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Topic Originator: Jock Par36
Date: Wed 5 Feb 22:34
I really do not care about this silly cup competition .
We have more important league games coming
up. This was a good time to give the new players
a chance to get some minutes. So we lost, so what.
We need to get the best team and tactics sorted
out for our league games.
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Topic Originator: Back_oh_the_net
Date: Wed 5 Feb 22:42
Aye but the 100k for winning it would have been good though
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Wed 5 Feb 22:44
Quote:
Jock Par36, Wed 5 Feb 22:34
I really do not care about this silly cup competition .
We have more important league games coming
up. This was a good time to give the new players
a chance to get some minutes. So we lost, so what.
We need to get the best team and tactics sorted
out for our league games.
Doubt you’d be writing that if we had won….
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: parsfan97
Date: Wed 5 Feb 22:44
Agreed. Long as we stay up. Look at the losses we made last time we got relegated….
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Topic Originator: Par Dan
Date: Wed 5 Feb 22:53
Loser talk
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Topic Originator: Jock Par36
Date: Wed 5 Feb 23:03
I think that the 3pts we got against the
Rovers on Saturday was a lot more
important than winning a stupid cup
that most of our fans would agree with.
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Wed 5 Feb 23:12
Yep.
Fulfilled it`s purpose for me, new guys got a good run out, happy with that. O`Halloran got a game, now we have a better idea. Game was lively enough for me on a fairly cold night, and we didn`t get any injuries!
It`s all about the league, and we need to be up and running for that.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Wed 5 Feb 23:13
I went along to watch the game, mostly to see the new players. Not that bothered about the result, I`ve always viewed it as a Diddy Cup. It would have been nice to get the 100 grand prize money, and getting a winners medal and their hands on some silverware might have been the springboard for further success for the players
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Topic Originator: Par Dan
Date: Wed 5 Feb 23:26
The standards are on the floor if that’s your thoughts .
Fair enough early rounds but a semi final?
That’s really poor imo.
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Thu 6 Feb 00:46
Standards haven`t slipped, if it really was a game with any importance how come there was only 2000 there?
No one cares about this cup, I wish it didn`t exist, but today we had a good look at the new guys, we won`t be playing them all in a league game, so this is the game to give them the full minutes, ditto O`Halloran, he`s been so far down the pecking order, so he really needed to play. That`s about all
What do you want , us to be in the final of the Tunocks Caramel Wafer Cup/Smack Generator Cup (or whatever it`s called now) but be relegated?
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Thu 6 Feb 01:09
That`s a pretty selfish attitude.
Professional players at this level don`t get a chance to win silverware other than this.
It isn`t all about the fans.
We should be supporting them in all competitions, and I would have been delighted for them if they had won this not so Diddy cup.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Thu 6 Feb 04:41
Quote:
neils, Thu 6 Feb 00:46
Standards haven`t slipped, if it really was a game with any importance how come there was only 2000 there?
No one cares about this cup, I wish it didn`t exist, but today we had a good look at the new guys, we won`t be playing them all in a league game, so this is the game to give them the full minutes, ditto O`Halloran, he`s been so far down the pecking order, so he really needed to play. That`s about all
What do you want , us to be in the final of the Tunocks Caramel Wafer Cup/Smack Generator Cup (or whatever it`s called now) but be relegated?
Id rather we won the cup and stayed up to be fair, you know, like Id imagine the entire coaching and playing staff wanted too…….
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Topic Originator: Jock Par36
Date: Thu 6 Feb 09:18
£100000 for winning a stupid cup competition
is nothing compared to what we will lose
if we get relegated. Some of you guys on this
post need to see the bigger picture. We
have new players and it was a game to
give them a chance to let manager see them.
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Topic Originator: MinnesotaAndy
Date: Thu 6 Feb 09:18
The Diddy Cup is what it is. As ever, money talks. I guess clubs like the opportunity of winning the prize money. If attendances fall so low that the running costs of staging games are not covered, then clubs would quickly move to pull the competition.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Thu 6 Feb 09:29
Quote:
MinnesotaAndy, Thu 6 Feb 09:18
The Diddy Cup is what it is. As ever, money talks. I guess clubs like the opportunity of winning the prize money. If attendances fall so low that the running costs of staging games are not covered, then clubs would quickly move to pull the competition.
Competitions been going for 35 years……dont think its going anywhere any time soon
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Thu 6 Feb 09:36
These peripheral cups do nothing for me - however if the club enters a competition they should take it seriously and try and do as well as possible.
