Frank Quitely

Stenny played a blinder in replacing Swift with Naismith. Peterhead replaced their manager, ditto Clyde and East Fife. Only at Dumbarton is continued mediocrity rewarded. It stinks.

No, as has been pointed out a dozen times the outrageous behaviour was extending a manager's contract when it was already clear that the wheels were coming off. Add that to the failures that went before and it makes even less sense.

I think the home crowds until the playoffs might amount to the same thing.

The key passage here is the necessity for a housing development to 'pump-prime' any investment in the football club. Just why is that ? Is it because Cognitive Capital don't actually have a pot to piss in and have probably financed the takeover with loans, and they are primarily intent on using the Rock site to turn a profit ?

10/10 for that wonderfully ambiguous headline Jan.

Shite cottage pie can do that to a person.

Serious question - does any Sons fan think that Stevie Farrell won't be here next season ? He'll decide when he goes.

You won't get much argument here mate.

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.

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.

FTFY

I hope you're not including Michael Garritty there.

An interesting take, and I hope you're right. I'm not sure I'd be so optimistic though.

So, bottom line, would this squad be good enough to overcome Annan, Peterhead or Spartans in the play-offs ?

Corrected.

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

He's on here is he not ? I'm sure he can confirm.

We need to start thinking of life beyond Stevie Farrell.

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.

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.

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.

It's more likely we'd be playing Annan.