Nigel Blackwell

What did Buckie have to do to obtain a bronze licence?

Clyde 1-0 East Fife Dumbarton 2-0 Elgin City Forfar Athletic 1-1 Stranraer Stenhousemuir 2-0 Bonnyrigg Rose Spartans 1-1 Peterhead

Was great to see Curtis make that save at the end. I thought it was quite an entertaining game and when we went 2-1 up I really thought we would go on and win it. The Clyde goal came as a surprise as they didn’t look like scoring in the 2nd half up to that point. We ended the game with a back 4 of Lynch, Jacobs, Stirling and Bilham. It’s fair to say that the season is catching up on the team now. But who cares.

Disappointed Mikey Anderson didn’t make it. Kinlay Bilham is the other player I hoped might feature. There was a feature on the club last night on A View from the Terrace featuring Donald Smillie. It was a really nice piece.

Bonnyrigg 1 - 1 Spartans Clyde 1 - 0 Stenhousemuir Elgin 1 - 2 Peterhead Forfar 1 - 1 East Fife Stranraer 0 - 2 Dumbarton

Regardless, suspect Darren Jamieson will get a break and Curtis Lyle will step in.

Nicky

Saturday night is a blur but one thing I do remember is Curtis saying he was unavailable for this game!

Dumbarton 1 Clyde 1 East Fife 1 Bonnyrigg Rose 0 Peterhead 2 Forfar Athletic 0 Stenhousemuir 2 Elgin City 0 The Spartans 0 Stranraer 1

Still on a high from yesterday. A truly memorable day. A great squad of players and a great management team.

Bonnyrigg 1-0 Peterhead Clyde 2-1 Stranraer Elgin 1-1 Spartans Forfar 0-1 Dumbarton Stenhousemuir 2-1 East Fife

That was Jamieson’s 18th clean sheet of the season, which when all is said and done is the reason where we are in the league. If we don’t concede, we don’t lose. It’s a great record.

Will we ever score again? Twice the ball rolled across the face of the Dumbo goal. Twice Ross Taylor watched it. Another week, another game ticked off. Three more 0-0 draws and the title is ours.

Weather is terrible. More rain forecast. Any chance this could be postponed?

Naysmith seems reluctant to play Taylor from the start, but I think he has to be given a chance. Can Rodden play up front by himself instead of Aitken? I suppose the pitch may mean we resort to hoofball which Aitken is more suited to, but I think he has only scored one goal this year (is that right?) so a change might not be a bad idea?

Dumbarton 2- 0 Stenhousemuir East Fife 2-0 Elgin Peterhead 2-1 Clyde Stranraer 1-1 Bonnyrigg Spartans 1-1 Forfar

Seems we set up not to lose yesterday. Since the Clyde game that seems to be the way of it. First half was actually quite entertaining but the 2nd half was really brutal. Amazing save from Jamieson. The shot was actually reminiscent of Adam Brown's the last time we played them here with one obvious difference. The other Jamieson deserved his latest MotM. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the League Player of the Year. Its not usually something a Stenhousemuir player features in. Was the last player to make the shortlist Harry Paton? Anyway, Nicky has got to be in with a shout. I'd imagine Gregor Buchanan might also make the shortlist but I'd like to see Michael Anderson get a mention. Back to the game, Pawlett caused us a lot of problems in the middle, while I thought Aitken had another poor game for us. Looking to next season I think this is where Naysmith really needs to strengthen. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the challenge on Kirkpatrick was horrible. The referee gave a free kick so he saw the challenge but didn't consider a booking at least. It could actually have been a red. It was a nasty challenge leading with his elbow. On to next week...

It would almost clinch it, but if Dumbo and/or Spartans win then they would be 17 behind with 18 points to play for. Had we held out on Saturday against Forfar, then Saturday could have been the day.

Clyde 1-1 Spartans Dumbarton 2-0 Bonnyrigg Rose East Fife 2-0 Stranraer Elgin City 1-0 Forfar Athletic Stenhousemuir 1-1 Peterhead

I can understand why Agnew was so angry after the match in his interview. It certainly looked like a foul on Orr, although whether the contact was enough to send him to the turf is questionable. However I would have had a bit more respect for him had he mentioned an equally blatant penalty for Elgin in the first half. News for him…every team is on the receiving end of questionable decisions. Ultimately, either your team is good enough, or it isn’t.

I know it wasn’t a great game, but I did think we actually played some nice football at times mainly in the 1st half. But for me, it was noticeable that in the 2nd half in particular that Forfar resorted to a huge, in most cases, aimless pump up the park, mainly from McCallum. In the end it just became a slug fest with both teams seeing how high they could kick it, until Forfar equalised and we started to play football again which almost brought a winner.

Highlight of the afternoon was Marc McCallum's assessment of Russell McLean. His opinion is consistent with pretty much everyone else. Useless.

Bonnyrigg 0-2 Clyde Forfar 1-0 Stenhousemuir Peterhead 2-1 East Fife Stranraer 0-1 Elgin Spartans 1-2 Dumbarton

Assuming it is East Kilbride they meet in the play off then I don’t want anyone to be relegated

Losing Brett Long was potentially the turning point for Dumbo. Hogarth may become a decent keeper but he is getting exposed pretty much every week at the moment.