Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Before we go to the break, though, we should...

Mark, the other bit of football that happened over the weekend on the Friday night, it was all the championship games apart from Partick Thistle Dunfermline, which was postponed because they had teams in international duty.

And Stenhouse Muir did it again.

1-0 win against Air United.

That's what I believe.

I think they'll all come good.

And Dunfermline under Neil Lennon.

Seeing the last three seasons before this one, the most amount of points that you needed to get in the top four was 55.

But the first time I really do remember being there was actually Charlie Nicholas's debut.

A 1-0 win against Dunfermline.

And the reason it probably sticks out so much is it's the only time I was ever at the game with my auntie, my auntie Roslyn.

And she only took me because, unsurprisingly, she fancied Charlie Nicholas.

I would be very surprised if the new proposals get passed, because those two ones you mentioned about, obviously, the league playing time target and the cup quotas, you'll be asking a lot for teams to do that, I think.

And yes, in the long run, it may be able to benefit the...

the national team but do you then end up with just the bigger clubs with bigger budgets harvesting these players instead of you know them actually getting a chance at you know, a Dunfermline or a Stenhouse Muir or a Morton or something like that.

Whereas, you know, if you need to get these players in, you know, you will just see Celtic Rangers, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, just again, just they will definitely start cherry picking the best players.

Mm

... who was another young striker that came down from Scotland and he'd done really well last season for Falkirk and Dunfermline Athletic.

I think he scored 18 goals combined for those two clubs.

And because of the, the form of Jimmy J Morgan and the effectiveness of Alen Hegaber, we've not s- really seen him yet.

whatever i said i think i was correct you put in the chat that you were going to do the research for us mate so

to be honest actually i did take them all down i've got them here i just didn't know if i'd shared them in the chat or not so craig's season predictions we're a top goal scorer owen eldon signing of the season calm right we're going to have to revise his player of the year shout because he's no longer at the club warren o'hara young player of the year Miguel Chaiwa because we made an agreement it was 23 at the time of recording his league position prediction was fifth and then our two sort of rogue ones were the Hamilton Academical Award and Craig went for that Neil Lennon receives a six plus game ban in the season and your Friday night championship team that you were looking forward to watching the most was Dunfermline in line you kept a little consistent trend through there um My predictions was Jamie McGrath for top goal scorer.

Signing of the season, Jason Kerr.

Jamie McGrath going back to back and getting player of the year again.

I think David Gray probably actually got the start of this season because he'd got the European qualifiers the two years.

I think had we...

If Dunfermline had somehow beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup final, if that wasn't unfair, if Celtic had lost the Scottish Cup final for a second year in a row, I don't know.

Do you know what I mean? I think there was more, I think the goodwill that he still had coming into this season, that was the sort of remnants of that good feeling if that makes sense from the year before as well because the second half of the season was poor you know the Falkirk game and the Dunfermline game back to back the top six performances and stuff so it's an interesting one but ultimately we are um we are we are ultimately so what have you sent me harry you've thrown me you've absolutely thrown me

One's at Ibrox, one's at Parkhead, one's at Tyne Castle.

East of the road like he had a like he had some some good results in there I think it's just really this season that like well that's not true the back end of last season things started to fall away a bit and he just couldn't sort of turn it around again I think the Dunfermline

game the Dunfermline game was that January early February late January I can't remember that was probably a big turning point there because we lost to a lower league team in the cup and then the league never took off if anything in the league We were always in the mix because Motherwell sort of tailed off and left it hanging for us.

But I don't know if any of us were ever that confident we would be able to catch them.

And although we had the winner-takes-all game on the last day, we never done it.

So to go to a back four would mean putting someone there square peg in round holes.

And maybe that's Nguyenia and him coming back off international duty early is actually a blessing in disguise because he's done it for Dunfermline.

And I think, I don't think I'm wrong in saying that.

And he's...

They think they're quite an old team, quite a slow team.

they've come on a lot since the opening game of the season, Air United for instance, not an amazing start to the campaign but they do have like a genuine superstar in Ross Taylor who we saw how good a performance, terrible penalty against Queen's Park but we saw how good a performance he turned in there and you've got Dunfermline who have got a lot of young players that all seem to be improving and reaching a pitch at the same point so You can kind of go through all the teams and there's stuff to like about them.

There's maybe drawbacks about them, but it really is at this current stage, it's really difficult to try and pick a favourite.

Yeah, I think so.

And I'd still go back to, in terms of the other teams that are involved, I'd still go back to what we said and the kind of preview podcast yeah so I'm not entirely sure about Wraith Rovers they've the squad is much better than it was when we discussed it in June I think Tiffany is a good signing I think Jack Baird is a very good signing my concern would be they have taking care of teams like United and Inverness and Arbroath and that's great because in previous seasons they wouldn't have done that but they went to East End Park and they were second best and losing on the night was probably about right I thought they were a wee bit fortunate on Saturday against Partick Thistle to get a point against Sinesh Muir on the opening day of the season they weren't very good so Tukiamri has to has to think about a way that he can start to trouble teams that are ultimately in top five of the championship because he's not really done that at all during his tenure as as re-throwers boss so who does that leave you with that leaves you with Delferman it leaves you with Livingston it leaves you with Patrick Thistle I forgot

Livingston I went for Aiton instead of Livingston I should have gone for should have gone for Livingston I beg your pardon and that

okay so that leaves that's the three teams that I expected but not necessarily yourself but that's the teams that I expected and I'm I think I'm still there I still think that Wraith wouldn't have enough about them I think that Stenney might start to drift away but just because of strength and depth but no I still go with the three I mentioned at the start of the season which is Thistle Dunfermline and Livingston although maybe I see them slightly differently in fact I do see them differently is when I maybe discussed them in July

What about Thistle then Sean because you and I would have both seen them on Tuesday since we were beating them 1-0 on Tuesday night courtesy of quite a bad goalkeeping error from Liam McFarlane kind of missed a very floaty cross from Ross Meakin that should have been picked out of there but for some reason didn't get it whacks off Hamza and Cargo's head and goes in Cargo's head and goes into the net for a 1-0 win certainly looked as though they stepped things up at Firhill against the Rovers but just crucially just couldn't score ended in a stalemate what did you make of this when you saw them because you were at the match weren't you yeah