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30 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Grim that we're apparently so reliant on an injury prone loan player whose top goal return in a season is 10.
For me the biggest issue I have with this, is that we signed Kane halfway through February.
It's not exactly news to Pars fans, but does that mean the first 6 months of our season were a write off because we didn't have a striker?
I'm not disagreeing that he's a good player, but I think people are overstating how good, and how important he is. We've all been guilty (I certainly have) of thinking "When *insert player* gets back we'll be fine". It's happened with Bene, Todd, KRH etc and we still don't look any better going forward.
It's a damming indictment on the state of our squad that we only have one striker, and he was signed in February ffs.
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1 hour ago, VinnyPar said:
Think Wighton is complete done at this level tbh
I have a suspicion we've never seen him fit, at least not at this level.
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1 hour ago, Rover1883 said:
Have to disagree with the few Raith fans that are on this thread hope Utd turnover the townies because imagine spending a million to win league one to just get put right back down again.
That might be the most wee team post I've ever seen.
Hating Dunfermline more than you support your own team, oaft.
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1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:
We any closer to getting a replacement for Shields yet?
He's put his new job up on linkedin.
Not seen anyone else come in.
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Just now, RAITHROVERS84 said:
I’d change your user name TBH. It’s the footballing equivalent of having the moniker ‘Saville’ unfortunately.
See, there's not a single poster on this thread who'll not find those images disgraceful.
However you're looking like a dick here, it's faux outrage on your part, trying desperately to link this with a whole stand. And bringing up Saville? Christ.
It takes some doing to look like the dick in this situation but you're managing it, bravo.
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9 minutes ago, RaithRyan said:
Well lads, the incident at East End we were told the laddies had nothing to do with Northwest and “not Pars fans”.
Unfortunately I doubt you can deny this or deflect away from any of this.
What on earth are you on about?
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11 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:
Given he was shaking his head at the boos that decision got he obviously thought that it was the correct change to make. I'd really like to hear him justify it as it was a really bad move
I jus don't get what he was hoping to achieve with it, with the change what was he hoping would happen, what would improve us?
Proper head loss of a decision that has made me concerned as f**k tbh. The McPake of last season is as good a manager we've had since McIntyre, however the past couple of months he's been far, far closer to Hughes with his bizarre decisions and poor subs and tactical changes.
In the same way that a player might lose form it feels like McPake is doing the same.
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5 hours ago, Been going too long said:
, good to hear there was a mix in montagues etc, way it should be but that March from oconnells to the ground with the banner will always attract Fannie’s imo and would be better diverted away from links street
Aye, agreed.
3 hours ago, The Toun Clock said:.
I have to say, despite our appalling record, Kirkcaldy is still one of my favourite away days. Easy to get to, easy to get back to Dunfermline, pubs are a stone throw away from the ground and of course it's a derby so it has that wee bit of edge to it. If we were to compare to having to go to Grangemouth it's night and day.
Agreed, I don't think I've ever went out in Grangemouth, but on Saturday I stayed in Kirkcaldy then went to my first Fife Flyers game, it was alright.
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7 hours ago, Been going too long said:
Totally agree that would avoid the flashpoint as it’s always at the estuary and your right brings them out nearer the away end , in days gone by the pars never had a pub on the high street , we always had the Elizabethan but it was at the right side of east end for us. Wouldn’t solve all the hassle but pretty sure it would help a lot, sick of seeing little green street wannabes wandering around being the big men
Aye? My first derby was in 2009 and I remember drinking in the Penny Farthing/The Abbey, there's also been Pars fans along the high street.
Ended up going to Montagues pre and post match and it was absolutely fine and trouble free, mixture of Pars and Raith fans.
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Just now, SirJimmyofNic said:
BBC were saying it would've been a penalty if VAR was being used, so guess they're wrong as well as the ref
Correct.
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Stinking decision by the ref, was never a free kick.
Games been as even as they come outside that.
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25 minutes ago, RR #1 said:
Aye of course they were asked about it. Professional responce would be to say 'I've no interest in what their social media says' or 'we'll do or talking on the pitch'. Giving the journo a multi paragraph answer greeting about why we shouldnt be posting such things on our socials just makes them look absolutely rattled. I would be embarrassed if it was other way round.
