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I'd rather have Rudden than Gullan. Hammer came across as a lovely guy but he didn't offer enough goals, drifted out wide too often and was injury prone. Rudden hasn't been prolific but I think he's offered us more in games.
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1 hour ago, renton said:
Scored one and set up one against Ayr, scored the opener against Dundee United back in February. Set up one against ICT in the loss at home.
Scored the opener against Arbroath away too.
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I'm sure nobody will want to mention it, but I'm sure clubs at this level would far rather keep the current set up rather than opening up the second tier.
I'd be disappointed if we voted to open up the second tier and reduce games to two times a season so we can get the extra benefit of a trip to Montrose or Queen of the South.
Each league will have some degree of self preservation.
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1 minute ago, Raithie said:
Absolutely. In the past couple of seasons there's been Arbroath and QP going for the league and they've quickly tumbled down the table thereafter. Notable mentions to Ayr and ICT as well who have found themselves down the lower part of the league having spent time challenging for the playoffs in seasons gone by. Only Partick seem to be a team consistently up there in the top 4. Hopefully the additional revenue from finishing 2nd and the experience of being in a title fight can give the club a boost to crack on and see what we can do. Obviously nothing is decided yet on what league we'll be in but should we end up playing Championship football next season it's going to be another b*****d of a league to get out of - Dunfermline, Falkirk, potentially Partick, Airdrie and who knows maybe a surprise package from another team could make for yet another hugely competitive campaign.
We've got a very strong core of a team in place: I don't think any club would really be willing to part money to take away any of our players under contract.
I think there are a few things which can be equally true right now should we stay down:
-We shouldn't be expecting any downgrading in terms of our squad, and should know where we're looking to improve in certain areas. This isn't a squad where you feel that there are one or two standout players. Nor should we be worried that we're going to lose half our squad due to contracts expiring.
-The league itself will likely be more of an even playing field next season. Livingston should be weaker than United, but with United we took 7 points from 4 matches. Falkirk will be an improvement on Arbroath, but we've only taken 4 points off Arbroath from 3 matches. Queens Park,if they stay up, will likely be looking at more experienced players. Dunfermline won't have their injury woes. It's unclear how Airdrie/Partick will look.
-We're highly unlikely to see so many games decided by a single goal. Its also unlikely we'll see as many 90th minute winners. But you'd also expect with that we'll have more wins which are comfortable.
I suspect that next season, the winner will come away with the league with a relatively low points total.
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1 minute ago, pub car king said:
I am very cautious about injuries in the next 2 games, in particular against Morton who have the worst disciplinary record in the league.
Are the boys in the lowland league back yet and are they eligible to play again?
They won't be eligible to play, as I think their registrations will still he held with their clubs. No idea if Arnott is getting a game at East Kilbride but they're in the playoffs anyway.
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Congratulations lads. Managed to go up an extra gear over the last few weeks and get the job done.
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6 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:
Bottled the chances was maybe a more apt term. How many times did United drop points and you did the same?
That 4-4 v us was probably the start of the decline of the title challenge. We were fcking grim back then (not that we've improved much) but you did beat us at Somerset after that so we can't be blamed
I think it was between that and drawing 2-2 against Arbroath. Stanton was out injured, and Dabrowski was playing injured until mid January.
It's worth mentioning that over half the games this season we've played a centre midfielder at centre back. We've only lost one game against the top 3. It's all very much those last two games against Arbroath and overall against Airdrie which have cost us. Still wouldn't as such say we've bottled given there's every chance we finish with a higher point total than last season's winner.
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24 minutes ago, Claudia Gentile said:
Seriously, the amounts wouldn't be much different. Raith and others offered Aero Muirhead more money than he is on at Firhill. However for all the difference in money other aspects came into play.
I do believe that about Muirhead. Before the start of the season we only had Keith Watson signed as a centre back. We wouldn't have had anything in place for Euan Murray so I don't doubt we'll have tried to poach him.
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Just now, third lanark said:
He would as you know because he was only offered a 6 month deal- no travelling since he stays in Glasgow and an 18 month deal. We do not have the funds this year to outbid raith. Last season etc certainly but not this season we can’t match you in terms of wages
1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said:On O’Reilly, I was also under the impression that we just offered a longer deal than Raith. We may also have offered him more money, I don’t know, but I also believe that if Raith wanted to match our offer, they could have.
I know for certain he's on more money at Partick compared to ourselves. The longer term deal will have influenced things, but he got offered more money by Partick than the did by ourselves in January. I'm not going to claim we're a charity case or that our budget won't have improved compared to last season, but we're nowhere near a situation where players won't weigh up their options.
