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Could this be why Colin signed up for another season?!

Shame about Gats moving on, seemed a consummate professional and a genuine good bloke. Massive respect for him as a keeper, but more importantly, his ability to not turn to a block of ice in his short sleeves, when playing during the winter, especially at Gayfield Park.

Similar to Sir Bobby leaving.

Farewell Ricky. An immense and passionate player. Hall of Fame incoming. @SimonLichtie Can you work out how many miles he's put in for the club? Something to keep you occupied while away from this toxic place.

There's always a 1st for everything. We'll see how it pans out.

Get a petition up wanting McIntyre punted, that we can all sign and hand it to Mike Caird.

Here we go again. Another pumping. Continuous pointless McIntyre talk. Just accept the fact he's here for the summer and at least until October. As much as fans can moan and bitch about him all they want, it doesn't seem as if anything is going to alter the situation any time soon. Anyway Thank f**k the seasons over. Onwards and hopefully upwards.

10 at the back and we'll still concede 5.

I think with the amount of dross most of you guys have had to watch the last couple of seasons, you be getting a discount for renewing.

Maybe league 2 with Forfar might be a better step up for him. Shanks hasn't exactly stormed at Peterhead. Hester, too hasn't blitzed at Montrose compared to Elgin. Not saying they've done bad mind. It's going to be like most signings from lower levels...a bit of a lottery.

Perhaps they will announce it at the end of the season unlike how we announced the signing of Gallagher.

Not trying to portion blame on Boruc here, but 36 goals have been conceded during his 11 + 1 sub appearances. Constant chopping and changing of the defence has contributed to our demise.

This is Adams putting himself in the shop window trying to get a new club. Apart from the wonder goal, no club would've taken much notice of him before or since that game at Raith. An attention seeker with many bad pro qualities by the looks of it. Be surprised if he's at a club in the SPFL next season.

So the players are robots programmed by Jim and are excused of being able to think and act for themselves. These past 2 years of supporting Arbroath has seriously screwed your thinking.

I can tell from your analysis who's fault it is we conceded those 5 goals. JIM MCINTYRE I'm not exactly a fan of him staying but with all the he's getting, I really hope he can prove the doubters wrong and get us challenging for top 4 next season. Needs to be targeting that hard b*****d of a midfielder we've been lacking for so long.

I get that the blaming culture in football always rests on the manager when things go pear shape. Obviously I don't get some of the starting XI or decisions that seem to be made on the pitch, but players should also be accountable. Their confidence will also be very low with all the poor performances and results and that is probably adding to mistakes being made. The lack of continuity in the back 5 doesn't help either when Gaston, Little, Walker TOB and Lyon have constantly been in and out of the side. Gaston might not be at his best but he could add that bit of experience to help some of the inexperienced players like Teale, Delaney and Steele. Whatever happens next season, JM will be damned if he does well and even more damned if he doesn't.

Been keeping tabs on him once I'd seen the amount of goals he's scored. Could be useful if we can develop him using Gallagher and McIntosh experience. We should only attempt bring in youth (not loans) if we have the capacity to be able to improve them. That seemed something we probably weren't able to do with Shanks

Your assessment makes absolute sense for these youngsters taking the next step in progression. It's also good to know Jim has spotted these players. Hope he has some kind of good rapport with a couple of Prem clubs for possible loans.

There's 3 young lads on loan at Alloa (Wales, Steven & Sunderland) who've been doing really well this season. Jim and his backroom need to be sourcing some talents like them from Prem clubs too.

All this McIntyre talk is becoming very As a couple said earlier, you can possibly see by players non selection that it could end up meaning offski in the summer. Gaston, unfortunately, looking like one of them.

You could place Stewart in even more positions.

Hopefully Jim will be able to sought out the type of creative players that will benefit our new signing otherwise it will be a waste if chances aren't being provided in the final third. Need to go into league 1 looking to be in a more attacking mindset as we have been stuck in a rut of playing defensive, containing football, trying not to lose, rather than trying to win games in the past couple of seasons.

So it looks as if Jim is here for the foreseeable future. We're doomed this season so now we need to give him an opportunity to re-sign some of the current squad (Scotty ) and bring in some additions. If he can't get us fighting for promotion then he has to get us at least playing some nice football. Failing either of these, then needs to exit the club.

This may be true but also we couldn't have guaranteed we could keep punching above our weight with a different management in place. The only hope may have been that we played a better brand of football.

Does Jim pick the defence by lottery numbers as you never know what the back 4 and gk will be.