Frank Quitely
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12 minutes ago, FifeSons said:
Farrell interview up.
Exactly what you'd expect. Nice dig at the players for an individual error for the second and him taking credit for the changes.
"Lots of SPFL clubs have gone out to lower league opposition today and Dumbarton's not one of them"
Well if anyone wants to challenge him this Friday night is their chance.
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1 hour ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
Unfortunately he isn’t the only player to have fallen victim to Farrell’s tactic of purely sticking with the same starting 11 every week until we lose a game, regardless of whether we have better options on the bench or regardless of how our opponents are setting up. I mean we spent weeks on end playing 2 midfielders up front with 3 strikers on the bench because it worked once against Stenhousemuir.
I don’t think we’ve had a decent tactician in the dugout since Ian Murray. Duffy knew what he was doing but unfortunately his insistence on signing amateur standard bums totally negated it.
There's one hell of a lot riding on this coming Saturday.
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Just now, theoriginalhedge said:
Goal to Spain without a doubt.
Absolutely, it was a rhetorical question. There is no way there would have been anything like the forensic fiasco we witnessed - the 'goal' would have stood, end of.
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What do we reckon would have been the outcome if that 'goal' had been scored at the other end ?
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11 hours ago, PWL said:
The unsung heros remain the kids who drew the player portraits. They are sensational. I'm actually willing different goalscorers just to see the full range.
Ross MacLean is the best so far but well done to whoever dreamt up the idea.
Where can you see these portraits ?
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1 hour ago, doulikefish said:
Tories getting huckled out of the tory conference
https://twitter.com/JoshGafson1/status/1709224529367593029?t=C6quXcqCi5j8-X-QKlp2Ew&s=19
Interestingly there was no mention of this on the BBC Six O'Clock News.
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This thread is living right down to expectations.
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2 hours ago, coprolite said:
I didn’t read that as a criticism of immigrant communities, but of British society. There have been failures to tackle grooming gangs that were found to have been failures in part because of a fear of causing offence. Those were failures of UK institutions to deal appropriately and impartially with a crime. Those failures do feed in to the narrative in the lopsided reporting that political correctness has gone mad.
That was exactly my point and you've put it a lot better than I did. As further examples, I don't wish to live in a society which routinely apprehends young black men on suspicion of crime, but neither do I wish to live in one which turns a blind eye to arranged marriages for fear of upsetting cultural sensibilities. The former will find favour with racists, but the latter will provide ammunition.
Neither situation is acceptable.
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42 minutes ago, Theyellowbox said:
Exactly this. On the one had, bemoan the lack of integration and on the other but every possible barrier up to integration, while at the same time, attempt to make people fear them.
Interestingly, compared to England, Scotland has a far more integrated imigration population and completely correlated has a more positive attitude to imigration.
Yes, there are whole areas of say north west English towns that have little integration either way, but that is a massive failure of generations of policies.
The UK clusters various groups of peoples and then wonders why they don't integrate or others treat them with suspicion. For every Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunek who grew up in integrated societies and schooling, there are dozens/hundreds of 2nd/3rd generation immigrants who do not and whose interactions with others outside their own community is disproportionately negative.
The argument over small boat migrants isn't actually an argument over small boat migrants, it's over a very fragmented society of which, despite their ethnicities, the likes of Braverman and Sunek have absolutely no idea. To them, it might be boats, to those actually listening and agreeing with them, it is something else entirely and that is very dangerous.
Scotland would do well to avoid any complacency, as the levels of immigration are proportionally less than other areas of the UK and we simply don't how attitudes would be should that situation alter dramatically in times to come.
As such, whilst levels of overt racism may unfortunately be much more evident in England, I have no doubt that the so far individual cases up here could easily develop into something much worse should the societal mix alter significantly.
As for a fragmented society, that has been a global pattern over centuries. Resident populations are wary and fearful of incomers, and the latter often form 'societies' in geographic areas based on ethnic, cultural and religious background. New York is a good example of how the 'melting pot' theory takes a long time to achieve.
Tolerance itself won't achieve integration and harmony, it must be accompanied by economic opportunity, educational attainment and fairness for all. But that also requires immigrants to participate fully and for the uniform application of the rule of law.
Britain is failing dismally on this critique. At one end of the spectrum we have right-wing hatred straight from the 1930's masquerading as Government policy, and at the other a failure to root out hatred-inspiring crimes like grooming gangs.
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44 minutes ago, George Parr said:
Stranraer's last few results have been just as trash as ours. I expect Dumbarton to win the football match. We should be quite worried if we don't.
Perhaps, but the loss of Greig Young is a real blow on all counts, and Finlay Gray's fifteen minutes of mayhem doesn't help. Wee Aggy will be viewing this game as winnable, and why not against a team that finds scoring difficult.
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Presumably the Irish will encounter teams much less profligate with their goal kicking.
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1 minute ago, FifeSons said:
Assume he means that someone like Murray could get much more out of this squad.
Correct. The difference in a month was astonishing.
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2 minutes ago, C'mon_the_Sons said:
Was a good goal for you but what was the get it up ye from McCarthy all about? Absolute C*nt.
He was quite entitled - one of our absolute c*nts had launched a foul-mouthed rant at him just beforehand.
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1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said:
This game has given me flashbacks to the end of Jim Chapman's tenure.
I said leaving the game that there are Adamson/Murray parallels here. We have a squad much, much more capable of producing more than we are seeing but it won't happen under the current team management.
If only some of supporters would stop scapegoating match officials and concentrate on the football matches they'd maybe see that.
