Council Juice

Dougie uses "but" 4 times in that opening paragraph, including twice in one sentence.....but we did sign him from Clyde so perfectly excusable. :001:

Chances are we only offered him a trial at best. Stevie Crawford was an OK player during his 1st Dunfermline spell... thats it. "but he got a Scotland call up" -as did Kevin Kyle, Scott Dobbie...... We was very limited in the striker front back then was our national team we was. To be honest I think he'll be found wanting at East Fifes level.

If i was in the position to re-hire Brew at the time then the answer would have been no. If Warnock was available and we had got him , for all his moaning i would have taken him. But we've got Brewster, the new season is yet to get underway and we need to get behind him and the team. We could finish in the top 6 and still have doubters no matter who the manager is or which players were playing. To be honest the same can be said for most clubs- Gordon Strachan has won 3 leagues in a row, got to the last 16 of the champions league twice and is still hated by half his fans. Everyone else hates him because he talks nonsense and is beyond irritating. But why slate a man who done what "god" O Neill could not? Then you have Walter Smith who closed the gap on their rivals and won 2 cups, got to a uefa cup final, and still had a shout of winning the league with a team who played a game every two days. Then take Jimmy Calderwood who has kept the Dons in the top 6 since he's been there and achieved more than anyone else there in Europe since Fergie. We are a Bottom 6/mid table team at the moment along side the likes of Falkirk, St Mirren and Kilmarnock and most probably Hamilton - nearly all of their managers are well liked despite similar or worse records, working with similar budgets or better. Brewster works on a shoestring, IS the man the board appointed and IS the man in charge and needs a bit of backing for the new season!

Brewster was a manager before.... with us and did quite well before jumping ship and then sinking that ship before going on a wee boat to get back to his first ship where he has done ok since returning. Paterson had although only worked with Huntly, he had been working on his coaching for a while before that. Robbo as said was a good coach before joining us. Charlie was only appointed for his long time affinity with the club lets be honest. Even if he is a good coach its unlikely he'll ever work elsewhere. I can only take your word on Malky's attitude but not everyone can handle their drink and perhaps he took offence at the manner of the bumping into. Spilt his pint or something. Parky is the only one with any long term coaching experience but lets face it as much as he seemed to enjoy working at the club his heart is in the capital. I dont see any great idea in replacing someone with a good track record at ICT in management with a rookie based on his iron will and leadership alone.

Pressley - Manager Parky - Assistant Christie - Assistant Brewster - Fitness/ Coach Shearer - Coach Clellend - Coach Pele - Scout Malky- Water Boy. Perfecto! I think Malky is a decent coach and has been highly thought of at previous clubs so to suggest waterboy. Touch insulting. Also Pressley has very little coaching experience let alone managerial experience... Although I do think he'd work well as a coach alongside Brewster and Malky Thompson. Pele as scout is a good shout though!

Pro tennis players do represent their nations in the Olympics and alot of the top sports persons there like Mark Thorpe (whos now retired from swimming at like 25 because he's minted and won so much he doesnt care any more) make so much money through sponsorship it's very hard to call them amateurs in the true sense of the word.

Its probably a default British third division style stadium setting like in the other games. Our stadium probably aint alot bigger than English lower teams in fact its probably smaller than alot.

...to be honest i've always found Amy Mcdonald a little over opinionated (is that spelt right?) oh yeah but Lovell, Nah he's quick and a good eye for goal but he's had some injury problems over the years. Mind you so did Dargo. Still be risky.

please bear in mind there is nothing concrete in this... he's on trial at doncaster and thats the last we'll probably hear of him in a playing capacity. In saying that he's exactly the type we should be looking at, even for a year or two. Him, Brewster and Malky Thompson would also be a very sound coaching team. Unfortunately we can only but dream.... :023:

Has he not previously ruled out a move to Bucharest already himself? I haven't been a fan of Brewster since he returned but he is winning me round at the moment. I dont think its fair he's getting critism for any of this as a) HE never brought him in and b) ANY decision about whether Niculae plays in friendlies etc is more than likely going on above him. He'll have been told there was a high risk he'd lose him and he'll more than likely been offered ca chance to reinvest to appease. I don't think Brewster should foot any blame on this one. His job is team selection and tactics and keeping the lads fresh, happy and motivated and he wont have alot of say on finances in terms of company assets like that.

The only problem with the Kris Boyd type player is often their workrate of the ball is questionable or ineffective ( I am one of the few that think Boyds workload and link up game has improved ten fold). It can sometimes leave the team a player down. And you have to be careful not to make him a hard grafter outside the box and accidently nullify his best attribute. However this can be compensated with moulding the team to work with his best attribute. A chain of supply towards him and his co striker (therefore if he is being double marked the other striker or midfielder may benefit). Again that has its problems where if said player is to get injured the team struggle to score as their target/source has been taken away. As long as other players are able to adapt not to rely on Barrowman if he becomes a goal machine and the team can remain a goal scoring TEAM.

Further Further more he is apparently known for going out on the **** and making dancing videos on his homewards return :023:

At 14 you'll probably be better than most of us. Stonger, fiiter and faster too

sorry doncaster

I think Rooney has all the makings but i still fear if we dont get a seasoned experienced front man who will deal with pressure when the chips are down.

get realistic lads... we've still to go on our pre season tour. Wait until thats finished and we round up the games here. These games are far more to do with fitness. The run outs v County and St J being the only two meaniful ones as its against better than mediocre opposition. Then we can work on tactics etc against the Danish teams like Helforge and hopefully have a new centre back in by then. It seems to be the main point of concern.

No McKimmie was right in some respects.... Broadfoot is rubbish. Rangers wouldnt have taken him if it wasnt to weaken another team and get someone for nothing.

Steven Pressley is poised to join Peterborough (i think it was) on trial. I think it would be a good signing for most teams despite his age. Eh hang on wait a minute. Defender, great reader of the game, born leader, strong in the air, strong physique. A great dressing room influence. Cant help think i'm missing something here :024: perhaps someone could help me out.

Im really happy that the club are running the rule over trialists. He could turn out the business but if not no harm done.

Brewster described him as a little nervous in the game. (The steaks of getting a contract probably) He obviously hasnt shown enough to grant giving him a deal especially as we have about 10 players capable of playing as midfielders. He may have been a good prospect but in Vigurs and Z Sutherland i think we already have those and in similar wide positions. As brewster stated when he came on trial was that we had alot of midfielders already but he was a wide player and he was looking to see if he offered something different. He probably didnt. Also his reason for not signing Barnes was he wasnt ready to go straight into the team and Evans probably wasnt there either. Wish the lad all the best in the future and if Fergie wants to give us other suggestions what about Ronaldo on loan? :021:

Brew is a bit cheeky to consider himself a youth teamer. He's too old for the seniors! :015:

A very nice tribute. :clapping03:

I'd certainly like to take part... but i have a knack for being clumsy and would not want to take out Marius, Don, Ian, Ross and/or Andy for the opening of the season. ....But put me in for a fans v stewards game as i could be more than useful there.

cheers. Would like to still see a experienced head at the back and up front. We need a workhorse up front similar to bayne but, well, better. And Darren Dods, can we have him back please.