Wee Sandy Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 21 hours ago, Gordon EF said: Always thought baillieinleeds was a reasonably well balanced poster. I hope for his sake this is day 10 of a stag do or something. ......................aye, right!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McGuigan1978 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Might have had him mixed up with someone else to be fair.You definitely have. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweaty Morph Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 21 hours ago, Gordon EF said: Always thought baillieinleeds was a reasonably well balanced poster. I hope for his sake this is day 10 of a stag do or something. 10 hours ago, Gordon EF said: Might have had him mixed up with someone else to be fair. I suspect so! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 I agree completely. This simply won't do!Agreeing with Doug or your current state of affairs!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazz1903 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 On 16/02/2019 at 16:59, Michael W said: Can't wait for us to go below East Fife. Look forward to McGlynn's usual excuses. Won't be long now . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 39 minutes ago, King Kebab said: Agreeing with Doug or your current state of affairs!!! 20 minutes ago, tazz1903 said: Won't be long now . If McGlynn doesn’t manage a victory over East Fife before the season finishes then he should pack his bags. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 If McGlynn doesn’t manage a victory over East Fife before the season finishes then he should pack his bags.Tbf Agent Smith managed that trick quite easily!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlete29 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Was at the reserves game last night, McKay looks decent but he is shocking in the air. Thought a few of the young boys did alright, looks like Smith might be injured again though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachbum Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) Sorry to say this, but the bit about Davidson might be a blessing. Edited February 20, 2019 by Beachbum 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichtie78 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Benedictus trying to nail McKenna and in turn giving himself a serious knee injury. Pleasing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Sounds like that might be Benedictus for a good while. What a tube. That's a new one from McGlynn today though. We've done well to hang in there this season and not be down the bottom like Dumbarton apparently. Absolute nonsense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark(s Park) Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Not been on this since we got beat, came for the injury news and wasted about 30 mins of my life reading folk arguing with Arbroath fans... thought that’s what the match thread was for? Side note all the injuries and none caused by our pitch. Thought we would have maybe one or two players (ours or opponents) get injured so supposed that’s some good news? Stevie G can go f**k himself. Make every ground plastic! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rover1990 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 No need for Bene to make that challenge just stupidity. No excuses now give McKay his chance! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Out of interest can Raith afford to go Full-Time next season in League One again, with a smaller squad than the majority of their rivals??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers1992/1993 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 No need for Bene to make that challenge just stupidity. No excuses now give McKay his chance!Watson would be more likely to come in and move Murray to CB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Out of interest can Raith afford to go Full-Time next season in League One again, with a smaller squad than the majority of their rivals??? Believe there’s a hidden stash of cash Tunrbull Hutton hid under the pitch for use in times of emergency. Understand it should see us through next season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kebab Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Believe there’s a hidden stash of cash Tunrbull Hutton hid under the pitch for use in times of emergency. Understand it should see us through next season.Fair enough!!!What about the season after, if your 12 man squad fails again??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said: Sounds like that might be Benedictus for a good while. What a tube. That's a new one from McGlynn today though. We've done well to hang in there this season and not be down the bottom like Dumbarton apparently. Absolute nonsense. It's easy to overstate it, no doubt we'd have been a better team if Vaughan and Hendry had been fit the whole season. We've also at various times not had Duggan or Nisbet. Likewise, the January window simply doesn't afford the opportunity to overhaul the squad. So I have sympathy for McGlynn in that situation. Most of the issues we have stem from the Summer when the board saw fit to give Smith another go, even as they obviously didn't trust him. Yet McGlynn has to some degree perpetuated that in the contract extensions of Flanagan and Benedictus. Our back 4 is shite, and we knew even last season that the combination of Davidson and Benedictus was likely to be leaky as f**k. I really would have both gone in the Summer if we could. Wedderburn get's a game, mostly because he's got a good range of passing and a decent attitude, yet the limitations of his game - mainly his utter lack of mobility - really hurt us in midfield. Gillespie is a far better player than many around him, and he knows it and consequently is playing so far in side himself. Out wide, only Armstrong and Dingwall have given us any kind of quality. It's predictable to see the whole full time/part time setup being trotted out by those who see it as embarrassing that any full time team should finish behind part timers, yet the likes of Dumbarton were finishing 5th in the championship not so long ago. In a league that is all but one full time outfit, then you aren't necessarily going to see that many benefits of full time. After all what it should give you, in terms of preparation and fitness over others is negated by the fact that if your the worst full time team, extra preparation is of limited value if the other guys just have better part time players, and the fitness aspect (to the degree that it exists when you consider modern sports science - it's not like your average part timer these days is a fat lump) just doesn't come out until other sides are also full time, consider: If team A is full time and team B is part time, team A plays 9 part time teams, team B plays 8 part time teams and one full time team (team A) if team B has a consistent edge in quality over the other part timers then there is no real benefit to team A for it's full time status. I think it's only really once you get into a league where the majority are full time that you start to see the consistent ordering of full time above part time. So you have the conundrum that you don't need to be full time to get out of this league, but that a prolonged stay above requires that you pivot to that type of operation. Which leaves you either trying to overhaul everything over a summer, using a hybrid system or going full time already. We've used the hybrid model before and it eventually worked, but coaches don't like the split squads. The latter is the route we've taken but the issue is that you can't be the worst full time team. In order for it to mean anything you have to have good quality throughout the squad - in other words throwing money either at the youth system, first team or both. Full time itself isn't going to do the trick, it's only once you've got the money to attract better full time players that you'll reap the benefits of it. Ultimately our season is over, and we aren't going anywhere, play offs or not. So it's up to the board in the Summer to think deeply about a strategy that lasts more than 9 months. McGlynn will be kept around - he has his faults like all coaches, however the club needs some sense of continuity as well. He might not like it but we should consider going back to the hybrid system as I doubt we'll afford to sign players who'd otherwise be going to championship teams, instead of taking punts on last chance saloon types like the previous two years. Davidson, Wedderburn, Duggan, Crane, McGuffie, Buchanan, Barjonas, McKay and Matthews are all players I think will leave (or go back from loan). Of those not under contract but who I'd keep: Euan Murray. If I could get their contracts terminated I'd let Benedictus and Thompson go as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 What an absolute w****r Bene is. Serves him right as well tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumswall Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 What an absolute w****r Bene is. Serves him right as well tbh. Davo injured himself attempting to do similar v hibs. These two are considered leaders in the dressing room... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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