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4 hours ago, Neilly said:
"The board are fans" just doesn't really cut it when your manager has won once in FIFTEEN attempts at a level where everyone is much of a muchness.
I find it incredible Irvine is still there with zero sign he can turn it round.
While I agree with the overall sentiment I am pretty sure the 1 win in fifteen matches stat includes the League Cup matches versus Dundee, Hamilton and Queens Park and the Challenge Cup match versus Kelty.
This season we have won once in the League. (versus Stranraer)
Last Season (including two Annan Play Off fixtures) we won 2 out of last nine fixtures (Annan in League and Stranraer) we played at this level
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1 hour ago, C_titz said:
See yous next season
Or this…
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48 minutes ago, TheClosingArguement said:
Backing...
Stopped reading after “the Athies” uuuuurrrrghhh!!!
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If he doesn’t go this week then Saturday needs to be the last chance surely? With the trapdoor in place and working it would be negligence not to act while the situation is more than salvageable with a halfway competent person in charge. There is a decent squad there ( albeit with a couple of glaring gaps).
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2 minutes ago, TheClosingArguement said:
Says more about the degenerate part time happy clapping support we attract.
Yup. The type that were happy with how we played against Elgin and weren’t worried that we were god awful in pre-season, seemingly unable to comprehend we have been terrible since January.
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46 minutes ago, microdave said:
Dumbarton will be trying to equal the L2 record of starting with 7 consecutive wins which is held by Forfar Athletic in 2015/16.
Good times! But we did manage to f**k that start up.
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That bench today beggars belief, why on earth did he not add players this week? We really are sleep walking toward the Highland League. Confident that Board will do nothing.
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3 hours ago, invergowrie arab said:
I don't think I can glean much about Stenny from that game. Went 2-0 up then didn't have to do anything.
Forfar are in real trouble. The whole club seems a bit depressed behind the scenes.
Naming two subs who weren't even stripped says a lot.
Could be worse I suppose….
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3 hours ago, Francesc Fabregas said:
I'm not sure if his tactics won us the match, or if Forfar are such a poor side that we'd have got the victory anyway
I suspect you know it was the latter. Despite completely deserving the three points today I thought Stenny had regressed from how you finished the second half of last season.
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Between Aitken, Hanratty , Moore and Jack some absolute pea hearts in the team today.
Quite likely to be bottom by this time next week hopefully the board aren’t as pea hearted when it comes to doing what needs to be done.
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He should be sacked for continuing to pick Aitken.
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50 minutes ago, Vimto90 said:
Whilst not out of the question there no basis for this. Forfar have more pts, more goals, less conceded. Albeit small differences. Two teams in a mire.
We are absolutely the team you want to be playing though. Stenny had the Indian sign over us last season when we actually had some decent form, we’re in the middle of an injury crisis (Kyle Hutton has been centre half for the majority of our last two games) and scoring goals is proving almost impossible even when we do play alright.
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1 minute ago, lwh said:
Call it out how I see it. Stef and Hanratty were very very good, regardless of the score.
I would 100% agree with this, just unfortunate there was not a striker alongside them.
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10 minutes ago, C_titz said:
Another defeat?
A very good second half performance I thought, would take that every week. Still poor goals to lose though.
A very entertaining game.
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I would imagine we’ll probably pass it about nice and have good possession but create next to no actual chances and cough up a couple of gaffs at the back. Dejafuckingvu.
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28 minutes ago, Neilly said:
I would imagine it is loser leaves town next week unless one of them is away before then.
Forfar have been absolutely horrific for six months and well you only have to look at our start to the season to see we aren't any better.
You would think so but I would imagine Irvine is pretty bulletproof in reality, our board are not usually quick to act. Whatever, would not want to be the losing manager next Saturday as clearly some fans have seen enough and both had plenty of budget to use.
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41 minutes ago, RateofKnots said:
Knowing the board, they'd probably just offer it to the most senior player.
Munro as manager would be my tipping point I suspect!!
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17 minutes ago, Bridie Vision said:
If Irvine were to go, who takes his job? What managers are currently out of work and would like the Forfar gig?
My guess is it would be another rookie manager who calibre would be just as unknown as Irvine's was before he took the role.
That is no reason to persist with him, we are seeing that Irvine does not know how to change things. If he can’t improve results quickly then will have to go , that trapdoor exists and the club cannot afford to flirt with it because they want to be ‘nice’ and loyal.
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Season going from bad to worse. On the back of a disappointing second half to last season this seems even worse. Time to pull plug on Irvine? I think he more than has the players to be doing better but where it matters, in both boxes, we seem to have very weak options. Next week could be fun.
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Fucking hell, hope the game is better than this binfire of a thread.
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1 hour ago, fafc1885 said:
I’m not feeling overly positive after today, I can see why some people are and obviously that’s their view, but the fact is that we failed to get three points against ten men.
We started off very poorly and Andy Munro is at fault for the first goal, punts an aimless ball straight to their keeper and he returns the favour except Hester can get onto it before Munro gets near and it’s 1-0. I don’t think we played that well at all in the first half and we were fortunate that Brian Cameron pulled off the best save of the match. Aitken stepped up to score but that’s about all he did in his time on the pitch.
Second half we did have Elgin camping in their half, but we didn’t do much with the ball and Kane Hester seemed to be playing as a CM for the first fifteen of the half, likely to try and absorb any Loons pressure that may have come.
It was a daft challenge from Marc to make and it’s good to see he was able to continue. On the point of him continuing, was it maybe that he was just winded that he stayed down rather than unconscious? That is the only reason I can think of for him staying on.
We seemed to look better when Armour and Flanagan came on, Flanagan is obviously still getting up to speed but Armour looked good, resulting in a deserved goal.
Towards the end we should have won, but we didn’t and our insistence on passing the ball between the defenders instead of having a go is frustrating. The referee was horrendous, how he missed the handball in the second half I have no idea.
I still feel Irvine’s peg should be shaky, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
On Weir, his first eighteen months at the club were great, but his signings after we failed to get promotion were what cost us, even before his crash. We hadn’t won in over a month prior to it and performances were not great either. I get that people liked him and so did I, but let’s not pretend that the team’s form prior to his crash was promotion chasing material.
Would agree with nearly all of this, certainly don’t share some fans optimism as where it really counted ( in either penalty box) thought we were poor . McCallum made the first an easy finish for Hester and was crazy for the second. Perhaps if we didn’t have such an absolute jobber of a back up keeper he might actually feel some pressure.
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McCallum is fast becoming a liability.
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1 hour ago, Nigel Blackwell said:
Stranraer do seem to get a ridiculous number of penalties - this season and last.
That is two against us so far, neither close to being a penalty.
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1 hour ago, Bridie Vision said:
Highlights!
As suspected the penalty award was a complete joke.
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