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Craig Bryson must have been earrning at least £10,000 a week on average during his 8 years at Derby (and it could have easily been double that at points). He now has an estate agents's business where it appears he works full time. I really do not think money is going to be his main motivator and find it unlikely we are going to shatter our usual wage structure for him. If we were going to chuck money around willy nilly we'd be signing a couple of proven 15-20 goal League 1/2 strikers, not losing our most complete forward to Stirling Albion

Fisticuffs outside the Rock Bowling Club/The Crown upon our first league meeting.

Delighted to engage in some Warriors Dumbo P&B manfactured beef. Your card is marked FifeSons!

I think we overcame that disappointment by winning the playoffs and gaining promotion.

$tenhousemuir F.C.

Even if Bryson is a total crock, we've got plenty of good central midfield options. I think everyone would have been very happy to have Wedderburn and Miller as the central pairing. We need a first choice left back, right winger and a handful of squad players

Craig Bryson What a barking set of signings this has been.

The whole team was dreadful when Armstrong was at Stenhousemuir. I remember him being O.K. a mid/lower League 2 player.

Is that the drunk, ticketless Liverpool fans at it again? Becoming quite the habit.

Just had a quick check after I saw this. Over £16 a game for the 'regular price' season ticket. How much is a pay on the day ticket going to be!?

It'd be a shame if the night was topped off with them getting booted up and down the streets of Seville by Spanish polis and Frankfurt hooligans.

Unless I'm mistaken, Auchinleck (and Linlithgow, Pollok and many more) former junior clubs are just reasonably well run clubs with fairy decent supports (4-500ish). Darvel have had money pumped into it by Brownings Bakers and are the next Kelty. Have a look at Darvel's squad!

A few years ago it was more than possible for most part time teams who had a good season to get to the Championship. Certainly not outwith the realms of possibility. I have to say, I am fairy annoyed at these teams with financial backers buying their way to a couple of divisions above where they would otherwise be. One of the things that set lower league football apart from even the Scottish Premier league, let alone the English Premier League that we were all much of a muchness with no one really buying their way above you. I'd very much enjoy being in a league with Linlinthgow, Auchinleck, Pollok etc but it is a bit dispirting having nouveau riche teams gallop up the leagues.

We missed out on reaching the (promotion to the Championship) playoffs on the final day of the season in successive years not too long ago. Very often a team can make a few signings that unexpectedly gel well together and really hit it off, find a formation or playing style that really works for them. If you're a well run club financially there are vagaries that really can't be fully planned or accounted for.

Can you explain how a financially stable club like Stenhousemuir (who get the vast majority of income from sources other than gate receipts) can further 'get our act together' other than employ a decent manager and to sign the best players the budget allows?

I wonder if people struggling to feed their familes and heat their homes have simply tried getting their act together?

Those are definitely the 3 positions we need to fill with top end L2 players. After that, adequate squad fillers would be fine. Yes to Yeats, but would be a bit underwhelmed with the other two you mentioned if they were to be first choice players. I hope we don't try and play O'Reilly at the tip of a diamond or far too high up on the left of 3 forwards. Getting the ball on the half way line with plenty of space to drive into and accelerate is when he causes chaos.

The first few games had an attendance cap of 250. There was also the 500 limit for a couple of games at Christmas (though that would impact L2 less)

Wilson would have been an O.K. back up, nothing more than that. Christie put in a good shift but was not good enough to be starting (well, only!) natural right winger/attacker. Lyon did very well and it's unusual to find a player who's pretty effective at both full back positions. A very versatile player I'd have liked to have kept. With the emergence of Corbett, he was never going to be first choice in his favoured position. We need a bit of change. I think some fans would have been content to re-sign 15 of the players who stumbled to 5th place.

I hope Cowdenbeath stay up. A proper club that doesn't deserve to be associated with that circus below us.

Some of the signings were poor and I agree about him being caught off guard about the league quality and the true ability of those players relative to it. To be fair, he did realise this sharpish and did well to ship out/not play the duds and signed some good replacements. Minimum expectation is that we should be in a Forfar/Annan type position next season. Comfortably in the playoffs.

Was about to throw my weight behind Cowdenbeath for the above reason before I realised where Eskbank station was.

Tam Orr signs for next season.

I don't believe a normal looking guy with a good job posts on P&B. Surely we're just all dole monkey VLs?

I also never realised Adam Brown and Nat Wedderburn were also contracted for next year!