Hard as it is to watch us getting beat every week, we do have a good squad of players and once we find the right blend, I am certain we will climb up the league pretty soon.
As supporters, we need to remain patient a little while longer and give the new regime a chance to deliver what they obviously are desperately trying to do.
The players, just like in the past few years, need this support and encouragement from us, as again in the past, the whinging and criticism does not get anybody, anywhere.

How many seasons will it take for the whingers to realise this fact?

Finding the right blend? How long do we allow manager to achieve this? If he doesn't get the blend right on Sat he will surely be sacked.

Eternal optimists are as bad as doom-merchants. A realistic viewpoint is that we do have some very decent players, on paper, but it looks like being another long, hard season that we're going to have to endure because the squad is ridiculously unbalanced and apart from the odd few spells, we haven't really turned up in our seven competitive games, which is why we've lost six of them.

You'll always get a few at any club who want to get rid of the manager, a few who'd hand him a lifetime contract, regardless of results but the vast majority are probably still waiting to see how things go.

Jocky we've been patient for so long I suppose another season of mediocrity to add to last 6 will not matter. But patience only stretches for so long.

I had hoped to see regular 2nd tier fitba before I shuffle off this world into the next (a parallel one hopefully where The Fife are Champions League winners every year, though knowing my luck we'll be propping up the Fife amateur league 3rd division) though that seems to becoming a forlorn hope with every passing season.

Same old replies by the same people who call for blood when things are bad. You don't get the point about how the bad vibes from the stand and your comments can have a negative effect and you all go blindly on complaining, constantly finding something negative, even when we are winning a league.

Quote DPH - "Finding the right blend? How long do we allow manager to achieve this? If he doesn't get the blend right on Sat he will surely be sacked."

Quote Grim Reaper - "we've been patient for so long I suppose another season of mediocrity to add to last 6 will not matter. But patience only stretches for so long."

That is just it guys, you have not been patient at all and may I remind you it is only a matter of weeks old this season.

Sunderland has been mentioned elsewhere about not messing and getting rid of Di Canio. Well, check out Sunderland's history when it comes to buying success / changing managers and you will find it has not made a blind bit of difference to their success over the years. Same goes for several other English clubs.

I am not questioning DPH's or Grim Reaper's loyalty here, just asking to look back and see where changing the manager so frequently has actually got us? More importantly, the affect the negativity has on the players? Put yourself in their shoes and think how you would think and react to being called useless.

As for Mr305 finally acknowledging I am just a plain supporter, nothing else, that just goes to show how wrong he was about that in the past, so maybe he is wrong also about calling for change and maybe needs to wake up himself!

I think one of the big issues isn't how long we give our managers, it's how we appoint them.

When was the last time this club advertised to see who was out there, interviewed, and appointed the best candidate for the job?

Aitchison was given the job without an interview process, as was Brown, Durie, Robertson, Crawford, you'd probably have to go back to Baikie to find a manager that actually had to compete with other managers through an interview process.

Is it any wonder we're not getting the right men for the job when we just give the job away? Whether or not these guys were bad or good appointments is another discussion, but surely they should at least have been invited to apply along with any other candidate.

My fear is that if we sack the current manager, a new one will be appointed within hours and probably won't be the best that we can get. Trust me, with our set up, facilities and a few of our players, there would be some high profile players/coaches interested in speaking to the club about the job.

Brown and Robertson were interviewed for the job.

Brown made an unsolicited approach to east fife on the news that the job was vacant. Robertson was approached by east fife.

And at the time I do believe the consensus amongst supporters where that these were good appointments and the board received much praise.

I really don't think the methods used by east fife when appointing managers is flawed. It seems consistent with the methods used by other clubs and like east fife, sometimes it works out and sometimes is doesn't.

I hope we do start to turn the corner - but if we don't a change of manager may be required.

Atchison should stick to driving fucking taxis.

If you can't even spell the name of the manager it's almost impossible to have a credible viewpoint.

I don't care. I`m Angry!

You can feel my pain.

Exactly. Same old fucking dinosaurs still lingering in the background like a bad fart on a cloth chair.

SPF had the measure of this twat a year ago.

Makes my blood boil.

My mistake is saying 3 but 3 is certainly nearer a "few" than the 9 competitive games he has been in charge of so far.

I take it you will be happy to let him continue, no matter what the results are and watch the crowds dwindle to what they were last season.

Yep, thats right Jocky. You were nowhere to be seen on this forum commenting on how we were trying to play good football.
The only time you post is to have a go at the other posters who voice an opinion, concerned about our current league position.

A lot of people are concerned, and rightly so.

we are going to win on Saturday 3 0 you heard it here first

I bloody hope so !

Board meeting!

Funny how the Twat always shows up when folk start moaning.

I can`t recall Cocky ever posting when the team were doing well. Always jumps on folks backs when he isn`t happy with their posts.

Cocky is always right though.

How much time do you give a manager then? If we were getting better each week then fair enough but we are not, far from it. We certainly never gave players ft contracts to sit bottom of league and out 2 cups at first hurdle anyway. No excuses today anyway, must win game. We are a laughing stock and rightly so at the moment.

The players have to take their fair share of the blame too. How many times do we hear "going through the motions" or "heads are down" in relation to games? These guys have minds and bodies of their own and should be capable of performing at a basic level regardless.

Even if the manager was performing poorly there should be enough experience to sort it out on the park. During our title winning season Steven Tweed used to organise the side once they were out on the park in spite of Baikie's "gameplan". Granted that was a team of players playing at a level that they were too good for at that time, but most of our players are good enough for this league and certainly no worse than the likes of Arbroath's and Stranraer's.

I do apologise I said we would win 3 nil .it was only 1 who gives a fcuk its three points in the bag great team effort.

A strange, sickly silence descends upon AFTN yet again, after an East Fife victory!