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Rabinho

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  1. McKinnon won a few manager of the month awards this season. Couple of interviews with him:

    http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/fruitful-times-for-brechin-manager-ray-mckinnon-1-3670598

    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brechin-city-boss-ray-mckinnon-5167137

    Better than Jeffries (although most folk would be) but I think he once signed Andy Dow for Lochee which should mean he's instantly removed from the shortlist.

    Edit: Guy from a paper in Fife saying Raith want to appoint McKinnon but we've now interviewed him.

    He's at Starks Park just now having talks with Raith.
  2. Thinking about this a lot.

    How about Mixu Paatelainen as manager, with Gary Teale as assistant?

    Mixu did exceptionally well at Cowdenbeath and Kilmarnock, and also was superb during his time as youth manager at St.Johnstone.

    Was popular as a player with Saints, knows the club and the current board.

    Tiny snag is that he is still the national manager of Finland, but it seems widely expected that he will leave that gig soon.

    Thoughts?

    He's still got his house in Dalgety Bay, I wonder if he'd see the championship as a bit beneath him though?
  3. As much as I'd love us to come straight back up I just can't see it, particularly with the same owners and manager that we currently have.

    We'll go down and be somewhere about the level of Falkirk, maybe slightly better, maybe slightly worse.

    I reckon it'll be 3 seasons at least before we'll be challenging.

    The diehards will continue to follow the team regardless, the floating support will continue to pick their games, it's been a hard sell this season for obvious reasons and once the novelty factor of seeing a few different teams and visiting a few different grounds wears off it could potentially be a pretty grim few years for us.

    It's certainly increasingly difficult for a lot of punters, myself included to justify the time and money to watch the poorly managed garbage we've been subjected to this season.

  4. Is Paul Mathers still knocking about? He used to come on the pitch at half time and hoof aimless balls in the general direction of the sub goalie but hasn't been seen for a while.

    I always thought the idea of having a goalie coach was to improve the 'keeper's performance, work on his weaknesses and such like. Can't say I've noticed any improvement in any of the goalies while Mathers has been around.

    I met him in a pub in Broughty Ferry on Saturday night, I asked him how he felt about the alarming rate at which Kello's career has nosedived, he didn't give much away but hinted that he thinks he's too good for us and is offended that he lost his place to Ridgers.
  5. When did he leave us and what other clubs did he play for. Seen to recall he was on the books of some deid govan team before signing for us.

    He joined us from Partick.

    Was he not frozen out somewhat bizarrely at the end by Hendrie who was insistent on playing Baltacha at right back?

  6. I think due to social networking we all probably expect a bit too much to come out in the way of official statements.

    We all speculate/wind each other up into a frenzy on here and then expect feedback on every issue from the BOD.

    As far as they are concerned, even taking into consideration our woeful season it's business as usual and until there's something to report we'll hear nothing.

    If anything the problem is exacerbated by posters on here/Facebook/Twitter who claim to be 'in the know' and have inside info, which only further serves to wind us up.

    Obviously I exclude Div from this.

  7. You evil get Rab! I remember on the spur of the moment driving like a maniac to get to Dingwall for the game that saw Strang's one and only appearance. It became clear during the warm up that he lacked the ball catching ability you tend to expect from a professional keeper. We only lost 4-1 though, so it could've been worse.

    I remember watching his heroic performance for Renfrew in the Junior Cup Final and wondering if he was worth a gamble.

    I think we know the answer.

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