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Great to see the banter beginning again with the wee team. You can tell by the state of their crowds that we've been missed.

I particularly enjoyed how you quoted yourself back and dropped the word "the" to try and wriggle your way out of it. As I said yesterday if you're sent to the supermarket for 5 vegetables and come back with 2, would you say "I got the vegetables" - yes or no? I look forward to not getting a simple answer or having the question ducked altogether. You don't have a leg to stand on here. Bear #1 "RFFF paid all the small creditors" Bear #2 "Diddies have been telt - the small creditors have been paid" 7 days later: Bear #2 "I only said some had been paid" Genuinely makes me smile how someone can be so utterly desperate not to concede when they've made a kunt of it.

Tedi blah, blah, blah, assorted didides naw.naw, naw, THE KING ha, ha, ha.

Adam Rooney's having a party Bring your fruit shoot and your Smarties

The appointment of Anelka was met with considerable criticism from the Rovers support btw. Dunfermline fans lapped up years of overspending whilst belittling those who warned about it.

I just don't get the "I'm not going to the game coz it's Rangers" mentality. In all the years of seeing Rangers play at Starks Park, I can only recall one unsavory incident with their support and that was during a friendly match a few years back (guy who threw a punch at a steward when being removed from the home end). I didn't even hear the sectarian singing during last seasons game, nor do I suspect many did in the home end did either - I rather expect that there was more an 'offended by proxy' scenario going on by those of a disposition who consider the OF to be spawn of Satan and to blame for all evils in the Scottish game. I am not at all condoning the singing, which obviously happened, not for 1 second, but I just can't get excited about it. There is no place for it in society in general but it is clearly a minority these days and as Rovers fans we can't too excited about non-PC chants given the song we used to sing about what we'd rather be than a Par. As for hostile and unpleasant atmospheres... really? We must have some right sensitive souls in our support. I have never felt threatened walking to and from games involving Rangers (or Celtic) at Starks Park. I don't recall running street battles, burning cars, women being pushed over.... If we're being honest, there's been more trouble in recent years with Dunfermline visiting (trouble in the high street, assaults, vandalism). That said, most of those incidents can be attributed to their so-called Young Team that only turn up at derby games to cause bother and are not reflective of their support in general. I think it's fair to say that of Rangers too, that it's a minority that can cause trouble or offence, it's just that they have such a large support that it's more apparent. The moron element exists in every support. Bottom line is that it's just an excuse not to go to Starks Park. To those citing this as a reason not to go - get a grip of reality and get over yourselves. As has been said previously, this Rovers team has done incredibly well this season - to be so far ahead in 4th place at this stage is a big achievement for a club with our resources, Get out there and support the team, regardless of who they are playing.

Small Faces - All Or Nothing

Dusty Springfield : Son Of A Preacher Man

Alternatively he could go the other known route of proving himself as one of us by penning a quite embarrassing open letter to a deranged ex staff member.

Why are so many people biting? P*rs fans at the wind-up. They're desperately missing being relevant.

Dearie me. I live in Dunfermline and want to see the Pars doing well, and you'll never find me chucking about unhelpful words like "cheating" about what happened before. But it's pretty disappointing to see you and one or two others come onto the Raith thread and start spouting this sort of pish again as if nothing has been learned. First up, don't blame previous board members or anyone else - Pars fans, pretty much to a man and woman, were delighted to keep supporting the team and the overspending long after it was apparent that it was unsustainable (and I still sometimes see and hear them revelling in their 'achievements' even now). More worryingly, "ambitious" is one of those words that should be setting off whole banks of alarm bells in your head. In football-speak it's virtually always code for "currently running at an operating loss". Not that I'm suggesting anything untoward at this stage, but hopefully the club has some people at its helm with rather more nous and understanding than you've demonstrated here. Now f**k off and come back next season.

McConnachie (in addition to denying the holocause as a conspiracy) used to put out a subscription based newsletter about how we need "more union, less devolution", and share such marvellous ideas as having Kate Middleton pop a sprog in each part of the UK so the proles would think they each had their own royal and thus be feudally loyal to their imperial masters. He seems to fancy himself a nineteenth-century imperialist fighting for the glory of the British state. Kook.

We have a winner.

You can have this one for free. http://tinyurl.com/MonkTen

Exactly - he does it for free. He may also not be an ex-footballer.

