Clyde Season 23/24

[SLClyde]

Think it only leaves Liam Scullion and Kabia to sign. Would be hoping Scullion signs as he’s become an important player for us, Kabia was good in flashes and does have quality, would need to see it a bit more regularly but not against him staying. 

[David W]

For me, McCall and his team staying tells us everything we need to know. He isn't going to be hanging around if there's not guarantees in place that we will be strengthening considerably.

Whilst accepting you need low maintenance squad players, I don't fully understand Hynes retention (at least there's no questions about his effort and dig) and there are definite questions about others but it's a very strong start. Tying up a competent goalie early doors is always key and Kinnear will definitely save us more points than he costs us.

I'm surprised Houston is only 24; I thought he had been around for ages. Should be a decent player at this level.

Hopefully some stadium news soon to fully convince me we are finally heading in the right direction.

[Skyline Drifter]

12 hours ago, the_bully_wee said:

A specialist full-back! Wow!

I anticipate that we will hear from QOS fans that Houston is shite, but then they'd the same to say of John Rankin so I think we can just wait and see. If he's got pace then that's half the battle.

You won't hear that he was shite. Most of us liked him a lot. You will hear that he's rarely fit but very decent when he is, which is what the Ayr fans told us when we signed him. They were right. Hopefully part time training will lead to you seeing more of him than we did.

Incidentally, water under the bridge now but John Rankin's first six months with us were excellent. Exactly what we needed at the time. He went on a season too far at full time football though probably, certainly at Championship level. Outstandingly good captain but by his last six months not playing well enough to warrant a place on the pitch. I assume when he stepped down to part time he'd have still done fine for a year or two.

11 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:

Be lying if I said he was. Think that's a cracking signing for Clyde tbh. I can only assume he's planning his life outside football now as I'd have taken him back FT happily. That or the injuries are better suited to PT football. 

If he stays fit he should absolutely breeze it in L2 as IMO he was pretty solid for us. No idea why Bartley kept him out the side, particularly when more often than not his replacement was pretty shit. 

I hope it works out for him and he stays fit because he was never lacking in effort tbh and given how shite we were last season he was never close to being one of our worst performers. 

You've answered your own question there. He was rarely fit and for a 24 year old to be going part time now when it's clearly not abililty based probably tells you all you need to know. Hopefully dropping to training twice a week will see him able to play more games as it did with Nicky Low for a few years. Smashing guy, hope it works out for him. He's obviously worked with McCall before and that will be a factor.

[Clyde_MM]

Lewis Stevenson will round this defence out nicely when he signs.

Slightly concerned that an LS7 renewal hasn't been announced though.

[Brian Carrigan]

2 minutes ago, Clyde_MM said:

Slightly concerned that an LS7 renewal hasn't been announced though.

You'd hope that he just wasn't available for the photocall for whatever reason. However, I'd be surprised if it was a holiday given we didn't know we weren't going to be participating in the playoffs until ten days ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had an offer from a League 1 club such as Alloa or Stenny and you certainly wouldn't begrudge him stepping up. I feel like with the general feeling around the club and how important a player he became for us, coupled with how well McCall handled him after 'the incident', he'd be more inclined to stay for a potential crack at the title.

[FREDDYFRY]

I guess Scullion will be testing the water to see if a full time offer comes along, personally I think he will be lucky to get one. Obviously be delighted if he stays but I’m not convinced he is actually good enough for the  full time clubs in his radar. 
Good luck to him if he does get the opportunity.
Daft question; but would we get a development fee, what age is he?

[Clyde_MM]

2 minutes ago, Brian Carrigan said:

You'd hope that he just wasn't available for the photocall for whatever reason. However, I'd be surprised if it was a holiday given we didn't know we weren't going to be participating in the playoffs until ten days ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had an offer from a League 1 club such as Alloa or Stenny and you certainly wouldn't begrudge him stepping up. I feel like with the general feeling around the club and how important a player he became for us, coupled with how well McCall handled him after 'the incident', he'd be more inclined to stay for a potential crack at the title.

