Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 2-4 Gemmell gets a goal back.85 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seenitall Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, Deanburn Dave said: 2-4 Gemmell gets a goal back.85 mins. Here we go again , throwing away cup ties . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 Ended 2-4. Piss poor. Cumbernauld United won easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 Rant time.......apologies if it's a rambling mess ...... Having only 2 centre half's on the books bites you on the bum when one of them (Lewis McArthur) is off on his holidays. I have predicted this would happen. Big cup game next week so today was a chance for the back 3 of Musa, Hawkeye and Macaulay to play together and sharpen their communication..... but oh no says Hunter let's play the back up keeper. I think 3 of the goals the back up keeper conceded were unstoppable. He was at fault with one goal but to be honest the 2 centrehalfs could have dealt with it better. Porteous played like a hungover sloth up front. More energy in a lady fart. Mooney, JJ, Tommo and Ward were rank rotten today. Darvel will have a field day next Saturday if we repeat that level of incompetence and effort. #HunterballSucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Darvel are having a 'mare today as well though by the looks of things: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marooneye Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 On 03/09/2023 at 00:55, Marooneye said: How's hunterball going? Ouch. -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Elsewhere: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 14 minutes ago, Marooneye said: Ouch. Ouch indeed. Was always going to be a tricky season with a rookie manager inheriting a team assembled by the uncommitted Little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 It was fairly obvious the Cumbernauld United no 9 was a proper baller and I said I would do some digging...... Looks like its John Cunningham , ex Albion Rovers, Annan, Dumbarton, Alloa......he is 26 but looks much older .......(pot/kettle posts incoming !!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Jones Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 3 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: Darvel are having a 'mare today as well though by the looks of things: Hardly having a mare Darvel are Premier League status, whereas Gretna 2008 are In a league above.Tranent showed in 2021-22 that Darvel are not invincible and Darvel didn’t win the West of Scotland Premier League last year either. Just now they sit 4th in the league. So, give Gretna 3008 the praise they rightly deserve today, as opposed to bowing down to Darvel. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 (edited) Have to assume you are steaming and a-rolling after a post like that. Higher league status doesn't mean anything like as much as it normally would when it was obtained by application rather than promotion and the team in question have already conceded 53 goals after 11 league games. Edited September 16, 2023 by LongTimeLurker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Jones Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Have to assume you are steaming and a-rolling after a post like that. Higher league status doesn't mean anything like as much as it normally would when it was obtained by application rather than promotion and the team in question have already conceded 53 goals after 11 league games. Sorry Mr Knowitall, but not steaming! What do you think gives teams in WoS and EoS (or you) the right to think they only need to turn up on the day of a cup tie and a win is guaranteed? Granted, in the last few years, the team that finishes bottom of the Lowland League has not faired well in the EoS PremierLeague the following year. However that doesn’t mean that all LL teams should be considered as cannon fodder on a one-of cup tie? Yes, clubs in WoS/EoS aspire to beat Lowland League teams whenever they meet, but wins should not be thought of as guaranteed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 If teams turn up for a game and are not really "up for it" they tend to lose. For me that's the major factor in the BU's defeat today. We can only hope that today is a low point and the BU's show bouncebackability for the next game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Swapping keepers and having the captain away on holiday with no experienced cover at centre back does tend to point to this game being taken slightly for granted. Wonder if Darvel were doing a bit of squad rotation because whatever the guy who needs to slow his engine down is claiming above there is every reason to think that Darvel should have been able to beat Gretna today, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Swapping keepers and having the captain away on holiday with no experienced cover at centre back does tend to point to this game being taken slightly for granted. Our Centrehalf situation is poor. We started the season with 2 players who can play the position (Hawkins and McArthur). With any injuries or absences we are now forced into playing the best left back in the Lowland League (my opinion) Keir Macauley as a centrehalf. In Stuart Hunters possible defence when he took over the reins at the club there were a lot of players signed by the previous management team so maybe the money to buy the next "Big Hunts" had run out. It's a poor state of affairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SocialClubEnd Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Hunterbaw . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costa Crookies Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Bad day at the office yesterday, impossible to pick a man off the match for all the wrong reasons. Only one side looked like they wanted to win, and they did. Bo’ness didn’t look like winning from the off. I know they were not the “first team”, but they didn’t look like they had met each other before never mind played together. They didn’t attack quick enough, allowing Cumbernauld to get back every time. The number of crosses, and good crosses at that, that Cumbernauld got in it was inevitable that they were going to score, and only poor finishing kept the score down. Only glimmer of hope at the moment is it’s the same squad that started the season. If we can get back to that then things will improve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted September 17, 2023 Author Share Posted September 17, 2023 Trying to justify that performance by saying it was "Not the first team" is stretching it. 9 of that 11 were probably going to start v Darvel . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costa Crookies Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Deanburn Dave said: Trying to justify that performance by saying it was "Not the first team" is stretching it. 9 of that 11 were probably going to start v Darvel . That’s 50 years of trying to stress the positive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) On 16/09/2023 at 21:49, Deanburn Dave said: If teams turn up for a game and are not really "up for it" they tend to lose. For me that's the major factor in the BU's defeat today. We can only hope that today is a low point and the BU's show bouncebackability for the next game. What also did BU no favours was the delay/pissing about inside or whatever they were doing at half time. Cumbernauld Utd were back out on the pitch warming up for the best part of 5 minutes before BU returned to the field. No surprise then that from the moment the whistle blew to start the second half, BU were immediately on the back foot and looked miles off it. Edited September 18, 2023 by 8MileBU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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