| Donald Stuart | photo edit | |
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| Start Date | 1983 | |
| End Date | 1984 | |
| Biography | 1983 Donald Stuart Donnie Stuart, who was running the reserve team and effectively Assistant Manager, was put in charge following Robbie Giles’ resignation in October 1983. His first game in charge was a 1-1 home draw with Nairn County. County’s goal coming courtesy of a late and crazy own goal from Nairn’s Forsyth. The result saw County move above Rothes as the Speyside team went to the bottom of the league. One of Donnie’s best results in charge was a 4-3 home victory over Keith which “sent the fans home in raptures”, unfortunately in those days the crowd only numbered 154! Donnie made a significant contribution to the future of the club when he fielded Billy Ferries for his debut as a trialist in his second game, a 3-0 defeat at Elgin City. Billy would of course go onto become a County legend winning two league titles (plus one with Elgin City) and being part of our squad in our opening seasons in the Scottish league. Scott Lemmon was on loan to Motherwell for much of Donnie’s time in charge, however his loan spell came to nothing as the Motherwell manager, Jock Wallace, left the club to rejoin Rangers. One of Wallace’s first acts as the new Rangers manager was to take his team to Victoria Park where they beat County 6-0 thanks to a Bobbie Williamson hat trick and goals from Sandy Clark, Dave MacPherson and Bobby Russell. Donnie stayed on as caretaker manager until the winter and his last game was a 2-2 draw away to Brora Rangers on Christmas Eve. MacQueen and Duff scoring for County. In total Donnie was in charge for 11 League games, 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses. 22 goals scored and 21 conceded. There was also a 2-1 home loss to Forres in the Inverness Cup. | |