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3 hours ago, BullyWeeStonehouse said:
When Reallity Kicks In loves a downvote in here (downvote incoming in 3,2,1…)
Amazingly, 'BullyWeeClydeFc' has downvoted all of my recent posts on here in the last hour.
Spectacularly petty in the most cringeworthy way, you simply must tip your hat.
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My team for the weekend would be:
- Kinnear -
- Cuddihy - Hamilton - Howie - McGinn -
- Grant - Ballantyne -
- Leitch - Rennie - King -
- Allan -
For me, Cuddihy is a better right back than he is a centre midfielder, and he's a better right back than Ross Lyon. Although Lyon has been fine of late, I still think he's one of our weakest points. Howie is a better player than Sula, he's been shaky but so has Sula. Leitch at 10 is an option, but I wouldn't want to pull Rennie out the team. Happy to be proven wrong! I don't think bringing Lyon or Sula in makes the team too much worse.
Whatever happens, this is the most important game of the season and we simply have to win.
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39 minutes ago, Kempes said:
Interesting Allan Maitland interview on the Clyde website. He positively name checked at least six folk at the club, but no mention of the chairman. Seems strange as he must at least have a working relationship with him. Any word of who the next chairman will be?
Enjoyed the 'Some of the staff haven't conducted themselves well' bit. Wonder who he could possibly have been referencing?!
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12 hours ago, BullyWeeClydeFc said:
You come onto the Clyde thread and tell our support we are obsessed with your nonsense of a bottom half LL club. It’s almost as if someone wants back in the Scottish pyramid, my bad you’re an Cowdenbeath supporter and couldn’t hit the 30pt mark in L2. Even though it’s dull being a Clyde fan, I would much rather be in our situation than yours. So away you go and enjoy your away day at Gretna.
This is unhinged stuff.
It really does look like wee JC has a few going! 'BullyWeeClydeFc' and 'Wee man the jackass' both share his enraged, mashing-the-keyboard-through-tears-whilst-calling-everyone-else-triggered-snowflakes style of posting.
You simply cannot help but laugh at them!
I really don't want us to get relegated, but now it'd almost be worth it to have 'BullyWeeClydeFc' jump in his silly little car and have to head to Gretna for an away day for that comment. The patter almost demands it, the stupid man!
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3 hours ago, Wee man the jackass said:
Which is why it was so marvellous when Cowdenbeath went crashing down into it
Jesus Christ man this guy again! An absolute stinker, as per.
Mute time. Mute is class.
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6 minutes ago, Broonaldo said:
It being a “Mickey Mouse” league is all relative …..
It's not. The LL has literally made a laughing stock of itself. That's not to say that all the teams taking part are a joke. I have the utmost respect for the Rose having attended many of your games over the years. Great club. It's not the Rose's fault that the LL is like this and it's unfortunate that to try and get to the SPFL you need to pass through it. The league itself should absolutely be sneered at. As @The Moonster said there was an opportunity there to create a great thing but that hasn't happened at all. Up until this season I was playing in the Glasgow colleges amateur league and I wouldn't dream of calling it 'Mickey Mouse'. The standard of a league does not a joke make.
Honestly mate, I think you've lost track of what your argument was.
Most of your post you're arguing my point for me, albeit badly given that Newcastle have won nothing and currently sit 8th in the English Premier League table.
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50 minutes ago, Brian Carrigan said:
The fact that you're using 'reserve teams in the top 5' and 'a uni team in the top half' as arguments AGAINST a league being Mickey Mouse is fairly stunning, but whatever helps you sleep at night bossman.
The reason relegated teams can't get back out of the LL is because their finances are absolutely decimated by relegation out of the SPFL, and they often will not have a wedged up independent backer. The quality of their squads amounts to absolute dugmeat. Kelty and EK have proven that to get out of the league, you simply need to have the capacity to fling enough money at the problem. The league is 'tough' because the lack of finances is a great equaliser and aside from a few outliers the standard is poor.
Also I think it's important to stress that no one, especially me, is saying that Clyde or any SPFL team is above playing in the Lowland League. It's a joke league, but honestly at this point we are for the most part a joke club so we'd fight right in. If we do go down, it's because we deserve it and we'll have to deal with the consequences in the same way the other relegated clubs had to.
We can only hope that if we do go down, the fabled money man bunces us up and we can build a squad capable of getting us out of the league straight away.
If we somehow stay up, we've won a watch and simply cannot afford to exist in the same way we have been for the past several years.
