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1 hour ago, C_titz said:
He lunged into block and looked like Easton kicked through and into Skelly .
That’s how I saw it too
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We should have been out of sight before the red card and should’ve won overall, two points dropped. From where I was it didn’t look a straight red but look forward to seeing the highlights for confirmation one way or another.
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My club, Forfar Athletic, have no money so won’t be signing anyone. We’re short in most positions. The best we can hope for are loan signings who, just for a change, might be interested and be capable but I’m not holding my breathe….
Realistically all we can hope for is to stay in above Elgin and/or Clyde and avoid doom, unrealistically we can hope that RM decides to leave and we get a manager who can do something with the squad. We have some duffers but we have some very decent players in there too.
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47 minutes ago, bluetoonscotty said:
Was glad to hear Davie’s injury was not as bad as first feared as it was not nice to see in the ground. Speedy recovery!
Yeah, not nice hearing about any player leaving a game in an ambulance. Glad his injury is not as bad as first feared.
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23 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
Not many will understand that one
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4 minutes ago, May Rckinnon said:
Or is it perfectly set up for a son’s masterclass?
Fixed that for you mate
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1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said:
I will not have this slander. Mods. Do something.
There’s always this Saddlers v McLarens debate in Forfar, I like both so can’t go wrong. The Saddlers steak pie definitely beats the McLaren but it’s the other way round regarding bridies.
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3 hours ago, Burnsythebinman said:
Mackinnon will beleive he can turn it around so wont walk away. they all beleive that or wouldnt be in the job. i dont know the forfar budget but is that the problem? maybe his hands are tied and has no money to spend. he always seemed a decent manager for this level and a good appointment on paper
He’s the person in the world that believes that then.
Isn't doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result the definition of stupid? If that’s so then he’s it, playing the same players, same tactics (negative) and making the same substitutions (always too late) every week.
His record is no better than Dick’s when he was sacked or Gary Irvine’s, at least in their defence, looked interested and were trying. McKinnon is now repeating the behaviour of the latter stages of Hegarty’s tenure and his brand of football is as timid as Henry Hall’s.
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2 hours ago, ForfarLoon84 said:
That's it though, unfortunately I don't think we have the right manager.
I don't want to be a club who sacks managers every season and certainly don't want to see anyone out of a job, but this just isn't working sadly.
He is just far too negative and doesn't look like he is going to change that despite results not picking up, and that stuborness ultimately looks like it will cost him his job.
I honestly believe an attacking, pressing team would do very well in this league, you just need to have the balls and the players to do it.
He is displaying the same stubbornness or lack of ideas to change that Irvine showed.
If he had any respect for the club, the fans or himself he would have stepped down, admitting defeat takes a bigger person than hanging on hoping to be sacked and his contract paid out.1 -
6 hours ago, Mattmc said:
Should Matthew Allan been shown a red then?
90th minute James Dolan knocks the ball past him on the edge of the box, Dolan goes to skip by Allan who leaves his leg out to stop him.
No chance of reaching the ball was only ever going to connect with Dolan.Matty didn’t look like he was trying to take out the man, it looked to me like he flicked his leg up to try and deflect the path of the ball. Yes it was a foul and probably a yellow but zero intention to take the man so never a red. Go and watch what is a dangerous and late (and borderline assault) in Nditi again and be relieved your team had 11 men on the field
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39 minutes ago, Bridie Vision said:
Here's the highlights in their glory, missed chances and red card shouts.
The first red card claim, the challenge on Seb, was probably a yellow looking at it again. The one on Roberto was a straight red card all day long in my eyes, no attempt to play the ball, very late and appeared malicious.
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Can’t fault the work rate today, some great football played but as Scottish Loon says, we should have been out of site at halftime.
If we didn’t have bad luck we have any luck at all
I’m baffled as to why the Stranraer player only got a yellow for that horrific challenge on Nditi.
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2 hours ago, SLClyde said:
Just hoping with McCall we’ve got someone who can actually sign a decent player.
We thought we had that with Mr McKinnon but he’s been very hit and miss
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39 minutes ago, ForfarLoon84 said:
On the way home from Tranent on Saturday and realised Ferguson never got used from the bench again. (rightly so)
Got me thinking, did anyone even see him play before we took him on loan?
If they did, wtf did they see that made them think he can do a job for us?
And if they didn't watch him, why did he go straight into our starting 11 at the time?
Surely he's going to be sent back to Newcastle come January?
Surely the bigger question is why did a giant like Newcastle United sign him in the first place, don’t tell me because of his dad, that holds no weight, plenty footballers have kids that are not players or are nowhere near the quality of their parent.
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First interview in a while
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26 minutes ago, ScottishLoon said:
Was just about to mention it
I highly doubt he'll be interested given how he was sacked and has clearly never forgiven certain people at the board when you've seen him speak about the club.
That being said I personally would definitely have him back.
Ray to Arbroath, Dick back home?
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Just now, ScottishLoon said:
Wel I'm not sure how we kept a clean sheet their but I'll take it.
Great result, hopefully get a money spinning tie next but I’m sure there’ll be a few on here we’re hoping for a drubbing today thinking it would the end of McKinnon.
