Raith Against The Machine
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1 hour ago, Kirkcaldybanjo said:
Someone should have asked about naming rights for the stadium. A few bob to be made there.
It's not in the current "half season" commercial brochure, but I'm sure it was on offer in the initial brochure for this season, as a possible option.
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5 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
I disagree about the loan signings. Rudden and Turner have been a complete waste of money. Thank Christ they're both under contract at their current clubs.
Byrne has been better but has tailed off significantly to the point that I'm not sure he's worth pursuing either.
Shocker.
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Has there been any kind of update on how Josh Rae is getting on? Sounded like he'd taken a really nasty one but I haven't seen anything since.
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42 minutes ago, A_Rover_In_The_Burgh said:
Mate I'm shocked about McGill aswell. When he played earlier in the season, he didn't really put a foot wrong. He's also got a bit of height about him.
Winger wise we've been crying out for an Ethan Ross type player. There's absolutely no pace in the team, which has also hindered. We chop and change most games so get no continuity either. Our big problem is Murray has no clue on our best 11. Unfortunately our midfield are incapable of controlling a game when we play 4 but when we play 5 we are much better that generally means Lewy has to be sacrificed as he can't hold up a ball. Fans get pissed because he's our best player, but unfortunately dropping him may be for the greater good against some teams, he's also a great pair of fresh legs to come on.
The team needs overhauled, there's no denying it. How we are in the position we are in, is astounding considering we haven't played well since we beat Utd at Tannadice. I think it's just a really shitey bunch of teams this year and we have been the better of a bad bunch.
Legitimately a moronic opinion.
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No complaints with that starting line up. Certainly a much better balance than last week. You could make individual arguments (Vaughan over Stanton, Mullin over Connolly) but the actual roles everyone is playing look appropriate.
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After recovering from an injury, Byrne went straight into the starting eleven against Arbroath, a game we lost. He then didn't start the next three, two of which we won and all three of which we kept a clean sheet in.
Having now had a negative result, I expect he'll be back in contention for a starting place. I don't think we need the conspiracy theories.
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You'd have to think Euan Murray misses this one after his head knock at Tannadice, so Scott Brown will continue in defence.
Quite simply, Ross Matthews or Shaun Byrne must play. Nothing against Kyle Turner, but we can't just play a bunch of attacking midfielders again and expect to have any semblance of control.
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I was searched on the way in, having been greeted at the turnstile by a steward asking "voluntary search?".
Hard to see how anyone has foiled that system.
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It's a dive, but it's a dive Moult gets to make with a huge chance of success as soon as Watson puts his arms around his waist.
There's nowhere near enough force or contact to send Moult to the ground, but all the referee sees is Watson's arms around him inside the box. Can't blame the referee for giving it, and Watson has to be smarter.
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37 minutes ago, CALDERON said:
The main difference was the hunger and desire, United absolutely bullied us today.
Can't agree with your first point here, but wholeheartedly agree with your second.
I saw no lack of effort or endeavour, but we perpetually lost two key battles all afternoon, both of which were down to players being asked to play out of position.
Scott Brown at centre half and Kyle Turner were given an absolutely torrid time by the movement and physicality of Moult and Watt. They were getting change from Brown when they competed in the backline, and change from Turner when they dropped off.
Ian Murray has some mitigation in playing Brown in that he's done it in more than half of our games this season, but why he thought Turner was the best option in the base of the midfield completely baffles me. And it's particularly galling that the best way to solve both of those problems only involves making one change.
If Keith Watson starts that game alongside Euan Murray, and Scott Brown plays in midfield, that's a totally different game. We might still loss it, who knows, but the two key weaknesses that United exploited today disappear.
The overriding emotion for me after that is disappointment. It's football, and United are a good side, so a defeat was always a distinct possibility, but the Rovers were hamstrung from the outset by the line-up and never recovered.
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1 hour ago, Tannadeechee said:
If you want to talk about "cheating" Brown took about 5 yards minimum every throw (moved.forward 2.complete advertising hoardings on one), Connelly was too close by about 2 yards at every United corner towards the end.
Oh my God, have the Police been informed?
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Turner completely unsuited to the role we've asked him to play today. Madness asking him to sit and protect the defence when you've got Matthews and Byrne on the bench. He hasn't done anything actively wrong, but he just doesn't have the skillset for it.
Even if you gave me this starting XI I'd be swapping Turner and Stanton and getting Stants to do the dirtier work. He's been lost in the noise.
This United attack is lightyears ahead of today's United defence in terms of match fitness and ability at this level. If we're to get anything, we need to be asking questions of that defence, with the knowledge that we'll give up chances at the back.
By ceding the middle, we're still giving up chances, but not giving ourselves a platform to get forward.
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5 hours ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
Also heard that Raith have a big “unrealistic” bonus due to each player if they go up. Maybe that’s the reason Skybet were offering 4/1 on them to win tomorrow.
And how would that work, bright stuff? The players are throwing the game so they don't have to receive an "unrealistic" bonus?
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37 minutes ago, AllanJM said:
I'm so buzzing for this game I even resorted to listening to the Courier podcast for their preview. It was actually a lot more balanced than I expected. I'd only listened to it once before and turned off after about 10 minutes because both the the presenter and Jim Spence were doing my nut in.
This one was much better (I think it was a different presenter to be fair) and it's always good to get the perspective of the other side.
Alan Temple is a real necessity in that dynamic. His presence really lifts it out of being pretty unlistenable.
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
He knows hes absolutely fucked as a top flight manager, and is trying to create a narrative to excuse it, if they don't finish top, doesn't he?
Jim Goodwin shut the f**k up about Raith Rovers challenge [Impossible]
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Any thoughts on the game itself? United likely to be playing a teenage winger at left back again?
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"hairy ass footballers"
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3 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
Yep. There's a difference in fan expectations but for a lot of our squad this might be their only/last realistic shot at winning this league. They'll be feeling that.
If anything, I think the opposite might be true.
As Rovers fans, this is borderline unprecedented for many of us, depending on how well you remember the mid-90s.
But for a lot of this squad, these aren't uncharted waters. Watson, Mullin, Murray, Turner, Hamilton, Byrne, Ashcroft and Rudden (and anyone else I might've missed) have all either won promotion from this division or been in title challenges that went down to the wire.
That's not to say that the players won't feel pressure or the weight of expectation, but they're better equipped to deal with it than the majority of the fan base is.
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11 minutes ago, Molotov said:
What is the actual reason why the allocation has been reduced?
Its very simple:
See?
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Luigi Capuano not exactly what you'd call a "straight talker", is he?
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An absolute joke outfit. Perfectly suited to being a B Team for some daft seaside English upstarts.
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Just quite pathetic and sad, really.
If Dundee United were selling the Shed to their own fans and sticking us into a corner instead, I'd have no real issue with that. There's a limit to how far you should go with that, away supports are an integral part of the game, but if you can sell a seat to a home supporter, it makes complete sense that that's your priority and your prerogative as the home club.
To give the away support a full stand and only make part of it available, when there's comfortably enough supply for the rest, is just indicative of the small-minded attitudes that permeate right across the decision making class in Scottish football.
You're locking out people who make the game what it is. People who are willing to put their hands in their pockets and pay, quite frankly, way over the odds to be a part of something. And they'll enhance the occasion, make it a better spectacle, and if you want to get into marketing talk, improve the 'product'.
Possibly the biggest strength that Scottish football has is its match-going supporters.
Dundee United choosing to limit the away support in a stand that's already open is a sign of a football club whose leadership is small-minded, panicking and with no clear idea of it's place in Scottish football.
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