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11 hours ago, Broonaldo said:
Not sure I agree - the B teams are always in the top 5 or 6 and Stirling Uni are consistently in the top half too, so I don’t think that means the league is “Mickey Mouse”. The fact that ES, Berwick Rangers, Albion Rovers and Cowdenbeath are all still there shows how tough a league it is to get out of ……
The fact that you're using 'reserve teams in the top 5' and 'a uni team in the top half' as arguments AGAINST a league being Mickey Mouse is fairly stunning, but whatever helps you sleep at night bossman.
The reason relegated teams can't get back out of the LL is because their finances are absolutely decimated by relegation out of the SPFL, and they often will not have a wedged up independent backer. The quality of their squads amounts to absolute dugmeat. Kelty and EK have proven that to get out of the league, you simply need to have the capacity to fling enough money at the problem. The league is 'tough' because the lack of finances is a great equaliser and aside from a few outliers the standard is poor.
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29 minutes ago, Cowdenleith said:
If you big time charlies in SPFL2 would not class the LL as seniors, what would you describe them as?
It certainly is officially a senior league, but surely even the staunchest supporter of clubs at that level must admit that it’s rendered pretty Mickey Mouse by the uni and B teams no?
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5 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:
Glad you appreciate it.
The pyramid was established in 2013, and people still don't know what a senior league is.
To be totally honest, most don’t consider the Lowland League to be a senior league. There are literally University teams and reserve teams in it.
Odd time to engage the pedantry.
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6 minutes ago, Cowdenleith said:
I do know what one of your players is on, and that low estimate of yours is definitely on the low side.
. I would also be hugely surprised if any of the leavers were on as little as £150 per week.
Aye, I know. I was just using numbers that I could multiply. I’m a simple man.
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On 31/03/2024 at 07:12, The Moonster said:
Sorry if I'm being stupid here but Clyde didn't spend any transfer fees did they? Are you suggesting Clyde have increased their wage bill by £100k?
fwiw I also had a conversation with someone tenuously in the know where that figure was mentioned but it was more like “we’ve paid off 8 players who at an average of £150 a week and had to replace them with players that command a higher wage”. Paying off 8 players who all had 6 months left on their contracts at £150 p/w would cost about £30k. Then the new boys (Howie, Hamilton, Leitch, Kabia), say they’re on £300 (a low estimate tbf) and signed for 6 months, that’s another £30k, so that’s £60k. It was also rumoured that we were offering £5k signing on fees, so that’s another £20k and we’re now at £80k. Thats just the playing side of things, so when you take McCall, Scally and Kerr’s wages into account, it’s probably not far off the 100k mark.
I think the big man who was having a bit of a meltdown whilst talking to you has heard “100 grand” and ran with it, assuming it’s a lump sum somehow.
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My preferred choice of starting 11 for tomorrow:
- Kinnear -
- Cuddihy - Hamilton - Howie - McGinn -
- Grant - Ballantyne -
- Leitch - Rennie - King -
- Allan -
Kabia coming off the bench to up the intensity for the last half hour would be my preferred option here. Howie being played in midfield against Bonnyrigg made sense for him to win hoofed balls that dropped in midfield. I prefer him in at centre half ahead of Sula, because I just feel as much as I like Sula he does have a few harem scarem moments every time I watch him play. Howie does bomb on but is generally more assured and is undoubtedly just a better footballer. I still think McGinn should play and still think Alex King should be pushed higher.
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Extending from this topic - are there any players you'd expect to be making the step up to the SPFL after this season? Would you expect them to be a success?
It's obviously a huge jump and difficult for players to navigate (the Swift lot, Andy Rodden and literally everyone else Clyde brought from the LL etc). Tiwi Daramola made the leap from below the LL and people expected big things but after a bright start dropped off exponentially once the real business began. He now finds himself in that huge EK pool, and if they go up will he cut it in L2?
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The Bonnyrigg situation is weird. The squad can’t be altered and on their park you can only really play hoofball, so it’s not like a new lad would come in and radically change tactics so I’m really not sure what another manager would get out of that group this late in the day. I get that the club will be desperate, but now probably isn’t the time to be changing manager. Maybe it’ll work, hopefully it won’t.
I’ll be honest and say that I’d much rather Bonnyrigg stayed up than have EK get promoted. At least BR feel like a real club, with a real ground and real fans. Hopefully the Highland League winners put out EK.
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7 hours ago, Wee man the jackass said:
Absolute state of you btw. Can guarantee you're one of the wee gobby shites who bursts into tears every time you get a bit back. Fanny
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9 minutes ago, Bullyweeno1 said:
You say you would like to have an attacking midfield 3 including Leitch then dont even pick him.
I said 'with Leitch or Kabia on the other side'
Reading is cool.
