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final score 2-2

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That's good to hear, prefer a win but hey. Looks a lot better friendly table than last season. Cheers ddevil. :)

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No wins out of 3 against opposition from a Conference North standard? Hmmmm..... a couple of confidence boosting wins would have been preferable.

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Granted, but at least their not beating us, anyone know what the line up was.

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At least we scored a couple. Anyone know who scored? Ta for the news ddevil.

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My first post! Not totally disagreeing with this, I would say perhaps the Third Division may be of this standard. Cowdenbeath, from the Second Division, went down to Workington, one of the CNorth's better sides and won 2-0.

Developed a soft spot for Stanley over past couple of years, hope you have a good season.

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Been following Stanley for a couple of seasons now and went to see them for the first time today. Was pretty pleased, a poor first half performance but a much better showing in the second and Boco's goal was a great finish after some nice build up play.

Cant remember the full line up but the ones i remember starting were Dunbavin, Cavanagh, Richardson, Roberts, Proctor, Branch, Mullin and Brown. At half time McEvilly, McGivern, Boco and Arthur came on. McIvelly was subbed near the end not long after he could (and probably should) have been sent off and was replaced up front by sub keeper Fearon.

Was a good game and McGivern took his chance well after a bit of a scramble. Much better second half performance though.

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Hi Guys

Match report and pics from today's game are now up on the unofficial East Fife site AWAY FROM THE NUMBERS.

Just click AFTN.CO.UK - News and Reports

You had a pretty poor first half outing but an excellent second.

Good luck for the forthcoming season. I know a few of us have been looking out for your results since last year's game, so hopefully you can build on last season and challenge for at least the playoffs this year.

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Thanks GoF - a good report. Especially like the comment about Whalley's miss. ;)
One point though, we're not a Nationwide side anymore. ;)

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oh aye, it's Coca Cola now isn't it! Forgot that. Will amend the report. Ta!

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SUPER SUB fEARO!!

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Nothing changed there, then. :rolleyes:

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Great report and photographs.

Thanks to those at East Fife.

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Just back

Evil was subbed in case he got sent off or got his head kicked in.. east fife players had it in for him after an initial scuffle..

Dissapointing first half.. better second half

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He could have just passed Evil a tissue. :rolleyes:

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Is this some strange communal grooming ritual?

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He's from Dundee. That's all you need to know! :D

Didn't fully see the initial incident but it did look like your Evil went in with the head and it was probably the wrong player in our side to do that to! Smarty then smacked him in the face (as you can see from Kipax's excellent pic). Both would probably have gone in a league game.

Any chance of using that pic on AFTN Kipax, as it's a cracker for our front page! Will give you full credit naturally.

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I have the frames before it where your player went for him.. then he went in with head and then this... then more after... You can use that with pleasure.. all the pics will be an hour yet... Got some great shots of your goalkeeper who seems to have one eye bigger than the other :)

Your number 3 is a nutcase... first five minutes of the game he spent telling the lino to shut the f up... the lino told him to shut the f up and he said no you shut the f up.. it went on and on like that until he ran to the ref and said.. your lino just told me to shut the f up hahaha:)

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East Fife had some of the biggest defenders I have ever seen... They dwarfed some of our lads... Im sure they loaned them from a local rugby club!! They were HUGE!!!!... or maybe they just eat lots of Porridge :D Groaan!! Sorry!!;)

I enjoyed the trip to Scotland...Had a look around a few little towns, Leven, Kircaldy and Methil before the match and even managed a walk on the beach. :)

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GoF

If that was a friendly what sort of carnage and mayhem happens in competitive games?

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You need a bit of bite in the Scottish 3rd though :D

I don't think we're putting together too tough a team though (ignore the fact that two of our strikers and our manager have assault charges and court cases against them recently!), and we do have some good passing players in the team now.

Smarty does have a bit of short fuse sometimes, but is the most fired up player I've ever seen and we need that at our level.

I do have to say that the tackle our right back did on your guy towards the end was pretty bad for a friendly.

We do seem to have gone for some pretty big defenders this year though. The jury's out on our number 3 though as he came from our big rivals Raith Rovers and told their fans before he left that he's only coming to us for the money (we're paying big bucks this year - equivalent to lower Premier League teams in some case apparently).

The official EF site has put up the Stanley team for today now and they say it was:

Dubavin [Arthur 45], Cavanagh, Richardson, Roberts, Procter, Whalley, Edwards, Carden , Branch [Boco 45], Mullan [McGivern 45], Brown [McEvilly 45, Dsane 86].

Cheers for letting me use the pic Kipax. It's on our front page now.

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It was fearon on 86 and it's Dunbavin the keeper.. Not Done-Bathing as the tannoy women seemed to announce hehehehe

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frame one is best when they look like they are about starting ring-a-ring-a-roses or summat!

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Nice set of pictures, Kipax. Their Goalie's facial expressions are a tad worrying.

The Unofficial East Fife website is full of good stuff. Particularly liked the Song section, "We all dream of a team of Johnny Smarts", (Evil's dance partner) is good; but, for succinctness, you can't beat "The Gretna Chant".

Thanks to the East Fife fans who've posted on here, good luck for the season.

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Enjoyed the game. Stanley were a different team in the second half after looking very toothless up front in the first 45. Boco seems like a player!

On the McEvilly thing, it looked like the ref booked them both, then as they were walking away your guy seemed to be suggesting they continue the discussion outside later, at which point the ref called them both back for another severe talking to. And then he got replaced by the goalie, which was probably a very good idea.

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nail hit head ! its a bigger thing for all 3 teams stanley played not to get beat by stanley than what it is for stanley not to get beat by them....
why did coleman go for such weak/part time/low league/less than average teams to play ?

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What happened the last time we had a poor pre season? Didn't we get promoted..

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I'm holding you to that prediction!! ;)