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    Stenny vs Sons

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    54 minutes ago, Francesc Fabregas said:

    Fair play - those are the three worst goals a team is likely to concede all season. Dumbarton's third, where Finlay Gray was allowed to run, unchecked, for 70 yards and have two opportunities to score, is the most pathetic, most pitiful I've ever seen Stenhousemuir concede. It felt like the death rattle of some miserable failed regime, not the fourth league game of a new campaign, and it's difficult to see how Stephen Swift comes back from this. He made numerous changes to the side that lost at Stirling Albion, he altered the formation and approach, and we still looked slow, ponderous and out of ideas against a fairly ordinary opponent.

    I don't think Dumbarton were tremendous but aside from our second-half goal, we didn't ask a them a single question. Gregor Buchanan and Stuart Carswell are limited defenders but they sailed through the match and barely allowed Tam Orr a kick. Aron Lynas was good at full-back and Gray looks like a tenacious little player and bounced back after being chucked around by Nat Wedderburn. They took their time to get into the match but they competed well and scored at all the right times. The high point was John Gemmell's introduction, the big man wearing the 99 jersey like some daft jobber from Serie A, and I'm pleased he's back in the big time; he could be a useful asset over the course of the campaign.

    Stenhousemuir started well enough, knocking the ball about, albeit without offering any real penetration, but began to wilt as soon as the Sons sussed them out. The opening goal, scored directly from a corner kick, was one of many shambles this afternoon. Conor Brennan has shown himself to be a good shot-stopper but there's always a feeling a mistake is in the post, and so it proved when he missed his punch on Ryan Blair's corner and allowed it to sail into the net. The second goal came from a long throw and somehow tumbled inside the box before deflecting off Martin McNiff's knee. There seemed to be a sense of disbelief when the ball bounced across the line.

    The Warriors made a couple of changes and pushed forward (and it's dispiriting that team have looked at the best this season when trying to salvage a two-goal deficit). Euan O'Reilly's consolation might have come from a goalkeeping error but the interplay between him and Adam Brown in the build up was sublime. We couldn't build on it, despite throwing men forward, before Gray's netted the third at the death. Virtually the entire Norway Stand emptied.

    It might sound a little perverse, but the third goal was a relief. Had Stenhousemuir finished strongly, narrowly losing, Swift could have spun the defeat as a sign that his players are doing the right things, his system and his formation is the right way to proceed, and everything will click at some point soon. But the way Gray gathered the ball, motored through several half-hearted challenges, and scored at the second time of asking, obliterates any of that, and he's now under real pressure to turn around this appalling start, the second appalling start he's made to a campaign as Stenny manager. I'd like to say I'm looking forward to his post-match interview on Warriors TV but the important questions are rarely asked and bizarre non-sequiturs put to him instead. I don't have much faith in him, if I'm being honest. He's brought some good players to the club but this team is unbalanced and lacking in some important areas and probably needs additions to bring it up to standard.

    What a terrible showing that was today; what a terrible season it's been so far.

    We are always looking for volunteers at Warriors TV. 
     

    Feel free to stick around after the games and spend numerous hours a week to come along and ask these “important questions” 

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    League 2 Squad Lists 2022/23 - Please post squads here only

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Reecesfc

    STENHOUSEMUIR 

    Goalkeepers

    Connor Brennan*
    Jay Cantley*
     

    DEFENDERS

    Sean Crighton

    Adam Corbett 

    Nicky Jamieson

    Daniel Higgins*

    Scott Walker*

    Callum Yeats (Loan from QP)

    Midfielders 

    Mikey Miller (Loan made permanent)
    Mikey Anderson

    Craig Bryson*

    Nat Wedderburn

    Ross Forbes 

    Adam Brown 

    Forwards

    Tom Orr 

    Euan O’Reilly 

    Matty Yates*
    Niyah Joseph*
    William Sewell*

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    Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    12 hours ago, Francesc Fabregas said:

    Magic! Always found it strange we used Vimeo when a lot of our counterparts used YouTube. The platform wasn't very robust and the highlights were difficult to watch on a mobile device.

    Start with Peterhead 0-3 Stenhousemuir, please!

    https://www.stenhousemuirfc.com/match/peterhead-v-stenhousemuir-fc-5/

    if you just search on Google the game you’d like to see the old reports and highlights are still there 

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    Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    In terms of the interviews we got sent a list of questions we were allowed to ask so it is always going to be repetitive after 20 players 

    the reason we have been having trouble with the audio is because of the 2 metre distance rule and without the proper equipment its hard to fix that. we did suggest going inside to do the interviews but this wasn't possible due to a majority of the building being in the red zone and we  are only allowed in the amber zone to do filming

    hopefully over time we will start to upgrade our equipment to make these videos/interviews better.

    regardless its for the football to be back 

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