Mon_The_Fife

Airdrie 2 - 1 Alloa Cove 3 - 1 East Fife Falkirk 2 - 1 Clyde Queens Park 3 - 1 Dumbarton

Should do ok with a fresh start, he just reached the end of an era with us and seemed to run out of ideas.

We’ve had plenty ups and downs with Young but I think over the piece and without significant investment he probably took us as far as he could and we only missed out on the play offs a couple of times. You could obviously look at that both ways, and say finishing 5th is pretty average so I suppose I’m agreeing with you. Had we got in to the play-offs then, who knows but we have gone backwards quite considerably and he left us in a mess with a lot of players perhaps reaching the end of their cycle with us now and a big overhaul is required. Young was touted for Championship jobs when we were doing reasonably well, but now that his stock has fallen he will need to rebuild his reputation a bit and Stirling will be a good fit for him and wish him well.

Fair fucks to Arbroath. To be top of the Championship at the half way stage is some achievement. Hopefully you guys can bring in some extra depth to your squad in January and finish in at least the play offs and have an opportunity to be promoted.

That Borland match was great and what a 9 darter in such a pressure situation. Brooks is a good player too and he ran Price pretty close earlier this year. Searle up next is going to be a tough match. Certainly 2 exciting prospects to look out for over the years.

Clyde 1 - 3 Airdrie Cove 2 - 0 Alloa Dumbarton 2 - 1 Peterhead East Fife 2 - 2 Falkirk Montrose 2 - 1 Queens Park

I was going to post the other day about trying to bring in Greig McDonald as a coach. Welcome home ‘Toro’. An absolute legend and remains my favourite East Fife player. Great to have him as part of the back room staff.

Montrose 0 - 2 Airdrie Airdrie 2 - 1 Queens Park Alloa 2 - 0 Clyde Dumbarton 1 - 3 Montrose Falkirk 1 - 1 Cove Peterhead 2 - 1 East Fife

I don’t think Young would be a necessarily bad appointment. He led us to our highest finish in L1 in a very long time and had us playing some good football. This season was a disaster though and he probably should have left in the summer when his stock was high as the squad had reached the end of its cycle and a big overhaul was needed. We signed some absolute jobbers in the summer, by the sounds of things because the board didn’t want to spend some money to revamp the squad so it’s probably tarnished his reputation a little.

The defending for Alloa’s goal is so bad and basic. Someone has to take control of the situation whether it be one of the defenders or goalkeeper and just clear our lines. Our away form is embarrassingly bad so we have to be winning our home games and gifting teams a free goal has to stop.

I remember during his brief spell in charge with us, we were always in games and we seemed to have a never give up attitude that is very much lacking at the moment. So, even if we have a bit of a change in attitude that will certainly improve things straight away.

Decent enough appointment, and will certainly return to the club with far more experience as a coach and manager. We desperately needed some freshness in the dugout so hopefully we see a little bit of a reaction from the players. Would be interesting to see who else applied since the board were happy to appoint Crawford before speaking to other coaches.

Clyde 2 - 1 Peterhead Cove Rangers 3 - 0 Dumbarton East Fife 0 - 4 Alloa Queens Park 1 - 2 Falkirk

I think it’s easy to suggest that players don’t look like they care when things aren’t going well. Players don’t deliberately go out to lose, but ultimately our squad is just not good enough this season. I would certainly agree that we lack a real leader on the pitch, we haven’t had someone who would drag the team through matches since Steven Tweed. Out of the current squad I would probably only keep Jude Smith, Murdoch, Steele, Wallace and Kev Smith. I’m hoping the new manager comes in over the next day or two so he can start the massive job of moving on some of the muck. What a really shit season, and all we have to look forward to is to try and avoid 10th place and it isn’t even December.

Shocked to read that we conceded from a corner, for what must be about the 300th time this season. Can only echo what people have said on here, the team are utter shite and the new manager has a huge job on their hands pretty much preparing a squad for a League 2 challenge next season. It has been a disaster of a season before we even kicked a ball and this result just shows what an absolute shambles we have become.

Checked the score when I got up and just laughed. We are absolute garbage and that was pretty much a full strength team. The new manager needs to be appointed quickly. Roll on May so we can get rid of these absolute charlatans. The squad needs a massive overhaul.

First it was Brora, then BSC and now Banks O’ Dee. What is it with ‘B’ teams? Is that our most embarrassing result in our history? What an absolute shit show of a season, just relegate us now and fire the majority of the squad into the sea.

Calm down. Suggesting names like McInnes is just silly and no wonder people are ridiculing you.

The lack of investment in the squad certainly didn’t help Young as we knew very early on that the squad was considerably weaker this season than last. However, it’s reassuring to know that the club is a pretty healthy position, so we either recruit well in January, which at this level is very rare or we have the ability to overhaul the squad in the summer whether that be in League 1 or 2. My preferred choice for the job would be either Crawford or Kettlewell, if of course they are even interested.

I had the fear for the game vs BOD, but now that Young has gone, I’m hoping for a bit of a reaction. BOD are scooshing their league but I would like to think that there is a fair bit of difference in quality between a League 1 team and a team 3 tiers below.

Correct decision, albeit about 3 months too late. Young has been a very good manager for us and brought us a lot of highs including the Raith victories, but things were at a natural end and he couldn’t turn things around this season.I’m sure he will be back in football again soon. This might be the shot in the arm that everyone at the club needs. It will be a pretty appealing job for a lot of coaches out there.

It’s been clear for months that we need a new manager with some fresh ideas so I think a new manager coming in now would give us an initial lift. The way things are going we are going to League 2, and very disappointed that the board are quite content to allow this to happen. The summer recruitment was bang average but we have a few players who are more than capable of dragging us out of this situation with a new manager as it’s clear Young can’t do it anymore. Managers naturally just come to the end of the their cycle with clubs and things have gone stale and will soon become toxic. Next week could be embarrassing for the club, I would like a change to be made ASAP and give the new guy some time before January to assess the squad and try to keep us up.

Very small time behaviour if true, but not surprising as these are the same people who have kept Young for too long and are happy to take us into League 2.

We have gone 1 step forwards and another 10 back over recent weeks. Our away results are now at the stage of hilariously bad, and we have given Clyde their first win since the beat us the last time. Clyde can look forward to another 6 points later in the season to keep us at arms length. If we can’t beat the teams around us then we deserve to get relegated as the board sit idly by doing nothing. On to Banks O’Dee next week and I’ve already got the fear.