Jordo1872

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.

Entirely predictable

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes he is. Just moved up to Cat 1 recently.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two candidates. Cameron Watson and Robert Aitken/

I think that would be preferable to any costly structural damage to be honest.

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.

Quite ironic that the core of his message back in August was for better communication, and since then he’s fallen into an Andy Hosie sized black hole.

The later kickoff will at least give the pitch some additional time. I’d expect a midday inspection. Fingers crossed.

Looks like we’ve secured our place in League 2 tonight. Absolutely no faith in this manager or squad taking us through the playoffs, if we even manage top 4. Yet more late goals conceded. Mentally weak,

If I was Finlay who’s quick feet and pace can make him prone to late tackles I’d be wearing proper shinguards or risk one day getting a serious injury that would be a disaster for a player at his stage of his career. Should be banned but for now they are permitted and ultimately up to the player.

I’m with BBPF on this one. Not a chance we should be moving the cup tie to try and accommodate them. The money will look after itself but in my opinion we’ve more chance of getting it in TV at the Rock than if we were to love it to a meh ground like Firhill. Get the Scottish Cup next to the castle. Romance of the cup and all that. We should be looking to maximise our chances of progressing first, however slim that may it’s a higher percentage when their sand dancers turn up on our coo field. If it also means we can restrict the number of Rangers fans attending then that’s even better. However the club should absolutely be managing ticket sales correctly to try as best they can to keep it segregated. A good start would be to sell to season ticket holders and/or those with SonsTrust membership as a start, and give them the option to buy an extra one or two before opening it up to a public sale.

Only after wins mate, and assuming all decisions were correct and above board

We were absolutely woeful for the majority of that game today and although the Dee weren’t much better the fact they led 2-0 and really should’ve scored that back post sitter to kill the tie, tells its own story. Not sure what people see in Blair. He may be better suited to games against better teams where we need to break up play and slow things down but that wasn’t today. To be fair though he was far from the worst. Bottom line though is that we’re through to the next round but a better team puts us out the cup today. Not good enough.

Football fan blames referee following defeat. A tale as old as time.

Another here for the Blair Malcolm fan club. Thought he was absolutely excellent when he can on and helped change the direction of the game. Hard in the tackle, good running and always appeared in space to pick up a pass and move us forward. hopefully he starts at Stenny next week. Fair play to Faz. I said at half time my biggest criticism of him is that he appears unable to change it when things aren’t going to plan. Well he did to day and the change in shape at half-time and positive substitutions turned the game in our favour. Fair play. Liked the look of Seb Ross who took his goal really well and should have scored another, and bagged himself a couple of assists. Apart from that I thought Forfar looked poor.

Laughed out loud at that. A weird moment for everyone concerned whilst on public transport. Anyway looking forward to this and the return of league action to the rock. Last weekends draw whilst disappointing wasn’t the worst of starts but needs followed up with a win tomorrow. Hoping to see Hilton start and us go with two up top and see if we can edge that 0.8 goal target to a 1.0 and keep a clean sheet at the other end. That’ll do.