FullTimePint
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The carrot for boys that want to get back into f/t having been p/t is that you guys are offering a hybrid squad. Prove yourself on a p/t contract and there is the opportunity that you could end up with a f/t contract.
I think both yourselves and Airdrie might be able to recruit a some players who are dropping down the leagues with that type of incentive.
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Will be interesting to see how you guys make the hybrid model work. For the amount of teams making regular losses in the championship, you have to think more and more will begin to operate this way as the financial realities begin to bite.
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8 minutes ago, lukejoaitken said:
Does anybody know if we are getting new kits this season?
I could be wrong, but i thought it was same strip with a new sponsor
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There's an extent that i actually feel pretty sorry for the actors for that final season. They did a pretty comprehensive press tour before the last season kicked off. For the amount of hype and build up the show got, they must have known that the outcome would be so underwhelming that a lot of fans would hate it.
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Best man for the job, knows the Scottish game and players, and for the amount of times the SFA have hauled him in, he must be on first name terms with them aswell.
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2 minutes ago, sirscottyoung said:
Jordan Hart confirmed as coming! Quality second keeper! Will definitely push Brett along too!
That will be a shootout for the number 1 jersey, both quality keepers. Another quality signing.
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That was the worst game of football I have watched. Considering you needed a few goals to make a contest of it, that team looked flat, and played at a pedestrian tempo. Maybe a game too far after a long season, or maybe just a further example of the heart the team has lacked all year.
Will be interesting to see what comes out over the next few weeks, regards the players staying for next year. Potentially this is your opportunity to tear it up and start again. Incredible to consider the nosedive since that season under McKinnon. A few crazy managerial appointments and a stable championship team turns into a league 1 mainstay.
Will take something special to get up next year, looking forward to the fife derbies tho!
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Might it be that some of your 'better' FT players just agree equally lucrative p/t deals, and the part-time basis is more for the overall squad rather than for example the Nisbetts and Vaughans.
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Bit presumptuous with a second leg still to play, and enough european exploits to show a first leg lead means nothing, but..... if Raith don't go up does the board keep McGlynn?
They stood by Smith when he didn't get up, but the pressure on a flying start then ramps up on McGlynn for next season, in what will be arguably a much tougher league.
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Biggest part time team in the country?
I don’t think the tie is all over yet with qots, the first goal on Saturday will probably define that... raith still have a chance (slim but there)
but don’t kid yourselves on that if you went part time, all of a sudden you are big fish. Part-time players have plenty options, junior teams aswell now with deep pockets, that will make offers even raith won’t compete with.
Decent attendances dont equal decent squads. We are pretty much back to the basics of football, squad balance, and building the team around key players who stay fit and on form. Have you signed anyone up for next year, outwith the current squad? If not you are 2 weeks behind everyone else now, and the decent players go fast.
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16 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Falkirk are winning the league next season and whoever loses the play off final 2nd. Play offs will have to be the aim surelyWill be interesting to see who/how Falkirk recruit, and their level of squad depth. Keep a few of the 'bigger' names on decent wages and you are maybe struggling to balance the books and the squad, but you hit the league with enough quality that in all probability you go back up. An injury to a couple of the high earners and all of a sudden you are in trouble, Raith have effectively shown that over the last couple of seasons.
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Anyone know the club(s) that are in for Docherty?
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The juniors must be littered with stories like this over the years tho, big money benefactors coming forward and throwing money at clubs. In relative terms you probably get more bang for your buck investing in a junior team with regards to cup runs/wins and league challenges.
I had always looked at the bigger names in juniors as boys who were falling out of the pro game either through age or a couple of seasons of bad form. The 6 they are reportedly signing could all stay in the leagues comfortably.
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Ferguson at Kelty will probably have a bigger playing budget and better players available, than when he was managing Clyde in Lg2. Wouldnt surprise me if we see a few shock results in the early rounds of the scottish this year
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Superb player for league 1, hopefully a sign of the calibre of players we are still after, and great to have it confirmed so early. Fash resigning would be brilliant, but not sure if he would take the step back down to p/t football, never mind come back to us. But it would be some strike force if he did!
Hopefully DY has his eye on a couple of good midfielders and some defensive options, A lot of guys will be getting released in the next few weeks, and clearly there is a lot of work going on in the background. Delighted with the squad so far
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Wallace would be a great signing, hopefully it is announced this week. I genuinely cant remember the last time we paid a transfer fee for someone!
With Falkirk coming down and either QOTS/Raith also being in the league (probably clyde aswell) it is going to be a tough one next year, glad we are going for a bit of quality!
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53 minutes ago, sneed hearn said:
Article in the Courier with Darren Young stating that Darvel Juniors had made Daryll Meggatt a fantastic offer which had blown East Fife out of the water.
