Peter Culter

An excellent post and one that I mostly agree with. The one area where my opinion does differ is that we have a Manager in place who has ultimately failed during his time at the club. The statistics will show that he was the man in charge when we lost our Premier League status (regardless of how poor we were before he took over) and it is again his name leading a side that has failed to regain its place in the top league. Injury problems aside, many questions have been asked during his tenure at the club from developing a player for another club ahead of arguably one of our best players and the point-blank refusal to start a player who has proved he can score goals when brought off the bench. I do think that smaller crowds will be an issue for us going forward (especially if we keep Aitken) so it’s important all income is maximised on those derby days.

I’d like to know what reasons the player had for being as arrogant. I must have missed most of this season where we’ve been absolutely outstanding and beaten every team to show up to Buffs Park. Too many players happy to talk a good game and fluff their lines when it matters.

No. He contributed as much from the sidelines then as he does now.

I was thinking along the same lines. One of the worst that I’ve seen, too. When you consider the s*it shows of last season, that is saying something!

No ability to make a simple pass or a desire to shoot when the opportunity was glaringly obvious. Rank rotten again. The visitors could have been home and hosed by the interval had they taken their chances. If a league could be won on the ability to moan and shout at each other we’d be swanning around with our medals now. Just get that imposter out now and let any prospective new Manager have a look at who he feels could do a job for next season and build from there. Unless Lamont was injured he’s contradicted himself again. He said in his interview last week that he “doesn’t take Lamont off” so why do so today?

Yes, I think that’s been the case.

Aitken has obviously failed to recognise that even if we do win all of our remaining matches (which we won’t) there are numerous teams that can still overtake us with the many games in hand that they have. Did he not say that we had to win all ten or so in a previous post-match interview? He’s tripping himself up with his nonsense.

Personally, I hope not. I’ve never rated him. Was excited when the announcement was first made then realised it wasn’t Stevie so that initial excitement faded quickly. I mentioned in an earlier post the only thing he has done from a coaching perspective is go on an unbeaten run with a team who, all things considered, should be going unbeaten in their league. We can talk about Gormley and his reign but the facts and record books will show he is the Manager that took us down and he is the Manager who, it looks like, will fail in gaining us promotion. That alone should leave the club with no other choice.

That is probably that (if it wasn’t already).

Credit to those who are trying to make things happen. The Buffs Foundation is a great idea but I suspect subscriber numbers will have dropped alongside paying supporters.

A victory but that didn’t inspire confidence. I wonder how much gate revenue has been lost since we were in the Premier Division as the last few home league matches have shown a noticeably small support.

A must-win match on Saturday. Absolutely no doubt about it.

Aitkens poor routine is definitely being found out now. Comes across as a bit of a knob on most occasions in my opinion. I wasn’t blown away by his appointment as he accomplished an unbeaten run with a team who, being honest, should have been on an unbeaten run and then got the sack. As our previous Manager found out, once you start having a go at the supporters (as he did a few weeks ago when he mentioned hearing “bad shouts”) things very rarely go to plan thereafter. In the same interview he talked about giving the player in question “all the support” and then replaced him for the next match. A fresh face required for next season.

I noticed in the post-match interview that this has been the first time Aitken alluded to us maybe not getting promoted. He looked really deflated (he “doesn’t get too down”, though) when he spoke. Very little from the sidelines except the occasional “f**k sake” which isn’t exactly inspiring. He took East Kilbride on a run of unbeaten matches, then got the bullet. It wouldn’t surprise me if his attitude was a contributing factor in that.

Results like those particularly over the past fortnight and throughout the season are why I have been reluctant to embrace any conversation mentioning promotion. Tools downed against the so-called “weaker” teams. Our Manager can deflect and talk of performances of officials all he likes but starting Ben Lewis at right back today was yet another bizarre decision. Don’t worry though, he’ll “take the criticism.”