Jilted John
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2 minutes ago, foreverarover said:On 26/04/2022 at 11:38, Jilted John said:So you’d sack him after one bad run despite everything else he’s achieved? Even if you look at the players signed in January, they weren’t additions, they were replacements. Williamson and Stanton replaced Tait and Spencer. Gullan replaced Vaughan (then got injured himself) only Mackie was an addition to the squad.
Personally I’d give him a 2yr deal and if we are unable to get a top 4 spot next season then it’s time to part ways. He’s got enough credit in the bank to deserve another crack IMO.To be fair if he had actually played Poplatnik in the first half of the season he probably wouldn't have bothered to sign Gullan. For a pre contract with Poplatnik was the way to go if he had been given games. It may not have been possibly but for me he is far better.
I think if he’d played Poplatnik from the start of the season, Gullan wouldn’t have been the only striker we wouldn’t have signed…
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I might be reading too much into it but I know Berra didn’t go on the Xmas night out, he also chose not to lift the cup aloft when it was passed down the line to him. Has he purposefully been trying to separate himself from being one of the boys?
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According to one of our players at the gig on Saturday night, there’s a few of them think Berra will get it if Mcgylnn left.
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So you’d sack him after one bad run despite everything else he’s achieved? Even if you look at the players signed in January, they weren’t additions, they were replacements. Williamson and Stanton replaced Tait and Spencer. Gullan replaced Vaughan (then got injured himself) only Mackie was an addition to the squad.
Personally I’d give him a 2yr deal and if we are unable to get a top 4 spot next season then it’s time to part ways. He’s got enough credit in the bank to deserve another crack IMO.
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54 minutes ago, CALDERON said:
Flip side is, if you were offered where we are going to finish this season, knowing where we were at the half way mark and knowing we will have spent 6 figures on players from Oct onwards - would you have taken it? Or classed that as a successful season?
Mcglynn has been a massive success in this 2nd stint overall, but I don't think claiming that he has undelivered this season is unreasonable at all.
Yeah you’re right, but surely you’d have to judge a slightly bigger picture than the last 4 months of league games to decide whether he needed to go. Had the season been flipped on it’s head and we had a poor start followed by a great run towards the end, we probably wouldn’t be having this discussion.
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1 hour ago, Michael W said:
Not having it that McGlynn wasn't well backed. Liam Dick may not have been first choice, but Berra will have been an expensive capture and I doubt James Keatings came cheaply either. That the latter was hopeless is neither here nor there.
Pre-season is only one of the factors, though. We brought in players when the season was in progress, strengthening the squad in January. In came Stanton, Gullan and Williamson; two of those players are permanent signings.
And finally we paid money for two players this year. That one of them was a complete catastrophe for a player that won't kick a ball for us is again neither here nor there. We paid for him because McGlynn wanted to sign him.
McGlynn was backed and he did not deliver.
Although I completely agree that the manager was backed, I’m struggling to agree that he hasn’t delivered.
Since he arrived he has had us promoted, reached the playoffs, won a cup, got to another cup final that wasn’t played and established us as a championship team, losing out on the playoffs by 3 points at worst.
Missing out on the playoffs is a bitter pill to swallow but let’s be honest, we wouldn’t have won them. To say you want him gone as he’s failed to deliver in his time here is completely bonkers.
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4 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:
Is there any real pressure on McGlynn?
Its maybe all in my mind but there does seem a general malaise around the club since January 31st. However, I haven’t heard any shouts for McGlynn to go at any of the recent home defeats.
I think there’s a bit of apathy around the club at the moment. It was the poor run coupled with the off the field nonsense. Although people aren’t necessarily calling for his head, there are definitely a fair few that want a fresh start.
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I just hope that if he’s not going to be here next season, we find out before Friday so he’s given the send off he deserves!
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It’s the hope that kills you!
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7 hours ago, Scary Bear said:
You’d also have to be snappy seen as most folk didn’t see that Courier article until the family day was well underway.
