Brian Carrigan

A - The yellow one isn't nearly as bad as folk are saying. Calm down. I don't want it though, because it's a Cumbernauld Colts jersey. B - The blue option is just this season's puma trainingwear worn by most Puma teams. They were selling Clyde versions in the store but the players never wore them. The black version is nice, not sure why we don't just use that. To be honest, Puma teamwear options are normally crap.

Honestly, who cares about Jimmy Choo. Mute him, mute his burners, mute any account you suspect may be a burner. He's literally just some silly auld dweeb who's starved of attention irl. BAMO, Block And Move On, as Limmy would say.

FTFY

A referee is a nerd whether they're on the park or sitting in an office I agree with both of you, down with VAR etc. It's much better that the mistake is made by the nerd on the park as opposed to being a comedy of errors by many nerds. 'Say 'nerd' again' Nerd

Yeah honestly I think he's a very good player, and had he been played consistently in his more natural position I'd imagine we'd probably have seen a very different Alex King. However, not to be.

He's very much playing like a guy that has no skin in the game. To be honest, it's hard to blame him. He's needlessly being played out of position. No matter how badly he plays at left back, he keeps getting turned out there despite the fact that a) we could probably do with his delivery higher up the park and b) we have a perfectly serviceable speciality left back on the bench

Are you ok?

It’s a red card every day of the week. He’s jumped in, both feet off the ground, studs up, head height, not really near the ball. I’m not sure why anyone would think that it isn’t a sending off, especially folk that seen it happen in real time.

Same - from the outside, he's quite literally a caricature of the most unlikable guy you can possibly think of. A man in his mid-40's that dresses like a 13 year old, is terminally online, and seems to have no discernible talent other than having the financial means to surround himself with people who have the required skills. He's not a 'bad guy' or that, just incredibly irritating. He looks like he lives off Elf Bars and Prime. He's basically a Scottish Lower League version of Wayne Lineker. Like someone read a book called 'What will rub most people up the wrong way' and built him in a lab. I also have to caveat this with the fact that I've met him several times and played against his Colville Park team and he's been brand new. Genuinely sound as f**k. He obviously knows the way he presents himself gets a reaction and annoys folk and he leans into it. I cannot imagine why he'd want to take a job in the leagues. I said this when he was being touted (clearly by himself) for the Clyde job. He'd get found out rapid. EK's method this season has been extraordinary. I read somewhere that they've used almost 40 players. That can almost be excused if injuries have meant that he's had to dig in to the youth academy, but with every injury it seems like they've just went out and bought someone else. You just can't do that at a team like Clyde, or any team in the SPFL for that matter. EK's season has basically played out like a joke, like some kind of hyper-Darvel. With all that in mind, I'd absolutely love to see EK go up this season (although PLEASE not at the expense of Clyde ffs). It'd be like some kind of social experiment. I'm absolutely dying to see what MK does when he simply doesn't have unlimited resources.

Amazingly, 'BullyWeeClydeFc' has downvoted all of my recent posts on here in the last hour. Spectacularly petty in the most cringeworthy way, you simply must tip your hat.

My team for the weekend would be: - Kinnear - - Cuddihy - Hamilton - Howie - McGinn - - Grant - Ballantyne - - Leitch - Rennie - King - - Allan - For me, Cuddihy is a better right back than he is a centre midfielder, and he's a better right back than Ross Lyon. Although Lyon has been fine of late, I still think he's one of our weakest points. Howie is a better player than Sula, he's been shaky but so has Sula. Leitch at 10 is an option, but I wouldn't want to pull Rennie out the team. Happy to be proven wrong! I don't think bringing Lyon or Sula in makes the team too much worse. Whatever happens, this is the most important game of the season and we simply have to win.

Enjoyed the 'Some of the staff haven't conducted themselves well' bit. Wonder who he could possibly have been referencing?!

This is unhinged stuff. It really does look like wee JC has a few going! 'BullyWeeClydeFc' and 'Wee man the jackass' both share his enraged, mashing-the-keyboard-through-tears-whilst-calling-everyone-else-triggered-snowflakes style of posting. You simply cannot help but laugh at them! I really don't want us to get relegated, but now it'd almost be worth it to have 'BullyWeeClydeFc' jump in his silly little car and have to head to Gretna for an away day for that comment. The patter almost demands it, the stupid man!

Jesus Christ man this guy again! An absolute stinker, as per. Mute time. Mute is class.

