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Lordy - a centre half from last season's Berwick Rangers team. Prepared to give the guy a chance, obviously, but this gives me the fear.
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Tiffoney has been our best player in the last 2 or 3 games. McBride hasn't.
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I would get rid. Queens Park were absolutely honking, as were Stirling last week, and again we give away goal, after goal, after goal. Team is good enough to stay in this league but we need someone able to motivate, and encourage them, as their confidence is shot to bits.
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Same story as last week. On top most of the game, fair few chances we don’t take, and we, as usual give away our obligatory 2 goals. The end must be nigh for Irons.
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Certainly the sort of player we need in midfield. Can we get rid of Dykes now?
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It has now reached the stage where it doesn’t matter how we play, we are going to lose.
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Outside the top 2 I'm not sure anyone should be feeling too comfortable.
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Of the centre half variety?
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Really? I thought he was our best player in the last game against Albion Rovers. Brought some composure to the middle of the park and always looked to put his foot on the ball. I think he'll be a miss.
Maybe my expectations were just too high, but I expected a lot more.0 -
Was never convinced that his heart was in it, so not altogether surprised at this. Irons has a big job on his hands so hopefully this is part of a masterplan.
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53 minutes ago, Vimto90 said:
Graeme Smith
Willie Lyle
Ross McMillan
Ross Dunlop
Ruaridh Donaldson
Paul McMullan
Eric Paton
Brian Hodge
Stevie Murray
Mark Mcguigan
John Gemmell
Was a toss up between Iain Thomson & Hodge for CM. Kevin Mckinlay the only other LB that was considered. We have had plenty of good goalies over the last 10 years but buzz just pips it for me.Harry Paton?!
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This thread is doing the rounds in the Championship and League 1 forums so it's only far we start one in the basement league.
It's very straightforward: all you have to do is pick the worst XI to have featured for your team over the last 10 years. I'll have a bash with Stenhousemuir FC.
GK: Jamie Barclay
It was a toss-up between Jamie Barclay and Colin McCabe for my goalkeeper but Barclay just edges it given his relative lower-league experience compared to the young Irishman. Few felt confident when we brought in Clyde's tubby reserve goalie in 2015 but even his most ardent supporters couldn't have believed how sorry a player he was. Who could forget his inexplicable own goal in the defeat at Ayr United? Sensational stuff! It got to the stage where he was costing us a goal every game; quite why he played so often for us, I do not know.
LB: Stephen Thomson
Some players have been shoehorned into the team out of necessity to fill a position but not Stephen Thomson. Montrose supporters laughed at us when he took him off their hands in 2009, warning us we'd brought a donkey to the club - and they were right! Reckless and ill-disciplined, there was a game against Clyde that sticks out where he was sent off after just 16 minutes for a tackle of jaw-dropping idiocy. When Davie Irons came into the club, he was given a final chance before being binned off to Berwick Rangers. The worst left-back I've ever seen at Stenhousemuir.
CB: Stuart Malcolm
What a disappointment! Stuart Malcolm had enjoyed a good season with Forfar Athletic before pitching up at Stenny but he left any sense of being a centre-back at Station Park. On the first league game of the 2015/16 season, we had taken a two-goal lead against Peterhead at Balmoor and looked to be cruising, until the captain collected two ludicrous yellow cards. His dismissal saw three points become one. This would be a recurring feature of his year at the club. My lasting memory of him was falling over when trying to headia simple high ball in a Boxing Day clash with Stranraer and allowing Craig Malcolm to score. By all accounts he's a good person to have around your club but he was a rotten player at the Warriors.
CB: Ross Smith
Signed on loan from Dundee United, Ross Smith came with a decent reputation a positive temporary spell at Peterhead. However, he was rotten at the Warriors - lightweight, uncertain, panicky and poor on the ball; all the hallmarks of a bad defender. It is worth noting he played at centre-back in our 5-4 home defeat to Dunfermline Athletic and the 8-0 drubbing at Rangers. Mince.
