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Ivo den Bieman

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  1. What a cracking result and presumably performance, sad to have missed that today. I was really underwhelmed by Cove versus Annan a few weeks back but I think everyone expected a much harder game than this seems to have been. Great credit again to the players & the staff. We seem to have hit really good form at exactly the right time.
  2. The late 80s- duking it out with East Stirlingshire at the bottom of the old second division- probably worse, but that’s going back a long way now.
  3. What an absolute shambles of a club I will laugh long and hard if Lennon is next out of Dave Cormack’s failed manager tombola.
  4. Yep two really good semi-finals and hard to predict, if it goes to form should be Linfield v Larne in the final, but you never know.
  5. It was certainly for the keeper. Typing on phones is shit on the whole
  6. One of the most entertaining games seen at Links Park in years. Some great goals & a stomach-churning see-saw of a match. Both teams determined to win the game & both going at it full throttle. Lyons’ opener butnegging the kerper at his near post, Dillo’s thunderb*****d header to level things just before half time, after we’d given away two very cheap goals, set the tone. Kane Hester’s trickery sent a third whistling home not long after the re-start and when Cawley’s petulance saw him sent off on the hour we seemed set fair. Alloa were also in a bad mood; Neill at no. 6 had an epic tantrum meltdown at whoever plays left back for Alloa, and got his abuse back with interest. However yet again we conspired to give away an awful third goal, a lot of ball watching & leaving it for someone else to deal with caused the equaliser. I actually felt that Alloa became less threatening when they brought that big galoot Sammon on. The Irish Frankenstein- missing only the bolt through his neck- had lots of long balls launched towards him which was all very well, but Alloa were much better playing it on the ground & pulling us out of shape. Webster’s winner was a thing of beauty and I haven’t celebrated a goal like that for a while at Links Park. A great way to win the game which we deserved, just. An outrageous backheel from Webster in the centre circle almost set up Hester, too, but the ball just wouldn’t fall kindly for him at the critical moment, after a long run. Really great game & an important win. Onto Cove where we should travel confidently.
  7. Not a vintage display but a very good second half showing deservedly takes the points. Great to see the points coming up the road.
  8. Cretinous there from Ambrose but we’ll take that! Two great penalties from Webster & QoS have fallen away badly.
  9. With the surreal spectacle of QOS v Montrose on Gaelic telly in the background, time for a summary of this game which I took in today. The tl;dr version is that Cove were very lucky to win that and Annan will be away back down the road wondering how they didn't take at least a point. Balmoral's corrugated shack in the lee of the of the Post Office Depot has acquired two canvas stands behind each goal since I was last here, and the atmosphere was slightly strange; a murmur of conversation and the grumble of the pie shop generator made the soundtrack to the game in the first half, more like an early season cricket fixture at Mannofield. Cove were sluggish and poor for the most part and the girning ald buzzards & blazers in the main stand seemed pretty indifferent to the game's mediocre huff and puff. The sun didn't have much teeth today and it was quite pleasant until the last half hour. Annan for some reason played in red and black and their defence tended towards anarchy on many occasions. There was a good visiting support of 40-50, a boisterous group of young guys disembarking from the Galabank charabanc into one stand, all flags, testosterone and e-numbers. Well, on to the game. Cove had a couple of half-hearted efforts flashing past the side of either post but for the most part the first half was about Tommy Goss. Watching the big man trying to run is like watching a giraffe skateboarding for the first time, but good grief he's a pain in the arse physically. Firstly a bad clash of heads between him and Mark Reynolds saw the latter banjoed and disorientated, with an early substitution necessary. Secondly a dinked ball into the near post from the left saw him send home full back Doyle crashing into a post, and seeing stars for a bit. Fraser Fyvie attempted to use diplomacy to manage the chaos. "Haw that's the second time fae that big c**t ref." Surprisingly, the official remained unmoved by this Gettysburg Address-level rhetoric. Such was the impact of Goss that the home coaching team may have been considering a drone strike on the monster, after he cleared space for Lewis Hunter to let rip from the edge of the box, his shot skimming the bar with Demus in the home goal toiling. Kai Nugent also did well down the right, but the final ball wasn't there. Against the run of play, after a ludicrous water break halfway through the first half, Cove scored. Why have a water break? It was hardly the weather to fry an egg on the bonnet of one of the well-appointed German SUVs in the car park. Anyway, it broke Annan' momentum and concentration and almost immediately Cove scored. It was a scrappy goal, with the ball ricocheting around in the box and the Annan defence dealing with the ball like a consumptive battling catarrh. Eventually, they choked: the ball fell to Burrell who scuffed the ball past the keeper into the right hand corner. 