Balmoor Boy
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I always think that we have to at least score two goals to win a game as we don't keep many clean sheets. Losing 23 goals in 21 games tells its own story.
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2 minutes ago, tbsouth said:
How's the weather up there now?
Still sleet showers which are forecast all afternoon. Passed by park just now and they appear to be clearing lines. It would be a lottery to play in these conditions for both players and spectators.
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8 minutes ago, strichener said:
I am a few miles Fae Peterhead and it is fucking freezing. I canna believe that the pitch isn't frozen.
Passed by just now and ground is white with frost - you would need a blowtorch to thaw it out!
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14 hours ago, Jordo1872 said:
Football fan blames referee following defeat.
A tale as old as time.
Not this time I'm afraid, my team won today and I still blame the referee for spoiling the game. He was vastly out of his depth and it was evident from the start that there would be lots of bookings and contentious penalties awarded.
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2 hours ago, doulikefish said:
Absolutely bewildering decision to go with a 3 at the back yesterday and totally change the formation,our young co managers need to stop watching skys tactics board before the live football on TV and we were punished because of it.Simple high ball over the top and we were being caught out everytime and it really should have been 4/5 nil at ht
If you play with 3 at the back, you need defenders with pace - something we definitely haven't got. A change of tactics definitely required before we slip further down the league.
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20 minutes ago, strichener said:
He was a great servant for the club but I thought he (and the club) moved on at the right time. I'm with you here.
I kind of agree with you, however, we need something up front to help Shanks. He's got height and knows where the goals are - time will tell.
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2 hours ago, doulikefish said:
Somethings happening
He's signing today!
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17 hours ago, peternapper said:
Hopefully better than last season.
Last season was probably the worst that I can remember in the 50 odd years that I have followed them - we had some dark seasons at the Rec when we were in the Highland League, however, nothing as bad as this. We have to hit the ground running as a poor start often means playing catch-up and the confidence starts to go.
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49 minutes ago, peternapper said:
Decent highlights package first goal was better than i thought at the time. We were better in the first half than we have been but losing the 2nd to a pen just summed up how our season has went
You don't get a lot of luck when in our position. They put in a lot of effort in the first half and got no reward. Alloa came out a bit more positive in the second half and you could feel they were going to score and we seemed to tire a bit. Good effort, much improved.
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47 minutes ago, peternapper said:
Must admit have always stood with Rodger as first & foremost he is a true supporter of the club & does what he thinks is best for the club. As someone that follows the team home and away have to say performances did not improve under Davie & last week was really embarrassing. Will see if there is any reaction today there are players that we know really want to play for the club, some will hopefully try and regain some pride but some are just not up to standard.
Let's hope players like Jack Brown are re-instated to the team - he didn't seem to get a fair crack of the whip under Robertson, who preferred to play his own signings who were poor to say the least.
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On 18/03/2023 at 17:29, Blue-Toon said:
Easily the worst Peterhead team since we left the Highland League with no sign of any improvement since Jim left. If we beat Clyde to finish in ninth spot and survive the playoffs it will be a miracle.
This is probably the worst team that I can remember wearing the blue jersey. No leadership, no creation, can't score goals and defence leaks like a sieve. We are going down into Division 2 and unless there is a remarkable turnaround next season - straight back to the Highland League.
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11 hours ago, Ivo den Bieman said:
A not very good draw between two not very good teams is the tl;dr version of this game, which I took in today as couldn't be arsed trachling all the way to Alloa. It's the end of the month.
The sun visited briefly, scalding the turf, and then like the rest of us wondered what it was doing there, realised it had better places to be, and left, leaving the rest of the match to be played out in slate grey and freezing conditions. I've only just about thawed out now.
This Peterhead team, strangers a month ago, are gelling, and seem much more compact and difficult to beat. Some of Davie Robertson's signings are working out well. Big Joshua at the back is a really solid player. McKenzie in goal has settled in. Bilsland is a quietly efficient player, not flash but puts in a shift. Fosu is a nuisance up front who creates space for others.
Still Kelty's team should have had more than enough to deal with the division's anchored backmarkers. The game had started fairly evenly withthe big difference between the teams being Kelty's passing. They cut through Peterhead on a couple of occasions effortlessly and looked lethal on the break, carving nice filigree patterns; Pugin as compared with the mossy breezblock architecture of their hosts.
