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Specky Ginger

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  1. The premier league was expanding to twelve. The winners of the first division (St Mirren) went up automatically, with second, third and the bottom premier team involved in some sort of convoluted playoff for the remaining two places However, because Falkirk finished third without a compliant stadium, Dunfermline were promoted automatically and Aberdeen were spared relegation. If Rovers had finished third, the playoffs would have happened.
  2. Just back from the game. It was a strange one - the first half was a half of two halves with Rovers dominant for 20 minutes then Queen's thereafter. Despite there being few shots, it was actually quite an enjoyable game with no hoofball and very few fouls. Obviously we went a bit more direct once Hamilton came on and the game stretched a bit. Great save from Ferrie at the end to deny Stanton. Overall, if it had been a boxing match, Rovers would have just edged it on points, but we took too long to show any sort of penetration. Defensively, a great shift to keep Thomas and Paton so quiet. I've a feeling this might turn out to be a better point than it, at first, seems and if we do fall just short of United, I certainly don't think this will be a game we would say the title was lost.
  3. Agree with this. Queen's have genuine potential match winners in Thomas and Paton. I'm not sure there are many other sides out with the top three you can say that about.
  4. I honestly didn't think it looked like there was 2000 in the away end on Saturday, but if you take the 4300 Rovers fans away from the total crowd (circa 6300), there must have been. As far as East Fife wanting Championship football in three years - about ten years ago a Leven businessman claimed he'd make them a top 16 club in the country. In the interim period, they've been relegated twice to the bottom division.
  5. Rode our luck right at the end, but I'd have been raging if that decision to penalise Hamilton, when Stanton was sent through, had cost us. Never a foul - the defender was weak. However, at least Thistle try to play football so hope they're back to winning ways this Saturday.
  6. Was there not a game where Farm got injured and instead of going off, played up front and scored? It might not have been that game, but I can vaguely remember doing a piece on him for the Rovers programme a couple of seasons back and I'm sure that happened to him in a game.
  7. If we'd held on against Arbroath then a draw tonight would have been a decent result. However, we really have to win to keep any realistic title hopes alive.
  8. I always knew it as the Tropicana, my dad knew it as Sexton's and my gran knew it as the West End bar.
  9. Stark's Bark started around 1992 then went into a hiatus from 1994-95 before reappearing at the start of the European season. It lasted until around 2002. Some of the Glasgow mafia apparently took exception to some of the home truths in it, but that's not the reason it stopped.
  10. I think it's just a case of the BBC using up their quota of games. The date wasn't moved for the telly - it was originally meant to be on the first weekend in February, but we had our diddy cup semi with Airdrie.
  11. The guy involved posts regularly on here and is one of the reasoned and insightful posters. I think his take on it was that if people are uncomfortable with the truth, that's their problem.
  12. We should maybe be enjoying the fact that the two games between the sides this season have produced eleven goals. Cue a 0-0 on Tuesday.
  13. It's not just numbers of police officers, it's strategy. I'm not blaming one set of fans any more or less than the other for the aggro on Links Street, but when most of the Pars boys are coming from the High Street, surely the police should be escorting them up Milton Road, which brings them closer to the away end anyway. The flashpoint is always outside the Estuary pub where Rovers fans are smoking and vaping outside, so surely diverting the Pars fans away from there reduces the chances of trouble.
  14. Hopefully McPake was just keeping Ooto fresh for Friday night.
  15. Given Partick have a potential six pointer with Morton next Saturday, it would be silly of them to risk any injury doubts against us. In fact it would be sensible to rest Brian Graham on Tuesday as well. Just saying.
  16. Aye, but do you have enough "Guid 'oanest laddies" in your squad who will "Dae great three quarters of the way up the park, but let themselves down in the final third"?
  17. I thought Grant was still in charge at the October 2021 game and I thought you never won a league game under him? There was a game in April just after we won the diddy cup, but our league form was abysmal - would that have been the game you're referring to?
  18. To be fair, Easton deserved a yellow for the challenge, but the antics from the right back on the ground were beyond embarrassing.
  19. 6th May 1995. We'd have won the league if we'd won that day, but it ended 0-0 and we'd to wait another week.
  20. The Beveridge Park hotel is next to the station, but haven't been in it for a few years. Other than that, there's nothing directly en-route. The Novar (likely to be rammed) and the Abbotshall are a few minutes off track. I believe most Pars fans congregate in O'Connell's, next to Sports Direct on the High Street.
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