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    The Arbroath Thread

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    7 minutes ago, SimonLichtie said:

    It was also the case for ourselves when we sold joao balde to East Kilbride, which saw us announce it before the agreed time and quickly have to delete the post. 🙄. It blows my mind that a paid employee in charge of social media is unable to schedule a post properly. Frustrating...

    I missed the errors although I have accidentally scheduled things for the wrong time before but never something embargoed. It can happen.

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    The Arbroath Thread

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    1 hour ago, Eklektik712 said:

    Signing announcements for loans are dictated by the parent club. They're letting us know as early as they can. I quite like the teasers... gets the group chats going with speculation 🤣

    They are not. It's usually coordinated between clubs but usually the signing club is the one who picks a time.

    That was certainly the case when we got Luke Strachan from Dundee last season.

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    The Alloa Athletic Thread

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    3 hours ago, Rory said:

    The company my dad works for is based in Finland so he's been telling his colleagues about Miko. Apparently Alloa (in Finnish it's written ällöä but not sure how it's pronounced!) translates roughly to gross in Finnish. 

    Gross is ällöttävä. Way too many syllables. Must be a Finnish sense of humour.
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    Accies v In Form Alloa

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    16 minutes ago, KierenAAFC said:

    Dave McKay been very good the last few weeks. Obviously Taggart coming into centre half is no downgrade but then you lose him on the right. Definitely weakened without McKay, at the moment. He was very unfortunate on Saturday too I felt. Different challenge for Robbo than his game against Stirling against an ineffective Hilson and Carrick. 

    On the bright side not got ex-Alloa superstar Dario Zanatta to contain this time around. Only some unknown called Jake Hastie up against famed sprinter Jon Robertson. 😬

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    The Alloa Athletic Thread

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    1 hour ago, Rory said:

    Big gate was open as normal. Did notice our section of young supporters seemed a bit smaller than against Stirling and Falkirk.

    How does the appeal process work for the red card? Guessing they'd review our match footage?

    When Keatings got booked for diving after getting wiped out, Inverness appealed and the referee clearly didn't even watch the footage.  A complete lottery whether it is overturned. You pay for the privilege and you only get the fee returned if you win the appeal.

    On that note, Scott Taggart apparently booked against Annan. Referees have a vivid imagination.

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    Airdrieonians 23/24 Championship Thread♦️

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    14 minutes ago, ShineOnYouCrazyDiamonds said:

    I don’t think there’s a limit to how many loan players we have in the squad. We have four at the moment and if Wikipedia is right Dunfermline have six and Inverness have eight. Obviously the limit is whatever we can afford but I’d still be jumping at any good players we can get and if Megwa’s available he’s worth getting. I would say though that the priority should probably be a centre back (I think Hancock was maybe planned to be a centre back for us but has done so well at left back he has to stay there) and a striker.

    There's a limit of 5 domestic loans. International loans don't count to your quota but can't be made outside the regular transfer window which closed at the beginning of February.

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    Flying Wasps v Faltering Cove

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    1 hour ago, CoveRangers1922 said:

    A successful 10 days for the Wasps, which sees them rack up 3 straight wins and rightfully leapfrog us into 3rd place ahead of Saturday's game at the Recs

    Big Andy's side are hitting form with only 1 loss in the last 9 league games, a much stronger quarter which has revitalised their season. With Bobby Wales rejoining and with 6 in his last 7 there must be a degree of optimism going into the business end of the campaign. There's plenty of games left and the likes of Montrose, Kelty, QoS will certainly have us in their sights.

    For Cove, our results have been almost the polar opposite. Since Taggs injury time winner at Balmoral we've picked up only a solitary win (against Edinburgh City) in our last 7 league games to go with 3 draws and 3 defeats. 

    As mentioned on the Wasps Nest podcast, this could be the return of Fyvie after 3 months out. Desperately need him back to change our fortunes and get us playing something resembling football rather than lobbing aimless balls up to and around Rumarn. 

     

    With Fyvie 

    P8 W5 D3 L0    - 18 points (4 clean sheets)

    Without Fyvie

    P15 W4 D4 L7   - 16 points (1 clean sheet)

    * Since I've quoted the above Fyvie will likely play and we'll still lose but thought I'd stick it in.

     

    Predicted Lineup below. The two changes I envisage from the cup game with Killie are Shiels returning at LB and hopefully we see Fraser. Kerr and Darge to drop to the bench. Likely will be narrow 4-4-2 for us with full backs being encouraged to play higher when we're in possession and Sena retreating for cover. Suman supposedly could be a doubt after getting a bad knock at the weekend, however, Balint Demus would be equally as good so wouldn't weaken us. Many Cove fans would like to see Balint get a run of games, one of our own and all.

     

    Result is a tough one to call. Bookies make Alloa slight favourites which going by form and home advantage is spot on. Without Fyvie, it's hard to see us getting anything more than a point although in fairness there has been an improvement in our last 3 games. With Fyvie we might have a chance for something more positive.

    After this one Alloa have Hamilton (A) and Montrose (A) so two tougher fixtures. Cove play Annan (H) and EC (A)

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    That's my commentary about cove sorted on Saturday. 😅

    Serious offer if you fancy doing the commentary with Kieren pop up to the press box. My laptop's graphics card has burnt out and it will be a patchwork  fix and likely technical chaos again tomorrow.

    My threat to delete one random player from the team sheet until I get a new device should be taken seriously now. 🦹‍♀️

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    The Falkirk FC Thread

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    37 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:

    Read an article earlier that says that clubs now need to hold an sfa bronze level accreditation to play in the top 4 leagues. The highland league clubs are kicking off about it as they think it's an attempt to prevent clubs from the 5th tiers getting up. However, I noticed that two of the clubs that don't have this accredition currently are covered and Airdrie who along with Edinburgh city, kelty and Peterhead have been given an exemption till the beginning of next season. Would be hilarious if Airdrie got bumped out due to failing to meet this standard.

    Airdrie is something fixable in the first team category. Fairly sure it's personnel related due to not having a qualification in the category. If the option was employ someone or lose upwards of £300,000 the choice is easy. Peterhead and Kelty are likewise falling down in that first team category.

    Edinburgh have the issue of the stadium. That'll not be fixed any time soon.

    I quite like the idea of having the bronze license as a requisite because it means teams who invest in playing staff to the detriment of everything else and don't have the necessary infrastructure will never be allowed to push out the teams that are maintaining their standards.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

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    3 hours ago, CallumPar said:

    Think the limit is 5 domestic loans and we currently have 2. So we can get 3 more.

    They would have to be from the top flight too, as you can only loan players from a higher division during this window, I believe.

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    We loaned East Kilbride's Ally Roy in the last extended loan window so you're probably making that up.

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    The Falkirk FC Thread

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    1 hour ago, Long Suffering Bairn said:

    but whatever they doing or equipment they are using is what we should be doing. 

    https://pro.sony/en_IE/products/handheld-camcorders/pxw-z150

    Fairly sure that's what they've got. That's the camera I wanted to get for us a good few years ago when it was a newer model. Would have made negotiations much easier had anyone known covid was coming but £3k was seen as a bit steep at the time. 😅

    For ideal purchases I quite like the idea of this. You get great flexibility in less equipped stadiums with a gimbal or in this instance ptz and this is the top of the line Sony solution. Seen these used professionally recently in stadium shots replacing the spidercam systems.

     

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