Jilted John
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The thing I remember about that game, if it's the one I'm thinking of, is Clyde's tannoy announcer. At half-time, with Raith leading 1-0, he makes an announcement to the home fans to let them know what the travel arrangements would be for the replay, should there be one. To predictable derision from the Raith support. Second half they turned us over - 3-1 in the end was it? And as we're filing out feeling pretty sheepish and miserable the tannoy comes on again to inform everyone that we could ignore the earlier announcement about travel as no replay was required.
I love stuff like that! Proper shitehousery at its finest.1 -
Definitely the right thing to do and I doubt many will take the refund but times are hard for some people right now and I’ll certainly pass no judgement on anyone who chooses to take the money as they may have lost their job and need it. Overall the amount raised has been fantastic.
Well said. I think the majority will be happy for the club to keep the money. I’d be disappointed if any of the fans, apart from those in need of the money themselves, claimed it back.0 -
Galloway was only a bit part player. I think he was only on a short term deal.
Had a quick google of him as I can’t remember him at all. Looks like he would have been a teenager back then. Came from Rangers and played 8 games for us. 1 start and 7 off the bench.0 -
Smith signed Buchanan and Spence, despite Vaughan being the better of the 3 he shoehorned him into a woefully deficient midfield rather than drop one of his signings. Classic mark of a manager that cant admit to a mistake.
I often wonder where we'd be if they'd given Jack Ross the job instead of Locke.
Was it not that season that Vaughan scored in every game in the first couple of months despite playing out wide?0 -
Initially when Nicholl came back I can remember some big crowds.
Just checked and here are some of the crowds from that season:
Forfar at home in the league cup - 2,945
Airdrie at home - 3,413
Hearts at home (league cup) - 7,146
St Mirren at home - 3,311 and 3,432
Partick at home - 3,417 and 3,675
Falkirk at home - 3,564 and 4,666
Stirling at home - 3,280
Ayr at home - 3,015
Even towards the end of the season when our promotion hopes had gone we were still getting gates of over 2,000.
It was the 98/99 season where crowds began to dip below 2,000 fairly regularly. That's about 1,000 home fans lost in space of 12 months once they realised we were back to just being a bog standard division 1 club again.
Wow... funny how memories change over the years.0 -
Too few.
I remember it as the season a lot of kids my age quietly put their Raith tops away and suddenly had always been old firm fans...
Yeah definitely. The following season in the First Division, even with Jimmy Nicholl returning, the crowds were never the same.
It’s crazy watching the old clips with the enclosure full. Even seeing the crowds that away teams brought back then is mad.0 -
If we do get cardboard cut outs, I’ll pay top dollar for one of that Fife’s Finest boy holding the chair up!
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Going with prices of plain football shirts from their website, I’ll guess that we’d make about £20 from an adults top.
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To be fair to the Pars fans, I don't mind their interjections into this thread. Decent football chat is a bit thin on the ground just now so I can't blame them for taking a peek here.
Also worth remembering that there were numerous donations from Pars fans to our just giving appeal.
Rather than get worked up about what happened 10 years ago or whatever, let's look forward to some good derby games next season. Hopefully matches we'll all be allowed to attend.
Same here, I much prefer getting a banter with the Pars fans than having to endure the East Fife ones. That was just embarrassing having to play against minnows like that.1 -
Can’t wait to see LV fucking rinse Murray and co next season
Let’s hope we play them in the first three games of the season then!0 -
I see it was John McGlynn who chose the design. No denying he has style.
Well done to the youngster who designed it, but I think the strip designers have taken a bit of artistic licence with his design. I even prefer the young lads colour scheme.
Has anyone seen that episode of The Simpson’s where Homer designs a car?
You’ve got your wires crossed mate. John just picked the winner of the kids competition. The one that got closest to guessing the actual design... which was scarily good.0 -
Raging there’s not a champions ‘Star’ above the badge. Would have been worth it just for the seethe from across the Kincardine!
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That kit is howling, it looks like a grey/blue colour which is just weird.
Hopefully they will do some decent training wear I'd like a new fleece and some shorts for gym and running.
Mate, fleeces went out of fashion around ten years ago; along with 3/4 lengths!2 -
Here we go again...
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And just think, I paid more for a 10p mix up than we paid you for Nisbit!
True, but Nesbit leaving meant that we brought through Kieron Bowie who finished top goal scorer and made the club a fortune.1 -
I’m sure we paid big bucks for Harvey, Browne and Bonar that summer. Add that to the cash we also spent of ground redevelopment that same season and it’s no surprise we ended up down the creek financially.
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Couldn’t care less who makes the strip, as long as the design is good! I like the bit about getting the training kit etc on sale too.
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I was never that impressed by Watson at Rovers. He was part of an absolutely atrocious defence under Murray and appeared to me to have a poor attitude.
I'm amazed he ended up at Dundee United.
I wasn’t overly impressed either, however to be fair, we had not long had CB’s of Murray, Ellis, Hill, Marv and Campbell to choose from so it was always going to be hard to impress when taking over from those guys.0 -
Ally Graham is genuinely one of the worst players to ever pull on a FFC shirt. And I have seen many, many stinkers.
That dribbling goon John Lambie swapped Stevie Kirk for him, beyond words.
I remember we turned Stevie Kirk into a right back after we got him!0 -
I think I did Ally Graham a disservice at the time. I used to think he was a big haddie but looking at some of those highlights he was pretty good!
Stevie Craw looked an absolute gem as well! Another player who I didn’t remember being that good!0 -
It's unbelievable how tight the league was after the Aberdeen game. We were only 11 points off Rangers at the top after 21 games. Only 2 points for a win makes a difference obviously but still a very close league at that point
Was it not three points as of that season?0 -
Were they not playing Celtic the following evening and it was mainly Bayern reserves?
Yes it was, however it still included some big names.0 -
We played some great football in 93-94. Especially on the counter attack.
Watching these videos has reminded me just how good Jason Dair was that season as well.
Dair, Cameron and Crawford... just wow! I’d actually forgotten how good Silky was as well.1 -
One thing I’d blanked from my memory was where big George Mcgeachie played for us. Did he play at the back or in the middle?
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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So that’s it agreed then, playing 3 times a season, with October 17th pencilled in the diary!
I think we need to decide ASAP about this reconstruction one way or another so that clubs can start to budget for the new season.