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CallumPar

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  1. Not going to lie, I’m really concerned about our chances of staying in this league. I have serious doubts about McPake’s managerial abilities, based on what we’ve seen this season. Talk about injuries all you want, injuries weren’t the issue yesterday and that’s our worst league defeat to Rovers this season. In recent weeks, we changed the shape to a 4-2-3-1. This is the system we played in our recent wins and the system that brought the best out of a lot of our players. We have guys like Todd, Moffat, Summers, McCann, O’Halloran and KRH. All of them are best with the ball at their feet, running at defenders. The 4-2-3-1 gives them the chance to do that and we definitely got much more out of Todd in that shape than we did yesterday. Likewise, we’ve seen McCann play much better in that wide role than he does through the middle. We were poor against Airdrie and the manager immediately returns to trying to force the team into his back 3 that just doesn’t work with the personnel available. It’s not worked for over 3 months, I don’t know why he’s returned to it after another system was poor in one game. Funnily enough, we had the same issues, regarding having no attacking threat and just no obvious plan to create chances, that we’ve seen every time we’ve used that system since December. At 1-0, we were restricting Rovers well and had a lot of the ball. Otoo and Hamilton were doing a great job, Summers and Todd had been poor. He brought Otoo off and seemed to be shaking his head at the fans who were booing his decision. But, the fans were proven correct here and the team completely fell apart after he changed the part of the team that was actually working. Even when it went 2-0, a decent manager would have changed something, but McPake just seems so out of his depth and just wants this system to work. It’s been over 3 months since we last got a win with this system. McPake, it seems, would rather just wait and see if it’ll come good than actually make the required changes to try and get a result.
  2. Well done Rovers. Deserved that win. Murray’s a much better manager, McPake completely chucked it, when we were on top at that point and pushing for an equaliser. Genuinely thought Otoo and Hamilton in midfield were excellent. Otoo was man of the match, but McPake sacrificed him and, with that sub, any chance of us getting a result.
  3. That’s the kind of attack Otoo’s been breaking down all game. McPake’s an idiot.
  4. McPake’s taken off our best player ffs. Todd and Summers done nothing, Otoo and Hamilton dominated the midfield. So he brings off Otoo?
  5. That was never a free kick. F**k this referee. Mehmet has to do better though.
  6. That’s a given, when your team’s tactics are to kick us off the park.
  7. This post honestly seems to be proving that these comments have had a greater impact on you, than the social media has had on the players/manager. Then again, I’m not surprised, yesterday morning you were on here crying about a man in a bear costume, sitting in a cardboard box 13 years ago… You've quoted someone saying “it is a bit of banter” to back up claims that they’re raging.
  8. I hadn’t seen the article, so assumed it was worse than this. So he was asked a question about it, said he thought it was great for their club but they should be careful because these things can come back to bite them. Quite a few Rovers fans on this thread have said exactly the same thing. Are they considered to be raging/rattled as well?
  9. I’d also add, it’s not just social media. It’s the website too. Articles seem to be written poorly and links don’t take you where they should. For example, where would you expect this “buy ticket” link to take you?
  10. It’s been downhill since he left, unfortunately. Don’t know the circumstances of his departure, but I feel like he’s never really been replaced. Mikey was responsible for the stunning 2017-18 kits as well, I think? Feel like there’s been a revolving door of media team arrivals/departures since. Didn’t we just bring in the guy that was at Kelty last season? Now we’re apparently bringing in someone else from Stenny. I hope that they find someone who improves our social media output/fan engagement. Admittedly, I think part of the issue is the interviews we post on social media are done by ParsTV and I don’t think the interviewer actually listens/responds to the player/manager being interviewed, just has a list of questions and rattles through them. I’ve stopped listening to them, to be fair, so this may have improved - but I’d be surprised. Rovers’ social media this season has been exactly what ours should be imo. Really gets fans engaged and gets interaction/attention from teams across the league/country.
  11. What goes around comes around. Remember McPake this time last year, after the Falkirk game? Post-match interview he made a comment about how we had more corners, so that counts as two wins. That’s what rivalries in football should be. It’s a bit of harmless banter.
  12. For what it’s worth, I’ve got no issue with Raith’s social media posts. I’ve said that before, it’s just a bit of fun. I wasn’t even aware of that tweet before the Morton game, until I read the courier article that was referenced above. You can see why players who have been drawn into these images might feel like they want to get back at them, but I don’t think anyone’s losing sleep over it.
