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  1. Right, here goes.....the link below is from yesterday's Glasgow Herald:- http://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/16045367.Dumbarton___s_tax_haven_owners_strike_deal_to_bring_club_onshore/ Lots of uplifting stuff in there and inspiring quotes from Ian Wilson, especially about the Challenge Cup Final. Wilson lives in Coventry, his fellow Brabco Directors Chris Stainton and Callum Hosie live in Leeds and Ormskirk respectively, yet to the best of my knowedge none of them was in attendance at Oswestry last week, despite all of these places being a damned sight nearer Shropshire than Dumbarton. The club Chairman, Les Hope, is on holiday for the month of February so it was left to (unpaid) Directors Colin Hosie and Alan Findlay to do the honours. And you see , that's the thing. There is no battery of folk running DFC, never mind a commercial department, and were it not for the efforts of these two guys assisted by a handful of people we'd barely function at all as a professional football club. This is a matter of simple fact, as is (owners) Brabco's refusal to invest money in the football team, so please bear this in mind, as these few stalwarts will probably bear the brunt of the supporters' anger and frustration for the simple reason that not everyone may be aware of the sitaution, and these guys are the only folk ever likely to be in the firing line. To say it's a far from ideal, never mind ordinary state of affairs is stating the obvious, but if anyone wants to assist in any way towardss making the 24th of March a memorable day for Dumbarton FC I'm sure Colin and Alan would be delighted to hear from you. Finally and for the avoidance of doubt, I have no personal angle to peddle here other than being fed up seeing decent and genuine DFC people having become human shields for chancers with no emotional attachment to our club.
    14 points
  2. Probably won't go down well but I generally class anyone drinking Buckfast as a scumbag.
    7 points
  3. Hard to argue with any of this. Reaching a couple of quarter finals and a top six (finishing below 7th on points) is hardly something to fill up the club’s achievements list. Last season our head to heads with the bottom six helped us rise above the bottom pack. This season they’ve killed us. Even two draws would have had me quite confident of reaching 10th spot but the two last minute defeats have us staring at the playoffs at best, imo. The Manager still doesn’t seem to have a favoured first eleven with constant chopping and changing so far this year. To be fair to him he’s not had that luxury of choice in the past but he needs to settle selection down if we aren’t to slide tamely out of the league. I don’t buy the fitness thing either, possibly a factor but we are being out fought and out thought by opposition teams, not out ran. There certainly seems to be a mental issue too when it comes to seeing out games. This must be smashing the players’ confidence as a result. The perfect shitstorm at this stage of the season. Can Archie sort this out? I genuinely hope so but I’ll not be holding my breath...
    5 points
  4. Just watched it, brilliant!
    4 points
  5. I'm a bit surprised to see booing mentioned, queens fans seemed to react to the match in a very similar manner to the pars fans, quiet grumbles but a general acceptance that we are destined for to be mid-table nobodies waiting for the end of the season when we can hopefully address our issues and be better next year.
    4 points
  6. Drivers who sound there horn when waiting on someone outside a house. Get off your fat lazy arse and go to the door.
    4 points
  7. Can confirm that not only am I annoyed Scotland didn't get the 4th try for the BP, I'm annoyed that it cost me my "Over 4 tries in both games" bet that I actually thought was "4 or more tries in both games". Typical Scotland, glorious failure. GIRFUY England.
    4 points
  8. Folk that throw rubbish out of their cars.
    4 points
  9. This thread is probably one of the best on this website. There's a ton of uncomfortable (and of course inspiring) reading but what a purpose it serves for people who might not have any other outlet to get their feelings down in text or to express feelings they may be otherwise inclined to bottle up. I've been down in the past but I don't believe I've ever suffered from any form of depression, however it doesn't make the reading of others struggles and rises from their lowest ebbs any less powerful.
    3 points
  10. The Byrds - Born To Rock And Roll
    3 points
  11. Fat Mattress - Mr Moonshine
    3 points
  12. Archie has, in my opinion, earned the right to try and get us out of the mess he’s gotten us into. We’ve managed before, and as terrible as we are, there’s several dreadful teams in the division. There’s a good chance we’ll be relegated, but if we can get our act together, starting on Saturday then we may just be able to get out of this. Serious questions need to be asked though, and a serious overhaul of the squad is required. Osman seems to have chucked it and is becoming a liability. Spittal, for as much as he can be great if we’re dominating teams, is an absolute passenger and can’t be relied upon when we need to fight for points, which is most of the time. Devine is the worst defender we’ve had since promotion (other than Piccolo, obviously) and needs to be moved on at the end of the season. Keown can, as we know, be a good defender but he’s not been the same this season. Barton likewise, although everyone can see that he shouldn’t be playing in midfield. Archie has had a nightmare this year. Relying on Bannigan to be the player he was before injury and to remain injury free was exceptionally naive. Playing half the season with 2 guys who can’t really play centre mid in there was inexcusable. Woods has done alright since he came in, but has obvious fitness issues. We’re still a complete soft touch. What I wouldn’t give for someone like Darian McKinnon or Keith Lasley, just a horrible cynical fucker but who’d undoubtedly improve our team. If we stay up, we need to have a serious look at ourselves for next season. Or we’ll be in the same mess next year.
