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Paul Hartley to be sacked or resign for me. The three year deals and new signings suggest that the Cove board are pushing for promotion and there'll be pressure on him as a result.

That top one's Sam Ramsbottom innit?

Again?

For one reason or another Adam's never really settled and found the form he had for us when he arrived for his first spell. He's got to take this opportunity to work with and learn from Aggie

A great first touch, a good protector of the ball and strong guy. Doesn't create, doesn't shoot. He'll sit in front of the defence and tidy up all day.

On board, trains, C & G

Wouldn't trust him to stay after how he treated Morton. That said, he seems to put out attacking teams that generally do well.

The budget and the target set to the manager will be huge factors in the club deciding whether to keep Duffy or not. If it was stay in the league, he's done what was hoped for, if it was get into the top half for the league then that would be unrealistic with that budget. I think what we've seen this year is a style of play intended to make us hard to beat. Duffys sacrificed entertainment for pragmatism. I wouldn't be surprised to see him given a new contract or him leaving due to concerns over the budget or a new signing policy brought in with the new owners.

Tom must be 30 by now, last I seen him he had got married, had kids and joined the police.

My reading of that is that it comes down to how the ground is structured and how the organisers can control the areas. I know everyone wants to blame the Govt here, but I feel that the clubs/SFA could do more. Theres no reason I can think of to prevent a few hundred supporters getting in our ground. There's gates allowing access directly into the stand from outside and the teams could take the middle section of the stand for players etc. What might be an issue is whether the away team changes in the concourse under the home end or not, bearing in mind there's toilets there too.

This should be a tight game and is only the first leg. Main thing for both teams will be to stay in the tie until the next leg.

Hope he's fit again soon. I think it was Omar that was involved in the challenge, just before he was subbed off. Having only seen it once, I'm not sure what sort of contact there was. It's a shame someone got injured because I think the tetchy nature of the game was one of the best parts of it.

I'm the same, I actually find myself resenting everyone else being out and about and slowing down my drive to work

Hoping we get another good result and annoy Hartley some, that would be pleasant. Dumbarton to win 2-1, goals from Ian Russell, John Gemmell and Isaac Layne.

East fife bench have sounded a little unhappy in the first half. What's bothering them?

Extra time *shudders*

Boy Turner in centre midfield was excellent, great appetite to get on the ball and played well. I see Jim claiming we tried playing with two wingers, when was that?

Does anyone have stats for the games that would detail average length of pass etc? I know that the long ball frustrates and is quite ineffective, but I wonder if part of our problem is that we want to play our way up the park, effectively filling the space and running out of room for shorter passes. Huntly sat off us in the first half and we then found spaces, but I felt Peterhead played differently. I agree that Frizz and PJ need the ball at their feet, but they also need space to run into. Perhaps the front three could work, but with the two much wider?

That's three kicking mistakes from the goalie in 5 minutes when he's had next to nothing to do, ffs

Is that a light or a speaker about to fall from the stand roof?

No I didn't sorry, dont pay those leagues much attention, I guess that's shows.

Define junkie please, that seems really unfair on the boy from what I've read.

All these junior players would be on good pay I would guess. We know that the likes of EK and Darvel are being heavily supported just now. I would also guess that there might be incentives, such as sign on fees, for those players to sign with senior teams. Reading between the lines and giving Duffy some credit, maybe we dont have much or any transfer kitty to trade with? Out of interest, does anyone have a list of Duffy signings?

The Duffy kicking is getting a bit boring now guys, hopefully we get a good game on saturday and it cheers us all up. I think Aitken had a much easier job attracting players and yet he still made some poor decisions. He would have had more money, a higher league and bigger teams to play against. I dont know what Duffys budget is, but I guess he's shopping where he can. I think East Fife signed 3 kids on loan before Nathan Austin, perhaps they've put all their available money into that one signing?

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