Well we were well on top the 1st 20 minutes and should have scored a few goals with chances falling to Linn, McManus and Templeman but if you don't take your chances you will be punished, simple.

Raith with pretty much their first effort on goal scored through Kevin Smith and from then on in there was only going to be 1 winner. Raith grew in confidence and went on to dominate the rest of the match. Sloan scored a cracker of a free kick early 1nd half and it was game over.

Baikie's inability to change matches shone through yet again as he kept the same formation until 20 minutes to go when by then the game was long gone. Depressing stuff from us. No fight, no passion and no points. Raith deserved the win no doubt about it.

Atleast we have 2 games in a row away from home... 6 points in the bag...

Thank you for what sounds like an honest (depressingly from your point of view i imagine) report on the game.

Quality sig Calderon

I'm not gonna gloat, but was there any trouble at the game.

Looked like we were in or a hiding untill the goal. After that we put in a lot more effort and were no longer second to every ball. Defended really well with a lot of balls into the box. Never felt confident till last 5 mins with O'Connor looking dodgy with anything in the box, in saying that he saved us with two great saves 1 on 1. Very pleased with the win, although i don't think we played aswell as we did in the first game, at least we took the chances

None that I know of. Apart from our manager way out of his depth if that counts as trouble I don't know.

Also don't no if there was trouble in the East Fife end, seen one person thrown out the Rovers end by the Stewards. BTW wtf was up with the emergency thing over the tannoy ? 10 minutes of "this is an emergency please leave the stadium" think they were trying to drown out our support like they did with turning up the music full blast before the game

Don't want to have a go at 'my crowd is bigger than yours' w**k thread but Bayview is so devoid of any atmosphere it's depressing. Someone was smoking in the toilet apparantly, I should have followed them and hid in there for 90 minutes instead of watching that.

Whilst we certainly did not play as well as we can I can't complain at scoring 2 goals, keeping a clean sheet, extending our unbeaten run and really getting it right up Wullie Gray and the rest of the manky lot down Methil way

Hope the Least Fife fans have as much fun as we do tonight

Couldn't get a ticket for the game (So I did some overtime instead)

Thanks to Mon_The_Fife for a decent unbiased report

Just waiting for all the other bawbags that use this site to spout their usual pish shortly

Oh, just for the hell of it -

GIRFUY

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!!!!!

Was speaking to the_russian after the game, he said that he isn't posting for a while because he canny take it!

Lucky you. I had to put up with him for the whole game

I was a bit worried about my mate, he was in the home end. Hope he got out ok and enjoyed himself. Mon the RAITH.

The only blotch on the day was some stupid bitch behind us telling us to sit down. I thought she was going to pop she was going so mental.

GTF boot.

Yeah I'd agree with that. East Fife had about 7 corners early on, we certainly did take the lead against the run of play. Garry O had a couple of decent saves first half, although he wasn't really challenged too much. That said, apart from picking the ball out the net twice, Broono didn't have much to do either.

Cracking goal from Sloan, really pleased with things overall. We didn't play particularly well, although we didn't really have to if I'm being honest.

Good win, good 3 points, I'm happy

One way traffic for the first quarter as Rovers were pinned in their own half stifling incessant EF pressure.
Rovers started to get a foothold and scored against the run of play and never looked back after that.
Once Rovers went in front and got their tails up, EF looked sadly devoid of ideas.
Rovers adjusted their tactics when the going was tough and we were found wanting.
I think the Fife have the better squad of players but the question is do we have the right man at the helm to take us further forward.

That's now twice I've seen East Fife play, and neither time have I thought they've shown anything to live up to being the title favorites at the start of the season. Personally, I think you should be doing better, perhaps Baikie is the man at fault right enough. Personally, man for man, I believe we're better than East Fife, but hey ho.

It might even be a case of the squad isn't as good as everyone thinks it is, although I doubt it. Baikie has came under quite a bit of fire from the fans, I wonder if he'll be out a job soon...

