Jilted John
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33 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said:
Obviously the market is sparse for centre halves.
It’s not really. It’s like saying the market is sparse for wingers, strikers or central midfielders. There’s plenty out there.
I’m not hitting the panic button just yet as there’s still over a week to go but given we have a manager and a director of football (or whatever his title is) who’s job it is to sign players, going into the competitive stuff without a proper centre half isn’t good enough.
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11 minutes ago, lgb61 said:
Lets hope this new talent dude spots someone sharpish then
Curious where the funding for all this additional support staff is coming from, must be impacting the playing budget surely, cannot see the new 'owners' bankrolling all this work and extra staff without a tangible return, if not this season certainly next term
I think that’s somewhat the elephant in the room just now. If we made a huge loss every year with next to nothing of a behind the scenes team and a decaying stadium. I’m not sure where all the additional cash is coming from.
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3 minutes ago, CALDERON said:
How many of the 1.4k are free?
That’s what I’m wondering. I’d say, at a rough guess, under 12’s would make up about a fifth of our home support.
As a comparison, Falkirk who are in a bad way, have sold 2,500 season tickets so far.
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What’s everyone’s thoughts on season ticket sales so far and what would be a successful number of sales once the serious stuff starts?
I’m probably in the minority of being a bit underwhelmed at the numbers so far given how many of them are now free, coupled with the significant improvements both on and off the park.
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That’s a very good piece of work whoever made it
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Twitter is going to be an interesting place to be over the next day or so…
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50 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
I'd like to see a first half back line on Saturday of Millen, Watson, Dick, Patterson.
Just to satisfy my curiosity
I wouldn’t be surprised if you got your wish. Liam Dick is good for covering at centre half but I definitely wouldn’t want to be relying on him, Corr or Masson as a starter once the serious stuff starts. Although I’d also not be adverse to seeing us sign Patterson, I’d much rather see us bring in another proven CH before we sign a left back.
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Some free kick from Gullan. Corr didn’t look too comfortable from those highlights. Looks like he struggled a bit.
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6 minutes ago, pantene proV said:
That's something you can visibly see for your cash though. Slightly better than pointing to a bit of turf and saying, "there's the family sponsor Son".
Yeah you’re right, I should have perhaps quoted the OP about the section of the stands instead.
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6 hours ago, Michael W said:
No matter what way you try and justify this, having people sponsor a square of pitch to raise £5k for the club is unbelievably tinpot.
We’ve got folk sponsoring steps at Starks Park… that could easily be classed as ‘tinpot’.
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I hope they can fit a booster seat onto them for Mickey
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29 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:
I’m currently in dialog with a Nigerian Prince who’s looking to send me some money so don’t really have time to be doing this for TX
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7 minutes ago, TxRover said:
I will say I conversed with McEwan via email, and he was very responsive and helpful. This was less than two weeks ago.
Yeah you’ve told us three times now. About shipping… we know.
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12 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Considering the poor guys been dead nearly 30 years, and long before some of these young supporters singing about him were born, I fail to see the point of them doing it
That’s what happens when you mix stupidity, alcohol and warm weather!
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If you zoom in on the photo you can actually see the players name on the contract!
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2 hours ago, Diamonds_Are_Forever said:
The gaffer who bottled promotion every single season with us wouldn’t say it’s really a storyline
You need to lay off the lemons mate
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So you’re saying Joma produced a brand new kit rather than just making more of one already in production? That doesn’t seem right?
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1 hour ago, Beachbum said:
Now at 1100 sold.
Thought we’d re-signed Bobby Geddes for a second there!
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5 minutes ago, Grant228 said:
If Bene was so easy to get behind I doubt he'd had won so many awards, and we'd have conceded so few goals tbh.
Not really. You didn’t score a massive amount either so did your back line have to sit back a bit further to compensate?
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5 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:
On the topic of coaches with brief spells at Starks Park, I recall Terry Butcher had a spell but can't recall the year.
96 or 97 i think. Im sure Alex Smith was a coach at the same time… some back room team that!
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1 hour ago, Raithie said:
I mind the days of my auld man sending me round to the local shop to pick up the FFP with strict instructions not to read anything about the Rovers until he had purely because the information was up to date and/or with some new information/news. How times have changed.
I’ll see your FFP being the main source of news from the Rovers and raise you ‘The Raith Line’… who remembers phoning up that number for all the latest news from Starks Park?
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It’ll be really interesting to see how the commercial/sponsorship side of things grow over the next season or two. We are pretty top heavy when it comes to behind the scenes staff just now. If this is going to work then they will need to bring in a hell of a lot of money compared to what was coming in under Sim’s stewardship if we are going to pay these staffing costs as well as avoiding the 120k per season losses we used to incur.
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5 minutes ago, Beastie Russell said:
Wasn’t it the CEO’s role to manage contracts
Let’s not start on that CEO… another of Sim’s mistakes.
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3 minutes ago, RRFC_Liam said:
Aye true he’d be on one of those daft McGlynn contracts that is a shambles and get unwarranted pay rises
I still find it remarkable that Sim managed to pass the blame of contract clauses onto Mcglynn. The same John Sim that’s a global head of an international accountancy firm.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Yeah but those teams were probably in a better place than we are. We were literally left with no centre backs at all. The fact some of us are now content with Liam Dick being a first choice CH shows how bad things are. The simple truth is, unless we get at least one more in, we can kiss goodbye to a successful season.