Jilted John
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Mcglynn said in the FFP that he’s settled on a 4231 formation now. I suppose that’ll change depending on who’s available though.
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I think one factor in our leakiness was the midfield combination from last year which often played a high pressing game which was good from an attacking point of view but often left us exposed when teams got round it. I suspect we will play a wee bit more cautious this season.
I think so... coupled with the physical presence of some of the signings, might give an indication of how we are going to play.0 -
Not had a corner threat since Jock McStay, Marvin Andrews, Mark Campbell and Laurie Ellis, is what I meant to say.
Jock McStay? Did he not usually stay back when we had a corner?0 -
I was very impressed with Sim’s honesty. Perhaps a bit too honest when he said he was shocked that, with accountants on the board, we couldn’t get a budget right!
I can’t help but feel that some of the projects he mentioned regarding the stadium will become a pipe dream but at least he’s trying something and not just settling for the status quo.
It appears he’s not too keen on our new signings from England though.0 -
Rather flies in the face of those bitter, simple-minded Hearts fans rubbing their hands at what they hoped would be our demise.
Does that include the fans donations or was the accounting period before the fundraising0 -
I can't help but feel paranoid that Vaughan wasn't playing, even though a few other regulars also didn't start.
Wouldn’t read too much into Vaughan not starting. He will be behind the rest of the guys fitness wise having been sidelined for so long. The last thing you’d want to do would be to start him if he was anything than other than 100% fit.2 -
Well, since you mentioned it...unfortunately my tap into the Pixellot mainframe was discovered, so I didn't get any video. Nando's English is badly handicapped by an atrocious Fife accent he's somehow picked up on top of his Loireian burr, and with no penalties conceded, he doesnt see to have "touched" the ball.
As for formation, pure speculation:
JMac
Tumilty, Mendy, Bene, KMac
Matthews, Hendry, Armstrong
Tait
Duku, Smith
Unconfirmed reports suggest Osman Sow was playing for DUFC, and just possibly Declan Glass.
He’s not going to play a winger in central midfield. It’ll have been a 443 with:
Tait Hendry Matthews
Smith Duku Armstrong0 -
Surely they’ll only adapt to the Scottish game after playing a few games? I would imagine that training will be very similar to what they are already used to?
Bad day at work mate?0 -
Same with me, I’m a bus driver and we can’t enforce the wearing of masks. Just advise.
You wait months for folk to make a comment on people not wearing masks then two come along at once!1 -
The topic of the club shop / merchandise is an "interesting" read, with lots of opinions offered and assumptions made, without fully appreciating the situation the club (and the world in general) is in during the global pandemic.
To offer a bit of balance, I spoke to someone at the club earlier regarding my baby kit order that had been delayed and had a good discussion with them over merchandise....
They said they changed to Joma to be able to offer leisurewear at reasonable prices for fans and the full training wear range will be available and has been ordered for some time but there are severe delays with the delivery of these – just like the home and away kits, the socks and baby kits, which were all ordered in February and have still not been fully delivered.
It’s unfortunate but is not the fault of the club.
They were told by Joma the leisurewear would start arriving last month, but it still hasn’t.
No-one at the club expected to sell as many home shirts as they did, but - again, they have had another batch on order for some time and are expecting them before the start of the season. They are waiting to hear an exact date of arrival before putting them on for pre-orders again.
The clubs main supplier of non-branded merchandise opened back up only 3 weeks ago and the club are looking at new stock ahead of Christmas.
If a supporter / customer has any ideas on what they’d like to see offered, then why not give the club a call as I’m sure they would be more than happy to discuss it.
Sounding off on here about how terribly things are done by RRFC, without trying to appreciate or understand why things have happened the way they have, doesn't do anyone any favours - it took me a 5-10 minute phone call with one of the staff to get the above info explained in full [emoji38]
None of this is new though. The merchandise has been poor well before Covid.0 -
It will be available to you, Joma aren't going to turn down an order.
However it is upto Raith to actually order it in, and stock it.
I think that’s where the problem is. It’s not Joma or Puma that are to blame.2 -
I think the 800 or so season tickets, coupled with a healthy fundraising campaign will be enough to see us through an uncertain season. Especially when you add in shirt sales, lotto cash and whatever other commercial money the club can bring in. We haven’t spent fortunes on the squad, having just enough to stay up will be more than acceptable to the club and the fans.
SSP and RR both need each other to survive so will both work together. This is a lot easier with Sim now driving both.0 -
Porter Cabin [emoji626]
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If you're attempting to run a very tight ship in the middle of a global pandemic with no guarantee of crowds coming in all season then that's the market you're working in, yes. I wouldn't be handing out two year deals to anyone right now never mind someone who will slightly upgrade the right back position: that's a hostage to fortune that your club has created for itself.
I don’t see what the issue is with offering a right back a two year deal? We need a right back just now and will still need one, no matter what, a year from now. I can’t imagine he will be on a fortune either. Makes good sense to me.
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I,d be surprised if this was investor related,more likely a disagreement/fall out/Sim flexing his power.Anyone willing to invest in football has either too much money or need their head tested especially just now
Penmans been drip feeding our club for years
And also now heavily involved with the YM who are in the senior pyramid. I’m not sure you can have involvement with two clubs?0 -
Surely if Clark’s departure was ‘investor’ related, the club would have announced the investment first then the re shuffle second?
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The problem for Bill Clark is that John Sim holds all the cards. No one’s going to be able to vote him down etc.
That’s not to say Sim isn’t a positive at the club, he seems to have good ideas and the new property manager position is an interesting one. Whatever he says, goes though!0 -
Will be interesting to see how McGlynn will line us up this season. Without signing another winger implies either playing with a front 3 (Vaughan either LW or RW) along with Armstrong and either Duku or Ogwu being the main striker. Or playing narrower and having both Duku and Ogwu up front with Vaughan playing in the hole behind them, supported by Spencer, Hendry and Tait/Matthews in a diamond. Both of those would be with a back 4, but can easily become 352 with an extra CB. I’m hoping we continue to play possession based football, especially at home, but can mix it up as well.
Watching the Champions league final and Bayern have been excellent at pressing. Would love to see us press with conviction, again especially at home this season.
Yeah think you could be right there Wardy!
I can’t wait to see the boys back in training tomorrow. It’ll make football returning for us seem a bit more real!0 -
Grant washes out tomato ketchup bottles before he puts them in his green bin!
*edited to add, so does Yoss!0 -
Absolute bollocks, it's more to do with the fact that surprisingly, I don't see every single post on PnB. If that'd been said I would've called it out for the nonsense it was, whether on here or in the pub.
Are the other Rovers fans who have called it out also only doing it to jump on the moral high ground?
Yes they are.1 -
Truthfully never seen it. It's just nonsense though.
No, all you saw was a chance to gain some form of moral high ground. Would you have ‘called that out’ if it had been said in a pub? Doubt it.5 -
Except he has since said it was about his play style, not about how he looks.
The problem comes from the fact he is assuming his play style due to how he looks.
Or the fact folk have said that he’s big and strong but not technically great. Mountains out of molehills springs to mind. Can we move on before this threat gets any worse?1 -
Luckily we’ve got the best keeper in the league and a potent midfield. And Vaughan. [emoji1305]
I doubt very much if any side has four better central midfielders to choose from than we do too.0 -
Here is a link to some goals from 2019-2020 for Gozie.
I live for YouTube clips of signings. Inject this into my veins [emoji7]2
The New Raith Rovers Thread
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I’ll give you that one!