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As long as it's not Gary Dickie, although the way things are shaping up, anything's possible. Will people stop mentioning Gary Dickie and Pat Cairney. You are destroying thirty years of therapy.

Roy Roy

News for book fans. On Friday a great new book comes out. It’s called Where’s Rory. There will be a hundred pictures from Dumbarton games this season and you can have hours of fun looking for Rory. Future books planned are Where’s Willie and Where’s Ross. There is a foreword from Nicky Phinn. Order your copy now.

Fascinating stuff about the first ever picture of a black hole. At least we now know where Dyer Perry and Loy are.

Interesting programme on Channel five tomorrow night discussing the existence of mythical creatures. Amongst subjects discussed will be the Loch Ness Monster. The Yeti Bigfoot and Rory Loy.

In the words of Pink Floyd All in all its just a 20 pound brick in the wall. Put me down for two. Maybe the Donald could spare a few bricks.

Highland Park please. Ovaltine with unsliced bread and dripping please

Many is the time we would gather round the steam radio on a Saturday night and listen to Dick Barton special agent having watched a Dumbarton game earlier that day. A cup of horliicks and a piece of bread with lard. Great times. The present generation don’t know they are living. If only Charlie Bootland was still playing..

I wish I was only 52 instead of having to stand behind Old Scrotum every week at the Post Office collecting the pension money.

The population of Dumbarton has decreased slightly over the past few years but the incomers who have come in have no interest in supporting Dumbarton. There are very few people left like myself whose father grandfather and great grandfather were Sons supporters. Although the number of football teams in the future may remain stable the number of professionally paid teams will inevitably drop. If Dumbarton do exist in fifty years time it may only be as an amateur team.

Welcome to the latest edition of Dumbarton we’re just as bad a hundred years ago. On January 4th 1919 the Sons were at Brockville park where true to form they lost 5-1 to Falkirk. There was just one Scottish division in those days as the war had just ended but the league had started before the amnesty. There were 18 teams in the league and the loss to Falkirk left them in seventeenth place with only Hibs beneath them. Scorer for the Sons in front of a five thousand crowd was McDermid but more interestingly the scorer of a brace for Falkirk was Sid Puddefoot. Sid was a top player for West Ham but had been sent to Scotland for war service where he guested for Falkirk. Puddefoot would later play for England but was to be signed in 1922 from West Ham by Falkirk for a world record fee of five thousand pounds. In this week the SFA banned players from earning more than1 pound a week in bonus payments as they wanted all players to have a proper job and not earn a living for just playing football. Elsewhere Clydebank who were also in the league lost 3-0 to Morton at Clydeholm Park in front of 9000 people. In the Western cup Vale of Leven beat Johnstone 1-0 and in the Dunbartonshire Cup Dumbarton Harp beat Renton 3-1

Just to bring in some perspective to the current brouhaha about the indiscipline of Scottish football supporters I have checked my archives and found a report in the Glasgow Herald about a game on the 26th Nov 1932. On that day was at Yorkhill playing grounds a junior match between St Mungo and Partick Glencairn during which a riot took place. It started off with stone throwing but moved on when spectators attacked each other with knives bayonets and iron bars. By the time the police arrived seven men were arrested and eight more hospitalised one with serious stab wounds. Nobody could afford to throw coins in those days.

Interesting hat being worn by JC.. Is it on eBay yet?

Miller is player squared , Old Scrotum was a ball boy not in picture

I think at times like this Dumbartons poet in residence should be throwing a few lines together to inspire the future of our beloved team

Just a few stats to mull over. So far this season with three home games left our league average attendance now stands at 847 and if you throw in all cup games it comes to 748 Thus with 22 home games played our total attendance is under 16500 The last time we were relegated was 2005/06 from division two to division three when our average home gate was 946 The lowest ever average attendancewas 1998/99 when only 390 turned up per game.The best ever average was 1972/73 when it was 5772. In 1953/54 when we were relegated to Division C our gate was still a healthy 2633 average and when we came back up in 1955/56 was a remarkable 3917. In 1890/91 when we jointly won the league the average attendance was 3556.In 1891/92 when we became the first outright winners of the Scottish league the average was 2545.

Does anybody know a good Philadelphia lawyer? Third Lanark Clydebank Gretna. Surely to god not Dumbarton as well.At the end of the nineteenth century Dumbarton almost disappeared surviving only by playing friendlie mostly to keep the club going..Again in 1954 the team almost went under when relegated to the C division. The people of Dumbarton rallied round and saved them then. Who is going to save one of Scotland’s oldest team . In fact one of the worlds oldest teams. You could arguably say that Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven was the birthplace of football worldwide as we know it now. In the 1870s this area had Dumbarton Vale of Leven Renton Lennox Star of Leven Dunbritton Renton Wanderers all playing senior football and Dunbartonshire was not only the most important centre of Scottish football but was the cradle from which the passing game as we know it now came forth For Dumbarton to go under would be a slap in the face of the history of football.

It’s all Greek to me

Hey mister tambourine man play a song for me.

Not really relevant whether it is Handling or Wilson but the real point are those 14 are currently the only ones available. As for selling tickets I already have one. Most people are going to the final for the experience not the result. The majority of those going to Oswestry expected TNS to win. When you are a Dumbarton fan it is the game that is important Winning is a bonus.

At the moment the cup final squad kooks like Gallagher Wardrope Barr Dowie Hill Hutton Carswell Calum Gallagher Wilson Russell Stewart subs Ewings Handling Smith Not even sure if David Smith is fully fit at moment.

Oh dear this is bad news about Christian Nade being arrested. We are all innocent before being found guilty but will he be picked for the team in the meantime. Hopefully the big man can walk away from this charge with his head held high and an innocent man.

I take it the Dumbarton orchestra will be afforded their own separate area.

Now, here's a thing. The famous DFC Social Club can be seen in partial glory in this picture, but can anyone tell us what was its use before Robert Robertson brought it west (clue) to Boghead ? Talking about Robertson many remember that he tried to attract Johann Cruyff to Boghead but he also tried to get Denis Law to sign on. The reason Cruyff never came was simply that he knew he could never compare to the immortal Johnny Graham. As for the portacabin it probably came off the back of a lorry.

Great to see a picture of the greatest player who ever lived. Think that might be Kenny Dalgleish in the picture as well