Glory Days Of Gold

Episode 97 - Glory Days of Gold (New Year, New Hope)

Welcome to Episode 97 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

It’s our first podcast of 2023 and we’re starting the year on a high after East Fife’s positive start to the new year, a 2-1 away win at Elgin.

Michael, Lee, and Doug look back at the crucial win, the comings and going down Bayview way this past week, take a look around the rest of the league, and more.

Episode 96 - Glory Days of Gold (A Rose By Any Other Name)

Welcome to Episode 96 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Andrew are back to look at East Fife's latest game, a pretty dire goalless draw at home to Bonnyrigg Rose.

Are the alarm bells ringing yet or can we at least take the positives of a point and a clean sheet? How desperately are the club needing an experienced defender and a goalscorer in the upcoming transfer window? Why was this game moved from a New Year fixture drawing a small crowd and clashing with a World Cup quarter-final?

We talk about all of this and more, plus we delve into the listeners' best East Fife five-a-side teams and a little bit of World Cup chat.

Episode 95 - Glory Days of Gold (Repeat Offenders)

Welcome to Episode 95 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Lee, Doug, and Gordon are back to look at East Fife's latest defeat, the concerning mistakes that keep being repeated, the important transfer window coming up, the current worrying state of the squad, and more.

Plus a little bit of World Cup chat.

Episode 94 - Glory Days of Gold (Football Feasts and Famines)

Welcome to Episode 94 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

The whole world is thinking about football just now, so that means everyone must want to hear about East Fife and Scottish League 2. Good job we're back with another show then!

The top flights around the world may have shut down, but the Fife are still plugging away. Michael, Lee, and Gordon look back at the last three matches, games which have only seen them take one point from the available nine. Have we jinxed Greig McDonald after he was on the last show?

The team have at least been playing some good football. Is that some solace? Is it only a matter of time before the results come? What needs to happen in the January transfer window? And how big are the next three home games? We chat about all of that and a lot more.

Plus with the World Cup now underway in Qatar, we give our thoughts on what we're expecting from the tournament and how big, or small, our excitement levels are for it.

Episode 93 - Glory Days of Gold (In The Hot Seat with Greig McDonald)

Welcome to Episode 93 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

There's a new man in the hot seat down Bayview way, but it's someone we're all very familiar with as caretaker boss Greig McDonald has lost the interim tag and is tasked with being the man to take the club forward.

In this episode we sit down with Greig for an in-depth chat about taking over, what he's learned about the team these past few weeks and months, his managerial style and footballing philosophy, what the immediate and long term future looks like for the club, and a lot, lot more.

Episode 92 - Glory Days of Gold (Fourplay)

Welcome to Episode 92 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

Is the feelgood factor back at Bayview after not just two good wins, but two very impressive performances where the team has played some fast moving, free flowing football that has been a joy to watch? Can East Fife keep it going and if they do, will it be with Greig McDonald losing the interim tag and becoming the permanent man at the helm?

Michael, Lee, Gordon, and Andrew are back to delve into all of that as they look at the Fife's latest win at Bonnyrigg and what it might mean to the appointment of the next manager. Plus they look around the rest of the division, look ahead to the black and gold's Scottish Cup campaign that gets underway in Stenhousemuir next weekend, and chat about what is a very exciting looking cup draw with a few giantkilling possibilities on the cards.

Episode 91 - Glory Days of Gold (Loonacy)

Welcome to Episode 91 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

East Fife got back to winning ways at the weekend with a comfortable 3-1 win over Forfar. A good performance, but one masked by poor opponents? Has this steadied the ship? Will Greig McDonald's stock have risen in the managerial stakes after that one? Did the pie hut have any bridies left after Lee's visit?

They delve into all of that plus more as the search for a new East Fife boss continues..

Episode 90 - Glory Days of Gold (Teetering)

Welcome to Episode 90 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

A quarter of the Scottish League 2 season is done and dusted with managerless East Fife sitting midtable, teeter tottering between being a playoff side or getting dragged into a dogfight at the bottom that no-one wants to be a part of. All of which makes the new managerial appointment and the next spell of games very important as to what way the seesaw may fall and potentially crucial to the club's future.

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into the main talking points coming out of it all and what might lie in store for the rest of the season, look at the latest loss to a ghost from the past, discuss the search for a new manager, and revel in Scotland's recent success that's at least cheered everyone up.

Episode 89 - Glory Days of Gold (As The Craw Flies)

Welcome to Episode 89 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast.

East Fife are in search of a new manager once again. Stevie Crawford's second reign at Bayview might not be the most fondly remembered, with a relegation and a not very exciting brand of football left behind. But as Crawford moves up the leagues to be an assistant at Dundee United, East Fife are left with one of their most important appointments in recent memory and it's a decision they simply have to get right, not rush, and examine all the options available to them.

Lee and Doug are joined by a new face/voice as they delve into the main talking points coming out of the last few matches and the search for a new manager. There's always talking points down Bayview way.

Episode 88 - Glory Days of Gold (All Bunched Up)

Welcome to Episode 88 of Glory Days of Gold, the East Fife and Scottish football podcast recorded across two continents.

It's hard to glean too much from the start of any new season, as teams struggle to find their feet, their chemistry, and their identities. Six games into the new Scottish League 2 campaign though and East Fife sit third, eight points back of early runaway leaders and six ahead of last placed Forfar. I think most East Fife fans would have bitten your hand of for that in July.

What can we learn from these last few weeks from a black and gold perspective? Well, they're a young and inexperienced team, but one with a fighting spirit and an early knack for earning some crucial late points. Enough to be playoff contenders? Are there concerns there wasn't more additions before the transfer window closed? Is the positional bunching up going to be the story of the season from 2nd to 10th?

Michael, Lee, Doug, and Gordon delve into the main talking points coming out of it of the last few matches and look at the lie of the land down Bayview way and around the division in this early going.