Bullyweeno1

What made you optimistic? I wasnt. Now 45 minutes have convinced me we have signed a bunch of Rob Jones' in their own position.

Said time to judge would be after first quarter of games of the league. However think it clear where we are heading this year. They have been absolutley hopeless so far. You wouldnt be forgiven for thinking Bonnyrigg are the team from the higher league. Nearly another goal conceded by JBH.

Typical JBH, chucks a goal every game or so.

Happy to have JBH as a back up Always gives the feeling that he likely to make an unforced error every game or two

So glad at SeaWorld in Orlando today 5-0 at half time says it all guess Hibs just played at walking pace 2nd half

Reality is it isn’t just us with no squad but a lot of others in the same position Expect by the time the league starts we will have squad of 20 but won’t ahead of game v Hibs

Not reading anything into friendlies - last year we looked good on way to winning Broadwood Cup but ended up being hopeless for most of season 9 games into season when we have played everyone once will be the right time to predict how the season is likely to go

Unfortunately skill will only take you so far in football. You also have to have the right dedication and commitment. Case of what could have been as he certainly was skillful enough but by all accounts just couldnt get himself fit with us and others as it now seems.

As others have said it isn’t looking optimistic where we currently are The big issue is that those already signed dont inspire me with any confidence. We already have 14 signed up which means likely just another 6 (maybe 8 ) to be signed Unless they are all going to be world beaters we are shaping up a squad that looks pretty poor Suppose the only good thing is that others in our league also seem to have gone backwards in their squad quality eg Airdrie Again calls in to question the purpose of dumb and dumber in the recruitment team. Their purpose is to identify a few hidden gems. Now they may have in Rodden as don’t know anything him but have seen all the others play and none were anything special. But then again that might just be an indication of where we are and the type of players we can realistically attract Reality is we were spoiled over the last few years with DGW up front and won’t ever have that quality of player again for the length of time we did. Think this will be a season to far.

Will be interesting to see how broomhill get on at Broadwood Wonder if they will get crowds into the £,000s which we haven’t done for years

To be honest we could do worse (and in all honesty probably will) Big Thomo looks to still be in shape and could do a turn this season if needed

Totally agree, been on every day since (sometimes more than once a day) hoping for a new post. The silence is deafening.

If we finish in 9th or 10th then the squad will statistically be worse than last season. Lets see where we end up May next year. It will be a miracle if we finish anything other than 9th and 10th. I said that last year and it was (without DGW goals we would have finished up 9th maybe 10th). We knew what we were getting when we signed Rob Jones. Dumbarton fans knew he was s### and so did we after a couple of games.

Cant say I am full of any optimism about the squad so far. Doesnt fill me with any confidence. That's 13 players signed so far. Lets say we go with a squad of 20. That's just 7 players still to sign !!!!!! Do you really think that these next 7 to be signed are going to be all L1 level players. I dont. I would expect you get your first picks that you want to make up your starting 11 first then you fill out the squad later on closer to the start of the season. Fingers crossed we have adopted reverse of the logical strategy but I dont think we will. Only one player signed released by a club at L1 level or above (Jordan Allan - and i dont remember anything about him in the games v Airdrie). You have to remember there is a reason a player is released. They arent deemed good enough for the level they were playing at and we have signed a host of players released at a level below L1. Even if we did sign Livingstone, Splaine, Cuddihy, McAllister and Jamieson only leaves a couple of other picks for the squad. Difficult to believe - but this squad is building up to look even more s### than last season and that would be some achievement. Going to be a long hard season i predict and without a proven 20+ goalscorer this time I think luck is going to run out this year. We still need in my opinion 2 center halfs right back left back box to box midfielder creative midfielder 2 strikers who can get double figures goals (yeah i know that might be wishful thinking but even 1 who can get double figures would be good) Nothing against the players who have signed so far, and hopefully proved wrong, but not feeling at all optimistic.

Fortunately at the time we had a manager and a chairman who knew a player. I remember at the first preseason game thinking - who the f### are these diddies. How wrong was I. They signed nearly half the team that made it into the broadwood X1.

Havent a clue, many L1, L2 and lot of lowland league and junior teams are a more attractive proposition that we we have in terms of pay and what we are likely to do this year. Hopefully the recruitment team has been putting the hours in over the last 6-12 months and taken in as many games at lowland league level and below and come up with a few gems who are interested in taking the step up to L1 level at the expense of maybe wages. Wouldnt expect any Championship or L1 player who has been released to be interested in us which then leaves L2 and below players (which if they are at that level and have been released then they cant be of the standard for that level, let alone L1). If you look at who has been signed already doesnt exactly fill you with much optimism Ray Grant - released by L2 side. I liked Grant first time round and hope DL can get same again from him. Connor Duthie - released by L2 side - cant remember him from Dumbarton last year he was that much of a standout. Steven Thicot - was a good player years ago and at 35 cant expect him to be pacy Kurtis Roberts - released by L2 side

Yeah we are going to struggle this year I think. Overall the league is stronger with the additions of QOS, Dunfermline, Kelty and Edinburgh City Then you have Montrose and Airdrie who will both be strong if they retain their squad Also think Falkirk will be a lot better with McGlynn in charge. That just leaves us, Alloa and Peterhead. Think will between those three and Edinburgh City for the bottom 2 places.

Really.....what makes you think Gomis is going to be fast this year. Time will tell but very much doubt we will end up with an exciting, fit, fast, attacking team. (thats basically a Man City, Liverpool, Celtic type of team). Those types of teams dont appear by luck.

Yes we all know what we need but know what you need and getting it as two entirely different things. Will we get get 2 big strong center backs - doubt it. Will we get someone who can score 20 + goals a season - almost certainly not. I think we will struggle to have 2 players combined who will score more than 20 goals between them.

There are 4 words above that I would be surprised if you associate with Clyde next season. i wonder which 4?

Given no update think you can take it that no others are resigning

Yeah been trying for last hour and goes to end page then just kicks back to start

Before you get called out it was a flat of a friend of Robertson

Agree with this Footballers should be looked at for what they do on the park Like you never understood why they should be seen as role models As across all industries and sectors you are going to have people you would look up to and those you wouldnt

Why would he be jailed - he wasn’t convicted in a criminal court. The fact that he wasn’t put in front of a criminal court is another matter which is more to do with the justice system than anything else He did pay the compensation. The woman involved didn’t see any of it as it all ended up lawyers fees.