Dumbarton's Response

Would like to know who gave him the coaches / badges qualification because if he doesn’t see that as a violent tackle, you are another dinosaur of a coach matey.
One thing is to defend your player and another thing is to be realistic on the consequences of that tackle / flying kick on the career of the player.
To be honest it is quite embarrassing to lose 7-0 against a team made of youngsters Mr Dinosaur of a coach.
 
The Moon on Mars is Blue said:
DUMBARTON manager Stevie Farrell insists that Ally Love did not intend to harm Rangers youngster Alex Lowry after the promising playmaker was on the receiving end of a crunching tackle from the winger last night.

The Sons faced the Ibrox colts side in the SPFL Trust trophy as David McCallum’s team secured a 7-0 victory over their League Two counterparts but the contest was marred by an ugly challenge from Love that resulted in Lowry being stretchered off towards the end of the match.

The Dumbarton player slid in from behind with a two-footed lunge that sent the Scotland Under-21 internationalist flying into the air but his manager insists that there was no intent on Love’s behalf to harm Lowry as he outlined his hope that the 19-year-old makes a speedy recovery.

“First and foremost, my thoughts go to Alex Lowry,” Farrell said. “I have been in touch with [Rangers academy chief] Craig Mulholland today and I know that Alex is going for a scan tomorrow.

“Everyone at the football club, Ally included, wish Alex well in that. He is a young player, a great talent in the game, and everyone in Scottish football wants to see him fit and well.

“I know Ally Love and in no way did he go out tocause any harm to Alex Lowry.

“It wasn’t a good tackle, Ally will be the first to admit that, but you get those tackles up and down the leagues every Saturday.

“I am not trying to justify it in any way – it was a bad challenge. I have made those types of challenges myself and players have got up and walked from them. In this case, unfortunately, Alex didn’t.

“I’ve watched it back numerous times on video and I actually think – and I am no medical professional – that it’s probably the way Alex has landed that hasn’t helped either. He has went up in the air and then landed awkwardly, so it looks as if that may have contributed to the injury as well.”

Clips of the incident have been circulated on social media in the last 24 hours, prompting a furious response from some Rangers supporters.

Love has since received death threats and while Farrell says that fans are right to look after their own, he believes that some of the abusive messages sent to his player have been well beyond the pale.

“I’m not surprised [by the reaction] at all,” he added. “We have been here before – that’s what happens when you play for a big club. Alex Lowry is a promising young player at a big club and fans are obviously going to protect their own. I don’t have an issue with that.

“Fans are always going to protect their own and their own players – likewise, Dumbarton fans are probably fighting Ally’s corner. I’m not a big social media user.

“I don’t have any issue with that but when it starts to cross the divide – at any level, at any club – about getting death threats, breaking people’s windows, hurting people’s family; there is just no place for that in football.

“That is not acceptable and I think any reasonable independent person would suggest that that’s not acceptable either. Anybody in football would say that.

“The biggest concern here from everybody – from Rangers, from Dumbarton, from Ally Love, from Stevie Farrell – is that hopefully the results of Alex Lowry’s scan are good and whatever those results are, that Alex makes a speedy recovery.

“That’s genuine from everybody at the club. I think that’s genuine from every real football person in Scotland. The aftermath and the fall-out is what it is.

“I was speaking to Ally in the aftermath and he knows it wasn’t the best challenge but he certainly didn’t go out to hurt Alex in any way.”

Taking no responsibility . Bin the deal with Dumbarton Rangers
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Minutes left and the games done, and he launched that. Get to %^*&. Bin the deal. Rewarding outright thuggery and attempts to maim our players cannot be rewarded.
The poet scumbag will wear this like a badge of honour. Prick. Hope he gets a bad one himself.
 
RenfrewBear72 said:
Tell Dumbarton to stick their shite pitch up their arse. “The way he landed”, if he wasn’t two footed from behind without a chance to protect himself he wouldn’t have landed at all. Fucking prick.
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I still can’t understand how there aren’t even any Junior Grass Pitches in the Central Belt where we could play. The upturn in attendance would be bound to be better than playing it away out at Dumbarton?
 
Twosignals said:
I still can’t understand how there aren’t even any Junior Grass Pitches in the Central Belt where we could play. The upturn in attendance would be bound to be better than playing it away out at Dumbarton?
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Stirling was mentioned and would probabbly sell out every game.
 
I’m still raging at that response. Like getting hot by a speeding car and getting blamed for landing head first.

Get this clown that did it in front of the media to explain his actions
 
Walk away Rangers, find another home ground. If we’re a big club, we need flex the muscle. If they’re going to defend that they can F off.
 
The way he’s landed hasn’t helped.
Thats from a tackle that resulted in the player being lifted off his feet causing him to land awkwardly.
Youre right when he gets kicked in the air by some mindless thug he should be able to land like a butterfly with sore feet.
Justifying these actions makes it impossible to takes these clowns seriously.
 
Typical Scottish football response.

He should have just said it’s a man’s game if you
Can’t take a tackle then jump out the way of it wee man.

That’s pretty much what he’s said.

The point is we shouldn’t be seeing these tackles at all in the game, there is no need.

I can take one of our players going in 50 / 50 to a tough tackle and coming off second best and picking up an injury. That happens in the game, it’s a contact sport.

Last nights was not football, was not a bad tackle, was not a coming together, was not an unlucky landing of a player.

It was an intentional attempt to cause injury to another player, thuggery and brutality. Ally deserves everything he has coming to him.

Our national football philosophy needs to move away from trying to go out and break legs to actually trying to go out an improve.
 
Yes he landed awkwardly and appears to have caught his studs in the turf but that doesn't happen if the scumbag doesn't put him up the air to begin with. Prick. Stop playing our B team games there immediately. Hit them in the pocket because we're probably keeping them in the game.
 
Death threats will be the headlines from this and Rangers fans will be the bad guys while Love will be the victim.
 
It was the landing that did the damage,aye? If that thug of yours hadn't assaulted Lowry he wouldn't have to land like that ya wank. Away an eat shite.
 
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