He'd certainly leave with my best wishes. Took several steps up and it showed to begin with but I'd say by the last half/quarter of his first season he had turned into an important player for the club.

I think an opportunity to work his way into Alloa's squad and have a promotion tilt would be enticing.

He'd get game time for the likes of Stenny and would be a good signing for them. Just feel you'd surely fancy staying here and having a shot at promotion rather than a third consecutive season fighting relegation?

I fancy Stenny to really toil next season. Think it was 1 win in their last 13 this year? They have a good core to the team there but I think the likes of Buchanan and Wedderburn will be found out in League 1. Given it's their first ever title as well, I suspect their recruitment will be very sentimental this summer i.e. their squad will look very similar next season. If he left for Stenny, I'd probably expect to see him back in League 2 in 25-26.

[Clyde_MM]

8 minutes ago, FREDDYFRY said:

I guess Scullion will be testing the water to see if a full time offer comes along, personally I think he will be lucky to get one. Obviously be delighted if he stays but I’m not convinced he is actually good enough for the  full time clubs in his radar. 
Good luck to him if he does get the opportunity.
Daft question; but would we get a development fee, what age is he?

He's 22, signed for us at 20. Not sure about a development fee either way.

[Kelheart]

On 05/05/2024 at 22:03, Bullyweeno1 said:

If the season was over the last 18 games then we would have finished top which includes 4 disasters performances against (Stranraer, Forfar (2) and Elgin) so dont think there is much change needdc to win the league next year. 

Edinburgh City will be coming down and will likely be at the bottom end next year and Stirling Albion may put up a bit of a challenge.

Unlike the last couple of seasons would look to hold onto most of the squad and just add better quality with new additions.

Keep

Kinnear

Lyon

Hamilton

Dunachie

Howie

Sula

Leitch

Cuddihy

L Scullion

R Grant

Ballantyne

Kabia

Rennie

Young

Allan

 

Return to Parent Club

Leslie

King

McGinn

 

Release

Parry

P Grant

McCulloch

Cameron (obviously)

Hynes

 

Cant comment on reserve goalie Kennedy as not seen play.

 

So probably means space for 7 or 8 new additions.  RB and LB, 2 wingers, 2 forwards, someone creative just off forwards.

 

As for potential names

Havent a clue about 2 full backs.  But as long as they can stop a cross and deliver a cross will do for me.

Like the winger that plays for East Fife .

For forwards 2 from; Elgins big number 9 that played yesterday has always caused us problems, even though fouls all the time Stenny's no9 Matty Aitken, or perhaps Blair Henderson from Spartans or  Nathan Austin from East Fife.

For the pocket somone like Dylan Easton.  Like Spartans player Rhys Armstrong.

If EC can keep all their players I don't think they will be at the bottom , they are actually really decent and will cause teams a few headaches , most of their games there wasn't a lot in it , just a wee heads up neeb

[Glorious Purpose]

6 minutes ago, Kelheart said:

If EC can keep all their players I don't think they will be at the bottom , they are actually really decent and will cause teams a few headaches , most of their games there wasn't a lot in it , just a wee heads up neeb

Was one of these players not an unift, semi-retired goalkeeper that was playing outfield?  Others included a forward from Bonnyrigg converted to a midfield role and another forward that has hardly set the world on fire whilst at the teams that finish 9th and 10th in the League Two last season.  Those players?  I don't know enough about the young players they had to rely on but at this moment in time, it's unthinkable that they will be anywhere other than close to the bottom. 

Edited May 14 by Glorious Purpose

[Quentin Taranbino]

What's Danny Lennon like as a manager? Would he be a good fit for Stirling?

[SLClyde]

8 minutes ago, Quentin Taranbino said:

What's Danny Lennon like as a manager? Would he be a good fit for Stirling?

