O'Kelly Isley III
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Just now, RossBFaeDundee said:
What an exciting array of semifinalists.
It's good that a minnow has made it through.
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What's the chances of an Old Firm semi-final ?
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Give us a goal Morton.
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9 minutes ago, PossilYM said:
A Clyde drop would spread terror through a whole host of clubs.
Yep, and we are watching on very nervously.
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1 hour ago, The Moonster said:
We should probably add Cameron to the "active" list too!
Indeed, but I don't think he's fully through his initiation process yet.
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1 hour ago, BullyWeeStonehouse said:
We've had none of those things my entire lifetime so I think we will be fine in that regard as it's nothing new.
As far as other teams hating us, who gives a f**k. I don't particularly like any other Scottish team. I'm sure nobodies losing sleep over fans of other teams disliking them.
I think you'll find that other than attention seeking bams there isn't a great hatred for Clyde - I certainly don't hate them but that's maybe because I'm old enough to remember the very good team of the 1960's which finished third in the First Division in 1967. Add in the two Scottish Cup wins in three years in the decade before and without disrespect to any of the teams which have already dropped, the loss of Clyde FC to the senior league would be on a whole different level.
I wish the Bully Wee good luck in avoiding tenth place.
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16 hours ago, FifeSons said:
That’s what I thought, but he’s still there on Companies House. Not that the club is ever quick to update that, so you’re probably right. I wondered if maybe the confusion was that he’d resigned from the CC board, but not DFC.
Moonster is correct, there are three active Directors at DFC although Paul McPherson's role and duties remain unknown. Which leaves two actually running the show.
Some of us have developed a part-time hobby in recent years trying to keep up with the blizzard of comings and goings on Companies House involving DFC, Cognitive Capital, MoreHomes DFC and MoreRooms (RIP). That should perhaps tell even the most starry-eyed optimists something.
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8 hours ago, tamthebam said:
I always thought of Nutmeg writers as looking like this:
That's why The Absolute Game worked- there were serious articles about sectarianism and turn the page and you got a humorous article about why Albion Rovers were utterly pish.
As a former contributor to TAG I thank you and award a greenie.
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11 minutes ago, Silverton End said:
Who believes that Cognitive can be a force for the good of DFC?
Chairman MacKay & C Hosie?
I would say two of the three person Board.
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7 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
In your opinion, what should the fans/Trusts next steps be?
I'd encourage everyone who can to attend the Trust AGM on April 22nd, noting that non-Trust supporters can attend on provision of joining on the night. There is a plan in early progress and it would be the intention to discuss it in open session on that occasion. I'm not going to attempt to cover it here.
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2 hours ago, DFCTTFM said:
I don't know about anyone else, but seeing the club in this bad of a situation is truly heartbreaking. Everyone can see the problems, yet nothing can realistically be done. The board & manager will continue to pass the blame and essentially bullshit the fans further which in turn is only making things worse, its a vicious cycle which is going to come to a head at some point, there is only so much the fans can take before alot decide to pack it in. Troubling times.
The DFC Board, such as it is, has adopted a policy of trying to manage the ownership situation as opposed to confronting it, especially in the matter of securities which were established at the time of the Cognitive Capital purchase of the club's majority shareholding in April 2021.
Knowledge and understanding of these securities is vital, because if Cognitive through their created entity MoreHomes DFC fail to gain planning consent to build houses on the Rock site, then the securities could financially detonate under DFC. Simply put, the situation is worryingly very murky and although the Trust has pressed for clarity none has been forthcoming. And in fairness to the previous Board, such was their frustration at the lack of transparency that the then Chairman, Company Secretary and two Associate Directors resigned their posts. That was a highly significant act.
The current club ownership is like a wheel hub, and every other activity, including the football aspects, rotates around it. And of course one party stands to benefit from any decline in the club's fortunes and finances, yet worryingly there are still those who believe that Cognitive can be a force for the good of DFC. I don't know about heartbreaking but it's certainly extremely worrying.
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15 minutes ago, FifeSons said:
This, too.
