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Topic Originator: RMGpar
Date: Fri 8 Aug 07:14
Signs for Montrose as player. Decent signing at that level.
Still can`t believe he ended up as our manager.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Fri 8 Aug 08:35
Stewart Petrie seems to like having veterans in his squad. Michael Gardyne has just retired at the age of 39 and I think Sean Dillon is still a registered player as well as a coach at the age of 42. Michael Tidser might have just extended his playing career by a few seasons!
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Topic Originator: Row_ZZ
Date: Fri 8 Aug 09:32
Good few would disagree, but I would say watching his football was the worst I have ever seen from the Pars. Even worse than Potter and Grant.
"A smile might be good!"
"Nothing to smile about in my life"
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Topic Originator: Bovril Man
Date: Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
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Topic Originator: Parster
Date: Fri 8 Aug 10:09
There`s been a few just as bad Hughes Stanton Forsyth all equally bad if not worse
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Fri 8 Aug 10:18
It`s a shame we can`t just use this thread to wish him all the best in his future career.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Fri 8 Aug 10:18
Quote:
Bovril Man, Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
Presumably, the owners signed off on it and then had to pay him, so that`s a degree of accountability. Whether they give as much weight to their adviser`s opinion in the future remains to be seen.
The decision to headhunt Lennon thereafter, seems to suggest they changed strategy pretty quickly.
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Fri 8 Aug 11:09
Quote:
DA-go Par Adonis, Fri 8 Aug 10:18
Quote:
Bovril Man, Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
Presumably, the owners signed off on it and then had to pay him, so that`s a degree of accountability. Whether they give as much weight to their adviser`s opinion in the future remains to be seen.
The decision to headhunt Lennon thereafter, seems to suggest they changed strategy pretty quickly.
Once bitten, twice shy. It’s good that the owners acted swiftly to correct the appointment. It’s highly likely the owners would not have known much about MT, so would have gone with local judgement.
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
Post Edited (Fri 08 Aug 11:10)
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Topic Originator: Tenruh
Date: Fri 8 Aug 11:18
Quote:
Parster, Fri 8 Aug 10:09
There`s been a few just as bad Hughes Stanton Forsyth all equally bad if not worse
Stanton brought Norrie McCarthie to the club so he can be forgiven.
Forsyth was a bottler, left us for a coaching job...
Post Edited (Fri 08 Aug 11:18)
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Fri 8 Aug 11:26
Quote:
Tenruh, Fri 8 Aug 11:18
Quote:
Parster, Fri 8 Aug 10:09
There`s been a few just as bad Hughes Stanton Forsyth all equally bad if not worse
Stanton brought Norrie McCarthie to the club so he can be forgiven.
Forsyth was a bottler, left us for a coaching job...
He swapped him for Craig MacFarlane, if I recall correctly? What a deal that was.
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: NMCmassive
Date: Fri 8 Aug 12:57
Quote:
Bovril Man, Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
Whether someone was or wasn’t, we’ll never find out
COYP
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Topic Originator: Buster_Brown
Date: Fri 8 Aug 12:59
Quote:
wee eck, Fri 8 Aug 10:18
It`s a shame we can`t just use this thread to wish him all the best in his future career.
Would agree with this….instead with have a thread regurgitating his time as Dunfermline manager
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Topic Originator: Hunter78
Date: Fri 8 Aug 13:09
Quote:
Raymie the Legend, Fri 8 Aug 11:09
Quote:
DA-go Par Adonis, Fri 8 Aug 10:18
Quote:
Bovril Man, Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
Presumably, the owners signed off on it and then had to pay him, so that`s a degree of accountability. Whether they give as much weight to their adviser`s opinion in the future remains to be seen.
The decision to headhunt Lennon thereafter, seems to suggest they changed strategy pretty quickly.
Once bitten, twice shy. It’s good that the owners acted swiftly to correct the appointment. It’s highly likely the owners would not have known much about MT, so would have gone with local judgement.
It’s been as good as confirmed that it was a John Colquoun appointment for the new owners, he recommended him. The pleasing thing is they acted quickly when they appreciated they’d messed it up.
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Fri 8 Aug 13:40
Good luck to him, he was doing perfectly fine before he joined us, and I hope this gets his career back on track, at the very least he is an asset at a 3rd tier club
We were in a relegation fight last season, and appointing an inexperienced manager who had only managed (well) a small part time team for a season was a daft move swiftly corrected.
It doesn`t make him a bad manager, he should apply for the next PT vacancy if you hats what he wants
Montrose a good wee club who like a veteran player! At some point, that will run out of steam
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Topic Originator: Never10yairds
Date: Fri 8 Aug 14:09
As stated above, I still struggle to believe we appointed him. I was hoping the deal would fall apart over the compensation. Thankfully the club corrected course quickly when the glaringly obvious happened.
I don’t wish him ill or well going forward, I honestly don’t care either way. I don’t hate him or like him. He’s just someone who was given a job that was too big for him and he was too stubborn to admit his way wasn’t going to work with the players he had. If he’d been more pragmatic he might have did enough to keep his job. In the grand scheme of things I’m glad he didn’t because I’m delighted to have Neil Lennon at the club.
I wonder how much longer Tidser can play on. He’s not played a first team game for what…. 9 months now?
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Topic Originator: Bovril Man
Date: Fri 8 Aug 16:19
Per Hunter78’s post above, I was not across the Colquhoun angle but that doesn’t surprise me. Hopefully his services are not valued as much these days.
And as for Tidser, I wish him nothing but the best on the field or in the dugout next chance he gets to manage. He’s just a young bloke trying to make the transition into management, and this was just a ridiculous fit; a rookie manager parachuted into an ailing team. The right chance will surely come again for him.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Fri 8 Aug 16:32
From one or two people I spoke to, even Tidser thought the job was too big/early for him and it was astounding there wasn’t an interview process.
