Chubbychops

If they put Gill out on loan or Robinson leaves then it will make perfect sense.

I'm sure it will become clear why he's signed. Bit surprised by the extreme negativity from the Morton fans about Scully. Seemed a decent keeper in his time here. Not brilliant but a decent shot stopper and I can't remember too many howlers in his 2 year with us. I will judge him on what he does here. Strikers next please Craw.

Couldn't agree more. Can't believe this imposter is still getting a game. Truely awful footballer. Crawford has been at the club since July and seen this joke for months. He comes in and still plays him? He was pish at Tannadice last week and yet again plays him agains. Oh... what happens... Another f**k up!!. We really are screwed.

His embarrassing clapping to the Pars fans at the end was the most effort he put into the game. Another complete imposter.

No sense in us stooping to their hammer throwing and kung fu tactics. I'm sure he's directing that at Pars fans when Higgy challenged fans to fight at the end.

He sounds like his had a lobotomy. Asked about Greg Shields and 2 minutes later he has him moving on to better things. Asked about the big support and it ends up talking about fans crossing the line with behaviour. He's not media savvy. He goes of on a complete tangent when asked a simple question. Really not impressed. Doesn't look to have his own ideas. Apparently a fresh manger with his own ideas, but has basically kept AJ's team and been even more cautious.

That chunter can rip up his contract tomorrow. Times up for him. We need a complete clear out. Relegation is a very real possiblility now.

Danny Devine again showing what a fucking donkey he is. Total imposter. Get him to f**k. On a side note. Crawford was a coward playing one up top today. Rovers are total garbage. They kept passing the ball to us. What more do we need?. I know we need striker or two but at least try two folk up top. Concerned with Crawford as manager. His interviews are embarrassing. Sounds like some fan boy dragged off the street and given a club tie. I think Shields sounded far more impressive. Very early I know but that's how I see things.

Looking forward to the real derby on Saturday. Over 5k tickets sold already. Maybe near 6k by Saturday? We have got no forwards and Danny Devine at the back. Great chance for you guys.

Really disappointed with Keena going back. He was a bright light in a pretty bleak season. His boundless energy and incredible strength for a 19 year old was impressive. Got a goal in him too. His turn and strike against Alloa was class. I think the guy will be playing regularly for Hearts in the not too distant future. What we have left to play up top now is pretty worrying. Smithy needs to rebuild his confidence and isn't ready to lead the line for us. Faz has completely lost his ability to be a threat in the box. Ryan is injured. Then we have a collection of winger/striker type players, of which none of them are capable of scoring enough goals. Personally think we need to bring in two forwards before the end of the window. Sounds like we need to lose a few before we can do that though. Not sure how much we were contributing to the two Hearts players wages.

The recruitment was aimed at playing 3-5-2. That's the reason we have an imbalanced squad with our current formation. Devine was awful yesterday. Slicing clearances and missing tackles. Just like the week before against Alloa. Much worse than Ashcroft

Can't believe AJ gave Devine a 2 years deal. Dreadful centre half. Utter bomb scare with zero footballing ability. We need to get a proper right back in who can defend properly. This has been an issue for too long. Our collection of confused winger/strikers that don't really know what type of player they are is hurting us up top. Lets get an out and out winger and a proper front man. The team is imbalanced and confused at the moment. Terrible recruitment by AJ in the summer. Hopefully we can at least fix one or two problems in this window. It will certainly take 2 transfer windows to fix all the issues though.

Time will tell. I actually think it's a not bad situation for a rookie. Decent squad to work with and a nice wee cushion from the bottom two teams still. I agree that we should be looking at top four at least, so AJ had to go. Our hands are tied financially though, we couldn't afford to pay compo for a performing manager at another club and we don't want some stale merry go round manager. We can't throw money about like Falkirk have. I'm happy to have some Pars fans at the helm and guy who will work to the bone to make this a success. 100% behind them and the board on this one.

I would look out for local boy Gordon Forrest for the 3rd coach role. Recently left Vancouver White caps after best part of 5 years over there. Respected coach and comes from Dunfermline. I'm sure he will know Stevie and Greg very well.

Chairman already said it will be a young ambitious coach. No experienced coaches are coming in.

Did Shields get strapped to a ballistic missile to get over here for the photo shoot? I heard after the Falkirk home game that AJ's contract terms changed in January, which means it was a much reduced pay-off and that Crawford would take over if results didn't improve due to a lack of finance to get somebody external and pay compo.. Thought it was just ITK shite but looks like it was true.

Is McNamara's role to bring players in and Stevie manages them. Bit like what Chelsea do.

Couple of local lads who I hope are is good in management as they were on the park for us. Wish them well

Crawford is permanent new manager. Greg Sheilds assistant. Rolling contracts

It happened about 5 minutes after somebody put a rumour on .net.

I think Darren Young would be my first choice. No because he's an ex player but he did well getting a very small club like Albion Rovers up to league one and kept them there. He has now taken East Fife to the top end of league one and keeping pace with Rovers. He has a few years experience behind him now too. Petrie has done well but not quite proved it for long enough for me. Goodwin interests me too and wouldn't be unhappy with that. Maybe even Lee Bullen who was caretaker at Sheffield Wednesday and been in around the management scene at a good level for a while now. Maybe a good chance to be his own man now.. Knows the club, intelligent guy too. Billy Davies? Where's he been? Not sure if we would interest him though.He would've had some high paid jobs over the years.

Just listening to Joe Thomson's interview after the game. He's very honest. Don't know what happened second half, they might of made a wee change but we've not picked up on it'' ''We didn't make ourselves tight and see out the game or push for another goal.'' That's exactly how it looked to me. It looked to me that there was no real plan second half and no response when things went pear shaped. I mean not even bringing on Durnan last 5 minutes to add to defence and defend set pieces. That would be standard for a manager at professional level. It's amateurish. It just sounds we're lacking direction. Like was said above, we start of with a plan and it's just a case of hoping all goes well, because AJ and Clark seem incapable of out smarting the opposing management in game. First half showed how well these players can play. Let down time and time again by Johnston's inability to manage the team during 90 minutes.

They will simply view it that AJ is four games unbeaten. There's a question mark if we could afford to get rid and if we could, it will take much worse before they act. It will take losing the next 3-4 games and taking a gubbing in one of them I think. The way I view it is that we sometimes have flashes of the ability we have in the squad but are being kept behind by poor management. Saturday was fine example of how much AJ and co are holding us back. Goodwin roasted him tactically, just like various managers have done this season. Hitting us on the counter has work time and time again for visitors to EEP. Just like the QOS home game he messed up in October with his tactical nous. Oh and add the Ross County and ICT home games where he persisted with 3 at the back but it was clear as day it wasn't working. He basically saves his skin with the odd win against Falkirk. Don't think that get out clause exists anymore so he better get his act together fast. The guy is a hindrance.

Rather have Aird and McMullen to be honest. Seems a pointless signing for the Arabs.

He's a goal threat coming off the left. Pretty much every man and his dug know he's going to cut in from the left but he's made a decent career out of it. Great on his day but as is typical of this type of player, he disappears for large chunks of the season.