was (quite rightly) frustrated at full time last night makes absolutely no sense. Not giving a f**k would be applauding the players anyway, claiming it was a good result/performance, saying the manager deserves more time etc.
That’s not a dig at you. I understand your reasons for applauding the man of the match announcement and applauding some individuals who deserved it. But don’t go full .net style on us here and claim that those calling out mediocrity don’t care about the club. That’s honestly s***e behaviour. We’re all struggling this season, don’t need to start fighting amongst ourselves.1 -
Honestly, could the guy look any more miserable? I don’t think he wants to be here anymore.1 -
Jim won this league for us, it would be on that basis I would bring him back in. But I'm sure there are more attractive prospects in Europe for example, there can be no excuse for the board not holding a proper recruitment process, any business that fails to do that is utterly tin pot.
Completely agree Dick is having a brilliant run and has always done well but he know the players he can trust and will work with him inside out, I'll be honest I've not followed their recruitment closely but don't think they have brought talent through from youth level into the first team. As Grant seems unlikely to do that in the big positions, for example center half, so a new head coach should be wiling to do that.
Dick Campbell had us sitting top of this league when we sacked him in 1999. He’s someone that players seem to respect and enjoy working with. I’d be happy if we brought him in, however given his age and other commitments, I don’t know how realistic that is. It’s one of these that we have to ask - does he just seem to be better than we have, or is he the right man? Any football manager in the world would be an improvement, but it doesn’t make them the right man for the job. I’d ask the same about McIntyre, who hasn’t achieved much since leaving us. Although, I have it on fairly good authority that he doesn’t want to return to management.
I do think we need experience, at least until the end of this season. Priority this season is survival in this league now. We honestly can’t afford to be planning for next season (or beyond) until safety is secured.0 -
Yup as I remember. Grants arse rooted firmly to his seat after Doms goal. Looks gutted.
As I said to your previous post, it’s just mental. DT scored a brilliant goal. At the time, there was a decent chance of that saving Grant’s job. But because of who scored it, he couldn’t even applaud, smile or congratulate his player. Grant’s ego/arrogance is clearly more important to him. He’ll probably drop DT for celebrating in front of the bench like that.0 -
Am I imagining things or did Dom run over to the main stand and try and make a point during his celebration. Shields n that were on their feet but Grant was sat on his arse.
I noticed that and thought that said everything. He couldn’t even get out of his seat after that goal because of who scored it. Incredibly bitter/arrogant man.
OFW, Vytas and Thomas have all been very good since being reinstated to the team. They’ve all been frozen out by Grant at some point. He isn’t a good manager and clearly doesn’t know what makes a good player.
Just a reminder, Ross Graham was ever-present earlier in the season, while Vytas warmed the bench. We failed to score a home goal and struggled away from home, while the manager refused to play DT - who now has 2 goals in his 2 starts at EEP. He signed Mehmet and let him gift several goals, before accepting OFW was a better keeper.
It’s not just the results, it’s that abysmal standard of management that is a huge issue.4 -
Thomas was our only creative output.
The only reason we’ve drawn the last 2 home games (rather than lose) is because Dom Thomas has returned to the team. The manager refused to play him for the first 8 games ffs. It just further highlights how clueless he is.
Bringing Thomas back in isn’t a stroke of genius, it just shows how naive and arrogant the manager was to leave him out for so long. All because he didn’t play well as a central midfielder [emoji2361]0 -
Sum up Grant’s game management…
We have an attacking free kick, looking for a second goal. He stops the game to rush Kai Kennedy, the smallest player in the league, onto the pitch for us. In the same move, he removes our main goal threats to have us sit deep for the last 10-15 mins and hope to keep a clean sheet. Eliminating the momentum that we had from taking the lead. Was only going to end one way at that point.
Guy’s a clown and has to go.
Rant over… now, can we please talk about that Thomas goal. What a ridiculous strike that was. Absolute beauty. Don’t think we’ll see a better strike for a long time.2 -
First half was a non-event. Started the second half well and got a deserved goal with Dom’s brilliant strike.
After that, Grant lost us 2 points. Took off our attacking threats, despite only being 1 up and sat ridiculously deep for the rest of the game. As was predictable, Raith equalised - with a very good strike after a good 20 mins of constant pressure and then we just looked lost.
Board said 3/4 weeks ago that we had to win games soon. 3 games later, no win. He has to go.1 -
This will sound a bit odd, but I always feel that the balls aren't mixed enough for the Scottish Cup draws, meaning we seem to get teams from the same league more often (and other teams get sides from their own divisions more often). Based on nothing of course, and there's probably stats that show that to be nonsense. The real issue is probably less teams in the draws, meaning the likelihood of getting a team from your own league is higher, so perhaps more teams being entered at earlier stages (and a better mixing of the balls!) would help.
Ball numbers tend to be alphabetical order, rather than ordered by division, so I’m not sure that theory is correct. We were number 19 and Partick were 32. I also think it’s a bit of a myth that we always get other championship teams.
2018-19 and 2019-20 we got League 1 teams (Raith and Stranraer). Last season we got Morton. Just makes it all the more embarrassing that we haven’t even scored a Scottish cup goal since January 2018. Think we can only have had 1 home Scottish cup tie in our last 6 or 7 draws though, which seems very unlucky.0 -
We're fairly solid at the back. Connolly has made a massive difference and I'd be keen to keep him longer than January. Make no mistake that there's been huge improvements defensively, also OFW is in a rich vein of form, pulling off some really top drawer saves and collecting a good number of clean sheets. It's middle to front we're struggling with. The weird thing is we do have 3 good strikers but the chances for them is limited. Hopefully Iain Wilson being back in the middle will make a big impact for us.
We kept 2 clean sheets in Watson’s last 2 games (the 2 games before we brought in Connolly). Saturday was the first clean sheet we’ve managed with Connolly in the team, so it’s definitely a stretch to attribute those clean sheets/improved defensive solidity to him. We changed to a back 4 and looked more secure defensively before Connolly came in and that’s what made the difference.
I honestly haven’t seen us much lately. The last Raith game (Connolly’s debut) was the last game I attended. So I can’t comment on his performances, but given he seems to have been solid enough, I’d also be pleased if we extended his deal.
The change in shape may have sorted the defence, but as you mention, it’s nullified our attack. I think an extra man in midfield is required, to ensure we can do more with possession, rather than punts up the park. We have players capable of playing decent football and picking passes, but we don’t have a system that allows them the time/space to do that. Most teams in this league play 3 in midfield and that leaves our 2 totally overrun. Having said all that, I’d still like to see us go with O’Hara and Wighton up top tonight. They caused problems in the second half at Starks.0
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Dumbarton (when they’ve been hit by a covid outbreak) and Stenhousemuir. Doesn’t make sense that our form/performances against them hasn’t been matched in the championship.