They took the lead mid way through the first half in a move down the main stand side which bizarrely met with little resistance from the home defence. It was Martin of all people, a centre-half, who lazily negotiated a way through the Blue Toon's rearguard and sent a shot whistling past a startled McKenize high into the net from the edge of the area. I imagine he will have a more testing journey from his collbox to smoking barbecue in his back garden this summer. Kelty really looked menacing at this point but their best spell of the game didn't last for long.
The game was niggly and stop started not helped at all by an atrocious fusspot of a referee whose litany of incorrect decisions throughout this game would struggle to fit into two densely typed leather bound volumes. Throughout the game he mystifyingly overlooked several blatant fouls on Peterhead players, giving very little to the home side. The querulous pitch of the home support intensified with each successive baffling blunder by the cluless buffoon in the middle (the linesmen had the good grace to look slightly embarrassed on a couple of occasions). You're never far from a hallucinating puffed-up clown in black in the middle of a lower league game these days; taking a couple of drops of mescalin before the kick off before confidently striding out to take charge of what can only be described as a totally parallel version of reality.
In a rare moment of lucidity the whistler awarded Peterhead a free kick at the edge of the area, just before the break. The vastly experienced Higginbotham, still a quality player with a great eye for a pass, was trying to referee the game, and he and the Banksy-shredded maroon shirts surrounded the referee, causing him to yaw like a child's toy yacht in a swell. But they couldn't sink his decision, and up stepped young Wilkie to send a low tracer bullet of a free kick past the goalkeeper's outstretched left palm. 1-1, and amidst the shocked celebrations of the Blue Toon's thirteenth goal of the entire season, the Kelty recriminations began. Lots of furious shouting, finger pointing and shoulder shrugging which was still going on as the players trooped off for half time a few seconds later. The great tectonic plates of Potter's huge bald cranium knitted together alarmingly, and I can only imagine that the seismograph in the Kelty dressing room was juddering furiously throughout the break. A completely avoidable set piece goal to give away.
Any hope that this late first half drama would galvanise Peterhead proved unfounded. The second half was one long refereeing gripe, the game struggling to flow properly through his constant mother-henning over trivia and non-offences. Peterhead had their moments but it wasn't Shanks' day up front and the visiting goalkeeper wasn't worked too hard by the rare alarms. Kelty has much more of the ball in the last quarter and win a series of free kicks and corners, but their set piece siege engine is in sore need of a good drop of WD40. McKenzie did save well under pressure on a couple of occasions but I didn't feel a breakthrough was coming. Potter really should be getting much more of a tune out of a talented group.I enjoyed watching Higginbotham and Barjonas again although Nathan Austin looked a shadow of the player that ran up cricket score goal tallies during Kelty's rapid advance from the defunct juniors. Congrats to a healthy travelling support who seemed to have a great day out by largely ignoring the game and chatting amongst themselves.
All of which diaharretic spasms of inconsequence meant that this was not a terrible game, but not a great one either. The game hinged on Peterhead's defence being just about competent enough to clear theirn lines now, and Kelty being opretty clumsy in attack. Watching the Fifers try to score a winner was like watching a fingerless man try to bludgeon a jellyfish with a badminton racket.
Peterhead are just about keeping the Crossroads-level melodrama of "who will be in the releagtion play off" alive for now. As for Kelty, well it seems like the longest pre-season for 23/24 is already under way. They're not going to be in the promotion play offs and are safe by default from relegation owing to the epically dreadful character of the teams in the bottom two spaces. What use do they have of the remainder of the camapign then? Plenty, of course, and we'll see if the "am no sure about him" gaffer, Potter, takes the opportunity to work out who will be in his squad next year, who he needs to bring in, and whether any of that work will have any consequence.
I'm very tired and have not been sleeping well so congratulations to the 0.66 readers who waded through the runny verbal molasses of that report. I'll do better next time. Pass the fucking Nytol.
That was a perfect report of the game with a touch of satire thrown in to make it entertaining to read - you have missed your true vocation. Your assessment of the referee was spot on and I doubt if he has ever played the game in his life, as his failure to recognise a foul at times was frustrating for both teams - I certainly don't want to see him back at Balmoor in a hurry. Hope you come back again to our next home game to give another report.
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1 hour ago, PortyMo said:
For a big lad he went down like a sack of tatties any time anyone brushed against him.
Peterheid looked a lot more like a team from the previous 2 meetings this season. They are probably too far behind most to secure safety but should have enough to overcome Clyde to avoid automatic relegation.
Are you not mixing up with Rory McAllister, he has perfected falling down over the years lol. Hope you have thawed out!!!
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5 minutes ago, blueone said:
Remind me who Ian Esslemont is.
