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Week 1 - Hibs
Week 2 - Falkirk
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39 minutes ago, Howlin' Wilf said:
Jim Duffy gave his opinion and Tommy Wright gave his. They are both experienced managers and Duffy is a paid as a pundit too. What's the issue?
There is no issue, except by those who want to make it an issue.
I am sure Duffy and Wright know each other very well, for better or worse.
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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.
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1 hour ago, sarti pooh said:
Just speculating here cause I need to believe there is something up his sleeve.
Do we think there is any chance that Duffy is keeping the best of his budget to get some high quality loans in for the league?
Like everyone is saying it's clear he has zero ambition regarding the Betfred but maybe he's hoping he can get guys in for the league that had a similar impact (obviosuly won't be as big an impact) as DT.
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.
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8 minutes ago, BallochSonsFan said:
It's stacked against us in terms of getting out of a group stage. With that in mind it's really an inconvenience.
We can't play trialists so we need to either sign our squad before the cup or run with a short bench and risk guys who aren't at full fitness picking up knocks because we can't rotate them. They either need to abandon this group garbage and make it a straight up knockout tournament or allow trialists and give teams and free agent players a further 4 games for contracts to be sorted out.
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.
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2 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
I really don't think we should be getting carried away with a friendly victory, involving 10 trialists, against a team who were playing their 2nd game in 24 hours.
Even if we sign the better of yesterday's trialists our squad still looks like a monumental downgrade on last season.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.
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1 hour ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Will you not potentially be waiting for a number of players who fail to win contracts at full time clubs? We for instance have had 13 or 14 trialists in the last three weeks. We've signed a few of them (Lee Kilday, Dan Pybus, Lewis Kidd) and may yet sign the odd other one but there are going to be a few of them having to look to part time clubs by next week inevitably.
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.
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Home tie against St Mirren Colts or East Kilbride in the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup (trips off the tongue).
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5 hours ago, Howlin' Wilf said:
The drum is clearly audible in Crosslet Road on match days.
The violence though wasn't tolerated or encouraged by the club. The comparison is spurious.
My estrangement and that of my daughter from the club is complete and permanent. That decision has been made much easier by the comments on here. One from a guy to whom I have been quite helpful to on a couple of occasions who thinks I'm being a "dick" . The ad hominem nature of the insults is disappointing but in the end, not surprising. I shouldn't have brought the issue up again.
Apologies.
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).
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2 hours ago, stevoraith said:
The replacement of the word ‘I’ with the letter ‘a’ in a written format is the most baffling thing.
Closely followed by the use of "of" instead of "have" but that is more laziness and annoying than baffling.
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1 hour ago, pleslie99 said:
There doesn't seem to be any positivity or optimism from any of us. I think that says it all really. Usually there is some sort of disagreement with regards to signings/rumours but looks to me like we are all in agreement here. We look proper fucked!
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.
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Incoming!
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How was Mason Bloomfield for you guys?
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3 hours ago, pleslie99 said:
I don't understand the hostility towards old scrotum here. He gave us some information that he thought we would all be interested in. Now hes basically being told to shut up because he has no further updates. Think everyone needs to calm down
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.
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I don't know if it was Davie RockMusic had in mind - but what a legend!! A Dumbarton great.
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10 hours ago, RockMusic said:
Aherm! What did you say about me mentioning music on this thread??? Seems it's one rule for the oldies and another for the newbies.
There's no rule Rocky - if you want to mention music - mention music.
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1 hour ago, Old Scrotum said:
The last record Steve Wright played before Challenger lifted-off was the theme tune to a well-known 1960s Supermarionation series which began with the words "I'd like to be an astronaut on Fireball XL5".
Oh OS! "I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive".
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6 minutes ago, Old Scrotum said:
I apologise to anyone offended.
Not offended.
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Exactly - it is no big deal.
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1 hour ago, The Moonster said:
I had a wee look back to the 15th of January and here's what I said:
The discussion was about our poor turnout and why fans don't come back when we do well but desert us when we do poorly. I cannot for the life of me see anyone predicting the club going out of business or being wound up - the only thing I can see is O'Kelly Isley saying that the Scottish game at the lower end is slowly dying, but that isn't a statement exclusive to Dumbarton.
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.
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50 minutes ago, TheChase said:2 hours ago, Sons FC said:There was discussion about the club going out of business around the 15th January - you even contributed to it.
Naw he didnae
Of course he did - he said if the club went out of business he wouldn't support a phoenix club.
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13 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
As for prediciting relegation - we are in a relegation play off spot, the team above us having a game in hand. It's a very, very real possibility and to ignore that fact is plain daft. Our form is relegation form. We need a huge upturn in results to make a fist of staying up.
Who said the club was going to be wound up or go out of business? Evidence of people saying that plz.
I'm all for folk trying to be positive but burying your head in the sand doesn't achieve a thing. I think some people get realism confused with negativity.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!
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18 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
I think Duffy has probably done as well as he could with the resources available to him, it's now up to him to get the best out of them on the pitch.
I don't remember anyone saying the club would be wound up though. I would also suggest it's the players who need to start believing (and preferable seeing out games when we take the lead).
There was discussion about the club going out of business around the 15th January - you even contributed to it.
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~The Sixth Sense~ Hamilton Academical 2019/2020 Thread
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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I saw him playing for Notts last season when they played Crawley. He was a stand out and clearly far too good for league two. Given some other league two players have done well in Scotland I would say he could be a pretty good signing.