Frank Quitely
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1 hour ago, Boghead ranter said:
Him and his pure beamer got huckled up the tunnel by a steward, and so far as I know he wasn't seen again.
Never got it on film, but it happened pretty much right in front of me. Guy came flying down the stairs, across the walkway and hit the wee gate at waist height. Made no attempt to use his arms at any point, so top half kept going, and he flipped over to alternative vertical (head down, feet up) like a WWE wrestler was slamming him. Ended up flat on his back on the outer part of the astro.
Certainly had had his money's worth in hospitality.
Shite cottage pie can do that to a person.
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41 minutes ago, George Parr said:
We can talk about Dumbarton being the better team for the majority of the match blah, blah, blah but the simple truth is this was just another example of failure and a bottle-job in a crunch fixture. Our manager has a loser’s mentality and it’s catching amongst his squads. He has to go - sweep out the stench.
Well done Stenny though, a Championship title surely now inevitable. Well deserved I’d have to concede.
Serious question - does any Sons fan think that Stevie Farrell won't be here next season ? He'll decide when he goes.
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48 minutes ago, Neilly said:
I think the last part there hits nail on head for Dumbarton and we have probably all over egged how good their squad actually is. There isn't a 15-20 goal a season man or a guy with blistering pace who can hurt you down the wing or in behind. There just isn't much really that you fear you are up against.
A very beige set of players all told who do some neat stuff at times and far too nice in key areas.
Anything CAN happen in the play off situation but it's hard to see this gang of losers with Uncle Faz in charge doing the necessary when it counts.
They can't do it when it counts as they have proved time and time again.
You won't get much argument here mate.
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44 minutes ago, Jedi2 said:
Which bit? The 'Himmler' style propaganda, which has 'only' ever been directed by the media against the Scottish govt?
You're not getting this are you ? ANY individual or political party which poses a threat to the UK military-political establishment will have the full firepower of the right-wing media trained on them.
That's why the 2024 Labour Party is a yellow streak looking for a spine to run down and has called it wrong on so many issues such as the environment and North Sea exploration, Gaza and the disaster that is Brexit to name but three.
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5 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:
Surely Sarwar would be out on his arse if the SNP still retain the most seats overall in Scotland. As it stands if Labour still trail the SNP at Westminster given their current momentum and the obvious opposite with the SNP it will be seen as a poor outcome especially given this will likely be the best position relative to the SNP they will ever go into an election with ?
I've no doubt HY will be punted after the election unless they perform much better than polls suggest but a reset then would see them on a firmer footing going forward. This is Labours open goal, their one big chance to gain the majority of seats in Scotland. If they cant do that this year they probably never will.
What is exactly is Labours target in Scotland in the GE ???
I expect quite a number of seats where the turnout will be shocking, due to a combo of a sizeable disaffected SNP vote opting out and a similarly large segment of the electorate completely underwhelmed by Labour.
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1 hour ago, Neilly said:
It'll never happen obviously but Uncle Faz probably suited better to a role in player recruitment and leave the width of the pitch to someone competent.
FTFY
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1 hour ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
It looks like he’s a winger?
I was really hoping for a natural striker. We’ve spent far too long watching wingers fail to make an impact upfront during Farrell’s tenure.
I hope you're not including Michael Garritty there.
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1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said:
As a group of players (and assuming everyone due back this season returns on time) yes, they do.
We've beaten Annan in a game where our squad was tested across 120 minutes and where Aron Lynas played at centre-half. We haven't beaten Peterhead or Spartans, but all the games between the sides have been tight - with five of the six goals they've scored against us coming in the final 10 minutes. So I'd say there isn't a great deal between the teams.
The playoffs will come down to who is in the best form at the time I reckon. Annan finished well behind us last season, we beat them three times out of four. And we all know what happened at Galabank. For our past two playoff campaigns we've gone in, in dreadful form. If we do that again then we'll get the same outcome. Between now and then the focus has to be on getting a settled and winning side, with a clear gameplan focused on the playoffs.
