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44 minutes ago, HughieMc said:
Cuddihy available as the suspension not for Cup-
if we do play 3 at back- wonder who the Left w/B would be- assuming Cuddihy on the right
Wylde or Ally Love, would be my personal choice.
43 minutes ago, TamClyde said:Mcniff no other choice sadly. He gives it everything he's just not good enough at lb
Why invite trouble with an inferior player, especially in a defensive area of the pitch?
The inclusion of Wylde, as a skilled technician, on the left of midfield would surely assist in us being perhaps more able to dominate possession in aggressive spaces, forcing teams (starting with this mob tomorrow) to withdraw players away from pressurising our three man backline, instead of having them pick on an inferior choice of left-back. Just do away with the position until we get a proper one in.
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14 minutes ago, HughieMc said:
Danny absolutely never plays a back 3- you honestly think he’ll risk doing it for the first time in a must not lose match?
All 3 CB’s you mention are right footed- imbalanced? Howie would certainly not be on the left side as his improvement since flicking to Rumsby’s right has been huge......
Interesting situation
Very much so. The only thing i'm unsure of is if Cuddihy is available or not to play Rwb, which for me, he would.
Lang played 'left' of Rumsby from January onwards, and if as expected we are on top in possession, he and whichever of the other two are 'right' would invariably become part of build-up play.
It's far from a long-term strategy, merely a solution to get us by tomorrow and see where we go. But the failings until now (that IS what they are, esp against teams around us) need rectified somehow.
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Provided we get the go-ahead in the face of these terrifyingly moderate overnight weather conditions, and taking into account the nature of the pitch, our opponents, our new additions, and our utter failure in succesfully negotiating these games recently whatsoever when going with our 'usual' preparations, layout and playing style, i think a radical alteration is staring us, and hopefully Danny Lennon too, in the face.
Having no left-back all season has killed us, the inconsistency of form and selection at right-back has unbalanced us further. We've recruited well, and any ideas of Howie or Rumsby dropping out, particularly tomorrow, to shoehorn Tom Lang into defence, (looking FIRMLY at you, Haufdaft!) should be seen and treated as nonsense.
It's very simple. He should play alongside them.
I dont normally go for 'tight pitch' this, or 'man the barricades' that, but in the face of our lack of genuine full-backs, the signing of a versatile wide player, and the lack of support Goodwillie receives when wingers spend 70 minutes covering, a back three is a must.
Smith looked able at RWB against Stranraer, arguably his most industrious performance so far. I'd gamble him or Johnston in this role, with the other playing off to the right of DG. Grant and Wallace/Lamont simply need to man up and get stuck in regardless of how we line up anyway, back three or four. Wylde and Love can partner on the left simpatico with DS and CJ on the right, in a classic old 3-4-3 from the days of Maitland.
Get intae thum.
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35 minutes ago, TamClyde said:
Pitch inspection tomorrow 9am...
Weather showing temps not going below 2° overnight and no rain expected... Not really fancying 2 games off in 2 weeks for the sake of maths sharpness etc
We're not paying the players to fanny around with calculators, we have enough of those elsewhere throughout the club. I'm more concerned with our players physical condition.
Would be nice if people refrained from indulging our support's version of a 65 year old Greta Thunberg. Again, we have enough of those already!
Gritters out and about all over Central belt today, could be dicey tomorrow.
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4 hours ago, jagfox99 said:
I can see a shock on the cards here.
Bonnyrigg Rose 1 Clyde 2
Are you happy shuffling along out of your regular seat, for your manky hearse-chasing club to sell its arse to Timothy?
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6 minutes ago, Hammyton said:
To be fair if I was asked by a member of public to support the Orange Order (Bigoted c***s) right to march I would tell them to f**k off too. Having stayed in his constituency area the bigots march every week March to October. Get them to f**k.
And of the "lower taxes"?
I've been slung mud by an illiterate, impulsive moron ex-Clyde striker campaigning for these fascists, for challenging this very ideology. Mason's a w**k.
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1 hour ago, shawfield shed boy said:
Roll on the midday news...
Haggis filling in the pies for the East Fife game?
Removal of the £5 Yob Tax upon the Arria Lounge entrance?
Tease!
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2 hours ago, The Moonster said:
You saying "he was poorly advised because there was CLEARLY 3 players in front of him" is certifiable pish. Even if he was informed that he was 4th in pecking order, it still doesn't mean he's been poorly advised to go there and fight for his place - as I've said Tom Lang might be extremely confident in his own ability and would've fancied making a starting spot his own. The assumptions/assertion that Lang has been poorly advised by his agent just sound a bit like sour grapes that he decided to move on.