  13. Just imagine waking up on a Friday morning and your first thought being “I need to go online to post about that man in a bear costume, that sat in a cardboard box 13 years ago”… 3 posts about this in in about 20 minutes and he claims it’s other people ‘wetting themselves’
  14. Think we’ve found the guy that wrote to the paper about a man in a bear costume, sitting in a cardboard tank.
  15. 100% agree with you on this. Despite their height, Holmes and McCann aren’t actually that good at winning headers - at least not in open play. McCann somehow attacks set pieces well, but can’t judge a header in open play. I would have expected more from the 3 in behind Jakubiak/Holmes last night. Logic would suggest the second ball would be in the gap between Jakubiak and the midfield, regardless of who won the header - more often than not anyway. But none of them were attacking these areas or anticipating a knock-down. Todd was early on, then we moved him back and nobody was clever enough. Quite often, we had nobody else within 20 yards of the man the long ball was aimed at. A lot of our good play early on came from getting to these loose balls, but we just stopped doing that and I’m really not sure why the mentality just seemed to switch. The KRH sub frustrated me. Why bring him on, to play on that side of the park? He’s clearly not going to be great there. He moved more centrally when MOH came on, but didn’t look comfortable in that 10 role, he needs space out wide to get running at players. Putting him on the left and aiming balls in behind their RB/getting him the ball deep so he could run at the RB would have made more sense.
  16. Nah, the pitch isn’t a factor in results imo. As I say, it’s the exact same for both teams and everyone else is managing to score goals and win games on it. Using the pitch as an excuse would be like Arbroath fans saying they lost a game at Gayfield because it was windy. Injuries haven’t helped, I think we can all agree on that. But neither has the manager’s game plan. We know the condition of the pitch, why haven’t we got a game plan to suit the conditions? Everyone else seems capable of adapting.
  17. I think it’s a very different situation with us and Raith, to be fair. There hasn’t been an incident of our players racially abusing Todorov, then the fans abusing him for reporting it and getting the player banned… As above, last night is a bit of a non-story. He was walking off the park slowly (as he’s entitled to do), fans were frustrated and booed, he shushed them. People making a mountain out of a molehill with this one. There’s still a mutual respect there.
  18. Come on, that’s not an excuse for results. The pitch is the same for both teams. Both teams struggle to play football on our pitch, but somehow everyone else can adapt better than the team playing on it every other week (or almost every week, currently).
  19. Nah, if it was injuries alone, then I’d expect the record would be similar home and away. Even if we lose on Saturday, we’ll still have only lost half as many games away from home. We’ve just been really uninspiring at home this year and it’s been a really tough watch. We had our February meltdown and that impacted the home record quite badly, with back-to-back 5-0 and 3-0 defeats. As it stands though, only Arbroath and Inverness (who come here on the second last day) haven’t won at East End this season. But we’ve only lost away to Partick, Raith and Queens Park. We’ve failed to score in 5/14 home games and conceded in 12/14. It kind of goes without saying, you’re always going to lose more than you win, with a record like that. Our last 7 home games, we’ve won 1, drawn 1 and lost 5. Scored 5, conceded 15. In comparison, our last 7 away games we’ve won 2, drawn 4 and lost 1. Scored 10, conceded 7. Looking at those records, which are both since start of December, you can’t say the home form is down to injuries.
  20. Agree that we were considerably poorer. Summers just offers nothing at all most weeks. As I’ve said already, I’m not sure why people seem to think Mehmet’s at fault for that goal. Looped to the back post, well over his head and there’s no chance he’s getting to that. Regarding the ref, he was awful. But he was fairly consistent. He wasn’t really giving any fouls. Airdrie caught onto that and played a lot more physically than most refs would let them. That’s good game management from Airdrie. He also made it clear he wasn’t interested in stopping anyone from time wasting and would only deal with the outrageous examples. So Airdrie made the most of that - as I’d expect us to if the scoreline was the other way around. He was clearly very inexperienced and didn’t want to make any decisions. That was clear with the Frizzell incident. Then he made it crystal clear late on, when Frizzell threw a ball on the park to stop us being able to take a quick throw. Ref was about to blow, he put his hand in his pocket, then realised it was someone on a yellow, so he let play go on with 2 balls on the park. That’s a prime example of how out of his depth the referee was, but I don’t think his inept display impacted the result. We benefitted from his poor decisions at times too.
  21. Nobody else in the league has as many home games as us this season. Today was our 8th home defeat in 14 games. Only Inverness have scored fewer goals at home and only Arbroath and Ayr have conceded more goals at home. It’s been a grim season at East End. In comparison, we’ve only lost 3 away games, only Dundee United have fewer away defeats than us. We’ve scored the same number of goals, but conceded 8 less away from home. Played one less away game. Before tonight, Airdrie had the worst away record in the league. Following tonight’s win, they’ve moved ahead of Arbroath in the away league table.
  22. Can’t deny Airdrie thoroughly deserved that. They were better than us at all aspects of the game - most importantly, they scored goals and we just never really looked like scoring after Todd missed a couple of early chances. We were horrendous, particularly second half. Just repeatedly lumping aimless high balls forward. Even if Jakubiak/Holmes were to win one, there wasn’t a teammate within 20 yards of them half the time. It’s the same as we’ve seen lately, if we go behind, we just completely crumble and any game plan or attempt to play football is just out the window completely.
  23. Some strike. From a Pars perspective, we had so many chances to clear it. But let’s not take anything away from that strike, great goal.
  24. Nah, can’t blame him, was a cracking cross that just dipped enough for Todorov at the back post, who was always wing the aerial battle with Edwards. Can’t blame Mehmet. Was just really well played by Airdrie imo.
  25. You don’t know how putting your studs into someone’s knee endangers them? You can’t be serious?!
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