Gary Wales has signed for Raith on a permanent deal after leaving Kilmarnock. Hopefully be the signing we need the key is he needs to be fit to play. Whats he like???

Apart from being a DKB, he's gone from Premier to second division play off runners up without a stop in the the first division. I'm sure he'll be magic.

Clicky

Should be a good signing

He should get 4 or 5 against Brechin easily........

Good signing, actually, that could be a fucking beast of a signing....

or it could be that he scores 3 goals all season, after being crocked, 30 mins into the game on saturday.

Don't tempt fate!!!

Quiet you.

When did he sign for Man U?

This could (and should) be a cracking sigining for us. He has the ability to score alot of goals in this division. Very happy with this.

a unique series of circumstances!!!

When did being an overpaid average player in the SPL become unique.

Theres countless players just like him

as for the signing, an Ok player who was never the same after the bad knee injury he got within weeks of signing for us

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats...mp;&cc=5739

Stats. Seems to have a decent return per number of starts.

good signing, good deal for both parties, wales puts himself in the shop window and we get a striker to cover our injuries who should (fingers crossed) score a decent amount of goals at this level

Oooh Aaah, Gary Wales, say Oooh Aaah Gary Wales!

Could be a great signing, could be a bad one. Time will tell. Delighted we've moved to sort our scoring problems though, well done to the board for backing McGlynn, and well done to John for getting someone in. Best of luck to him.

Bet he's injured by this time next week.

Edit- A quick look at his stats on Soccerbase show he isn't the most prolific striker ever - averaging a goal about every five appearances. Almost half are from the bench however. Hopefully he'll show some form in this league with a run of games behind him.

Smith had never scored a professional goal before coming to us!

I'm slightly xconcerned about his wages though. Fairly young and been receiving SPL wages until very recently. I'm guessing he's not taken a massive pay cut because he always wanted to play for us.

Dosen't look like he will Be on big wages.....

My guess would be hes started a new company or a new job and Part time football would tie in better with this than full time football. Wales Wales Gary Gary Wales gets the ball scores a goal Gary Gary Wales

At least he's realistic enough to know that signing for Raith spells the end of his footballing career...

From a Morton fan!!!

Yet another fan of another team who is obsessed with Raith rovers...........

Hopefully he will turn out to be an excellent signing. The chances are being created so hopefully his experience will see him convert them.

Since when did you return to your Scottish diddy side in place of your English diddy side?
Which side did you support the last time Raith were in the 1st Division?

Indeed, I'm quite happy with the signing acually .

he looks like he will add a bit of height up front for us as well which would help us for set pieces and linking up the play, who will play with him tho???

Fair enough. Missed the PT bit.

Great signing for us. Well chuffed!

No doubt one for the category of 'Somerset Faithful remind him of his previous club, player takes offence of his parentage being questioned and scores against us.'

Alternatively he could be your Stevie Crawford.

we already had him anyway

Reassuring that the club have addressed the striking problem at last, and looks like we've got someone who might do something.

Incidentally, in the Courier today McGlynn says Wardlaws injury isnt as bad as was feared and he could be back in 'weeks rather than months'.

His goalscoring record has never actually been that good, however he'll certainly be a good player in Div2 if he stays fit.

Did Hearts not once pay half a million for him?

I'm just amazed that there is a striker signing for a Fife club and it's not East Fife

Seriously though, he should be a good signing, and perhaps the one that will set our promotion charge alight.

Time will tell.

If it's true that we've got nae money, then what i want to know is who the hell is funding him...

He has only signed on a part time basis, plus, we had a bout 3599 Methilites through the other week, that should fund it.

Should be a good signing, provided he doesn't get injured. That would be just our luck, i think on saturday McGlynn should buy bubble wrap to protect the player's we have left

Actually, we had first choice on him, but he was deemed to be no better than the strikers we currently have at the club.

His wages will be paid from the trust fund WG set up at RR before he moved for a better life. WG said recently that he set the fund up to ensure RR were left in a healthier position than when he joined them.

That`s what I heard too. And to think the abuse WG took from them a couple of weeks ago. That`s gratitude for you!

Well the average 'healthiness' of anyone to do with RRFC increased dramatically when that fat heart attack on a stick bastard got told he couldn't use the Starks Park washing machines any more.....................

if there was an applause smilie you'd get it you little munchkin.

Apparently there was no running water, electricity or washing powder in the back of the repo van.

And since when did that ever stop Fat Wullie from signing someone in the past?

No, no, no, as usual you chaps have the wrong end of the stick.

What Fat Wullie set up at SP was an account to save up and buy himself a TRUSS.

I know that sounds something like a trust fund to you thickos but it really is something entirely different.


The other accounts he set up were all with bookmakers but that's been well documented enough.

Good signing . Wales and smith (sounds like a law firm!) could be a good partnership up front, but i'd still like to see weir fit in somehow, even if it means playing him just behind the front two.

Would that be the ones posted missing against us.

Chuffed with this signing - we needed another striker and Wales is a decent player at SPL level, never mind Div2.

Agree with the comments on Weir, especially as these 2 will have played together before.

4-3-3 anyone?

no he isn't

Perhaps, although I think we have a decent midfield this year, and it would be a shame to risk destroying it by taking a player out.

Well bugger me!!! Did you really?


Hold the front page...Raith Rovers fan in stating the bleeding obvious shocker

I have asked before why RR fans treat Willie "Adam Smith" Gray the way they do. It may be years before what WG has done for RR is recognised. However I can visualise the "Willie Gray Open Space" as part of your new facilities at Beveridge Park when you need to move on.

Imagine if a team signed Gary Wales, Jason Scotland, Craig Ireland and Isaac English.

Ok, I'll bite.

How anyone can really say that Gray has done a lot of good for the Rovers is beyond me - look at the state we were in when he was bought out. We are currently paying a £3k a month mortgage for our own stadium, we could really do without that. The running of the club during Gray's time left a lot to be desired too, perhaps if the club was run properly, we wouldn't be in this mess.

How about you move on from you're continual obsession with Gray's time at the Rovers?