WattersIsGod

SSB is mental in that it basically never changes. an opportunity for old firm fans to rant about whatever is irking them that day. i can tolerate it for a 30 minute car journey and no more. Often not even that..... best thing i've heard on it in years was a couple of Dumbarton players phoning in for Beat The Pundit on their way to training one night recently. Even better was when one of the questions was 'Who won league two last year?"

Since the late 80s at Annfield for me. John Brogan scored the winner in my first ever game. Some great memories there.

Fair enough. When you only see players a couple of times a season its easy to remember the good games they had. Our probably right on the last point.

McPake hasn't been with us long enough to be considered and nobody else from our team deserves to even come close. i think Fyvie/Burrell/Wales/Steven are all worthy of consideration based on what i've seen. i'd expect there to be 5 or 6 Falkirk players in the selection at a minimum.

it's something that's bugged me forever. probably more leave the area to watch the Old Firm than come to Forthbank. our attendance goes up a little during good times but soon falls away again. Stirling certainly should be a big enough place to support a club in League One.

given how likely a home win is when we come to town, i'm not discounting it completely

attendance wise we hold our own in this league even with the inevitable drop off from the end of last season. we're 4th in average home attendances behind Falkirk, Hamilton and QOS and second in average away attendances (which either indicates an above average travelling support or everyone wanting to go and watch when the Binos come) i don't think it's unreasonable for us to want League One to be our natural level. i don't see Milne starting. he was definitely one of Darren Young's favourites earlier in the season but he seems to be on a shorter leash now. Leitch will no doubt start as he always seems to when fit. Cooper never seems to get the same trust. its not that they are bad players. i just think they are not being put in positions to succeed. Both are too slow to chase and harry. Milne knows it and his solution is to hold off and not press too aggressively and get done for pace. Leitch has a propensity for diving in and making late tackles simply because he's too slow to get there in time . they are both better players with the ball than without and we just have far too many of them.

Agreed. Desperate to stay in league one. I do still have confidence we can do it.

That's a lot of attack minded players for a key away tie when we've shipped 9 in the last two games. Are you actually Darren Young?

Dumbarton vs Stirling Albion last season was postponed so many times the match thread reached 49 pages which was certainly a league two record .....

Not sure whether i'm looking forward to my first ever trip to Kelty. massive need to bounce back after conceding an awful lot of goals in the last couple of games. I can't fail to see how there won't be changes from last week's starting lineup. I'm a big fan of Ross McGeachie but whether it's fitness related i don't know but it feels he's had a lot of games where he hasn't been up to his usual standard. I wouldn't be surprised to see Cummins start at RB. we don't really have the resources to make other changes to the defence. if you play Crane at LB then who do you play as a defensive midfielder? I expect Blair Currie to get a chance to atone for last week's nightmare. in midfield, i have no idea other than i'd expect McPake and Crane to start. i'd happily sacrifice a striker and have Banner and Crane sit with Leitch/Cooper just ahead and then McPake and Offord wide. Spence up front for me if Carrick still isn't fit ( i assume he won't be as he took no part in warm ups on Saturday). Hilson never looks like scoring. Spence works just as hard and i at least feel confident he'll take a chance if it comes his way. i don't see any of the 3 hooked at half time last week starting anyway. none of them could have any complaints. Really hope to see a big reaction after last week. they shouldn't be short of motivation either with what's at stake. I expect both QOS and Annan to win this week so it's important we take something.

he will definitely get a better offer than us next season i feel. i'm sure he could hold his own at championship level at least. not easy to stay in full time football though. he's certainly playing like he's motivated. hopefully he gets a couple more goals for us to keep us up and that helps get him the move he's looking for and it ends up a win win situation.

Saturday was a massive knock to the confidence but i still think we've got enough to stay up. I'm sure there's still two wins in that side and that should be enough i reckon. I'm not for a manager change either but i hope a lot has been learned from this season. I worried about the level of talent in the squad and the depth of it before the season. sadly most of the my main worries have come to pass. a slow defence that's not really good enough, no cover at full back and a lack of proper central midfield options. We've tried to play much the same way as last season but we dominate the ball less and have to defend more which against better players has proved too much too many times. the ones that i find gutting are the games we've dominated at home and ended up drawing. We've played some decent stuff at home at times but failed to turn the advantage into goals. other than Annan who always seem to give us problems, the other 3 games are against teams we've had some success against this season. I'd love to see Forthbank packed for the remaining home games but think that's a pipedream.

i really wanted Kurtis back at Forthbank. i think he'd have made a massive difference to the hole we frequently call the centre of our midfield. See Lee Hamilton made an appearance too. i can't believe he wouldn't have improved our defence either.

i was certain the ball was going to go out of play as i watched it but on reflection the wind has probably held the ball up and kept it in. it's a horrible error but everyone has a bad day and if we'd had Mark Weir in goal all season, there's no way we'd have as many points. his distribution could still be better at times but as we saw on Saturday, he's far from the only one who struggles with accuracy when the wind blows at Forthbank.

its all utterly ridiculous. Police don't seem interested in doing much. I saw the kids chasing the supporters' bus after the Montrose game and chucking stuff at it and it was our stewards pursuing them while the police looked on. It's beyond obvious they'd be out in force for Alloa and to see the behaviour of throwing things into the ground repeated without consequence is really disappointing.

Well done stenny. Hopefully we can have a league 1 Derby next season

It was the only good thing today

Seems we are determined to keep it interesting

Awful. Blair Currie put us in a hole early and then the rest of the defence conspire to dig deeper. To call it schoolboy defending would be insulting to the under 18s. We seemed to be oblivious to the fact it was windy in the first half. So many bad balls. Game over by half time. Offord worked hard and managed a couple on target. Mcpake was a mixed bag but at least kept showing for the ball second half. Struggling to find much credit elsewhere.

You can pay at the gate but only with cash

Looks bad overnight but clearing up a bit tomorrow. It usually drains OK. We've had a few postponements from frozen pitch but I can't remember the last one for it being waterlogged. Might just be my memory though. I'm still hopeful.

can Kathleen take a corner that beats the first man?

Couldn't agree more about the need to dig in but I think youll have a job convincing Milne or Leitch about the hair products..

Shame about Carrick. Barring injury I'd be surprised to see a change to the back 5. I don't see us folding either. Let's see the spirit of this time last season and we can drag ourselves over the line. A bit of a hopeful one but it would be nice to see the home stand as full as it was this time last year.