The New Raith Rovers Thread

[keyser_soze]

21 minutes ago, philpy said:

I'm thinking about leaving a nice bottle of wine on the gaffer's doorstep as a wee celebration present for winning the league. Creepy or generous??

Anything from you is generous ya miserable barsteward

 

Reminder for 3.00 today, Airdrie away, have watched the last 10 mins so many times but will watch the full match with a couple of Brewdog's

 

[Scary Bear]

1 hour ago, keyser_soze said:

Anything from you is generous ya miserable barsteward

 

Reminder for 3.00 today, Airdrie away, have watched the last 10 mins so many times but will watch the full match with a couple of Brewdog's

 

I’ll tune in for the last 5 minutes

[TxRover]

1 hour ago, philpy said:

I'm thinking about leaving a nice bottle of wine on the gaffer's doorstep as a wee celebration present for winning the league. Creepy or generous??

Creepy, unless it has a note and sealed package of sanitizing wipes with it.

[mealsonwheels]

the hardest part  about finding out we have been promoted is not being able to talk about real potential targets.

 

What would be great is to see a video message from all the players and their thoughts about promotion and the title. Get them all on house party to celebrate together.

Its nice for us as supporters to have something to take our minds off what is going on throughout the world   but I just would like to wish all the supporters out there on P&B all the best and hope you and all your family's are safe and well! 

Edited April 18, 2020 by mealsonwheels

[Scary Bear]

19 minutes ago, TxRover said:

Creepy, unless it has a note and sealed package of sanitizing wipes with it.

I’d be checking for any signs of tampering. Don’t want to be waking up with Philpy having sex with me, possibly while humming Geordie Munro.

[Scary Bear]

That said, you can’t knock a free bottle of wine, unless Philpy is a cheapskate and was going to buy horrible stuff.

Edited April 18, 2020 by Scary Bear

[Scary Bear]

2 hours ago, philpy said:

I'm thinking about leaving a nice bottle of wine on the gaffer's doorstep as a wee celebration present for winning the league. Creepy or generous??

Just spray paint a bedsheet with ‘He’s got no hair and we don’t care’ and tie it to a local roundabout. He’ll know.

[Hank Scorpio]

Watched the full game v airdrie there. We were absolutely terrible. Awful. I can’t believe we won that.

[keyser_soze]

19 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Watched the full game v airdrie there. We were absolutely terrible. Awful. I can’t believe we won that.

Save yourself the hassle of the first 80 mins if you want to watch the comeback again

 

[HoBNob]

15 hours ago, Scottydog said:

 

If Nisbet does go I think it'll now be be for a lot less than they were offered in January. 

Mibbe aye, Mibbe no. 

Regardless it'll be for allot more than we paid you for him, great business. 

Will be good to have you back next season, love an away day in Kirkcaldy. 

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, Scary Bear said:

I’d be checking for any signs of tampering. Don’t want to be waking up with Philpy having sex with me, possibly while humming Geordie Munro.

I'd be disappointed if he was humming anything else.

[roverthemoon]

On 16/04/2020 at 17:00, Yoss said:

Was thinking yesterday about the various title- and promotion-clinchers in my time following Raith:

1993 - lovely sunny day, an easy 2-0 over Dumbarton at Starks with a goal in each half from Brewster, and iirc a retaken and then missed penalty from Dalziel (which also left Dumbarton with ten men for the full second half). That we would get the win to seal promotion was never in doubt; to secure the title that day too needed a result elsewhere, but a big shout from behind the goal in the second half presaged good news. And I think we'd kicked off late so knew it was in the bag before full-time. They tried to clear the pitch invasion to allow the players to come back out, but it soon became clear that wasn't going to happen, the presentation took place in the directors box instead, and eventually even the railway-standers like me and my dad toddled apologetically onto the pitch to join the party.

1995 - Final game was away to Hamilton, very tense (from the radio, anyway) 0-0 draw which got us the point we needed. I can't remember now why I wasn't at that game, had something else on. Some fine memories from that season though - obviously the cup win, but at that stage of the season we actually looked to be out of the league race. Think it was a Sinclair last minute winner against someone (Airdrie again?) around Christmas time that sparked a ten game winning run that took us back into contention. There was a 2-0 win at Dens late in the season which was one of my favourite games, when I started to believe we'd do it.

2003 - very anticlimatic, we'd been clear at the top but misfired the first couple of chances to seal it, eventually stumbling over the line with a 1-0 home win over Berwick. Mostly all I remember about that game was the old bloke in front of me in the main stand who spent the game shouting abuse at the number 9 in the mistaken belief it was Ryan Blackadder, and bemoaning that we weren't playing Paul McManus instead, who was apparently his mate and who we'd not treated right since we'd signed him and who was pissed off but was a hundred times the player Ryan Blackadder was. The number 9 - who to be fair did indeed have a poor game - was Paul McManus. With about ten minutes to go he was subbed off, with his name as the departing player announced very clearly over the tannoy, and then right after that Andy Smith scored the goal that won the league, and the old bloke shut up. I'd been to plenty of games that season but the player who celebrated most enthusiastically on the pitch afterwards, doing pitch slides to the south stand and everything, was someone I didn't even recognise. Turned out to be some Spanish chap who'd played about once.

