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I did wonder how long it’d take for some scum bag to come in and post something below the belt. No surprise it’s one of the wee Arbroath neds. Well done on showing yourself to be a classless welt.

Just watched the highlights and you can see how bad it was that both teams looked distressed. Think everyone in our league is gutted for the boy. Poor guy just keeps getting injured. I know it's always seen as a good thing when your opposition best player is out but never ever good when it's through something like this. It's always better when both teams are full strength and you get to see your team put themselves against the best players going. Anyone got a real update on him?

Doolan did this yesterday, straight from Doohan's kick out. It didn't make the highlights.

Can't believe I'm gutted for a Raith player but Vaughan is a class act and I feel really sorry for him. One on the best players in the league if not the best and no doubt if it wasn't for injuries he would have played at a higher level than league one. I hope it's not as bad as it looks and I wish him a speedy recovery.

HE HAS A RARE EYE CONDITION YOU UTTER TRUMPET

Just watched your highlights and didn't know about his injury beforehand, that's an absolute nightmare for the lad. Hope he can get back for your title celebrations.

Alternatively, people could accept that a thread for a programme about Scottish football is relevant to a football forum and stop asking for it to be moved to a forum which far fewer people will read.

Get it round them. They might have to trade in on of their 5 Range Rovers now.

Already posted this in the Things You Want To Share thread but there truelly is no better sight at the end of a 10k than this beauty.

Felt Clyde wanted it more today and we didn't learn losing a second from a similar scenario. We will definitely put in better performances than today this season. BTW.. Credit to the Clyde supporters for the volume today, both in audio and numbers.

Rewind a few weeks after the Airdrie game, the outrage and negativity on here was a fucking disgrace. People suggesting Lennons position may need to be reviewed, people suggesting it was a good idea the scoreboard wasn't there for the Falkirk game, fans suggesting we'll get pumped by double figures. The shocking comments made towards one of last years heroes McNiff... I was also shouted down by a fellow fan who thinks he's a fucking export when I suggested we wait until the end of Game Day 9 before reviewing our season. Well guess what Sao Paolo, 8 games in and we're 4th! Hope you're eating your words... The Clyde fans in the stands over the last few weeks have been fuckin superb, never gave up on the team and got them over their sticky start to the point we're now a decent enough force in this league and showing we deserve to be here. Thankfully the negetivity from the faceless keyboard pushers never made it to the stands and to the players. We have a fuckin class manager, a top top bunch of players who play for the badge and the fans. Never ever in doubt! Mon the Clyde!

Think we are close to the stage where a line needs drawn and we back Mark Campbell and his plans. If the MSG/Board are being 100% honest with him, as recent as the last 48hrs, then this deal is almost complete and only the legal side of his & the clubs terms are being finalised. All shareholders are being written to apparently with regards the sale. 6-8 weeks to go is the timeline mentioned yesterday as 30 days notice is given to shareholders. He also said that a deal is close for the SS with Sandy Alexander. We really need the in-fighting between the fans and silly comments to be done with. Some of the tit for tat comments here & on that FB page are brutal. We all care about the club and it’s future, even the majority of the MSG/Board and they need to look at us and themselves in the future if this were to all go belly up.

Credit to Duffy for stabilising us after years of free-fall under Broon/Miller. When he came to us we were rock bottom, and he left us in a playoff position.

10k? Completed it mate.

I don't know WTF it is with ex-armed forces personnel that makes them think that their old job somehow carries on into their civilian life after they're done - yes I do; brainwashing - but I work with about 6 or 7 ex-squaddies who constantly reference their army days as if it reflects on them in the present day and makes them better people than folk who haven't served. I've said it on here on numerous occasions and I'll say it again - within minutes of meeting an ex-soldier, you will find out that they are indeed an ex-soldier as they will have told you. The c***s are worse than vegans.

