squeezebox-son
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Aye, Ray is a dick. I always enjoy beating his teams. Deluded in that interview there, but absolutely unsurprising.
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5 hours ago, fafc1885 said:
Starting with binning McKinnon.
Worst thing that ever happened was your gaffer not leaving pre-season... to think so many of you guys thought you'd win the league. McKinnon, like Jim Duffy, is a dinosaur who should give up management. Things have progressed and their approach doesn't work any more. Awful football to watch, lack or any other ideas when things aren't going well and, quite simply, underachievers.
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Michael Ruth a late fitness test... that's honking to hear. Although, injury aside, I wouldn't be against resting him to protect him for most important (hopefully!) games ahead.
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4 hours ago, Neilly said:
I was personally howling at that seeing it on the highlights. Could see it coming a mile off. Its one of those ye greet about if yer the opposition and will take all day if he's yer own. The greet is always going to be louder with extra whine when it's a player a particular fan base despises.
A brilliant professional foul followed by shithousery. He's done it a few times this season. We are a horrible gang and it's a pleasure having a captain that gets the job done by any means unnecessary.
In years gone by our nice, slow centre backs (no names required) wouldn't have either had the pace or brains to take the player out in that position and we would have went on to lose a goal.
The dislike for him from the Dumbarton fans is as clear as lemonade and still seeping through which has raised a chuckle again.
Going back to that 4-2 dressing down Dumbarton gave us at Ochilview this season (our only league defeat where Bucky and Nicky played together btw) the lads on here and at the game were giving Bucky a fair bit and would never have foreseen how the season has panned out with him captaining the runaway leaders.
It feels nice lads, it really does.
The thing is, I don't think there is a particular dislike for him
no more than most other ex players. He had some absolute stinkers for us in the relegation season. Like, some of the worst performances I've ever seen where he looked like he'd never kicked a ball before.
Then he was named our captain last year, I thought he should have left after such a dreadful year prior. He had a fairly solid campaign 23/23 though. Wasn't without the occasional nightmare performance (but we had most of those as a team, collectively).
He does need to sort that hair out though. Manbuns have no place in this world.
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2 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
I think Lennon deserves a lot of credit. He’s gone from looking miles out of his depth to a dependable League 2 defender with decent potential. All whilst a shitstorm has been happening off the pitch and involved a lot of press he could’ve probably done without.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that Mark Durnan’s return to the team has coincided with Lennon’s confidence and form going up a notch with each passing week.
Before I'd finished reading your first paragraph, I knew what the second one was going to say. Durnan is head and shoulders above any other player we have had play at CB this season. I'm not saying he's perfect, but he is calm, uses the ball well, doesn't take chances and his experience shows in how much calmer the players around him are.
Jan touched on it last week, but if we hadn't lost him for so long, the gap between us and the top of the table may have been a fair bit smaller. Crighton is fine, but he isn't as much of a leader and, simply, isn't as good a player as Durnan. FWIW, I still reckon a fit Mark Durnan is the best CB in the league. Shame we didn't have him for half of the season...
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This result reeks of, "Just don't lose so they don't win the league boys".
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14 minutes ago, SLClyde said:
Dumbarton goal for £125, come on…
No chance
might lose one.
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2 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
I thought Buchanan was very lucky to survive after his assault on Gray followed by his blatant attempt at trying to get Wallace sent off by crumpling to the deck like a sack of spuds. Two yellows.
Ah, he's always had that in him. Too many moments of madness. In fairness, it's the reason he is playing at this level and not a league or two above...
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2 hours ago, onecowden said:
Good luck to Callum Elliot. Thoroughly nice guy. He had us playing some good stuff. I think he’ll succeed with better players.
May be a wee problem with this theory... they have a squad full of guff.
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Interesting statement from the club regarding the incident last weekend... what does that even mean?
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21 hours ago, BullyWeeClydeFc said:
How’s Finlay Gray getting on for you guys, because every time we come up against yous I always feel like he looks a phenomenal player.
9 hours ago, super-son said:Personally I don’t think Finlay has been as good as I would have expected this year. He played well last week but there have been quite a few games this season where he hasn’t shown what he is capable of.
last week was much more like the Finlay of last season where he is still surging forward with real pace in the closing stages of the game and then managed to make the correct decision with a fantastic pass through for an assist.
