Third Son from the Rock

It's only sad if you don't understand context, irony, or question marks.

Does anyone know who has been appointed to investigate the incidents at Saturday's match? Many fans were vocally expressing hatred for people from Clydebank and using profane language to describe them.

Very pleasing. The surface throws up variables at Stenny and surely I'm not the only one who has noticed the number of overhits - especially at corners and fouls but really any ball that's hit from the ground. Strangely, if the ball is rolling it seems to slow down v. quickly. The Gray goal was simply joyous and the performances of Buchanan and Carswell (with supporting roles from McNiff and Lynas) prevented Long from having to make a serious save. I agree completely with this too.

We've had many of those....

D Byrne with a double.

There will be no improvement, consolidation or hope; there will be no semblance of a professional football club at the Rock until Messrs A Hosie and Kristoffersen are escorted from the premises. They are charlatans and scumbags who don't give a flying f*ck about Dumbarton FC. Stevie Farrell is hopeless but he didn't award himself a 2 year contract, that was the board. They are also culpable and have to consider their position. Who from the board was at the game today? Anybody know? Maybe they were smart enough to stay away whilst we, the perennial mug punters, rolled up in a frenzy of hope over expectation.

LOL

Companies House reckons that Moreroom's total worth is £17,500. Using your skill and judgement, have a guess how much of the promised £35k they have stumped up (remembering that this is a Hosie company). Nothing I have highlighted is cryptic. It's all in the public domain.

The best work of conmen is leaving you believing that you haven't been conned. If you don't think that the non receipt of £35k promised sponsorship from a fking charlatan (who's previous company Bet Butler never came across with money either) doesn't affect the manager's budget then there is no point in discussing it with you.

FTFY

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

How do you know this?

If there is a problem, its solution lies in who owns the problem. In the case of DFC, who owns the problem created the problem. They are probably quite happy with the problem. To them it isn't a problem. This is the problem.

I think the following takes some beating. "Substantially less" being a euphemism for hee-haw. "Sweeney believes that the sale of the club by Brabco was illegal, however Hosie still owns the shares in Granada that Sweeney has security over - with these now worth substantially less with Brabco no longer owning the club."

Is Heaney on his third or fourth draft of yon story? (or should that be no-story)? He's been willing Dumbarton FC out of business for decades.

What should be borne in mind is that the 'investment' that Brabco has made is somewhat south of a million quid. If, as has been speculated, this is amongst six wealthy men, then in relative terms it is not a lot of money. They are supposedly going to buy the 120 acres at Dalmoak for £750,000. If the planning permission for the proposed development goes ahead then the increase in value of the land would probably recoup their entire investment at a stroke.. If it doesn't go ahead then much depends on who is Brabco's heid bummer and how much the investment means to the investors.......

Who suggested that it was comparable? Not me, I just used a phrase which had been used ironically by the Yes campaign and it seemed apt. The main gripes on here about the proposal is that we are a part time football club (too wee) That the area is impoverished and couldn't support a leisure/hospitality/gym development (too poor) and that somehow the thing is likely to fail because it's pie in the sky and hasn't been thought through (too stupid).

Stay on your knees everyone! We're just too wee too poor and too stupid. Everybody knows that.

Ingliston's market for weddings extends to people with far too much money and Porsches with personal number plates, prepared to pay £100 a head. For that they'll get a starter of lark's tongues and tadpole's sphincters followed by 157g of Boef D'Ebola with wee dots of gravy and indeterminate red liquid with a side serving of a sprig of parsley and a carefully sculptured eighth of a maris piper potato. Pretty much the same at the Lodge on the Loch. Mind you I hear their vegetarian option of asparagus risotto benoncle is to die for.

Good idea. Since he's come in, Dumbarton has been in decline. From our happy days in the third division here we are a few short years later in the Championship. From crowds of 736 a few years ago, we're now on around 742 despite the continuing turmoil on the park. This crazy scheme to get out of an 11 acre site in a residential area with planning vetos in place, to a 120 acre site ripe for development really takes the biscuit though. As for heritage and history, the tourists travelling north on the main west coast route will have had their fill of that stuff with all those brown signs directing them to sites associated with William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Jackie Stewart, Chic Halliday and Beanzy Harcourt. Anyway, what about the following That's surely Gilbert on the left with Antonia next to him? Although the beard has been trimmed, I'm sure that's Allan Jardine at the other side with well known Dumbarton man Alistair McNab on the pipes. With Philip Differ on the main drum kit, this could be great half-time entertainment......

If the homes are to be similar to the ones adjacent then the detached five bedroom jobs will come in around £375,000 a pop. Luxury in the poorest county in the country I would suggest. I didn't know about the Turnberry site. Does anyone know how much they sold it for and to whom?

You seem to infer that market conditions have changed re. building luxury homes in Dumbarton. Do Turnberry Homes who own the site opposite know this?

In 1900 due to financial and other problems, Dumbarton FC ceased to be and their membership of the Scottish League lapsed. In 1908 a completely new Dumbarton FC was formed and applied successfully for membership of the Scottish League. The new club had no business connection with the old one. However they played at the same ground, used the same crest and colours and assumed the honours (including two league championships and a Scottish Cup win) and history of the old club. People appear to have just kind of accepted that.