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The OS are looking at players who have played for both Sons and Motherwell and as well as the ones they mention, I can think of Jumbo Muir and Brian Heron. I am sure there are others.

My view all along is that Duffy is waiting for the better players who can't get a contract further up the chain to filter down. This always takes a while and you need strong nerves to sit it out and wait. Let's hope so.

Completely agree with this - it is too early in the season (Wimbledon won't have finished before the first games start, for goodness sake) and the format discriminates against the smaller clubs who have to rebuild a squad every year.

Would that be the squad that had us flirting with relegation all season, nearly bottom at Christmas and just scraping sixth place? I know what you mean BBPF but there are a number of us who are quite thankful to have a revised squad. I also think there us a general lack of trust in Duffy's abilities to bring out the best in whatever players we end up with.

This is exactly what I think Duffy is doing. Hamilton, for example, have a friendly coming up where they are lining up a number of trialists - they won't all win a contract but they then have to filter down through Championship and other full time teams consideration before they roll up at the Rock. Tight timings but you can get very good players by being patient.

Home tie against St Mirren Colts or East Kilbride in the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup (trips off the tongue).

Come on Wilf you are old enough not to be swayed by comments on an anonymous internet forum...surely!! Our crowds average over 600 and you are listening and taking to heart the comments of two or three people. Ignore them (and the drum).

Closely followed by the use of "of" instead of "have" but that is more laziness and annoying than baffling.

We're not all in agreement - many of the regular posters might be but not everyone. We have lost a lot of last season's squad so far - a squad that had us flirting with relegation for most of the season and scraping into sixth place. To be honest, after that, I'm not sure how many we would want to keep. The difference from the first half of the season and the second half was largely down to the players Duffy brought in. I share the frustrations of not seeing a better calibre of payer coming in yet and the fact that there are only a few weeks before the first games kick off but the end of the window is a time when clubs can pick up the better players - ok, the players who couldn't get a contract elsewhere but also the players who had a bad season last year for one reason or another, or who were out of favour and are now needing to look elsewhere but it takes time - time for their negotiations with their current club to take place, time for them to realise that if they don't decide soon they will be out of the game, time for them to realise that dropping a division will give them a showcase for the following year. I trust Duffy to not only get the right players in but to get the best out of them. If Duffy's only choice was to sign diddy players, the squad would be full by now. There is still time to fill the squad with the real players who will make a difference.

Incoming!

How was Mason Bloomfield for you guys?

He's only been told to shut up by one person, hardly representative of the interest on here or the sentiment. You carry on OS.

I don't know if it was Davie RockMusic had in mind - but what a legend!! A Dumbarton great.

There's no rule Rocky - if you want to mention music - mention music.

Oh OS! "I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive".

Not offended.

Exactly - it is no big deal.

This is not all about you - you are very positive mainly - OKI mentioned Dumbarton not being in a different position to other companies going out of business, implying that the club could go out of business. Others commented on the club being an amateur club in 50 years time and to the ground being demolished at which point you mentioned you would not support a phoenix club.

Naw he didnae Of course he did - he said if the club went out of business he wouldn't support a phoenix club.

Predicting relegation? I understand your point and I am certainly not ignoring it - but that is not what I said. Wound up? Going out of business - check back in the thread for a number of posters discussing the possibility of the club going out of business. Sorry for injecting a positive note into the doom and gloom but this is not head in the sand - this is reflecting what has been said on here!

There was discussion about the club going out of business around the 15th January - you even contributed to it.

Time to be optimistic again - that was a great window. I couldn't understand the angst in here during the wait for players. Pretty much everyone was looking for a few payers to move and prioritised defenders, a goalkeeper and a forward. This is exactly what happened - three left, two defenders, a goalkeeper, a forward come in and we retain Thomas - in the meantime a number of people on here were predicting certain relegation, the club was going out of business and being wound up, etc. Time to start believing again. #Duffydelivers.

We're sorry to lose him - he will certainly be missed by Crawley but at least he is going to a good club.

Give us your thoughts on Tom Dallison.... He's just joined and only started two games. Solid enough without being spectacular - he is being nursed through the early games by the more experienced defenders around him. He did have a good game on Saturday when we beat Swindon - he didn't put a foot wrong. Connolly is a much better player but his wife is Scottish, he has just had his second child and the thinking is that she wants to return to Scotland.

I watch Crawley Town down here on a regular basis and there are rumours here claiming Mark Connolly may be on his way to United. Great player, hope you don't get him!