It's not. The LL has literally made a laughing stock of itself. That's not to say that all the teams taking part are a joke. I have the utmost respect for the Rose having attended many of your games over the years. Great club. It's not the Rose's fault that the LL is like this and it's unfortunate that to try and get to the SPFL you need to pass through it. The league itself should absolutely be sneered at. As @The Moonster said there was an opportunity there to create a great thing but that hasn't happened at all. Up until this season I was playing in the Glasgow colleges amateur league and I wouldn't dream of calling it 'Mickey Mouse'. The standard of a league does not a joke make. Honestly mate, I think you've lost track of what your argument was. Most of your post you're arguing my point for me, albeit badly given that Newcastle have won nothing and currently sit 8th in the English Premier League table.

Also I think it's important to stress that no one, especially me, is saying that Clyde or any SPFL team is above playing in the Lowland League. It's a joke league, but honestly at this point we are for the most part a joke club so we'd fight right in. If we do go down, it's because we deserve it and we'll have to deal with the consequences in the same way the other relegated clubs had to. We can only hope that if we do go down, the fabled money man bunces us up and we can build a squad capable of getting us out of the league straight away. If we somehow stay up, we've won a watch and simply cannot afford to exist in the same way we have been for the past several years.

The fact that you're using 'reserve teams in the top 5' and 'a uni team in the top half' as arguments AGAINST a league being Mickey Mouse is fairly stunning, but whatever helps you sleep at night bossman. The reason relegated teams can't get back out of the LL is because their finances are absolutely decimated by relegation out of the SPFL, and they often will not have a wedged up independent backer. The quality of their squads amounts to absolute dugmeat. Kelty and EK have proven that to get out of the league, you simply need to have the capacity to fling enough money at the problem. The league is 'tough' because the lack of finances is a great equaliser and aside from a few outliers the standard is poor.

It certainly is officially a senior league, but surely even the staunchest supporter of clubs at that level must admit that it’s rendered pretty Mickey Mouse by the uni and B teams no?

To be totally honest, most don’t consider the Lowland League to be a senior league. There are literally University teams and reserve teams in it. Odd time to engage the pedantry.

Aye, I know. I was just using numbers that I could multiply. I’m a simple man.

fwiw I also had a conversation with someone tenuously in the know where that figure was mentioned but it was more like “we’ve paid off 8 players who at an average of £150 a week and had to replace them with players that command a higher wage”. Paying off 8 players who all had 6 months left on their contracts at £150 p/w would cost about £30k. Then the new boys (Howie, Hamilton, Leitch, Kabia), say they’re on £300 (a low estimate tbf) and signed for 6 months, that’s another £30k, so that’s £60k. It was also rumoured that we were offering £5k signing on fees, so that’s another £20k and we’re now at £80k. Thats just the playing side of things, so when you take McCall, Scally and Kerr’s wages into account, it’s probably not far off the 100k mark. I think the big man who was having a bit of a meltdown whilst talking to you has heard “100 grand” and ran with it, assuming it’s a lump sum somehow.

My preferred choice of starting 11 for tomorrow: - Kinnear - - Cuddihy - Hamilton - Howie - McGinn - - Grant - Ballantyne - - Leitch - Rennie - King - - Allan - Kabia coming off the bench to up the intensity for the last half hour would be my preferred option here. Howie being played in midfield against Bonnyrigg made sense for him to win hoofed balls that dropped in midfield. I prefer him in at centre half ahead of Sula, because I just feel as much as I like Sula he does have a few harem scarem moments every time I watch him play. Howie does bomb on but is generally more assured and is undoubtedly just a better footballer. I still think McGinn should play and still think Alex King should be pushed higher.

Extending from this topic - are there any players you'd expect to be making the step up to the SPFL after this season? Would you expect them to be a success? It's obviously a huge jump and difficult for players to navigate (the Swift lot, Andy Rodden and literally everyone else Clyde brought from the LL etc). Tiwi Daramola made the leap from below the LL and people expected big things but after a bright start dropped off exponentially once the real business began. He now finds himself in that huge EK pool, and if they go up will he cut it in L2?

The Bonnyrigg situation is weird. The squad can’t be altered and on their park you can only really play hoofball, so it’s not like a new lad would come in and radically change tactics so I’m really not sure what another manager would get out of that group this late in the day. I get that the club will be desperate, but now probably isn’t the time to be changing manager. Maybe it’ll work, hopefully it won’t. I’ll be honest and say that I’d much rather Bonnyrigg stayed up than have EK get promoted. At least BR feel like a real club, with a real ground and real fans. Hopefully the Highland League winners put out EK.