I do wish him well in his future however.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Indiapar1
Date: Fri 8 Aug 17:01
The managers job at EEP was probably too much too soon. I think in 2 or 3 years time he may be in a better position. I doubt it`s the end of his management career
G Wardrope
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Topic Originator: kozmasrightfoot
Date: Fri 8 Aug 17:05
Correct me if im wrong but I think hes coaching the young lads as well as playing.
Pars fan.
Magpies fan.
Mens tennis fan.
Alternative rock fan.
Not a fan of much else.
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Fri 8 Aug 18:09
Quote:
Bovril Man, Fri 8 Aug 09:59
Appointing Tidser as our manager was one of the most disgraceful decisions in a long, long time by our BoD. Was anyone held to account for that?
We have had a fair few stinkers in recent times.
1. Peter Grant (May – October 2021)
Record: 17 games in charge 0 wins in 12 Championship matches, a win rate of just 16% overall . Remembered for the classic quote “They saw my CV on the football pitch. I don’t believe in putting a CV in because, if I did, I would blow everybody else away anyway.”
2. Michael Tidser (January -March 2025)
Only 60 days in charge, with just 11 matches, and only two league wins out of eight took him nowhere above 9th place, rotten football. He goes down as the second shortest tenure in club history.
3. John Hughes end of 24 - end of season 24/25
Only winning 7 out of 23 league games, he couldn’t avoid relegation finishing ninth, eventually dropped via the play-offs.
4. 1. David Hay (2004–2005) – Just a 19.05 % win rate (8 wins in 42 games)
low win rate, little entertainment, and no progress. A reign remembered mostly for how quickly it went wrong and big Jim`s great escape.
5. Stephen Kenny (2006–2007) – Disappointing overall only 16 wins from 51 games, about 31 %. Lost the dressing room by probably trying to hard to get better performances.
These are just the ones I remember
c'mon the pars
Post Edited (Fri 08 Aug 18:10)
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Topic Originator: Zimbo
Date: Fri 8 Aug 19:25
Iain Munro.
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Topic Originator: Sammy_Must_Die
Date: Fri 8 Aug 19:28
Quote:
Zimbo, Fri 8 Aug 19:25
Iain Munro.
^
Close the thread now 😀
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Topic Originator: Par
Date: Fri 8 Aug 20:56
Did we ever really recover from appointing Munro over Leishman. On the verge of greatness, we had some good times after, but they very nearly cost us our club.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:03
Quote:
Par, Fri 8 Aug 20:56
Did we ever really recover from appointing Munro over Leishman. On the verge of greatness, we had some good times after, but they very nearly cost us our club.
Paton and Calderwood led good times under Masterton, but because of his mismanagement it set us right back again. We certainly haven’t recovered from that yet.
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Topic Originator: Buster_Brown
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:04
Quote:
Par, Fri 8 Aug 20:56
Did we ever really recover from appointing Munro over Leishman. On the verge of greatness, we had some good times after, but they very nearly cost us our club.
We definitely lost the community and a large number of fans, that we probably never recovered from, or are maybe just recovering from.
Some good times…..I’d love to do the Paton and Calderwood eras all over again.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:10
Quote:
Par, Fri 8 Aug 20:56
Did we ever really recover from appointing Munro over Leishman. On the verge of greatness, we had some good times after, but they very nearly cost us our club.
I often wonder where we would have been had Munro not done the dirty on Leishman with Blair Morgan’s help.
In 1990, I’d say we had our best ever squad of players in a generation and what really irks that Leishman wasn’t able to manage that team.
He’d have known when to step down. It wasn’t then and the fans knew it too.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:13
You’d have loved tonight AAPS. Westie talking about the 90s.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:27
Remember the feeling well when Leishman effectively got sacked, felt like the end of a magic ride-which it was.
We never really recovered, but thinking about it, it`s peaks and troughs with a provincial club like ours-takes forever to get Doesn`t take much to blow up financially too.
For me, Tam Forsyth was the worst, Jocky Scott wasn`t a barrel of laughs also.
Funny enough my memories of Pat Stanton wasn`t so terrible -he brought in a few decent players (Stevie Morrison?) I was young though.
Obviously Leishman, but Bert Paton was fantastic, he was managing on a restricted budget, and some great games. Harry Melrose I liked a lot, probably because that was the first teams I was brought up with.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:32
Aye, you can`t bracket Paton as being part of Masterton`s era. He worked on a very tight budget for 6 years.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:35
Quote:
buffy, Fri 8 Aug 21:13
You’d have loved tonight AAPS. Westie talking about the 90s.
Yeah I’m sure it was great. Westy was a firm fans favourite
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Indiapar1
Date: Fri 8 Aug 21:38
Yesterday`s solutions are today`s problems. We had good days with JL and JC. Let`s hope we can reproduce them under NL
G Wardrope
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sat 9 Aug 00:10
Probably, a close run thing between Tam Forsyth and Jocky Scott as to worst manager. Pat Stanton wanted to sign me, so that puts him in the equation.
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
Post Edited (Sat 09 Aug 00:13)
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sat 9 Aug 00:37
Ray, if you had signed for us, not Rovers, then you would have really been a legend. 😁
Post Edited (Sat 09 Aug 07:18)
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Topic Originator: WarringtonPar
Date: Sat 9 Aug 09:55
Quote:
Raymie the Legend, Sat 9 Aug 00:10
Probably, a close run thing between Tam Forsyth and Jocky Scott as to worst manager. Pat Stanton wanted to sign me, so that puts him in the equation.
Definitely Stanton then😄
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