He was utterly raging that we had the cheek to celebrate a last minute winner last time at Starks.
Of course McPake wont be giving it big licks and will just respectfully make his way down the tunnel if he pops his Fife Derby cherry tomorrow (aye right).
Changed his tune from last season it seems when he was defending wild celebrations after his team won a league 1 game in November
"The players will feel good, the fans will feel good standing in front of that. I’ll apologise to nobody for that – albeit, it’s November"
You're coming across far more raging tbh.
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40 minutes ago, RR #1 said:
Amusing to see both McPake and that striker who never scores in the courier moaning about how rattled they get by our social media posts.
According to McPake the only time players, staff and fans should be celebrating a win is if it clinches promotion or it's a cup final. What an absolute fanny.
Aye, they'll definitely have brought it up, and not just answered a question put to them by a journalist.
He doesn't say that either?
"For what I’ve seen of the Raith stuff, if it gets them traction and gets them publicity then great for the football club.
“I would just be pretty careful because this game’s got a horrible way of kicking you."
"the best time to do it is if you’ve won the league or got promoted through the play-offs, which I know is very tough to do because I’ve done it.
“Then, it’s great fun, for everybody involved.
“I think if it was me I would be waiting until we had achieved something.”
He's not saying fans shouldn't celebrate? He's still talking about the social media stuff and saying he'd wait to give it big licks until after you've won the title. Hardly ground breaking stuff.
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18 minutes ago, Wee Sandy said:
My understanding for calling us The Wee Team titlle was that, at the time, we were getting lower attendances than Fife Flyers......nothing to do in comparing RRFC with DAFC!!....but comparing San Starko attendances with Fife Ice Arena!!
Aye? I've always just taken it as Raith being smaller than Dunfermline tbh.
12 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:First time I ever heard "the wee team" as an insult, or the "you're just a wee team" song was well into the 2000s (I'm pretty sure it was Jason Barber who used the phrase "the wee team along the A92" at an open night around those times) - certainly don't remember anything like that when I stood in the cage in the 90s - so I'm surprised to hear people say it's been "we fucking hate you" since the early 90s. It's always been "we don't even hate you" as far as I've heard it, from the mid 2000s up til about 4 or 5 years ago when the young guys started a singing section in the North Stand when a few started the other version. Maybe I'm wrong and it started earlier than that, but "we don't even hate you" makes so much more sense.
Mind you, football fans are idiots. When I lived in Southampton they used to sing "Que Sera, Sera (wash your mouth out son)" and the final line I'd always heard ("Pars are number one") which rhymed with son and gun in the previous lines was supplanted by "and support the Saints" which doesn't rhyme with any other line in the song. Really annoyed me, that did!
Aye first time I'd heard of it was 2009 when we were sharing the league for the first time in a decade.
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48 minutes ago, Double Jack D said:
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The fact we are looking at a 2nd home sell out this season and the increase in attendances across the whole of the season would suggest that the board have pretty much got the pricing right.
I reckon challenging for the title has more to do with that tbh.
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1 hour ago, Enigma said:
Well, they’ll certainly be coming after us next season given they’ve got a guy who’s been abusing his position at another club to have digs at the Rovers in charge of their socials.
Reckon Enigma is odds on to lose the rag next year under the auspices of "Likes to give it out, doesn't quite like taking it".
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Aye, I fully get why the players in involved in them would feel annoyed (I thought it was McPake in the GoKart, and Wighton and Benedictus might well feel slighted), but social media is all about that content. I've posted before but I feel some of it is more suited to tiktok where teams taking the piss out of each other seems a bit more common, but we're splitting hairs.
We tend to use the medium of a giant bear to rip the pish.
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41 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
I absolutely love how posting a story of how our social media has got to the Dunfermline players, and there claims that DAFC are more respectful has the 'fermline fans wetting themselves to justify Sammy and his Tank again.
It was literally just an example of how you are no more respectful than our socials have been. Calm down people!
You're wrong, again. Which is what the crux of this is.
People aren't wetting themselves, but on here if you make bullshit claims you will get pulled up on them, thems the breaks.
I only wish you'd been on PnB after that game, at least then you might have been funny.
