SimonLichtie

There's a big difference between making a statement regarding someone outwith the club making inflammatory comments regarding the club/ professionalism of players and making public statements about currently contracted employees. See Ross Millen at Raith currently - played every week for half the campaign and then 'mysteriously' left out out of the squad entirely for the past 4 months with no comment from Raith Rovers officially at all.

On This Day in 2001 we beat Berwick Rangers 2-0 at Gayfield to secure promotion from the Second Division, with John Cusick and Jim Mercer scoring our goals We recently got our hands on a full 30 minutes of footage from the game, and the celebrations, which is now live on our YouTube channel!

Ali Adams is extremely good at writing his own truth and missing out vital bits of information.... i.e. the things he did, and knows he did, wrong.

If McIntyre lost 8 out of his first 10 league games next season, you doubt a board who have been very open about going for promotion wouldn't sack him? That's quite simply you taking things to an extreme. In terms of the 'club being sack averse' I don't quite get this. Our board is a very different one from that we had in the 2000s, and the 2010s, the majority of the personnel have changed, the chairman has changed etc. The 'happy clapping' stuff and 'shiny new signing' stuff I don't get either. I've not see anyone 'happy clapping' this season. We all, to a man, woman and child, agree it's been a shit season where absolutely nothing has gone right. In terms of the new signings - this is a bewildering comment to me. Are you saying that we cannot be happy about anything, any players re-signing, any new signings we bring in, because Jim McIntyre is the manager? Essentially we all have to be angry, unhappy and think everything is shite until he's gone?

I totally agree with you but I'd add that I feel it's also mainly because he is staying for the summer. It's a decision that's been made. There's no point in discussing/ going round in circles on it. Why can't we look at new signings/ contract extensions/ games etc. more objectively than 'aye, but McIntyre. Shite'. I think the vast majority think he'll leave the club in October or so..... if that's the case, it's extremely important we're in the best possible 'bad' position as it were - with good players on the books. I really hope once this season is over we can discuss all the things that'll happen, positive and negative, over the summer without constantly going round in circles on McIntyre out and focus on next season as opposed to going over what is and isn't McIntyre's fault this season, which has obviously been done to death. Surely we all want to sign good players/ put together a good squad knowing that either it works under McIntyre or he's gone a quarter into the campaign and we have a good base for another manager to work with....

Less than 2 weeks ago we announced he'd signed the best part time striker in the country! You don't think that's promising at all, not a good sign at all? Signing the best part time striker in the country for the next 2 seasons is incredibly promising and rather exciting ahead of the new campaign. Jim McIntyre being the manager doesn't change that.

One other thing I'd add - the stuff about 'losing the dressing room' etc. is complete and utter guess work/ assumptions on people part. Everything factual that has come out, key/ long term players re-signing and at least one quality player also coming in from outside the club points to the opposite. I also agree that, for once, the League Cup is important this season. Not in terms of results, but in terms of how we're shaping up and the performances. In previous seasons we've basically used it to give players game time and treated them as friendlies, understandably, but this time they'll be viewed much differently. Ultimately we'll know if we're going to stick or twist management wise after 9 or so league games. Between now and then I'll be hoping we sign well and hoping we can put together a consistent system that works for us from the start as opposed to Dick going with bizarre formations throughout June/ July in friendlies/ League Cup games a like before going with the system he was always going to go with. I don't think long term Jim McIntyre will work out for us, but I'm not going to blame him for everything that goes wrong and ignore the positives/ just react to them with 'aye, but McIntyre'.

I guess the thing I'd put to everyone who wants McIntyre to leave now/ should have left in the previous months, I see the two paths as follows: 1 - Continue with him with the plans that have been building since January, in terms of players signing from outwith the club and from the current squad 2 - Rip it up, bring in a new manager and leave him 5 months behind everyone else in teams of preparation So, lets say we start next season poorly and are having issues come October. People want the manager out. I'd much, much rather be in the position of having a squad that's been put in place over a period of time/ the manager has been given the amount of time needed and has failed than be in a position where we want a manager who's been in the door 3 months to be sacked when he's not been given a fair crack at it. Manager leaves in October - one we've given a year and has been given more than enough time and has failed or one who has been given 3 months and not given a fair crack at it? Personally I think it's much better this way, and I think people massively underestimate the planning that goes into a new season between January and June.