If my memory serves me right, he played for Peterhead briefly when they were at the Rec. He was a manager/assistant in the Highland League and the Juniors.
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3 hours ago, blueone said:
New manager being introduced on Tuesday at 11am.
https://www.peterheadfc.org/2022/11/28/new-manager/
Will it be Naysmith?
Davy Robertson with Ian Esslemont as assistant and Scott Tait as GK coach.
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Hot rumour that Davie Robertson will be announced as manager this week.
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14 hours ago, Blootoon87 said:14 hours ago, mo83 said:Anyone linked with PFC yet?
Paul Hartley, Davie Robertson and Mark Cowie from the Broch are being touted. Nothing too exciting.
Don't know if Mark Cowie would be interested, however, I heard that Barry Robson might be in the frame.
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12 hours ago, Scorge said:
Can't really add much for us - will happily take that, especially after the first half as these are the type of games you just have to stick away. Thought Gardyne deserved MOTM for a really determined engine-room shift today. It's only November, but Peterhead are already into snookers required/miracle territory to stay up: a slightly more clinical team would've had 6 or 7 today against that shoddy mess of a backline, and they've zip all up front until/if Rusty comes back. I do wonder if McInally may finally walk soon....
Just listened to Jim McInally's post-match interview and he certainly seems exasperated and frustrated with his teams performances and is on the brink. You don't seem to get any luck when you are rock bottom and the one or two own goals conceded yesterday seems to sum that up. We are in a similar position to East Fife last season, who became isolated at the foot of the table and never recovered. It is now between ourselves and Clyde to fight it out to avoid the automatic drop - not much to look forward to!!!
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17 hours ago, strichener said:
Probably 9 goals as well!
Can't see us taking anything from this game and we have a backline that is good for conceding a couple of goals a game (Dixon's good for at least 1) and a new keeper.
The dilemma is do I go to this or clean out my gutters. Tough call.
I would say that cleaning out your gutters would give you more satisfaction.
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1 hour ago, As Easterly as it gets! said:
Ah. I was heading out the gate when that one went in.........
In the lads defence , hes 19, playing behind the worst defence I can remember us having since we joined the SPFL.
And, hes saved us from a few hammerings in the handful of games hes played.
I think we are in for a few hammerings this season and will be cannon fodder for a few teams - I hope it doesn't dent his confidence. Things could change in the coming months and the board might decide that enough is enough, especially if fans vote with their feet.
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50 minutes ago, As Easterly as it gets! said:
Shocking display. Shocking result. Shocking state of affairs that 2 weeks from the start of the league season PD had 2 substitutes.
One of them a goalkeeper.
Lose to The Binos next week and McInally should be looking for a job.
For a normally well run club, this is pathetic.
We seem to be waiting for players to become available from the Dundee area and the Central Belt before looking at any available talent in our own area. One of our best signings has been Jack Brown from Highland League Rothes - there must be more available prospects instead of paying huge expenses to take up mediocre players from the South. I also think that McInally is trying to make a point to the SPFL about not being able to play trialists in this cup.
It is a sorry state of affairs and embarrassment to Peterhead Football Club that we are in this position so early in the season.
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15 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said:
Ryan Dow back at Balmoor.
Also Ryan Strachan, another experienced player.
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1 hour ago, Blootoon87 said:On 05/06/2022 at 08:03, As Easterly as it gets! said:Brown and Ferry will be missed most. Browns attitude is spot on. Ferry knows the game inside out and will be a big bonus to Broomhill.
We need a couple of experienced guys to replace them.
We've been lucky over the years with the Likes of Mann, Raeside, McSkimming, Roddie, Herd and quite a few others who have come along and helped keep us steady with their experience.
Need a couple of pros right now.Experienced guy incoming, apparently played nearly 500 games in his career in Scotland and England and played for his country. I'm really hoping it's not Connor Sammon.
Charlie Adam?
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On 14/05/2022 at 17:42, peternapper said:
Off course yourself & a FEW others were underwhelmed when we went six games unbeaten at the end of the season to avoid the play-off. No idea how Jordan will work out as a coach but he is enthusiastic & Jim who has a few years in the game must trust him so am happy to get behind him as most will
I thought the league was played over 36 games and not 6? Hardly being out of the bottom 3 and only coming to life at the end of the season is hardly an achievement to be proud of - the criticism that the management got was well warranted for some poor displays.
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Spartans v Peterheid v Spartans
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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All our good work this season was undone in 90 minutes of an utterly embarassing afternoon. Never looked up for it and Spartans were well deserved winners.