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13 hours ago, an86 said:
He inherited an absolute shambles. Even we go down, we should stick with him.
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.
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16 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
I was only quoting this season as an example. Bottom line is if you finish second then that should be it.
If at the start of the season terms knew that only second spot secured a play off then that might reduce meaningless games.
The only beneficiaries are the second bottom team from the upper league.
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.
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1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:
Now we’ve effectively been promoted I can say this without being accused of having an agenda.
The playoff format is a farce. It should be one up and one down, then second bottom against second top.
As far as the Championship goes this season it’s even more of a farce given that Raith is so far ahead of their third place rivals.
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.
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7 hours ago, Well over Par said:
Let’s face it. Queens are pish and we have now taken one point from them in three games and have not scored against them at home.
Have you considered the possibility that Dunfermline are also pish?
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4 hours ago, QPEast said:
Is Davidson a fraud?
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.
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1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:
If you said this was the last game of the season between two clubs who had nothing to play for then I'd believe you.
For a club that has a massive amount to play for, we've look a hell of a lot like that for while now.
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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.
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I have minimal faith in our ability to capitalise on that, but cheers Raith. A good bunch of lads.
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11 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said:
Think you might be disappointed then. Don't think anyone really cares.
There are plenty of folk moaning about it on Twitter.
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48 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:
Just realised I never posted latest probabilities etc:
For title- DU 98.8% Raith 1.2%
For promotion playoffs the model won't predict a large enough GD overturn for either Dunfermline or Ayr to get in at this stage.
For avoiding 9th - as it stands
An ICT win tonight moves that QP number into the mid 90s, a defeat lowers it to around 70 and draw keeps it around the same.
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?
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55 minutes ago, RedLichtie86 said:
And also....... get tae f**k Dunc.
Agreed, I really think you should actually just not bother against us to get it up him.
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33 minutes ago, Wacky said:
QP will be like a cornered animal fighting for survival and will likely come at us with all guns blazing, if that happens we will find plenty space to get our quick players in behind them. If QP sit in and break forward when the opportunity comes we could find ourselves in a bit of trouble.
We haven't gone at anyone all guns blazing in about a month unfortunately.
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1 hour ago, Spooky Spider said:
So proud of them. Please tell me we're going to reward the women's team by letting them play at Lesser next season, especially as the men (if you can call them that) will be in the big house. My wee girl would love to go along. Are they going to parade the trophy at Hampden in the last game of the season? Should do obviously but just watch the club f**k this up too like everything else
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!).
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25 minutes ago, an86 said:
Lack of depth in the squad is there for everyone to see. Kids and guys who simply aren’t good enough for the Championship. There was nobody on that bench capable of changing a game or even creating a spark. Williamson came on and ran about a bit, but we need more than 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.
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58 minutes ago, Spider1975 said:
I'd have hoped that as Club Captain this wouldn't be the case as the things we are desperately needing at the moment; leadership, creativity and attacking threat, tend to come from him. All that said, the silence from the club as to what the injury is and how long he'll be out for has been deafening. With a year left on his contract it'll be interesting to see if he's still around in August
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.
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Just now, da_no_1 said:
Chances of him playing next week and ruining my day in hospitality?
Nobody knows, the club doesn't tell us these things.
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The last 3 performances have been utterly pathetic given what's at stake. Davidson's reluctance to change things up when we're struggling badly is even worse than the players' inability to get even the basics right.
Anybody who thinks we'd be favourites to win the relegation playoffs against good, confident League One teams may be in for a hell of a shock.
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No Dom Thomas in the squad again; think this could be a very long afternoon yet again, but I hope I'm proven wrong.
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24 minutes ago, Spider1975 said:
Maybe a little premature and with the caveat that we do stay up, but according to Transfermarkt (and given the knowledge they've not updated Ferrie's extension feel free to correct the following), barring Wilson, Thomas, Fox, Williamson, Paton, Tizzard, Turner and Joseph Smith, the entire first team squad is out of contract at the end of the season. Who are you releasing, who, if any, are you listening to offers for and what do we reckon is needed for next year?
Not sure Transfermarkt is the best source, it says Jack Thomson's contract is up this summer when his latest extension was until 2025 (as well as the other names which have already been mentioned!).
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13 minutes ago, Velvet Donkey said:
Are Bannon and McLeish not contracted as well? And is Fox not out of contract?
I'd make offers to Savoury and Welsh, and if possible Josh Scott.
Fox signed a 2 year deal last summer, Bannon and McLeish were extended until 2026 in the past couple of months.
I heard recently that Scott is actually already signed up for next season, despite the announcement when he joined being quite vague. Hopefully that's true.
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The impressive thing about Morton's disciplinary record is that they've not had a single player sent off all season for getting a second yellow card. That to me suggests it's very much calculated, and they know when to turn it on or off as required. It's definitely part of the game plan and it clearly works for them.
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23 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said:
Yes Welsh and Sheridan have pulled you out of the shit and now you sit at the top of the league, oh hold on, I got that very wrong another wee keek at the league shows you're one point ahead of us.
You're replying to an Airdrie fan.
To be clear though, we'd be several points behind you without Welsh and Sheridan's contributions since they joined.
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17 minutes ago, bridgeofweirdo said:
Ok we've had a couple of poor results but hold on there--- the previous few games and in partcular against Ayr I thought we looked as good as any other team I've seen in the Championship this season.
Always half full... Back on the rails this Saturday for sure..
Davidson has steadied the ship under incredibly difficult circumstances, and we'd absolutely have been relegated long before now had we stuck with the original plan, but I think to say we've been as good as any other side in the Championship is a bit of a stretch!
We couldn't create any chances against Morton at Hampden, capitalise on massive amounts of pressure away to to Airdrie, or hold a 2-0 lead against Thistle; the core of a really solid Championship squad is clearly there, but a lot of work still needs to be done if we stay if and have any plans of being more competitive next season.
Wish I shared your confidence ahead of the Inverness game though.
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8 hours ago, williebraveheart said:
Had we achieved promotion last season we would have a different bunch of players now. Look what Dundee had to do.
Dundee didn't have Beuker making those decisions, to be fair. I still think we'd have gone into the Premiership with a bunch of kids, albeit they would have maybe been of a slightly higher calibre.
Even if we were struggling badly (which we've done for the majority of this season anyway) it'd have been a good laugh.
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The Big Queen's Park FC Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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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.