Bridie Vision

I bet the club loved this:

Which turd polishes the best, is the extent of Forfar's squad.

I agree Chucky has been woeful, but he's McKinnon's mate (4th club Ray has signed him at). Bradley hasn't done much yet but looks better than Ross. Also, Cocks deserves more game time but he's probably too attacking for Ray. Cannon is probably our best new signing so far which is saying something considering he came from like the 9th tier?!

Skelly works harder than Rusty and seems to be a much nicer guy than Rusty, but once again he was one-on-one twice and booted it high and wide again. His confidence is shot and he is just hopeless. Rusty can finish when he can be arsed to so. When he came on he was just stood there and three times put his hands up to say he was offside so wasn't going to chase.

Stranraer's package far better than Forfar's?

Agreed, 6 (woeful) strikers but 0 fullbacks. The squad is unbalanced, uncooperative and uninteresting. We were better today but that's coming from a very, very low bar! Highland League here we come!

Maybe it's a subtle hint for the manager doubt he'd pay any attention anyway.

Oh for the glory days of Jim Weir, Dale Hilson & John Baird!

A player gains nothing playing for Forfar either Poor Filip though I imagine he thought he'd at least get some game time with us, you know, considering we have no fullbacks at the club!

True, last year was bad but this is taking it to a whole new level.

The board are really proud of Ray because he "matched" a really strong team for 90 minutes (we'll ignore the added time) and had to deal with lots of injuries today. The board are so pleased they want to tear down the "David McGregor Stand" sign and replace it with "Sir Raymond McKinnon Auditorium" and give him the keys to the town of Forfar. My word how horrendous this season is.

We've signed another striker! We have 5 strikers now (all with combined total of 1 goal)? Yet we have 0 fullbacks and 2 wingers, one who has been hopeless and one who has been at LB because we have no fullbacks! I guess it suits Ray's philosophy of sit super, super deep and launch balls up park in the hope it might reach whichever striker decides to start. Poor Rayan, he's been sent back to Forfar to sit on the bench again.

I enjoyed my Saturday. The weather was warm and sunny and I didn't have to see Forfar Athletic play or check their score.

Highlights:

These stats are even more hideous than imagined, yet 50/50 possession. McKinnonball at its finest

It's matchday, who's excited? Answer - No Forfar fans are. It'll be hard as we are without our joint top Goalscorer Andy Munro Easy 2-0 win for Elgin, Ray says we were unlucky and we move onto next week's defeat.

Yet another success story for a failed Forfar loan, mind you he was an attacker in a Ray side, he was always going to struggle to make an impression.

Going into the Highland League would be a catastrophe and the board should invest or show some passion, but I do think we could pay the bills find 15 or so jobbers and languish in mid table and still throw a golf day and sportsman's dinner. It's not what I want It's what I think the board are content with. If you want a statement from the board it'll be: "We love Ray and stick by him. We are very disappointed in the unhappy comments we have received from social media and so will not be allowing fan interactions from now on until everybody loves Ray as much as us."

I honestly don't think the board are "cowards" but I do think the majority of them are completely uninterested. The club isn't going to go bankrupt and we could survive financially in the Highland League so that's all that matters to them. As I say the golf day is their biggest highlight of the year. The chairman likes Ray and Ray likes picking up a wage for very little to no effort into match preparation. I can't see anything changing, I may be proved wrong and if so then hooray, but yeah I'm expecting us to visiting Wick and Brora next year.

The worst defence against the worst attack.

Did Rab Douglas not join you alongside DC and his crew?

Let the debate commence:

Why can't the board? - because we're not yet 10th and on the verge of dropping into the Highland League.

We'll happily give them McKinnon.

I chose to go watch West End v Kirrie Thistle today rather than head to Methil. Probably the right decision.