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stevoraith

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  1. Turner looking like a very good signing. We looked very comfortable until the last 10mins there, very good pass and finish for the equaliser though. Plenty time to be a bit more clinical in the second half, far from panic stations yet.
  2. Difficult to see how we change things from that bench if things aren’t going our way.
  3. Airdrie, Arbroath, Morton and Raith have all beaten ICT in the league since Disorderly took over.
  4. You’ve put Jakubiak in a ‘worst’ team ahead of his black-and-white-striped teammate Craig Wighton? Bold.
  5. Very good counter to my January-blues pessimism post last night. As is so often the case, facts have dispelled the gut feelings. That's my puss shut. I'd still rather the old Firm were not in the Premiership though.
  6. Thanks for that. I feel my post has been misinterpreted a bit. For a start, I absolutely do not subscribe to the "we can't afford to go up" or "we don't want to go up" bollocks. What I really should have said was that this season has been bloody brilliant fun. And if we go up, I'd be surprised if next season is as much fun as this one, mostly for the points you've quoted me on. But yeah, I was perhaps being a tad pessimistic last night in assuming we’ll be scrapping with relegation and forgetting the fun of visiting grounds we’ve not been to in years. I’ve followed the Rovers throughout the 90’s so remember how much fun that was and the highs a club like ours can achieve.
  7. Getting promoted is a funny one for me…. Do I want us to win the Championship? Of course I do, that’s why we’re all here, to win games of football and end the season as the best team in the league. However….. Being in the Premiership means being beaten more often. It means success is not being relegated. It means lots of teams with not much to play for for the last couple of months of the season. It means 6 or 8 games a season where you play teams whose budget for a week is your budget for a year. It means having horrible sectarian nonsense in the town between two or four times a season. It means the temptation to spend outwith our means to keep up with bloody Motherwell and spending significant amounts on new infrastructure. Is it possible to win the Championship, collect the prize money and the gate receipts from a season in the Premiership but still play in a league where there aren’t any teams that are utterly despicable, anyone can beat anyone and you never know from season to season who’s going to win it? Because that’s what I’d like to do.
  8. Definitely disappointed to lose him, I would have kept him over Murray or Watson to be honest. However, got to look at the positives and it means our board obviously won’t be bullied by players/agents/fans into deals that they don’t think are in the best interests of the club. It would have been very easy to look at the fact he scored the winning goals against the Pars and that we’ve got a defensive crisis right now and chucked him whatever he wanted to get him to stay (and to be honest, that’s probably what I would have done!) but they’ve resisted that pressure. Hopefully it’s because they’ve got something better lined up.
  9. On the topic of Raiths budget, a very good point was made on the Rovers podcast a few weeks back. And that is that we have no ‘fat’ in our squad. With the possible exception of the two teenage defenders, every man in our squad is quality and can be brought on without a significant drop in quality to the player he replaces. It means that we don’t have a very big squad but because we have so many quality options off the bench it appears to others like we must have spent a fortune. Compare that to ourselves in previous years, or indeed clubs like Inverness who have players in the squad that are really just there to make up the numbers. I think we do have a budget which is probably in the top four of the division, but I think the key point is that we’re spending more wisely than, for example, Dunfermline.
  10. Just to bring us back to the Pars game for a second…. I’ve seen people mentioning Ross Millens “yaaaass” at full time but I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone mention Ian Murray’s celebration when he came over? Double fingers in the ears followed by a GIRUY salute- glorious!
  11. The only team in the league we haven’t yet beaten, and the only team to beat us this season. Says it all about how difficult this will be. I’m not sure if McCabe knows exactly how to counter us or if Murray doesn’t know how to overcome Airdrie but I will be bloody ecstatic if we sneak a 1-0 here.
  12. Agree with that. Sounds like he wants to stay but Murray is a bit more non-committal. Id be getting him signed up on an 18month deal.
  13. Also, I absolutely love some of the Pars fans claiming they don’t care about Rovers. Then 6k of them turn up when their team are playing shite, and they have tifos, and throw flares and fireworks on the pitch when they equalise. You do that for all other league games too eh? We’re two clubs of similar size from ten miles apart, to pretend playing each other has no extra significance is weirdo behaviour and demonstrably untrue.