1-0, and it stayed that way to half time. Annan were much the better side for the first part of the second half, and equalised. Michael Ndiweni had been a ghost in the first half, but he scored the goal of the game. Annan were making good progress down the right and Galloway fed Ndiweni into space down the right touchline. He glided into the penalty box unchallenged and from eighteen yards shot low acorss Demis and into the bottom right hand corner. For me we didn't see enough of that from him and Annan have to work up how to mix up the physical threat of Goss and that level of skill from Ndiweni more effectively. At the other end Cove really were misfiring. I've never seen Megginson have a poorer game, missing two or three very good chances. The much-vaunted Burrell was anonymous. Such chances that were created were largely from mistakes from Annan's defence, giving the ball away cheaply or a terrible slack pass across the goal. Yet the home team couldn't capitalise. Annan themselves had tweo great chances to win that they somehow failed to take. Firstly Goss was played in after good build-up and either hit the post or was blocked by Demus, when it looked much simpler to score. Ndiweni was clogged and replaced by a wee guy who was played through with only Demus to beat. He nearly cleared the stand with his effort, let alone the bar. Annan's wastefulness haunted them with a few minutes left. Scrappy play saw Megginson freed down the left and he finally remembered he was a footballer. He sent a skimmer across the face of gal and after a bit of League One pinball Josh Kerr, on as a substitute, thrashed the ball past the exposed keeper. 2-1. That knocked the stuffing out of the visitors and it was easy for Cove to manage the remainder of the game. There was still time for a final gruesome miss from Megginson but at the final whistle the Annan players slumped to the astroturf in despair. Cove will chuckle under their breath and realise they got away with one today. If they can play that poorly and still win then they have a good chance to be involved in the play-offs. As for Annan, if they put in that effort every week they will win more than they lose. They are just slack defensively- who knows what became of Swinglehurst, I think he's long-term injured- but they miss a guy like that. It was hard to disagree with the mannies inf ront of me, who observed that Kerr may just have kept the deeply unpopular Paul Hartley in a job for a week more. Hartley's side, bristling with good players, is much less than the sum of its parts. One side will play much better and lose, and one side will not reach today's level and win. Strange game, football. Speaking of which, back to QoS-Montrose.
  10. I'm still watching- just not enough time for P&B right now. Thought it was a remarkably poor performance from Cliftonville the other night featuring some clownshoes goalkeeping- dear oh dear. Linfield were relentless but had a lot of help. Big psychological blow that for Cliftonville- can see it really now being between the top two. Two very good sides to watch and not an awful lot between them. At the other end I'm pleased to see Glenavon got over their woeful start which led to Gary Hamilton's demise. Intriguing four way fight for the title in the NI Championship with old historical name Dundela pulling ahead nicely- attached their recent vital win in Derry against Institute. Bangor and Portadown in the mix. Dundela have problems though- their park is not good enough for promotion so they need to fix that or pass up promotion I think. Limavady look like bouncing back quickly from the intermediate league which they lead from Queen's University. The bigger names with recent Premiership history- Warrenpoint and Distillery- treading water in mid-table & going nowhere this season. Warrenpoint have been pish in 2024 and fallen away into mid-table.
  11. Michael Beale sacked by Sunderland after 12 games, reported by both BBC & Sky. What a mess- terrible, clueless appointment that. Hard to see Beale getting another gig now tbh.
  12. Fergie bellowing on the open terraces at Douglas Park even featured fleetingly in the Only a Game? series of 1986 (all findable on youtube).
  13. Honestly its a shame to see Hamilton’s support fall away in the last 20-25 years. I can also remember Old Douglas Park & it was always a very partisan and decent support there. The Stepek-era Hamilton were always decent sides to watch. Last time I saw Accies was up at Pittodrie at the fag end of 2019, just before Covid. Awful game which Aberdeen scraped through…I think Dumbarton brought more to Pittodrie for their cup tie a few months later. Used to really enjoy the seethe as Hamilton scraped by in the top flight season after season playing comically negative football yet still bringing through decent young players. Hope you find a way to turn it around, the club just seems done in from afar & the glory days a fever dream.
  14. Been a great game so far-really entertaining. Been impressed with Airdrie not letting their heads drop & keeping pressing. Hearts just better quality- absolutely lethal on the break.
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