Otherwise don’t enter.
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Thu 6 Feb 09:42
Tend to agree, for most of my life it has been a reserve team competition for us that holds no prestige to a club like ours. The 100k prize money would have been decent but apart from that… meh
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Topic Originator: JimDAFC
Date: Thu 6 Feb 10:32
Last night may also have given Tidser a chance to make up his mind about some players and their long term future at the club.I think 2 maybe 3 or more of last nights team might be discarded at the end of season.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Thu 6 Feb 13:41
Do it doesn`t matter to any of you that the players want to win this Cup.
Nice.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Thu 6 Feb 14:17
Quote:
PARrot, Thu 6 Feb 13:41
Do it doesn`t matter to any of you that the players want to win this Cup.
Nice.
Do they though? Or are they not that bothered by it, like us?
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Thu 6 Feb 14:53
I`m more concerned about staying up this season.
c'mon the pars
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Topic Originator: Lucho_8
Date: Thu 6 Feb 15:21
Of course, I would rather we didn’t lose last night.
However if we were to lose one game out of our last & next league game, the Aberdeen game or that game last night, I would choose the latter for sure.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Thu 6 Feb 16:14
Quote:
red-star-par, Thu 6 Feb 14:17
Quote:
PARrot, Thu 6 Feb 13:41
Do it doesn`t matter to any of you that the players want to win this Cup.
Nice.
Do they though? Or are they not that bothered by it, like us?
I think they are. From what is said in interviews, most are.
By, "US", I take it you mean a small minority of the fanbase that posts here.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Thu 6 Feb 16:20
Quote:
neils, Thu 6 Feb 00:46
Standards haven`t slipped, if it really was a game with any importance how come there was only 2000 there?
No one cares about this cup, I wish it didn`t exist, but today we had a good look at the new guys, we won`t be playing them all in a league game, so this is the game to give them the full minutes, ditto O`Halloran, he`s been so far down the pecking order, so he really needed to play. That`s about all
What do you want , us to be in the final of the Tunocks Caramel Wafer Cup/Smack Generator Cup (or whatever it`s called now) but be relegated?
"No one cares". That is Trumpspeak right there. Obviously false but say it often enough, and the cult members suck it up.
We just had a bumper crowd for our top Derby and we sold out for an expensive trip to Aberdeen. Three games in 8 days will hit most pockets, and this was free on tv.
I am sure there would have been much more there if it was a free Saturday and not televised.
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Topic Originator: Berry
Date: Thu 6 Feb 16:24
I cared, want Dunfermline to win every game of football.
Was I gutted when we lost, no, I accepted that in the larger scheme of things we have bigger fish to fry but was disappointed.
More so for the players, we always call it a Diddy Cup, but with now a £100k sum for the win clubs are rightly paying it a little more attention and for the players, let’s be real, for many it’s an opportunity to create memories of being in a final and competing for silverware and getting a medal as opportunities to do that in a players career isn’t something that will occur that often.
Do wonder the confidence we would’ve got as well had we won that, after papping Raith. Probably would’ve aided our relegation battle than risk hampering it.
Post Edited (Thu 06 Feb 16:25)
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Thu 6 Feb 17:29
The manager decided to use last night to try out the new lads in a competitive match against good opposition. Presumably he did this to get a good idea of what they are capable of in the context of the run-in for the league campaign.
Thats good enough for me, albeit a wee cup final would have been nice.
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Topic Originator: TommyR
Date: Thu 6 Feb 17:32
Quote:
JTH123, Thu 6 Feb 17:29
The manager decided to use last night to try out the new lads in a competitive match against good opposition. Presumably he did this to get a good idea of what they are capable of in the context of the run-in for the league campaign.
Thats good enough for me, albeit a wee cup final would have been nice.
This is the right answer. A big cup game coming Sunday and we`ll have a better chance of doing something useful having had time to run our new signings. Im pumped for our pittodrie vidit but ultimately its about the league and things looking upwards.
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Topic Originator: Berkey
Date: Thu 6 Feb 18:47
JTH surely you should know what the player is capable of before bringing him in on loan? Big gamble otherwise.
Mullan looks good, the other 2 not so sure. Cente of midfield in this league not easy for a youngster up against experienced pro’s and yeboah feels he might end up like another McCann, plenty endeavour but very rarely an end product, perhaps unfair after 1 game but we’ll see.
The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity!
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Thu 6 Feb 20:33
Quote:
Berkey, Thu 6 Feb 18:47
JTH surely you should know what the player is capable of before bringing him in on loan? Big gamble otherwise.
