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1 minute ago, Chubbychops said:
Fair fucks bud. I didn't realise they worded the last appointment like that.
Still would rather Grant than Crawford due to the horrible shitebag football for the majority of last season. Would rather land in 4th playing decent stuff than Crawford's coward football.
Having finished 4th, with plenty players signed up already and no Hearts in the league, I’d have been looking for us to aim for a sustained title challenge.
There’s been seven seasons of Premiership Play Offs and not only has the side that finished 4th not been promoted, they’ve not once even won their first tie. Finishing 4th essentially only means more prize money.
Unless he’s going to suddenly turn us into some free-flowing team that wins most weeks, I can’t see how the style of play makes any difference. I, and many others, was gasping for a new manager that would inspire and get the fans excited. We’re getting Peter Grant.
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2 hours ago, TxRover said:
I have a nasty feeling he might. Plenty of experience, and those slating his record aren’t looking at the handicaps. At both Norwich and Alloa he was hamstrung by budgetary issues, something that seems less likely at the Pars. Certainly will have a large variety of contacts inside Scottish and English football, added to the possible links to German/Eastern European football from the new
overlordsinvestors. Alloa played a tidy game but lacked the quality (and quantity, for that matter) needed to succeed with that game.Sticking to a style of play that’s failing is not the sign of a good manager. It’s the sign of someone that doesn’t have a Plan B or is too arrogant to come up with one.
The only reason I’m not predicting a relegation battle is because we have a decent core of players already signed up and most of the league will be total shite.
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This will be presented as some exciting, modern venture. In reality, it’s an uninspiring, hire the first out of work manager you can think of, appointment.
Does that mean we won’t finish Top 4? No, because we all know the standard of this league is appalling and unless Grant is an actual detriment to the team or we make terrible player recruitment decisions, we have some decent players already in the building.
Maybe some fans will be so loyal or so desperate to get back to watching football that we’ll even shift plenty of STs. However I’d be fairly shocked if we’re even close to promotion, which has to be the target.
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1 hour ago, Axle Grease said:
I do realise that something different is being tried. Wait and see what the clubs view is on this appointment.
You do realise that the German consortium will start to influence how we're managed, or more appropriately how we've been managed.
Stevie Crawford was appointed as Head Coach, not Manager. It was also spun as some big change to the management structure. It meant the square root of f**k all.
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38 minutes ago, Fifespud said:
Genuinely I think this could be a very good appointment.
Bags of experience, contacts, plays good football.
Good luck my fellow Fifers.He has absolutely zero success as a manager and his “good football” resulted in him sticking to his preferred style despite Alloa sinking like a brick.
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7 minutes ago, Axle Grease said:
Head coach, not manager.
Interesting and given the obvious German influence we just might be witnessing fairly radical (in Scottish terms) changes in how the footballing side is managed and developed.
This just might be the catalyst for a new era for us. See what Ross McArthur says tomorrow when they unveil Grant.
You do realise the newspaper reports are just PR fluff they’ve been given by the club, agents, perhaps even Grant himself?
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11 minutes ago, Ebanda's Handyman Services said:
Fun fact:
Peter Grant's Alloa conceded 10 goals against the Rovers last season. The exact same amount of goals that we pumped past Dunfermline!
Yeah but how stylish was the football they played? That’s all that really matters.
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Anyone else *really* creeped out that TONTROOPER has been away checking out kids’ pants in M&S?
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9 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
Nope........I invented it.......I fibbed.
But it worked didnt it.....how many Pars pals have you text to confirm it was total pish?
Soiled underwear?.....M&S are doing a promotion on under 10's pants......
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1 hour ago, Chubbychops said:
I think Grant can bring something to the table. Totally understand why folk are disappointed but we just need to move on.
- He won't play shitebag football. That was horrific for large parts of last season.
- He knows this league well and will be better prepared than an outsider to this level.
- He will know our weaknesses and can hit the ground running by getting the midfield sorted and replacing the keeper.
- He will have some good contacts in the game when it comes to recruitment. Maybe cast the net a bit further.
- He will not put up with shite. I know it's a bit old school but everything was a bit nice under Crawford. About time we had a bit of edge in the dugout.
Fucks know if this is as big a mistake as some folk think, but you have to let future results decide if that's the case.
1: Style of football means nothing. Fans won’t care if we’re playing long ball as long as we win, just like they won’t accept pretty patterns and counter press if we lose.
2: He does know this league but it’s not exactly a challenge. 7/8 teams will be an absolute gang filled with Prem rejects and cheap journeymen. Any competent head coach would adapt quickly.
3: I’ll be supportive of anyone who replaces OFW and his pastry hands. Some pace and creativity in the middle of the park has also been sorely lacking.