Player of the year is a tough one. Can we not hold off until we find out who scores the goal that gets us promoted?

You really aren't helping yourself against the accusations of beastism here Dave. < Insert easy lay up joke about Throbber having her other sock >

Still, this approach to settling bills could help explain how Oldco got into the situation they did. 'It's OK, gents. I've settled the tax bills,' said Craig Whyte.

Imagine posting in this thread 8500 times Tedi you're a complete loser mate

BTW I'm not, as you may have suggested, upset about this and there are lots of examples of, say, "in a foment", in literature. Also the role of a dictionary is, largely, to describe rather than proscribe and I don't think I'm being arrogant in saying that the dictionary got this one wrong.

Don't listen tedi......you keep digging. Tbh I have enjoyed watching you make a 5 star dickhead of yerself yet again.

TEDI wit a fukin state for a grown man tae get in tae!

Is that all the footballing debt or just some of it? Must be just some, otherwise you'd have written 'all', right?

Thunderclap Newman : Something In The Air

DODO FC 1873 Lol

Hi guys happy easter 54 and counting We welcome the chase Yours truly Forever_blue

Gave you a greenie for the Jack Bruce photo with that trademark Warwick bass he never had to fret over! Fairport Convention : Time Will Show The Wiser

Cheers. Always good having you guys filling out East End. I was lucky/unlucky enough to see Eoin Jess destroy us and our wee Moroccan Prince turned in one of those performances on Saturday.

^ Good choice, Boo.... shame about the vocals on that clip! Thin Lizzy : The Boys Are Back In Town

^ ^ ^ Caught a carrier pigeon / Paul Wright cures depression type post.

My god! You still have the effrontery to argue with Libby after his promise to have you kicked off the site... I hope he PM's you to STRONGLY ADVISE you exactly why you are wrong!

Deary me a few Raith fans are taking this a bit too seriously. Firstly much has been learned, the fan base as a whole is more tuned in with regards to the running of the club and our responsibilities, outwith the playing staff we have four full time members of staff, pretty much everything else including the cashiers in the club shop is volunteers, you then have 1000 or so fans chucking £20 a month through the centenary lifeline, nothing has been learned? Nonsense. Quit it with the hyperbole, the term ambitious doesn't need to go hand in hand with overspending, you have literally just tried to put words into his mouth. In real terms he's meaning that with the 1000 centenary members chucking in 20 quid a month, the 2500 season ticket members and the 3500 average crowd and the streamlined staffing structure we should be more than capable of putting a team capable of challenging for fourth place, bugger all wrong with that. Was actually a ploy,in the same way half your fanbase won't show up for the Rangers game we couldn't be arsed sharing a league with them, masterplan. No one knew exactly what was happening under the old regime out with Masterton, him and Yorkston sacked McIntyre without consulting the rest of the board members, our boardroom was a shambles. As mentioned previously it was the likes of him that resigned from board in protest as to how Masterton was running the club, while also writing of a chunk of money in a CVA. Like the rest of the directors he volunteers and doesn't take any money, top boy. About sums up your knowledge on the subject, as shown on the CVA Jim was owed a reasonable sum of cash, he wrote that off safe in the knowledge that he wouldn't be seeing that again, top boy. Mastertons running of the club was what brought us to the brink in the first place. We're a horrible big club lad, do learn.

You had that top four safety net last season and still got nowhere near the play offs. The ignorance towards Leishman is laughable. The guy knew exactly what was going on under the old regime and happily went along with it. If your club was serious about moving on and starting afresh you would have nothing to do with the likes of him.

Yep. I've only ran each of them once, but Tollcross is a lot lumpier (a lot more lumpy?) than Pollok! And smaller, which is also nice. The times you're posting are great compared to the rest of us on here, but it's also a relative thing. At least you've got something tangible you can point to as contributing factors. Cracking stuff. I've heard Hazlehead is a tough course, too? Stu - might well look up your podcast recommendation; that's what I do on my longer runs to pass the time. Tends to be MarathonTalk, Football Weekly, and picked up on Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories (3-4 hours each) after someone mentioned it on the Podcasts thread a while back. Having your nearest parkrun in Carlisle's a bit of a pest, though. Twenty rain-laden miles for me today, I don't think there was a time of the day I could've escaped it. First 10 were relatively easy pace over the hilly part of my route, the final 10 (ended up being 9 due to the driving wind/rain) at my attempted marathon pace. Thankfully I've dried off with no obvious signs of a cold, and my legs feel okay too. Things are looking positive.

