Ivo den Bieman

Forbes is far too right wing and in the pocket of Charlotte Street corporate lobbyists. I'm also not comfortbale with a religious-obscurantist weirdo being first minister. Not sure Humza is hugely competent either and his image tarnished by a pisspoor spell as Health Secretary. A better candidate is needed- both of these meh at best.

Stevie Maskrey of East Stirlingshire c. 1985. Notice Fine Fare bargain basement pinstriped shirt and badge on the wrong side. East Stirlingshire wwnt for this strange abstract pentagon badge for a season or two in the 80s. Maskrey had a decent career at St. Johnstone, Killie and Thistle amongst other diddy teams. Finished at Cowden on loan in the late 90s. Handy winger in his day.

Montrose idle yet again in this broken-up-jobby of a start to the year so will head along to this. Some high quality petty bickering on the Stenny-Dumbarton thread so looking forward to more significant grizzling after full time here on Saturday. Forfar were absolutely gash under Gary Irvine so looking forward to seeing the impact Snakey Ray McKinnon's had. Always felt Forfar had a half decent squad for this level and that's beginning to show now that they have jettisoned the previous diddy manager. The same could be said of Stenny and feel whilst change might have come too late for them this season, they're in for a good year or two under Naysmith. Certainly the new boss has wasted little time emptying the gubbins detritus of Stephen Swift's shoddy agglomeration of jobbers and makeweights, and bringing in a few interesting players. Looking forward to the game which i expect will be tight with only a goal or two in it.

Honestly give it to Barry Robson ahead of any of these deluded chancers. Yogi

Having heard Cormack's statement on Saturday- and those awful photos of Goodwin stalking out of Easter Road on his own- it's hard to feel much more than sympathy for those two, really. Cormack ultimately carries the can- what an unholy mess he's made and it will take an awful lot of money to clear it up. Barry Robson in on a temporary basis makes sense and he just needs to get the tailspin righted. Emotionally the fans will want a lot of those chancers and charlatans in the squad out the door as fast as possible, but who to entrust with that task? It really is a massive 2-3 year job to clear out a lot of duds signed by Glass / Goodwin and get the right mentality and infrastructure in about the place. The chairman is accused of interfering in football matters and micro-managing. If that's true, will this awful week finally get him to change his perspective? It will be rinse and repeat if not. When even Tom English is laughing at the so-called "Football Monitoring Board" it's a no-brainer to shut that down straight away. Given the deep rooted knowledge and up to the minute panoramic view of contemporary football that those clowns have, the emerging shortlist to replace Goodwin no doubt includes Drew Jarvie with John Brogan as his assistant, Jim McInally, John Sheran, Stuart Baxter, and an intention to sound out Ally McLeod informally via ouija board. Hope Aberdeen can manage to turn it around soon, living here it's such an important institution for the city. No doubt the utter ridicule that has come the club's way since the disaster at Hearts is richly deserved but as an outsider looking in, not easy viewing.

I suspect it more likely we'll be soldiering on with what we've got until the end of the season, with Clyde and Peterhead already torpedoed in the relegation stakes.

Looks like a decent game, absolutely calamitous defending by Peterhead for the second and third. The second the centre half Ikwa gets totally lost under the high ball and misses a routine header, not quite sure what McKenzie was playing at for the third. It seems that apart from Joshua and Jason Brown a totally different defence from the previous week and playing all these new signings at the same time probably a mistake in hindsight. Peterhead are improving in terms of work rate and effort from the last weeks of McInally, but I wonder if they really have the time to experiment like this. QOS well worthy of the win it seems and looked a good deal more dangerous than they did at Links Park a few weeks back.

