Away From The Numbers
All good things come to an end. Or so they say. AFTN has been around since 1989, first as a fanzine and then making the jump to a website and forum in 2003. We've been through the many ups and down at East Fife in those 12 years but policing the forum has become a giant pain in the ass in recent years. As such, we made the decision not to renew it when it expired.
The forum is no more and will remain as a locked archive until it is eventually deleted by the host. We're looking in to try to save some of the content as an archive.
This is not the end of AFTN though. The site will continue and will be revamped and return in its full glory for the start of the 2016/17 season. Maybe even sooner. There will be a comment sections and possibly even a new, registered forum. Check our Twitter (@aftnwebsite) for all the latest info and we'll also post in on the EFFC memories Facebook page.
Until then, have a last browse here, thanks for all your support over the years, and 'Mon the Fife.
GoF
Totally true derby bro 
FFS one of the signed players was captain u19`s in 2008 at hearts emmm that be same time when willie aitchison coached them ??
To the other chairman. He is getting a chance, with our club. So I think i and Brian are entitled to assess his credentials. Nae bother though if it doesn't work out we can always find a kit man from a SPL top six club to have a go. SPL top 6 ..... Lol
Bring on Dunfermline, lets see our super star line up blow them away. The only other thing that is keeping me from being really worried is that Scott Durie has signed, can't see Gordon not having a good dig around about him. So Willie we are behind you lets see what you can do
Jose Mourinho was a interpreter!
The first winner of Mastermind was a taxi driver!
Don't judge a book by it's cover!
We could go on but I think you get the jist........
I don't know where you are getting your information dougie, but none of what you have written is true. It amazes me that stuff like this, once it is repeated enough times, is eventually passed off as "fact". Aitchison was at Hearts for a very short time. He was a taxi driver with a bit of non-league coaching experience who Csaba Laszlo befriended, and he helped out with the youth team at Hearts. He was never appointed reserve team coach, and never in your life was he assistant manager of the Hearts first team. He might have been Laszlo's personal assistant, driving him around town and keeping him company, but he was never his No2 in football terms. He disappeared when Laszlo was removed. Laszlo was only at Hearts for two years.
Our new MD was quoted two weeks ago as saying that Aitchison has come to East Fife for more than he could have got elsewhere. That was a strange thing to say, because Willie has not worked in senior football since his pal left Hearts in 2010. He has very little experience of senior football, and no one has been banging his door down to employ him.
Whoever started this thread was right to raise these points. Some might mock, but they would do better to take heed, because some of them only betray their own ignorance by having a go at the person who is asking legitimate questions about the surprise new manager.
I think most of us with any sense have a right to be concerned.
There has been so many inaccuracies thrown around from the new board set up, which has led to more pish being spouted on here!
The proof lies undoubtedly in the pudding and as per usual (and rightly so) this new regime will be judged on results.
I hope it works, and until the new season kicks off we will just have to wait and see what transpires.
