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Will he even make the bench?

Worth a wee look on Twitter as Syme,Miller,Morrison and the other Darvel mercenaries/neds having a go at Buffs media for stating the fact "Chris McGowan opts to sit out ahead of a move to rival club". Personally I think the comment is very reserved and simply states the facts as they stand.

Is there somewhere to safely park my bike around the stadium?

Thanks for that. Is winner automatically promoted or is there further play off v LL team?

Darvel the new Gretna? Completely unsustainable long term. https://footballssoul.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/the-sad-demise-of-gretna-fc-a-warning-for-clubs-south-of-the-border/

Fair play to Mick Kennedy for this. Nice wee report from Reece as well. https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=365067AFF452D4CD!120&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!AHbvTd2TF2wWnB4

So what's next for Darvel? Can anyone spell out the play off schedule and opponents?

You are quite correct commenting on the Lowland League is not in any way outrageous. However the OP said he hadn't heard ANYTHING from the Darvel mouths in recent weeks.

Interesting how Gall seems to conduct himself well when relating to Killie yet the real character seems to come out when speaking about Darvel and their opponents.

Kennedy greeting about the "guest teams" in Lowland League and Darren "the mouth" Miller moaning that winning the league should guarantee them promotion. As if they didn't know the rules at the beginning of the season. And these comments are just in the past 24 hours. They just can't help themselves responding on Twitter. And of course Gall had his rant a couple of weeks ago about how Darvel were the only team playing Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Of course totally ignorant to the fact that they have had more home games postponed than any other club due to the state of their park.

What happened to the goalie Ruddy? Injured or binned already? there certainly was some talk on here that he wasn't very good when he signed.

To a certain extent I am kinda torn on the Darvel question as in normal circumstances I will support the underdog. However the exception to the rule is where the previous underdog has obviously bought their way to where they are. Darvel, PSG and potentially Newcastle come into that category .

Looking at how Kennedy has behaved on here is certainly not the definition of class as I would understand it. I have no concern about him wanting to do the best for his own team however to claim he is the "fairest manager in football" does seem rather far fetched to me. Kennedy has been hugely critical of the guest teams and potentially what they are buying yet does not have the honesty and self reflection to see that his current club are buying their way through the leagues also. Obviously the the poster who doesn't like Rangers does not understand the meaning of sustainable. The current set up at Darvel is not sustainable long term though hopefully everyone involved will make efforts to change that and the local community will benefit.

That's poor though not surprising. 100% a plastic franchise club as you say. And the manager has the cheek to be critical of the Guest Teams in the LL. He really needs to take a long look at himself and his current club in the mirror.

If they weren't playing competitive matches surely they would be travelling down to Darvel for training? Presumably they knew what they were agreeing to when they agreed to take the big money? Of course that is one of the problems Darvel face when importing players and perhaps something they should have considered when signing so many from outside Ayrshire. Of course it could be argued that recent signings have tried to address that situation?

Is Jack Ruddy injured or has he been found out already and dropped?

Really not sure what happened to Darvel today? Normally Kennedy, Miller and Gall keep us updated via social media but they seem to have lost their voices this evening . Has the dream died? Can they afford to spend even more money next season on both their squad and the dodgy pitch or will they return to mid table mediocrity?

It really was an awful game of football though I have seen much worse and that is just this season! @Cardle is Magic must not have seen much football at this level if that was the worst ever.

Funny that the Thistle fans I spoke to at the weekend assured me they WOULD be top of the league WHEN they won all the games in hand. Pitch certainly not doing the team any favours. Given they seem desperate to gain extra income then surely a quality plastic pitch , similar to what we have at Killie, would be a good investment?

Lovely response by Ayr United to the sad passing of Killie fan Colin McCue after last weeks game. Thank you

Yeah but big brave Declan uses a baseball bat when he falls out with folk!

That was like Derby at the Baseball Ground in the 1970's. Of course football should be played on grass but a pitch like that makes it so very easy to make a case for plastic pitches.

Maloney is a very strange wee man. Obviously watches different games to the rest of us given his post match interviews. Portrays himself as a cultural football manager and has Gary Caldwell as assistant manager which makes no sense to anyone. He looks to me like a poor mans Cathro. Will do well to last til the end of this season IMO.

And the Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany tells this very story . Well worth a read IMO. Summary below. On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgetten, disenfranchised. In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interiew, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21. Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.

I saw the pitrch invasion when the rangers scored their 3rd goal but did the BBC edit out the County fans pitch invasion at their late equaliser?