With Montrose idle I took in this Festival of Incompetence at Balmoor. Firstly, a beautiful day but absolutely Arctic, and it became clear that whoever handled the strong wind blowing up the ground would take the points. Clyde had the wind at their back in the first half and had a couple of good opportunities; both falling to the no. 9. One saw him bearing down on the Peterhead keeper after one or two nice passes but the goalie won the battle; secondly an abysmal sclaff from a Peterhead defender (no.6) played him in but again the forward unable to take advantage. The frustrating thing about the game was that both sides played as though it was a completely calm day. With such a high wind short sharp passing is needed and forget the long ball. Unfortunately both teams, largely, did the opposite. The wind was so strong that the ball quivered whenever it was placed for a corner or free kick; both teams went for the default blooter rather than keeping on the ground and trying to move it quickly. With the game scoreless at half time, it seemed as though pre-match predictions were coming to pass; both teams the mangy curs of Division One scrapping toothlessly over a pointless bone, desperate for the footballing vet to come along with his big needle and put an end to a miserable campaign. The second half was a little better than the near-subterranean bar of the first. What proved to be the winner came after a flurry of corners for Peterhead; the ball bobbled around in the box, the Clyde cludgie unable to clear the blockage, and wee Shanks cheekily back-heeled the ball home from an angle just inside the six yard box, past the sprawling Parry. Huge celebrations from the team and the home support and the goal really gave Peterhead an energy. Shanks was possessed for the next ten minutes, bullying the slothful Clyde no 14 off the ball inside his own half on a few occasions. Big Fosu upfront for the Fishy Jailers is an unguided missle; you never know what to expect from him. He's a limited player but very willing and a trier. He should have has Peterhead further ahead when he met a lovely right wing cross by the penalty spot, but somehow scrambled the header wide. A few minutes afterthere was an almighty scramble in the box and uncertainty from the Clyde keeper as the ball floated and swirled like a balloon at the end of a wind tunnel; somehow the ball stayed out with shots blocked by Clyde defenders. Jim Duffy seemed to regard the game with the indifference of a man at breakfast, thirty years into an unhappy marriage. He looked glum and miserable throughout. Bringing Rennie on for his debut seemed to ginger Clyde up a bit and for the last fifteen minutes they had the lions' sure of the possession and attack. However, watching Clyde trying to attack at present is like watching a drunk try to eat an avocado with a screwdriver. Peterhead's defence was more or less assured in dealing with the visitors' clumsy efforts, with the goalkeeper not having a save of significance to make. It was more nerves and mind games in the home defence that threatened an error. A couple of things to conclude. Firstly a crowd of nearly 700 on a totally freezing day who care enough about the fortunes of two such poor teams is a credit to both and I have to complement a good humoured Clyde support whose persistent chanting for their team was by far the most impressive thing about their club today. Of the two I have more optimism about Peterhead. Yes they are a very limited side who've had a terrible season for one reason and another but there are green shoots there. I thought they defended quite well with big Joshua and Jason Brown having good games at the back. The on loan keeper was decent. I was also quite impressed with young Jack Waddell and Shanks, a livewire confidence striker. Davie Robertson may just get enough of a tune out of this charity shop fiddle to see it in the play offs at the end of the season, a task which looked hugely optimistic when he was appointed a few weeks back. Glad that it's not really my problem where Clyde go from here. What a sorry mess the club is in.

did he sign for Clyde? can't see him signing permanently for Podcast FC and know he knocked back Cowdenbeath. Martin's a great, wholehearted player at his best, a really good servant to the club over the years, but experience shows L2 is his level. Not been quite the same since a serious injury.

Transphobic bigot found

It is a naked attack on devolution. I say this as someone who has no particular skin in the issue of the GRR, other than wanting trans people to ahve better lives than they do at present. Anyone lining up behind the Tories or the chillingly inhuman Alister Jack, the minister for the eighteenth century, needs to have a word with themselves.

Shelved at roughly the same time the Scottish government sold off the North Sea bed for a song to energy companies. Lyin' Lorna Slater from the Greens trotted out to announce it in the Scottish parliament.

Montrose worthy winners despite the very best efforts of the referee. Queens weren’t awful but you can see why they’ve struggled- lightweight & low on confidence. We laughed at lot at McKenna. I’m sure Bartley will turn things around given time. Lyons scored an excellent goal to win the game but a neutral will point to absolutely appalling defending- 3 or 4 chances to atop the build up / shot missed. Infuriating refereeing- penalty very very soft & several heavy challenges / blatant fouls on Montrose players missed whilst whistle immediately blown for challenges the other way. A very clear penalty shout denied too. Whoever that guy was, not fit to be a senior referee. Still we take the three points & move on. Happy with that. Congratulations also to Josh Todd for the successful launch of the first Dumfries probe into orbit.

It does seem to be much, much harder to get players in than it was before Covid. I am not sure why that is- after all we are quite an attractive place to come at the moment. It's not like the old days, when the management of the day would sign any old guff that was available, as nobody really wanted to come to Links Park, if there were other options around. Yes Petrie moves very slowly in the transfer market and that can be frustrating at times like these when there are obvious gaps in the team and further yawning gaps to appear in the summer with likely retirements coming. Arguably he's stood by a couple of players a season too long. He also seems to be fussy about who he wants in- he selects seemingly not just for playing ability but also character and desire to improve. Whisper it, but we're unlikely to feature in the play-offs this season and the next six-nine months are all about re-setting an ageing group for a refreshed promotion effort in 23-24. By then two of the bigger teams (Pars, Airdrie, Falkirk) will likely be gone from the division to be replaced by a Hamilton side who are falling apart in front of our eyes and likely to go straight down again, and Arbroath. We also have the luxurious position of Peterhead and Clyde being as good as down already, so we don't have to worry about relegation as an issue. I would accept moving slowly if the pay off were that there were a refreshed squad in place to try and renew top 4 momentum in a less difficult division next season. And the building of the squad needs to include a couple of players with Championship experience. This wonderful group who've delivered so many highs over the last few seasons is a really good League One outfit (or has been until recently) but it would I'm afraid stand little chance week-in week-out at the next level. The club needs to decide if it wants to, or can, invest further to try and make the Championship, or keep investing further at the present level to ensure a competitive top half League One side which hopefully one fine day will get lucky in a play off. Maybe we have to accept that top four in League One with the possibility of a season or two in the Championship is our level. And that's fine. The club is light years away from where it was in 2012 on and off the park. I think the support has got used to where we have been under Petrie and is wondering how we will manage to go further. I'm just happy the days of losing at home to Albion Rovers in front of crowds of 200 and finishing bottom three in the league below are done with for now.

