Sweet Pete

Also Duffy's team was staffed by about 8 central midfielders playing all over the park without tactics or formation, was loaded with absolute haddies like Jones, Wilson and Ramsbottom and played some utterly eye bleeding "football". He barely kept us up in the league above in addition to the foregoing and STILL has a comparable win record to Farrell who's consistently recruited well and is playing a league lower in the pyramid. That is damning both of Farrell's managerial ability and also of the quality of L2 that we've been top 4 with those stats.

That is wild. Absolutely no arguing with those records. Consistently falls to pieces at Christmas, resulting in relegation, dropping a title and being embarrassed in the playoffs, and this season of nothingness. The pattern is undeniable.

It is

Might head along to this just to kick f**k out of Adam and whatever daft Ukrainian username Chris is using these days.

Only 20 points behind Stenny. The title is in our own hands.

He didn't struggle with line kicks yesterday. A keeper I've always liked. Good, steady, dependable goalie.

I couldn't tell what formation we were playing at times yesterday. We seemed to change shape several times in the second half for short periods of time. On the new signings, Hogarth can't kick for toffee. He was shanking the ball out of play regularly. Marc McCallum is a perfect paradox of that, wonderful kick outs. Kelly took his goal really well but flitted in and out of the game. Hopefully we'll see him more as the season goes on as I think he offered more than Ryan Wallace. Healy looks a handy player and I like the look of him. Lennon isn't good enough for me. Looks a weak link. Newbury will make a career for himself in football. He's skinny as a whip and quite slight of build, but Russell McLean couldn't get past him. He always seemed to get a foot or head where it needed to be. I said yesterday I wonder if full back or deep midfield may be where he finds his niche in time. A classy player and a good signing. I thought Wilson and Malcolm had decent games yesterday. As did Ruth, who finally got a goal. His movement and effort are good, but he'll need to up his numbers more often. Tony Wallace should be undroppable for me. Finlay Gray has a great engine, but someone needs to teach him how to pass a ball, that being the primary task of a central midfielder.

Of all the football matches in the history of the world, today was one of them.

I'm raging that Div Wilson is playing well as I think he's shite.

Pitch is absolutely rotten. Cutting up terribly and was even pretty cut up during the pre match warm up.

That's what I've been trying to say for months. You've just said it better. On the game, today's team seems like it was picked by tombola, but we're winning at half time so fingers crossed.

I trust that in gratitude for all of our votes, you'll be putting a few quid behind the bar.

Keeping a core squad together in advance is a policy I'm happy with in general terms. The old days of everyone on a season long contract and 20 new players each summer always struck me as amateurish. So I can see the sense in aiming for continuity rather than yearly rebuilding, but that only makes sense on paper. In reality, until a manager who can get the team prepared for pressure games is appointed it won't be effective. We saw in the first half of last season the kind of form that champions need; grinding out wins consistently even on days when the team were having an off day, the weather or pitch was poor and the opposition were stuffy. But the absurd collapse in form from December onwards last term, and the similarly insipid performances and form this season show that the management of the team has run it's course. All managers have a shelf life at clubs, and when it's not happening for them anymore it's very obvious and impossible to ignore. On individual players, I'd personally not be keen to keep David Wilson, Callum Wilson or any of the guys who are out on loan. Farrell generally has a good track record in recruitment and there are some handy players at the club who I'm otherwise happy to see continue here, but I think a change in leadership will be needed to get a tune out of them.

I look forward to our new stands. All the best and good luck.

Whip round?

That's because you're an arsehole.

My highly secret source (his dad) tells me he has an offer from an Australian club.

That was my first season going. Been 19 years of ups and downs since.

Most of our wages budget goes to Yeti.

Edinburgh City probably a better example

Didn't really think about him after he left us. Looks like he chucked it years ago. Or has been playing at a level not covered by reports. Probably realised he'd peaked by turning out for us.

I'll be speaking to Niyah Joseph's mum in 11 minutes so I'll see if I can hammer out a deal.

I seem to remember Snodgrass refusing a move to Barca B from Livi and going on loan to Stirling instead then refusing to talk about it in later years.

Who was it that the story was they were seen playing football on a Spanish beach with their mates and got signed by a Spanish club?

Fomer Sons player Denis McLaughlin played for a La Liga team's B squad before going to Hearts and then Dumbarton. Scorer of a 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) yard volley against Shire at The Rock.