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Not sure it's ever too early to go up. The ability to hold on to key players is much enhanced with the financial benefits of promotion. Staying in the championship leaves you at risk of losing a few key players to clubs in Premier League or Leagues 1 and 2 in England and having to find replacements in a more challenging market. Queens are easily the best side I have seen this season, they should be going for the title all guns blazing.

Looking at who we have available and the team we are likely to put out, not sure playing your B team will definitely equal a forfeit.

On the one hand, I'm not hugely fussed about our progress in this tournament. The league is a far higher priority. On the other hand, a win sets up a semi final at Dens or East End which has the potential to be an absolute cracker.

Same. I'd much prefer Friday Night games all the time.

Id settle for a new stadium lol. Don't know what is more realistic

Ha, I'm not the only one

Is it wrong to be mildly excited by that...

Why even the "The" ? Just liquidate the company that operates the club and get a new one, the club stays as Raith Rovers. Airdrieonions and Rangers have done it previously so there is precedent. We may need to start again in (or be demoted to) League 2 but we can carry on with our name and full history intact. Definitely more palatable than trying to service/ pay off the debt.

Other clubs are smart, they owe money to folk that don't run them .

The first sign of smoke from a club about to implode is the "expanded top league" chat. The rest of the season may be more interesting off the pitch than on it...

The predicted maintenance costs of Starks park over the next 30 years may not be any cheaper.

Totally agree that any ground move is pie in the sky. Not even remotely on the radar of the club. However the longer we continue to throw good money after bad at Starks Park with it's very limited ability to generate revenue and it's growing maintenance costs the longer the investment in the football team will suffer. Other teams that built out of town stadiums not near public transport hubs or pubs solved this issue buy building car parks and pubs in the grounds. Then they charged for parking and sold pints in the pub at a profit.

There hasn't been a "class" atmosphere at Starks since the big stands were built.

There is ample space at the north end of the town next to the A92.

The stadium is owned by Sim so, yes, there is no guarantee he would use this as a way of fundraising for a new stadium. I don't think anyone knows his intentions there. The club are facing a significant financial stadium investment in the next 10 to 15 years whether they remain at Starks, build a new stadium or go homeless. In any of these scenarios it is not clear what will fund it.

I think the default decision will be to stay at Starks, due to lack of any work or vision from the club to cost assess relocation to another site. I can think of very few positives for Starks Park other than it is our traditional home. It doesn't have an atmosphere, even when full. There is pretty much no spectator facility at the side of the pitch, where most folk would want to view football. Corporate facilities are terrible. It's not a great place to watch football. Even walking to it on a match day with Pratt Street always open isn't an enjoyable experience these days. The forthcoming £500k bill for maintenance is just to keep it safe. The tip of the iceberg. This is only likely to increase and become more frequent as the big old stands age. At some point in the medium term, major structural work is going to be required which will not be too dissimilar to the costs of a more modest new facility, wherever that could be. My view is the costs of staying at Starks will far outweigh the costs of moving. The Nairns site may or may not be suitable, but Kirkcaldy has plenty spaces where a new ground could be built with facilities in addition to hosting 18 football games a year to generate income.

I've said for years that Starks was a huge financial noose around the clubs neck. It's a shite place to watch football and maintenance of the structures must be colossal (and only growing). The community set up seems to be doing well but Starks doesn't cater for it well at all. The sooner the club looks to move to a smaller, more fit for purpose stadium the better. It would be great if somewhere within the town could be found but there is plenty space on the outskirts which could be developed. I often drive past the Nairns site on Victoria Road and wonder if there was enough space for a wee stadium opposite the car wash. Wherever it was built, a decent site with facilities and car parking could be in use 7 days a week and would surely be worth an investment on it's own.

All I want for Christmas is to shoot the right way...

Big game this for getting the wagon back on track a bit. A win or draw keep a nice cushion from the trouble below but a defeat would make promotion play-offs appear a bit more of a dream and make the next month or so a bit of a scrap at the bottom. Whilst there is plenty talent in the squad, I'm not convinced we have the mentality for a relegation scrap.

I'm with this. Queens Park away is a tough game and going on recent form we will start very much as the underdogs. However, if we manage to get through then a semi final at Dens or East End has the potential to be a tremendous away day.

Define harassed? I harass my local MP, MSP etc all the time when there is an issue I need resolved. It's kinda their job.

The ambition the union has for Scotland = the ambition that unionists have for Scotland.

We need a nuclear option though. If we say no now, then we're never gonna say yes. Best be getting on with it so we can start trying to resolve the multitude of other problems the country faces right now.

Its the hope that kills ye

At the risk of being soundly shot down, and accepting that the man is quite a detestable creature. The point that Wings is making on Nicola Resigning and forcing a Scottish Election in order to force the plebiscite indy ref appears to be a very strong one. Wings Over Scotland | How you do it