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BB_Bino

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To be honest Jake, it’s a game we need to take something out of, we’ve slid down the the league enough, the last thing we want at this stage is a decent gap opening up between 3rd and 4th.

The opening day of the season was a cracking match, and Stenny have proved to be a good side on both occasions we have seen them this season.

Sure to be a good game, would be happy with a point and delighted with all 3.

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To be honest Jake, it’s a game we need to take something out of, we’ve slid down the the league enough, the last thing we want at this stage is a decent gap opening up between 3rd and 4th.

The opening day of the season was a cracking match, and Stenny have proved to be a good side on both occasions we have seen them this season.

Sure to be a good game, would be happy with a point and delighted with all 3.

Agree need to start picking up points and no where would be better than to get all 3 points at Ochilview to go into 3rd spot with a game in hand. 

We really need to start scoring goals as we have lost the knack of putting the ball in the net whilst being unable to keep a clean sheet at the other end so fingers crossed we start the New Year with our strikers finding their scoring boots. 

Fancy our chances of getting the 3 points tomorrow to kick start our season again, lose and we face moving down the League depending on how results go elsewhere. 

Prediction Stenny 1 Albion 2   :thumsup2

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To be honest Jake, it’s a game we need to take something out of, we’ve slid down the the league enough, the last thing we want at this stage is a decent gap opening up between 3rd and 4th.

The opening day of the season was a cracking match, and Stenny have proved to be a good side on both occasions we have seen them this season.

Sure to be a good game, would be happy with a point and delighted with all 3.


It certainly is. We cant afford to slip further behind or afford slipping out the play offs. Quite confident for this one, hopefully the team don't disappoint.

McGuigan is their danger man, mark him out the game and we should be fine.
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Today’s encounter was a reasonably entertaining match that Stenhousemuir deserved to win, but it was far more anxious a finish than it ever needed to be thanks to a horrendous error from Chris Smith. How on earth he fumbled a 25-yard daisycutter – struck right at him, no less – straight into the path of Darren Smith to pull one back, only he’ll know. It certainly made for a nervy finish, that’s for sure. Smith has his qualities but he’s looked pretty error prone over the last few months (think back to his horror show against Annan Athletic) and it might be the right time to give young Lewis McMinn a shot.

Anyway. Sorry to begin on a negative, but it took the shine off an otherwise fine Stenhousemuir performance. There isn’t much worth writing about from the first half – Stenny had a decent 10-minute spell, then Stirling Albion had a decent 10-minute spell, then it became 25 minutes of head tennis – but the second half was good fun. 

The Binos will be hugely disappointed with their defending for Jimmy Scott’s opener. Alan Cook’s corner kick flew into the box but was not sufficiently cleared – it bounced around towards Scott who had time to control it inside the six-yard box and swing his shot low into the net. A perfect way to begin the second half!

It got even better five minutes later. Mark McGuigan did brilliantly to hold up the ball inside the penalty box before laying it off to Ross Meechan at the edge of the area. Meechan ran onto the ball and, with his left foot, curled a magnificent shot into the far corner of the net. What a moment, what a player! It was a superb goal and one that reminded me of Fabio Grosso’s strike for Italy against Germany in the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup. I'm looking forward to seeing it again in the match highlights.

From that point on, it was pretty comfortable for the home side. Harry Paton and Mark Ferry kept things ticking over in the middle of the park (and the former had a great chance to score, swapping passes with Alan Cook before waltzing into the penalty area only to keel over at the crucial moment), the back four held firm and McGuigan looked to noise up the Binos centre-backs whenever presented with the opportunity. 

Stirling didn’t really do much in the second half. The late consolation goal aside, I can’t remember them doing anything of note and I never really felt troubled by them. There were some nice passages of play here and there in the second half and, for the best part, they looked to pass the ball around, but they lacked any real cutting edge. What has happened to them? Since losing to the Warriors at the end of October they’ve won just one game and slumped out of the top four.

As for Stenny, the result has given us a small cushion in third place allows us to draw closer with Montrose at the top of the table. All in all, a good way to begin 2018.

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Well played Stenhousemuir. Much more comfortable than the final score suggests, and as FF says, only Chris Smith error in the 90th minute gave Stirling any hope.

First half we had a fair few chances, including one where McGuigan was presented with an empty net having rounded the keeper but chose not to shoot. Couple of decent saves and last gasp blocks prevented us going in one or two to the good. It has been the story of this season. Dominating teams but not taking chances. Thankfully, our dominance of the first half continued into the 2nd and we finally got the goals we deserved.

It really was an easy win. Stirling were as bad as any team I’ve seen this season. They offered nothing and seem to be a real team in decline.

Will be an interesting game on Saturday.

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Absolutely gutless performance by The Albion today, as poor as we were at any part of the Stuart McLaren era.

I’m not going to take anything away from Stenny, as FF said they played well as a team, and were well organised, but in truth, that result really did flatter us.

We had Cammy Binnie to thank in the First Half for pulling off some decent saves and ironically, as has been mentioned, we had Chris Smith to thank in the Second Half for dropping something of a clanger for us to score, but as I said above, Stenny could and probably should of been 3 or 4 goals up by that point.

Callumn Morrison had to go off with a bad ankle after being stamped on by Alan Cook, I’m not sure how the lineman missed something that happened right in front of him, but what was more disappointing was the fact that our players were unable to get him involved in the game.

Our play was so laboured and disjointed. We pressed in 1’s and 2’s rather than as a team. Nobody was willing to get stuck in, even when either goal went in, there seemed to be no leadership or urgency on the park, we just seem to plod about, tunnel visioned in going forward, unwilling to put a challenge in whilst Defending, or at times, close players down. As I said, it reeked of how we played under Stuart McLaren.

There was no width to our play, McNeill and Noble were constantly up against 2 players and I lost count of the amount of over laps that Stenny managed to create on both wings. Long balls up to MacDonald......why? He never won one all game and we played right into the Dunlop brothers hands, but we kept doing it as Mackay seemed clueless to change it.

I’m not going to go on and on, but I could. Dave Mackay needs to get back to the drawing board and stop this slump because that’s simply not good enough and he’ll know it. Players, who are good, are letting him and the fans down. We are now out of the Play Offs and if we keep up this level of play then we’ll be back down slugging it out with the bottom 3 or 4 teams to finish 7th again.

I’m stunned at how much a team full of energy and effort have turned into this in only a few short months.

Well done Stenny, you deserved that today.

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1 minute ago, beaver1 said:

How much did Wally pay you?

:whistle  

 

Reason behind the camera not working is I was trying to record at a higher quality than usual and the camera kept freezing. I have less footage than I thought I had.

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A comfortable afternoon turned into a nervy finish and I must agree with FF and previous posters, Chris Smith has cost us a right few goals recently , as well as yesterday  we`ve had clangers at Annan , Edinburgh and Cowdenbeath . The big man will have to get a grip and start commanding his box  .At times he reminds me of my old subbuteo keeper almost glued to the line . Ross Meechans goal was a cracker . Massive game on Saturday .They seem to have hit a bit of form and scoring a few but we have had the Indian sign on them for a while. Let`s hope it continues.This league is starting to get very interesting.

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Poor performance yesterday from the Albion, once Stenny got in front the writing was on the walls for us and the second goal killed off the game for us despite getting a late consolation goal. 

We need to get out of this slump asap if we have to any chance of making the playoffs this year. Just hope Dave MacKay gets a few new faces in certain areas, otherwise its mid table for us again this year. 

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