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20 hours ago, Jupiter Jazz said:
Dylan Easton running things for Raith, what a footballer. Can you mind when some on here wanted Connor Coupe playing ahead of him?
That's the sort of thing we're up against with our fans.
19 hours ago, May Rckinnon said:Easton 35% of the time - brilliant
The other 65% of the time - lazy, uninterested fud.
He's obviously grown as a player since his stint with us but to think he was the complete package for us is nonsense, he wasn't even as consistent as Moore.
Easton has oodles of talent but when he was with us he was very immature, he was either beating three defenders then turning around to try and beat them again rather than playing the ball to a colleague or he was lazy and disinterested. Very talented but infuriating, he’ll have grown up now and won’t get way with at attitude anymore.
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10 hours ago, mo83 said:
Were the Forfar players on a bonus when we met earlier in the season? Played us off the park twice but doing absolutely woeful again....Very weird as you boys have a decent squad on paper.
We don’t have a great squad, we have a handful of good players (not even 11 unfortunately) and a squad of uninterested loans and other dross. The league cup displays against the Angus teams were impressive… or maybe my memory is playing tricks on me. The truth is we went out and attacked, attacked from goalkeeper to striker with high energy. Now we are so defensive and the midfield is like it’s playing in mud.
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2 hours ago, Aidan said:
I’m not sure if you lot use your own club appointed stewards as well but the only game I’ve watched at Station Park recently was Dundee B vs Buckie and it was Safe Tay who were providing the stewards/security that day which makes the above section of your post unsurprising.
Unfortunately they same to be the only company in the area that can reliably provide the numbers that clubs in the area need on match days. They’re also relatively inexpensive so clubs will continue to use them.
We seem to have new stewards in the last month or so but previously we did employ our own and they weren’t very professional, one in particular, nicknamed Robocop, enjoyed acting hard towards the young team. Too many of them didn’t have the people or thinking skills to do the job, the good ones have largely left.
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10 hours ago, Bridie Vision said:
The apathy shouldn't really be a surprise when you look at a timeline of events since the Lord of the Bunnet was sacked. From a neutral perspective Forfar's plight is humorous and ironic.
Major events timeline (humorous and ironic events denoted by a crying laughter emoji)
Dec 2015: Bollan hired - Stewart Petrie preferred but inexperienced, however, Bollan had done well with Airdrie so without hindsight, not a terrible choice.
Nov 2019: Stuart Malcolm is hired - after a bizarre month of interim/caretaker managers Barry Smyth coming and going. Barry Sellars leaving and returning, former fan favourite big Malks is in charge, he makes the step up from mid-table mediocrity with EK in Lowland League to L1 Forfar who are in disarray from recent events, clearly it's too early a step up for Stuart.
Another thing that conveys the apathy is the atmosphere at Station Park. There is none! Look back to Huntly, they had flags, songs and dinosaurs. Even Clyde who are having an equally crap season this year were still full of voice Saturday past. We had the "Loonsontour" but their drums and banners were quashed by our Stewarding that they've all gone.
Excellent summary of the last few years.
I can’t confirm it’s true but I believe the person behind sacking DC had already tapped up GB, while the fans wanted SP, despite his lack of experience, it was never going to happen as it was all pre planned.
I was happy at the time with the appointment of SM along with MF and BS, three very respected former players and great leaders on the pitch, they should’ve been as good a choice as SP would’ve been. Unfortunately SM wasn’t great at recruitment though I’m thinking the budget wasn’t very much as JW had probably emptied the piggy bank during his reign. I was gutted it didn’t work out for them.
The drum sits in my elder son’s bedroom gathering dust, he still attends all home games and most away matches but has no interest in vainly attempting to recreate the atmosphere him and his contemporaries did. Although the stewards were largely supportive, I’m sure they were instructed to be, the very slightest indiscretion was handled with a very heavy handed approach. I can’t blame him for losing the enthusiasm for showing support that way.
If things don’t start looking up soon then I fear for the future of our beloved club, I’m not an armchair football fan and occasionally attend other matches if we’re far away or not playing but I’ll never be invested in another club, large or small, near or far like I am for FAFC. My sons are fourth generation supporters, I hope the next generations of my family have this club to support.
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5 minutes ago, C_titz said:
What did the young Clyde lads get chucked out for ?
Entered the pitch when they scored then it kicked off when the stewards were, rightly, putting him out of the ground..
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18 hours ago, Clyde01 said:
Worth noting to anyone travelling up for this that contactless payments haven’t reached Forfar yet. It’s shillings and ha’pennies on the gate only.
Yeah we do things the old traditional way like having our own stadium
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3 hours ago, Mo-time said:
How are ex-Montrose men Matty Allan and Mark Whateley doing ?
Both were absolutely honking on Saturday but other than that have proved reasonable if not amazing signings. Allan appeared like he wanted a red card in the first half and was very lucky not to get one. Whateley drifts in and out of games, just when you think he’s got something he then turns anonymous. We have too many players that have a bit of quality on show at times but somehow manage to hide it all too often.
The one thing I would say about this squad is that they are a team, in that when one is misfiring then they all do
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The 4-5 Derby (30/12)
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