Love how you misquoted yourself there chief. You said "the small creditors". That word in bold changes it all. You don't have a leg to stand on here chief.

And yet you made this post And then as a follow up when you were called out on it: So when you quote more than 100 it could mean 2???? Either you have this list of 100s of creditors or not. If not then I assume that you will withdraw you claims that these people have been paid.

Just back from a couple of days in Dublin. Apparently this Irish language is easy according to her. I ask why. Her ' just add ie on the end' The reason. Hertz van has Hertzie on the side. Sightseeing bus has Bus sightseeingie on side. And after I stop laughing and explain the Internet domain is the reason and it is actually... Hertz.ie and bussighting.ie on the vehicles. ie for Ireland Apparently I am insensitive and arrogant for laughing at her.

"Rangers" should have paid up 3 fucking years ago. However vanishingly unlikely that this may be, there is a very strong argument that the journey has been conducted while in breach of your new clubs conditions of membership and you should be told off-f**k to the lowland leagues. I don't want the best of both worlds, I'd like one or the other. The problem for you is that the world in which you clearly inhabit (the planet samerangers) has the icky-sticky problem of you dying 4 years ago. What I would accept and i am in no way alone here, is if you pay ALL the debts, and accept the cheating and hand back the shiny baubles, you can shove a broom up rangers arse and parade it's corpse about like El Cid to your hearts content. That'd be fine, I would allow you to think that with minimal derision. The big issue and the one that I'm pretty confident gnaws at the soul of most bears is that they are (stop laughing at the back) quite ashamed of what happened, they don't want to face the reality of their old clubs crimes and rather than take their licks they're happy to believe in a shell-suit Rangersette version of the club they think they love. It's easier that way but ultimately this kind of thinking will only lead to mental-hygeine-type health issues in later life. In fact, any enterprising b*****d out there might wait till a bears parent or grandparent dies, buy their house and any other assets then just turn up at the bears place demanding Sunday lunch wearing the departeds pearls and falsies proclaiming "108 Still Going Strong". Oh I'm sorry is that not how this works?

Boom ! I couldn't wait till the morning but I'm now a (slimmer) - 385 lbs So a total weight loss of 7lbs for week two. I've been better this week and plan to up my walking to 1/2 mile every other day by the end of April.

That's fucking howling. Use a spoiler if you're gonna post shite, like that, in future. Sakes.

Time to f**k shit up next season...

Can't help overhear parent and child conversations and trying to work out if it's normal for kids not to know things by a certain age, or (to quote Anchorman) if they're midgets with a learning disability. Some answers the parents come out with in public are disturbing at best. Today's example: Son: Where's that mummy? Mum: That's Arbroath. Whilst passing Stonehaven

The one actual punishment for the biggest disgrace in Scottish football history and they still haven't settled up. I think Bennet asked why he should view sevco as a new club. Pretty simple really, any ordinary human being would be ashamed of Rangers and would want to distance themselves from such a disgrace. Ordinary human beings, I know.

Shamelessly stolen from Twitter:

No mate, leave aside the slightly bizarre attempts at insults. Instead address what I said about the message conveyed by the writing on the gates. You see, your failure to do so, just makes it look as if you've nothing to counter me with. It pretty much confirms that I'm right.

I'm the spitting image of this gentleman (Michael Smith from the darts). I'm 6 foot but weigh just over 18 stone. I've gained well over 6 stone since 2011, a time whereby I was relatively fit and found it quite easy to hit the disco and leave with an easy lover. My major downfall is beer (average 4 pints after work during the week), but on an average Saturday it goes: fry-up, pub 2 pints, bookies, pie, pub 6 pints, bookies, pub 3 pints, curry, pub 5 pints, kebab, w**k, sleep. I'm so used to the boozing I'm rarely drunk before pint number 8. I went through 5 cans of right guard in the month of February alone, f**k knows what July will be like. I'm hoping to find a boot camp mentality from this thread.

It annoys the life out of you and your diddy ilk so it does the job I get along on fine on the rest of the forum

I'm calm about our history. Hope that answers what was nearly a question. BTW who forgot to give the Ps&Ds their Ritalin this morning? You know how bad their ADHD gets...

Personally, I'd rather die than have a blood transfusion from someone who writes 'I could of'.