O'Reilly found himself in a position where he signed for us on a short term deal and his value grew due to circumstance. He was well within his rights to push up the money he was on. He was out the game for a wee period of time and that will have had an impact.
Ashcroft had offers from other clubs both at our level and from the top flight. He was going to sign for Dunfermline but changed his mind at the last moment.
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31 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
Rovers also have all that “conservatory money” to spend, whereas we don’t.
The only new addition we've had on that front since the summer has been John Potter. Everyone else was there before the new board took over.
Fwiw, if the "conservatory" money was that good, Daniel O'Reilly wouldn't have left us in January.
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2 minutes ago, Stephen Malkmus said:
We have the second best defensive record in this league and I don't think the Raith Rovers fans are giving us enough credit for that.
Going to hazard a guess you didn't play over half your season playing a centre midfielder as a centre back?
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15 minutes ago, AllanJM said:
I'd be surprised if they didn't have any questions submitted about Millen to be honest. I'm sure Niall just chose not to ask them. He was also clearly ready with the mute button on the second part like when he muted the guy while Ian Murray did his best to politely answer the question about subs (a fairly ridiculous one considering we've made subs ad HT in our last 2 games).
Absolutely. They'll have had questions about Millen but understandably not brought them. It wouldn't offer any benefit to have them, for us or Millen.
I did enjoy the Paxman-esque grilling of one person who asked "do you *really* think this squad is good enough to get promoted?" only for Potter to ask the question back to them after Murray had answered.
One thing to say in credit to Niall is that he did mention he'd missed off Carol's question about the fans rep on the board. I can't recall the specifics of the answer, but it was at least good to hear it acknowledged.
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There were a few moments from the Q&A watch stood out. I think it might have been beneficial to split it into a footballing Q&A and a commercial one - I was quite surprised so many of the questions involved the commercial aspects given that 3/4 of the panel played professionally but you'll always have different viewpoints.
While someone might be keen in getting pet supplies in the door, I'm far more interested if we might get a chance of Lee Ashcroft rocking back up to help our backline in the playoffs. I'd have been interested to hear a bit more about their experiences as ex players and how the modern game is changing, but I'm sure there'll be other chances in the future.
I think the main thing is that there's a degree of transparency from the club as AllanJM mentioned. A lot of the information was detailed in the AGM, but this offers them a bit of a chance to relay updates further.
As with anything, the club will have taken quite a lot of learns from it. They've marshalled it well and answered most of the larger points without getting into "Where Ross Millen go?".
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
What did he say for that one?
This one he didn't even talk you lot up, just said he was pleased the likes of Hibs and Dundee United would be in the top flight and teams like Livingston and St Johnstone will be relegated as it's "the natural order being restored".
It wasn't actually him in fairness. There were photos suggested to be from Dunfermline's training of our tweet selling tickets for our match against "7th place Dunfermline".
That was pretty petty. We saved the real one social media nonsense for after the game when we put up this classic...
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41 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Thanks to Ian Murray for his team talk to help us avoid relegation.
Hopefully it works as well as Dunfermline pinning up our tweets prior to a routine derby win.
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9 minutes ago, CountryBumpkin said:
I'm sure Alex Samuel has already been on the mystical blower to ask for divine intervention for another hat-trick. Only scored 1 goal since then too. I don't see this being anything other than a turgid, scrappy game, probably pissing down and windy too.
Didn't even fall to his knees celebrating it.
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Aye, I thought it was a very vocal reaction but a definite doubling down. I thought the booking was more down to mouthing off at the referee.
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3 hours ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
As someone who doesn’t know the issues with Millen but is a wee bit interested, what’s gone on here? I had just assumed he was injured.
Millen seemingly had an argument with Murray over tactics after the Challenge Cup loss to Airdrie. Bombed out the squad and quickly be replaced by James Brown. He's now training on his own until his contract expires in the summer.
You'd have to imagine Millen went pretty far over the line to be told to stay away from the rest of the squad.
You'll still get the occasional person in our support going"nobody ever explained it" but it's in the best for both parties to leave it. Both groups will feel they're in the right and will move on from it in the summer.
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4 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
Anyone in Kirkcaldy - how's the weather? It is storm-force winds down here in Northern England.
Overcast but absolutely fine. Certainly am improvement on last Saturday.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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Fully agree. Tiffoney in on loan as opposed to Turner. Try for Chalmers too.
One Motherwell fan on twitter.