Too many times this season he has made poor decisions when on the ball. Too many touches or just not finding a man with the pass. He hasn’t been the only culprit of that mind you.
Hopefully he continues on from where he left last week because he is a joy to watch when he is on his game.
He has certainly been more at it the last couple of weeks. He done exactly what I've highlighted above for our 2nd goal, again, today. I reckon he'll move up a league next season, even if we dont. He has a bright future and if he commits himself then he can go far. His energy levels are incredible at times.
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Yeah, I definitely reckon it's between Stranraer and Bonnyrigg to go down. Both are absolutely rotten. That was never in any doubt at all today. I'm echo what others have said about Ruth and Gray, both put in great performances. Durnan was brilliant at the back and how much more settled does our defence look with him back in it? I also think T Wallace is a brilliant player to have at this level. His use of the ball is almost always productive for the team. Rarely gives the ball away and always finds a team mate.
A nice thought that we have the likes of Carlo, Kalvin to come back to fitness. That being said, Lynas also put in a shift today.
All that being said, I feel like 7/9 of the teams in our league would have given us a bigger test today. Onto next week to build further in our preparations for the play-offs (which I reckon we are hopefully only a week or two from). Nothing to fear next week and hopefully get something from Stenny, who have beaten us in the last 2 games without actually having to turn up.
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2 hours ago, BullyWeeClydeFc said:
3 pts is all we are asking for
And what happened the last time you asked us to do that...
less than 2 weeks ago. Funny how quickly things change in football.
I'd take a 1-0 win from an OG, but I fear Declan Byrne may score on his return to the rock. Meaning we'd need at least 2 for the 3 points.
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1 hour ago, super-son said:
I’m sure I remember Blair scoring a belter of a free kick early in the season and was surprised he hasn’t done anything since, considering the amount of decent free kick opportunities we have had.
My biggest issue with Blair, and many of this squad, is that they have shown to be capable of more than what we see every week. We just don't seem to be putting in the effort and when things have been against us our heads go down and the misery gets worse and worse.
Yesterday was certainly different in so many ways, though!
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As great as it is to see, we just have to be producing this kind of performance more than two or three times a season. Especially when we on the opposing end of as many similar results through the season.
This group are playing well within themselves and I think the majority agree that they should be showing more 99% of the time.
Yesterday was, however, much more like it. We seemed much more up for it, first to most balls and we were clinical too! That made a huge difference to be fair. We didn't cut out the mistakes completely, but we punished mistakes hy the opposition and weren't taken advantage of as much as in previous games.
How refreshing, also, it was to see us use set pieces so well. I've been critical for months now on how many we have and yet never seem to threaten from.
This is definitely a step in the right direction, but we need to keep walking or we will still come up significantly short.
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9 hours ago, squeezebox-son said:
Looks like the same link so probably won't work.
I'd love to know how this post merits a red dot @The Hologram
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Ah well. Didn't see that coming. Possibly Spartans hitting poor form at a good time for us? Or just a bad day at the office?
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22 minutes ago, squeezebox-son said:
Another goal and we would have better goal difference than The Spartans and would go above them?
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Just now, O'Kelly Isley III said:
DERYN !!
It either auto corrected on my phone or it was a genuine typo. How could anyone not know after hearing the Stranraer commentator say it over and over?
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6 minutes ago, Silverton End said:
Stranraer are in trouble if scores stay as they are.
Bang Bang Daryn Lang has given them a lifeline!
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Another goal and we would have better goal difference than The Spartans and would go above them?
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Ah,
1 minute ago, squeezebox-son said:I'm most certainly not confident of that. I reckon we need at least 1 if not 2 more before I would have even the slightest confidence in us seeing it out
Just the 1 more required!
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And not we've brought on Blair Malcolm... let's see how much that change weakens us and invites The Spartans onto us.
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Sons' sorrow
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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To be fair, I always felt like he could have given a bit more in the finishing department and that he didn't reach his peak til he joined Airdrie. Good player for us, but better player for them. Good on him, though.