Leaderboard

Enjoy your Saturday

Well fair play see you next Saturday..

I genuinely don’t get the ‘best of luck to him and I hope he is a success at Aberdeen’ bit. I also don’t get the Ali Defoy ‘best wishes except against us’ shite either. Jim Goodwin is now manager of a rival team who are currently below us in the league. His immediate remit will be to climb above teams like us and finish higher than us. Jim Goodwin will use his intimate knowledge of our players strengths and weaknesses to defeat us when Aberdeen next play St Mirren. Jim Goodwin will most likely be eyeing up Jak Alnwick, and who knows who else, for next season. Legend, cup winner, handsome Irish lilted manager who was doing a good job - none of that changes, but fcuk wishing him well at a rival club.

Completely unsurprising result despite the sickening levels of spin a number of people have been trying to put on the team since the change in board. 3 wins in 8 for Rennie is garbage. Near enough a quarter of a season. I expect we'll win the next two and still have a shot at fourth but can we stop kidding on that Rennie has magically transformed us into the second coming of 2011 Barcelona?

People on here really getting worked up over Smith flying to Inverness?? who cares When Lachlan flew over from America, were people thinking that money from the AU500 was going towards that?

We were due to travel up this morning and make a weekend of it but hubby tested positive yesterday so our plans were scuppered. So disappointed. Hope those that do make it up are in good singing voice and get right behind the team. 'Mon the Honest Men!

All the best Jim Goodwin. Wishing you every success, just not against Hibs.

Let me tell you a little story, which will probably segue into another story because I'm not a very good story teller, but please stick with it. A little over one year ago, Stockport County were pushing for promotion in the GM Vauxhall National Vanarama Conference. We'd just had a televised FA Cup tie, against a West Ham first XI that would go on to qualify for Europe, in which all viewers could agree County were unlucky to lose 1-0. The team was managed by cult hero Jim Gannon, who had achieved nearly a thousand games with the club as player & manager, as well as four promotions - two on the pitch, two in the dugout. Things were going quite well, is what I'm saying. Then comes an article on the club website abruptly announcing that Gannon had been sacked, adding that his departure was not due to results but simply down to 'culture'. This dismayed and confused many, rumours flew around, but let's save time by summarising that the whole thing was a coup by somebody at the club who thought the midst of a promotion campaign was a good time to instigate their little project. This project involves putting Steve Rusk in charge of managing the team. Somehow his extensive managerial experience of coaching Brighton's Under-23 side isn't deemed quite enough to run the show solo, so the highly experienced Mark McGhee is brought in to assist him (I obviously don't need to introduce him to you fellows). The first few games under this dynamic team are a struggle but, in fairness, they soon go on an undefeated run that sets a new club record. (Harsher people than myself might suggest this was largely down to one club refusing to fulfill any more fixtures since they couldn't get any more Covid compo, meaning there was no relegation from the division that season, and most opponents were fielding kids since the seniors were furloughed. I couldn't possibly comment.) That brings us to the following summer, and Steve Rusk's chance to build his own legacy. This involves asking the rich chairman to delve deep into his Dubai-based pockets to fund some expensive signings from divisions above, enabling Steve Rusk's side to play football the way he envisages. Finally we'd get to see Ruskball. It's at this point my tale veers off into the past (and funnily enough, north of the border) but we'll return soon. You see, a long time ago, I had a girlfriend who came from a small place near Lanark. Well, I say near; it was an interminable bus ride outside of town, and I didn't know we'd arrived until we got off at a stone sheltered bus stop in a bunch of trees. Now, I grew up in a post-Industrial Revolution town that has been brutalised by Brutalist architecture. Did you ever watch 'Life on Mars'? That place. So I thought I understood the term "depressing", until I saw the streets hidden behind this bus stop. There was an off-licence with barbed wire on the roof & window adverts that couldn't be read due to the thickness of the wire mesh covering them. There was a gang of scrotes that stared at you because their eyes have to be pointed somewhere & they've already memorised every inch of the nearby powerlines. There was a cat. There was a lot of sportswear being worn and very little sport being played. You know what I'm talking about here. After a weekend spent in this place, I was ready to trade the last drops of warmth from my soul for a spoonful of golden brown, and my return trip to that stone sheltered stop was the first step to recovery. I tell you this, because I would rather return to that dreary village on a drizzling Sunday morning and watch 'I, Daniel Blake' being projected onto the side of a boarded-up chip shop than ever endure another 45 minutes of Ruskball. Have you ever been in a meeting on a Friday afternoon, and whoever's in charge says "Right, it's nearly 5 o'clock, so unless there's any further business..." and somebody at the back quietly says "... actually..." and you know you'll be lucky to get out of there any time soon without your brain melting out of your ears? That's Ruskball. Have you ever been in a job centre, and seen that every person in there - on both sides of the desk - doesn't want to be there, but they need something to keep a roof over their heads? That's Ruskball. Have you ever been to Stoke-on-Trent? That's Ruskball. Before I go, I know that somebody will try to tell you that his name isn't Steve. Don't listen to them... you'll understand eventually. Lord above, I wish you didn't have to understand. But you will.

