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Not sure why we’d be looking for players who aren’t even getting a game for a dross League One outfit. Next.

Dumbarton budgeted for a promotion challenge this season so he’s not even doing that. Aitken’s position was untenable but they’ve shown no real signs of progress since he left.

I didn't attribute it to 'one player' though: I attributed it to a squad of players - including Bachirou - who was just as culpable as the rest of the team. He entirely failed to his job in all the above games and many more. The simple facts show that Bahcirou was in fact 'awful' in his last season with us and no amount of whitewashing is going to make that go away.

Dumbarton 3 Morton 1 Cowdenbeath 5 Morton 1 Morton 1 Livingston 5 Cowdenbeath 3 Morton 0 Queen of the South 3 Morton 0, and of course Hamilton 10 (TEN) Morton 2 Bachirou played every single minute of all of the above games and was abysmal, just like the rest of the team was. His performances that season were appalling in general and contributed as much to our shameful league campaign as any other stalwart of the team. While Imrie was the only player to emerge with any sort of credit from that debacle; Bachirou was as culpable as the rest of them. The only excuse people can muster for that season is that he couldn't be arsed having tried to snake his way out of the club, which is actually far worse than just being an earnest but dung jobber like kabba Modou Cham.

Bring him home.

Some comic relief from King Snake's XI as they continue their slide to being the fourth best team in the Falkirk-Stirling-Grangemouth triangle of shandom. https://www.stenhousemuirfc.com/match/falkirk/ Has a manager ever had a worse cup record that the 4 (FOUR) insipid exits brought about by King Snake in just five months? It must be some sort of record.

Jim Duffy's 'interesting' experiment of playing Ross Forbes at left-back among various other round pegs in square holes backfired again yesterday, as his Dumbarton slide slumped to a miserable 3-0 pumping by lowly Angus bumpkin outfit 'Forfar Athletic'. A certain Robert 'Bobby' Barr also took part in the humiliation and looks set to fulfil yet another new challenge since leaving The Famous in the form of 'getting relegated to a fourth tier pub league'. Sad!

Letting an absolute rabble from the League of Wales waltz into the semi finals should be an eternal mark of shame on Scottish league football. A big well done of course goes to King Snake for ensuring that Morton would take no part in setting matters straight by fielding a team of ringers that lost in the first round to the bizarre approval of a section of the fanbase. Sad!

Thanks for that revelation, Captain Obvious. But Doyle is isn't anywhere near the best in his position of all the limited players at this level; which makes him a useless first team option for any club with serious aspirations of winning promotion. Which is why he's now at Queen of the South instead.

The Famous should be above fielding mediocre, mid table at best players which is why he was punted and took a step down to a lesser, bumpkin outfit in the summer.

Some people were pining for that horrible little club Airdrie on the other thread, so let's check in on how they're actually doing at the moment. From their permaseething meltdown thread on P and B: Who would have thought that a centre-back combination of Sean Crighton and Jonathan Page (who I believe they paid real, actual money for in the summer) would turn out to be an absolute disaster. Winless in their last six games. Their latest gormless title challenge completely destroyed before Bonfire Night. Joint bottom of the table and on track for the delights of Kelty next season. What a terrible, wee shame that is for them.

Jim Duffy's flying start at Dumbarton seamlessly progressed this afternoon to one of his routine, insipid defeats in the seaside leagues - falling 1-0 in a relegation six-pointer to plucky, glorified pub outfit Montrose. Sad! Meanwhile down in a shitehole in Yorkshire, David 'Hoppy' Hopkin's truly disastrous tenure at Bradford City just about continued today as they lost 1-0 at home to Portsmouth. Having taken over when the club was outside the relegation zone, 'Hoppy''s Bradford are now seven points from safety and are on a shocking run of seven straight defeats in all competitions. Zhivago will be crying salty, bitter tears into his shite pint of Cafe Peroni this evening. Very sad!

I'm not the one yammering out utter fail at half 11 on a school night, you stupid old jakey. Thanks for playing anyway,

^^^ half a bottle of Grants' talking; drooling over the keyboard

‘Hoppy’ and his beloved Yorkshire rabble went down 4-0 in the end to a Gillingham side who were on a rancid run of results themselves. Having taken over when they were outside the relegation zone, ‘Hoppy’ has since taken Bradford to the depths of 24th in the division and four points from safety in a truly disastrous stint in charge. Sad!

3-0 now. Sad!

David 'Hoppy' Hopkin's Bradford are set to be officially MAROONED at the bottom of English League One this evening, as they slump to a 2-0 defeat against fellow gubbins outfit 'Gillingham'.

NB: Plus that utter berk Zhivago has aligned with 'Hoppy' on here, which makes his an automatically lost cause. Which Bradford fans are discovering for themselves right now.

Whether Hopkin was a good player twenty-five years ago is irrelevant to me and I'm sure many others by now; I judge him solely on his conduct as an employee of the club in recent years. After being utterly crap in his caretaker management role in 2013-14, Hopkin quite clearly took the huff about not getting the job. Rather than displaying his 'affection for the club' by contributing in a positive manner to the Kenny Shiels regime, Hopkin was IMO the chief suspect for leaking gossipy details from behind the scenes as he hung around like a bad smell until April 2014. The same conduct that his fellow traveler 'Hagi' was up to in the post more recently. It doesn't matter how many games you played for the club, whether you're a shareholder or if you fancy your chances as manager yourself - nothing gives you the right to rock the boat from the inside at this institution. As assistant manager, you are there to pick up some cones and stay within your clearly marked box. The only real difference between Hopkin and an utter snake like James Grady is that Hopkin was too incompetent to knife his way into the dugout on a permanent basis.

Meanwhile, down in a s***ehole in Yorkshire, David 'Hoppy' Hopkin's disastrous (sub 'and short-lived' when he gets punted) tenure as Bradford boss took another turn for the worse this evening - sworded 2-4 on their own midden by Coventry to sink to the bottom of the division. Between Zhivago's hot tip for him to crack the English game somehow being a pile of s***e and Livingston going from strength to strength in his absence, it seems that 'Hoppy's' managerial stock is plummeting rapidly.

Good one m8. Remind me how often you have followed up your weekly tantrums on here about how s***e the full-backs are with a face to face interview? I'm sure Rory McKeown would love to hear from you outside Cappielow's gates at 5:15; IIRC he's a bit of a tank but I'm sure he'd go easy on you after a few minutes of delivering a good bleaching. Or perhaps it's a case of one rule for you and another when the honour of your beloved 'Hagi' is besmirched by some inconvenient facts.

It's actually not, which is why Italians even prefer Tennents Super to their locally produced swill.

A; Because the Cafe is a shitehole and unlike ,say, Zhivago, I have no interest in sooking up to washed-up has-been footballers. Next stupid question please.

I see that the Peroni-swilling, gossiping snake 'Hagi' has been elevated to the assistant manager post after loyally working under Aitken as a coach for what, a few weeks? That's a Grady/McManus move right there. Hopefully they fancy taking Thomson and the other dross he landed us with off our hands in January.