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Well that is something the whole world already knows. We have been playing against his teams for a long time and he's blethered a fair amount of pish over the years.

East Fife Supporters Society is the proper name of the Supporters Trust so you should be a member. According to Companies House EFSS already hold 6234 shares in EF and are the 3rd largest single shareholder. Rankine/Twigg (Bayview Fife Ltd) as the majority shareholder hold over 102k shares.

That actual facts don't seem to matter to the mentalists who regularly post on the EF Facebook page, whether that be the 'happy clappers' or the 'we are doomed' brigade'.

I think it is because I made the decision to fund my season ticket by not going to away games.

I am glad to see we are reducing the average age of our first team squad by replacing a 19 year old with a 17 year old.

I have to admit this is starting to annoy the f**k out of me. If we are struggling to sign decent replacements for the players that everyone kept saying they wanted binned then surely those who claim to be in the know will have some idea as to why this is happening. Also on a similar point, the in the know people keep saying that Jude Law is leaving, but if he is why isn't he already away, and why the f**k is he playing for us in our pre season games. Surely if he is leaving then playing him in these games could be jepordising his 'big money' move.

I really hope that the Board are not relying solely on season ticket sales to fund the player budget as my concern is that this will end up with the Board/owner pushing responsibility back onto supporters by saying we have the quality of players that the supporters/local area are willing to pay for, and if that is a lowland league standard then so be it.

Alright, f**k off then.

In life 'choice' is sometimes only a option for those who have the money to be able to choose.

In this case we did HAVE to release Wallace because his refusal to honour the contract forced us to. If we was injured the club would not have had the same option. We rewarded a senior player with a two year deal and when it did not suit him he worked his ticket until the club had no option. For what its worth I would have released him at the start of last season when he was clearly unhappy with how things were going at EF.

I agree. Hence my arguement that giving 2 year deals to players who are not good enough to command a transfer fee is a complete waste of time and money, but it does ruin it for other players who would be willing to honour 2 year deals in return for the additional security it offers. I guess it up to clubs to judge the character (honesty) of individual players when negotiating contracts.

Wallace has done well to get another 2 year deal. If he doesn't fancy it at Dumbarton he can down tools again until he gets a move to a Darvel etc, and if he gets injured he can continue picking up a wage.

Depending on how you look at it I can't help feeling that our Board are being too nice or too weak, and other clubs are taking advantage. Normally I do wish players well when they move on but stuff like this makes you hate how greedy and selfish football can be even at our level.

This sorry mess confirms that football clubs at our level should not be giving out 2 year contracts. Unfortunately players are happy to sign the contract with the security provided if injured, but if they see the chance to get more money elsewhere we can't afford to freeze them out of football for 18 months if there attitude is poor. The approach taken by EF and Young to reward our more senior players with longer contracts fucked things up for us when Agnew was released from his contract while Wallace was told to stay. I have no inside knowledge but I pretty sure this is why Wallace threw his toys out the pram. This was made worse by others like Swanson, Smith and Davidson being injured for all or most of last season, and this effectively led to Young being sacked and EF being relegated. Given this situation there was no way Wallace was going to play league 2 football with EF this season. Our only hope now is that Crawford can use the wages for Wallace, Swanson etc to bring in the players we need to fix the problems with our attack that were so evident last season.