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4 minutes ago, lionel wickson said:
Speaking of people who won't be served in the Glencoe Hotel, I give you Calum Campbell. Didn't we pay about £50,000 for him?!
We paid £50000 for Charlie Gibson but then again we paid £10000 for Craig Lynes
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Was James Penrice not in team today or have Thistle changed their mind about loaning him to us
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I have said for a long time that admission prices are too high. For a start nobody 12 or under should pay to get in at all as we need to attract children as our future support. Older children students and oaps should all pay less than half price. In the past there were unemployed gates with reduced prices and with poverty in this area at such a high level it could be an idea to reinstate it.Ross County this week let the punters into their game against Hamilton for free and tripled the expected attendance.
Frank Meade is coming from Albion Rovers who in the past experimented with free gates and it is something Dumbarton must think about for future meaningless games. No matter what unless prices are reduced attendances will keep on falling. Remember this is Dumbarton one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.If you want bums on seats then charge prices that people can afford
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I notice Alloa have won their play off game by 4-3 on pens scored by Graham Waters Taggart and Kirkpatrick . Great to see the reserves playing so well, Russell missed for Airdrie
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Does anyone know who the top completely part time English team is ? I reckon it is a member of the vanarama leagues. If they are known it is about time the Sons challenged them to a British championship game.The last time we did this was in 1883 when we defeated Blackburn Rovers to be world as well as British champions.
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10 hours ago, Benito Robles said:
Times have changed and Scottish football is no longer the attraction to potential and even existing punters as it once was. All the bits and pieces of inconvenience when added up make a day out pretty rubbish and expensive. I believe that fans are seen as a pain in the backside by many folk who 'run' and own football clubs and that attitude came home to roost many years ago. For the Sons, it may be a big catchment area for potential supporters when Helensburgh, Balloch and perhaps even Argyll is factored in, but the competition for those folks leisure time is fierce. Success on the pitch, for which DFC are to be rightly praised for, is simply not enough anymore, sadly.
As I have said many times before children are the lifeblood of the game and should be let in free for all but ticket only games. To attract children we will also have to attract their mothers or other female companions and if it means letting adult females in for half price then do it. I know that concessions are allowed for OAP's but I would reduce their entry to a fiver each .Also as I have said before our ground is child unfriendly and if they are daft enough to build a new stadium then at least have a standing area. It would also be a good idea if our beloved leaders would occasionally smile and talk to the supporters and stop disdaining them.
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1 hour ago, Young gun said:
A sign of the times but I find it sad that during arguably the best run of seasons for the Sons, there has been no increase in fans through the gate.
1972 - 1976 was the only other time Sons had any sort of success
It's a sign of football though,the match experience is good and Sons hospitality is great value but still the old story buses leaving the town on a Saturday.
Morton are the same ,having a great season ,yet their crowds are only around 1500.
Stevie Aitken should be manager of the year for what he has done
I wish Sons every success net season and hope they hang on to their manager
Average attendances thus
1971/72- 3217
1972/73- 5772
1973/74- 4422
1974/75- 4343
The late fifties were also good although the team was in second division
1955/56- 3917
1956/57- 4194
1957/58- 4389
1958/59- 3144
In those days children were lifted over at the gate and thus crowds were always several hundred more than attendance given.
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1 hour ago, Tam Carson is my No 1 said:
As a fan who has had a season ticket to watch the Sons at Boghead, Cliftonhill and The Rock (CID) and seen them play at the likes of Stranraer, Brechin and Elgin I much prefer going to Tannadice, Falkirk and Easter Road. Not that the lower leagues is bad as they are normally good days out but there is something about going to a big stadium and silencing the home support. Long may it continue.
Got to admit I would rather go to the bigger stadiums but to be honest I preferred places like Ibrox Parkhead Easter Road Dens Park and in particular Firhill in their original appearance before they bacame all seaters. Walking round at half time was always a major part of going to a football match and could be done at most grounds in the days before strict segregation
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Looking forward to play offs when Dumbartons reserve side also known as Alloa will overcome Raith and we will once again be guaranteed twelve points. I take it that Stevie Aitken's OBE is in the post.
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Did Hibs deliberately win with the last kick of the game just to frighten us. Victory over the once mighty united should see us safe.
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Certainly McRorie Stanton Harvie and Thompson will be gone by the end of the season. Stirling Nade and McCallum will not be far behind them. Carswell will be off if he can get a full time team and there is no guarantee that Barr will want to continue for another season. Ewings must be fed up playing second fiddle whilst Martins performances this season must have alerted better paying teams. No doubt we will start the season with half a dozen signed players and be tossed out the league and challenge cups by second division sides. However if we stay up this season I don't give a damn. Come on the Sons.
