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3 hours ago, Raithie said:
Would a 6 foot 8 overseas internationalist wet fans appetite?
Depends is it a 6'8" 32 yr old Ivory Coast Ex-international (13 caps) who has been without a club since July and has scored 89 career goals since 2007?
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1 minute ago, bobbykdy said:
Spencer is also his signing, he gave him a new contract.
That was pushed through by the board more than IM from what I heard.
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54 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:
Can the management team coach Millen into being a better player? You would hope so.
I'm not sure god could manage that never mind Murray.
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Some interesting points being made along with some real heads gone stuff too.
However the jury is sitting on Mr Murray though as he needs to have us doing better, much better. 2 wins and 3 defeats is not the form that anyone would have thought we'd start with, it isn't good enough.
We can offer a host of excuses with injuries and new players but IMO his recruitment has been worse than McGlynns. The failure to recruit an out and out striker to a team that every fan knew needed one is quite bizarre. However the failure to redress the issue at centre half to where we are now is beyond that! That he signed two midfielders to an already adept midfield squad whilst not addressing those other more important issues is nothing short of criminal.
So far his recruitment:
Brown, midfield rock but better than Matthews? Utility man? Jack of some trades and master of none, he's not a patch on Musonda imo.
Easton, good on his day but has been a bit hot and cold. Still possibly his best signing though.
Nolan, weak, one footed, indecisive, slow (thought wise) and doesn't move the ball well.
O'Riordan, classy for one so young, he must be wishing it was Christmas and he can go home. Probably the best bit of business Murrays done.
Ngenya and Connell, squad fillers at best a complete waste of a loan,
Millen, complete charlatan and a total waste of a wage.
McBride and McNeil, too early to say hopefully they will prove better value than the last 3.
Unless I've miscounted thats 11 gone and 9 in, with the exception of Riley Snow any of the other 10 (9 if we miss out Dario) would be shoo-ins to start in that team. Of the 9 brought in I can think of only two who have done enough to warrant their signing.
It's not all IM's fault though, the BoD are massively culpable for the position the club are in too.
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I hope we would kick on after the Morton and Hamilton games, they both kinda did but we certainly have not. Last season we struggled to score at one end and leaked poor goals at the other. Nothing has changed, IMs recruitment looks no better than McGlynns. Its a poor league but we are a much poorer team too.
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Maybe we just misheard him, perhaps he said a "manky" signing?
I do agree though, he'd do far better to not get the fans hopes up if there's still a chance he won't pull it off, it just makes them look less and less credible.
And not for the 1st time either!
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30 minutes ago, SteveTheLichtie said:
Only benefit would be not playing against us.
Not necessarily, when we loaned Lewis Vaughan to Dumbarton he couldn't play against us but his goals for them effectively got us eventually relegated.
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1 minute ago, Chrisrush1471 said:
Oh no
Announce the return
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3 minutes ago, Always next quarter said:
Club should employ someone to make sure this type of damage to our reputation could be avoided
Oh wait....... we do.
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Keep hoping for a tweet from Starks Park, if it comes I hope it brings better news than the last one on deadline day did!
I see on this day in 1978 the young Gordon Wallace scored 4 against Queens Park. I remember it at the time, I reckon that was the performance that finally got him his move to Tannadice and brought his name sake back. Can't be too long til we see "on this day Willie McLean resigned as manager to move to Ayr Utd"
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18 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:
As your Granny would say 'If you don't ask, you don't get'
Mine used to say "you're no gettin it just fur askin!" We couldn't win either way!
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It's the squeaky wheel that gets oiled!
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Personally I'd take May, although in saying that, it is a gamble he could start to resurrect his career or he could sink further and disappear with without trace.
On another note I wonder how many Championship coaches are at Ibrox tonight running the rule over youngsters like Ure, Lovelace, King, Devine and possibly Fraser, of course they could be at Alloa looking at Aberdeen's kids.
I'd imagine Bryan McDonald will likely be at Firhill tonight watching Arbroath, what with our upcoming fixture at Gayfield in 10 days time. Someone will be at Fir Park tomorrow to take in Inverness's game against Motherwell.