Mullan looks good, the other 2 not so sure. Cente of midfield in this league not easy for a youngster up against experienced pro’s and yeboah feels he might end up like another McCann, plenty endeavour but very rarely an end product, perhaps unfair after 1 game but we’ll see.
I don`t know how these things are decided as I`ve never been involved in professional football but I`d hazard a guess that going to reserve games, getting input from people you trust, videos etc would be part of the research. But if these young lads aren`t playing mens football as some haven`t been, then a game like last night will tell a different story.
FWIW my take on last nights performances was the same as yours and probably the majority in attendance although in Yeboah's defence it was frustrating to see high balls incessantly lumped up to him when he wasn't winning the challenges but very few long balls over or in behind for him to use his pace.
Who`s to say how they will look in a few weeks time with plenty of training under their belts and some games to (hopefully) build confidence. Fagan Walcott had a couple of ropey weeks early on in his time with us but by the end of the season he was strolling through games.
Post Edited (Thu 06 Feb 20:40)
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Topic Originator: CrossPar
Date: Thu 6 Feb 22:59
As a player, if you step onto the park, not that bothered because you see it as a diddy cup, then you are in the wrong profession. I played football for a lot of years and treated every game the same, no matter if it was seen as important, or even just a friendly. If you don`t have that desire and commitment, do something else. Won`t take Tidser long to sort out the shirkers. In fact, he has already started.
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Topic Originator: arpar
Date: Thu 6 Feb 23:39
The Diddy Cup is the League Cup. This cup is the Diddy, Diddy Cup and nobody really cares about it unless they win it. Hamilton won it a few seasons ago and got relegated. I would take the Scottish Cup or League Cup win while being relegated but definitely not this cup.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Fri 7 Feb 05:59
Quote:
CrossPar, Thu 6 Feb 22:59
As a player, if you step onto the park, not that bothered because you see it as a diddy cup, then you are in the wrong profession. I played football for a lot of years and treated every game the same, no matter if it was seen as important, or even just a friendly. If you don`t have that desire and commitment, do something else. Won`t take Tidser long to sort out the shirkers. In fact, he has already started.
I don`t think there are many, if any, players who come into the "don`t care" category, CrossPar. If you ask any pro footballer, "What`s the worst thing about football?" the most common answers are "being injured" and "getting beat."
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: PeterHu50
Date: Fri 7 Feb 07:46
Don’t think of it as £100k. I read on here that we get £40k for the semi final so it’s just a £60k opportunity lost. I guess that a couple of places further up the league will cover that; keep on believing.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Fri 7 Feb 09:22
1 extra game in the middle of an international break, a cup final no less, would have absolutely heehaw impact on wether we stay up or not. If it did, Id be seriously worried about the players and managements mentality.
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Topic Originator: LEGEND85
Date: Fri 7 Feb 09:51
must admit I`m surprised at the amount of folk calling it a Diddy cup, I don`t think anyone is choosing that over staying in the league but I was certainly hoping for a cup final and trophy celebration.
Can`t we achieve both
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Topic Originator: Luxembourg Par
Date: Fri 7 Feb 11:04
Diddy cup? - maybe.
Wanted to win it? - Definitely!
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Topic Originator: kozmasrightfoot
Date: Fri 7 Feb 13:45
How exactly would winning that cup relate to our position in the league? It`s only a few more games, and winning breeds confidence.
Sure it`s viewed by many as a Diddy cup but we are a small club so a bit of silverware in the form of a trophy would have been lovely.
It`s also been years since we`ve had any kind of run in a cup tournament.
An cheque worth one hundred thousand pounds is a lot of money to a club of our size.
The state of that pitch though,wow! It`s not even been a particularly bad winter so I don`t know how it`s got that bad. It looks like my dad has been practicing his golf game on it. It`s certainly not conducive to playing the ball on the ground. It`s an eyesore, science has came a long away so I`d really like to know why it`s as bad as it is.
This forum baffles me at times, it really does.
Pars fan.
Magpies fan.
Mens tennis fan.
Alternative rock fan.
Not a fan of much else.
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Topic Originator: SusieQ
Date: Fri 7 Feb 15:47
Disappointed to lose a semi final, especially at home & yes it would be nice to get to the final and potentially win a trophy when you get so close.
Had we lost earlier in the run tho, I must admit I`d be - meh!
Onto the "big" cup game of the week and then probably concentrating on staying up.
COME ON YE PARS!
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