First 20 - 25 minutes we played some good stuff and had the Rovers pegged back. Michael Brown got his first touch of the ball after 16 minutes !! Raith started to come more into the game especially down their left side. The mobility and work rate of their front 3 was very good and Smith opened the scoring low into the corner although he didn't hit the ball too cleanly. We came back into it and created a few mpore chances with Dougie Cameron blast high, wide and handsome when he should have driven the ball across goal. Felt we were unlucky to be behind at half-time and thought we were far from out of the game. Rovers started the second half better and when Sloan scored a brilliant second goal we were always going to struggle to get back into the game. Raith started to win more and more of the 50-50's and their front three were dragging our defence around. We failed to make telling passes or crosses in the final third and Raith were comfortable. Fair play to the Rovers, they continued to play 4-3-3 even after going a goal up and they got the rewards. They look a good side with a good balance of youth and experience and a decent amount of pace.
Things may have been so different, if we had taken our chance when we were on top in the first 20 odd minutes. However, it's goals that matter and at the moment we look as though if McManus doesn't score then we won't score. Well played the Rovers, top on merit but still looking forward to the next derby !!

McManus was always going to struggle today. He did his usual "Star Jump" attempts to win headers, but up against big Mark Campbell and Davo he struggled to win any. Our defensive unit never really split enough to let McManus run through - it only really happened once when Linn (?) took them by surprise through the right channel in the first half, but Gary O saved.

Can't help feeling that Templeman would've been more effective if he was played up front - did Baikie not have any other options in defence?

I think Baikie must shoulder the blame for this tbh, he really doesn't have a clue. And i think EF fan's know it.

I have to say I'm very impressed with the reports coming from EF fans on here. I'm really not sure our guys would have been quite so honest about it if the roles were reversed. There really wouldn't be too much bad blood between us at all if it wasn't for a certain large round scrappy.

Devastated. Don't grudge Rovers the 3 points today. They won it fair and square.

If we played every week like we did in the first 20 minutes (two up front, fast passing, attacking football) we'd be challenging for top spot.

I can understand the heads going down at 2-0 (it's natural) but I expected us to come out the second half and really go and attack them again but it didn't happen. For a team at home in a derby we've waited 20 years for, we were second to far too many balls in the middle of the park (like last week). It was really frustrating to see them pass the ball about and move off the ball - why can't we do that instead of playing the high ball ? We did it for the first 20 minutes. I thought we were going to hammer them today the way we started - then for the rest of the game, nothing. Brown didn't have to do much but neither did O'Connor.

I really hope Baikie can see what we're capable of when we play football and attack but with our second half showing and attitute I'm not too sure.

GUTTED.

No Tweed and Linn for next week either by the looks of it. Horrible day.

Good point.

Until it was Gray, I didn't really bother about East Fife tbh. Our older fans will tell you that they are indeed our bitter rivals etc, but I wasn't even born the last time we played them in a league match before the game at Starks.

I for one certainly had no case to have ill feelings towards them.

I have to take my hat off to the fife fans, Cos they were bang on with the match reports totally correct, I dont know whats wrong with the fife it has to be down to there manager and his total lack of football knowledge, some of the good managers change it when the chips are down, East fife were at home and it was the constant long ball up tp templeman it just didnt work no penetration but thats my opinion. Anyway im just over the moon today great result some clinical finshing when it mattered and thats what counts in this league, Keep it up guys well done

Nowt wrong with Wullie's scrappy - I'm a regular customer and Wullie Gray's better to deal with than Nobles or Nicky's (before he quit).

Wonder if the fact f'ck is waving his scarf about now eh!!!!

GIRUY EAST FIFE AND ALL THE REST OF THE METHIL TINKS!!!

Oh and another superb performance from a "certain" group of supporters doing there usual had to many shandy's and acting like idiots......they think they police/stewards are picking on them but they seem to be that pissed they cant see they bring trouble to themselves....why is it always the same group of supporters!

"constant long ball up templeman" thats never going to work when we got davo and Sparkie in the center, long ball is a no no got keep it on the floor pass and move thats the key... thats coming from a raith fan to lol

but am happy my team won from what i heard it weas really good game i wanted to go but never got a ticket owell maybe next time

Got to agree with all the other reports from the game. First 20 minutes, we were excellent. But, when you dominate for that long and don't make it count, you're leaving yourself open to getting punished and we did.

