Robert Forbes

Steady!

Today. They will.

Looked like the player who scored the first goal handled the ball just before he scored, it's difficult to see on the highlights but it looked very much like he did.

It does. With Forfar losing it hasn't been as costly as it could have been.

Correct! Maybe it should be Annan supporters making predictions of big wins!

I mentioned it as you said that predicting big Kelty wins was easy, but I think if Kelty fans were making these predictions on a regular basis then they would be quite rightly seen as being a bit arrogant.

There's no doubt that Kelty have the strongest squad in the league, and it is likely that they will win the league, but most of their matches have been tough, and some of these could have gone either way. The two matches against your team are testament to that. I have seen the vast majority of their matches this season and very few have been easy wins, It's why it's not easy to predict large margins of victories, plus it is a bit arrogant to mouth off that your team will win easily, and most people surrounding Kelty Hearts are certainly not that.

If scores like that don't happen that often, then how can they be easy to predict? The point that I was making was that a tough game was expected as Stranraer had competed well in the first match at NCP, plus they were on a good run, and also had home advantage yesterday. Not many, if any, Kelty fans would have said beforehand that they expected to win the match 4-0.

4-0 Kelty. Don't think anyone seen that coming, but we'll take it!

Tuesday night was much more than a "wet Tuesday night in December", to the extent that the authorities were advising people not to travel. The fact that the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch is evidence of how bad the weather actually was.

It's great to see different clubs making it up to the SPFL, freshens up a stale old arrangement that has existed for far too long. It's great too that so many people are more than willing to invest in Scottish football. Gretna? Perhaps, but maybe these clubs, or some of them, are planning to become financially stable ready for the time when the moneymen depart.

At the time Kelty joined the Seniors they said on several occasions that they wanted to leave the Juniors mainly because of the glass ceiling that existed at that level, and to see where joining the Seniors would take them. I don't know what level, if any, they were aiming for, I only mentioned League 1 as I thought that it was a realistic level to reach given the size of the club. It may be that Kelty just wanted to be an SPFL club, but I don't know that for sure.

Thank you!

Kelty's average attendance so far this season is just under 800. If they progress up to League 1 it's likely that they will have less success, so lower attendances would be expected as a result. Currently there are several sides in League 1 whose average attendances are in the 600's, so if Kelty can attain this then it's possible that they could survive at League 1 without the extra money being put into the club at the moment. It's no secret that no club survives only on gate money, so a lot will depend on income raised through sources other than the money coming through the gate, and Kelty do have a very active and dedicated committee, so I would be confident that club won't become another "Gretna".

There's been a few threads on bovril questioning Kelty's standing in League 2, so it was good to get the 3 points in a fairly comfortable manner. I can sympathisewith Stenny though as Kelty had problems with covid earlier in the season and it is disruptive. I wish them well in next week's tie against Airdrie.

I've seen nearly all of Kelty's matches this season and I don't recognise much in your descriptions above.

The better team won, overall Kelty deserved to win. It was tight, but the only spell that Kelty stepped up the pace they scored, and they should have had a second. Forfar made it tough though.

If only Agyemang had stuck away that sitter at 1-0!!

Terrific performance yesterday in difficult conditions, resulting in a well deserved win. Cowden made it tough though.

Thanks, I wasn't too far away with my original guess.

It was a bit frustrating yesterday but it's encouraging that plenty chances are being made against teams who are content to sit in and frustrate Kelty, but a combination of bad luck and slightly off finishing means that a lot of these chances go begging. I think the pitch at NCP being comparitively small goes against the home team at times as it's harder to stretch the away team on the smaller pitch, but that's only my opinion! I agree Tidser has been outstanding this season, he's a pleasure to watch.

Thought it would be more than 685 as there was 1202 at the cowdenbeath match and 937 yesterday, I was positive that was a couple of games in the 700's and a couple in the 600's, but I'm obviously wrong!

Average league attendances will be around the 800 mark, maybe a little above. The averages have been going up season by season since Kelty left Junior football, excluding covid restrictions.

Agreed, Albion made it a tough game but Kelty should have won.

The only survivor from Kelty's Junior days, a class player who can play in just about any position. My player of the season from the last campaign.