The club is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Billy Brown as Manager. Billy has had a distinguished management career, having served in various capacities with Berwick, Falkirk, Hearts (twice) Bradford and Hibs.

He will take up his post immediately and will be at the Fife Cup match on Tuesday where he will be introduced to the players and coaching staff.
He will have responsibility for all football matters but of course will focus on the first team and on getting us back into the top half of the league and hopefully the playoffs.

The Board was unanimous in making the appointment and we look forward to a period of stability and progress for the club.

We hope as many fans as possible will come along to our next home league game against Alloa next Saturday to welcome Billy to the club and show their support for the team.

Decent appointment. Hopefully the start of bigger and better things to come.

A much better and higher profile appointment than I had expected. Let's hope he gets the support from the Board and the stands as he has a great deal to sort out in the short term.

Welcome to Bayview Billy.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NO MORE LOAN SIGNINGS

Big fan of that appointment.

Cometh the hour cometh the man. The right kind of manager at the time we need a bit of grit. If there are any prima donnas or shirkers in the squad they will soon get found out and shown the door.

As long as Jim Jeffries doesn't get the Scotland job I think we can look to better times ahead.

Well done East Fife.

Seems like an excellent choice as he is neither a rookie nor a lower league club hopper. May not please all but it is a quick,positive decision by the board.

gid

Decent appointment - hopefully he is allowed to bring in his own Coaching staff. Stevie Frail ex Hearts would be a great Assistant Manager. Welcome to Bayview, Billy !

More than happy with that appointment. Welcome to East Fife Billy.

Well chuffed with that... Hopefully a reaction on Saturday!

Very good appointment by the club. Hopefully there will be a good turnout for his first match on Saturday against Alloa

pleased with appointment,he'll know about the Hibs youngsters at the club and hopefully kick a few arse's in the present squad. i hope the board back him with some funds during the transfer window.

It's a decent appointment however I will be honest i was rather hoping that we were gonna snap up Craig levein after his sacking earlier. I hear all billy brown does is eats pies on the bench....

Really pleased with this appointment. Billy Brown has been in the game for many years both as a player and as an assistant manager. I remember him well as a player in the 1970's - a good, solid defender.
His wealth of experience with Scottish clubs at various levels is surely a valuable asset. Looking forward to Saturday now!

Great appointment! I hear he has a sweet left peg!

Fair play to the board for acting quickly. Good luck Billy and all the very best.

In the interest of fairness 29 minutes was pretty slow for a riposte

What about hislop as assistant?

Great appointment in Billy Brown, really chuffed although very quick! I do suspect that they have been in talks well before Durie resigned. Welcome to Bayview and Best wishes to Jukebox on a speedy recovery.

Really good appointment for the Club to try and avoid the drop and hopefully a little more. Here's hoping the mess behind the scenes gets sorted out too, or one of us wins the lottery.

We're a fickle lot, aren't we? The same board of directors who were clueless muppets 24 hours ago are now having their decision on a new manager lauded as a 'great appointment'.
Billy is a good choice, one of the best options we could have hoped for, but do we have any reason to believe that he will be able to take the club any further forward than the last half dozen East Fife managers? Or will we soon be back to squabbling about the playing budget, the living dead in the boardroom, the failure to communicate with supporters, the phantom owner, the lack of vision, and the pish strips?
Billy will be a genuine success if he can save us from relegation this season. After that, can Billy or any manager really make a difference under the current regime at East Fife?

Great news and the board have done well to have it all sorted out so quickly. Let's hope the playing staff give him a reaction. Welcome mon the fife

Great news, a warm welcome Billy and the best of luck.

Well he'll have a couple of months to weigh up what we have and hopefully the Board will give him what he needs and support him in the January transfer window. Lets hope we are not in a hopeless position by then. It's firmly up to the current bunch of underachievers to prove that they are worth keeping.

The club has just announced that Billy Brown has appointed Mad Man as his Motivational Coach and MM has just announced that his assistant will be SPF who will also assume responsibility for capital projects at the club.
SPF is playing his cards close to his chest but has said that he has a project in mind but wants to take it a step at a time and keep a roof on it.

I'm fairly happy with the appointment and think he could be the man to get the team sorted. Hope now we will use some of the Rangers cash to help him buy players.

Must have been some speed the board examined applications from 17 people and made an appointment 24 hours after Gordon Duries resignation! Now that is quick!

The board had nowt to do with it. Brown approached East Fife thank god.

Not been to see EFFC since board refused to go full time for Stevie Archibald. I might come back now as Brown is the first sensible appointment in years

Possibly, at the time i heard about some ridiculous figure to have everyone full time and our team that season wouldn't have stayed up, full time or not!

Never mind, really good appointment in my opinion and hopefully we can stay up this season and build for next.

Touchy,touchy, it was only a bit of banter.
Someone else used the phrase "difficult questions" but I look forward to receiving yours and any other questions from members.
You and all other members of the Trust decide where we go from here. I am Chairman of the Trust but have no more or no less say than any other individual member.

Good point.

lets hope we can hold on to Brown now that the livy job is available !!

Billy.
Stay at East Fife old son...dont bother with that pish at Livingston!

ps John Collins has it in the bag

Great appointment. A player quoted "we needed someone like Billy to pull the team together" One hard barsteward