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  1. Don't mind the occasional Friday evening match but this League already has way too many midweek and Friday night matches (especially with Broomhill getting in on the act). At times the evening matches in the last couple of seasons have seemed ever ending. Apart from us fans it cant be great for the part-time players.
  2. Bo'ness certainly seem to know how to thump us bottom dwellers this season. Amazing that the BU's, from a mid table placing at the moment, have the best GD in the League. This is most unpredictable LL this season so who knows what is going happen next.
  3. This has been a killer for "Shire for the last 7 seasons but there are glimmers of hope with well supported teams gradually filtering into the League. The League was created on the side of a fag packet with the main drivers being The Spartans. Bizarrely the idea was sound, however, the implementation wasn't and a League which should now have all the teams champing at the bit for a taste of league adventure has stalled big time. Until the bottom of the league opens properly (and it it means my own team going doing then so be it) then I have to hope that the next team that comes up into the league is a well supported team from the west to give others hope from that region.
  4. You're a star for trying to clarify this. It is a mystery to probably all fans. I track all my clubs card stats and never get it right in guessing whether a player will miss a match of not. I really wish it was up there/set in stone for all to see. That said, personally I would prefer a system where a player could work off cumlative card points by good behaviour in subsequent matches.
  5. Completely ignoring the footy today (as a 'Shire fan who would blame me) l just wanted to say that I have now had the chance to read the match programme and it is by best by miles I have ever seen/read at this level. It makes the rest of us programme guys and girls look like we are just playing about. Others will love the design and layout, which is stunningly good, but for me it is always all about content... and that is crazily good. Serious huge well done Andy.
  6. We all hope that but even if the funeral is on Monday then I have serious doubts that our "overlords" wont just call it all off next week as well.
  7. Was involved in the Diver protests and also Mackin protests. Both of which were long term criticisms of Shire management and how the club was being totally mismanaged
  8. Cheers. Will certainly go back through all the likely suspects. I wouldn't be surprised. I started going in 87 and unlikely these crazy low crowds would have be 80/1 or 81/2 so that narrows it a lot.
  9. He has hit the ground running. I have been really impressed with him since he made is debut for us in a pre season friendly at Crossgates Primrose at the start of July. Scott has got a lot of talent and incredibly is still only 16. He has been shown some great wing play and is a very decent crosser of the ball. I was particularly impressed with his work rate on Tuesday at Paisley when, after a 'Shire attack he was involved in, Scott was willing to race back to our our 18 yard line to help out in defence. Looking forward to what he can bring to the team as the season progresses.
  10. Of the 220 odd competitive home matches Shire played from 1980/81 to 1989/90 I am only missing details of the "official" crowds from 6 Stirlingshire Cup matches and 1 Anglo Scottish Cup match. The lowest "official" crowd from that period was 119 v Stranraer on 4/4/1990 in 2nd Division. The only other "official" crowd under 150 in the 1980s was 130 v Stranraer on 6/9/1986 in 2nd Division. Like you what the "official" crowd and what the actual crowd was were on occasion 2 completely different things. I remember going the League Cup match at Firs v Arbroath on 11/8/1988 and been stunned when the crowd was claimed to have been 600 when it though it was nearer 100. Certainly in the 1990s when counting the crowds we included everyone there including the ambulance staff when other clubs in out league did their counting differently. I have Shire crowd details all the way back to 1880/81 and the 80 named v Braves is the lowest ever given numbered crowd for a competitive match in our history though I have no doubt there have been lower actual crowds. We just will never be able to find out. In the earlier days crowds were given sometimes as a number but mainly as things like "large crowd", "disappointing crowd" etc. We will never know what was meant by a "meagre crowd" when the same season #Shire would play to home crowds of 1000 or more. There are 2 potential awful crowds that stick out 1) "A few dozen" v Rumford Rovers on 1/11/1890 in Stirlingshire Cup 1st Round and 2) "Bare Handful" on 20/10/1934 v Montrose in Division Two. One final thing to mention is that the supposed record low crowd of 32 at Firs Park on 15/4/1939 v Leith Athletic in Division Two is an error. The Falkirk Herald actual called the crowd "a mere handful". Then the match comments went onto say that the crowd was counted at exactly 32 5 minutes before kick off, most of them huddled in a little group behind the shelter of the covered enclosure. By the time the game was in progress there was about 100 spectators. Gate receipts were about £5.
  11. Yes we are on an unbeaten competitive 10 game away run since nov 2021. Club record is 13 during in 2016 & 2017
  12. It was our best performance of the season so far by a distance. Every player worked their socks off. Now to build on this in our league matches and get that elusive win.
  13. Sadly 80 was the correct figure for Shire v Braves. It is our worst LL home crowd ever and worst home competitive crowd for a very long time (potential ever if u are not including some shire cup matches in the last couple of decades)
  14. Thanks for looking at this and highlighting other issues.. I think that perhaps the 2 goals for and against errors are a mash up of the issues with the 2 results from that season I highlighted above but I will be going back through everything. Will kep me busy ! My results grid and table are pulled through and calculate automatically from the same core results so if any changes need to be made then it wil be in my actual results data.
  15. Thanks for the info. I hadn't picked up on that. I will now including that in my own table.
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