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
This is a crucial game. Make as much noise as you possibly can. Mon the Fife! 
1-1 
As has been mentioned previously, that score line really, in no way adequately shows how convincing and comfortable a victory that that actually was, if anything it flatters Elgin by making the casual reader assume that they were in the game more than they actually were!!!
59% possession, 20 shots (13 of which on target), the stats show how impressive our performance actually was, against the “Form” side in the Division, they played better than Berwick did last week, as you would expect from the undefeated League Leaders, we only scored twice after all, but still they had nothing that really troubled us!!!
I don’t know if Weir got his tactics seriously wrong or if they were really suffering after their midweek exertions, but it really looked to me as if they came for a draw with anything else being a bonus, a shame that when they have a player the calibre of Gunn that they play him in what was nearly a midfield role, they played a three at the back which was usually a five, with the amount of pressing or wide players were doing on their wingbacks and a midfield three which 9 times out of ten also became a five, they were content to hit on the break and look to capitalise on any mistakes, which is where their goal, one of the only two shots on target they had in the entire game, came from. I honestly expected undefeated, haven’t lost a League Goal yet, Top of The League Elgin to be better!!!
I think if Elgin played with the intensity and desire that they showed in the final Ten minutes, where their play stopped the “Possession %age” from being really embarrassing and when they had their only other attempt on target, it would have really have been a different game, I still don’t think they would have troubled us too much but they would have perhaps shown us the side that ripped Alloa, Arbroath and The Shire “new ones” over the last couple of weeks because that side was swept aside yesterday!!!
As to our players, again the only fault I had with any of them was the Fash looked like he was saving himself for the 2nd half as he really didn’t do anything in the 1st, the rest of them just seemed to carry on from where they left it last week. For me our best player was again Naysmith, I think his work goes largely unnoticed when you have the skill and speed merchants like Fash and Wilkie catching the eye, but his use of the ball is always intelligent and his organisation is excellent. This is the fittest Gary has been since he has joined us, hopefully with all his injury problems behind him, it is really like getting a new player, more specifically an international class player with 40odd caps as a new signing. When fit he IS the best player in this Division!!!
59% possession, 20 shots (13 of which on target), the stats show how impressive our performance actually was, against the “Form” side in the Division, they played better than Berwick did last week, as you would expect from the undefeated League Leaders, we only scored twice after all, but still they had nothing that really troubled us
For me our best player was again Naysmith, I think his work goes largely unnoticed when you have the skill and speed merchants like Fash and Wilkie catching the eye, but his use of the ball is always intelligent and his organisation is excellent. This is the fittest Gary has been since he has joined us, hopefully with all his injury problems behind him, it is really like getting a new player, more specifically an international class player with 40odd caps as a new signing. When fit he IS the best player in this Division!!!
Gary is looking fit again and pit in a solid display yesterday, doesn't get MOTM for me as I though he passed the ball to them A LOT yesterday.
You mentioned being critical of Fash first have as he looked like conserving energy my only moan about a good performance (besides not scoring more) would be Ryan in goals, he left me nervous a few times trying to claim balls and flapping.
Gary is looking fit again and pit in a solid display yesterday, doesn't get MOTM for me as I though he passed the ball to them A LOT yesterday.
Gary is looking fit again and pit in a solid display yesterday, doesn't get MOTM for me as I though he passed the ball to them A LOT yesterday.
WOW "facepalm"