  14. Unless I’m very much mistaken, same well-known Rovers fan that did the exact same thing when Dargo scored about 20years ago. Thought we were pretty poor today. On the face of it the decision to play Dabrowski seems daft but maybe Thomson isn’t fully fit yet either? In terms of how we played, the amount of space we gave them was quite concerning, standing off them far too much in the middle of the park. It led directly to the goal and we’re lucky they didn’t have enough quality to punish us for it. Otoo looked quite dangerous driving out of defence and we just let him come at us. Easton was uncharacteristically ineffective, made too many bad decisions- as did Vaughan now I think about it. Hamilton also seemed off it again. On the plus side, having Byrne back in there was an improvement, and Brown was more like himself further up the park. Mullins delivery was excellent, and O’Reilly popping up with the two goals is great for a centre-half. Kev also made a couple of fantastic saves despite being hobbled. I thought the Pars did ok considering their injury worries pre-game, and I really hope Fisher is ok. We’ve not been ourselves for the last three games, but if this is our blip (which is always going to happen) then I’ll take it. Also, I wore my old hat, so the Xmas hat is in the bin.
  15. I dunno, looking at the seat map we’re maybe 200-300 away from selling out the east stand which holds 3,000. Im sure a few more will be sold before kickoff. I don’t think that’s bad.
  16. Good to see the wee section with @TxRover on the inside matchday video
  17. Oh Christ, that’s something I hadn’t thought about- there’s a reasonable chance we end up playing each other 8 times this season! It would be just the thing too that we end the season 25-30 points ahead of you then get scudded in the play-offs!
  18. I feel sorry for you Tx, that’s the coldest I’ve been at Starks for a long time, we didn’t play well, the result wasn’t great and the atmosphere was a bit flat. Hope you still enjoyed the hospitality though, and maybe come next year for our first game in the premier
  19. Agreed. I gave a wee polite clap to acknowledge the absolute fucking worldie of a goal by a guy who shouldn’t even get to take his tracksuit off in the majority of games. If I thought it would be the start of a comeback rather than a freak consolation I wouldn’t have bothered.
  20. Thought that was a really good honest interview from Murray. We just need to see what changes for Tuesday now. A lot will need to change otherwise we won’t come away with anything. Despite losing two goals today I thought the problem was the midfield and the attack. Smith didn’t work up top beside Hamilton IMO and Vaughan playing behind the strikers is not as good as Vaughan playing as a second striker and he’s certainly not as good in that position as Stanton is. There didn’t seem to be much of a link between the middle and front today, the amount of long balls where Smith or Hamilton got caught off side was horrendous. It wasn’t a terrible display and but for an absolute worldie of a strike we would have won the game but it was just a bit ‘meh’ and you don’t win titles with ‘meh’ displays against teams at the bottom of the league who are down to the bare bones. I think for Tuesday Byrne has to come in for Smith. The rest of the personnel can stay the same but Hamilton up top with Vaughan just off him, with Byrne and Brown at the base of the midfield to let us get a hold of the ball in the centre of the park. I’ll also put the new hat I got for Christmas in the bin and go back to wearing the old one just in case that’s the issue.
  21. Yeah, a real shame for him that he’s been stuck at a team challenging at the top of the championship instead of getting a chance at a team challenging at the top of league 1.
  22. I’m in ESW as well, row U which is about two thirds of the way back. I’ll be pissed off if they do the standing all match thing again like at Tannadice. If they want to stand then fair enough but at least have the decency to go at the back where you’re not inconveniencing anyone.
  23. 100% agree with your second paragraph. First one I’m not so sure on though- I’ve not seen anything to suggest that Corr is anywhere near the level of O’Reilly.
  24. I’d keep O’Reilly but I’d agree that does read like we’re waiting to see if something better comes along before we commit. Seems a risky strategy but can’t really fault the recruitment at all since Potter came in so I’ll trust them.
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