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1 minute ago, chris1883 said:
Hit a nerve there... didn't I!
My point was not around anything other than the fact one of your team stated you would be more respectful, when there is evidence you have not been in the past.
(P.S. It was also your local MP that took offence... who worked greatly with DAFC.)
Nope, you didn't.
And nope, he was condemned by the MP but it was a Raith Rovers fan crying in the paper, saying that Sammy the Tammy elicited memory's of a tour in Afghanistan, all absolutely hilarious material in the days following that game.
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9 hours ago, SerieA said:
£24 for my son and I on Saturday. £28 for us at Partick on Tuesday night. What’s steep?
I know not everyone has kids but cannot believe folk moan about ticket prices at Starks Park.
Adult and 2 kids would still be £24 which is great value.
Because not everyone has kids so why on earth would that soften the blow for those that done either have them, or take them?
1 minute ago, chris1883 said:Looking at the ticket prices - they are too expensive in my opinion... but they reflect the going rate and the price structure seems to be working given the attendance levels.
If you look at the pricing across the leagues. Annan (second bottom of the bottom tier) are charging £16 per adult . We charge £24 per adult at 'premium' games or £22 at other matches. So we are £6 more expensive than a team at the bottom end of the professional league pyramid.
In terms of the direct comparison with DAFC - we aren't technically more expensive. The pricing structure is just different. We don't charge for kids - you do. I know that not everyone brings children to games, but if you did Starks would be cheaper no matter the game.
I would love the entry price to be £10 per adult, but that wouldn't pay the bills.
Depends, if you were a home fan at EEP you could buy your kid a season ticket which works out at a pound a game.
There's no technicallys about it, for a decent amount of the crowd you are more expensive, and by a decent amount.
The mental gymnastics taking place here to keep bringing up kids is just absolutely daft.
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13 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/4916355/alex-jakubiak-dunfermline-fc-raith-rovers-childish/ (behind a paywall, so open in Incognito Mode)
Two things to take from this...
1. Our social media seems to have infiltrated the Dunfermline dressing room. I'd say that is a win for the social media team.
2. Jakubiak: 'I'm sure we'd be more respectful'. Erm... no you wouldny. DAFC are the team whose very own Sammy The Tammy was investigated by the police! (https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13511435.fife-police-to-take-no-action-against-sammy-the-tammy/)
No matter the league at the end of the season, I'm in little doubt who has won the socials!
Sammy the Tammy was "investigated" by the police because some Raith fans took great offence to a man dressed in a bear outfit pretending to fire at them in a cardboard tank, hth.
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3 minutes ago, Halbeath Raith Rover said:
Shaun Dennis had it back then, its since been a drug den and then a Mexican restaurant.
Well, I wasn't expecting that!
Was just looking at places pre Match, did there used to be a pub between Links Street and Pratt Street?
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On 05/03/2024 at 01:42, RR #1 said:
Abbotshall is a good shout. Been for breakfast and lunch since it opened back up and was impressed with food and value for money. There was plenty of tvs round the bar which I assume will be for showing football.
Cheers for this shout, I remember going to it for Fife Derby's in the 2010s but the last I'd heard it was a salsa place?
If it shows Sports it sounds ideal, cheers.
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1 hour ago, stevoraith said:
Don’t get the upset about the prices either.
Because £24 is an absolutely shocking price for a Scottish championship game, hth.
The justification that because the Dundee Utd and Fife Derby attendances have been good, which means the pricing is fair is also absolutely garbage. Raith are having a once in a ten/fifteen year season, the last time they challenged (and so did Dunfermline tbf) for promotion to the top tier was 13 years ago, the last time before that was in the 90s I presume. For the games against Dundee United where they are legitimately going for the title and the next game of a similar ilk might be 15 years away of course your £24 feels like it's worth it. For the Fife Derby title decider in 2011 I would've paid triple to be there, that wouldn't have made the price fair and reasonable. Raith are getting these good attendances because they're having a great season, on the flip side when you had poor attendances last year it wasn't due to the admission fees, it's because it was a very average season.
People won't just not buy a pie, they'll just not turn up.
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Walking Down The Halbeath Road
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Correct.
Well at least that's what I beleive, and it's what I was getting at in the original post.