The "willie Atchison" thread has got tributes, reflections and new manager posts all under the one topic, so in the spirit of being neat and tidy I thought I'd start a new thread for the new manager chatter.

Whodayawant?

Gordon Durie? still has unfinished business or maybe Walter Smith

With apologies for starting in the negative, but first let's rule out Paul Flowers, those Moaist slave suspects and Craig Levein.

Actually I could probably cope with it being Paul Flowers or the slave folk.

An experienced manager who knows the lower leagues would be ideal, I hope the board don't go for a big name who has no experience just to get fans to think we can win the league. I'd like to see dick Campbell as my preferred choices wouldn't be interested however wouldn't it be interesting to c if managers like Peter Houston jimmy calderwood Craig leven applied as they want big in a job they are fairly local and nobody in England want them but I know that's no chance in happening

Whoever comes in needs to be able to bring in their own back room staff and 4 players of their own choosing in January.

If Gary Naismith was keen for the job, he'd be worth a shout (assuming he could get a strong back room for support and guidance). Same for davie weir and Christian daily.... Although I can't see either of those guys willing to relocate.

Someone who is presently a player in the SPL may want to step down and take up a player manger role. Calum Davidson, Steven Thompson spring to mind. Craig Gordon perhaps..

Then we have the experienced managers who are without a club.... Let's call the them the 2nd chance club. Calderwood, Levein, Houston, Moore, fenlon, bollan, Robertson, shiels, macpherson, etc.... This hasn't really worked in the past as candidates from this group don't really want to be at east fife .... And it shows.

The next group are the successful at a lower level group. The junior managers. But this group doesn't intrigue me since the other groups have richer pickings at the moment.

For me we should go down the Alloa, Dumbarton and Cowden route and get an ambitious young manager......with the back room staff to support them.

Or Stevie Hislop.

Gary Naysmith for the inexperienced choice or continued assistant role. Alternatively Billy Reid?

Bring back Div Muir!

Would be happy with Naysmith.

John Hughes
Billy Reid?
Naysmith on Caretaker manager for a bit

Graeme Robertson ..ex pars,livi and stenny head of youth, along with Paul Hegarty. Would avoid relegation AND sort out the youth development .

It seems the club will most likely take its time assembling a Steven Tweed / Jimmy Nicholl dream team.

I like lists

Former Managers
Stevie Kirk
Davie Clarke
Stevie Crawford
Gordon Chisholm - might fancy giving it a go this time
Stevie Archibald - Please Santa, we have been good this year

Have we ever had a foreign manager?
Arnold Dwarika
Robert Prytz
Collin Samuel
Csaba Laszlo

Some others
Barry Smith (Former Dundee manager and now youth coach at Ross County)
Lee Makel (Staying at Cowden?)
Paddy Connelly (remember him? No.2 to Paul Hartley at Alloa)
Paul Sturrock
Wullie Broon

No East Fife speculation should be without a Kevin Byers!

Naysmith with jimmy nichol as assistant

Colin Cameron , with Naismith as assistant ,

Naysmith & Nichol, now there is a good shout

The new management team has to bring extra fans through the gate to keep the revolution rolling .....so im going for david weir with naysmith player/assistant

Bring back Baikie

If you don't ask, you don't get....

The two gods: Steve Archibald and Wullie Broon

Read in today's courier that Paul Hegarty is assisting Gary Naysmith in the interim.

There have been 20 applicants for the position.

That is the perfect combination for our management team. Lets hope the board have some decent vision and get them signed up on a contract. Paul Hegarty would bring a wealth of experience. He would sort out our defence and stop us shipping poor goals. There would be no slackers under his watch a top notch professional. Paul Hegarty is the perfect man for a rookie to learn from. I really hope this is our new management team as the only way is up.

Naysmith must not be given the job. We've tried former players as managers who are very inexperienced (Crawford and Durie). We've also tried Willie A who was inexperienced. None which have worked.

Experience is key.

I say give the Naysmith and Hegarty combo a chance on an interim basis for a couple of games and see how it goes

No thanks to give them a couple of games, and do what, throw away another 6 points. The board will surely know that a proper manager is needed now, a name we all know, who can take us up the table. Only one team, to my eyes, has been better than us this season, so with the proper use of our players we can easily climb out of trouble.

Let us be honest, it will take more than a couple of games to sort out the shambles that has been going on for the last while. I think Naysmith and Hegarty have had great careers and would command instant respect in the dressing room. No player in the dressing room can question their playing cv. The pro youths would have a couple of great players to learn the trade from.

Why not give all candidates 15 minutes of game, and then the fans can vote a la x-factor style?