There is some decent cash in the juniors, good few have wealthy benefactors behind them. If it suits his personal circumstances then fair play to the guy, the gap between the juniors and the lower end of the football league teams is closing, but would still expect him to be a stand out performer at that level.
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7 minutes ago, Sheevedaw said:
I will accept the dishonour to prolong the football for a couple more weeks, i think it should be a pretty entertaining game ( i may have guaranteed a 0-0 by saying that)
@Zen Archercheers for the info
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The play-off game wont be a ticket affair will it?
With east fife's season now over i was going to wander along to see how you boys get on, but its been a while since i have been in the home end at starks! I would guess at pay at the gate?
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1 hour ago, monthefife said:
As if this sorry bunch of inept clowns are going to turn things around in the next 2 games. Sooner this season is over the better. All I can say is thank christ we got that winning streak mid way through the season otherwise, we'd easily be sitting in the relegation play offs. So disappointed.
the state of this comment.
I think somewhere in the middle of the never happy brigade and the happy clappers is where most of us are. Decent overall season, with disappointment in how its ended.
The run we are on at the moment is more than likely going to mean we miss the playoffs, but the last couple of months don't undo all the high points of the season, or indeed all the positives we can take into next year. We have a settled squad, settled management and coaching team. Commercially the club is floating along nicely, and we we are still unbeaten in europe.
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On 4/22/2019 at 22:10, Marten said:
The success of the Dutch youth system* is due to a number of factors. Coaching, better training structures, better youth structures across Dutch football, non-league clubs working with local league clubs and so on. Copying the "colt team" side of the Dutch youth structure and nothing else is basically copying the least important part of the structure. A number of Dutch clubs are pulling their colt teams out of the pyramid system as they claim it's not having the desired effect. The whole proposal is madness and if it ever goes ahead, it should be part of a large scale reform, on it's own it will never work.
*I know the Dutch national team have been horrible in recent years and in club results Ajax' run is clearly exceptional, but I'm talking about the long term, over the last few decades.
I can't remember where i read it, but i am sure Van Der Sar was saying something along the lines of 50% of the profits on incoming transfer fees at Ajax are poured back into the youth development system at the club to help fund the coaching and infrastructure. I think there is also a more equal distribution of prize/european/tv rights cash in the Dutch leagues to help more than a few clubs prosper. We have seen a good few teams up here, and down south scrap their youth teams all together to focus their cash only on the first team.
As you say it is just a single pronged focus, and colt teams will not be a silver bullet to help youth development. Coaching and player development is inherently built into the footballing DNA in holland, whereas we seem to have a different approach every 5/6 years
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On 4/22/2019 at 13:48, Cowden Cowboy said:
Just the different majorities required to pass different things for example some things need 90% of Premier Clubs to support to pass even if every other club is in favour. Not that unusual - as the Premier clubs generate most of the SPFL's income. It is open to any club to win Premier League status of course. This is one of the problems re SFA Membership for ex-junior clubs - one club one vote in SFA means that influence of Premier and SPFL clubs could be reduced and indeed outvoted in the SFA. That is not something they are likely to meekly accept. Tail wags dog - again just a viewpoint not something I have brought down from the mount on tablets of stone. ,I genuinely never knew this, but reading your post it makes sense i suppose.
Like others have said, what a terrible structure
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5 hours ago, CALDERON said:
If this season ended up with Ray Mckinnon, Barry Smith, Lewis Toshney and now Dunfermline getting relegated with us going up.....
It will never ever happen, but now I really want it to
If you had asked me a few weeks ago i would have said Dunfermline were home and dry in the championship for another year aswell.
From a selfish point of view, you boys staying down, and Dunfermline coming down would make for a cracking season next year
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15 hours ago, Its not only a game said:
A long shot this! But hey we can always dream.
For me I just wished we would get back to playing football- passing the ball on the ground rather than these aimless high balls that come from our defence and midfield these past few weeks-to Quote Mr Brian Clough “If God wanted us to play football in the clouds he would of put grass up there!”The play-off dreams not mathematically dead, but if we are reliant on Raith on the last day i wouldnt be confident of their first team getting result, never mind if they field reserves. They need to carry some sort of form into the play-offs tho, and given their record in recent seasons, it would be crazy for them to down tools on the expectation they can just pick back up at full speed.
Agree with you on our style in the last few weeks tho, i think maybe that is just a bit of bad run tension. When you are winning and turning teams over its easier to play a bit of football as confidence is high. Given our form the punt it forward as quick as possible tactic starts to comes out more frequently
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The East Fife Thread
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This is going to be a long summer
terrible patter.