4: I think people are greatly overestimating how Peter Grant is regarded in the game. Even Celtic fans laugh when he’s described as a “Hoops Hero” in the papers. Maybe he will allow us to bring in some quality players that would be unreachable without his thick contact book, but I doubt it.
5: Not sure what shite Crawford should have been dealing with? Only sniff of any issues saw Turner out on his arse pronto. From his touchline demeanour it suggests his approach is moaning like f**k when things inevitably don’t go his way.
20 minutes ago, Peter Grant said:The board must have been impressed by him so need to just trust their judgement.
I have absolutely no faith in the Board’s decision making unfortunately.
They allowed AJ to stay on far too long, then replaced him with Crawford and let him spend two years taking us to the exact same place we were when AJ should have left initially.
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41 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
Ah well...not to worry....I'm hearing you've re-signed Falkingham...'the future's bright!'...
By “hearing” do you mean you read a rumour on Twitter and just took it on board as fact?
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23 minutes ago, eez-eh said:
This is the sort of insight I come to this board for.
Glad to have an appreciate audience.
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47 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
So where's the big surprise?.......win your home games and pick up the odd win or draw away from home and you are always going to end up mid table (or slightly better in Pars case).Thats why you won a play-off place (not that you did much with it right enough).
We were helped greatly by the fact there were so many teams even worse than us. A more porous defence and we’d have been fighting relegation with the other jobbers like Arbroath, Ayr and Morton.
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40 minutes ago, Black and White Tragic said:
I'm going to reserve judgement on this appointment. Don't want egg on my face as he leads the Championship by 15 points next March.
However unlikely that may be.It’s P&B tbf. Who honestly gives a f**k if you look daft?
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OP formatting is leaving me twitching tbh.
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Lazy, uninspiring appointment. Hopefully he makes everyone look daft but I have zero enthusiasm for the season ahead.
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35 minutes ago, ShaggysBeard said:
What were people expecting? The Germans to get in a manager with great pedigree from abroad?
I don't see why Peter Grant has any more or less chance of success than the other candidates of Petrie, McCann, Hughes etc. He's a well respected coach and hopefully working with a group of players every day will suit him better than a couple of nights a week when he had them at Alloa.
Perhaps Petrie wouldn’t have been possible, I don’t know.
However, he would clearly be a better candidate because fans would have been buzzing and more likely to buy STs, new kit etc which is badly needed right now. It’s not just about how they train the team and what formation they play.
Not sure why those you mention were the only options? However, John Hughes would clearly have been a far better candidate, anyone who says otherwise is talking quite potent shite.
24 minutes ago, Darth Merlot said:The state you lot are getting into is pretty damn hilarious, cry and howl to get rid of Craword, tears when he's replaced.
Think part of wanting Crawford to be replaced involved “with someone better”, no?
Lockdown must have been very tough if this is hilarious tbf.
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2 minutes ago, CALDERON said:
Not an inspiring but not a disastrous looking appointment. However, considering Dunfermline just got rid of a steady enough but boring manager, I can see why some are underwhelmed.
I wanted Crawford to go but I’d rather have kept Crawford than appoint Grant.
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2 minutes ago, DAFC. said:
I probably won't get a season ticket and there will be a fair few others. Some will, some won't. Appointing Stewart Petrie would have been a PR masterpiece.
Can't see us breaking any more than 2.5k tickets in all honesty, but that should be enough with the lifeline to at least keep ourselves breaking even.
What a fucking shit-show EEP has become the past couple years btw.
I was 100% going to buy a ST for the first time in years but I will definitely not be bothering now.
All we need now is them to announce an increase in ticket prices and they’ll have run everyone off.
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12 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:
You don't know me at all. Go f**k yourself.
hahaha calm doon ya rocket
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Just now, da_no_1 said:
Get to f**k with your happy clappers pish.
^^^ happiest of clappers.
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2 minutes ago, Rob1885 said:
But they played nice football?
I’m sure the happy clappers will cry with joy at our successful passing percentage as Killie wrap up a 3-0 win at EEP.
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Listen, if he leads us to the title then I’ll be delighted to admit how wrong I was and how clueless I am about football...but that’s a fucking terrible appointment.
Reminds me of Davie Hay being given the job. All excitement and intrigue for the new season completely evaporated before June.
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15 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Bottom half of Prem is pretty shite too though I think. But as a whole I think Scottish football is a much higher standard than it was 10-20 year ago, mainly due to how fit players are now. I don’t think it’s bad but what are we comparing it against, see shite games and quality everywhere. English and Scottish. Never watch anything other than that to be fair.
I barely watched a minute of Scottish Premiership this season tbh, although if Killie’s performance against Dundee is any indication then it must be fairly shambolic.
Possibly it’s just wide-eyed nostalgia and previous massive overspending but I feel there’s been a big dip in quality and entertainment. If it wasn’t for supporting the Pars then I’d probably not watch much Scottish football, if any.
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