Clyde win with Goody scoring 5 - “Clyde are a one man team” Clyde pick up 4 points in two weeks after playing most of one match with 10 men, and the other without our “one man team” - “Clyde have no quality” Tune in next week for “Clyde pass the ball too much, should shell it long instead and hope for scraps”

Would have taken a point before the game and was quite happy to walk away with that after 90 minutes. Cammy Bell showed why the Bairns have only lost 2 goals in 8 games and fair play to him, he took the banter from the Fife fans well and sportingly applauded them at the end of the game. First half was pretty even with Bell making two excellent saves and Jordan Hart reacting well to turn a shot round the post and possibly getting a touch to the shot which hit the post. The penalty claim, I have to admit I expected the Referee to point to the spot. However, after being denied a few penalties last week against Dumbarton, maybe this was the start of these things evening themselves out over the season ! The second half saw Falkirk have more possession but without really creating many clear cut chances apart from the shot from inside the box which was blazed over. Hart didn’t really have any saves of note as we defended well throughout. I felt for Anton Dowds today as he missed Ryan Wallace who would have given the Falkirk defenders more of a physical battle and held the ball up. Hopefully Waldo is back in the starting line-up next week against Stranraer. I got the feeling that some of the Falkirk players feel they are too good for this league but they have to realise, they are plying their trade in League 1 as they probably didn’t have many offers from the league above or not on the money Falkirk offered. Teams in this league will raise their game in an attempt to get points off the full-time outfit. They have to deal with that and raise their game to the higher level most have played at. I’m sure they will be in the mix at the end of the season but I can’t see it being the walk in the park that some seem to think.

Who's fault is that ? Certainly not the supporters. Campbell was named as the preferred bidder nine weeks ago last Friday. Between then and now I have yet to see a shred of evidence, something, one thing, anything at all in this guy's track record, CV, background, business career (ha) that makes me think "Yep, he's the man to take the club forward". The very opposite unfortunately. It's pure blind faith and hope-for-the-best territory. Who is he? What exactly does he want with a third-tier football club? What are these "plans"? Who else is in this with him? What are their backgrounds? How about the current mob emerge from the bunker and put some meat on the bones? How about they explain why they are "continuing to this length" when there are warning signals flashing left, right and centre? Nope, they'll continue to treat us like idiots to the bitter end. The summer was the opportune moment for a reset. They should have either followed through on the share purchase scheme or sold the majority shareholding to one of the other, eminently more credible bids made. They've wasted it, as usual. Fudged, procrastinated, delayed, stuck their head in the sand, kicked the can down the road, and here we are in October, being asked to close our eyes and take a massive, gigantic, blind of faith in relation to the whole future of the club. Weeks after Bury have gone and Bolton escaped death by the skin of their teeth. No thank you.

We really shouldn't humour you, but given the frequency of your posts you obviously have f**k all else to occupy yourself, so consider this. Ratios are of no account, but the Scotland I wish my country to aspire to has far, far more in common with European politics and sensibilities than those of Westminster. Curiously, they don't serially kiss America's arse or find themselves constantly on a war footing. Europe largely abandoned Ruritanian monarchies a long time ago, and they have an odd notion that societies don't always succeed by impoverishing large swathes of the population. Europeans also tend to learn from the past but live in the here and now, unlike a sizeable percentage of easily influenced Brits, of all intellects and none. Sure, the EU has structural problems but these are as nothing when compared to where Scotland is headed still shackled to Bedlam-On-The-Thames.

Though we're still working off a modest budget & there's a lot of work to be done off the park to build the club in line with Danny's ambitions, we're like millionaires compared to Duffy's time who must've been working with the lowest budget in Clyde's history I'd take DL over Duffy any day, but still thought he did a good job in the circumstances & left better than he found. Not without faults, but he wasn't in a position to attract the kind of player we have now Best to compare managers when there's a level playing field.

f**k off

I think the service personnel one is a tough one to figure out. On one hand, I could never do what they do, and certainly, back in the day when the bad guys were clearly bad and needed sorted out (I.E. they had dodgy moustaches and didn’t care much for Jewish punters), then I am incredibly glad for their service and sacrifice. Fast-forward to 2019 though, and I think there’s a sense that merely by being in the forces, that makes all of them ‘brave heroes’, and should almost be treated as Mother Teresa of Calcutta. I don’t get that. It’s almost like if you don’t subscribe to the view that they’re all heroes, then you are an ungrateful cnut who merely revels in the freedom they provide you with. Maybe it’s just me. As I said, I couldn’t do their job, I’m a big softy, but I couldn’t do a nurses job, or a hundred other hard, and very worthy, jobs either.

