kleinfaethetoon Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I totally agree that a return to a positive passing game would be a great start but the BOD have my utmost sympathy when it comes to trying to rekindle the enthusiasm of the missing "400".It only takes the temperature to dip a few degrees and the rain to start at 2.15 and the momentous 10 minute walk to the ground or the 5 minute car trip is too much for some.The same ones will be the first to criticise if the club returns to PT status. One thing the BOD need to do if they haven’t already is to try and find a way to re-connect with the people of dumfries. As when talking to some people they appears to be a lot of negativity for whatever reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingfaetheSooth Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 49 minutes ago, kleinfaethetoon said: One thing the BOD need to do if they haven’t already is to try and find a way to re-connect with the people of dumfries. As when talking to some people they appears to be a lot of negativity for whatever reason. I asked earlier and nobody could tell me why the current Chairman and Board are not connecting with the businesses and people in D&G. For all their faults, Rae and Blount senior had an element of charisma and seemed to hav a rapport with fans and locals for a while. One of the issues might be that we no longer have an experienced full-time Commercial team. JT and his ex-wife had their successes and failures but were at least tried to make things happen. Is the young lad, Dan Armstrong, still charged with heading up the club's commercial operation or does it fall to someone else? The key question that should be asked of the Board at the forthcoming AGM, is what is the plan for the future growth of the football club. Is there a plan to rebuild the new stand and get more revenue streams? They have done well with the Arena and KGV, is this working as well as it can or is there scope for more income? How about a Queen of the South business club where local businesses and individuals can network together? This works well elsewhere and can be a good avenue for building contacts and ultimately revenue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleinfaethetoon Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I asked earlier and nobody could tell me why the current Chairman and Board are not connecting with the businesses and people in D&G. For all their faults, Rae and Blount senior had an element of charisma and seemed to hav a rapport with fans and locals for a while. One of the issues might be that we no longer have an experienced full-time Commercial team. JT and his ex-wife had their successes and failures but were at least tried to make things happen. Is the young lad, Dan Armstrong, still charged with heading up the club's commercial operation or does it fall to someone else? The key question that should be asked of the Board at the forthcoming AGM, is what is the plan for the future growth of the football club. Is there a plan to rebuild the new stand and get more revenue streams? They have done well with the Arena and KGV, is this working as well as it can or is there scope for more income? How about a Queen of the South business club where local businesses and individuals can network together? This works well elsewhere and can be a good avenue for building contacts and ultimately revenue. I have never heard a definitive reason why people I have spoken with no longer attend matches, mostly the answer is ‘not interested’ or ‘club has little ambition’ personally I have never heard direct negative comments aimed at any individual BOD member. From a personal view point it may help if the BOD laid out a 5 year plan on club ambitions and when the ground will get tidied as it’s a disgrace at the moment 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I have never heard a definitive reason why people I have spoken with no longer attend matches, mostly the answer is ‘not interested’ or ‘club has little ambition’ personally I have never heard direct negative comments aimed at any individual BOD member. From a personal view point it may help if the BOD laid out a 5 year plan on club ambitions and when the ground will get tidied as it’s a disgrace at the moment Would be interesting to see what the 5 year plan is. If there is one. Sent from my SM-A520F using Pie and Bovril mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steeplechat Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I suggest you go and watch the performances against Rangers particularly the 3-0 mauling in April - best complete team performance I have ever seen - as well as the 2-0 in the December. prior. You will not be able to deny the slick, pacy, incisive and attractive football on display there. Not forgetting the play-off performance at Ibrox. The move for the opener there - to equalise in the tie - was superb and took no more than 30 seconds, The only time the ball was in the air was Danny's superb cross expertly headed home by Del Boy. These were not isolated performances by the way. I often watch these games to remind how good we were then. A bitter-sweet experience now. Naysmith does not approach football that way which makes it a chore to watch - even with Dobbie. In fact, Naysmith's incompetence is masked by Dobbie and his goals. Without him we would be fighting to avoid the relegation play-off spot. Hello Nithvalley 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 6 hours ago, Nithsdale Wanderer said: I suggest you go and watch the performances against Rangers particularly the 3-0 mauling in April - best complete team performance I have ever seen - as well as the 2-0 in the December. prior. You will not be able to deny the slick, pacy, incisive and attractive football on display there. Not forgetting the play-off performance at Ibrox. The move for the opener there - to equalise in the tie - was superb and took no more than 30 seconds, The only time the ball was in the air was Danny's superb cross expertly headed home by Del Boy. These were not isolated performances by the way. I often watch these games to remind how good we were then. A bitter-sweet experience now. Naysmith does not approach football that way which makes it a chore to watch - even with Dobbie. In fact, Naysmith's incompetence is masked by Dobbie and his goals. Without him we would be fighting to avoid the relegation play-off spot. Well done for cherry-picking our best season in recent memory. There's nothing wrong with aspiring to be as good as that again, but lets not pretend that was the norm. In fact the man who was in charge for those performances was (harshly in my opinion) let go the following season, with one of the main criticisms being that his football was turgid. It's almost as if there is a connection between the quality of players a team has, and the quality of football on show. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 It's been done to death this discussion. I don't expect a classy passing game at Palmerston but I don't think we should have to settle for the route 1 dross we've been dished up on several occasions this season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumfries Boy(new acc) Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) If we are talking about performances,I was having dreams about that Dunfermline performance for weeks after.Fast,slick passing that kept carving a (albeit poor on the day)Dunfermline side open. ETA:Not relevant atall to anything being said,just thought I'd say Edited February 15, 2018 by Dumfries Boy(new acc) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I have no doubts that this current squad would be just as successful at that level. Nicky Clark scored 40 goals, can you imagine how many Dobbie would get? 41Sent from my SM-A520F using Pie and Bovril mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOTS Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 3 hours ago, QoS_1919 said: 41 Sent from my SM-A520F using Pie and Bovril mobile app Clark scored 41 goals in the 2012-13 season.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Clark scored 41 goals in the 2012-13 season.... I know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGdavieT Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 If we are talking about performances,I was having dreams about that Dunfermline performance for weeks after.Fast,slick passing that kept carving a (albeit poor on the day)Dunfermline side open. ETA:Not relevant atall to anything being said,just thought I'd say It is relevant as it shows we are capable of big performances this season. We just lack consistency and are unable to do that week in week out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGdavieT Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I suggest you go and watch the performances against Rangers particularly the 3-0 mauling in April - best complete team performance I have ever seen - as well as the 2-0 in the December. prior. You will not be able to deny the slick, pacy, incisive and attractive football on display there. Not forgetting the play-off performance at Ibrox. The move for the opener there - to equalise in the tie - was superb and took no more than 30 seconds, The only time the ball was in the air was Danny's superb cross expertly headed home by Del Boy. These were not isolated performances by the way. I often watch these games to remind how good we were then. A bitter-sweet experience now. Naysmith does not approach football that way which makes it a chore to watch - even with Dobbie. In fact, Naysmith's incompetence is masked by Dobbie and his goals. Without him we would be fighting to avoid the relegation play-off spot. It’s a bit silly to use that season as an example. We got lucky with a few of the young players all reaching a good level at the same time, complemented with others in form such as Lyle.We are not going to be able to put a squad like that together very often even with excellent stewardship at the club.We were also unlucky in the sense that any normal championship season that would’ve been a title winning/challenging team. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 A wee bit of talk here about 2012-13 team.So, if we could pick a starting 11 from that team and this season's what would yours be? And for arguments sake, let's go by the players from 2012-13 on how they're doing now i:e I'd have Gav over Clark on the basis of this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Martin Mitchell DurnanFordyce Holt Burns Young McKenna Thomas Reilly Dobbie Haven't done it for how they are playing just now, just done it hypothetically. Doing that has just made me even more depressed when I look at our current midfield. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Martin Mitchell DurnanFordyce Holt Burns Young McKenna Thomas Reilly Dobbie Haven't done it for how they are playing just now, just done it hypothetically. Doing that has just made me even more depressed when I look at our current midfield. And now I'm depressed! Is that a midfield 3 of Young, McKenna and Young and then Thomas in front? Just because I like all 3 in the middle and they were always more effective in there. Also, I was thinking the other day that imagine we had Gav, Clark and Dobbie all up front? One can only dream! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Flat four. I'd have loved two Young's but I'll settle for Burns at RM [emoji14] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 10 hours ago, 19QOS19 said: Martin Mitchell Durnan Fordyce Holt Burns Young McKenna Thomas Reilly Dobbie Haven't done it for how they are playing just now, just done it hypothetically. Doing that has just made me even more depressed when I look at our current midfield. Interested in how you have rated the keepers. If not as they are doing now then what were your thoughts. Robinson was great in 12-13 and in terms of good displays for QOS is some way ahead of Martin for me. Martin may yet prove to be the better keeper of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Interested in how you have rated the keepers. If not as they are doing now then what were your thoughts. Robinson was great in 12-13 and in terms of good displays for QOS is some way ahead of Martin for me. Martin may yet prove to be the better keeper of course. Tbh it could be either of them for me. I wasn't one of Robinson's haters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Derek Young Stephen Dobbie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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