Faz also has a lot of critics to prove wrong; with both our previous campaigns under him basically over by half-time of the semi-final first leg. That can't happen again. If that means shitfesting a 0-0 away from home then so be it. It was good enough for the class of 2011/12 at Arbroath, so it's good enough for this group.
An interesting take, and I hope you're right. I'm not sure I'd be so optimistic though.
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2 hours ago, Jan Vojáček said:
I was thinking about this on the way down the road, and I think that's more down to injuries than squad changes.
We've lost our captain and best centre-half and we've lost our goalkeeper and (probably) outright best player. That hurts. Mark Durnan and Brett Long are two of the best players in the league, will be two of our highest paid players and would walk into every squad - if not every starting 11. With only Stenny the exception.
But this month the business has been good imo. Kelly is an unknown, but I'd fancy him to offer more than Ross MacLean did in the first-half of the season.
Jay Hogarth is an upgrade on Harry Brown and Cian Newbury has so far been our best performer in the three games he's played and looks a hell of a lot better than Aron Lynas at centre-half.
Matty Shiels' is a huge loss. Of that there is no doubt. And Gallagher Lennon has a big task on his hands to replace him, but we've signed a player who is captain of his country at his age group and comes extremely highly regarded after a terrific loan spell in the league below where he looked a class above.
Our bench yesterday had four players who could quite easily have started and nobody would've batted an eyelid (Jinky, Kelly, Div Wilson and Blair Malcolm). Three of those being hugely experienced players at this level. You'll be able to add Callum Wilson to that next month as well.
Whilst those guys might not be the type to come off the bench and score and create a couple (Jinky is to be fair, as he's shown), Div Wilson and Blair Malcolm are both handy players to have in reserve in the fourth tier. Malcolm came on with us under the cosh yesterday and just helped dig things out a bit. And both have made a good impression on games from the bench (Div at Annan, Malcolm at home to Forfar in August).
With one addition this week, Wilson back next month and Durnan hopefully in time for the final run-in I'm hopeful we'll be able to avoid the situation last year where we had two subs - and ended up with Edin Lynch on left-wing at one stage.
So, bottom line, would this squad be good enough to overcome Annan, Peterhead or Spartans in the play-offs ?
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4 hours ago, FifeSons said:
Ambitious to think the club still exists in 3 years.
Corrected.
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Thinking more about Mark Durnan's contract extension, this has got to have come from the manager. And the cynic in me says that it's an attempt to ensure that whatever happens this season he'll still be in place come August.
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1 minute ago, The Moonster said:
I think this is something Craig Barr campaigned for through the PFA. I've criticised other clubs who have the begging bowl out for this stuff and I don't think it's a good look for us either.
One thing I will say is that it probably costs a lot more for insuring a team of footballers than it does a team of office workers, but I do agree that really bad injuries are so common in football that it's wild that there is virtually nothing covering players.
I wonder what the insurance premium would be on 'the skipper'. If this announcement wasn't on the OS I'd have thought it a complete wind-up. WTAF is the Board playing at ?
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10 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
I can't see where the initial funding for the pitch could come from to even get near £0.5m without serious external backing. It'd the main reason why I have doubts over this whole project. I just cannot see where the initial finance can come from to even begin to get the project off the ground.
What I would say though is that there is absolutely a massive need for more astro pitches in Dumbarton and Alexandria. Currently to serve the whole area from Helensburgh to the Vale and Dumbarton I think we only have five? Hermitage Academy, Argyll Park, OLSP, VOLA and Dumbarton East? That's for an area that must be around 50,000 residents (20k Dumbarton, 12k Helensburgh, 10k Bonhill, 6k Alexandria)
The pitches at Dumbarton Academy can't be used because of noise concerns from residents, so we're effectively one school down on where we should be for starters. Add in the fact you've got a rugby club that use the Argyll pitches quite often, the Vale's academy teams have about 800 players, then you've got our academy teams, Broomhill (obviously). There's Dumbarton United, Renton Craigandro who we have partnerships with, and other local clubs like Riverside, plus amateurs in St Pats (who have two teams), Dumbarton Accies and others. I think it would be sold out very quickly.
