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  • Birthday 18/10/1982

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  1. Agree with this. Credit today to Faz and the players for an impressive away win at a playoff competitor, and we’ll enjoy the feeling tonight, but we need to be following this up with two strong performances next to really lift the mood and get the confidence up ahead of the run in.
  2. The only thing that appears to evoke any sort of response from the club board is negative press publicity that happens to shine a light on the ownership circus, Andy Hosie and his merry band of puppets. Negative football appears to pass by freely. Andy Hosie doesn’t have a pot to piss in, he relies on external investors; the type of people who wouldn’t want negative publicity.
  3. And not the only one under Faz’s reign. Off the top of my head we’ve lost 6 at Stirling, 6 at Annan, 5 tonight at a relegation threatened Stranraer and there was the 5-1 home defeat to an Albion Rovers team who did go on and get relegated. I don’t think I can recall another Dumbarton manager suffering so many heavy defeats. If there is you’re probably going back to the Jim Fallon era but then the board at least had the balls to pull the trigger when required. The direction of travel is absolutely down and we don’t have a board able or willing to act. The club from top to bottom is an absolute shambles; ownership, management, players who fold in many of not most ‘big games’, right down to smaller but significant aspects like the ongoing pitch condition and the embarrassment of a club website. Zero leadership and zero accountability top to bottom.
  4. Incredible to realise that we could lose this by double figures and there would still be no risk to the manager’s position given we’re still ‘in with a shout of promotion’ as we sit 4th. Absolutely zero pressure on the manager and that flows down to the players. By incredible I do of course mean utterly depressing.
  5. What an absolute gang we are. A team who fold in at the first sign of any adversity, and a manager unable to do anything about it. Great stuff.
  6. Yes he is. Just moved up to Cat 1 recently.
  7. Broomhill are due to play at ‘home’ on Tuesday evening and if that goes ahead, which is be surprised at given the state of it after yesterdays game, I think we’ll struggle to have it playable for next weekend. With Broomhill due to play on it again on Sunday, three games in a week, it’s simply not sustainable. It’s borderline playable as a public park but at senior level it’s an utter embarrassment. The pitch issue underlines some of the fundamental issues we face. Ground sharing doesn’t make sense but it’s a financial necessity due to our ownership issue, but not helped by naivety at boardroom level and a lack of proper maintenance. The whole thing is a shambles at the moment from top to bottom.
  8. A quick check of the stats tells me we had 13 shots on goal. Only 4 on target but hey, 7 corners. With those stats I’m sure the wins will come. Soon. As always though, patience is the key.
  9. Read that earlier. Real head in hands stuff. Incredible that some folk see any sort of criticism as not being a ‘real’ fan, despite it being entirely warranted. Happy clapping as the club continues in a downward trajectory is far worse.
  10. Absolutely this. Amazing what can be done when you have a realistic vision and pull resources, including wider community stakeholders and funding partners, in to a discussion centered around improving what you already have via a coherent, realistic and sustainable business strategy. I don't think we've ever seen a well thought-out, costed, business plan from our CC overlords. Easy to talk about full-time championship football I suppose. Keep the masses happy. CC failed to provide a realistic business plan in support of their case for the club's relocation to Dalmoak despite having over 10-years to do so, never mind a plan around utilising to its full potential our current home. Its almost like they aren't willing or capable....or have no intention of ever seeing it through. Anyway, the Vale would be best to forget that plan and focus more on building a superdome with hotels and houses up Bonhill.
  11. I was thinking the other day about how you would summarise Farrell’s tenure in terms of successes, and came to the conclusion that you’d find it pretty difficult to find any notable achievements in terms of results on the park, progression in cup competitions, wins against the odds etc. Ultimately he’s led us to relegation and pretty mediocre seasons have followed, particularly when you balance that with my second point. Which is that the one positive our could argue is that generally speaking his recruitment has been consistently good. Sure there’s been a few bombscares along the way and deals offered to Byrne is an example of a gamble that won’t always pay off at our level, but retaining Gray and recruiting the likes of Long, Carlo, Shiels, Ruth and Orsi are examples of very good business in my view. I think it’s clear his recruitment and man management is good, which largely puts more expectation on results and that’s where it’s simply not working for Faz.
  12. Two candidates. Cameron Watson and Robert Aitken/
  13. I think that would be preferable to any costly structural damage to be honest.
  14. Broomhill we’re due to play at the Rock tomorrow night but it’s now postponed due to ‘storm damage’. Let’s hope the damage isn’t severe or our invisible overlords haven’t forgot to pay the insurance.
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