Aye, but for 50% of games he's playing on a pitch of raw mince with pakora stirred through it.
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24 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
That was a really odd game. And the ending was grimly predictable. So much so, that it provoked virtually no anger. Just everyone streaming for the exits and a few sighs of 'f**k's sake'.
It was weirdly, mainly, because of East Fife. For the first 20 minutes and last 15 or so they were superb. They penned us in, dominated the midfield and should've added to their three goals. In fact they should've been 3-0 ahead inside 15 minutes, with Nathan Austin somehow hitting the post from about two yards and Stuart Murdoch almost catching out the very shaky looking Jay Hogarth from long range. With the ball hitting the bar.
After that start, they dropped out of the game. And we really should've been level before half-time when Finlay Gray missed a sitter.
With the wind at our backs we started the second-half very well. Both goals were really decent. The first working the ball out to the left, a good pass by Tony Wallace and a terrific finish from Finlay Gray.
The second saw Michael Ruth finally get a reward for all the chasing of balls punted into the channels. Robbing Brian Easton and teeing up Jinky Hilton (via a lovely Gray dummy) to stroke in.
Then we crumble almost immediately. Conceding from a corner. Which has been an Achilles Heel all season. It looked like Jay Hogarth should've done a lot better too, but I'm not sure if he had bodies in the way.
From that goal until about 10 minutes from time I was very comfortable it was ending 2-2. Both sides looked quite content with that.
But then East Fife went for it, Hogarth had the bar to thank for bailing him out after another awkward save. And made a decent rebound save after spilling a long range Jack Healy shot. Before making one of the weirdest attempts to save a header I've ever seen. Resulting in Nathan Austin's winning goal. I'm not sure if it was the wind, a deflection or just a howler. But I thought the header was his all the way. Right up until the moment it hit the net.
We could've crumbled after going behind early. And I thought we were miles off it early on. But the players did show a bit of fight in the second-half.
Mark Durnan being back made a difference and I thought he played well. It was also the best game I think Jinky Hilton has had for us, maybe excepting the Forfar match. He was skilful, used the ball well, took his goal well and worked hard for the cause.
Michael Ruth was Michael Ruth. Tony Wallace was Tony Wallace.
Despite his goal, I didn't think Finlay Gray played all that well. Especially when it came to using the ball. Cian Newbury likewise did some things that were very good, and some things that saw him getting overrun. Aaron Healy showed about five minutes of promise after our goals, and was then hooked.
By far and away our biggest issue however is the defence. Nathan Austin started playing off Mark Durnan, and didn't get a great deal of joy. It was just two big strong boys giving as good as they for.
Then he targeted Gallagher Lennon. And ragdolled him for the whole of the second-half. Lennon is just not ready for this level of football yet; and it can't be doing him any good getting roasted constantly. His confidence must be in tatters.
Left-back is obviously a major issue too. As we all know. And I don't have a clue what we do there. Blair Malcolm was at fault for the opening goal and got roasted a few times. Ryan Blair isn't very good there at all, but he seems like our only passable option. And that's bloody terrifying.
Fourth place is still very much in our hands. Eight games remaining and all we have to do is make sure that East Fife don't win two more than us is a challenge most teams should be confident in overcoming. But we really are a rabble at times defensively, and I've no faith at all in this squad to play sensibly and string together a five or six game run of positive results.
We've won four games since Brett Long broke his ankle in the first week of December. That's harrowing. I know we all knew Brett was excellent, but I don't think we maybe appreciated just how vital he was at papering over defensive cracks.
I've given you a greenie Jan as that would have cost you about 800 quid in the obituaries column in the Lennox.
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GIRFUY Ireland you smug gits.
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1 hour ago, squeezebox-son said:
Whenever there's any kind of pressure on us, whether it be today, a game vs Stenny when we were still considered "title contenders" or vs the bottom sides when we are expected to win (on paper)... they just bottle it. Every single time. It's happened far too often to be coincidence and, for me, it comes from the top. Farrell and his team are bottle merchants and it's spread throughout this group of players, again!
