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Beith and Troon don't actually play in an 'Ayrshire lower non league' and so you can find their match reports in most national newspapers.

If by 'take an interest' you mean 'read the sports section of a Sunday newspaper' then it's really not a mystery at all tbh.

Captain Courageous Dean Keenan managed to get himself sent off (bloated marquee signing Christian Nade joining him on that score) in Troon's latest defeat at Beith in the junior no-mark leagues. What a terrible, wee shame that is for him*. *

Burn your bridges at The Famous by seeking a 'bigger challenge' at a dross competitor; get punished with failure and spend the rest of your career in seaside league oblivion. Good to see the Bobby Barr Rule still delivering the goods. Farewell sweet prince. x

Handing an eighteen month deal to a player who couldn't regularly get a game ahead of Thomson and Tiffoney makes me fear for Falkirk's latest attempt to panic sign their way out of oblivion. Hopefully King Snake moves to bring Connor Bell over next.

Ex-players in any capacity of the game are paid by and are responsible to different professional football clubs - they don't hand out good players like sweeties. Whereas scouting - by far the most important recruitment tool - has been neglected at this club (and many others in Scotland) for years.

John McMaster played barely 30 games for the club 30 years ago and as far as I can tell has contributed absolutely fuck all to the club while at Swansea. If bringing in Alex Samuel on loan is his great gift to The Famous then we’re better off without that totally worthless contribution. The rest is gormless, ‘fitba men’ based yammering. Competent football teams use scouting, not gubbins ex-player links to improve their squad.

^^^ idiot found Gormless enough to think that 20th in English League One counts as both credible management and a credible source of players for The Famous.

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!