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Dunfermline Athletic’s 2023-24 squad breakdown
By Michael Wood Loans returned – Summer RCB: Sam Young, 17 (Cowdenbeath)AM: Andrew Tod, 17 (Elgin City) Transfers in – Summer LCB: Ewan Otoo, 20 (Celtic B)RCB: Sam Fisher, 21 (Dundee)RM: Kane Ritchie-Hosler, 20 (Rangers B)RW: Michael O’Halloran, 32 (St Johnstone)CF: Alex Jakubiak, 27 (Dundee) Loans in – Summer GK: Harrison Sharp, 22 (Dundee)AM: Ben Summers, 19 (Celtic…
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Six Positions James McPake May Attempt to Strengthen This Off-Season
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic secured their Championship status on Saturday with their draw against Inverness Caledonian Thistle at East End Park. That result meant for the first time in three years, the club will spend successive seasons in the same division. The next goal will be to secure fifth spot in the final fixture against…
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What we learned about Dunfermline in March
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic 2-0 Ayr United The first game of meteorological spring hoped to give the Pars fresh optimism from a chilling winter, a season in which only bottom of the table Arbroath picked up fewer points within. Ayr was also thankful for a change as the beginning of Scott Brown’s reign with the…
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Is Making the Premiership Play-Offs Possible for Dunfermline
By Michael Wood Softened by above-average winter rainfall and ravaged by the clawing of studs, the Dunfermline Athletic squad sauntered off the East End Park turf to rapturous applause, appreciated by a tired outfit who just completed their fifth 90 minutes in 17 days, culminating in victory against the side residing at the top of the…
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Ranking James McPake’s signings at Dunfermline Athletic
By Michael Wood 19. Max Little Little’s arrival from Queen’s Park Rangers on a two-year deal came out from left field when announced in July of 2022 and has been a head-scratcher ever since. Why the London-born shot-stopper with no prior professional experience flitted up to Scotland to play bench warmer and having a Pars career…
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Dunfermline’s Winter Transfer Business
By Michael Wood Name: Malachi Fagan-WalcottAge: 21Position: Right Centre BackClub: Cardiff CityStatus: Loan Fagan-Walcott left Tottenham Hotspur in the summer after eight years with the Premier League club in which he only made one appearance for the Lilywhites – a stoppage-time substitute in Germany as José Mourinho’s Spurs bowed out in the last 16 against RB…
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What we learned about Dunfermline in February
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic 0-5 Greenock Morton With the Ton’s three-nil win against Arbroath last time out, the Inverclyde outfit was unbeaten in 11 matches in all competitions – eight wins, three draws and seven clean sheets – heading into this game. Morton was a team far removed from the side that came to Fife…
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Dissecting the last nine goals Dunfermline has conceded
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic venture outwith the city for the first time since the 27th of January when they make the c.40 mile trek along the M80 to Partick Thistle’s Firhill tonight. Since the draw in the City of Discovery against the league leaders Dundee United, in what was the club’s first clean sheet on…
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Three reasons to now worry about DAFC
By Michael Wood Injuries have hurt and continue to Just when Dunfermline felt they were getting over their injury issues, the news dropped that Sam Fisher is to miss six to eight weeks with a calf complaint. He joins Alex Jakubiak, Andrew Tod, Craig Wighton, Kane Ritchie-Hosler, Kyle Benedictus, Matty Todd and Rhys Breen in the…
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What we learned about Dunfermline in January
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic 1-2 Raith Rovers It is a new year, and the Pars would have hoped opening up the second half of the league campaign would have meant a change in fortune against their Fife rivals who were unbeaten all four encounters this season. The most recent meeting against the league leaders came…
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What we learned about Dunfermline in December
By Michael Wood Dunfermline Athletic P-P Queen’s Park It has been 37 years since the Spiders scurried across the central belt to East End Park for a league outing, a nothing each draw, which put the Pars one point closer to being victors of Division Two. However, more recently, their crosses passed as the visitors caught…