    3 points
  13. We should probably consider hitting them more as a society then. Make it illegal to smack your own kids but perfectly OK to hit other peoples'. This would encourage scummy parents to keep them in check in public to avoid some bloke in the queue in McDonalds giving them a shoeing.
    3 points
  14. Exactly the kind of thing a QoS_1919 alias would say
    3 points
  15. I know one thing about the fans, we seem to have a lot of zoomers going by this site.
    3 points
  16. 3 points
  17. Naysmith needs to look at himself before questioning fans.
    3 points
  18. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
    3 points
  19. Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck - Shake Your Moneymaker
    3 points
  20. Hating this team requires too much effort. I just can't be arsed with us right now.
    3 points
  21. Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down
    3 points
  22. Deary me, that latest interview from Naysmith is absolutely shocking. I hope someone pulls him up on it at the AGM tomorrow, assuming he’s going. Criticising the fans who do pay their hard earned cash is never acceptable in my opinion. Here you go mate..... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    3 points
  23. Beginning to think this was in Forfar Three pram-pushing hatchet faced harridans simply decided to cross the busiest street in Forfar right in front of me, regardless of traffic, just assuming everyone would stop for them. There's a fucking pedestrian crossing about 50 yards along the road. Obviously blasting the horn was met with various hand gestures and expletives. Scheme rats do seem to develop a quite stunning sense of entitlement when they knock out a c**t turd though. The same sort of fuckers that will slag off a shop all over social media because someone asked their devil child to stop wrecking things, or rant about not getting immediate access to a GP because said devil child coughed a couple of times. Absolute arseholes.
    3 points
  24. Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
    3 points
  25. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Love Over And Over
    3 points
  26. The saddest thing about this 5 years in the top division which is screeching to a halt is that this is the best shot we've had to do anything, something, in the last 35 years, but we have done absolutely f**k all of note. There's been at various stages at least one and normally more of Rangers, Hearts, Hibs, and Dundee United not in the top league. What have we had? Yes, top 6 finish, good, but not something I'm going to be telling the grandkids about. Any great results? Nah. Cup runs? Nah. Mind that time we left Lyle Taylor and Doolan on the bench vs an Inverness team we were 7-1 up on aggregate against that season? and Miles fucking Storey ripped us to bits? Mind that time we played 3-6-1 vs a Dundee United team that couldn't kick their own arse and who were on their way to relegation and lost 1-0? Mind the defeats to Championship sides in the League Cup? Well what about the league? I'll give you the 4-2 vs (an emasculated) Hearts which probably is the best result we've had as we dug it out when it mattered. What about wins vs the bigger teams? Well we got one draw against Celtic when we probably should have won, and let's not even start on our constant bottle jobs against the other arse cheek? 1-0 up and losing 2-1 twice in one season- it's like the team want to hurt us. We even make Aberdeen look like AC Milan circa 1990.
    3 points
  27. 3 points
  28. On the plus side, at least the football will be interesting until the end of the season. Or just shite. Moussa cannot be defended I'm sorry, he's one of the worst players I've ever seen for us, and like everyone else we have seen some pish.
    3 points
  29. I believe he reported @throbber the other day. Sad times when all you have is computer games and annoying the moderators with ridiculous claims.
    3 points
  30. Is it true that P&B uses targeted advertising, based on search history?
    3 points
  31. Not indicating, particularly at roundabouts, should be 6 points and a £100 fine.
    3 points
  32. You get it for being so darned sexy. It's safe to say everyone loved that question about some banned poster. Many people didn't even understand what i was asking. Lovely stuff. The last time that "German pedo NAMBLA FTW ok" posted was November 25th 2010. gkneil: 14/08/2011 is the guess dublinmagyar: I have no idea wtf you're on about but I'll take a stab at April 21st 2011 German Jag: Not got a clue, but will say german pedo etc. made his 1st, ladt, only post on 7th May 2011. Salvo: I have no idea what the question is about let alone who this dodgy German chap is so I'm going to assume it was before I posted properly on Pie and Bovril and was merely lurking. Let's say 1st August 2016. Dublinmagyar and German Jag are victorious. gkneil and slavo aren't.
    2 points
  33. 'Meggied'?! The term is clearly 'megged'
    2 points
  34. Westminster can pass any laws they like, whether the NI Executive are in place or not. This also applies to Scotland & Wales. You may recall that "The Vow" stated that Scotland would be given the most federal government ever, with extensive powers that could never be taken away. That was just another lie. Westminster could abolish Holyrood tomorrow, and there's not a thing we could do about it. But hey, isn't Britain great.
    2 points
  35. Ridiculous. Although not as ridiculous as the day I told my mum and dad this fact and they both slagged me for wiping my arse standing up. Eh, who taught me how to do that, eh?
