Following a dreadful run of form and results the Beanos management team of John O’Neill and Roddy Grant have left the club. At this stage it’s not exactly clear whether they resigned or were sacked. Rumours around the web suggest that it may have been the former with the humiliation at Firhill the last straw for John and Roddy. John O’Neill was appointed as Stirling Albion manager following the departure of Allan Moore to Morton last May. It continued the recent Albion trend of appointing inexperienced managers. However, it was a gamble which didn’t pay off. The Trust takeover changed the landscape at the Beanos and perhaps a combination of an inexperienced board and and inexperienced manager was always doomed to fail. Apart from one decent spell when we won our only three games of the campaign it was generally a struggle. Six straight league defeats, including three by five [... more]