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Am Featha Taigh Nan Clach

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  1. 1 hour ago, thomas said:

    My wife was showing a thing of Facebook that is people bartering with items to swap them, seems a good idea in principle as you can get rid of stuff in your house that you don't need or use. What she showed though just looked like people giving their things away for some booze, perhaps this is just due to it being the Paisley version.

    My wife sometimes get things from these pages.

    I didn't quite understand how they worked as unless you listed every possession, how would they know what to swap you for? It turns out they just say any item they want (always drink), you buy the drink then swap that for the item. I have no idea why they don't just want the cash equivalent. It's a mad way to do things but the value of drink is always under what the item is worth/what you could sell it for.

  2. 2 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said:

    Couldn’t think of anywhere else to put this:

    3 times over the legal limit, speeding at over 60mph and kills a laddie just out of school and about to head off to uni.

    Only gets 6 years? Seems awfully lenient to me

     

    I know 'it could have been me' posts are usually said in jest but I crossed the same road at the same place (after presumingly being in the same pub) about 5 mins before.

  3. 27 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:

    Not all of them. Maybe just one or two of the noisier ones one here. I can remember seeing those exact things being said after the end of the 21/22 season.

    I think I was part of that conversation. I seem to remember the gist of it being 'if Arbroath are relegated they will likely revert to being a bog standard L1 type team with the sort of crowds they used to get in L1' v 'things have changed forever. You've no idea how much the town is behind the club'. There was a distinctly Tory 'I don't understand why other clubs simply haven't tried trying harder'

    Edit - Those were the views of 1 or 2 Arbroath fans

  4. 1 minute ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:

    I fully appreciate that you can’t judge a game based on the highlights so I’m happy to be corrected.

    I think it felt like Dumbarton had far more chances than they did because of the number of corners. There's always a real fear when defending one and a real sense of anticipation when you get one, but they likelihood of scoring from one is far lower than you imagine. It's something like 3%

  5. Other posters have summed up the game far better than I could so won't attempt to summarise the action in any real detail.

    Today was the biggest game of the season. It was always going to be the game after the winning run ended (especially ending with a defeat) but to add to that, it was against one of the pack just behind us. To win it by hook or by crook is a massive psychological win.

    Yates wasn't fully fit which is why he didn't start. The 4-4-2 was very odd and Rodden was poor and Brown in an orthodox left wing role just didn't work. Credit to Naysmith for both the changes and the timing of them.

    The general concensus is Dumbarton have the best squad and I agree. However, it's by virtue of simply having the most average or better L2 players, but there is no wow factor. Not one player that vaguely give me the fear like say Goss, Reilly or Hester did last year. For the wage bill, there really should be one or two of them.

  6. I was surprised by the red at the time and looking back, it still looks like a clumsy barge more than anything. 

    That was the worst we've played for a while but the defence managed to see us through again. I believe we've now only conceded in 9 of 42 halfs of football we've played.

    Missing Jamieson from injury and Wedderburn from suspension would be a bit of a blow but I do trust Eden Lynch and Kyle Jacobs to be able deputies.

  7. There's a couple of things that have been suggested that I disagree with.

    1) waiting until after the Aberdeen game to save a week's wages

    Delaying things could mean someone else swoops for the player and a week's wages is small fry. Addtionally, more time training with the squad would be beneficial.

    2) Not willing to sign only reasonable L2 players on 18 month deals when they wish to push for the title next year.

    The object is survival. Even reasonable L2 players would be enough to keep them up. At worst, they'd be good squad players next year. With the quad as it stands, Clyde can't be far off 50/50 to finish bottom. Having a few players on slightly inflated wages is a small price to pay for not dropping to the Lowland League.

  8. It does seem a bit mad that Maitland/McCall were so public about bringing in a ludicrously high number of players.

    They obviously might still arrive but with the exception of the Edinburgh City fire sale, it's hard to see how so many could be brought in when other L2/L1 clubs are fishing for the same loans.

    Surely better to under promise and overdeliver than the opposite.

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