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If he isn't, then in all honesty, he is not much use to us. Managers are paid to make hard, unsentimental decisions. That's the job. I'd like to think someone of McGlynn's experience has now had enough time to fully evaluate what he has at his disposal and realise that the make-up, and probably even more crucially, the mentality of too many of the current lot simply will not take us where we want to go. Moving on players (and there's 2 or 3 of his own signings I would not be remotely sorry to see the back of) and freshening up the squad is a hell of a task, but every effort has to be made. Otherwise it's a fifth consecutive season at this level.

Of course he is. I don't think I've seen or heard a Stainrod interview yet where he is not, to a greater or lesser degree, embellishing that image and playing the role. Arrogant, for sure, maybe even a bit obnoxious, but by god he had the talent to back it all up. Give me his ego and swagger, in fact I'd take 1/100th of it, over the craven, gutless, "we've no right to be competing with Airdrie/Cove Rangers/Montrose/QP/Dunfermline type-attitude that is all too pervasive around the club and amongst a section of the support these days. A genius.

And some are diametrically opposite. Yet never, ever questioned about their partiality. Or accused of having a particular agenda. Strange.

Why? Why does someone making what seem fairly reasoned comments - whether you happen to agree with them or not - about the performance of the manager to date mean they must have an axe to grind? Or "an agenda"? Or any of the other accusations that are routinely thrown in the direction of anyone who is not relentlessly pro-club/manager/board in every post they make on here. Bizarre.

Ross, in the season prior to signing for us, appeared in 10 League One games for Cove Rangers, and never once completed a full 90 minutes. The only thing more astonishing to Dumbarton fans than Wilson hanging around on trial for weeks on end was him subsequently being offered a two-year contract as a full-time professional footballer. Your characterisation that they have somehow left regular playing time to pick up a wage for essentially training Monday to Friday at Falkirk is completely inaccurate. This pair and the even more obscure and pointless Sneddon and Malcolm are in "limbo" for one simple reason, which is that they do not have, and never have had, the ability to cut it at even this level of football.

And of those clubs to which you refer, at least two of them would have long since been counting home attendances in the low three figure bracket if their support had had to put up with a fraction of the garbage served up on the park and the never ending horrendous mismanagement off it that we have had inflicted upon us. The continued backing of the Falkirk support for more than a decade of this nonsense has been absolutely ridiculous really. In that context , comparisons with other clubs, especially some of those you are probably thinking of, are completely redundant. There is no comparison.

In light of today’s discussion about how obsessed opposition diddies are with all things Falkirk, it is somehow entirely appropriate that you choose to show up on here and once again make a complete and utter of yourself. Idiot.

And the first person he should be almighty pissed off with is himself. He's the manager. Responsibility for that car crash of a 90 minutes ultimately rests with him. That's the deal. Biggest budget in the league but it's simply not being reflected in terms of results, performances or league position. The "aye, but last season" chat is wearing thin. In the context of a season in which promotion is a financial imperative, an absolute must, 4 league defeats, 2 consecutive at home and seven points adrift by early November is nowhere good enough. Nobody thinks they're a great watch, but Dunfermline are resilient, organised, they give up very little, they can dig out an ugly 1-0, all the kinds of things I thought, maybe even hoped McGlynn might be able to imbue in us, but we're still as soft as ever, weak as ever, zero on-field leadership, far too many players still not wanting to know at the first sign of things getting a little bit tough and just thinking about the next time they get to play Peterhead and can again delude themselves into believing they're world-beaters. Players obviously take a lot of the blame for that, and McGlynn's inheritance was not a favourable one, but adding the likes of Kennedy to the final third options isn't going to change anything in that respect. The mentality, the mindset, spirit, fight, call it whatever, required for a promotion-winning campaign just is not there, unless McGlynn can change that (and perhaps that's miracle territory) I don't see us doing much more than top four and standard bottle job in the play-off.

And, like the mugs we are, we played right into their hands with an utterly predictable, gutless, identikit shit-the-bed in an important home game in front of a big crowd performance and a "game plan" that started and ended with long, aimless, hoofed diagonals in the vague direction of a hopelessly isolated Burrell. Their defence must have been laughing at us. They would not have required a shower after the match. I could not give a toss how Dunfermline how set up when our deficiencies are myriad and glaring. We were not flat-track bullying a Clyde or Peterhead today so most of our team reverted to type and simply vanished for the entirety of the ninety minutes. McCann one of the few exceptions. That performance was truly pitiful. Pathetic stuff. We never change.

This summer we appointed a highly-experienced management team and handed them, by a considerable distance, the largest signing budget in the division. Yet despite these circumstances, we are not in a position to be asking any serious questions of Kelty Hearts and being "in the mix" is basically meeting your expectations?? Sorry, not for me. Not by a hundred, thousand, million miles. Are you aware of the paper-thin nature of the current Airdrieonians and Dunfermline Athletic squads? We have far more depth than either of them. What is also now abundantly clear, exactly one third of the way through the season, is that the standard of this year's league, top to bottom, is extremely poor, bordering on woeful. We've already lost the same amount of games as Cove Rangers did in the whole of last season. Airdrie went 24 games unbeaten from about November. This season both of these would already have the cigars out and champagne on ice. The standard is terrible. We're a better team than last season (the lowest of low bars) with a better management team but the same old pattern of flat-track bullying dross whilst dropping points all over the place against any team who do not fit into that categorisation is still far too prevalent to date. We are just nowhere near convincing enough. Big reaction and a win needed at Palmerston on Saturday, a ground we've struggled at plenty of times in recent years.

