Spent Money

These are worrying times being a Stenhousemuir fan. I thought that the appointment of Campbell Money would work out just fine. I didn't necessarily think that all of his signings were great players but when you assessed his squad there was enough quality in there, if not to challenge for the title, then at least to get a play off place - comfortably. Even now, when you look at it there are decent players there - e.g. McCulloch, Smith, McEwan, Ferguson, Dempster, Hampshire. So where did it go wrong? Personally, I have absolutely no idea! And that is the problem. It seems when players who we have lauded at other clubs end up at Ochilview they became a bag of nerves. All confidence goes out the window, and no sooner do the opposition look threatening, and our team just crumbles. This isn't a recent phenomonon. Since the start of 2006, following Stenny has been torturous. What is wrong with our club? It's like the problems at Aberdeen, no matter who they signed, who they appointed as manager, there was just something wrong at Pittodrie that meant good players became bad. It's the same here. I don't envy the job of the Board of Directors. For the last two years it has been one disappointment after another. It's too easy to simply sack the manager, and quite often, it just isn't the right thing to do, but when the results are so deflating as they have been recently, it was no surprise that Money had to go, for his sake as much as the clubs. But where do we go now. Who do we replace Money with? What do they do with the squad of players whose morale will be so low? The club has done so much in recent times, really despite the results on the pitch, but now I feel that we are so low it is going to be so difficult to get that motivation back. Are all the new season ticket holders going to want to be associated with a team that gets humped every week? School can be difficult enough without having to bear the pain, and the slaggings, that come with being a Stenhousemuir Nil fan! I just hope that the new man, whoever it is, can at least get the team playing competitively straight away. We will just have to get through the Elgin match and then forget about the last 18 months and come back, after the international break, a proper football team again. Fingers crossed.