R.R.FC Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 If I remember correctly, Smith showed Arbroaths great away form plenty respect last time and set us up slightly more defensive with 5 in midfield and Vaughan given license to get forward and support. Wouldn’t surprised to see us set up the same way. All depends if Robertson is fit. Hoping he is, I would line up Lennox Thomson Bene Davidson Murray Matthews Robertson Herron Zanatta Vaughan Furtado Not sure if Matthews deserves a start tbh, been a bit disappointed in him this year, hasn’t really kicked on the way I’d hope. However, think he’ll offer a bit more than Barr has recently. Think there’s a decent balance to that side. For all the talk of finding the right balance upfront, our earlier defensive stability seems to have left us. We have only kept 2 clean sheets in our last 13. Hopefully a few games now with the same back 4 and keeper will start to reap rewards and the solidity will return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithie Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 Well we ended Arbroath's fantastic away form so they'll be a stick on to stop our fantastic home form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 4 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said: If Robertson isn't fit for this then I can't really see us winning the match to be honest. Aye, if he isn't it's a lightweight midfield of Vaughan and Herron and our best player stuck 30 yards from goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank conner Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 It' sad times when rovers fans are shitting themselves about a home game against a part time Arbroath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 It' sad times when rovers fans are shitting themselves about a home game against a part time Arbroath. Not sure what the PT has to do with it. There’s PT clubs a whole division above the Rovers incase you haven’t noticed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank conner Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said: Not sure what the PT has to do with it. There’s PT clubs a whole division above the Rovers incase you haven’t noticed We should still be beating Part time teams at home especially this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 We should still be beating Part time teams at home Why?I understand you have an advantage with being FT, but you’re Raith Rovers no Rangers. Don’t agree that you should be beating every PT team in this league every single week. Think saying that is a disservice to your brilliant home record to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev23 Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Not sure if Matthews deserves a start tbh, been a bit disappointed in him this year, hasn’t really kicked on Other than our away form, one of the most frustrating things for me is Smith playing Matthews wide right, although admittedly he's just found himself out the team now. He's a very tidy footballer and one I still have high hopes for in the future but we need to get him playing in the middle. Shame we persist on playing Vaughan in there when he's far more suited to an advanced role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank conner Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 24 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said: Why? I understand you have an advantage with being FT, but you’re Raith Rovers no Rangers. Don’t agree that you should be beating every PT team in this league every single week. Think saying that is a disservice to your brilliant home record to be honest. I never said every week I said at home and I know we are not rangers ( thankfully ) but ur not Aberdeen either. It' still my opinion wether you agree or not we should be beating Arbroath at home and I'm sure most rovers fans agree. I' not saying you won' or can' beat us but that' how I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 I never said every week I said at home and I know we are not rangers ( thankfully ) but ur not Aberdeen either. It' still my opinion wether you agree or not we should be beating Arbroath at home and I'm sure most rovers fans agree. I' not saying you won' or can' beat us but that' how I see it. I see what you are saying. Going by our budget we should be beating teams like Albion, Queens Park and Stranraer comfortably, especially at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Alas, with our patchy away record we probably have to win at home every week if we want to win this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 I never said every week I said at home and I know we are not rangers ( thankfully ) but ur not Aberdeen either. It' still my opinion wether you agree or not we should be beating Arbroath at home and I'm sure most rovers fans agree. I' not saying you won' or can' beat us but that' how I see it. I don’t agree. You’re in this division for a reason and you’re not that far ahead of us. You have an advantage and will be favourites but saying you should be beating us isn’t fair on ourselves or yourselves either, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 If I remember correctly, Smith showed Arbroaths great away form plenty respect last time and set us up slightly more defensive with 5 in midfield and Vaughan given license to get forward and support. Wouldn’t surprised to see us set up the same way. All depends if Robertson is fit. Hoping he is, I would line up Lennox Thomson Bene Davidson Murray Matthews Robertson Herron Zanatta Vaughan Furtado Not sure if Matthews deserves a start tbh, been a bit disappointed in him this year, hasn’t really kicked on the way I’d hope. However, think he’ll offer a bit more than Barr has recently. Think there’s a decent balance to that side. For all the talk of finding the right balance upfront, our earlier defensive stability seems to have left us. We have only kept 2 clean sheets in our last 13. Hopefully a few games now with the same back 4 and keeper will start to reap rewards and the solidity will return. Wee bit worried about Furtado. Looked great every time I’ve seen him for Raith, Airdrie and Stenny. What’s the script with Vaughan? The early season hype seems to have went away a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 He's been playing centre mid for months now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithie Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 you’re not that far ahead of us. You’re not that far of the relegation playoff spot if that’s your logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 It' sad times when rovers fans are shitting themselves about a home game against a part time Arbroath. Oi, cut this pish out, that's the type of nonsense that is reserved for Ayr supporters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank conner Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 1 hour ago, ecto said: Oi, cut this pish out, that's the type of nonsense that is reserved for Ayr supporters Please don' compare me with an Ayr fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rovers1992/1993 Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Wee bit worried about Furtado. Looked great every time I’ve seen him for Raith, Airdrie and Stenny. What’s the script with Vaughan? The early season hype seems to have went away a bit. Vaughan’s been sitting in front of the back 4 since November. He isn’t a midfielder but that’s where Smith decided to put him since Herron/ Robertson ended up getting injuredAs for the question, Should we expect to beat Arbroath at home with the difference in budget between the 2 teams? Of course we should.If Arbroath drew Cowdenbeath in the cup, would Arbroath fans not expect their side to beat Cowdenbeath at home with the difference in budget? I’m not saying that Arbroath won’t cause us problems or that they won’t beat us but if we want to win the league then we have to expect us to be able to beat every team in this league at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Vaughan’s been sitting in front of the back 4 since November. He isn’t a midfielder but that’s where Smith decided to put him since Herron/ Robertson ended up getting injuredAs for the question, Should we expect to beat Arbroath at home with the difference in budget between the 2 teams? Of course we should.If Arbroath drew Cowdenbeath in the cup, would Arbroath fans not expect their side to beat Cowdenbeath at home with the difference in budget? I’m not saying that Arbroath won’t cause us problems or that they won’t beat us but if we want to win the league then we have to expect us to be able to beat every team in this league at home. I think you’ve described it better there. I did indeed say we should beat Berwick comfortably before we played them in the cup... however we are a division above them. Ourselves and Raith Rovers both have a pretty similar record since the turn of the year playing the same teams as each other. I suppose you could look at it in a budget sense but that would mean that you should really be winning 32 games a season which isn’t realistic. Even though we have a bigger budget than other teams in this league I don’t necessarily think that means we should be beating them, should rightly be favourites though. Way I see it anyway.Dunno if that’s good or bad news about Vaughan, shows the attacking strength and options you have if you don’t need to be playing him upfront. [emoji1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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