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How bad it is that we have a board who back managers and an excellent commercial department. Unfortunately our best team since we went down landed in a perfect storm of a league with teams like hibs, rangers, hearts and Dundee united in the league. Football is a matter of judgement, clubs can be terribly run but have a good team or the other way round. Without hindsight tell me where the board went wrong? Sack Houston? 90% of fans were for this. Getting Hartley in? Again most were for this. Backing hartley's signings? In the summer after seeing the players he'd got in january, again fans were happy to let Hartley sign players. Sacking Hartley? Again board acted swiftly and almost no-one would argue he had to go! I stood outside brockville shouting at the deans and Fulton but i'm not going to slag people for doing what people wanted done. Hopefully Ray can get the football side right and we move on and upwards, COYB.

You lot will all know this, but I only found it out today and thought it was astonishing. In Killie's 38 Premiership matches since Clarke took over, they have 72 points. That's the second-best record in the country over that period. Breaking 70 points is pretty rare in Scotland for anyone outside the Old Firm. Aberdeen have done it four times in a row, but I think they'd only done it once before that since the time of Fergie. The only teams to have beaten Killie in any competitions in Clarke's time are Aberdeen, Hibs, Rangers and Hearts. In four games against double treble champions Celtic they have two wins and two draws. They've only conceded two goals in those games. That's ridiculous. I've never seen anyone turn around a club faster than Stevie Clarke at Killie. As a neutral, Killie have been a boring fixture in Scottish football for many years, probably for all but a couple of brief spells since the late 90s. You were heading down the drain when he arrived. Now, if they're on the telly and playing another top-end team, I'm watching. I hope you cling on to him for years to come, he's made Kilmarnock a force to be reckoned with and a team worth watching.

Applications closed at 4pm, interview with outstanding candidate at 6pm (after pampering them with a Sloany 3 courser and as much wine as they need), contract signed for 8pm, announcement with John Steele and our new man standing atop Dumbarton Rock, absolutely blootered, holding a Dumbarton scarf above their heads at 9pm. Easy.

Have you been fellating Granny Danger again?

I found it adorable that Keevins was trying to put pressure on him that he MUST win etc. Bitter that his pal Duffy got overlooked. Then you had Alex Rae sniping at Caldwell over winning the board over with his presentation “all the managers get taught presentation skills on courses now”. Perhaps Alex should then use one of these presentations to get a job? Clown

Man, there’s some proper hate appeared on this threat all of a sudden. Some of us turned to teams like Kelty to get away from this kind of shite. If you want to spout your bigoted pish, why don’t you f**k off to the SPL message board? I’m sure there will be plenty likeminded fuckwits who’ll be quite happy to indulge you all day long.

Missus and I have been looking to buy a house for the last year or so. Market over here is nothing like as fast as in the UK and you definitely have to be a lot more patient. Viewed a place about 5 months back that I liked, but the missus wouldn't consider because it fell outside the area she wants to buy in. When I say "Fell outside", it was literally a 100m walk to the parts she is on about. Anyway, long story short, the house sold not long after. She is finally starting to open her eyes to the market here and how far our budget will get us. The end result is that the other night she said to me"We should have bought that place you liked". I've been a seething mess since.

Really? I think I'll go.

How exactly have we been unlucky in the play-offs? We deservedly lost to Hamilton, were murdered by Kilmarnock and bottled it against a bang-average Dundee Utd team. Absolutely no bad luck involved on any of these occasions, we had the chance and did not take it. Just as Livingston didn't get lucky last season, they recruited well and played to their strengths in a style that the likes of us could not handle. Campbell and his ilk want Falkirk fans to believe that getting promotion is akin to rocket science, it isn't, as comprehensively proved by Livingston last season. You're in la-la land if you believe that nigh-on a decade in this division, and the likelihood of being in the third tier next season, is down to nothing more than a bit of misfortune or a bad break here and there. Deluded.

The outright arrogance of some of the Bohemians fans on twitter is almost at English fan level They entered the competition They know the dates, they don't have a fixture on the 17th of November so that's the date the tie should be played. if they cannot play that weekend then they not East Fife should forfeit.

replying to his post within 2 minutes isnt really helping your point here RG!