As long as he’s not doing the recruitment. For every one good signing there will be 2 or 3 poor ones. 
 

As a manager I think he’s excellent, he’ll get the most out of the players and his record speaks for itself. You could do worse. 

[Fast_Action]

1 hour ago, SLClyde said:

As long as he’s not doing the recruitment. For every one good signing there will be 2 or 3 poor ones. 
 

As a manager I think he’s excellent, he’ll get the most out of the players and his record speaks for itself. You could do worse. 

I would echo that first bit entirely.  Leave the recruitment to someone else.  as far as recruitment was concerned, a lot was masked by the sheer brilliance of David Goodwillie.  But yes, he will get a lot out of the players that are there.   

[Clyde_MM]

2 hours ago, Quentin Taranbino said:

What's Danny Lennon like as a manager? Would he be a good fit for Stirling?

Danny is a great guy, still popular at the club despite how things ended. He would have you trying to play entertaining passing football but showed when we were in League One that, if this wasn't working, he could tweak the tactics to tighten things up.

His signings at League 2 level for us were mostly really good tbh. In League 1, however, he constantly assembled squads in the summer that were inadequate, though did sufficiently address things in January. He is also hellbent on signing guys to play fullback who either don't play there or are woeful.

Basically, his bizarrely shit recruitment hamstrings his excellent in-game and man management. I suspect you could do much worse than him though.

[Brian Carrigan]

13 hours ago, Quentin Taranbino said:

What's Danny Lennon like as a manager? Would he be a good fit for Stirling?

Amazing man manager. Great guy. Terrible with recruitment. He once signed three left backs in a window and still ended up playing a centre midfielder there.

Saying that, he started out well and put together a very good League 2 team with Chris McStay, Ray Grant, David Mitchell, John Rankin etc. Once we got to League 1 it went off a cliff and he couldn't replace the bodies that moved on to the point where we were operating with a bottom end League 2 standard squad in League 1. In his defence, the entire club was completely rotten by the time he left. It wasn't helped by his poor recruitment but he wasn't the biggest issue.

He might even still fancy playing in centre midfield!

I was quite surprised that Stirling and Darren Young have parted ways, as Darren seems a dab hand at getting teams out of League 2.

[Bully Wee Clyde FC]

13 hours ago, SLClyde said:

As long as he’s not doing the recruitment. For every one good signing there will be 2 or 3 poor ones. 
 

As a manager I think he’s excellent, he’ll get the most out of the players and his record speaks for itself. You could do worse. 

I thought we, latterly, had "a recruitment team".  We still signed absolute warmers.

[Clyde85]

Still got a lot of time for Danny but he tarnished his legacy a bit by staying too long. We should have parted ways after the Clydebank defeat.

[dave_binos]

16 hours ago, SLClyde said:

As long as he’s not doing the recruitment. For every one good signing there will be 2 or 3 poor ones. 
 

As a manager I think he’s excellent, he’ll get the most out of the players and his record speaks for itself. You could do worse. 

Spoke to him a couple of times. Loved his time at Clyde. You had a brilliant team at League 2 level with the likes of Ray Grant, Scott Banks, Tom Lang, Chris McStay, McNiff having a brilliant season at full back and various others.  Hopefully his wee break out the game will have done him some good. Got a feeling he will apply. 

[Brian Carrigan]

19 minutes ago, dave_binos said:

You had a brilliant team at League 2 level with the likes of Ray Grant, Scott Banks, Tom Lang, Chris McStay, McNiff having a brilliant season at full back and various others.  

                       - Currie -

- Cuddihy - Cogill - Lang - McNiff - 

       - Rankin - McStay - Grant -

  - Syvertsen - Goodwillie - Banks -

Not sure if we ever managed to get that exact 11 on the park but what a team btw!

[Clyde85]

Syvertsen was made of LEGO .