Raith started to find their feet and the signs were there for us beofre they took the lead. A decent goal from Raith's point of view but bad defending from us. Someone sliped to give Smith an unblocked view of the goals.

Raith were the better team from that point but didn't really create any good chances it has to be said. We continually made things difficult for ourselves with slack passing and defending. Our left side was posted missing, forcing Fotheringham to bring down the Raith winger beofre he got into the box. From that free-kick, Sloan scored and absolute peach of a free-kick.

It was a dissapointing day for us, obviously but we still had a few decent chances and if one or two had went our way, it could have been a very different game.

I can't help getting the feeling that Baikie just can't get the best out of this squad and doesn't know how to use the attacking players properly and get us going forward effectively as a team.

Dunc, Templeman was playing up front. I don't blame you for not noticing though. Not his finest game.

I thought East Fife were going to hammer us today too as in the first 15-20 minutes we were nowhere to be seen. Lovely finish from Smith and an excellent free kick from Sloan gave us a relatively easy run to the end of the game.
Why did the EF players continue to punt the ball in the direction of big Sparky? The big man won absolutely everything today and it soon became routine for him.
Mark Campbell is absolutely immense, I love him. Platonic like.

Good atmosphere in our end too.
I was asked to show my ticket three times today after a bunch of Rovers fans couldn't find their seat. Turned out they were reading their ticket wrong.
The policeman that was dealing with them told me that because some folk hadn't sat in their allocated seats that everything went to pot and he was told just to let things be and not to try and move everyone around.....

In the first half? Seriously?

I noticed him up the park a few times, but it was just after corners, I assumed he was slow to track back.

Second half, I was too far down and too far along the stand to really see what was going on up the other end that well, but it definitely seemed like the Fife were aiming their long balls towards either McManus or Linn, who were both being completely out-headered by Campbell, unsurprisingly.

For being so big, he's actually a pretty pish target man. He'll lose out against much worse centre back pairings than Campbell and Davidson.

We've proved that we're quite happy to blooter balls up for McManus to try and win on his own against 2,3,4 defenders. We've done it before and, depressingly, we'll do it again.

Can we have Kevin Smith back please?

Very accurate post unfortunately.

Never! We're keeping him...please?

Our strikers (other than Sandaza and Daly) are pish. I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in January.

Is he better than Goodwillie?

No! f**k off! He is ours. You can have Goodwillie.

I think Goodwillie had more talent, yet was a big headed little... git. Smith's more a goalscorer, he'll finish a chance that falls his way. Goodie would drop off and beat a few players then greedily shoot himself.

I rate Smith higher, in short.

No. Now f**k off.

Bolt! He's ours now!!

Goodwillies good but often wastes situations thru thoughtlessness. Smith's more direct and much more effective - I fear he'll be back at Tannadice in January staking a first team claim.

We pished all over Raith for half an hour. We switch off and lose a goal. For some reason this changes the game for us.
I think there's not much between the top five in the division.
Where were all the the Raith bawbags in the home end? Not a peep was heard. Blawbags one and all.
See you on January 3rd when we shall remind you once again who are the Undisputed Kings of Fife...

that post just makes the victory all the better

That was the entire point....

3 videos up so far:

Teams coming out
Fire alarm
Rovers 2nd goal

3 more on the way.

Who's the idiot that keeps getting his head in the way?

More to the point who was the Rovers twat that was smoking in the toilets!!!

That alarm has never went off in ten years of playing at Nou Bayview and then you muppets roll up and off it went!!!

There's people there who run the Club, who didn't even know we had an alarm!!!

The thing I find funny is that no-one actually listened to it I didn't see a single fan head for the exits. What if it had been a real emergency?

Fife derby is more important than a blaze!

A deserved win for Raith, until they scored I was so relaxed I was horizontal, watching the Fife play them off the park I was certain we'd win with ease, but when Raith scored there was only going to be one winner and the spectacular free kick was the icing on the cake for them.

Very dissapointing, but they are a good side, a very solid defence and a hard working and skillfull attack. An utterly shit keeper right enough but we didn't even test him.

As much as it hurts to say, well done Rovers, although one things for sure, you didn't have a single fan in the home end!

Other than the decent 30, one wearing Raith colours, who stood up and were cheering our goals. Fair play to you though Russki.