Jilted John
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see a U turn on this. That would explain the lack of the promised statement.
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I’m utterly baffled by this decision.
I don’t blame the gaffer, his job is to look after the football side and to put a good team on the park. From a football sense, it’s a good signing.
What I don’t understand is that the board thought it would be ok after the backlash a month ago. Did they think that there would be a bit of a moan and then it would all die down? If they did, I think they have made a huge error in judgment!
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1 minute ago, Senor Bairn said:
What a minter
To be fair though, he’s probably right!
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Whoever sanctioned this has balls bigger than the Carrs flour mill tanks!
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Out of interest, if this deal did happen, would you really stop supporting the club altogether because of it?
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1 hour ago, Scosha said:
What's his issue about the pitch? It was definitely a mess last season due to Hopkin training the team on it every day but this year it's getting back to good condition
We are so used to training/playing on an artificial pitch that we don’t like grass ones anymore. Especially not in winter. We are the football team equivalent of foreign players that wear gloves in the summer.
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Anyone looking for a ticket for tomorrow?
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59 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
Zanatta had been rubbish for weeks up to and including that game.
The fact his penalty squirmed under the keeper makes no difference to that.
It was mind boggling that McGlynn thought he was our best option to bring on when Berra got injured on Saturday.
Ethan Ross has been rubbish for weeks as well, apart from his strike at ICT. Are you going to turn on him too or is Zanatta just the east option? Just because a player has been struggling for form doesn’t always mean they don’t want to be here or that they have a bad attitude.
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22 minutes ago, WSDR 88 said:
I picked up on this as well, which isn’t surprising, as the 3 at the back for me doesn’t work when Dick is feart of getting forward.
For me, 4231 XI would be (in the current climate of injuries etc):
JMac
RT Lang Berra Mosunda
Williamson Stanton
Connelly Ross Zanatta
GullanI don’t think Liam Dick’s problem is with getting forward, I think it’s more that he can’t defend.
I’d go with…
Macdonald
Tumilty Lang Berra Dick
Matthews Stanton
Ross Gullan Zanatta
Varian
I don’t think Gullan is the type of player to play up top on his own, sitting as a 10 is prob his best position. Although I don’t rate Varian, in the absence of another striker, he’s probably the best we have for that role.
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I think the gaffer got it wrong yesterday with the formation. We had 3 or 5 at the back, no width, which meant there wasn’t really an attacking out ball. Especially when Arbroath were set up to be tight with everyone behind the ball.
That kind of set up is fine when we are away to ICT or Killie when we are probably going to be happy with a point but it’s nowhere near what’s required when we are at home in a game we need to win.
Get the wingers back, get the tempo raised and I think we will be fine.
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On 12/01/2022 at 11:16, Lichtie78 said:
Be great if both clubs followed Partick & Killie’s lead in asking for the restrictions to be loosened in time for Saturdays game
Wait… Partick Thistle have released a public statement on something they aren’t happy about?… definitely not like them…
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1 hour ago, Double Jack D said:
The non closure of Pratt Street before games is a very dangerous joke. The club are definitely aware as I used to mention to them every time I went and had to pre purchase a match ticket.
There are several near misses every single home game. We can only hope that a real incident never happens as it could be very nasty. I would love to see the Police Scotland Risk assessment for not intervening and closing the road like they do at full time.
Probably written by the same person who deems it safe to park two large land rovers on the ramp leading into the stand when Gordon Brown visits.
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14 hours ago, Frank conner said:
I wonder if someone will get Bill Clarks dogs ticket this time
I wonder if it’s called Rover?
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5 hours ago, Enigma said:
I’m pretty sure I saw him score in a reserve game against East Stirling which was played at Stirling Uni pitches. That Italian lad we signed from QPR was also in the team that night I’m sure.
Christian Nanetti
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11 minutes ago, Surely No said:
Apologies. Still would have expected something from the Rovers on our way forward though.
There already has been plenty from the club in terms of replacing their youth system. They took over the old Real Fife squads a season or so ago and brought them into the Raith Rovers Community umbrella. We now have teams ranging from young kids right up to teenagers. I hate to use the ‘pathway’ word but that’s exactly what it is.
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9 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Varian is just about as good as you’re going to get at unsettling defenders, being physical and a nuisance. He’s miles better than Ugwu was. It’s a shame he can’t seem to stick it in the net.
I don’t buy into this at all. If he was as good as you’re going to get at unsettling defenders then there would be some end product, either scoring himself or creating goals for his team mates. He’s doing neither.
He looks a decent prospect and it wouldn’t surprise me if in a few years he’s playing at a decent level. At this moment in time though he’s not the man to lead the line for us.
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18 minutes ago, Raith_Fox said:
Think I heard the commentary team say that the 500 does not include tickets for friends & family of the players, hospitality and scouts of other teams.
Basically the main stand then
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1 hour ago, Roath Raver said:
Re uploaded with the correct subs (the graphics get altered from the Hamilton game and must have missed that one). Genuinely didn’t have any more chances on the notes, they must have not stood out to me, although I will be honest and say sometimes the odd thing may get missed as they can be put together and checked fairly quickly so they go out for midnight (hopefully not too often). There was a cross from Stanton that just missed everyone about 50mins in. Maybe looked like at shot at the time. Can’t see a Tumilty shot on the rrfc updates either, there was a Zanatta chance where the goalie passed it to him but ended up with a tame shot.
Jeez… just goes to show what having a few drinks before the game does to my memory of the supposed chances I remembered!
On the Varian thing, we have had far worse strikers who’ve managed to score more goals than him. He does work his arse off but doesn’t quite have what it takes yet!
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Disappointed with the highlights from yesterday. The team sheet showed Keatings and Fotherinham playing. No sign of Stanton’s (I think) chance in the second half or Tumilty’s shot from the half way line.
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17 minutes ago, stevoraith said:
I’d be happy for Gullan to sign for us but I wouldn’t be disappointed if he didn’t.
On the other hand, I would be disappointed if he signed for another championship team.
That’s where I am with him- good player, he’s got enough about him to cause championship defences a problem, but he’s not a prolific goal scorer or a stand-out at this level.That’s pretty much where I am with him as well. I think if we had a prolific striker in the squad I’d be happy to sign him but he’s not what we need at the moment.
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21 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Thats kinda what I was alluding to, so its likely both Stanton and Williamson will be on from the start
I doubt they will both start. It’ll probably be Matthews and Stanton with Ross as the attacking midfielder. Assuming everyone is fit and available that is.
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I remember Andrew Cook. He was actually pretty decent if I remember rightly!
Who was the winger we signed who was deaf?
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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As with any contract, there will be a legal cooling off period. Not with the transfer fee but with the contract itself. It’ll leave him a free agent. For me, it’s the only way forward.