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Sadly over the last two or three years more than a few of Dumbartons best and most devoted fans have passed away. Even sadder is the fact that that so few are taking their place. Remembering back to the fifties when the Sons had thousands of supporters at times to fall back on we have reached the stage when the core support is Now only in the hundreds. We as a community can Ill afford the loss of men like Campbell with their passion and commitment. And whilst the biggest blow is obviously to his family with his passing another part of Dumbarton football club has been diminished.
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Frankie is improving with every game . Hopefully the Prince and Frankie are both on from the start next week against Dunfermline. Let's go for goals and collect another three points to keep us safe.
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Don't know if anyone has noticed but Dundee Uniteds next three games are against St Mirren Raith Rovers and Ayr United. Hopefully the men from Tannadice can do us a favour and beat those teams a feat which Hibs repeatedly fail to do.Surely Hibs will do the decent thing next week and crumble against us. Watch for Nade being penalised for being offside whilst clearing a cross on our goal line.
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Money raised could be used as an incentive bonus to stay up . I am sure the lads will try hard but like all human beings they could be incentivised by extra rewards.
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Might be a good idea to put another 100 tickets up for sale as money raised would be of more value in keeping us up rather than taking it in during the summer when we could have been relegated. If we go down money taken from away fans in a lower league would be minuscule compared to being a championship club.
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Bit worried for our dear friend in the pictures above . Is that a scarf or an anaconda winding itself round his neck. Noticed today that workmen had at one point blocked of the top of Castle Street. Will this interfere with the hordes on Wednesday making their way to get cut price season tickets.
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I have a feeling that St Mirren will stay up as the injection of 10 new players during the window has revitalised them. Ayr look most likely to finish bottom as they are the worst championship team I have seen this season despite them beating us Three nil earlier in the programme. But the team who have really hit the skids are Raith Rovers and hopefully we can stay above them as well as overtaking Dunfermline who are definitely no better than us. I know we have still to go back to Easter Road and Tannadice but I honestly think that the boys have the ability and fighting quality to pick up points from those games.
The squad is small but Stanton on his day is a quality player Plus Carswell has slotted in as if he has been playing all season. In addition the Prince and Gary are always capable of scoring goals and Stirling is having a great second half to the season. All in all the positives outweigh the negatives and 40 points and safety are well within our grasp.
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Checking back and notice that we had 25 points from our first 26 games last season. So considering our part time status it would seem we are doing better this season so far. Not too sure but think our two goals today keep us as best scoring away team in division.
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John Dillon played 238 times for Dumbarton scoring 27 goals before leaving in 2007.His career ran roughly parallel with wee Craigie.
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I still miss Gare Clyde aka Tony McGinley the doyen of Dumbarton FC reporters. There have been many reporters over the last sixty years or so but Gare was peerless in his description of games especially at Boghead during the glory and not so glorious years However in those days the local papers were still situated in Dumbarton and had not been outsourced to far away places with strange sounding names. Maybe if Donald has a few bricks left over we could use them to build a wall round the town before absolutely everything is taken from Dumbarton.
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Dumbarton FC belongs to its fans but sadly Brabco have the title deeds. The fans do the caring and the worrying whilst brabco do the plotting. How can a group who are paranoid about their secrecy honestly expect us to trust them.How can a company which hides itself in Belize expect us to believe a word they say?History has shown us what happened to Third Lanark and Clydebank. Is extinction the future for Dumbarton in the next few years?Brabco are not our saviours they are a millstone round our necks.
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One of the reasons that the public are so indifferent to watching the local team is Dumbartons complete indifference to child supporters The stadium is completely hostile to children. At the old Boghead kids could roam around if they got bored or wanted to move around Now they are forced to sit like nice little kiddies for ninety minutes or the big bad steward will come and get them.
Also from the new houses being occupied in the area are thousands of people who have no history in watching Dumbarton and who are not being enticed by the club or sadly its supporters into coming along and watching the Sons play.As the older supporters die off no one is taking their place as sadly watching Dumbarton is at the bottom of everyone's priority list in an area blighted by poverty and sectarianism.
i honestly think that moving to Renton Road could be the final nail in the coffin as far as attracting supporters is concerned.Despite five years in the championship support is rapidly diminishing and short of sending snatch squads out to force people in support looks like dwindling away to unsustainable levels.
it would be interesting as Albion Rovers have done for the club to let in supporters to a game asking only for a donation. Then we might see if anyone still cares for the club.
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What we need is a booth outside of Sports Direct erected on a Saturday morning where Alan Jardine and Colin Hosie can sell game tickets from.Maybe the lads could play the mouth organ or accordion to raise some extra cash.
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Sons' sorrow
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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Tommy came to us from Sligo rovers in 1979 playing 50 games and scoring two net breaking goals whilst Jim who sadly is no longer with us played only three games in 1978. Willie Whigham Ian livingsstone Jim Harkins were three other colossi who guarded our net who immediately sprang to mind but Alan Martin was probably as good a goalie we have had since the deity known as Lawrie Williams