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On 18/09/2023 at 18:42, pleslie99 said:
I know there is a bit of a dislike amongst many towards Faz. But I don’t think there is any need for panic. We’ve lost 1 game, albeit in what sounds like a pretty tame manner. I don’t think that anyone is going to run away with the league, it’s probably the tightest league on paper and I would expect it to be the closest title challenge at the end of the season. We maybe, on paper, have one of the strongest squads, but we lack an out and out goal scorer. If we are challenging come the end of the season it’s job done as far as I’m concerned.
That last sentence is the line the Board took last season - the target set for the Manager was to reach the play-offs and he achieved that, so everyone move on, nothing to see here.
Not acceptable, full stop. This season is his last chance saloon.
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1 hour ago, BallochSonsFan said:
Missing the game tomorrow as I'll be in Saarbrucken for my Saturday football fix.
I'm not convinced by Byrne. I know I'm in the minority, but I don''t think he carries any kind of goal threat. The problem we've got is that whilst MacLean is probably our best forward when he's 100%,, we very rarely get those kinds of performances from him.. Maclean and Hilton gave Stenny serious problems but can't be relied on to do that on a regular basis.
Pre-season I thought that Peterhead would be consolidating rather than pushing for immediate promotion back to League One. I'd like to have seen them in person to confirm that or to change my views. I still don't think they're title material, but they're certainly dangerous. We've had 6 league games now, along with the League Cup and Challenge Cup. There's no excuse for not knowing our strongest 11 and best formation. We need to start playing with a consistency of selection and tactics.
Tomorrow is the kind of game that'll tell us a lot about our chances this season. Clearly it's early enough that a loss would be far from a major setback, but equally I'd expect us to be showing what we're really about by now. We need a result tomorrow for sure, but I reckon that a performance is as important. Scraping a 1 goal win via an own goal or a rebound off a player's backside? Fine. A win is a win. But we need to start showing what we're actually about this season. We need to start convincing fans that the manager and players know what they're doing.
Stevie Farrell can afford to experiment, he's under the least pressure of any Manager in Scotland.
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9 hours ago, Vimto90 said:
We are 6 games in. You are third, 3goals off top (not even points) and have just suffered first league defeat.
I get yous don't like him but the constant pile on after any defeat won't do the club any good. There is an unsavoury atmosphere at Dumbarton (which is good for the rest if us) and yous can blame Farrell till the cows come home but from outside in it's the fans making things toxic which massively decreases chance of success, keep it up.
At the start of last season I came on this thread and correctly predicted the Farrell poison would eventually come to fruition and so it passed and you limped to a poor finish.
Same again this season.
You are entitled to your opinion but it would be better if it was informed. By any normal standards Dumbarton FC is currently in desperate state and if anything is toxic it is the club ownership, with everything flowing from that.
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34 minutes ago, Neilly said:
Boys no going back and jacking it after your first defeat of the season is absolutely laughable. Who do you think you are? What a bunch of petted lipped, pathetic, big babies.
Anyway I came on to ask what happened to that new director that was firing out on all the replies on here the other week? Does he go to the games and why has he disappeared off here? Sounded like he was going to be the messiah in his own head.
Stevie Farrell has had every opportunity at this club. There is a growing feel though that he is not getting the best out of this squad, and that's based on evidence.
Just like this time last year the statistics don't tell the whole story. Two of the wins came from 20-minute spells and another was a last-gasp winner when a draw was a fairer result.
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1 hour ago, Silverton End said:
The galling thing is there's no need for the tinkering, we've already shown we can beat teams well, Stenny away, home to Forfar from a goal behind.
We have a good squad of players, as far as I know Farrell was able to sign all the guys he was after.
He's almost become a cult at DFC, does he answer to anyone within the Club?
Will any of what remains of our Board quiz him about his selections yesterday?
Highly doubt it, the guy seems to have free reign.
Talking about the Board, what happened to the new guy ? Is he still around ?
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I agree with almost everything that's been posted, but I'm concerned that Ryan Wallace is becoming a worry.
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35 minutes ago, alta-pete said:
Hmmm. I’ve never yet been convinced by Beale but it’s his (many) players, his gameplan and now 1/2 dozen or so games in, I think he’s been given all the rope he’s needed to convincingly hang himself.
A win (
) on Sunday against Brendan’s faltering team who similarly don’t seem to get what they’re being asked to do and I reckon it’s only a stay of execution.
Beale's appointment was always questionable and it now looks even more like a low-cost punt. Returning players and managers seldom cut it second time around, and he was hardly tearing up any trees at Loftus Road before his return. The signings look to be highly questionable too with Morelos and Kent having been replaced with players more the quality of Itten, Sakala and Wright.
A bad defeat on Sunday will likely press the ejector button but whoever comes in will be dealt a pretty bum hand squad-wise, with little genuine quality evident.
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15 minutes ago, microdave said:
He didn't last long. I'm sure I've still got the same butter in the fridge as I had when he was appointed.
Talking of which, our new director seems to have gone awfully quite of late.
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9 minutes ago, strichener said:
SNP lose £800k and now have negative reserves. What a state of affairs for them.
Now about the £600k that is sitting waiting to be spent on a referendum...
So what's to be done ?
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2 hours ago, The Moonster said:
Aye, I've no idea what the fucks going on. I thought Pendragon provided a loan and have the security over that land. That old p***k Henning said he would pay the liabilities himself if everything went tits up, did he not?
And that's precisely what the owners want. But don't worry, club officials are probably in the same boat.
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