bairn88

I’m 100% serious in saying doing this would’ve produced a better squad than the models, scouts, directors of football, manager and coaches that currently make up our recruitment team

It is worse now than in the rest of my lifetime.

He finally gets it

Yeah, I don’t think there’s any team that’s even threatening to be as strong as raith/us from 2 years ago or Partick were to the end of last season. It’s competitive because it’s all very even but in terms of quality I don’t believe many have strengthened (including us - by far our worst squad since we’ve been down). I guess you could say there’s no real stinkers ala Forfar, but East Fife are trying hard to take up that role

1 sitting midfielder is more than enough in this league. Almost every goal we’ve conceded has been the fault of the back 4, not because we have been passed by in the middle of the park. A simple ball over the top is enough to make McKay and Dixon soil themselves

Baffling amount of money, especially considering the state of our squad. Corr the “1st team analyst” and scout.....and the guys we identified included Mcguffie, brad McKay, Wilson, ompreon, hetherington?? Not fit for purpose.

Couldn’t see much for the penalty from our highlights, but the camerawork and overall package is typically p1sh so who knows

Where have the BOD stated this?

Yes, quite probably, which is why I’ve been Holt out for a while. Sheerin hasn’t signed enough of his own to make me write him off, but what he has signed has been equal or worse dross.

Zero excuse about the state we currently find ourselves in from me. As I said before the season started the squad is the worst we’ve had since we’ve been down here in the seasides. But what can we do, and what can sheerin do moving forward? 2 options, pack it in or get a grip of himself. His interview yesterday was uncomfortable to watch, given it was only weeks ago his interviews were generally spot on. We’re only 5 points behind the leaders with a huge amount of games to play. For me, the quality in the league is the worst it’s been since we’ve come down too. It was only less than a year ago Partick were about 10 points behind us in the league, now look at the respective clubs. Football can change very quickly, especially when the quality of the other teams is so awful. Panic and nervousness from Sheerin won’t help at all. As others have said some “easier” games coming up where maximum points are a complete necessity to at least get us back in amongst it. If that doesn’t happen then god knows what we try next. Fire him and get who, fecking Brian Rice? I’m sure other posters will say it’s a joke we even have to use phrases such as “stay in the mix”. But that’s what we have to do for now, maybe til January, when we can maybe sign a player or 2. Not excusing it, but that’s the reality of where we are

Mutinous support with no patience 3k fans watching our 4th defeat in a row with little more than about 60 boos at full time. Real galatasaray stuff.

What exactly are we paying Holt to do if he couldn’t get a guy who’d be better than 3 of our striking options combined?????

1 or 2-0 Montrose, we can’t score and we also can’t keep clean sheets, and Montrose aren’t an utter gang. Onto next week

You know it’s really bad when fans of other clubs stop the justified pish ripping and come on to the thread with genuine offers of pitiful sympathy

Get him out.

Simply diabolical recruitment by Holt. He’s like playing with half a player

Ps these vax passports are all fine and well for a youngster like me. Absolutely fucked if you’re a typical 70 year old + man who wants to go to a Scotland game with his mates tho.

Cheers Welsh. Saw some quote or paraphrase on twitter that said they “won’t accept” rest of uk proof. May have been false. I have the “NHS app” which is fine for down here in England, eg used it to prove vax status to get into the open, Wimbledon etc this summer. Was hoping common sense would prevail and that would be accepted in Scotland (given its exactly the same fecking vaccines) but also wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t prevail.

Always good to laugh at the ugly sisters fans getting shat on but the rest of UK vaccine proofs not being accepted in Scotland is derisory. Had my AZ in London as worked here for years, have tickets to Scotland Israel but under current plans can't go? Awful.

He's been right for the last 7 years tbf - worse and worse

A simple google search will show Hartley’s only real failure is with us. His CV is extremely impressive. Don’t care that he’s an odious twat. Mckinnon did exactly the job required with Queens Park, and had DU promoted, and was doing well with morten when he left. Sheerin spoke of very favourably by Arbroath fans, with goals galore in a league winning season. Im not pretending the football under McKinnon and Hartley was good. But maybe the basket case of a club means it’s almost impossible to succeed no matter who you appoint. That’s why fans already fuming at sheerin (there was serious seethe at alloa), are directing their justified at anger at completely the wrong place.

Nothing Hartley, McKinnon or Sheerin have done before or since in management points to them being “shite”. M&M I’ll very much give you - horrendous

Wonder how many sacked managers it will take for some of our fans to realise it might not be them that’s the problem? 4? 5? 6? 7? 8?

The best post you can find to back up your point is literally a falkirk fan saying his feeling we might win is often wrong and followed by a defeat? Deary me.

For me Sheerin needs to get back to basics for what he’s best known for at Arbroath and what he said when he came here - scoring goals. Haven’t seen too many glimpses of the 4-2, 3-3 etc ding dong battles arbroath fans said we could expect. Losing when playing the turgid rubbish at exactly the same level as last 2 seasons is the last thing I expected from sheerin