GG Riva

You could get hunners of Brownie pts by going to EEP with them and helping them out with their work instead of watching the game. 😃

As someone who has played the game, you'll know how easy it is to lose your balance if you're suddenly pushed while running. I get that football is a contact sport and some players fall over when an opponent breathes on them, but a hefty push is a foul and that looked like a hefty push to me. Btw, some wee guys are amazingly strong - well, I used to be anyway.🙂

Just got round to watching the highlights now. Unbelievable, that some folk think that the lead up to the first goal wasn't a foul. A clear push in the back with his forearm, it's a foul all day long and incredible that the ref missed it. The two pens were correct awards.

Ooft! That's the very epitome of a quantum leap, Kaiser - not that I believe you're being completely serious for a nanosecond. 🤔 Homophobia is reprehensible in the extreme, but watching a game of football on TV hardly puts anyone in the "actively supporting" it camp. You might be able to make a flimsy case if you were referring to those who are heading to Qatar and I include those participating in the tournament as well as the fans.

I'm pinning my hopes on the fact that the "New manager bounce" is not a given 100% of the time. 🙂 It's also very unlikely that Peterhead will have a new permanent manager in place by Saturday in any case. Is there such a phenomenon as an "Interim manager bounce?" 🤔

Well, only 6 days to the start of Qatar 22. I've been lucky enough to watch every WC since 1966 and always looked forward to every previous one with eager anticipation but I'm not feeling the love at all for this one, for all sorts of reasons:- Over $6 million paid out in bribes to secure the bid against competition from Australia, USA, Japan and S. Korea. Over 6,500 deaths of immigrant workers during the building of the WC stadia, due to non existent health and safety precautions, not to mention the squalid conditions they were all forced to endure. The prohibitive summer temperatures, meaning it has to be played late in the year and it won't be exactly cool. The absence of Scotland and Italy, meaning no team to support. Not planning to watch any of the group games live, but I may watch the odd highlights programme and maybe some of the knockout games. I think the vast majority of fans around the world would agree that Qatar should never have been awarded the WC. FIFA has a lot to answer for, but I blame the major football nations for not taking a stand immediately after the vote was announced and telling Blatter and Co. they wouldn't be going., A WC without the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and yes, even England would quickly have brought about a rethink from FIFA. The delegates who voted for Qatar might even have been obliged to give the money back.....

I can't see him playing for United again, unless he makes a grovelling apology and that's very unlikely. He's looked after himself very well, had a fantastic career and is a contender for the GOAT. It was never going to work with Ten Hag. He expects every player to work their socks off for the team. Ronaldo didn't even do that 10 years ago, never mind now. Another manager may have asked the other players to work that bit harder and leave Ronaldo to put the ball in the net and that can work - Filippo Inzaghi scored 30 Serie A goals for Atalanta, playing as a penalty box poacher but when he got a move to Juve, he was told he'd have to muck in with the other players.

I can't argue that we should have beaten Peterhead, but you're old enough and ugly enough to know that football has a habit of producing nasty shocks when you least expect them. 😉 Man City should have beaten Brentford at home yesterday, but they were deservedly beaten. It cost a pal of mine over £200 in a roll up bet. As I recall, Peterhead had 2 shots on target in the game at EEP, both in time added on and scored each time. Is that not bizarre?

That's true, but what's your point, RP? Do you not agree that they're the worst team in League 1? That was just totally bizarre how they scored 2 goals in added time - a complete smash and grab. And we're top of the league and they're bottom for a reason.

No getting away from the fact that we dropped 2 points, but coming back from 0-2 is a plus. Clyde worked hard and had a couple of pacy forwards, who caused us problems on the counter. I'd need to see their opening goal again, I was sure it was a foul. If it was, wtf was the ref watching? We're still 5 pts clear, so let's go out and win next week. Peterhead are easily the poorest team I've seen in the league this season.

That 80/81 Division 1 table is very sobering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980–81_in_Scottish_football#Scottish_League_Division_One Clydebank and East Stirlingshire finished above the Pars......

Ooft! I'd totally forgotten about Brechin - the worst team ever to play in the Championship. My recollection was that the Pars were absolutely dire that season and only avoided relegation because the Binos went about 9 months without winning a game in 1981 - they obviously picked up the odd draw. Who was the Sunderland manager during that dreadful sequence?

As always, a comprehensive and informative OP from S'Ally. On paper, a home banker and a racing certainty - except that there's no such thing. The last time we wanted to put our house on a Pars home win was the Peterhead fixture, a few weeks ago - how did that end up again? 🤔 I think Clyde will probably sit in, with 8 or 9 players behind the ball and look to nick a goal from a counter attack or a set piece. It worked quite well for St Johnstone yesterday. 😄 We'll have lots of possession but we'll need to use it wisely if we're to win. 10 defeats on the spin can't be far off the record in senior football, although I think Stirling Albion may have topped that in 1980/81, if "topped" is the right word. Clyde's fans must be hoping their team's nightmare run will end soon. I'll be happy for them to extend it to 11 and then tank the next team they play 5-0. 😁 2-0 Pars for me.

Feet firmly on the ground here, but that more than makes up for the reverse at Montrose. I didn't dare to hope for any more than a draw, so I'm dancing on the ceiling now... 😎

Agreed. It's so much easier to be a good player when you have a very good player(s) alongside you. Remember Lee Ashcroft looking solid alongside Callum Morris, but much less secure the season following Morris's departure.

Just caught up with this thread. I knew Dave for many years. A true gent, always so helpful and accommodating, nothing was ever too much trouble. Along with the late Stuart Arnott, he was a regular at helping out with the weekly Stadium Tours for schoolchildren. I'll miss his welcoming smile and friendly pre match banter. RIP Dave.

Do you know that for a fact, Raymie? My information is that McPake usually reveals the starting XI 90 mins before kick-off.

It's practically impossible to call this game. It could go either way, so perhaps another draw is the most likely result. Statistically, draws are less likely than home or away wins, however. It may come down to McPake's team selection and tactics on the day. Like other posters on this thread, I'd like to see us play with a back 4 and Hamilton in front of them. That should make us hard to beat and provide a platform to possibly win the game. 3pts would be a massive but not impossible result, as Kelty recently showed.

Good to see a club doing what they can to try and meet the wishes of not only their own fans, but those of other clubs too. Quite often, visiting fans are tolerated but not appreciated by the home club, even though their money is just as good.

I very rarely disagree with any of your posts, Digs, but this is one time. Anyone in the public eye has an obligation to conduct themselves in a exemplary manner, because members of the public - especially children and young people - will look up to them as role models. Stereotyping footballers as intellectually challenged, in no way excuses or justifies unacceptable behaviour. Surely it's enough to remind them regularly that they are looked up to and have a duty to the club they represent and to their fans to conduct themselves in a manner which is a credit to their profession.

Agree this looks like our toughest away game so far. I think a draw would be a decent result and also the most likely. 0-0 or 1-1.

Lafferty is a total f@nny. As someone in the public eye, he should be setting a good example to football fans around the country, instead of promoting sectarian nonsense which takes this nation backwards.

I just re-read that, Digs and the original post was actually fine. I think I misinterpreted it.vFunny as feck, though. 😃 A couple of commas make it less ambiguous. "Wighton up top, with McCann to do the running, might then be the best option.

Wighton to do the running?...... Hmmmm 🤔

I don't think there's a lot between the teams and if it's not a 0-0, one goal will decide it. Ever the optimist, I'll go for the Pars to get it.