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  1. 1 minute ago, AyrExile said:

    Rose is another Ashford type. Drop him down a division and he'd probably make an impact. Might get away playing against the bottom teams in the championship but will need to step up to cut it at this level

    Said the same after midweek- his performances v Arbroath twice and Kelty suggested he'd defo be worth keeping if we did end up in L1 next season haha

  2. 19 minutes ago, Hursty said:

    Aye its absolutely fine the now.  Sadly it's not a 3pm kick off though...

    Update - I can exclusively reveal that there are 2 empty wheely bins that have blown over on Burnett Terrace.   I think this is the wind equivalent of "i live 5 mins away and my back garden is still frozen / waterlogged"  so I'm now saying game off.  

  3. 1 hour ago, diegomarahenry said:

    The first hour today was the most bored I’d been at a football match in years. Absolutely turgid, uneventful guff.

    Apart from A couple of speculative efforts and McCallister getting made an arse of, nothing happened, not a dreadful performance. Just boring.

    Once we went 2-0 up, the team started to actually play some football and we ended up comfortable winners.

    Folk booing McGinty, Smith or both was weird when they presented McGinty with his award. Rose sticking his fingers in his ears when he scored, if he thinks the criticism of the team, or even worse, him has been unjust, he can f**k off now. Stunk the place out since he joined and had the lack of self awareness to celebrate like that. He and the team could have used today as a clean slate but that kind of stuff can f**k right off. 
     

    No defensive errors that led to opportunities, We were passed around for a lot of the game and couldn’t get the ball back. We had a better shape though and Whyte made substitutions that Bullen would never had made, McKenzie made a big difference once he came on, Rose was effective and actually looked capable for once. 
    Had low expectations today and they were surpassed by a small margin. 

    Rose seemed pretty happy at the end- made an effort to come over to all the kids for high fives and photos etc like Adeloye used to do.  They're all away thinking he's amazing 🤣

  4. On 19/01/2024 at 12:17, Hursty said:

    As said - they can do all the work in the world off the park but success on it is what gets folk coming back. 

    Tomorrow is a good example with the kids teams offer - my sons 2015s team have most of their squad going- he and one other have season tickets so would probably go anyway, there's 2 others who go semi regularly but looking at the list of names I think it will be the first time at Somerset for a few of them and maybe even the first ever live game attended for one. 

    What a difference it might make with regards to nagging mum and dad to go back if tomorrow sees a good comfortable home win and  couple of goals to cheer with their pals etc rather than a miserable 0-1 defeat with no noise from the crowd other than grumbles / boos etc.  

    What a day that ended up being - the boys got on the park at Half Time for the penalty shoot out thing - usually something to totally ignore but made today a bit special for me.  

    Game went as well as it could have - comfortable enough without ever looking great, good draw tomorrow and who knows.     

  5. As said - they can do all the work in the world off the park but success on it is what gets folk coming back. 

    Tomorrow is a good example with the kids teams offer - my sons 2015s team have most of their squad going- he and one other have season tickets so would probably go anyway, there's 2 others who go semi regularly but looking at the list of names I think it will be the first time at Somerset for a few of them and maybe even the first ever live game attended for one. 

    What a difference it might make with regards to nagging mum and dad to go back if tomorrow sees a good comfortable home win and  couple of goals to cheer with their pals etc rather than a miserable 0-1 defeat with no noise from the crowd other than grumbles / boos etc.  

  6. 13 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:

    In any case, it does not make one iota of sense that Smith would tell a new manager he couldn’t bring in an assistant manager.

    I suspect it would be more of a case that the wages on offer wouldn't be enough to convince both him and his assistant to relocate up here rather than us refusing to pay for an assistant 

  7. It's embarrassingly amateur level - "aye the manager is clueless but he's a lovely guy and he does a lot of work fixing up the dressing rooms and gives up his Wednesday nights for training and always gets a round in in the pub after matches so he's got the job for life, cos who else would want it anyway"

     

    They MUST have some sort of barrier between on and off the park with this next appointment.   We can't accept brutal performances on the park cos the manager is great off it.   By the same token, we surely wouldn't want to be in a position where we were playing well and challenging but the manager was under pressure cos he was shite at mingling with folk after the game / going to community events 

  8. 1 minute ago, Thumper said:

    The strongest argument for not having a new manager at all is avoiding the introduction interview.

    Be interesting if any January signings are honest in theirs:

    "So *random ex Morton or Inverness etc player* what do you know about Somerset Park and the famous Somerset Road End atmosphere"

    "Well Callum, to be honest anytime I've played here recently the atmosphere has been shite and we've usually come away with a comfortable enough 3 points so I've always enjoyed it"  

  9. 15 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:

    You know you've made the bin fire of shit shows when the main football section of the BBC website is saying it was "vile abuse" of Bullen and the club condemning it.

    I don't go to away games all that often but go to all the home games and I never heard anything untoward or OTT beyond regular football chants. Seems to me that the club are deflecting failures of Mathie and Bullen onto the fans and making us all look like knuckle dragging morons 

    It's utterly bizarre they've decided to go down that route and make it sound like the fans have hounded out a good manager and person - every media outlet leading with that now.   That's hardly going to encourage applications unless that's the plan all along - give it internally to McGeady or something as we couldn't attract any outside interest due to how bad the fans are.  

  10. On 13/01/2024 at 18:08, Hursty said:

    Decided to calm myself down a bit by thinking of the 60 quid or so I've saved thanks to my decision that if we won today I'd go to the Kelty and Arbroath home double header.  They can shove that so far up their arses now and I don't care who thinks that makes me not a true fan 🤣

    Last nights announcement has probably cost me 60 quid or so.. not sure whether to be happy or raging 🤣

  11. Since the 4-4 draw at Raith that defo shows plucky wee Ayr will be fine despite chucking it in injury time, Arbroath with their new manager have come from 2 down there with a sub goalie scoring the equaliser and Queens Park have went there and won 2-1 despite conceding early under their new manager.   

    All good though, our point there shows we will definitely beat both those other sides in must win games in the next few weeks 

      

  12. Just now, diegomarahenry said:

    He is fully aware he isn't under pressure and clearly doesn't think things are that bad

    The board absolutely buzzing at the prospect of all of a sudden having a core of fairly competent League 1 level starters like McAllister / McKenzie / Bryden etc already at the club without having to spend any extra cash 

  13. I remember going to Arbroath just after McCall left and hammering them 3-0 with a team with Kelly Moffat McCowan Forrest etc and being a joy to watch and thinking things might just be OK.  

    We've beat them twice in 14 attempts under 4 managers since then and look absolutely nailed on to get relegated either before them or at the same time.  

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