Specky Ginger

I had heard we had made a small profit winning the challenge cup but in the most part the money in from the final had the sfa take a big cut then what was left was split 50/50 between us and the rangers. Think that season as a whole we made a loss though. The quote I heard from Turnbull Hutton was that we made more money from the televised Scottish Cup Quarter Final against St Johnstone than we made out of winning the Ramsdens Cup. At no point have I ever heard a board member say that we made a loss on winning the Ramsdens Cup or on the season as a whole. Apologies if that's not the case.

Take off the £4 that goes to Aberdeen and deduct the £1 vat from the £6 left, bear in mind the floodlighting is the same tonight as for a full house, and it's safe to say tonight's proceeds won't be funding many signings. Remember the good old days when we used to get fined for fielding a weakened team in this cup?

Livingston I think. Or Ambitious Livingston as they were known back then.

It'll be on Ebay this week. Minimum bid at least £25 given it was the first game on the astro, first clean sheet of the season, first dodgy penalty we've had in about 5 seasons and it doubles up as a diddy cup game.

You'll probably not be allowed to play in your new strips at Starks Park.

The same Davie Irons who was emptied by Morton after a 3-0 skelping from the mighty in 2009?

You're absolutely right. We're just so unfortunate we've never been afforded the opportunity to win the 4th tier of Scottish football to add to our honours.

You criticise those Rovers fans who want Smith out, but you agree with a Morton fan who says Smith is a charlatan and out of his depth? There's Martin crying. He maybe needs his nappy changed.

Methilians are a very oppressed race.

I wasn't aware that we were offering less money than part time clubs. My understanding was that what we are offering is less than a player with a day job and part time football wage can realistically expect to earn.

Not sure why Kane had any need to make a challenge like that, particularly in that area of the pitch. However, a yellow card was all it merited. I can see why it might have looked worse in real time, but it'll be interesting to see / hear whether the referee gave himself time to clear his head and think about what really happened, or whether it was one of these situations where the red card was out his pocket before the Forfar player hit the deck.

If we manage to get a couple of guys back fit, it might be an idea to play one of the league cup games without Davidson as I'd imagine he'll be suspended for the start of the league season after his red card at Alloa in the playoffs.

Does young Martin like his new yellow top?

Hmmmm. Not sure what difference they'd have made given we would have still launched long high aimless balls at every opportunity. Cowden thoroughly deserved to win today - stronger, sharper and hungrier all over the park. Your number 8 with the ponytail bossed the midfield from start to finish. Two horrendous mistakes from Benedictus, but all credit to Sheerin for forcing the errors and for the clinical finishing. I thought if we lost today it might at least be because we'd witnessed a McGurn masterclass, but he can't have had many easier afternoons.

I'm all for engaging fans but surely hiring out a room at a hotel is costly to try and convince people to volunteer? As said above, I wouldn't imagine we're paying over the odds for the hire of the Strathearn. Any licenced establishment in Kirkcaldy is going to welcome a few dozen thirsty punters on a midweek night, especially when season ticket holders can get 15% off the price of any scran they buy.

Spot on. It's like saying Gary Locke wasn't good enough to manage in the Premier, but he'll be great in the championship. However, much as I'd rather we didn't resign Mchattie, some of the comments are a wee bit OTT - he's nothing like as bad a player as many from the Anelka era.

Mark Stewart must have scored at least one of your goals (with his longer leg, obviously).

Maybe Claims Direct will pay for an advertising board. Or better still, sponsor the stadium.

Absolutely. But apparently scored the winner against a fairly strong Dundee United team today from left midfield.

To be fair, we'd just won the league cup, were playing to huge gates in the 1st Division, never mind the Premier League. The cup money along with grants and the Bayern Munich TV money supposedly paid for most of the ground improvements and in the summer of 1996 we'd just sold Crawford, Dair and Sinky to Millwall for a reputed £1.2m. Unfortunately Millwall hit the skids financially and we ended up getting Dair back along with Paul Hartley to offset some of the fee. Unfortunately by that point we'd already lashed out on Harvey, Bonar, Browne, Twaddle etc.

I think that was the Munro sacking (later the same season). As said above, we were in freefall towards the end of Nicholl's tenure (I remember a hiding at Ibrox where we barely attempted to cross the halfway line) and Jimmy Thomson provided a quick fix to ensure we survived comfortably that season. There's no defending some of the signings he made the following close season, but it was no worse than the scatter gun recruitment policy of Iain Munro - Colin Scott (allegedly on £900 basic back then), David Lorimer, Derek McGill, Andy Millen etc mixed in with a few short term unaffordable Scandinavians. It was Jimmy Nicholl (2nd spell) who brought in Keith Wright and Iain Cameron (as part of the Rougier deal) and blew £150 grand on Craig McEwan (who was Alex Smith's blue eyed boy at Clyde).

Three quick questions : Is your social club open on Saturday afternoon? Does it admit non members and kids? Does it have Guinness on draught?

Just like this time last season then?

Probably against Berwick

He'll fit in fine here then as we shat the bed big time at the end of last season.