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  1. Mine arrived today, hadn't heard anything since the confirmation email in October and didn't receive an email saying it was dispatched either.
  2. I was expecting more from them, given their result against Elgin. I don't think we were particularly solid but their end product was very poor. Left back is clearly a massive issue but it's definitely something McCall is seeing given he tried Craig and them hooked him at half time so you'd have to think he'll remedy that in January. Other than some balls in and the odd bit of panicky defending, I thought we dealt with everything defensively pretty well. Sula and Dunachie were solid, if we're going with a back 4 after January I'd expect those two to be the starters. I'm glad for Leighfield after last weekend, obviously he had a howler for at least two of the goals but do we really think Parry would be any better? He was at fault for a lot of goals when he was our starter and he's only gotten older. Can we also get Forbes to f**k now? Another awful performance and I think he only managed one good corner before he was subbed. We then proceeded to score two goals from crosses without him. He's useless when the ball's in-play and his set pieces have been nowhere near as good as you'd think given how much game time he's getting. I'm not sure how fit he is, but we should be playing Grant there and move to it being Hynes, Scullion and Grant/King. Leslie also played well when he came on, I'm not sure if McCall's trying to use Leslie's pace later on when defenders are tiring and it sort of worked last night, but I think he's too good to be sitting on the bench for half the game. Rennie has his uses but benefits from having someone like Leslie to do the running with him. Great result for us overall though, 2 goals and a clean sheet should be a big bonus and hopefully starts the snowballing that he talked about with our confidence. Big premier league team away in the next round will do for me.
  3. Fair enough, must be shite about the badges then. Definitely a preferable option to Kennedy, but so are most options.
  4. I was told he doesn't have the badges required for the league, he was allowed in the dugout for the cup as they don't require them.
  5. Slightly surprised they have sacked him just because I don't expect decisive action from our board and losing 3-2 away isn't the worst result. Other than the Dumbarton result, the run hasn't been bad. Maybe they have an idea of who they want in already and that's what has prompted it, but that's maybe giving the board too much credit. Shame it didn't work out for him because he seems like a nice enough guy, even if he's incredibly dull but ultimately he's had enough games and he's just not tactically good enough. On to the next victim.
  6. To be fair to him, he doesn't have much choice in McCulloch with Craig injured for the left side so Lyons having to play there and Cuddihy and Hynes out who could maybe play RB. I would expect when fully fit, Craig and Lyons would be the starting full backs. For Sula, he could maybe drop and bring in Peter Grant but he's had his struggles too. I do agree with the changing shapes issue though, that was pretty evident today. He changed numerous times and didn't really address how much space and freedom they had down the wings. Lyons didn't play well today, but he was constantly overloaded. McCulloch was slightly better but didn't get a lot of help either. I fear for us if we keep McLean on and it doesn't turn around. International break is usually a decent time to get someone out and start looking for the replacement. After the break we have 2 league games and the cup game before we have another bank of 3 against Forfar, East Fife and Elgin. It could get pretty dicey if we leave it and go into those 3 games and lose ground to those teams just to ultimately sack him afterwards. I think there's enough quality in our team that we can't keep going back to blame Duffy on the squad. If the team is good enough to fight back against Stenny and get a draw, we shouldn't accept a 4-0 home defeat to Dumbarton.
  7. He can blame injuries but Duffy's signed a lot of these players. It shouldn't be any surprise when players like Cuddihy, Hynes, P. Grant, Lyons and Rennie are injured frequently. Carswell seems to have had issues this season and Forbes is clearly not got the highest level of fitness. Good riddance to Duffy. I'll give McLean more time because it was hard to say what was his fault and what was Duffy's fault in the previous set-up. But now he needs to start getting some results, or at the very least performances. If we've got some of this mysterious funding then use it to bring in 2 or more good players that will work in whatever system he wants and then we can see what kind of manager he is and judge him off it.
  8. The ball went out of play a considerable amount of times and a few times on the far side behind the tiny stand requiring a new ball, 2 or 3 times the Annan players passed the ball between 2 or 3 of them before it got to the throw-in taker. Same at goal kicks. 3 or 4 minutes should've been added at least IMO. It's petty and wouldn't have changed much, but it was incredibly frustrating before they scored.
  9. Thought the ref had a bit of a shocker, not sure who it was and if he's a highly ranked ref but if he is, says a lot of about how poor our referee standard is. Obviously it's sour grapes from me about the time wasting and whatnot, but he had a word with Fleming just before half time and seemed to signal there'd be no more, and then just let them away with it for most of the second half too. I think only Gibson got a booking for time wasting in the second half at 81 minutes? 6 minutes added in the first due to the injury but only 2 in the second half was an absolute farce. Not just against Clyde mind, it looked a penalty at the end instead of a free kick and there was a double foul from McLean and one slide from Sula that both looked like yellows he didn't even give a foul for. Not that it'd matter because we're so toothless upfront. I hope the money we got for Allan was worth it, how much are we going to lose in attendances next season by being in L2. All the best to Quitongo, he was playing very well in that first half and looked like he gave a f**k, noticeably more than the others when Quitongo has barely featured since January.