The most sensible poster on the subject, not least because he's already saw Lang try already to break into a Championship side, coming straight from NeoGers u20s.
The simplified facts as they are, is what went on over the summer is finished. He's since had two injuries, one at a time when Dunfermline were already chronically short at centre-back. They've also had a shite season where experience is always trusted in selection, and Crawford fucking about between 2 or 3 CBs every other week, and they have bags of that throughout their squad which i'd imagine would result in a highly competitive cut-throat competition in reserve games for just a bench spot compared to what he's largely been used to, INCLUDING with us. Maybe we're not for him, under those conditions if he's training with full-timers, but the generally accepted move in that case is to go on loan a step down. Given our defence numbers i'd say its a priority position, if not Lang then certainly another. We've taken some seriously shite players on loan in this situation over the last few years, this absolutely wouldn't be another.
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1 minute ago, Clydeontheup said:
Love your posts !
I thought you were incapable of human feeling!
We live and learn.
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1 hour ago, Clydeontheup said:1 hour ago, HughieMc said:
Well good for you- the point is the rant was both over the top and not necessary
Just the way of the world .
Many feel they have the right or entitlement to say what they want, just makes for a very toxic environment.
Rather a counter-productive view, surely. If it's "toxic" for some, a word used frequently involving recourse over virtually any event at our club, then it should be "toxic" for all?
What is it that are you worried about people talking about, or finding out? Perhaps valid reasons exist for people discussing anything and everything they wish. If you speak/type from 'inside the tent', as it were, you should be glad people still care enough to wish to converse matters after all those years of terrible leadership and altruistic cronyism mis-steering the ship, with impunity.
Unless it's considered here that more than two is assembly, on an open forum you neither monitor nor gain from. Unlike the all-but-dead club forum we pay for.
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44 minutes ago, LiviClyde said:
I think it is both acceptable and appropriate that the Club's internal affairs are not bandied around a public forum.
I have no doubts that most genuinely interested serious fans will have access to the main issues through contacts without the need to post them on forums like this.
Of course the point of ownership/membership is to give fans the chance/right to have a say and vote in the running of the Club and it is open to all fans at a ridiculously affordable annual membership.
I'll say one last time that I genuinely don't understand the reluctance of serious fans to join.
Agreed. I'd have quoted the previous post, but there's a virulent non-truth in it.
The uptake of this facility is pathetic, frankly. Given the list of extremes the club's endured lately (and i mean the decade), it seems to serve as another chip for many to balance on the shoulder. Its almost as if the vast, vast majority just don't care. Whatever views one may have of the structure/personnel, its really very simple to get not even involved, but merely cast an eye over.
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8 hours ago, You Only Live Twice said:
It’s £5 for Arria Lounge admission on match day, or £40 for a Clyde membership, which seem to be the only two options of granting the luxury of basic information.
Otherwise, the rest of us just have to keep pouring our money in every weekend and not even think about asking any questions
It’s obviously much healthier to have a rumour mill constantly churning away.
And people honestly wonder why the mood surrounding the club has plummeted in the last two months...
As if you lack the means of finding anything out!!
Life's a game of why you know, who you know. Some are good at it. Others.....
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2 minutes ago, Harry Haddock said:
I think when work is undertaken in a stadium by an individual’s company at his/her own volition and then at a later date a bill for £60000 lands on someone else desk might constitute a stitch up.
What, for USING it? Regardless of who said what, and to whom, did anyone consider the fact that it wouldn't be free?
What a place.
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15 minutes ago, Harry Haddock said:
Our financial problems may be in part to being stitched up by a previous board member.Many amongst us saw him as the new messiah.
Also,budgeting for a cup run last year came back to bite us.
Oh, Harold.
One deeply clouded matter which hasn't yet manifested a single outcome, inspiring rage....
And yet a factual, openly- declared gamble is merely a dogbite on the arse.
What a place this is.
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6 hours ago, haufdaft said:
Cheer me up.
Tell me the whole world isn't going to f**k and that the AGM provided optimism for the future.
Right now, Clyde are my only hopeOh dear. You truly are fucked, then!
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On 10/12/2019 at 14:19, Bully Wee Clyde FC said:
Can't argue with much of this and David W's analysis of player acquisition is pretty accurate too. But come on. For lots of players at this level is NOT JUST the £ on offer. Over the years, without offering high wages we attracted and retained dedicated guys like Knoxy, Marco and Ross Mcfarlane. Peterhead have their goal machine who has a good full time job. It's abought finding the "right" players.
Do we scout? QP have signed a guys who is rattling in goals, from Kilsyth which is so close to our set up. The wee French chap at Stirling and the brick outhouse of Dumbarton surely are not paid massively higher than our squad? Bringing C Johnstone to us can't have been that cheap; so I don't think it's all about the money.