If Jack Ross is remotely interested, give him the fecking job.

He's been given budget to sign half a team, including a guy who was playing for Scotland 18 months ago. I'm not expecting to win the league but I don't want to read any bollocks about how we need to cross our fingers about Aberdeen poaching him or us being some sort of unstoppable juggernaut that will pass Queens Park by default.

Apologies if this makes anyone feel old here but I wasn’t even born the last time we won in Inverness…

I can't believe some fans are talking about making the playoffs. It's crazy talk.

The focus should be on beating QOTS rather than playoff places or league places just now. Inverness and Raith look like they could drop out the top 4, Partick however have about 12 games in hand, but also a pitch like a tattie field. Morton won 4 games in a row and are still behind us in the league which shows how hard it is to make a dent in this league.

Tbf, we are a second half team. Before today we scored 7 goals in the first half & 16 goals in the second half of our matches. Let's hope that trend continues today.

By the Sun. If the Sun printed a headline that told me I was on fire, and I was clearly on fire, I'd still ask for a second opinion.

Biden will be fine. He survived the Napoleonic Wars and he'll survive this.

The guy with the two QP flags was told he couldn't take them out the bag as they weren't flame retardant. The 500 at the game can thank the steward involved from saving them all from a painful death. Flags on fire at the football used to be a weekly occurrence and the game is better off without this lethal threat to life and limb.

East Craigie 8 Downfield 0 Trip to Craigie Park to see what the league leaders were all about. Having seen Downfield put up a decent display against Blantyre of the WOSL Premier, I knew that they couldn't score goals, but soon found out they couldn't defend either. Could have been far more, including a missed pelanty at 6-0. Thought the standard was pretty woeful but much of that was down to the bumpy park. The Shipbuilders did get a decent passing game going especially second half. Cracking weather though, amused myself between goals by working out that the white hill with the masts is probably Craigowl.

You could try minding your own business, you absolute creep.

Utterly inept. Team selection was wrong - how we can be in February and not have worked out that McKay and Hetherington are hopeless is beyond me. Jaze dropped Our “build from the back” is embarrassing and needs binned. Sheerin tried to play out through McKay, Hall and Hetherington and failed miserably. Why does Rennie think it might work with McKay, ATS and Hetherington Out of possession we are miles off anyone. Why do we constantly get dicked by part time teams Our players are losers and need to get some fight about them. Failures everywhere today. The only positive was the referee doing what Rennie should’ve done a month ago and putting McKay in the stand.

Our record against the top 4 reads P12 W1 D3 L8 F8 A25 6 points from a possible 36. A perfect summation of where we currently are as a football club. A midtable League 1 outfit who simply do not win games of football against any opponent other than the bottom three or four. Same problem we had two seasons ago under McKinnon. Same problem we had last season under Miller and McCracken. Completely unable to lay a glove on any of the better teams in the division. Despite many of these teams having an infinitely smaller playing budget. Over and over and over and over again. No more faith in this management team than the previous one. A massive, massive re-think about how we get back to some form of respectable position within Scottish football is required because we are going absolutely nowhere. Complete wreck of a season. Again.