  10. I'd keep Scullion, he's been poor in the past couple of games but he had a very good month or so prior. When he was on it, he was one of our best players and it coincided with us getting better results from this season. Cameron can absolutely get fucked, he doesn't give a f**k. He puts absolutely no effort in and just jogs about. He puts no work in defensively and not even offensively. He is an absolute wage-stealer. McDonald is a strange one, he showed against Montrose that he can score goals but he is incredibly small and just gets bullied. Not sure who it was but he literally just bounced off an Annan defender on Tuesday night. I don't think he's shown enough all season to justify being kept on, even if we go to League Two Mullen, Sula, R.Grant, Roberts, Salkeld and Scullion would be all I'd keep. Maybe Cuddihy but his injuries are certainly a worry, Duthie if he's going to be on reduced wages, I'm sure he's on a fair wage this year so he'd need to take a paycut to stay.
  11. I'm all for having a positive outlook, but we simply don't have the players required for overturning a deficit. We haven't scored 3 goals in a game since drawing with Falkirk in November and haven't won a game by 2 or more goals since August, both before we lost Jordan Allan. We'd need to play Rennie and Docherty upfront with maybe Salkeld in behind and hope the players give a f**k. Maybe we'll get 2 goals and somehow hope Mullen pulls a blinder and keeps a clean sheet. Scullion has been poor in the past 3/4 games too, which is a shame because he was playing very well for a good wee spell. Made me think he was one we'd want to keep for next season and maybe he still is because of how young he is, but he needs to show up on Friday.
  12. Only other options are two LBs , just trying to get some fresh legs so we don't concede any more. Our squad is painfully thin and unbalanced. We need Docherty and Salkeld back for Friday if we've any hope of pulling two goals back.
  13. Rennie has a much better goalscoring instinct than Docherty does, both his goals in these ties show that. Too often we'll cross a ball from wide or the byline and Docherty just isn't where you need your striker to be. Where Rennie has scored a few from rebounds and being in the right area for cutbacks etc. I thought Docherty was hard done by tonight though, Duthie was poor and Salkeld clearly isn't suited to being out as wide as he was in the first half. I think he's sacrificing Salkeld or Scullion by putting them out wide to accommodate Duthie who's not really shown enough to merit starting. Rennie and Docherty upfront with Salkeld, Roberts, Cuddihy and Scullion forming up a diamond or 3-1 midfield is how I'd proceed if we've got all 6 fit.
  14. It's all fun and games going to see Broomhill until it's winter at Broadwood. They'll be lucky to get 100 numpties still supporting their team at that point.
  15. I saw the fans up the right hand side holding a banner/flag up but couldn't read it from my seat, what did it say? I presume that was in support of Goodwillie or against the council. I also heard fans talking about boycotting the food stands and it was noticeably more quiet.
  16. I thought the same, if we've somehow lost money from the Goodwillie saga compared to the position we were in a week ago then the board need to answer for it. Should've bitten Raith's hand off for the ~£50k and never looked back. Now we've potentially squandered some of that money, made our club look even worse than Raith and we're right back where we were once we sold him (in footballing terms) but with a worse relationship with our landlord. All in a week's work, smashing.
  17. They can f**k off with Goodwillie and the sponsor(s) trying to blackmail the club into signing him. They're not true fans of the club.
  18. Even if he can't actually be banned from the stadium legally, if we are to challenge it and then play him then we're definitely not going to be playing at Broadwood anymore when the lease runs out. So come 2023, we'll be looking for another place to go. By that point, Goodwillie will be 34. Assuming we are stupid enough to take him in the summer, we'll be out of a place to go and have a 34yo striker. Even from a footballing point of view, that clearly is a stupid and braindead move.
  19. What makes it worse is the board came to the right decision and rejected Raith's offer only to come back and think "nah, we'll have some of that" because of an ultimatum by the sponsor. The board should out who the sponsor(s) is/are, name and shame the idiots who might be responsible for putting our club to the wall. The Rutherglen bus is from the Castlemilk Branch, I've been going on the bus for years but the numbers are dwindling season on season. I think the pandemic has really reduced the numbers and it being an aging support who either pass away or stop attending.
  20. Fucking joke. Get him to f**k. I hope all the arseholes who post on the official forum and from the Glasgow Branch are happy. How much is it going to cost us to go to another stadium now? Are the sponsors who threatened to pull their support gonna put up the money to move us now? Who the f**k is going to touch us now? It's absolute beggar's belief that anyone thought we'd just be able to sign him again without picking up the shitstorm that Raith got. Brilliant.
  21. I'm not sure if it was just for last year, but at the end of the year they said that balances either had to be spent on the club shop, donated to the club, forwarded onto next year's balance or could be refunded back to you. So they clearly have the facilities to refund the balance back to customers.
  22. I'd hope that there isn't "plenty" of people who have been accused of rape and then taken to a court and found guilty of it. Nevermind the charges of assault and all that that he's also got to his name.
  23. Guy behind me in the queue at half time said Rumsby was away on a stag do, the stag being the son of someone who he sits beside.
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