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How in god's name can this management team still be in the job we thought. Surely everyone else must be able to see the mess which the three stooges have made of this, once impressive, team. But, for some reason or other, the media seemed oblivious to our suffering. They have maintained all along that Davie Hay is an 'experienced' manager with more than enough ability and experience to guide the team to safety.
For months we've had to endure muppets on Scotsport - Andy Walker and Archie MacPherson to name but two - spouting about how lucky we (the Pars) were to have such a man at the helm of our club. 'He'd get us going' they'd say. 'He's just the type of man that you would want in a relegation dogfight' - aye, if your one of the other relegation strugglers right enough! No-one seemed to notice that it was he, and the Chuckle Brothers, that had got us into this mess. It was them who had converted us from a side in Europe to the relegation minnows that we currently are.
But finally people on the 'outside' looking in seem to be catching on to the trouble which the aforementioned three are causing at our beloved club. Writing in The Scotsman journalist Alan Irvine has today given the most accurate description of the Pars management setup to date.
"I wouldn't say we're safe yet but we have given ourselves some breathing space," said Duffy, who cut such a contrast with the Dunfermline dugout. With manager Davie Hay preferring to pass judgement from the stand, it was left to coahces Billy Kirkwood and Paul Hegarty to direct, or rather misdirect from the bench.
Perpetually pointing the finger at the referee, harassing the fourth official, thumping the dugout and straying from their technical area, the Dundee United old-timers were lucky not to be sent to the stand themselves. Even when the visitors took an early lead, with a cracking goal from Darren Young, whose crisp shot flew low to Derek Soutar's left, the two generals looked incapable of fine tuning the battle plan.
"This result makes life harder," bemoaned Hay. "Our efforts were just not enough." Perhaps Hay's final analysis will resonate with the management team as well.
With portions of the media - albeit not the Davie Hay-loving Glasgow media - realising the real problems at East End Park perhaps now John Yorkston, who seems to have a certain love of all things media, will take notice and act before it's too late.