I'd rather we played all 3 to be honest.

Your gaffer just left you for a team in freefall, numerous places below your own club in the league table. Minter.

Not gonna lie - I'm gutted Jim is away. Really liked him - spoke very well, cup winning captain and genuinely got the club and the fans. Best of luck to him and I hope he is a success at Aberdeen. I'm away to find a new profile pic.....

I wish him well, you'll come to like Goodwin a lot. Edit: Oh, and here is the first of I am sure many cut out heads for your collection... https://i.imgur.com/ViC2zT6.png

Years ago I lived with a French woman. She sent me to the local market for live snails as she wanted to introduce me to the delicacy. I went to the market she directed me to, and got a glass jar of them. On the way home I stopped by the pub for a pint. A few mates came in and I had more pints. It was getting late, and I was steaming drunk. I picked up my jar and walked unsteadily back to our house. In the garden, almost at the door, I tripped and dropped the jar. It smashed into pieces and the garden was covered in snails. The woman opened the door and demanded to know where I had been for the last 6 hours. I turned to the snails in the garden and said, "Come on, boys! Nearly home!"

Mathematically, probably a very slight possibility, but in reality we'd need to win every game between now and the end of the season. Let's be satisifed with having a team looking like being able to compete from week to week, keep our league status first and foremost then look to kick on for next season.

This is turbo-Barclays

f**k me people from the North East are sour faced cúnts

Hutton and Slater were very good together I thought. Hutton putting out fires everywhere and looks a good foil for Slater.

I actually thought Dunne was our stand out performer until the red. He's definitely been our most improved this season. I thought in first few months he was going to be a dud.

H/T KTV Violence Against Women, well played Killie

Sounds a lot like a certain ex saints manager……

First the technical issues with a third-party payment platform and now this.

Absolutely - we stand on the brink of a historic season let’s entrust this to a man who we know and who despite all the feeling when he left lifted saints from potentially part time football to premier league in 18 months. Surely we can see his experience and his personality would be ideal right now. Why risk it to employ a manager who hasn’t managed ? It’s madness

