Eastendtales

I'd take 2 points right now.

34 minutes ago, Secure Par said:

The profit/loss balance is very vague and I appreciate they don't have to show this but where is all the money being spent? 

Can only speculate. 

But off top of my head the larger items would be:

Playing salaries

Bonuses? 

Legal and starting costs for Rosyth

Higher staff costs as we increased the staff count

Increased energy costs? 

Whatever way I look at it, a 1m loss is an absolute farce without concrete numbers explaining the size of it. 

16 minutes ago, GG Riva said:

Bottom line for me is that I want to be able to continue to support the team I have followed since 1963. The memory of 2013 is still vivid - I remember feeling sick to the bottom of my stomach at Starks Park, as we watched what was expected to be the Pars last ever game and I don't ever want to experience that horrible feeling ever again.

I believe our investors are not short of a £ or two, but they didn't become wealthy by throwing away good money year after year, so I'm sure they won't be happy to have lost over £1m last season. If we were to post a similar loss for this season, they may decide they've had enough and walk away and then what?

But it's their business model that's causing the loss. Its their bloody fault in other words. 

5 hours ago, Boston Red Sox said:

3-1 pars anyone?

Everyone has too much respect for these weekly predictions to steal your thunder.

3 0 Pars. 

Kane, Edwards and an own goal. 

This is huge, not "must" win but seriously, if we want to stay up we have to win these games.

25 minutes ago, DA-go Par Adonis said:

 

However, for a team that hadn't won in a while and must have been low on confidence, we saw the game out relatively comfortably.  

This was quite astonishing I have to admit. I thought it would be very nervy, lots of Alamo style defending but actually, it was incredibly comfortable and could have extended our lead. 

I hope they take that new found confidence into tonight's game, there's absolutely no reason why we can't go there and win. 

Bit annoyed as I will miss this. But predict a comfortable away win. I think Jak might come on to seal it for us.

22 minutes ago, DA-go Par Adonis said:

It's difficult to consolidate in the Championship without challenging for the top 4.

It was perfectly realistic to expect it also. I'd take staying up now however, but that's because we've played almost the entire season without Bene, Todd and KRH.  If the 3 of them had been fit for the majority of the time, I think we'd have more points - which would mean we'd by in the play-off mix at the right end.

Definitely. Those 3 available were scoring far more goals and conceding fewer. Ergo more points. 

I thought Benji, Holmes and McCann all struggled last night, despite one scoring, one hitting the post and the other hitting a decent fee kick.

We go into a Tue/Sat/Tue/Sat run of games, we need everyone being ready to kick on from here now.

How good was it being able to bring on Moffat, Jak and Welch? Makes a huge difference when you can bring on a little bit of quality. 

Great performance all considering.

First half, we played well in spells but left a lot of gaps for Thistle to find, bit frustrating. But we were competitive which is the first time I think I can say that for ages. 

Aye we needed some luck tonight but what team doesn't at times? 

Walcott I thought played well, Otoo was fantastic throughout. Todd was a sensation, and shout out to Allan who looked decent, also putting in some great set plays.

I hope we can build some momentum from this and stay clear of further injuries. Having a strong bench clearly helped too.

Fully expecting a complete doing. Will avoid this once again, its not enjoyable in any way watching us right now.

If we get Ashcroft in beforehand, I'll consider it but for now, I'm out.

I think the priorities are all screwed up.

I like the idea of an academy and training facility in house, but it should only be implemented after we've established ourselves in the top flight. 

The income disparagy between tiers 1 and 2 is huge, never mind 3. The fact we're facing League 1 football again with this project choking us of income needed for the first team is unacceptable. 

Well, I'd approach him if I were looking for a manager. Don't blame him if he is done with first team responsibility though, the pressure and stress must be stupid.

Jack Ross.

I'm sure he'd love another punt at management instead of coaching Newcastle youths.

We've gone a whole quarter without beating any of the sides in the league. 

I thought these 3 home games represented a chance to put some breathing space between us and the bottom, perhaps even gaining a little traction towards 4th.

Instead, we are possibly in a worse state than under Hughes at this point. I don't see us winning another game at this rate. Too many passengers in the squad just not good enough. 

On the bright side, Kane on the highlights looks a decent find. 

IF Ashcroft or another experienced centre back can come in and organise that back line, and we somehow stay up, he'll be labelled a hero and rightly so. 

McPake out

13 minutes ago, Piracy said:

I suspect there are issues, unfortunately none we can fix for McPake and I think things will come out in the wash soon enough 

For now I'm going on Saturday and I'm  gonna give them my support as usual. If we win we'll know the fight back is on. When things get rough, get organised and get stuck in.

COYP

I just wish they had done this last week against QP. It sounded a very frigid performance. 

We need everyone in that squad, in the club to be standing up, demanding better and going out and at least trying to assert ourselves. 

I'm worried if he can't seem to motivate this squad. But it feels strange if that's true because you only have to look at both away games at Airdrie last season to see examples of how we fought to the (not literal) death.

Has something changed? I dunno. Everything is worrying right now though, or I might be projecting my own inner concerns out through this.

Sometimes looking like you care is almost as important as actually caring. Fans need to know that we're not being led by someone who has given up. 

4 hours ago, GG Riva said:

Yea, I got that. I don't have any stats for it, but I think the "new manager bounce" theory is a bit overstated. Most of the time, it doesn't work - a bit like the conviction that former players always scoring against their old team. They usually don't. Trouble is, our brains are trained to remember events that happen, not those that don't. So next time we play Queens Park, we'll be expecting Dom Thomas to score again, but we've forgotten that John Hughes failed to stop us getting relegated after Peter Grant was sacked - and he had a lot more than 3 games to achieve it.

Eh, nobody has forgotten that i am fairly certain. 

48 minutes ago, Fifes Elite said:

I've decided I am happy to take the blame for the rot

Then I hope you run out of toilet paper at the critical moment sir.

Nope. 

1 day down this week, no new experienced signings.

To stay up we're going to have to start winning games. That doesn't look like happening anytime soon.

I've long thought that. 

He'd be a very good player in a team full of energy and making runs. 

We're far too pedestrian and he often has no attacking runs to try connect with. He tries to bring composure to our game, but it isn't effective when we're a slow, plodding bunch of chimps.