RB: Jamie McCormack
I feel a bit bad putting Jamie "Jobber" McCormack in this list because he did score some important goals for the club, particularly a lovely header in the play-off final first-leg win against Queen's Park in 2015, but he was a rotten defender. He was slow and often found himself out of position, and he also had a rash streak, leading to him conceding numerous fouls. McCormack played more than 60 games for Stenhousemuir which, frankly, I can't quite believe.
CM: Kris Faulds
Once again, I'm not 100 per cent sure Kris Faulds should be on this list as he had a bit of talent and he scored a nice goal in an unexpected win over Dunfermline Athletic in 2014 but he was largely hopeless. He didn't use his ability often enough, preferring to spend long periods of the game running here and there to hide away from any immediate panic. He was poor during his loan spell with the club over the latter part of the 2013/14 season and I can't fathom why Scott Booth decided to sign him permanently after his release from Falkirk. Not good enough for the SPFL, and this is reflected by the fact he's spent the last few years playing for East Stirlingshire.
CM: Kieron Gibbons
The Lowland League Player of the Year the previous season, Kieron Gibbons was anonymous at Stenhousemuir after joining in 2018. What did he do? He was quite fit, sure, but how did he use his energy? He wasn't positionally sound enough to protect the back four; his passing was often poor, especially over short distances; he wasn't technical enough to support the forwards; and he offered no goal threat. Gibbons picked up two bookings in the first league game of the season against Brechin City and no-one could properly trust him after that. God only knows why Brown Ferguson offered him a two-year contract but he was released a few months into the current season and returned to East Kilbride in the Lowland League. A real nothing player.
CM: Russell Dingwall
A terrible signing and arguably one of the worst of Colin McMenamin's time as manager of Stenhousemuir. The on-loan Ross County midfielder ran about a bit but provided no defensive cover, nor did he offer us any thrust in attack. He was red carded in a crucial match against Brechin City for elbowing the goalkeeper early on and indifference turned to dislike soon after. In fact, you could more or less copy and paste Kieron Gibbons entry in here.
ST: Shaun Fraser
Simply the most limited footballer I've ever seen at Stenhousemuir, and that's really saying something. Shaun Fraser was brought to Ochilview on loan from Partick Thistle to augment our forward line midway through the 2011/12 campaign. He had apparently played rugby into his early teens before switching to football but Ian McCall seemed to rate him quite highly. Instead of a rugged, hot-shot baller, we had a technically deficient striker who looked as though he had been plucked from the stands as part of a cruel joke. I remember him being put through on goal on his debut at Forfar Athletic and looking absolutely astonished to have found himself in such a position. Two more appearances and about 70-odd minutes of game time later and he was never seen again. A terrible player.
ST: Kenny Deuchar
Pound for pound, the worst player I've seen at Stenhousemuir when reputation, outlay and performance are taken into consideration. Signed on loan from Livingston at the tail end of the 2011/12 season, Kenny Deuchar was supposed to give our forward line a different dimension, reignite our faltering campaign and lift us back into the Championship play-offs. Instead we had brought in a cumbersome, unfit and immobile old warhorse who stationed himself next to opposition centre-backs in the hope any long balls bounced off him and into the path of a graetful team-mate. Deuchar offered us very little and was dropped before the end of the season; needless to say, we finished in fifth. Thanks, Kenny!
ST: Ryan Miller
What Scott Booth was thinking when he brought this jobber to the club, I do not know. The former Falkirk youngster, who featured for the club during their brief run in Europe a few years prior, was recruited from Lowland League crack troops Stirling University alongside PJ Sludden. Sludden had actually trialed unsuccessfully with us in the past, so fans were immediately suspicious of the pair. Neither were particularly good and both looked out of their depth at the bottom end of League 1. Sludden, at least, scored a smashing goal in a Stirlingshire Cup tie; Miller was very poor and never once made an impression on the first team.
Difficult to argue with this although maybe harsh on Shaun Fraser on the basis he barely played. Can I swap him out for Craig Sutherland? A Booth panic signing, which he lived up to.
Jamie Barclay is an absolute shoe in for the worst keeper. No contest.0 -
So, Jonathan Tiffoney...