Your username and post are contradictory

I’ve ordered my rainbow coloured poppy with ‘all soldiers are gay’ printed on it from out our local Christian poppy makers.

I'm not really convinced it's that tough a job to lift us. We were fucking dreadful on Saturday after starting with a team that Archie may as well have picked, but all it took to make us look like the team we are capable of being was putting someone on that can actually run. A new manager, new ideas, who isn't afraid to change the team, and I think we'll look a lot better.

We can't just build things in other peoples countries On the other hand Westminster may decide to level Carlisle and replace it with a wide, dystopian expanse of barb wire, sniper nests and land mines, filled with radioactive mutant monsters But it would be the first time the Tories had done anything serious to improve and regenerate a city in the north of England

Despite the odd charlatan like Steven Pressley, this league has proven to be a good platform for lots of young and ambitious managers - John Hughes, Jim McIntyre, Derek Adams, Derek McIness and Jack Ross all won it with their first clubs. It's too early to say what Caldwell will be like and he might well have a rocky ride until at least January given at least a couple of major, existing structural flaws with the first team, but he'll get time and should offer a fresh perspective on the squad - unlike Archibald who couldn't see the wood for the trees towards the end. Having been worried about Jim Duffy being a serious contender for the post and resigning myself to Jim McIntyre as an acceptable appointment, I can get on board with this.

It's not a great idea, it's a fucking brilliant one. I hope the first thing he does is stick the head on Miles Storey.

F**k even giving us home advantage and playing the tie earlier in midweek just to suit they cants, not our problem their club can't honour the dates that surely would have been known before a ball had been kicked! I hope we dig our heels in and insist on playing the tie on dates that have been set and if Bohemians don't like it or can't get a team then that's tough titties! Last thing we need is an extra midweek game in a sideshow event at a vital part of our season. Please just get the colt teams and non Scottish teams to f**k next season and invite some junior teams in to replace them ffs. What a shambles and once again the supporters are clearly last on the agenda

Just got a text from a pretty reliable source that we're going down the general manager route and that the board have offered it to Teddy Long.

Nelmsy if you're reading this I'd also like Hamilton punted in the sea

Another victim of the juggernaut. His head goes on Sir Steve's wall with Pedro Caixinha. PS, McCann was right about Jones costing him his job, and you are all welcome.

Absolute scenes + salty *** tears = favourite ever photo.

how quaint. if you don't have a help for heroes t shirt on and a very prominent poppy you are ISIS scum, and if you do you support colonial imperialist oppression. Make your choice. i will be tweeting angrily about this, a lot.

An unenviable position for East Fife just now. I certainly hope the club don't roll over and get their belly tickled on this one, and if approached about a "date swap" I really hope they tell them where to go, it'll be interesting to see what line the organisers take with this one, but I hope you dish out a GIRUY .

Meant to say big well done to Kelty Hearts woman’s team in winning the league and cup double this season

Cheerio, 10 in a row......

Killie 1 vs Celtic 1 1955 Scottish Cup tie at Rugby Park.