    2 points
  36. Not 100% sure as there was a big movement on price for the last one. £2k if they give me the early price or £1k if SP. Think I've only ever had all four horses come up on a lucky fifteen twice and the other one had all odds on shots.
    2 points
  37. I honestly can't see us scoring from open play at any point in the near future. We look semi-dangerous at corners and free kicks (when the ball doesn't hit the first defender, go out for a goal kick or land in the goalie's hands), but that's about it. We allegedly have pace with Deacon and Murray, but seem unable to play a decent through ball for them to run on to. We should have good aerial ability with Haber (& Moussa to a lesser extent) as we saw last season, but it's just not there. We should have goals from midfield but, unless we are playing faux-Rangers and O'Hara scores, we don't. Not really sure what AJLS brings to the team, I wish we could see more from El Bak, as I think he's got real talent, and Wighton, Henvey and the young lad Smith may have more to offer in seasons to come. God, it's depressing being a Dee. Still, things could be worse. (Please see 200m down the road for more details...)
    2 points
  38. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
    2 points
  39. Huw Jones is a wid. Stuart McInally is wonderful. Laidlaw was absolutely the right pick to start today. I noticed 7/8 mins in that Danny Care tried to be a bit naughty by stopping Laidlaw from taking a quick lineout, I think, by grabbing his arm and Laidlaw didn't react to it. As much as Ali Price is very talented, he can be a little bitch at times and he might have reacted to it. That being said, there are fewer things more glorious than the sight of Ali Price celebrating when Scotland/Glasgow win a big penalty towards the end of a game. Jamie Bhatti seems to have a solid jawline. I'm glad that Finn Russell was ballsy enough to try some risky stuff. It would have been a shame if his confidence had been knocked in the wake of the France game. I don't mind Owen Farrell because he reminds me of his old man who enjoyed a scrap or six when he was at Wigan Warriors. The day that Andy Farrell tried to batter six St Helens players by himself was a wonderful day and clearly Farrell jnr was trying to channel that during the warm up. Sam Underhill is a handy player but that was silly from him. John Inverdale is a little bitch and is rugby's version of Mark Lawrenson. Get it right up the jowly c**t. I'm not comfortable with not feeling great hatred towards Paul O'Connell. Hard to believe that we hadn't scored a try at Murrayfield against England since 2004. Great result today. I've definitely missed a lot out. This attacking from the off is working very well. (To quote a scarf collecting Corsican maniac, who is greatly missed) Thank you.
    2 points
  40. East Fife win followed by a Culcutta win, not a bad Saturday.
    2 points
  41. Everyone happy now !!! Or at least for the weekend Another season in D1 looks all but wrapped up ,
    2 points
  42. Other drivers failing to give you a wave of acknowledgement for letting them through. Women are by a fucking mile the worst offenders for it. c***s.
    2 points
  43. Livingston football players playing well and working hard. c***s.
    2 points
  44. There's a common question from non-informed people, which is "what have you got to be depressed about?". This is often accompanied by an unhelpful statement like "there's people worse off than you". There are people who have no shelter, no food, no family, no job, no career opportunities, no education, no safety and I (and I bet most of you) have at least a couple of these things. Therefore of course people are situationally and circumstantially worse off than I am. However, it is possible to have all of these things and still suffer horribly from depression or any other mental illness. This is because depression is not circumstantial or situational. No amount of "manning up", being told that there are people worse off than you or waiting for it to go away will make it go away. The only way to get rid of it is by seeking help and getting whatever help you require. I wish I had found that out sooner and saved myself about ten years of antidepressants and therapies that were nothing more than temporary fixes because I wasn't honest enough with myself or medical professionals to deal with the real problem.
    2 points
  45. Other than to my wife and a couple of medical professionals, this thread is the only place where I've talked about my depression. This is partly due to the stigma around mental health, which leads me to being self-conscious about it. Mostly though; it's because I'm a fairly private person and don't feel the need to make my personal business public knowledge. Last weekend though; we were out with another couple and the conversation inevitably turned towards my job search and my lack of progress on it. Before I knew what was happening, I found myself confiding in them about the problems I've been having. We're not that close to this couple and frankly, I'd much rather they didn't know at all. But there we go, it's done now. All this week she's been sending me 'inspirational' stories of people who have overcome incredible odds. Concentration camp survivors, soldiers with PTSD and so on. The clear message "If they can do it, so can you. Pull your socks up!" f**k f**k f**k Each time, I've replied politely that this doesn't help and will she please stop. Obviously she hasn't, which means I'm now at the stage where I'm ready to make a suggestion of what she could do with a running chainsaw.
    2 points
  46. What other part of the body, if it got covered in human excrement, would you deem acceptable to clean with only some thin paper? Why is that good enough for your arsehole? Government funded retrofit of bidets in all UK homes which contain at least one shiting adult IMO is the only way to solve this.
    2 points
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