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Doesn’t matter who we played yesterday, anybody in the league would have beaten us easily. That was more than just a team having an off day. Would love to know what Irons has to say about it.
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Agree re mcguigan, but we have lost 7 goals in the last two games, three of which were from corner kicks. Our defence is looking very shaky to say the least. But not sure what the alternatives are.
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Even a little nod towards a conspiracy. Rangers by name, Rangers by nature.
"Ayrshire referee Kevin Graham could have sent off Talbot’s Stephen Wilson in the 53rd minute for blatantly kicking Cove skipper "
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12 hours ago, Aberdeen Cowden said:
What a load of s—-e
Cove are easily the best team in this league. I think they will win the league too.
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Chris Smith I think
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Real contrast in styles. Cove play some really nice stuff, but our back to front tactics were spot on. Cove dominated possession but we exploited their weaknesses. The centre half and goalie in particular looked vulnerable.
Feared the worst after three minutes but we gave as good as we got and scored a decent equaliser ourselves. Hopkirk’s pace embarrassed the Cove rearguard for the second, and the penalty was just madness from the centre half.
Second half we had a couple of decent early chances but thereafter Cove were on top. Thankfully the second goal was late on and meant we were able to see out the game relatively comfortably.
MotM - Willie Gibson for me.
Irons impact on the team in such a short space of time has been remarkable.
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More fool the committee.
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Yes, absolutely appreciate that budgets / cashflow may be tight, but one can equally look on it from a more positive & pro-active perspective. Taking your £20k p.a. example, employ somebody part-time (or as part of another role) for say 2.5 days per week - plenty of time to cover matches & manage website & other social media content - at £10k, & that is equivalent to their work delivering just 46 more fans through the turnstiles at each home league game.....46.3 @ £12 x 18 games = £10k.
Not a lofty ambition I would suggest, & this without taking into account cup games, pre-season friendlies, incremental spend at the ground, or importantly increased sponsorship income. Businesses want to see consistent / ongoing exposure on clubs' websites & social media in return for their sponsorship dollar, & if this isn't clearly visible then any that are doing it with half a commercial eye on the spend i.e. not just seeing it as a donation to the club, won't be interested. If any club has ambitions to progress, without the benefit of contribution from a handy sugar daddy, then there are definite bases that need to be covered, & decent website & social media activity is definitely one of those.
This is the Scottish lower leagues. In your little scenario, an additional 46 fans every game will be close to 10% of the average gate. That’s every game, and even then, that’s just to break even. Or they could get a volunteer to do it, and spend the £10k on a new striker. Assuming they have a spare £10k in the first place.0 -
Thought a draw was a fair result today. We dominated the 1st and Stirling the 2nd. First half was as good as we have played this season but we couldn’t sustain it for 90 minutes. In fact we couldn’t really sustain it for much more than 45 minutes. Quite a different game from the previous week. Loads of chances and some decent football.
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Hilarious. The Brechin highlights clearly showed Jonathan page pulling McGuigan’s shirt in the box. Not even a brief flirtation with his shirt, but a proper yank, followed by another. As blatant, and as indisputable as you can get. The fantasy Brechin penalty incident was just that.
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49 minutes ago, Francesc Fabregas said:
I was looking at the players Irons brought in over his first few months at the club. The two big successes were Eric Paton - still my all-time favourite Stenhousemuir player - and Michael Devlin on loan from Hamilton Academical, with both players having a massive impact in our survival. His other signings - Lewis "The Ghost" Sloan and Brian Gilmour (who ended up costing us a small fine after he botched his registration) - weren't great. He did manage to make a poor group of players better greater than the sum of their parts with good organisation and structure and I reckon we'll see the fruits of this in a couple of weeks.
We can definitely get the better of Stirling Albion at the weekend but Cove Rangers will probably tank us.
Re Cove, if you want to scare yourself, consider how we toiled to victory against Brechin and then watch the highlights of the Brechin/Cove game the previous weekend.
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Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread
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Unless we play three centre halves??