2009 - another lovely sunny day, against Queen's Park at Hampden this time. We weren't expecting to do it that day, it had been so tight between us and Ayr all season that we were expecting it to go to the final game the following week. But Weir's first-minute goal - his last for three years or more - and the second-half news of a 16 year old Greig Spence's equaliser for Alloa at Ayr spared us another week's worth of nailbiting. There was some confusion when there was a second big roar went round and I thought Alloa must have scored again; turned out not but the results as they stood were good enough. Only other thing I remember about that game was Queen's Park brought on a teenage substitute for his debut, who was promptly sent off - for a kick actually committed by one of his teammates. That would've been a better story if the poor lad had never played another senior game again - but it was actually Paul McGinn.

2020 - clicking on the BBC sports page to find Dundee had finally decided which way to shoot their load. Happy fucking days. Thinking back to those other memories makes me feel slightly sorry for our younger supporters for whom this rather unsatisfactory conclusion is the first such success. Such as it is.

Was at all those and the Stranraer promotion in 1987 which was incredible in terms of drama and excitement.  My favourites were Stranraer, Firhill and Hampden in that order. Beating Dumbarton and Berwick were enjoyable and ended up on the pitch at both but felt a bit of an anti-climax. Maybe it’s better winning it away from home or maybe it’s just because they lacked the tension of the others.  2020 sat in the house refreshing Twitter definitely goes in at number six.  More enjoyable than I anticipated though. 

Edited April 19, 2020 by roverthemoon

[Broken Algorithms]

I'd only seen the one promotion, which was the one at Queens' Park. I actually missed Graham Weir's goal because I went to the pie queue about 5 minutes before kick-off. When my friend and I went to find a seat, we were surprised at how many Rovers fans had made the trip through. As Yoss mentioned, there was a feeling that the game would go to the final day given the back and forth nature of the title race. Queens were in a relegation battle but had a few players like a young Barry Douglas and Paul Cairney in their team.

That day, along with the trips to Stirling (where we took the lead in the title race) and Brechin (the midweek game with a reduced entrance due to a previous cancellation)  will live long in the memory.  I'd gone to Rovers games on a semi-regular basis from 2004/2005 onwards and never really seen much to spark off some proper celebrations.

My parents went to the funeral recently of our next door neighbour who was a Rovers fan. In 1987, for that game he told his wife and daughter that Stranraer had some fantastic shops to convince them to go. Needless to say they didn't speak to him for the next week but him and his son were delighted. 

[CALDERON]

2003 season was a bit of a slog in the end, but we scored the winner quite late on against Berwick so it still felt a bit special. My Mum was in Bevvy Park when the goal went in and she remarked how loud it sounded. 

 

[Yoss]

16 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said:

That day, along with the trips to Stirling (where we took the lead in the title race) and Brechin (the midweek game with a reduced entrance due to a previous cancellation)  will live long in the memory.

Stevie Hislop's goal at Stirling was a very nice moment. Though my favourite moment of that season came much earlier at Stark's - Mark Ferry's last-minuter against Arbroath.

[Scottydog]

The first promotion I saw was 1978, a re-arranged game  midweek at Shawfield away to champions Clyde. I was behind the goal to see Andy Harrow,s glancing header from Duncan’s cross from the left go in to give us promotion over 3rd placed Dunfermline, delicious in its self but more so as we were due at Eastend on the final day, we won that one 2-0 and finished joint top, 2nd only on goal difference.

The second I witnessed was 9 seasons later in 1987 jubilant scenes after outrageous permutations to see us promoted as Champions over Ayr.

[Broken Algorithms]

29 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Stevie Hislop's goal at Stirling was a very nice moment. Though my favourite moment of that season came much earlier at Stark's - Mark Ferry's last-minuter against Arbroath.

We scored an incredible number of goals in the final ten minutes of that season. Off the top of my head, we scored 90th minute goals at home to Stirling (right after gifting them a penalty, we went up the pitch and scored one), Stranraer, Ayr and Arbroath among others. The Ayr one was fantastic too. They'd given it big licks in front of their fans, and then 7 or 8 passes later the ball was in the net with a Graham Weir header. 

[Jilted John]

A Graham Weir header... now there’s a saying you don’t hear everyday!

[Enigma]

Falkirk fans getting desperate...

[Yoss]

36 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said:

We scored an incredible number of goals in the final ten minutes of that season. Off the top of my head, we scored 90th minute goals at home to Stirling (right after gifting them a penalty, we went up the pitch and scored one), Stranraer, Ayr and Arbroath among others. The Ayr one was fantastic too. They'd given it big licks in front of their fans, and then 7 or 8 passes later the ball was in the net with a Graham Weir header. 

Think we had maybe five winners that season that were 90th minute or later, but I'm struggling to remember what they all were. One away at Queen's Park as well maybe?