But none of that solves the initial issue of how we get finance in place to install one in the first place!
The word I had was that the club was forming a Community Trust to process grant funding, etc., and Colin Hosie was leading the project, but that was a wee while back and I've heard nothing since.
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42 minutes ago, George Parr said:
Presumably any other team in Scotland would be alarmed, or at the very least minded to respond, re national press reports speculating on its liquidation. But it’s just business as usual at this point for our car-crash of a football club.
And as Moonster alludes to, it’s fascinating that Pally Paul has disappeared off the face of the earth - or this forum at least. Subject to the emergence of any evidence to the contrary, we might soon have to mark him down as just another snout in the fantasy development trough.
The club Board seems to be like the Royal Family, never complain and never explain. And just like Prince Andrew, hoping it will just all go away.
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33 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
He’s a one year deal with a one year option I think.
Our shirt sponsor this afternoon I note is one of Paul McPherson’s companies. Hope this isn’t another Moreroom situation and we’ve actually earned something from it this time. Ruins the kit, but I’m fine with it if they are paying.
He's on here is he not ? I'm sure he can confirm.
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23 minutes ago, FifeSons said:
All that said, FAaz probs woudln't fancy him!
We need to start thinking of life beyond Stevie Farrell.
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4 hours ago, Silverton End said:
The fact that DFC is hosting this is interesting, and it suggests to me that it may take the opportunity to make a public plea to support the club, financially and otherwise. I've absolutely no problem with that but as long as they also recognise that what happens off the park often reflects what's happening on it.
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37 minutes ago, Silverton End said:
If we're still in League 2 next season, with the same management team & Board, I sadly expect us to finish even lower down the League table.
Well it could be much worse than that. Last season's and probably this one's finishing position will owe a great deal to a strong start.
If that isn't repeated then we could be in a dogfight from the word go, with all that could involve. I'd like to think that the Board is also considering these possibilities and planning around them.
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I think everyone just needs to accept that we will limp through the rest of this season and we will remain in League Two next season. The team management has run its course and I don't think they can say they haven't had a fair crack of the whip - they may not agree with that.
But it's bigger than that. The club management is weak and uninspiring and it's not all down to the ownership, crap as that is, and the decision to extend Stevie Farrell's contract is looking worse every week. We can only hope that contract had a review clause for the end of this season, but I wouldn't be surprised if we're here again in a year's time.
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11 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
Do you think we'll beat Peterhead or Spartans over two legs?
It's more likely we'd be playing Annan.
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Shit I read that as Ross McLean.
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9 hours ago, George Parr said:
Defensively we were ok, compact and organised for almost the entire match but going forward we created only one half chance that I can recall besides the goal itself. Not great at all.
We spent almost the entire second half in our own half and our immobile midfield had been completely overrun long before the end.
To my mind we lack a bit of leadership on the park - the loss of Durnan is felt across the team and had he been playing we might have scampered back down the road tonight with an undeserved 3 points.
Peterhead though - I see their recent woes as a blip rather than long term decline. A decent side, technically fine, but most importantly lots of energy and forward thrust.
How did Hogarth and Newbury play George, and how bad is Newbury's injury ?
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4 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said:
That is just utterly inexplicable.
It's really not if you know how much of a shitshow this club has become in recent years. It deserves a four-part series on ITV.
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Just now, Cardle is Magic said:
I only just realised you lads still have the same manager who bottled it last season
Staggering he wasn’t sacked on the spot, never mind still being in post over half a season later!
You'd better sit down. He's on a contract to May 2025.
No, we can't explain it either.
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Sons' sorrow
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10/10 for that wonderfully ambiguous headline Jan.