The New Raith Rovers Thread

[philpy]

We need to be looking around the lower leagues, for instance there's a 21 year old banging the goals in for Bo'ness. Tiwi daramola. Yeah, no experience at championship level, but who knows??

[Hank Scorpio]

3 minutes ago, philpy said:

We need to be looking around the lower leagues, for instance there's a 21 year old banging the goals in for Bo'ness. Tiwi daramola. Yeah, no experience at championship level, but who knows??

Bo’ness is fucking miles and miles and miles off the Championship. Scoring at that level is zero barometer for how good he is. 

[Hank Scorpio]

We’ve just got far too many players who all want to play the same position. Vaughan, Easton, Gullan, Stanton and Ross are all number 10s. So we end up with one of them up front, one at centre mid and one of them out wide which completely blunts out attacking threat. Each and every one of those players will be on a healthy wage and we are getting very little in return. 

[Dunning1874]

31 minutes ago, philpy said:

We need to be looking around the lower leagues, for instance there's a 21 year old banging the goals in for Bo'ness. Tiwi daramola. Yeah, no experience at championship level, but who knows??

To be clear it's Bo'ness Athletic who are in the East of Scotland Third Division (Tier 9) and have scored 100 goals in 17 games, not Bo'ness United who are in the Lowland League. That's a long, long way off the standard of League Two, never mind the Championship.

[Michael W]

1 hour ago, CALDERON said:

I agree, and at the risk of being harsh, I'd add Gullan to that.

 

Under contract until 2024 (like Ethan Ross). 

McGlynn's last season continues to haunt us. 

[McGuigan1978]

Aye, signing a load of players on long term deals and lumbering us with a wage bill which is only sustainable if we get two really good cup draws, probably wasn’t the best of ideas tbqh. 

[Scary Bear]

2 hours ago, renton said:

We just have to hope the next punt works out better. We also need another wide option if Ross is going to be perma-crocked.

We can't try and ride out the season on the back of a classy midfield and decent centre backs.

That’s how its looked like panning out since the start of the season. Thankfully the midfield have managed to score enough goals so far.

Cross your fingers that one of the forwards finds a bit of form.

Five league game without a win. Accies away up next. Things can only get better  

[Scary Bear]

50 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:

To be clear it's Bo'ness Athletic who are in the East of Scotland Third Division (Tier 9) and have scored 100 goals in 17 games, not Bo'ness United who are in the Lowland League. That's a long, long way off the standard of League Two, never mind the Championship.

Let’s get him in. We’re desperate. Swap deal with the Viking?

[Scary Bear]

32 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Under contract until 2024 (like Ethan Ross). 

McGlynn's last season continues to haunt us. 

I wonder what the issue is with Ethan Ross? A year ago he looked like a great player. Scored cracking goals against Morton (20th November 2021) and Inverness (8th January 2022). Injuries, I’m assuming.

[Specky Ginger]

45 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:

I wonder what the issue is with Ethan Ross? A year ago he looked like a great player. Scored cracking goals against Morton (20th November 2021) and Inverness (8th January 2022). Injuries, I’m assuming.

He got seven shades of shite kicked out of him in the league cup tie against Stirling and I don't think he's been 100% since.

[Scary Bear]

22 hours ago, TxRover said:

The problem with this part of the statement is:

-People with time tend to come in two forms; retirees of some manner, who have their own ideas about how stuff should be done and don’t tend to listen to people in the business and grifters.

-People with principles, true, honest and proper principles, are nearly as rare as hens teeth and tend to be fiercely loyal. That  means our best hope here is probably already affiliated.

-People with (true) talent could be even rarer than those with principles.

 

What we would ideally seek is a local resident/ex-resident who seeks to buy the Club to establish it as a stable and revenue neutral Community Club that can play in the second and third tier of Scottish football…sounds a lot like John Sim…who is willing to put football people in charge and still maintain a gimlet eye on spending, expenses and revenues, either personally or via a hatchet person installed in the Organization. That’s at tall order…Plan B is a white knight looking for a club to develop talent in the area, but that’s the Pars model and is still untested.

Ah well, grumpy pensioners and grifters it is then. It’s all we know.

[pantene proV]

Anyone else not happy with our manager singling out the keeper for criticism in the post-match interview? Yes he was directly at fault for the first goal, but when your only option at the moment is to play that self-same 21 year old you should make damn sure not to knock his confidence too much.

[roverthemoon]

22 hours ago, TxRover said:

What we would ideally seek is a local resident/ex-resident who seeks to buy the Club to establish it as a stable and revenue neutral Community Club that can play in the second and third tier of Scottish football…sounds a lot like John Sim…

This is the most frustrating thing. It could have been Sim and he could have worked to secure a decent legacy with the Community Hub built and some model of ownership going forward with fan involvement at the heart. Unfortunately he turned out to be an arrogant oddball and from reports of those who had to work with him, a control freak who wouldn't listen to anyone else.  Now he’s secured his legacy as up (or down) there with McGowan and Short as shite owners who ran the club into a ditch. A total waste. 

[Jack Rae2]

5 minutes ago, pantene proV said:

Anyone else not happy with our manager singling out the keeper for criticism in the post-match interview? Yes he was directly at fault for the first goal, but when your only option at the moment is to play that self-same 21 year old you should make damn sure not to knock his confidence too much.

Tbh, I haven’t bothered to watch any of Murray’s recent interviews. Same old pish every time. McNeil hasn’t seen a sniff of first team football until 3 games ago where he was thrown in with no backup. First two games he looked solid, very good saves, only thing letting him down being distribution which will come with time. Looked shaky yesterday but made a couple of harder saves than they normally would be. At the end of the day; he’s a young lad, young keepers generally are unusual in professional football, he’s shown he’s a good prospect and needs backing.

[roverthemoon]

7 minutes ago, pantene proV said:

Anyone else not happy with our manager singling out the keeper for criticism in the post-match interview? Yes he was directly at fault for the first goal, but when your only option at the moment is to play that self-same 21 year old you should make damn sure not to knock his confidence too much.

Thought this was an odd approach. Keeper was dross but given the fact the Morton keeper also had a howler he had an easy way out by blaming it on the conditions. Maybe suggests he’s feeling the pressure a bit? 

[JaketheSnake]

Any news on Vaughan's latest injury? 

[TxRover]

5 hours ago, philpy said:

We need to be looking around the lower leagues, for instance there's a 21 year old banging the goals in for Bo'ness. Tiwi daramola. Yeah, no experience at championship level, but who knows??

Looked at him when he got his 40th goal…might be a decent reach for League Two, or a project for a Championship team that can develop him…we can’t.

6 hours ago, renton said:

We just have to hope the next punt works out better. We also need another wide option if Ross is going to be perma-crocked.

We can't try and ride out the season on the back of a classy midfield and decent centre backs.

Some possible wide options on the table would be Coulson (what happened, IM soured?), Mahady (not up for it) or Mitchell (promising, but still too raw?). I don’t see us signing people, just can’t see it, unless we unload some dross.

[TxRover]

4 minutes ago, JaketheSnake said:

Any news on Vaughan's latest injury? 

Pre-March reported by IM as a simple dead leg, expected back next match.

[pub car king]

Colin Stevens causing absolute havoc in that hearts game today. 

[TxRover]

24 minutes ago, pub car king said:

Colin Stevens causing absolute havoc in that hearts game today. 

FIFY, but it’s not news.