grumswall Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Only 25 seats left for the buses. Not a bad effort so far at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baillieinleeds Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Only 25 seats left for the buses. Not a bad effort so far at all. Let’s do this for Lewis. Get well soon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachbum Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 The snake hits the news. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrfsee Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Quote Good interview with Kevin Cuthbert in FFP page 62/63 where he speaks about short term planning by Raith and his spat with Yogi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 The badge thing is true, I blame it for all our ills there is no other explanation 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, pub car king said: The badge thing is true, I blame it for all our ills there is no other explanation Get John McGlynn to pish in all four corners of the pitch, if that doesn't work it must be superstitious shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottydog Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Zen Archer said: Get John McGlynn to pish in all four corners of the pitch, if that doesn't work it must be superstitious shite. I seriously doubt that'll do it, we've been pish all over the pitch this season......often! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 Cuthbert's interview in the press is excellent, mirrors my feelings on the youth set up almost exactly. Here's a link for those who want to see it: https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/football/raith-rovers/kevin-cuthbert-short-term-thinking-is-holding-back-raith-rovers-1-4865871 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rover1990 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 27 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said: Cuthbert's interview in the press is excellent, mirrors my feelings on the youth set up almost exactly. Here's a link for those who want to see it: https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/football/raith-rovers/kevin-cuthbert-short-term-thinking-is-holding-back-raith-rovers-1-4865871 It's a shame he didn't take up the offer to stay on as a coach he would of had something to offer the club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIT THE CHANNEL Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Aye Cat is spot on regarding the short term-ism regarding the youth and lack of plan. I do have a major issue with this, however: "it got them relegated with no structure in place and a club that has gone backwards. That’s not any individual’s fault - not John Hughes, Gary Locke, Eric Drysdale, Alan Young, or whoever. It’s because there’s no structure" It seems almost trite to state this explicitly but 'Raith Rovers' does not make decisions and cannot create a structure. 'Raith Rovers' is the collection of fans, players and board. It is for the board, and particularly the chief executives (this is what a chief executive is for!) to generate a strategy and work to implement it effectively. If there was no strategy (and clearly there was not) then this is absolutely the fault of key senior board members, Drysdale and Young in particular. i.e. those whose job includes 'strategic planning and operations'! P.S. If the role of the chief exec did not explicitly involve strategic, long-term planning then that is also the fault of the chief exec for not recognising this as a priority and doing something about it! Your the chief exec for f**k sake! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 (edited) I understand both sides of the argument. There has to be an element of short term thinking, as the club is still a business and its difficult to get 1.5k plus people to continue turning up for a few seasons in this level at get them to buy into a “long term thing” if it means mulling around mid table in this league. The club live hand to mouth week to week, and as much as its wanted or needed, it can be very, very difficult to break that cycle. The youth thing is also a double edged one too. These guys get experience by playing games, but we don’t have the luxury this season of that really. I would agree that we aren’t any smaller a club than many who have gone on to much better things in recent years, and at the risk of sounding arrogant, that really isn’t good enough. It all comes down to the Locke era though – that season has set this club back years, and the fact that he genuinely thought he could win the league speaks volumes about the whole incident. You need a solid foundation if you want to build something and we haven’t really had that. I doubt Hamilton, St Johnstone et al had the financial cluster f**k we have when building again. Cuthbert always came across really well, but I think he made a mistake for his own career development by not being willing to remain as a coach and work alongside a couple of much more experienced managers/coaches at this level. He showed in his brief tenure that he badly needed that. Edited February 1, 2019 by CALDERON 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbykdy Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Anyone able to copy and paste the article up? Apparently I am over my reading limit on their site for the month. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 (edited) Anyone able to remind me why an at-the-time Scottish Championship side thought it needed a CEO? In terms of structure we had a CEO and a board; the same basic structure as you'd expect from a large company. I don't agree with Cuthbert that there was no structure: the structure was there but no structure can mitigate having some incompetents in place. Regarding a long term plan, perhaps the best way to execute that is to not hire a manager who was fired from his last two jobs for being hopeless? Perhaps also you could ensure that the CEO tries to engage with the fans rather than regularly patronising/insulting them? Perhaps you could also not loan a striker to a club 4 points beneath you in the table? Maybe you can also make sure that the SPFL board member who is also your CEO actually knows the fucking rules and can get a goalkeeper in before you need to go and face your relegation rivals with a fucking midfielder in goal? Fucking Drysdale. c**t. Edited February 1, 2019 by Michael W 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark(s Park) Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Looking forward to see how much tickets are sold for the Scottish Cup today and tomorrow for people buying them at the game. I bought mine today because I got paid today, thought most folk get paid last Friday of the month. 1500 by Monday? Amazing so far. Love the updates on social media. Mrs is getting sick of me telling her every time we have sold 100 tickets or so [emoji24] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSDR 88 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Aye I’m fully backing the change of badge idea, I absolutely buzz off the old style badge but more particularly with the red stitching, like this on one of my retro tops... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 That shirts a belter, your right though the red stitching was better. I think it's all about when you start watching the team for me it was the early nineties and that was the badge so it will always be my preferred choice. WBA have gone with the diagonal letters on their away shirt this season like every club had in the seventies us included maybe they could do that on a top for a wee change. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebanda's Handyman Services Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Great 'keeper despite his tiny right arm. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark(s Park) Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 See the Rovers are trialing selling tickets online for tomorrows game. Good to see some progression than just the old norm of just cash 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSDR 88 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 See the Rovers are trialing selling tickets online for tomorrows game. Good to see some progression than just the old norm of just cash The link for anyone interested - https://raithrovers.eventcube.io 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brashy's Boots Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Aye I’m fully backing the change of badge idea, I absolutely buzz off the old style badge but more particularly with the red stitching, like this on one of my retro tops...This type of badge got caught up in the fuss about heraldic law. The badge we use now has been in the club for a very long time. It IS the old badge and is inlaid on the floor in the hallway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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