That is exactly the reason that some do not view this result in a particularly favourable light. Because the argument here is not "We should be swatting aside part-time Montrose no questions asked". Anyone advancing that theory has been living under a rock for the past few seasons. It's actually the exact opposite. Montrose have been a very decent side at this level for several seasons and, if not perhaps viewed as a direct rival, would certainly be expected to put in a strong challenge for the top-four. In other words, the type of game we have struggled so badly in since relegation. That's the context in which some will view a draw and fairly mundane performance as nothing to get massively excited about. Yet another missed opportunity. Not that a draw at Links Park is, by itself, a disastrous result or anything close to it. But an acknowledgement that assuming the role of flat track bully against the likes of Clyde and Peterhead is not going to be sufficient to gain promotion. There still needs to be more evidence - much more - that we are capable of regularly beating the other teams likely to be challenging at the top.

Have you deliberately omitted Airdrieonians and Dunfermline Athletic? Beating your main rivals ultimately wins titles, something we have been incredibly bad at for far, far, far too long. Both are due at TFS before Christmas, six points in the bag from these two games and there might just be a case to think we can finally do something this season. Until then, I'll not be making any judgement about our promotion prospects. Leave the getting carried away to others.

He had to have been free of his contract prior to the closure of the summer transfer window. Goodwillie wasn't. The two clubs stuff has nothing to do with it.

Even if there was, they couldn't. David Goodwillie was a contracted Raith Rovers player as of the 1st September. So he is not an option for you, or any other league club, until the January transfer window. And in truth, it would be utterly f*****g astonishing if any such club went within a hundred of miles of him, given his toxicity. Not happening.

His movement and mobility, both at EEP on Saturday and again tonight, has been superb. Long may that sort of form continue. And I say that as someone who was extremely sceptical of his signing at the time. We've had a few strikers over the years who have come in completely unknown, to zero fanfare and enthusiasm, and gone on to be big players for the club. Very early days, but perhaps Burrell could be another one. Hope so.

"Football" has been singled out by absolutely no-one. "Football" has made this nonsensical decision all by itself.

I can accept the argument that he could not get rid of everyone in one fell swoop just fine thanks. Not that I was ever advocating such a step in the first place. I happen to believe that his decision to make no substantive improvements to our attacking options despite being provided with the biggest budget in the league is a major mistake that will cost us very dearly. I thought that at the outset and I have seen nothing whatsoever to date to dissuade me from that opinion. As long as Nesbitt and McGuffie continue to be selected week after week, irrespective of form, and as long as Morrison is allowed to believe that one or two performances every couple of months is more than enough to maintain his status as an automatic first choice, we are going nowhere..

No. I did not. And you bizarrely and continually insisting otherwise is never going to make it any truer. I said that (a) McGlynn had the largest budget of any manager in this division TO USE THIS SUMMER and (b) that had he wished, he could have used a portion of said budget in an attempt to sign players just a bit more reliable and consistent than two proven wasters such as McGuffie and Nesbitt. Had he done so we would not be in the position of them still being automatic choices week in week out. End of. Anything else, such as your paying off 14 players nonsense, is simply your own wildly inaccurate misrepresentation.

Are you wilfully misrepresenting what I said? Point out where I mentioned 14 players. Point out where I suggested putting these 14 players in the stand. Point out where I advocated paying off 14 players I replied to a post specifically mentioning two players, not fourteen. McGlynn had the budget to sign better than said two players - fact. That he has chosen not to is his decision - fact Try reading posts before making a complete clown of yourself.

I never once mentioned paying off players so I have no idea where you are getting that from. If McGlynn decided he did not fancy relying on proven shitebags like McGuffie and Nesbitt every single week he had a more than sufficient budget to sign players to take their places in the starting line-up and they could have been consigned to the bench. No pay-off required. I specifically said in my post "this summer". John McGlynn has signed 12 players. James McPake has signed four. So again, tell me who - this summer - has had a bigger budget than McGlynn or anything close to it ?

McGlynn was handed the biggest budget of any manager in the division this summer - and by some considerable margin. Had he wished not to have to rely on last season's aforementioned gutless shitebags week after week after week he certainly had the financial wherewithal to do so. That he's chosen not to make even one discernible upgrade to our final third options is on him, no-one else, as is the failure to sign a right-back who has at least a passing interest in playing some football between 3 and 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon. Today's ridiculous act of self-sabotage I might have expected from a Rennie or Sheerin, perhaps M and and M after a tactical brainstorming session with Holt and Corzo. But not in a million years from a manager of his experience. Massive two weeks coming up, if we emerge from them even further adrift it's going to be another long fruitless chase of clubs vanishing into the distance. We know how that turns out. Tbh, despite the budgetary advantage, and the QOTS game apart, there hasn't been much to be enthused about so far. Six games in, a sixth of the season gone, and our start could be best described as average, nothing more. Hoped for a lot more, yet to really see it.

Cannot argue with that really. Two complete numpties masquerading as managers leaving good talent such as Leon McCann rotting on the bench in favour of utter, utter, utter dross like "ATS" was certainly a contributory factor to us enduring one of the worst seasons in our long, 146-year history. Good luck with him anyway.

Yes, that was under Martin "Diddy" Rennie, a man miles out of his depth. Subsequently, we have employed an actual football manager, he has given McCann a proper opportunity and McCann is absolutely thriving. Long may it continue. Thanks for asking anyway ATS

Boyce has done his cruciate ligament and is out for the season. Prior to that, Neilson seemed adamant that he wasn't going out on loan this season. There's no chance.

Leon McCann has finally been given an opportunity after being criminally and consistently overlooked by last season's pair of absolute numpties. He's in a good run of form. Despite taking a dull one just prior to half-time yesterday he completed the full 90 minutes and turned in another excellent performance. So now the shouts are for him for be dropped for a game three weeks away by those just choking to say "Told You So" Desperate, desperate stuff. Sad.