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Robson hasn't been the same since around February last year, to be fair!

I will be amazed if we manage to hang on to all three of Paton, Thomas (although his post-season Tweet leads me to believe he's in no hurry to leave) and Thomson. That said, if Ruari does end up going elsewhere with two years left on his contract, I hope the club holds out for a significant fee with all sorts of add-ons. Proven scorers at his age are hard to come by.

It's a fact that only fans of teams who are massively underachieving actually care about though, as it allows them to still feel superior in some weird way when in fact if you're spending much time at all the lower leagues of Scottish football you are by definition a diddy club.

We were absolutely horrific to watch this season, so doubling our attendance isn't terrible. Just a shame we weren't actually at Hampden last season when the team was so much more entertaining and came close to winning the league.

Biggest thing for me ahead of Friday is that we played with such confidence, the game was probably even more one sided than 5-0 suggests. I know our record against Airdrie isn't great but at the end of the day we have so much to play for that I'd like to think we'd be capable of going for the jugular against just about anyone. If that version of Dom Thomas shows up then I'd be feeling pretty good about our chances of avoiding 9th!

Surely there's no chance you go into next season with him in charge? Getting rid of Campbell was absolutely the right thing to do, but McIntyre clearly hasn't a clue and there's zero evidence to suggest things will improve without someone else taking over.

To be fair, 10 of our 37 points came from Inverness and Dunfermline away!

We've won two of our last eleven games, and haven't scored in the most recent four of them while playing some fairly horrific football. There's absolutely no reason to assume we're definitely beating Arbroath never mind Airdrie right now.

Nobody thinks we have a divine right to be playing Championship football, but if 5 years into the club paying significant wages to players and off field personnel, investing in training facilities and coaches, and this season also footing the bill to rent a massive and no doubt expensive stadium which we used to own, we find ourselves back in League One then that would at the very least be a considerable failure if not a disaster.

I understand wanting a bit of stability (something we've not had in a while), but if we get relegated Davidson will have played a massive part in that. There would be a very strong case for getting rid and starting again with someone who's done well at that level before.

Some leagues actually don't bother with the playoffs at all if the next best non-automatically promoted side is a certain number of points above whoever's below them. I know that Serie B in Italy requires a 14 point gap for that to be the case, which obviously wouldn't quite be enough for Raith this season. Of course, it doesn't work at all in our league setup when there's a team from the Premiership involved too.

That's difficult to account for in advance though. Last season there was a single point between second and fifth. I think the playoffs add a lot of excitement and reduce meaningless games over the course of a season, so they're well worth having.

Have you considered the possibility that Dunfermline are also pish?

I don't think he's necessarily a fraud, but we've won 2 of our last 11 games and not scored in our previous 4 which is awful by anybody's standards. The squad is thin but there's more than enough quality there to be doing better than that. It's hard not to have concerns about pretty much every element of how he does his job, though; team set up/formation, substitutions, and a clear lack of motivation all things I'm fairly seriously worried about.

For a club that has a massive amount to play for, we've look a hell of a lot like that for while now.

Three games left all against sides with very little or nothing to play for. No excuses at this stage, it's in our hands, and despite recent performances the team is capable of doing what they need to. Not convinced they will, right enough.

I have minimal faith in our ability to capitalise on that, but cheers Raith. A good bunch of lads.

There are plenty of folk moaning about it on Twitter.

I agree that we're definitely favourites for 9th and fully expect that to happen, but I'm assuming these probabilities don't account for teams that have nothing to play for potentially taking their foot off the gas a bit and resting players?

Agreed, I really think you should actually just not bother against us to get it up him.

We haven't gone at anyone all guns blazing in about a month unfortunately.

Unlikely I'm afraid, they're not getting the trophy until 2 weeks after the men's final home league game of the season (and I'm not sure a relegation playoff would necessarily be the appropriate place for that!).

Fully agree that the squad needs a major overhaul however Davidson could still use these players better, and doesn't seem to have learned anything over the last 3 weeks. Thomson needs to play in midfield, Turner has to be further up the park if he's adamant about using him at all, and Robson is still our best option at LCB as he allows Scott to push further forward with a bit more confidence in what's behind him. The game plan of passing it out from the back until we approach the halfway line then punting it forward needs to stop as well, it's totally ineffective.

If it weren't a legitimate injury then I doubt they'd still interview him before games/make him the focal point of the matchdsy graphic on social media/including him in the training photos. I don't think there's any reason to doubt that he's genuinely hurt himself.

Nobody knows, the club doesn't tell us these things.