[wellibob]

with savage suspended (always good for a goal v stenny). moffat, mckenzie, thwysen & kelly possibly all out, i fear for the worst in this game. If we play simpson up front on his own we will never score and with oates & king at the back, we will conceed barrow loads. hopefully its not a 4-5-1 formation. Our only option for a striker other than simpson is brownlieand he cant do the holding role. we need to go 4-4-2 and try and hold out for a 0-0.
Ideal option is to get totally hammered and not really see what goes on on the park & not be able to remember the game.
Stenny better open the away end after last game fiasco.

[dubs]

Strangely enough I don't have a good feeling about this either but thats just cause I'm pretty pessimistic.

If we play like we did against East Fife we will win comfortably, if we play like we did against Elgin we will lose heavily.

Both teams probably without their best player for this one, or at least Shires most dangerous (basically worth a goal a game against us) whilst we are without Gordon Lennon, a cut above at this level.

I will miss the game as I am working which is fucking gutting.

2-1 Warriors

This post has been edited by dubya: 01 January 2008 - 14:44

[Alloa_Shire]

I think the Tonkas will win this game tomorrow, for the reasons you state Willibob. The Forfar game is more important now so fingers crossed we get these new guys in before that one.

[Vintex]

Thwysen gone to Garmischpartenkirchen? Its good for Joe to cool off a little and some for Forfar, anyway I think wer gonna do well vs. Stenny, theyre jus crapy home team, and they got game against Urawa comin soon. Seriously, Shire will be jus fine.

[kompressaur]

Lennon aside will Stenhousemuir be that much changed from the teams that beat East Fife and Stranraer? They cost me last week when i disregarded their injury situation. Is it bad?

thanks

edit: Gibson from Partick will be on from the start and ok at this level again wont he?

This post has been edited by kompressaur: 02 January 2008 - 08:59

[Neilly]

Gibson doesn't look fit. Would imagine Dalziel will come right in for Dempster.

Lennon will be a massive miss to us as much as Shire will miss Savage.

This is anyone's game.

Fancy us to win 4-0 though.

[Jeggburt]

Neilly, on Jan 2 2008, 11:42, said:

This is anyone's game.

Fancy us to win 4-0 though.

Perhaps the biggest contradiction ever...

I don't fancy this game to be honest, something in my waters...


...could be that urinary infection

[dubs]

Jeggburt, on Jan 2 2008, 13:43, said:

Perhaps the biggest contradiction ever...

Well spotted.

[The Arch]

kompressaur, on Jan 2 2008, 08:59, said:

edit: Gibson from Partick will be on from the start and ok at this level again wont he?

Which Gibson would that be? We've had many to choose from past few years but only one remains

Andy Gibson who is at Stranraer
Graeme Gibson who was released in the summer - Peter Crouch's brother
Jimmy Gibson - our captain who never plays

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child]

Not a bad start for Scott Dalziel, 2 goals in the first 15 minutes of his debut.

[Fudge]

We played poorly and won 3-0.

I'm gutted my opponent for the penalty competition didn't turn up. I'm sure the Shire fans would have given me a warm welcome.

[Vintex]

Penaltys against us r - us.

[Jeggburt]

Does Scott Dalziel know how to stay on his feet? Everytime the ball came to him, he fell to the floor.

Three goals handed onto Stenny's plate. I counted 4 shots on the Shire goal in the first half, from Stenny and they scored 3 of them. Yet again, we're giving teams head starts and it has to stop.

On the plus side, the side's play in 2nd half was encouraging and if Marc had put his chance away right at the start of the half, it would have been a more entertaining game.

First time I've been in the terracing at Ochildump, it's got good acoustics, I'll give it that. Shame we only heard the Stenny fans when Dalziel went off the pitch...

[dubs]

Jeggburt, on Jan 2 2008, 18:35, said:

Does Scott Dalziel know how to stay on his feet? Everytime the ball came to him, he fell to the floor.

Three goals handed onto Stenny's plate. I counted 4 shots on the Shire goal in the first half, from Stenny and they scored 3 of them. Yet again, we're giving teams head starts and it has to stop.

On the plus side, the side's play in 2nd half was encouraging and if Marc had put his chance away right at the start of the half, it would have been a more entertaining game.

First time I've been in the terracing at Ochildump, it's got good acoustics, I'll give it that. Shame we only heard the Stenny fans when Dalziel went off the pitch...

So lets get this straight, we played utter shit yet we reamed you comfortably. How bad does that make you?

Yet another singing jibe. We can't all start drinking at 6am and get tanked up for the biggest game of the season (for yous anyway) - enjoy the battle for 9th. Money well spent eh.

GIRFUY

[The Minertaur]

Stevie Aitken, on Jan 2 2008, 15:25, said:

Not a bad start for Scott Dalziel, 2 goals in the first 15 minutes of his debut.

Pretty much like his Cowden league debut!

[Francesc Fabregas]

Game of two halves today. In the first half hour of the first half, every time we went forward, we looked like scoring. I was really impressed with Scott Dalziel, looked very quick and I like the way he plays, just off the shoulder, gives us plenty of options. He tired a bit towards the end of the game, but I guess he's a bit unfit at the moment.

The penalty was a definite penalty - DL charged into the box and was clearly tripped by the #4 (who was total murder the 45 minutes he was on the pitch). I thought his second goal was going over the bar until it dipped late on and fell into the net. Willie Lyle's goal was a total beauty and one of the best I've seen us score this season.

For the first twenty five minutes of the second half, Shire were all over us and we couldn't get the ball out of our own half. They had two excellent chances to claw back the deficit, Marc McKenzie missing from three yards and Andy Brand (first time I've seen him this season, looks a class act all the way) hitting the bar. The game died out towards the end, but I reckon over the piece we deserved our win.