Rab biting at the genuine posts now

BF was the first person with a bit of ambition involved at Clyde for a number of years. He apparently worked every hour of the day and did a huge amount away from the pitch with charity/community events. He improved our professionalism (which probably means little to fans but not players); organised pre-season tours, arranged for us to stay overnight before Elgin, Brora etc. got us training on a full-size pitch, personalised training kit, video analysis etc. He signed a fair few players that were probably a bit beyond what we could expect to have brought in (Scott Linton, Alan Martin, Dylan Easton, Peaso MacDonald) and plenty of others who were (or should have been) decent players at our level, binning those who weren't good enough. It was a huge contrast to Jim Duffy's time when everyone we signed was a guy who had been released by another team for being rubbish. I know a player or two, contracted when he arrived, but who were quickly released in his tenure and whilst slagging off his man-management (he didn't talk to one of them for six weeks), they said his training was light years ahead of anything they'd seen before. They absolutely loved it, despite hating him. He literally never criticised a referee, or other sides/players. In his second season, we were a team who got close to challenging (we were actually top of the league at half-time in the sixth last game) but ran out of steam after a horrible run of midweek games. Queen's Park deserved to beat us in the play-off final but with all sorts of injuries (particularly our captain, Mark McLaughlin) and suspensions we still took it down to the final minute of the game. However, there's absolutely no doubt that he had serious man-management issues. A number of long-term staff left, fed-up with his attitude. Properly tearing into players, particularly younger lads. Scott McLaughlin mentions quite a bit about it in THIS Tell Him He's Pele Podcast. Tactically he'd change what he was doing every time we lost a game and we never really had any consistency as a result. Despite what I said earlier about signings, he completely overhauled the team four or fives times in his two and a half years (he started like Barcelona and was at Stoke 12 months later, having gone everywhere in between). By the end of his stint, we were a dire side and he had no way of fixing it. The goalkeeper he had re-signed was continually a bombscare, and Ross Perry/Chris Smith were shipping multiple goals every game. The couple of players who were difference makers (Linton, Easton) were injured. To give him some credit, he left of his own accord when it became clear we weren't getting near the promotion playoffs. Clyde fans were delighted when he left but it's not a huge stretch to suggest that things could have gone differently, in his second season. If, and it's a big if, he's got a better realisation of the demands of part-timers and an acceptance of the fact they're not as good as he was, then him going to Kelty may well work out. I think an assistant with a better idea of the lower leagues would have helped, rather than Bob Malcolm. I'm not convinced. I certainly think he's worth another shot in management though and he'd take credit for going down to that level. I'd rather have him than Jim Chapman anyway .

Thought that myself... Need more knee jerk IMO

First time I’ve read that article and I think it’s brilliant. The author, I think, nails the crux of all things/ problems armistice in this country.

Knowing how careful our webmaster is with his words, I'm pleased to be reading that. It does mean that from 4pm today my F5 key will be taking an almost constant beating by my index finger, but it's pleasing none the less.

Massive heel turn from GordonS. The sun will never set on the #juggernaut Empire.

Tough choice, it's between two for me. This one... Or this one Also a fan of this one All in all, great days out for the lads.

That was when we were a rollercoaster...We're a Juggernaut now !

People who post sideways pictures.

And your problem is ?

O'Neill was a legend who ruined it by being a daft bigot.

It would probably split opinion among our support, those that look at results only would probably say that Jim is fortunate to have lasted as long as he has at Balmoor, last year the title should have been won with the available squad. On the other hand Jim has brought a number of quality players to us & not only by handing out cash but working with/for Jim has got us a few that probably would not have come otherwise. As for supporters Jim is always approachable & you always get an honest answer from him. Those travelling to away games will know how he appreciates the effort it takes & how he helps make travel possible where I doubt it happens elsewhere. Personally think we would find it difficult to get a better man overall in charge of the club & am fairly sure if things changed Jim would be the first to hold his hands up & go, believe he took a bit of persuading to stay on after not going up last year. Hopefully we can put that right this season.

Well whoopy-doo for her. This doesn't make her any more of a fan than others - just means she had more disposable income and more spare time than most (a lawyer I believe, well there you go). She should only be judged on what she achieves for the club, until she becomes just a fan again. Incidentally I wonder if she viewed any upcoming exciting young FFC prospects playing..........thought not.

Maybe most of the £150000 went on gold fittings

Wow! A board member goes to watch the occasional reserve league match! Well I guess all is forgiven and we can ignore the complete disaster that they have presided over.

What does a few mentions on a tedious radio programme listened to by Rangers fans really get you though? There’s nothing tangible about being referred to as ‘Barry Ferguson’s Kelty’ before he goes on and tells us why Rangers will stop Celtic winning 10 in a row. They wouldn’t have talked about Clyde in any depth other than mentioning the name after his. Initially you may get a few more local Rangers fans coming along. A few hospitality guests/cretins who will be excited about meeting Barry. That will all soon dry up and you’ll be left with a manager who doesn’t understand what it is to be a part time player.

It's a competition to see who can remember the hardest

As well as our mad beast Rosie the dog, we’re looking after the in-laws dogs this weekend. Before our afternoon walk: During our afternoon walk: After our afternoon walk: Aside from being fucking soaking, I also slipped on my arse in front of heaps of people volleying the ball for them to chase. Only approximately the 474th time I’ve done exactly the same thing though, so unlikely I’ll learn from it.

Pittodrie surrounded by mist from the North Sea