Red Watch

Excellent news. Let's hope they throw the book at him and make an example of him as a deterrent to others. It is disgraceful that our antiquated laws prevent him being named publicly

Fully agree with that. In addition an object was hurled at an Alloa player from the north end of the West Stand. Surely someone will know who threw it? Are all of our stewards blind? What each club should be doing is requiring someone to own up/turn someone else in under fear of banning the whole group. Further, why weren't the police outside to prevent the Stirling youths from hurling missiles into the Alloa fans inside the ground. This is a repeat of what happened at the previous home game against Montrose whose fans were also targets, so it should have been anticipated. It is high time for the clubs to step up before someone suffers serious injury. If they don't, will the SFA get off their backsides and cease to warm their haemorrhoids?

This is the mob which caused damage to seats and the plastic pitch at Alloa - for which SAFC had to pick up the tab. They most certainly should be barred for good - they bring nothing to the club except trouble. Essential that this is done before the next Alloa game otherwise they will have scores to settle. One of the main protagonists is a larger (taller) youth who looks like he has been scoffing pies for some time. He should be fairly easy to identify.

Match postponed. Frozen Pitch.

It wouldn't surprise me if the police have spoken to the club. These youths will have been on the police radar for some time. Notably there was a police presence amongst the group on the south terrace on Saturday.

They certainly did - they decamped around 4.30! So much for their support of the team. They were only interested in baiting the Alloa fans at the end of the East Stand fans and even this was nipped in the bud when the stewards insisted that they congregate in the centre of the terracing. They slunk away with barely a murmur. Why doesn't this spotty horde of immature adolescents wear any team colours and lend vocal support to the team rather than hurling childish insults at away fans? Some of them were behaving in a disorderly and threatening way in the town centre afterwards. The occupants of four police vehicles converged on Friars Street at 5.45 to ensure that things did not get out of hand. There were other police officers outside the rail station monitoring things. I did not witness any bother from Alloa fans and credit to them for that. The same cannot be said for the youths who purport to support SAFC. They have had enough warnings from the club - it is time for them to be excluded.

Aberdeen match 7.45pm on Friday 18 August.

I see that today's Stirling Observer is carrying a piece about the behaviour of individuals in the self-styled 1945 Crew and in particular that Alloa FC have sought recompense for seats damaged by the neds during the cup match at the Recs last week. Drawing upon the statement on the SAFC website, the newspaper also refers to Morrisons supermarket having complained to the club about fighting in the store after the Ayr cup game. Last season I urged that the club needed to get a grip on the behaviour of these cretins and take steps to exclude them thus preserving the good name of the club. These youths really now are in the "last chance saloon" and are on a final warning. I urge all supporters, regardless of affiliation, to report any future incidents to SAFC so that we can rid ourselves of the cancer that is the 1945 Crew.

And yet despite this, subsequently, they still persist in having and using flares. Last year during the hot weather they set an embankment alight in Forthside Way with the fire brigade having to be called to deal with it. Then the idiots posted the clip on You Tube clearly linking the club with illegal and dangerous activity.

The Young Team, aka the 1945 Crew, are spotty adolescents whose balls have yet to drop and have been warned many times this season as to their behaviour particularly on the use of flares both inside and outside football stadiums. Some of them are known to the police and a bunch of them were being closely monitored in the town centre after yesterday’s game. In my view the negatives far outweigh the positives in that they could be mistakenly seen as role models by those youngsters with their mums and dads at the game yesterday. Potentially these morons could do the club damage unless they are clamped down upon and the troublemakers excluded. Yesterday’s antics will have been noted by the SPFL representative and it would not surprise me if someone has a quiet word in the Club’s ear. It is worth mentioning that the adolescents weren’t the only ones who misbehaved at the Annan match last weekend. When Duffy scored the third goal near the end this was greeted by an idiot in his 30’s in the away stand igniting a red flare. This was dealt with promptly by the stewards who removed the flare from him and him being unceremoniously ejected from the ground. Whether they are young folk yet to reach adulthood or 30 year old cretins who misbehave, we surely do not need them at our club?

Given all the rain which we had yesterday, what is coming down at the moment, and what is forecast well into this afternoon, the match must be in doubt.

The Chairman has resigned:

I see that the Stenny fans are to be occupying the East Stand, apparently to avoid the like of the pie-throwing incidents when the two sides met last season. Does anyone know if we have now permanently excluded the so-called casuals who infested the Morrisons end of the West stand? They were not at all in evidence at the Elgin game and I understand that they had been ejected at the Peterhead game for vaping and using foul and abusive language to the stewards. I see that there is a video clip on YouTube showing these idiots with lit flares on Forthside Way on their way to the Aberdeen game. They set the undergrowth alight with the result that the fire brigade had to be called to extinguish the fire. These troublemakers haven't even got the courage to show their faces on the videos they post under the ridiculous name of the 1945 Crew. They are bad news for the club.

Peace at last! We should all be grateful.

Is that a serious response? I would have thought that your nurse would have counselled you against such negativity. But you are right in one respect. What has now been proposed bears reasonable comparison to what was envisaged by me and others in my post last Saturday evening - a proposal that was ridiculed as one which you wanted nothing to do with. In my view these are serious proposals which merit serious consideration rather than the reaction you have displayed. I suggest you have a lie down before commenting further - you will only make a fool of yourself otherwise.