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
Mon then what`s the gossip on this one ??
Half truth`s are acceptable 
We have lost the wrong man. Wake up, folks.
Very simplistic way of looking at it. Do all ex players with "a wealth of football experience" automatically make good managers/coaches?
If Drinkell left because of differences of opinion from the manager (and I've no idea if that's the case or not) then you can't just assume that the guy who has played at a high level many years ago is in the best option.
Drinkell had mixed success as a manager, he did well at Stirling but poorly at Montrose. Those jobs were both a long time ago, in the 1990s, and he had been out of the game as a coach or manager ever since I'm sure.
Aitchison on the other hand will be a very modern coach, just because he has not played at any sort of level shouldn't be a black mark against his name. Didn't seem to do any harm for Morinho, Wenger, Villas-Boas, Sacchi etc. In fact it was the latter that once said "I didn't know that you had to have been a horse to be a jockey"
