CallumPar
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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.
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That’s the kind of attack Otoo’s been breaking down all game. McPake’s an idiot.
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McPake’s taken off our best player ffs. Todd and Summers done nothing, Otoo and Hamilton dominated the midfield. So he brings off Otoo?
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That was never a free kick. F**k this referee. Mehmet has to do better though.
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2 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Gonna be red cards here before long
That’s a given, when your team’s tactics are to kick us off the park.
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21 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
Reporter: What do you think about the Rover's social media?"
The correct answer from ANY manager or player: "We don't pay any attention to that. We concentrate on the football match."Actual pars striker: "I read it and feel it's childish"
Actual pars manager: "I've seen it.... It is a bit of banter, but it wouldn’t be what we would do"Why are they just saying nothing at all? I'd say it has affected them.
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.
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12 hours ago, HoBNob said:
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.
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?
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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?
SpoilerIf you guessed the page to buy tickets for tomorrow, you’d be wrong. It takes you to the page to buy tickets for home games.
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5 minutes ago, Halbeath Raith Rover said:
Mike Mlotkiewicz was really good with the Pars social media stuff when he was at the club. You were definitely ahead of other clubs back then.
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.
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2 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
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.
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.
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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.
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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’
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45 minutes 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.)
Think we’ve found the guy that wrote to the paper about a man in a bear costume, sitting in a cardboard tank.
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55 minutes ago, 101 said:
I think we did try and appropriate tactics yesterday just didn't have the players to do it effectively. And don't have the players on the bench to do it.
I think on our pitch just now you have to go long and it was so easy for Airdrie to defend against yesterday. Things got worse when we dropped Matty Todd into the deep midfielder especially when Paul Allan was having a decent game.
Trying to get KRH to dribble with the ball through a bog was just never going to work.
McPake has to do better, last year I felt he changed tactics well to suit the matches but hasn't replicated that this year.
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.
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1 hour ago, 101 said:
I said it hadn't helped...
Which it hasn't.
The injuries and the pitch are factors but the significant factor is not scoring enough goals. We seem to have found a way now to keep things reasonably tight at the back but aren't carrying much of an attacking threat going forward.
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.
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36 minutes ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
Maybe he just doesn’t like Fifers. Winds up Raith fans all the time too.
Truth be told I’m here for it.
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.
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1 minute ago, 101 said:
Burst under soil heating turning the pitch on the stand side into a bog really hasn't helped post December. Generally in the second half it's virtually impossible to play good football on it.
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).
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4 minutes ago, CountryBumpkin said:
I for one have really enjoyed watching football there this season
In all seriousness, surprised at the Dunfermline home record, 8 defeats is crazy and of course not sustainable. Is it down to the injuries alone?
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.
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13 minutes ago, 101 said:
I think the management team got it badly wrong tonight, I wouldn't have dropped Moffat and the changes made us considerably worse.
Peach of a goal for the second and Mehmet you feel could come for the first?
Referee and his junior assistant were laughably awful, won their badges in a raffle I assume.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5 minutes ago, Heaton said:
Mehmet not at fault or just looked his usual rooted self from where I sit?
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.
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1 minute ago, Diamonds02 said:
Ah ok, always thought it had to be a combination of both as I don’t really see how the opponent can be in danger if there isn’t excessive force. But, if that is the rules then we’ve got away with it
You don’t know how putting your studs into someone’s knee endangers them? You can’t be serious?!
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Walking Down The Halbeath Road
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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.