Most of our players had good games, although we really missed Lennon at the back. Thom and Gilbride looked OK for most of the match, but Thom seems to want to shepard the ball out a lot of the time rather than hoofing it out of play. He was caught out a few times too.

Good to see we have signed "the new Jim Mercer" too.

[The Minertaur]

Francesc Fabregas, on Jan 3 2008, 00:33, said:

I was really impressed with Scott Dalziel, looked very quick and I like the way he plays, just off the shoulder, gives us plenty of options. He tired a bit towards the end of the game, but I guess he's a bit unfit at the moment.

Scotts a good player and will do really well for Stenny - he always gives 100% and should score a lot of goals for you. He will be a bit unfit no doubt - never given a good chance at Cowden. Made more sub appearances than starts for us and will need too get his fitness up.

[Francesc Fabregas]

Unless anyone else comes in (which I doubt), he'll be the guy we'll look to to lead the line for us, so we'll need him fully fit. He'd look even better if he had someone up with him to thread balls through to. Like the look of DL already!

[Love_Machine]

I had a personal circumstance to attend to so i couldn't be at the game, but the scoreline doesn't surprise me at all. Actually thought we would get hurt a lot more than that the way we have been playing. Just means that our season could well depend on Forfar, who may think the 3rd time is a charm.

At least Stenny opened the terracing this time round, and good to see Dubya being friendly as ever.

[Jeggburt]

dubya, on Jan 2 2008, 20:16, said:

Yet another singing jibe. We can't all start drinking at 6am and get tanked up for the biggest game of the season (for yous anyway) - enjoy the battle for 9th. Money well spent eh.

GIRFUY

Aww, want me to put your toys back into your pram for you?

[Jeggburt]

Francesc Fabregas, on Jan 3 2008, 00:33, said:

The penalty was a definite penalty - DL charged into the box and was clearly tripped by the #4 (who was total murder the 45 minutes he was on the pitch). I thought his second goal was going over the bar until it dipped late on and fell into the net. Willie Lyle's goal was a total beauty and one of the best I've seen us score this season.

Actually, Carl Thywissen pulled back DL and should have left him because he was going away from goal, a needless foul to give away, there was no trip.

His 2nd goal was put into the place he had to aim for, to be honest, good finish though. Michael Brown couldn't kick the ball out at all, something your keeper had no problem with. Just a fraction of a second before the third was put in I remember shouting at the Shire to stop standing back and admiring your lot, and BOOM, 3-0.

The Shire were nothing but pure unadulterated pish in the first half and deserved to be losing. Paul Doyle kept farting around in his own penalty area. I've never seen a central defender with so little mobility.

Francesc Fabregas, on Jan 3 2008, 00:33, said:

For the first twenty five minutes of the second half, Shire were all over us and we couldn't get the ball out of our own half. They had two excellent chances to claw back the deficit, Marc McKenzie missing from three yards and Andy Brand (first time I've seen him this season, looks a class act all the way) hitting the bar. The game died out towards the end, but I reckon over the piece we deserved our win.

You didn't exactly work hard for your goals although the 3rd was a decent passage of play. Too many "if only's" on our part though to make more of a game out of it.

Enjoyed half time, one of the subs warming up tried to boot the ball in the air and he fired it out the ground - fantastic and Hillcoat warming up in front of us gave us no end of entertainment as well. Bless Brown though for the abuse he took from us in the 2nd half though, he handled it well until he faffed up a couple of back passes.

We need to seriously get our act together and play for 90 minutes, the way we played the 2nd half though.

[Aloysius Snuffleupagus]

Francesc Fabregas, on Jan 3 2008, 00:33, said:

Good to see we have signed "the new Jim Mercer" too.

Now, let me see....what could a new Jim Mercer be like?

• Did he look like Adonis in a football strip, and the ideal poster boy for the Warriors programme, yet was completely unable to trap a ball?
  
• Was he 6ft 4, but 4ft 6 when he jumped?
  
• Did he fail to move for 89 mins, but then amazingly banged in the winner?
  
• Or, was he reading the Racing Post in the warm-up?

There's only one Jim Mercer - all others are pale imitations

[Francesc Fabregas]

Aloysius Snuffleupagus, on Jan 3 2008, 11:16, said:

Now, let me see....what could a new Jim Mercer be like?

• Did he look like Adonis in a football strip, and the ideal poster boy for the Warriors programme, yet was completely unable to trap a ball?
  
• Was he 6ft 4, but 4ft 6 when he jumped?
  
• Did he fail to move for 89 mins, but then amazingly banged in the winner?
  
• Or, was he reading the Racing Post in the warm-up?

There's only one Jim Mercer - all others are pale imitations

Yeah man, the first two points you describe pretty much sum up our new man Graeme "Gabbo" Gibson. The new Slim Jim Mercer. Balls played into him at 5mph cannoned off his shins and despite his 6'7" frame, he seemed unable to win or go for headers against opponents one foot shorter than him.

He didn't really have many chances to score, and I'm not sure what Gabbo's choice in literature is, but he's the new Slim Jim Mercer, he "gives us something different" when we're playing.

[BAIRNFICA BOSS]

Things are looking bleak for The Shire now...

[Neilly]

Jeggburt, on Jan 2 2008, 13:43, said:

Perhaps the biggest contradiction ever...

I don't fancy this game to be honest, something in my waters...


...could be that urinary infection

It was a joke lad.

It was obvious we would pump you.

Look at the season we are having. We have played dreadfully most of the time and are in the play offs whilst little Shire are having their best season for years and are still not on our radar.

East Stirlingshire - insignificant.

Albion Rovers - the next victim.