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3 hours ago, Right turn Clyde said:
Surviving in league 2 is just not good enough for Clyde FC
Certainly. The past six months have shown us beyond all doubt that we've been having the pish ripped out of us as a support/group of owners for the past few seasons.
It's funny how that when the panic really starts to set in and it looked like we were destined to be relegated into Lowland League oblivion, we're able to source Maitland, money, a great management team and assemble a playing squad arguably up there with the best in League 2. Imagine that proactivity was there when we were promoted to League 1, instead of getting by merely on hoping there were two teams worse than us until our luck finally ran out. Obviously there's more to it, and the situation is not as simple to navigate as I've just laid it out to be but generally, the optics are absolutely shocking.
Hopefully we can stay up and this season is the kick up the arse the club needs going forward because there are going to be no end to the ambitious clubs champing at the bit to replace the deadwood such as us in the professional leagues.
ANYWAY I digress. Two draws and one narrow defeat against the Spartans this season when our form was objectively much poorer than it is now has me feeling fairly hopeful for Saturday, although it will be a difficult game. I'd like to see Howie drop back into defence - he was in midfield last week presumably to win high balls that drop in midfield but the game mostly passed him by. If he had been with us a wee bit longer, I wouldnt mind him in there to give a bit more protection to the defence. Sula hasn't done much wrong though so I wouldn't be averse to Howie starting on the bench. Again, I'd like to see Alex King move out of left back and start on the right of the attacking midfield three with Leitch or Kabia on the other side but McCall will have King at left back. The team I'd like to see is:
- Kinnear -
- Lyon - Hamilton - Howie - McGinn -
- Grant - Ballantyne -
- King - Rennie - Kabia -
- Allan -
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3 hours ago, Highlandmagar said:
Its utterly astonishing how triggered you are.
Ok boomer
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1 hour ago, Highlandmagar said:
Seems as if Jobby McCall is turning it around. Best of luck for the remainder.
It is utterly astonishing how obsessed you are
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Great to see Moorey back in the game, and it seems like a great appointment for Camelon. As a former resident, I've got a big soft spot for the club.
He always came across well during his time at Clyde as Danny Lennon's assistant, and I would probably have been happy for him to have taken the team on an interim basis until we found a new manager as opposed to the inevitable-but-still-bizarre rehiring of Jim Duffy right off the bat.
Good luck for the rest of the season!
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3 hours ago, Wee man the jackass said:
I say this and I get cried at btw
Nah you talk absolute shite and get laughed at normally wee man
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45 minutes ago, Bully Wee Clyde FC said:
how come.we strugged so badly on Saturday againt a team in freefall?
I don't think we did struggle. That Bonnyrigg park is like a minefield and the ground is on a slope that's extremely difficult to navigate. The game descended into a battle at times because BR are for the most part hammer throwers. Coming away from there with three points is an absolutely superb result.
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13 hours ago, BullyWeeClydeFc said:
I would say we are definitely the most hated team in Scotland
I would say that the majority of Scottish football fans don't give a flying f**k about us.
The small number of folk that do care about us are probably split 50/50 between folk that hate us and folk that just like to rip the pish out us - and honestly, you simply must say fair play! More please sir/madam!
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The East Kilbride FC Thread
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Bad English
Same - from the outside, he's quite literally a caricature of the most unlikable guy you can possibly think of. A man in his mid-40's that dresses like a 13 year old, is terminally online, and seems to have no discernible talent other than having the financial means to surround himself with people who have the required skills. He's not a 'bad guy' or that, just incredibly irritating. He looks like he lives off Elf Bars and Prime. He's basically a Scottish Lower League version of Wayne Lineker. Like someone read a book called 'What will rub most people up the wrong way' and built him in a lab.
I also have to caveat this with the fact that I've met him several times and played against his Colville Park team and he's been brand new. Genuinely sound as f**k. He obviously knows the way he presents himself gets a reaction and annoys folk and he leans into it.
I cannot imagine why he'd want to take a job in the leagues. I said this when he was being touted (clearly by himself) for the Clyde job. He'd get found out rapid. EK's method this season has been extraordinary. I read somewhere that they've used almost 40 players. That can almost be excused if injuries have meant that he's had to dig in to the youth academy, but with every injury it seems like they've just went out and bought someone else. You just can't do that at a team like Clyde, or any team in the SPFL for that matter. EK's season has basically played out like a joke, like some kind of hyper-Darvel.
With all that in mind, I'd absolutely love to see EK go up this season (although PLEASE not at the expense of Clyde ffs). It'd be like some kind of social experiment. I'm absolutely dying to see what MK does when he simply doesn't have unlimited resources.