Also, I'm always worried when my boss starts to deflect press question. Clean sheets are irrelevant when it includes 2 meaningless cup games and a team below us in the table. Alex Smith would regularly steer legit questions on results into young players coming through: we know what happened there!
Post of the season, Sir.
One could add, to the House of Horrors list of dross DW illuminates, is our never-ending injury list. To be fair, almost everyone who has endured a long term absence is on the 'good' list, and have mostly proven a worth. Can't argue with SP's assertion that filling in the blanks *could* be a monetary issue in some cases, if not outright deliberate. I don't envisage that Howie or Rumsby, when added to the squad were high-end. Neither were either Lang or Coggill, so centre-backs clearly don't break the bank. We now have one fit option, where we had five last season. Cuddihy and Love also would enter this category of being adequate first-picks, on affordable wages. If this were the case throughout the squad, i don't think the selection issues would have manifested, leading to the current awful form. And it IS awful. Our only recent win was a terrible display.
Mitchell for Currie, is a merited and worthy upgrade in every way, including financially. Even if he leaves, we have attained a standard with him which must be aspired to. Similiar with Grant, Rankin and Goodwillie, two of whom again i expect to be among the higher bracket. Johnston, Wallace and Smith, in particular, i'd expect to have been enticed by the carrot and not the stick, based on their showings so far. That's not an endorsement of any of them, when we need dig, they disappear. This is a character thing, not a financial one.
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On 06/12/2019 at 07:45, TheBigGuy said:
Consistancy will come with time. Hopefully a home win Saturday!
Well, now we know how THAT went, what's plan F?
Others have been brave to make statements, so i'll join in. Several of that team today, frankly aren't good enough, or interested enough, to arrest the slide in form. And Lennon's reputation, whether anyone likes it or not, is staked on him a) realising this, and b) acting accordingly. Budget restraints this, availability that, don't interest me. We're already wasting a right chunk of what budget he has as it is, by those choices. It's not ALL been bad, but good bonhomie and fond memories won't keep us out the bottom two for much longer. That game today, even with us still plodding at no more than 70%, should have been buried even before the, ahem, penalty.
If it were a technical issue, i'd understand but i think it's an attitude problem. Lennon wouldn't ask them to play this "certain way" he refers to (ref his first six games, with the shell of Chapmans side) if it wasn't in the locker, although Petkov seems to take this instruction literally, with every first touch. Only three more games of that, Howie permitting, thankfully. I like our 'style', i really do, but some of those today just did not fancy it.
Change my mind, by all means.
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10 minutes ago, Karpaty Lviv said:
Our affiliated youth side were being scudded left right and centre (including a 14-1 defeat to Ayr) last season or the one before. We haven’t produced anyone into the first team squad since about that time you mention and it was rightly binned.
As it should be, for all teams of our stature and a good few above, too. Even the likes of Thistle having one is a completely pointless exercise, even with their Pilsbury cash.
The point is, its a team masquerading as a Clyde select when its just a boxticking venture for everyone concerned except the actual players who will be doing their best, in a field they'll sadly never succeed in.
No offence intended to individuals, but It does look to be something which has no bearing or reputational press on the club, whether if good or bad results. Its not like if a player nets three hattricks or clean sheets he can simply join the first (ONLY!!) team, he's actually probably more likely to attract attention from better amateur or even Junior sides who would play him rather than sit on a bench while not being able to play for this Fdtn side. Producing a player for Clyde is far down the list of priorities, in any case. Just look at our bench until Tuesday. It's never been that busy on a Saturday!
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6 hours ago, IR1970 said:
You do have a under 21 team..they play in the west of Scotland league...
5 hours ago, iain p said:in name only.players not signed with clyde fc.
5 hours ago, Karpaty Lviv said:It’s a community team.
No squad list, profiles, fixture information or match updates on the official club site. At all. Which absolutely is fair enough, if it costs the club nothing financially or in manpower. However if by some miracle a better result was achieved, i'd expect those same distance being put between the foundation team and the club.
Aye, right!
The youth side which ran up until around 2004 had their own section and information guides during that season's programme. I knew a few, personally. Whoever was paying them (the club, or others, or indeed if at all), they were bona fide, fully signed Clyde players. Mark Gilhaney quickly established himself in the team during winter/spring of 2003, John Baird, Billy Reid Jr and David Greenhill (among others) made (minimal) apps from the bench, and Paul Doyle became Simon Mensing's understudy during the 03/04 season.
But of course, we should feel nothing but guilt over those days!
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19 minutes ago, SLClyde said:
Would keep an eye on our website but saw it on roses website about the allocation anyway.
