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Who? Never heard of him!

Can you be more specific? What's you opinion on that guy who's neighbour said that his aunties dug never bit naebody?

Good to know, fwiw I've been following Rovers around and drinking in away boozers for about the same length of time and I've not seen much if any trouble in pubs over the years either (the 4 J's used to be a fav of mine to meet up with Arab work collegues). However we seem to be seeing a resurgence of the Ned mentality, likely as not on their own wouldn't say boo to a goose and wouldn't come into pubs to start trouble but in recent times I've seen the young teams kick off at Arbroath and outside the Estuary Bar in Links St when the Pars came calling. Of course Rovers aren't immune from this element either (far from it), and although the kids are usually great for atmosphere in the ground (when they arent lobbing pyro's) I often think they sometimes cause more problems than they are worth. The reality is this is just an old gadgie moaning I suppose but, when you get to the past 30, 40 then 50 you can do without it. Give me a few pints, a bit of craic and some banter and I'm happy.

I'm not advertising where I'm heading publicly on P&B. Last thing I want is the arsehole element thinking "right, so lot's of Rovers will be in that pub eh?"

Are we only NOT your rivals when we are skelping you five times a season then? It's an age group thing, if you were a Rover of my dad's generation the main rivalry was with East Fife, with me it's the pars because that's who have been the Derby rivals most. Some Pars fans may see Falkirk as the derby but good many I know don't. Falkirk fans only really have your mob as neighbours so they take it more seriously. The mere fact you rushed on here to defend the point suggest there is a level of something being felt, ire, hate, jealousy or what I don't know but it's clearly simmering away somewhere.

So therefor Rovers fan are presumably allowed to mention their biggest rivals? Anyways, lost on the Halbeath Rd for this kind of pish

You guys really are a scream. IF this was Rovers fans coming on to the down the Halbieth Rd page you'd reasonably have a far better point. However considering you've posted twice (you are way behind thon other Pars Roaster btw) and you're one of 3 Pars fans to have had a fishing expedition on this tread in the last two days, I think we all know who the ones are that are fixated. Away back to the west of Fife and never you mind whats happening in the Best of Fife. Big ego's, Big delusions, big debts, Big problems. DAFC the biggest team in Fife in so many, many ways......except those that matter.

Anyone can stand on the sidelines and rubbish suggestions made by others, but in order to be credible you have to at least have some counter suggestion. So far you've offerered the sum total of Hee Haw. It's not been poorly communicated it's just that there hasn't been communication, or at least nothing that adds up. If it's safety reasons then what has changed in the last 3 months? If it's just to do with the shed why not offer the Rovers support some of the FP or main stand too? Again if it's down to safety then Utd cannot without losing face play a different card against Dunee, Rangers or Celtic if they get promoted or potentially even sooner, like against Aberdeen in a play off.

Sadly Eb, they can't. As honking as it is that literally is the best patter they have.

I saw a few Utd European games at theat time as well as some Aberdeen, notably the Liverpool game at Pittodrie. Was it Stark or Holt (in the League cup drawn game, sadly Utd romped the second leg at Kdy) that somehow missed by scooping the ball over the bar from almost underneath it with McDemott grounded? That was back in the day when there wasn't even a cover over the side enclosure, from memory it was really steep, a bit like the one at Easter Rd, which didn't have a cover on my first visit there either (Hibs 0-1 Raith, Bally) That steep Utd enclosure started from below the level of the pitch (as did Dens behind the goal at the TC Keay end) and I remember a preseason friendly where Tottenhams Steve Perryman put a player into the crowd just next to where I was standing, must have been early 1980's.

In the 1980's I saw lot's of United games in the EUFA cup, most memorably I even took a day off school to get the train to Dundee to secure tickets for the Roma European Cup semi final. A few years after that I was at the game where Gallacher scored to beat Barca 1-0. Even went to Hampden to see Special Brew beat the ****. How the mighty have fallen eh? Bad enough for their supporters that they have turned into such a shitshow on the park (mostly due to donkey managers like Goodwin and an incompetent owners and boards) seems they've now gone an finally flushed any last vestiges of their reputation down the pan with this mishandling of ticket sales, what an utter shambles of a club. Seems the arabs I work with (the ones that said Rovers would be a spec in their rear view mirrors by Easter) are too embarrassed to answer my messages and calls. Priceless!

Saturday afternoon would have been ideal. Hibs not playing because of the international break and us not playing because of the Challenge cup final. Mind you that would have an impact on the special guests attending.

In his fulltime job Marsh was a Sparky (as well as a goal scoring and pretty hardy midfield dynamo) he worked at the Dubbie pit with my dad. In a strange twist of fate some 40 years on his son Jimmy (also a Sparky) worked offshore with me. A bit hard to tell from the photo but Jimmy Jnr is an absolute dead wringer for his old man. The photo was taken at The Stadium of light 25/05/2018 when Jimmy's platform The Golden Eagle played The Buzzard, canny remember the score other than we outscored them by about six or seven and I scored not one of them........but I did manage an assist for the last goal.

I was hoping some of LV's former team-mates might have been included, Ross Callachan came immediately to mind. I was saddened to find out when I checked (on the Ross Co website) that Cal ruptured his ACL against Celtic 3 weeks ago. Given that Callachan, Laidlaw, Matthews and Vaughan all broke through around the same time it'd have been nice to see guys like that back at SP.