Casey Jones

Where isAlan the Camelon man gone to? Been a disastrous league campaign this season for this club. Used to be a solid team. Wonder if Camelon (and Nitten) will be confident that they can regroup in the close season and have a side who can strike at the first attempt at promotion from the newly formed 1st division.

Seemed Max wanted a big squad so a bit like the card game, Trumph. Instead or taking one or two who might have fitted in at Bo’ness, took the lot knowing some would purely be there if lots of injuries. Camelon weren’t even in top 6 best teams of Premier League so regardless how flush Bo’ness were/weren’t it was never going to work.

Turning into one of my favourite posters on P&B. Never sugarcoats tweets and honest reviews even in defeats. I suppose as at outsider, see this as a disappointing season for Bo’ness. When you see how Kelty and Bonnyrigg did when they got promoted, had hoped that Bo’ness, would have had a good season in the LL. Perhaps 2nd season will have your team better prepared to climb the league. ‘In Max we Trust’. If this to continue, he is going to have to make better signings, me thinks. Always thought the signing of so many Camelon players was a bit odd and appeared not to be successful at all.

I thought Musselburgh shaded the first half. Great save by Dale Cornet which saved the home side from going 1-0 done. Mathu had a shot from outside the box, which went, not too far, by the right hand side of Disco’ right post. Long effort which flew over the bar, but good banter from the Hadd goalkeeper saying how dare the Burgh lad try and out-Fox him from distance. Haddington came out flying in the 2nd half, scoring in 47 mins, then before the hour got the 2nd. Although Burgh pulled the ball back, I am in agreement with you PTB, that although Burgh had more of the ball, Haddington weren’t hanging on at the end. Yes there were a few close calls in the Haddington box, the home side frequenty had attacks in the Burgh half too. A few observations. Why was Liam Reid either playing right back or a right wing half? He is an out and out centre half, where as Declan is not. Out of that team on park, I would rate Jordan top two, but he seemed anonymous yesterday. Not sure if that was tactics or if his game has gone off the boil. Think four subs came on yesterday. Didn’t think any improved the performance of the team when they came on. Why do managers insist of bringing on a sub with only a few minutes to go? Burgh down 2-1, yet Liam Gregory, not even a forward, gets 3-5 minutes on the park. If manager thinks he can possibly change the fortunes of the team, bring him on earlier. Finally, thought Musselburgh were flat, almost going through the motions yesterday. When a win or even a draw was good enough to see Burgh win the group and advance into last 16, disappointed in that performance.

Good to see them progressing NB and hope WW progress further, it what has only been a difficult campaign for the team/fans

Stage comment to make. Yip, Haddington is my home team, but as a Musselburgh supporter, I was disappointed at the result and how Burgh performed. I will wait till PTB does his match report to see how much I agree / disagree with him, though I assume it will mainly be the former. There was no fall out at Olivebank so no idea where you got that from or why you said it.

Sounds promising then as it’s not often teams score so many in a match. So was the drum core there to support the 50 year old mascot? Hope he behaved during the day and enjoyed his orange squash and pick-a-mix at half time. Think Haddington have been short of a player or two recently but hopefully it should be a good match between, the probable best two teams, on Saturday. Think given the matches coming up, Musselburgh will be keener of progression in the cup more than Haddington as the latter’s main focus will be securing promotion come end of season. That’s not to say they won’t be giving their all at a chance of beating Premier League opposition.

Think the 3 matches should be a boost for Musselburgh, especially the amount of goals scored in them. Good to see 6 players getting the goals. No surprise with the win on Saturday PTB, but what about the performance. Did it live up to the scoreline? Burgh should be going for the win this Saturday as anything less would be a disappointment.

You surely arenae a Linlithgow supporter? Granted, with the 6 matches remaining, it will be a tall order for The Rose to win the league. But they surely still have a chance. Two matches against Tranent and one against Penicuik - the only 2 other teams that can win league apart from Linlithgow. Win all three and who knows... I was talking with a Premier league player today and he said Linlithgow were clearly the best team his side had playEd against this season.

So you proved my point All teams you detail,asper my comments have a great chance of winning their respective league. You look no further than Syngenta who were absolute ( close to)certs to win Conference X. But wetting their pants ability has allowed to steal a march. Who xan say if the same may happen now to Bo'ness given they are in a few cups still. I could yell you who will win each league but you or someone else may come back with its not quite that simple .....

Apart from the supporters of the 3 clubs involved, it is great at this time of season that it is this close and literally all 3 could win the league. Indeed Conference A has two teams; Conference B has three teams and Conference X has four teams all with great shouts of winning their respective leagues. My only hope is that whoever finishes on top, wins the 3 team play off to gain promotion to the Lowland League. Shabby that winners of league could remain there next season due to the Lowland league’s shocking vote during the week.

Well said NB. Even on that basis, I hope Penicuik go on to win the league. Before it really didn’t bother me who won the league. In the first season that was stopped by COVID (2019-20), Jeanfield were by far the best team that played Musselburgh, home and away. Like you I was very surprised at their slow start this season in league. But it looks like that form, from a couple of seasons ago has been re-discovered.

Honest as usual PTB - thank you. Saw a tweet from HWU saying they deserved the win and in effect we had Ross McCrae to thank for getting the draw. How was the crowd today - did the reduced entry fee boost numbers at Olivebank?

