Manager Watch.

[chiefers]

Agree Shedka No excuse for not qualifying I mean Dunfermline have had a big turnover of players and it didn’t seem to effect them to much. The manager is just clueless

[Arabs4ever]

Sticking by Csaba makes no sense at all now. If it happens then the board have failed the club miserably.

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[ArabSurfer]

BTW wasnt at game on saturday but something has dawned on me.. If Rabatich was so good in first half and was providing balance to midfield then surely its a massive fup to take him off.. Ok ok someones going to say he was gonna get sent off BUT surely a good mamager would put arm round player at half time, tell him he doing well but to be careful and channel energy into winning the ball.. If he then got sent off he could blow his top at him.. Who actually takes off best players because they on a yellow? its mental is it not?

[Chick A Saw]

BTW wasnt at game on saturday but something has dawned on me.. If Rabatich was so good in first half and was providing balance to midfield then surely its a massive fup to take him off.. Ok ok someones going to say he was gonna get sent off BUT surely a good mamager would put arm round player at half time, tell him he doing well but to be careful and channel energy into winning the ball.. If he then got sent off he could blow his top at him.. Who actually takes off best players because they on a yellow? its mental is it not?

Taking him off was 100% the right decision! Think El Baks reaction saved Rabbie from a sending off! It wasnt his first dodgy challenge, and the yellow didnt calm him down anywhere near enough. And he wasnt as good as you might think, but as you say, was helping with the good balance playing beside Barton.

[spikeontheright]

BTW wasnt at game on saturday but something has dawned on me.. If Rabatich was so good in first half and was providing balance to midfield then surely its a massive fup to take him off.. Ok ok someones going to say he was gonna get sent off BUT surely a good mamager would put arm round player at half time, tell him he doing well but to be careful and channel energy into winning the ball.. If he then got sent off he could blow his top at him.. Who actually takes off best players because they on a yellow? its mental is it not?

If we are so bad that our team falls apart when the Rabbit goes off, we should lock the doors now.

[LSArab]

I've answered that about three times already. For me we are now all in with Csaba and we need to give him plenty of time to build something. This season and into next for sure.

Full steam ahead into that iceberg...and keep going 🚢

[petermackie]

You don't need that long to have performed even halfway decent in a very weak league cup group, that's just looking for excuses

The trend is there from January onwards

The only time we have played on under Csaba was down to Fraser and Fyvie performing well when they got match sharp

Gave us an a false sense of Csabas managerial ability, however we have had a healthy dose of the reality, his game management is terrible, his selections the same, his subs poor, motivational skills non existent etc etc

How was he able to motivate Fraser and Fyvie?

[shedka]

He wasn't, are you blind, the team was performing for a few weeks in spite of Csaba due to the boost they got from the two wins under Ellis and the desire of those two playing well after both finally getting upto match sharpness carrying the team to better showings, their belief disappeared the moment those two got injured

Now gtf, you've got enough to worry about next door, instead of your wee daft posts here, only wins so far v 3rd/4th tier sides, defeats to teams from top two divisions

[Otm_Shank]

Shedka......chill

[Whitfieldarab]

Its not necessarily an overall fitness issue, although can still be laid at door of management. I think most players can struggle to find the pace on their first “proper” game, after friendlies. The difference is Dunfermline treated the Betfred cup as “proper” games and are now 5 games in, whereas (whether good or bad) we treated them as an extension to the preseason and so are now still finding our proper match fitness.

So why didn't we start pre season 2 weeks earlier? There was a good few teams that started earlier than us.

I honestly can't believe that after that abomination in the 2nd half of last season that the manager didn't want to get these players properly prepared to go into a national cup competition and the league.

He should have been more determined to get the fans on his side by being more proactive rather than blethering pi5h on Arabzone etc.

We could be well behind the obvious challengers by the time the team gels(lol) or gets up to speed fitness wise.