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It shows how fucking awful much of that team was that we were nowhere near going up even with Nisbet in the team. 

Any credit Barry Smith gets for signing him is completey removed by the absolute nightmare he made if trying to assemble a squad that season. 

 

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54 minutes ago, grumswall said:

Did you just double up on him aswell?

Nisbet was our only threat that season (a good one at that) if you stopped him playing we really didn't offer much going forward.

Dugan should have gotten us a penalty in the second leg, shame he was injured so much 

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12 minutes ago, CALDERON said:

It shows how fucking awful much of that team was that we were nowhere near going up even with Nisbet in the team. 

Any credit Barry Smith gets for signing him is completey removed by the absolute nightmare he made if trying to assemble a squad that season. 

 

If it wasn’t for injuries when McGlynn took over what a squad that could’ve been Vaughan, nisbet, Armstrong and hendry going forward 

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26 minutes ago, grumswall said:

Aye I think duggan would have been a good signing if he had stayed fit. Showed in flashes he was a decent enough player.

But for Vaughnies hatrick against the Pars Duggan would have been motm that day, he was awesome.

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57 minutes ago, CALDERON said:

It shows how fucking awful much of that team was that we were nowhere near going up even with Nisbet in the team. 

Any credit Barry Smith gets for signing him is completey removed by the absolute nightmare he made if trying to assemble a squad that season. 

 

It was simply dross.  There were a lot of players who either weren't of a good enough standard (Wedderburn, McGuffie, and rather disappointly, Crane), with poor attitudes (Flanagan, Barjonas) and inconsistent (Gillespie). It was unfortunate to lose Vaughan, Hendry and Armstrong throughout the season, but we'd still have probably missed out due to how awful that defence was. Arbroath had an utterly disgusting run of form during the first half of that season and we got no breaks. In the second half of the season we fell apart with some utterly comically bad results (in particular, Brechin away where Vaughan did his ACL again). 

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2 hours ago, grumswall said:
2 hours ago, Scottydog said:
But for Vaughnies hatrick against the Pars Duggan would have been motm that day, he was awesome.

Did he end up back in Australia after leaving the Fife?

That was the report on the EF thread back in January. Retired Jan 1 to return to Oz.

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It was simply dross.  There were a lot of players who either weren't of a good enough standard (Wedderburn, McGuffie, and rather disappointly, Crane), with poor attitudes (Flanagan, Barjonas) and inconsistent (Gillespie). It was unfortunate to lose Vaughan, Hendry and Armstrong throughout the season, but we'd still have probably missed out due to how awful that defence was. Arbroath had an utterly disgusting run of form during the first half of that season and we got no breaks. In the second half of the season we fell apart with some utterly comically bad results (in particular, Brechin away where Vaughan did his ACL again). 


Vaughan did his ACL up in Forfar when we won at the death 2-1
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13 hours ago, Broken Algorithms said:

It was simply dross.  There were a lot of players who either weren't of a good enough standard (Wedderburn, McGuffie, and rather disappointly, Crane), with poor attitudes (Flanagan, Barjonas) and inconsistent (Gillespie). It was unfortunate to lose Vaughan, Hendry and Armstrong throughout the season, but we'd still have probably missed out due to how awful that defence was. Arbroath had an utterly disgusting run of form during the first half of that season and we got no breaks. In the second half of the season we fell apart with some utterly comically bad results (in particular, Brechin away where Vaughan did his ACL again). 

You're right in that there was a lot of dross in Smith's squad, but Barjonas and McGuffie were McGlynn signings. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Raith Against The Machine said:

Was it Kevin Cuthbert who played Nisbet at right back? Halcyon days. 

Indeed it was, a week after the 5-0 defeat at Ross County, the only game I have ever left in the first half. 

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None of the loan players that Mcglynn brought in that season, Hendry excepted, looked up to it at all.  In hindsight he isn't a "firefighting" manager, rather one that you need to let build a squad - as we saw the season past.

However, for context, this is the team that started the first league game of that season away to Stranraer.  

Wright, Watson, Valentine, Murray, Benedictus, Gillespie, Buchanan, Matthews, Wedderburn, Nisbet, McKay.
Subs, McGuff, Milne, Flanagan, Stevenson

 

 

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