Take Cough

So the word on the street, well the internet forums, is that John Coughlin is to become our new manager, which I think will be a good move from our perspective. His teams at Berwick in particular have always been impressive, despite eschewing the so called big name signings. He seemed to build well organised sides that were motivated to succeed despite appearing, on paper, to be weaker than most other teams in our league. Of course we tried to take half his team last season and failed miserably. Hopefully this will not be repeated once his (inevitable) appointment has been confirmed. He will have his work cut out as we are a team at an all time low, in my time watching Stenhousemuir at least. There is a complete lack of confidence in the team, together with a shortage of ability and depth to the squad. What exactly Money thought he was doing going into the season with only one goalkeeper is beyond me. Scott Johnstone might well be a good shot stopper, but he is just too short. I can't help feeling that the 1st goal we lost on Saturday against Elgin was down to his inability to command his goalmouth. If we hadn't lost that goal who knows, we may actually have gone on, well maybe not to win, but to at least avoid defeat. In any case there was an element of killing time about the game on Saturday. There was an unusual atmosphere, as if we were just spinning our wheels waiting for the new manager to come along and make everything OK! So now we have got the 1st quarter of the season out of the way, we have a couple of weeks off, we have a new man in charge (almost), so we can come back after the international break, motivated and encouraged to succeed and before you know it we might actually overtake The Shire!