Only a special kind of imbecile wouldn’t be annoyed by that Courier article. When a club owner says his first thought was to close the club down then tells the supporters to go and support another club if they’re not happy with his decisions, that should set alarm bells ringing.
You’re right… John Sim has done a lot of good stuff for the club since he got involved but his recent comments paint a picture of someone who, if he doesn’t get his own way, will spit the dummy and have a tantrum. Cutting his nose off to spite his face in the process.
I’m not overly shocked that he continues to try and justify the signing, my main concern is with what may happen next time he doesn’t get his own way.1 -
Ach well, it was getting a bit quiet in here I suppose…
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2 hours ago, OhnononoGeordieMunro said:
I don’t think we need a massive overhaul in the summer but I’d be happy to see the back of Musonda, Dick, Tumilty, Varian & Poplatnik.
If we can use that money to add some proper physicality and pace in the forward areas I think we can kick on again next year.I’d keep Poplatnik if it was possible. I think there’s a decent striker in there if given decent service. He reminds me a bit of John Baird.
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4 hours ago, Paco said:
If Stanton had a six month deal I don’t think we’d be clamouring for him to stay.
He definitely isn’t a bad player, and can come good. Landed into a terrible team and that isn’t his fault. But I’m not really sure what he’s been bringing, particularly over the last couple of months after a stronger start.I’m with you on that. Also slower than a week in the jail!
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Berra for me. An absolute rock at the back.
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We must be the only team to ever be singing the managers name on a Sunday then be hounding him out on the Wednesday!
To put a bit of perspective into this debate, if someone had offered you mid table championship football and a cup win just as covid struck two years ago, you’d have been commissioning that statue.
For what it’s worth I would give the current management team another crack, if we don’t make the top 4 next season then it’s time to part ways.
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2 hours ago, baillieinleeds said:
Alex Penman would’ve been my choice, yes he was a controversial figure, nobody messed with him either.
People like Alex Penman wouldn’t take it on these days. Penman wants to be top dog in a room, not answering to Sim.
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32 minutes ago, tazz1903 said:
You never mention referees when you win?
It’s been that long I don’t think any of us can remember what we mention when we win
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I just hope that if we aren’t going to renew Mcglynn’s contract, it’s made public knowledge soon so he can be given the sendoff he deserves against Kilmarnock.
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I assume Dick was still suffering from the effects of that head knock on Sunday. Not even Mcglynn is radge enough to go with that back four unless it was forced upon him.
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The Ayrshire derby is definitely bigger than the Fife derby. We can’t even agree which teams hate who ffs. East Fife hate Raith, we hate Dunfermline and Dunfermline hate Falkirk.
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40 minutes ago, Michael W said:
The cup win in 2014 undoubtedly saved Grant Murray's job. Although we finished 7th that season, we finished 2 points ahead 9th-placed Cowdenbeath. It was a season that saw us win a pathetic 3 league games in the second half of the season, which I really hope we avoid matching.
Was it that season that Malpas was brought in?
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22 minutes ago, Rob1885 said:1 hour ago, Jilted John said:Would expect the Pars to raise their game for this one. They normally do against us. We are their Everest, their cup final.
Does anyone know how many bedsheets they have sold ahead of this one?Not even our main rivals m9
You’re right, you boys prefer to rival teams closer to your level, like league 1 Falkirk. There’s no point in picking teams like us that play at a higher level to hate.
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Would expect the Pars to raise their game for this one. They normally do against us. We are their Everest, their cup final.
Does anyone know how many bedsheets they have sold ahead of this one?2 -
11 hours ago, Cardle is Magic said:
I understand the Rovers players will unwrap their medals pre-match and eat the chocolate inside.
Genuinely did laugh at that one!
Not sure how this one is going to go. At least we will have two centre backs available which is a bonus!
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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I knew he celebrated it with a chippy but I’d be very surprised if Valente’s was open that night!