Other than a tweet from Darvel's coach, is there any actual substance to this? Just the bigoted cheeks banging an empty bin again in their own interests. If it's a sealed off league with no promotion or relegation I can't see the harm in it. If it's anything otherwise, as said a gazillion times by 90% of fans on here before, f**k off.

It's been really sad to see Hamilton's collapse and pretty hard to comprehend from the outside. Hope the fans and some decent folk can rescue the club. Not looking brilliant presently.

Being in a Dundee taxi with Simon’s father Gary was one of the stranger experiences of my life. Gary was some player.

Always felt Brown Ferguson was harshly treated- seen few teams with a spirit & togetherness like his one that won a play off up at Peterhead in 2018- a side greater than the sum of its parts. Good to see him back in the game & feel Stenny have appointed a decent managerial team.

Wow that’s some scudding! Good to see McKenzie reprising Lucas Birnstingl for the first & the third an absolute shambles. Cove had given up for the last three. Knew it was a tricky season up Balmoral way but didn’t realise Hartley had that much work to do. And to think people had written off Coyle after a few poor managerial stints post-Bolton. I’m pleased for him, such a decent, positive minded guy.

Remarkable statement. If it were a P&B thread the replies would be full of ^^^^ Verge of Tears and gifs of Mourinho celebrating. Fair play to the Thistle fans who stuck to their task.

It was never 45 minutes of non stop OF chat unless something seismic had happened...i.e. Rangers dying, which was entertaining enough not to be annoying. RG never commissioned some nonentity from a podcast to comment on a non-story and aimless speculation that the return of a former chairman to a different role, may well upset the current managerial applecart, leading to the departure of Postecoglou. Thin steam from a distant dogshite. They even had an Aussie journalist before the Argentina-Australia game commenting more on Postecoglou than the world cup game that was actually about to start, that he was at. I get that League One and Two and the LL/HL are minority, esoteric pursuits but Richard Gordon did give them the time available and did appear to know something about the players in those leagues and which teams were doing well / badly. I doubt half the muppets on the current iteration of Sportsound even know which teams are in the league.

Saturday was 45 minutes of old firm radio and then audible irritation that they had to go to Ayr to do a live interview with Lee Bullen. Since Richard Gordon left it's just Old Firm radio. It's really a big shame.

It's clear Swift is an utter balloon but the club either won't sack him, or doesn't have the money to sack him or, even if they have one of those two, haven't the resource to clear out the duds in the squad til next summer. Must be frustrating for the fans, a little similar to the Gary Irvine situation at Forfar, until recently.

I've seen worse games but this one was pretty forgettable overall. Alloa didn't turn up until half way through the first half and by then Montrose could easily have been a couple of goals to the good, with McAllister and another firing close range headers narrowly over. Hogarth in the Alloa goal also produced a sprawling save low to his right that kept the visitors goal intact. Unfortunately in the second half we were slow, laboured and a bit clueless going forward and McAllister cut a frustrated figure up front. I'm not really sure he's well integrated into the group yet. The biggest concern for me was that we basically sat back and let them come at us for the last quarter hour, and a more competent team would have punished us. Alloa had a succession of corners and one or two goalmouth scrambles which were totally unnecessary. We do like to give the opposition a good chance for ten to fifteen minutes of every game. The referee was a strutting little p***k, absolutely appalling. God knows where they find them. Two of the stalwarts of Montrose in the last decade- Masson and Watson- plus the remarkable "Dillo"- won't be playing for too much longer. McAllister himself can't have much more in the tank even though he's still a real menace on his day. We have a very big window coming up in January and again over the summer to revitalise the squad and get a few in, so there's some kind of filling of the massive holes these players will leave. The side's a bit flat at the moment. Of course this isn't a moan- we're still light years ahead of where the club was ten years ago, treading water in the bottom half of league two with a squad chock full of burnt-out mavericks, never-quite-weres, and last-stop-before-Lochee-Harp Dundee jobbers- but this is a strategiucally important time and the continuation of the remarkable success the manager and the players have enjoyed now depends on effective work in the transfer market.

Humiliating & embarrassing result. Poor performances have been the norm in the cup in the last few seasons. This scoreline makes the home defeat to LTHV a few seasons back look respectable.