Week 26 results. A full card of games this week and it sees much improved scores across the board. bobthespider tops the weekly table with 8 points. Name Correct Score Correct Result Total Points bobthespider 2 2 8 badgerthewitness 2 1 7 Bairney Rubble 2 0 6 BFTD 1 2 5 BWAClyde 1 2 5 Larry Hood 1 2 5 Mr November 1 2 5 51 Bairn 1 1 4 Bairn in Exile 1 1 4 Chapelhall chap 1 1 4 Grangemouth Bairn 1 1 4 Marshmallo 1 1 4 Polarbear 1 1 4 roman_bairn 1 1 4 shawfielder 1 1 4 watdeadlyone 1 1 4 Wilson92FFC 1 1 4 Angus of the Mo 0 3 3 fatdoug1938 1 0 3 fifer67 0 3 3 FLDiamond 1 0 3 African Sunset 0 2 2 Ammo - Airdrie 0 2 2 BW Charlie 0 2 2 CM. 0 2 2 CRFC Blue 0 2 2 ebobsboy 0 2 2 laughing gravie 0 2 2 Mon_The_Fife 0 2 2 Stevo Fife 0 2 2 Wee Jockie 0 2 2 williebraveheart 0 2 2 AndyDD 0 1 1 cb_diamond 0 1 1 Clyde85 0 1 1 esortnom 0 1 1 falkirkzombie 0 1 1 haufdaft 0 1 1 Jaggy Snake 0 1 1 jpm 0 1 1 LowerLeagueFC 0 1 1 Vegetableman 0 1 1 CoveRangers1922 0 0 0 dynamo_rumble 0 0 0 Jack Phillips 0 0 0 Looking at the overall table williebraveheart has hit the 90s but the chasing pack creeps ever closer. Name Correct Score Correct Result Total Points williebraveheart 16 43 91 Chapelhall chap 16 36 84 Larry Hood 13 45 84 Mr November 12 46 82 fatdoug1938 13 41 80 51 Bairn 13 40 79 bobthespider 13 38 77 BW Charlie 14 35 77 BWAClyde 11 43 76 CoveRangers1922 11 43 76 CRFC Blue 14 34 76 fifer67 11 42 75 haufdaft 11 42 75 Marshmallo 13 36 75 Bairney Rubble 12 38 74 shawfielder 11 41 74 Bairn in Exile 10 43 73 Wilson92FFC 11 39 72 African Sunset 14 29 71 Grangemouth Bairn 12 35 71 Stevo Fife 11 38 71 badgerthewitness 14 28 70 Clyde85 11 37 70 esortnom 10 40 70 Jaggy Snake 8 46 70 Polarbear 9 43 70 roman_bairn 14 28 70 CM. 9 42 69 watdeadlyone 12 33 69 Ammo - Airdrie 10 37 67 AndyDD 11 34 67 ebobsboy 8 41 65 cb_diamond 7 43 64 jpm 9 37 64 BFTD 10 33 63 Mon_The_Fife 7 38 59 falkirkzombie 5 42 57 Vegetableman 6 38 56 Zanetti 8 31 55 flyfifer48 7 29 50 Wee Jockie 5 34 49 dynamo_rumble 7 27 48 Angus of the Mo 6 28 46 laughing gravie 3 29 38 Glenmavis Diamond 4 17 29 Jambo98 6 11 29 Jack Phillips 5 12 27 AFalkirkBairnB 4 13 25 marko 2 13 19 Maxismydog 1 15 18 broomiesniper 3 8 17 LeodhasXD 1 14 17 FortescueFotheringhamSmyth 3 7 16 Scott-Replay 3 6 15 scottsdad 1 11 14 thelocalcat 1 10 13 Mantis Toboggan 1 8 11 Karpaty Lviv 2 2 8 Diamonds_Are_Forever 2 1 7 CapitalDiamond 2 0 6 diamondman 0 6 6 HoustonSpider99 1 3 6 mcqbez 0 6 6 Silverton End 1 3 6 ewan_fife 0 4 4 King Kebab 0 4 4 sparkys dream 1 1 4 Come Away The Clyde 0 3 3 FLDiamond 1 0 3 Cambuslang Fiifer 0 2 2 Diamond1924 0 2 2 Reggie Perrin 0 2 2 the snudge 0 2 2 Cosmic Joe 0 1 1 LowerLeagueFC 0 1 1 Clyde soccer trendy 0 0 0 dirvy 0 0 0 Week 27 fixtures will be available from tomorrow, thanks for playing!

Next Saturday can't come quick enough! I walked away from Somerset after killie scored that last min pen absolutely fed up with the team and direction we were going in to being on the highest of highs now and loving everything about the club again, still early days but I think we have the right guys in Bullen and Mathie to take us forward.

He already is though. He’s not got any idea how to change a game and his refusal to change from this formation and style of play that’s not working at all is both infuriating and baffling. I want to like Rennie. But he’s shown nothing so far that suggests a good football manager. Certain players that are undroppable, same boring and slow style of football each week, refusal to change formation and inability to change a game. Could very easily be talking about Sheerin with that list.

Our wingback just don't seem to be in this game at all and our midfield is non existent hence no supply to the front men, need to have Kabia on, preferably as a 3-4-3 or at least change it to 4-4-2, this shape is NOT working for us

Greatwins halftime team talk to McCrorie.

At least we can say we invented the 'false wing back'. 5 man defence who barely catch sight of the half way line. I'm convinced someone took a marker pen & drew a glaikit face on one Sheerin's cones for Hetherington. Griffiths looks done & it worries me that he's a guaranteed starter. Lukewarm about Rennie tbh

The world's shittest, (Airdrie fan) dentist, everyone.

Did she not send some minion out to flat out deny it was ever a thing? Wonder what draft of the framework the SG are on now btw - must be brutal having to rewrite it everytime another country removes restrictions. Wild to see countries all over Europe binning restrictions months before Leitch reckoned people in Edinburgh could have an outdoor party...

Superior IMHO.