Howlin' Wilf

The more shirts you buy from the club, the more likely there will be further results like yesterday's.

Then there is 20% corporation tax to pay on the profit (net of VAT) . If the club pays a tenner including VAT for a strip and sells it for £40 inc VAT by the time VAT and corporation tax are deducted, and the cost of yhe badge and sponsor's name is added, the profit is roughly £15 per shirt. This is assuming they manage to sell every adult top at £40.

Remember if the top is £40, there is £6.67 VAT payable before calcuating profit.

What can we conclude about 1) the timing and 2) the calibre, of Morton's proposed signings?

The Glory Days...... https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bOI9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WEgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1923%2C726992

Some news on the new stadium. It's from 26th February (1971), so not sure how current this is https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MpJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654%2C5058026

Not sure about early history. When Davie Wilson was boss (in his first stint), around 1979 there were about half a dozen 'full timers' I remember Alec Wright telling me that it didn't work out and was short-lived. I had a suspicion I was wrong on the signing from an English club. With a bit of thought I'd have remembered Shay, Ray Montgomerie and Stuart Robertson but I wouldn't have got Paddy Boyle. Just checked and the font of all knowledge Wikipedia says we signed Stuart Robertson from Doncaster.

I see that Steven Craig has now signed. I was wondering when the last time was that we signed a player whose last club was an English League side. Was it Willie Wallace? Allan Black for his second stint?

Any chance of us getting a Humanist Celebrant? We followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pastafarians) should surely be catered for?

No it's Ray Dorset from Mungo Jerry.

When people ask 'Who is the hardest player you've seen in a Dumbarton strip?' There can only be one answer.

Yip. Mad as a brush he was. Nicknamed Stan - I'm not sure if this was only a Dumbarton Christening. He had a pretty odd running style but was an okay player at that level - a winger if I remember rightly. I have an image of him celebrating a Stirlingshire cup win on Stirling Albion's dreadful plastic surface at Annfied which probably dates him around the Jim George time.

Not me, I was in the pressure chamber aka the Cappielow stand.

I'm gradually losing respect for Muzz. Either that's the truth and he should have kept quiet about it or it's a lie and he shouldn't be showing that disrespect to his former club.

One footed.....

Closely followed by Cowdenbeath, Raith, Livingston and Hibs.

Rangers!

I see the Sun (It's no mine honest! ) has a story on a study of fans based on twitter feeds. Dumbarton fans are second happiest behind Falkirk and equal with Alloa, QoS and Hearts (based on last seaon). We are also the second least passionate and we're not even in the top five of gloomiest. O'Kelly Isley III and Frank Quietly don't do Twitter. ......

I have no problem with players being hard, but I do have a problem with them being stupid. Miller yesterday gave away a foul. He protested to the ref that it wasn't a foul. Free kick having been taken, he continued to mouth at the ref. The foul was on the halfway line FFS! He'd have had a yellow card in a competitive game.

I work on Saturdays.......

Agree with the disadvantage although probably not as bad as a midweek game. As well as the Falkirk game last season the 2012 play off final ties were live on Alba I think (though not league games).

Of course not!

Was the score 3-2? I'm not certain

Amazing. Who'd have thought that Susan Penhaligon read Pie and Bovril. Happy birthday from me too hen.

It was indeed East Fife. The referee on the day was Eddie Pringle from Edinburgh. The story went round that the decision to call the game of was marginal, but that the deciding factor was that the ref wanted to go and watch his son Alex play for Dundee elsewhere.