A shitstorm awaits, of that i've no doubt.
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38 minutes ago, SLClyde said:
Looks like we will be getting 440 tickets for Bonnyrigg, 20% of stadium capacity.
Where's it been announced? I did see on Rose's twitter tickets are available from Sunday, but not a lot else. Eta saw website.
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1 hour ago, LiviClyde said:
Of course discussion can be healthy and positive if it is rational and constructive, but, on the back of a bad performance, there can too often be knee jerk negativity aimed at specific players, sometimes less than fairly, especially in our present predicament where many players are being asked to fill unaccustomed roles.
For instance there was a bit of flack aimed at Goodie after Saturday when it seemed obvious to me he was struggling from the effects of the knock he took early in the game. How can that be anything other than negative?
McStay prompts a lot of "discussion", understandably perhaps because he can be inconsistent, but I don't think his commitment can be questioned and we do get more good games than bad from him.( IMHO of course).
I noticed the criticism too, but shouldn't it be directed *somewhere* if we are expecting miracles from the same club genie when he's literally getting his arse kicked, with no adequate replacement?
To be fair, no more than two players in recent games have been asked to take on unfamiliar roles, and even they being Lyon who's played RB more than midfield, and Duffie temporarily at left back (i am told). Petkov knew he was brought here as a CB. Their general body language and mindset may be altered by the obvious weaknesses which are appearing as the squad wilts further by the week, but one or two could be doing with toughening up a bit in that instance.
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19 hours ago, LiviClyde said:
I'm a bit perturbed by the level of negativity on this thread recently.
I'm as disappointed as the next man at Saturday's result but let's get things into perspective.
We are a part time team, adjusting to a higher league, hugely handicapped by a high level of injuries, and had a tough mid week gig at Methil in atrocious conditions which must have have been energy sapping.
In addition we lost a key defender in the first half and Goodie took a sore one early in the game which I think could account for his comparative lower key game.
I don't know what level of miracles we expect but surely we need to get back to encouraging the team, not mauling them!
There's nothing negative in fans voicing opinions. Indeed, many have said the same here about Saturday that they did in previous games we've won or drawn, and usually about the same players. Some even questioned the summer retention of two players mentioned quite a lot.
Clearly the supporters are discussing these, hoping those able to sort the particular problems have a bash at doing so, in order that the situation can improve. That's highly positive i'd say. A lot more so than ignoring them, or wishing others not to discuss them.
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2 hours ago, BrigtonClyde said:
Yesterday was my first game for a while and I think some of the criticism is a bit harsh. The midfield moved the ball well, won their fair share of tackles and controlled large spells
The problem was either end. Final third, poor decision making and movement meant we're either trying to walk the ball in, or instead of trying to move a packed defence around, just lob it into the box and hope for the best. That defence was there for the taking, but we played right into their hands
Our defence generally looked pretty solid, but not so much when we're getting hit on the break. First goal came from us getting caught 3 v 3. A lot of the second half we were leaving huge gaps at the back because they were chasing the game.
Maybe there's an element of one or two of them getting a bit staid, they've played a helluva lot of football not just this season but carrying over from last with only around a month's break. He's been very unlucky with the number of injuries where he could maybe have freshened things up. Norway & Love would have made a fair difference to that yesterday
With a full squad I still think we'd have pushed for a top 4, but having that many long term injuries has really turned this season into trying to consolidate. There's even Howie having to go off in the first half yesterday. It's unfortunate but it is what it is. Really comes down to how quickly we can get as many back as soon as possible, but they're a long way from being as bad as some of the stuff we had to endure over the past 10 years.
Agreed John, i felt the criticism was unjust when we've largely done the same things, in most games, and fared better. At no stage did we look like we did in early August, or at home first half to Raith. I dont think it fair to lay the blame at Goodies feet either, he's no more entitled to a bad game than anyone, but i felt Johnston and Lamont took a fair whack of the responsibility for dragging us through the second half but it wasn't enough. They're often the first two to get slated, and i can see why but again it was the final ball, every time.
Grant and McStay are strangely copping it far heavier than they were last season when allowing the likes of Berwick and Stirling to strut around, again both had undeniably poor games but Dumbarton didn't overly dominate us, just played 'us' better than we did. The injury list growing by the week is sending us out weaker with each match and in turn asking players to moderate their own game, thats not a final third issue as we had half a dozen set pieces that landed on a fucking treadmill, but it IS a reason why Dumbarton scored both goals as easily as they did. And should have scored more, Mitchell again was outstanding.
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Clyde FC; Season 2022-23
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No one in Southern Ireland, where Premier broadcasts from, gives a f**k about Falkirk or Hearts. Saturday, 5.30pm kickoff. Guaranteed.