Distant Doonhamer

Only signed until May 2024 according to Official Site but may of course have been offered an extension. Be happy if he stayed with us.

Forecast suggesting high winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms in the morning. They’re delaying opening the gates to let the patrons in based on storm forecast. They seem confident of at least some play tomorrow but round one likely to be completed on Friday. Friday looks dry and windy. Forecast for the weekend looks glorious. Sunny and very warm with only light winds. It’ll all be on schedule for rounds 3 and 4 I would reckon. Sunday evening watching the Masters with a suitable refreshment is one of my favourite sporting events. Can’t wait.

Yes I understand your point. When you look at the really solid pros in that team with the likes of McKenna, Dowie, Higgins and Lyle plus youngsters like Holt and Reilly it makes you realise how far we’ve fallen as a club. Challenging for a play off spot in a championship that contained the likes of Hibs and Rangers. In that week alone we beat Hibs at Easter Road followed by wins over Rangers and Falkirk at Palmerston.

Always good to get a win. There's been no sign of the players downing tools and though the quality isn't there the effort still seems to be.

Except we didn’t play 4-4-2 that night. Kidd and Holt as wing backs on either side of Durnan, Dowie and Higgins. https://www.qosfc.com/match-1075

We’re no longer using mats, as of April 1st, but the back 9 remains closed due to flooding and given it’s pissing down again today I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Hugely frustrating.

A good number of other squad probables/possibles didn’t feature at the weekend. Hickey, McTominay, Patterson, Ralston, Brown. Suspect I’ve missed some others too. BBC saying tonight that 26 man squads still under consideration.

So Everton finally win a game on Saturday only to get hit with a further 2 point deduction under financial fair play rules. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport

Exactly this.

Surely you’d want to get on with this next shot. Bizarre. Edit or maybe not. That’s a great shot.

Astonishing stuff. 4 shot lead going into final round, shoot 5 under and still don’t win outright. Amazing.

I actually meant the group in terms of underachievement. I like Brydon as a player. Could have put that better.

Just had a look on our official site. As is well documented Bartley is contracted to May 2025. Someone understandably commented yesterday that they can’t wait for the end of the season but a fair number of our underachieving players I.e. Brydon, Church, Hutchinson, Doherty, Cochrane and McKechnie are also contracted to May 2025.

Yes please. Every chance still that we'll be 9th. Bullshit Bartley has us firmly in the mix.

Yes please.

I'd be including the board in that list too. They're not so much sleepwalking as comatose IMHO.

He should have been sacked months ago. There won't be many QOS fans who think otherwise. That he's still in post is a dereliction of duty by our board in my opinion. Unless they are astonishingly still convinced that Bartley remains the man for the job then they've actively chosen to take a punt on us somehow staggering clear of 9th spot in order to save a few months pay off money. In the meantime we lurch ever closer to a play off spot. If we end up 9th then I'm as certain as I can be that we'll be doomed to relegation to tier 4 of Scottish football. It's a scandalous state of affairs. My instinct is that the punt might yet "pay off" but it'll be largely due to the failings of others if it does.

It's possibly that our manager is a complete charlatan but to be fair I'm basing that on such trivial things as points gained, goals scored, league position, even entertainment delivered rather than the really crucial metric of sticking to the game plan,

You realise some of them have deals to the end of next season.

What a shower of shitebags we are. Even a point would have been a big result. If we avoid 9th it'll be down to the failings of others.

Annan behind as well. So far another afternoon of hoping results elsewhere go our way.

A few on the pitch still asleep?

Good for you.

And they will. QOS Met Office