I already know that - the second half of the 2003-03 season. We were basically fielding a youth team and getting battered every week.... it was very painful See the thing is, you've taken 4 games out of season that we won. If you took Brechin's four best results out of their season they'd have finished with literally 0 points. I don't know why people think Jim McIntyre can make players who aren't Championship level quality better though? I also don't remember us being humiliated 'week in week out' this season at all. Half of them have been games we've lost by the odd goal because we dont have the level of quality in the team that other teams in this league do. Last week, todays game, and next week literally mean nothing. That's why we tried a different formation today, why we have Ricky a start as captain in his last home game and why we haven't been playing our best striker for the last few weeks. There's no point in playing people who are definitely leaving, and because we've been pish over the last few months it's well worth trying things in terms of shape etc. and seeing how people cope with an eye to if they can do a job there next year. I genuinely don't get why people would be complaining about things in these games. Of course, by all means entirely understandable in the months prior when we were pish and lost all of the games against the teams 'near' us, but how can today affect anyones opinion considering the above? Ultimately people who wanted McIntyre out last week, want him out still, and will want him out next week. That's totally fine and obviously an extremely justifiable opinion, but that has to be based on the games prior to the irrelevant ones in which we're trying things/ giving players game time and playing a team in which it's their biggest game of the season? I mean, last week he was getting blamed for using the term 'punter', and this week he's being blamed for Aaron Steele running like Robbie Raeside in a pool of treacle. That's nothing to do with tactics, training or anything else, that's to do with Aaron Steele being slow for starters, and coming back from a 4/5 month injury on top of that. There's plenty of issues, plenty of poor decisions and performances by players and managers a like, but we can't just sit about blaming Jim McIntyre for things that are quite clearly not his fault/ things that aren't really relevant.

Yes - today was a dead rubber for us and a huge game for Queen's. No - every game since September has not been a dead rubber.

I for one will be taking absolutely nothing out of a dead rubber end of season game with a team full of players who won't be here next year in the starting 11. I also find it utterly bizarre people are complaining about McIntyre/ tactics when it comes to the 3 goals conceded in the first half..... All 3 of them individual errors by players who won't be playing for the club next season. How on earth can you have seen those goals and blame McIntyre over Steele/ teale/ Ricky I do not know

I believe it is the same player The Station Park, Barnhill is absolutely fasinating to me - mainly because I grew up close to there and it would've seen Arbroath play a game within walking distance of my mum and dads house! Below is a picture of the station from 1932: Below is newspaper currently from the late 1890s/ 1900s (what should of idiot doesn't save the date alongside the newspaper cutting FFS!? ) Below is the 2024 google map: From memory, the ground only lasted a few decades and if I remember rightly it was built on in the 1920s or so..... Putting it all together I think the ground was where the half a dozen or so houses in the bottom left of the top picture are..... do those houses look recently ish built for the time (within 1-10 years of the picture being taken?). If so, then I'd be very confident I'm right, if not........ bollocks The other historical ground that's interested me that we've played at is Balgay Park in Dundee - very close to where I now stay, and I'm forever walking around wondering where the pitch our legends of the 1890s graced was In a bigger picture - one of the many things on my 'to do' list is to make a modern day google map of every ground we've ever played at....... I'd also be interested in doing the same for the entire country, but I feel that would maybe be slightly excessive/ take several thousand plus hours....

Another day, another Youtube video from the 90s! This time we've got 4 minutes or build up pre Rangers match in March 1993 for you to enjoy! Some more interviews around the town and bearded army action!

Ah, by the sounds of it you're the suave young chap who appears in tomorrows installment of YouTube footage.... Flawless acting in my opinion and once I've uploaded it I can see the acting career really taking off..... I hope you've still got that full head of hair and those classic 90s specs, or else all those talent agents are going to be very disappointed....

There's a man over there On his chin there is hair And he's climbing the stairway to Hampden! Highlights from the East Fife replay now on Youtube, includes some good footage of the bearded army and some interviews around the town prior to the Rangers Quarter Final tie.