Am I missing something re McCluskey? He left us to play full time football in a higher league - it was hardly high treason. Our fans constantly hating on former players is bizarre.

Love Heart sweeties. Full of fucking emoji shite instead of the old classic “Get me pumped” or “Boner Incoming”.

Hindsight , yes we should have sold him , without hindsight 99% of our supporters would have been seething at Lachlan for allowing him to go , the club was in a no win situation

When you are in a hole stop digging - there were phases of the game when Clyde overran us, and if they were 'poor' yesterday then if we play like that against 'good' teams we'll be bang in trouble. I'm as disappointed as the next Sons fan but churlishly trying to twist the evidence is embarrassing.

I am wary of people who mistake this thread for the Calling Cards of Morons thread.

A real meeting of minds that

Given that you were 2nd best side in Scotland for these seasons, it's a bit weird that you would use reaching quarter-finals (last 8), and semi-finals (last 4) as achievements. It gets even weirder when you see who you lost to. In 2014/2015 you lost to Dundee and Dundee Utd. 2015/2016 you lost to Hearts and a Championship Hibs side. 2016/2017 you lost to Celtic twice. 2017/2018 you lost to a bottom 6 Motherwell twice, both times 3-0! The 2016/2017 season was fair enough, losing out to an excellent Celtic side. The other seasons show that despite being the 2nd best side Aberdeen consistently messed up against sides they should have beaten. If you take out the Celtic matches, the other 6 matches are all matches where Aberdeen would have ranged from slight favourites to strong favourites to qualify. To lose all 6 is dreadful. To try and spin it as successful is an interesting take, to put it politely. Also, adding 'qualified for Europe' at the end is giving yourself double credit, finishing second gets you Europe, you don't need to write both. It could be summed up as consistent league performances but a very poor cup record. I was shocked to come on here and see people trying to say he has a good cup record. Given the quality of opposition during his time, and who else won trophies during his time, his cup record is terrible. A real missed opportunity in Aberdeen's history to win a few trophies.

If that had been Caldwell's Partick side I think after we had gotten the equaliser we would have gone on to win but they looked much more organised and resolute under McCall already. The intensity of the midfield press completely swallowed up Vincent and Welsh at times and we missed the creativity of Walsh in the wide areas with McGregor and Storey struggling to really create too much especially in the second half. Poor defending for the opener. We've seen already this season the huge gap that Rooney leaves in the RB area when he goes forward and Partick ruthlessly exploited that with a smart ball into that area by Bannigan and Zanatta latched on to it and with Donaldson not able to stop him he lashed a low drive past Ridgers into the bottom of the net. Question marks over Ridgers perhaps? Donaldson certainly seemed unhappy with him. Good equalising header from White after a fine cross by McGregor on the right side after he got past his marker. This is the kind of ball we should be trying to get to White more often. It's been said before he often struggles in some match ups against opposition defenders but yesterday he, at times, had the better of his marker and this was one occasion where he got some reward. Doran and McGregor both passed up great chances to grab a second for ICT. Doran sent a tame shot into the arms of Fox and McGregor blazed over from about 18 yards out. Disappointing to only be going in at half time all square after 45 minutes where we had started poorly but turned it around to really dominate the second part of the first half. That said, if you don't take your chances... Second half and ICT were slow out the blocks again and Partick capitalised. I don't really know what happened as there seemed to be no danger with McCart in possession then next thing Miller was bursting clear and bearing down on goal. A cool side footed effort easily beat Ridgers and Partick were ahead from seemingly nothing. McCart almost made up for this mistake when he headed over from a corner but he couldn't take advantage of Partick's slack defending. White then had an acrobatic volley fizz wide of goal as we again started to get back on top but were wasteful with our finishing. Sadly I had to leave early but when I got back to my car I heard that Partick had scored again to kill things off. Up until recently we had bee tight defensively and the back four had looked almost impenetrable so it's disappointing to see them being cut open and gifting goals like they did yesterday and whilst it seemed like we had a fair bit of the ball and perhaps the better chances, especially in the first half, it means nothing if we don't bury the opportunities when they come our way. On the plus side McGregor impressed again but I'm not sure wide right is the best position for him. Hopefully Walsh isn't out for too long though.

