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At least you can have a beer and a wee snooze there mate!

2 signings for the squad last night, 1 for the Development Squad ultimately, but 2 players coming in with good backgrounds. Will be interesting to see how Wilson gets on. I thought he played well for Albion Rovers when we played them on the final day of the season. Sure, it was by no means our best team and an end of season dead rubber in our eyes, but still.

jackson Browne - Running On Empty

When Ally was with our youth's, he genuinely looked like a player that had a promising career in front of him. I watched him rip teams apart, or score "1 chance, 1 goal" type goals and it really was no surprise to see a team like Hearts come in for him and for him to be off, and who can blame him, we would all have loved to fulfil full time football, but it's just never really happened for him. I've seen him play a handful of times since, at Stenny and at Airdrie, and every time I've seen him he's looked a shadow of the young spritely player I used to watch on the Forthbank astro, so much so that I don't think he was ever a standout in any of those games. I'm sure Rice has seen something in him recently that he thinks he can work with, and for Roy's sake I hope he can get his career back on track but if it was Stirling's new signing, I would be pretty underwhelmed because he has had a number of chances now and has just not delivered.

Elles Bailey - Cheats And Liars

Darren Young mentioned in his after match video that someone is training with us at the moment and he is also looking for Left Back cover. So with the Loan market closing on Saturday (according to other threads), maybe something will be announced after training tonight or on Friday.

Bruno Belissimo - Play With Myself

Some guy called Brian Hamilton, who was our Director of Football allegedly, has stepped down from his role. Club Statement - SAFC (stirlingalbionfc.co.uk) He came in during the summer, had the kind of impressive playing background that we all like at this level, played for good top end teams where he won cups and picked up International Youth experience. He also had previous experience in similar roles at 3 or 4 different clubs and looked to be a welcomed addition to the club. As it transpires, I'm not even sure what he did during his 3 or 4 months here....if anything at all. He was certainly never visual to the paying punter, there was no big "this is what I'm going to do during my time here" speech, simply nothing. He agreed to a meeting with members of the Supporters Club prior to the game against Kelty Hearts, I couldn't make the meeting however the feedback I got from it was very wooly, I don't think anyone who attended it was any further forward in any plans that he brought to the table, with 1 supporter telling me "he just came out with all the stuff we'd heard before." When I read the statement this morning, I thought "meh", but I wonder if there's simply more going on with this than we thought. Was Hamilton simply a poor appointment, someone who the board wanted to be a figurehead but when he took up the post he wasn't, or was he a man that had the best intentions initially, but then had too much on his plate and just couldn't commit?? Doubt we'll ever know, but it will be interesting to see what happens next I'm sure.

U2 - Streets With No Name

Looking forward to the game, it seems like ages since we were last at home and with the game being on telly and a later kick off, hopefully it will have that air of being special for us. I fancy us, I really do, watching the highlights that get posted in the pinned thread above, Cove don't look in any great shakes and Hartley seems to have recruited a bunch of duds in the summer. These words could come back to haunt me, of course, but I stand by them with the highlights that I have seen. It's still early in the season, so it won't be a disaster if we lose, but as WattersIsGod has said above, if we can get a 7 point gap between ourselves and the Play Off at the bottom, then that would be nice.

Seems to be standard for a lot of artists now. I look at tour lists and you see 1 date for Scotland, and it tends to be Glasgow or Edinburgh. I think artists shoot themselves in the foot slightly, trying to play for the English market. I get there are greater populations to play too down there, but I'm not believing that alot of those nights are any more populated than doing 3 or 4 dates across Scotland.

Tide Lines - Far Side Of The World

Those anticipating Barnes getting a call up for next months Internationals will have to wait a little longer by the look of things. That is if he has decided to play for us and that Clarke has had the discussions of course. Harvey Barnes: Newcastle winger could be out for 'months rather than weeks' with foot injury - BBC Sport

Genuinely don't think it's a "stronghold" in either persuasion. As has been mentioned elsewhere, some of the surrounding villages are Rangers dominant but there's a real mix in the area, especially with the Uni. Time will tell how Ferguson gets on at ICT. I personally find it an interesting appointment, there were safer options out there, but after nearly 40 years of watching football, I still don't know what a sure fire way is to appoint a manager. Ferguson is a name that will attract people, media and sponsorship to the club, especially if he can get them going, so there's probably an element of that in his appointment as well.

Actually love this, superb

That money was ALWAYS going to be a big dent to the budget mate. I don't know figures or what have you, but always assumed that the dividend was made up from elsewhere.

George Ezra - Blind Man In Amsterdam

Saw this when I was at the match on Saturday. I thought it was brilliant and one of those things that you only find in "non-league football". I did wonder if he bought a season ticket, which is why the club embraced it or if he was just someone being a bit of a chancer. Imagine that though, you could just please yourself with a cuppa or a beer, I loved it. I hadn't been to Camelon in a long long time, many a year, but it's going to be a regular haunt for my son and I. We love to travel around the grounds when we can't make Stirling games, and the 2 of us really enjoyed Saturday and are looking forward to getting back.

Sex Pistols - No Feelings

How do people know this? Genuine question. When Darren Young has been promoted previously, he has also stuck with the same squad so, in the summer when all but Denholm stayed, I put this down to his loyalty again.

Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana

Walter Trout - The Sky Is Falling Down

The Complete Strangers - 3 Names

Popped along to the Camelon game yesterday, as I occasionally do, and have to say they were so unlucky against CSS. 3 penalties in the game and the Ref had a howler in each of them. First was outside the box, and a soft push, the second was denying a clear Goalscoring opportunity, yet no card and even into the next day, I have no idea what the 3rd was for. Camelon huffed and puffed and looked like the Lowland League team for long spells. They can be proud of their efforts and quite rightly gutted not to be going into the next round.

No idea how, but I had never heard of The National before reading this, quick search on Spotify and I must say I like what I heard, right up my street.