I don't think any of the players we've had under Stevie Farrell are or have been bottlers but there has developed a very unfortunate pattern in that no matter the line-ups, the tactics have been so repeatedly one-dimensional, ie one man up front, and the substitutions so randomly baffling that the outcomes become the same on a repeat basis.
That's either down to the players themselves or the team management, and when we consider the balance of the squads, or rather the lack of it, IMO it's definitely the latter. Faz's managerial record at both Stranraer and Dumbarton is not brilliant, and it would be a bold person who would expect anything much to change during the remainder of his contract here.
As such the club needs bold leadership in the Boardroom right now, but I fear that's exactly where you might have a bottle problem.
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Painting that garden fence was definitely the correct decision. Twenty quid saved and a case of Peroni to come from LWL
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1 hour ago, FifeSons said:
Also, just watch how the promise of the plastic pitch will be swept under the rug and hoped that the fans just forget was ever mentioned. Given it was Paul McPherson who promised it, who’s been fully outed as Hosie’s bitch, we’ll never be seeing that again, folks (much like our good pal Paul Mc, himself!).
It's easy to label your post as cynical, but as the writer Ambrose Bierce once observed, a cynic sees things as they are and not how they should be, and I think you are bang on the money.
There is a strong feeling of drift and decline about this club, and that's primarily because the controlling interest is concerned with speculative housing development and not football. And the local Board seem unable or unwilling to challenge that.
As regards an artificial pitch, Clydebank are already there, the Vale Juniors are embarked on a sizeable project, and there is flux over East End Park which will have it's own fall-out regarding pitch provision. And all of these examples are or have been driven by autonomous local input.
DFC can certainly advertise their intentions on a pitch but based on the current evidence whether they can actually deliver it remains a matter of some considerable conjecture. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.
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5 hours ago, Sweet Pete said:
Nobody watches that abortion of a programme. I managed about 5 minutes of it before the Johnny Bravo haircut with the fake accent made me vomit blood.
So 'because nobody watches it' we needn't be concerned about the pitch ?
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Ourselves and Bonnyrigg being absolutely hung out to dry on tonight's View From The Terrace over the state of our pitches. There was a snippet shown of last week's Peterhead game and it looked even more horrendous than it did at the game. We could be risking reputational damage.
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2 minutes ago, FifeSons said:
I actually think that there's so much negativity around this game, that we might end up getting a result.
Either that or we move nearer to being a 'club in crisis'. Or is that too negative ?
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2 hours ago, Jan Vojáček said:
That's the guy!
Hang on, I've just seen our match preview. No Sean Crighton tomorrow. Oh Jesus. So we're going into this game with one natural centre-half? 18-year-old Gallagher Lennon, who has looked out of his depth since signing. Or with Mark Durnan, who hasn't played since October having to play for a full 90 minutes.
Praying Durnan is something close to being match ready. If he is, then I'd start him and Newbury together. And Blair Malcolm at left-back. If he's not? Well I've no idea really. Lennon and Newbury? Two centre-halves with a combined aged of 36 would be a giggle.
Get Healy a pair of platform Predators and we're sorted.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse I see that tomorrow 's ref is Scott Lambie.
Thank f*** I'm painting LWL's garden fence.
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11 hours ago, Am Featha *****h Nan Clach said:
Presuming everyone from Forfar down are vulnerable, who do people want to finish bottom/go down?
I like away days to Elgin/Forfar/Stranraer so hope they stay up.
At this moment, Clyde offer very little. No home, no community value. Nothing against the fans but they'd be my first choice. Followed by Bonnyrigg. Junior ground, Junior pitch, Junior manager, Junior tactics.
The other way to look at is that lesser clubs than Clyde would have buckled long before now given their struggles since leaving Shawfield.
How about we agree that we'd like NO clubs to go this season rather than risk yet another pop-up outfit enter the league ?
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11 hours ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:
It's the (utter) state of the union tonight.
Hope they've given him his meds.
Well, it seems to have been more Smokin' Joe than Sleepy Joe. But I hae ma doots.
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Colour me shocked.