Continuing on from last week, if you want to see the state of the referees in this league go and watch the Airdrie/Stranraer highlights. The red card for Stranraer is one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen

Correct , he is not one of the biggest earners , he chose Ayr over Dundee for family reasons , he lives 12 miles from Ayr and has made his money in football , life for some people is not about how big their bank balance is , families are important to many people , also feel he is getting treated poorly by a number of fans , no one was slagging him when he came , he can’t get into team due to our performances , he is a true professional and very well liked within the squad , watch him when we score always out the box celebrating and does a lot of talking with the younger players

54.40. Well chuffed with that

Week 39 update One death this week, former French President Jacques Chirac: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/26/jacques-chirac-obituary There's a lot to say in there which is pretty much lost on me. Things I have learned about him this week however include: Shagger. Hated Thatcher. Opposed the Iraq War. Acknowledged France's role in the Holocaust. A net positive, in my book. He was 86 when he died so he's worth 39 Base Points. He was picked by @Fuctifano and @Once A Rover always a Rover, which adds a Deadly Duo bonus for a total of 64 points. As a result, the standings now look like this: 1. Oooooft 728 2. Ned Nederlander 545 3. alta-pete 530 4. chomp my root 461 5. Bishop Briggs 424 6. sparky88 410 7. DBA 364 8. Once A Rover always a Rover 357 9. Lex 309 10. cdisaaccie 308 11. The DA 303 12. Savage Henry 301 13. Mark Connolly, Miguel Sanchez 294 14. 10menwent2mow 276 15. gingette 269 16. peasy23 267 17. JustOneCornetto 265 18. Fuctifano 264 18. JamieStevenson 259 19. RadgerTheBadger 256 20. HI HAT 240 21. Karpaty 237 22. Ross. 233 23. The Naitch 222 24. Ziggy 217 25. Blootoon 87 213 26. Indale Winton, LoonsYouthTeam 201 28. Meden89, nessies long lost ghost 194 29. statts1976uk 190 30. microdave, sleazy 164 31. Musketeer Gripweed 152 32. Arabdownunder 148 33. cambozpar, qos_75 139 34. psv_killie, Willie adie 128 35. lolls, weejack, weirdcal 123 36. ICTJohnboy 118 37. lichtgilpead 115 38. Melanius Mullarkey 110 39. atfccfc, mathematics 109 40. thisal 101 41. Arbroathlegend36-0 95 42. Ben Twilly 93 43. wellinwigan, BWAClyde 92 44. ICTJohnboy 91 45. Sweaty Morph 89 46. Lofarl 84 47. AyrTroopMajor, gkneil, Sloop John B 82 48. Billy Jean King 75 49. Bold Rover 69 50. Bert Raccoon 66 51. choirbairn 61 52. Sergeant Wilson 49 53. killiefan27, Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46 54. expatowner 45 55. Bert Raccoon, Eednud, ToBeSomeone 36 56. pub car king 30 57. MixuFixit 27 58. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing

Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

Too much McGuinness?

What a beautiful sight

I just want to comment on the attitude and comments of the Arbroath fans on here. Pure class. That first half today was sublime from our point of view and in no way fully expected, but was always achievable. Like many, one of my favourite away days and glad you guys are in this league with us. Sincerely all the best for the rest the season. First half - sublime Second half - foot off the gas

Shat it.

You're very drunk. Slane's patter is absolute horse shit anyone enjoying that isn't wired right, it's not even about taste.

Hole in my shoe - Neil

https://youtu.be/uKS0C3xuMYI here are this week’s highlights

The Weather Girls : It's Raining Men

We are behind a team who consider that ^^^ a "decent crowd". What has happened to Falkirk FC

After our game at Falkirk I was genuinely upset to hear the news about Lewis Vaughan. Never like hearing about anyone receiving a bad injury!

What football show do you prefer? Are you a sportsound man? Or football focus? I'm 38 and for me this programme is miles better than anything that exists. It's funny and it's genuine. They know their stuff and they cover all the leagues - something other BBC shows often fall down on.