Certainly would not ask you to name names PTB and respect your thoughts here. Football chat is all about opinion. General time dictates if opinions are right/wrong. I know lots of people don’t agree with me and think I am all waffle, but I can live with that. Wasn’t at the match today, indeed not at any match. In past 20 years, I have seen least amount of football than previously. A bit of a transition year in more ways than one which I will stick to. Hopefully address this in 2022-23. A disappointing result. Burgh should be winning these matches, though I see Burgh played with 10 men in 2nd half. What I would say though is Burgh players have to take responsibility for themselves once the ref blows for match to start. Rightly or wrongly, manager will get boot for poor results. Players may agree/disagree with Manager’s team picks or tactics, but they have a voice which they should air, if not happy and can let their feet/heads do the talking during each 90 mins of match.

Very disappointing for a couple of couple of Burgh fans to think we could be relegated PTB. As I said before, we had a disappointing serious of events at start of season on the managerial front, then with Liam Burns, who seemed a great coach, left early in season. But, we had the same squad as pervious season and so a squad who should compete at top of league. Moving on we’ve lost 4 keys players, but despite a ‘bad season’ never out of top 5/6. Certainly vital for next season we need to hit the ground running and I hope Joe already has incoming players in-sight for pre-season. The league cup group football comes at good time for Burgh. Realistically we SHOULD win all 4 matches, though but all accounts, the match against Haddington will decide who tops group.

Wonder if the word missing after astonishing(ly) is Sh1te or Brilliant or maybe both apply depending on who reads the trail of posts. I’ll keep my thoughts to myself but respond as I do, on occasion, like a wee chat on P&B. It is astonishing that Tranent have used 3 more players this season than Musselburgh. I would hazard a guess, I think, backed up by some posts I have seen on twitter that had Tranent used less players (given how good their results were for most of the season), they would be top of league right now. If you have a winning side, why change it, except for cup matches. I don’t know answer, but how many players have Tranent bought pre-season and during the season. It seems a lot to me, but happy to be proved wrong. Don’t think Musselburgh have bought many, perhaps more have come in on loan. If we have used so many players, in my mind it is because we still don’t know what our best team is. Transition is a good word. I actually felt we had a good squad at start of season, and perhaps testimony to the team, Musselburgh, by recent standards are having a poor season, yet still sit in 5th place, albeit played more matches than most. Think we may finish 6-7th. However, having lost 4 top players this season (2 to Tranent), Musselburgh must buy players for new season, who gel quickly, or else we would be in trouble. I agree on the part of the U20 team. I think, particularly now, when Burgh aren’t going to be relegated it would be good to ‘blood’ more youngsters into the main team, for a run and see, without as much pressure if they are good enough to make the step up on a permanent basis for 22-23. But, having not been involved in Friday night football, maybe the talent is lacking at moment? Certainly though, the whole point, for me, of the U20s is that it is a feeder team to bring on young players in the hope they make the grade. I am disappointed that recently, only Ross McCrae has made the set up. Sorry, but no idea what the last point / praise is with gate prices.

After a draw against Syngenta tonight, maybe the manager will ask for another forward. Good luck to Tranent, with the fact that they seem at ease to be able to go out and by new players as and when and at a whim, but can’t help but think that while some of the players are really good, Callum Donaldson and Kris Renton; great buys, they never seem to have a settled side week in week out. Still a great chance of winning the league, but time will tell if such frequent buying and selling/releasing of players will have the desired affect.

We will never know, but I bet when Geoff was sacked and the new management team came in, officials did not think they would be in this position with 8 matches to go. I have seen Dunbar 4 times this season, at home and haven’t been bowled over by them in any of the matches. Only one point out of 12 in 2022 leaves them as potential relegation material. Think the current bottom 3 will go down, the other from, Blackburn, Dunbar and LTHV. Hill of Beath most likely team to pull away from current position. Yes they have matches in hand over LSVT, but maybe the extra points are more important at this point. Time will tell.

So what are your thoughts of the player Omni? Seemed to have a good pedigree when he was younger - a number of top teams seemed to be keen on him. Playing 27 (?) games for Tranent, he seems to have been given a fair chance by management, and a good tweet by Craig Stephenson. Would you have liked him to stay at Tranent, or are you content to see him leave. Musselburgh are crying out for good players at the moment, so I hope it all works out for Knox

Tongue in Cheek response (of mine), but you are correct

Always think that is a daft rule. If a club loan him out then surely he should be able to play for the loan club and show his parent club they were wrong to send him out

The question we all want to know - is the laddie a student?

Still time to resolve the decline - bring back Geoff

A bit worried when I saw Lochgelly taking the lead half way through the first half, but good to see Mathu back on his scoring exploits with a hat-trick, albeit by a team near the foot of their conference. Also good to hear what you say about Lloyd being your MoM. All good teams should have a strong, tenacious (seen that word a couple of times this weekend) midfield; couple of players who should control the match with another 1 or 2 moving up and down the flanks, troubling defenders and putting in good crosses for forward line. A double home win in next 2 matches, could see winner take all in last group match at Millfield! Perhaps the 2nd placed team might progress into the last 16 as one of four best placed runners-up.

Sad to see the demise of Camelon this season. Whilst not in top 4 or so of best teams, I always saw Camelon as a stuff/hard side to beat in seasons gone by. By all accounts yesterday’s performance sounds like a side who are going down. Let’s not kick ourselves that they will suddenly find form and get enough points to remain in Premier league next season. Then, whoever is in charge of club will have two obstacles in their way. Building a side capable of promotion and to sort out a ground which seems to be crumbling before their own eyes.