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Re, Honest men v the Dee,
Thought Frankie did well tonight.
Dundee confirmed what we all thought after they beat us 3 weeks ago, they're still shite!
Ayr could end up the surprise package, I had them pegged for struggling this term but on that showing I doubt they will. Wasn't massively impressed with Akinyema in the first half but he certainly looked good in the 2nd!
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56 minutes ago, Been going too long said:
We can dream but longer window goes on and he has no one then you never know
Unless he stays down south or heads to India or Australia then I suspect he'll most likely end up somewhere like Motherwell or St Johnstone.
I suspect he'll be keeping himself in shape, I wonder where he's getting training facilities? It would be just be very Rovers to sign him until January get him match fit and sharp by Christmas only to lose him to Ross Co or someone in January.
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On the subject of ex-Hibees, I suppose it's highly unlikely to be our Marquee but, I note Marc McNulty was a youth at Hib's in 2008-09 during Murray's second stint at Easter Rd.
Shop windae until Jan????
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16 minutes ago, spot on said:
‘Undisclosed fee’ so we got something
11 minutes ago, Kooz92 said:Hold on, we got rid of Zanatta AND got some cash for him?
11 minutes ago, Double Jack D said:I would imagine the fee would be quite trivial.
5 minutes ago, RRFC_Liam said:What I find mental is that someone actual paid a fee for Zanatta.
Just now, RRFC_Liam said:It’s a cracking bit business even getting a fee for him
Too many folks on here jumping to conclusions. Who said the direction of the fee was from them to us?
It probably was a trivial fee but it'd be all we can afford.
Seriously though, good luck Dario, I hope it works for you, just not against us.
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On 22/08/2022 at 17:56, SirJimmyofNic said:
Who actually oversees the Club finances on a week to week or month to month basis, since theres no longer a financial Director, it just seems to me that nobody is doing their job apart from the unpaid volunteers , theres not even a feckin team photo this season,
At a guess it has to be the CEO, after all she has to be responsible for something other than just outsourcing to justify her alleged high salary.
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31 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
One for those intent on tearing into Liam Dick and Ross Millen. They are the top two crossers of the ball in the Championship so far. Dick with 71.43% accuracy and Millen top with 72.73%.
Not disputing it, but what site do you visit for stats like that?
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2 hours ago, TxRover said:
I was of the opinion that they wanted to punt JMcG and install PS until seasons end only, are you suggesting they offered PS an extension and the role?
Nope, my take was that Smith was too be offered the managers job.
1 hour ago, Ro Sham Bo said:I don't think it's unreasonable to surmise that, after giving the green light to the deal in the first place, Sim gave the CEO or whoever the authority to conclude the deal should anything change rather than him staying up all night in the off chance Clyde changed their mind.
The deal was worth over £0.2M once everything was said and done. The deal had collapsed at tea-time over here and as far as JS was concerned it was dead. IIRC the deal with Clyde was agreed it was DG's demands that couldn't be met? If he wanted a longer contract, more money or both it would have massively impacted the final deal and I just don't see John Sim not wanting to be in the loop.
I suppose he could have pre-instructed his CEO otherwise, it is possible "Ok Karen, if they come back to the table I'll go as high as £1,500/week for 2.5 years but not a Baht more!" Of course it's possible but I just find it unlikely, wouldn't he at least want to know he'd got his man?
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17 hours ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
Entirely possible given the time difference.
You don't think the Chairman and owner wouldn't be called regardless of the time difference to tell him that a deal of this magnitude, one that was supposedly dead and buried was being resurrected and actually completed? Nah! I'm not buying that.
Mind you if they couldn't be arsed calling him why would they pick up the phone and warn a major investor that the deal the CEO had personally insisted wouldn't happen was going to be completed.
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16 hours ago, pub car king said:
Well at least there is an answer on the Goodwillie funding, its essentially coming out of Sims pocket.
K107 have asked the questions we wanted asking and have got some information out there. At the end of the day they are local community radio and they need to temper asking these questions with maintaining a good relationship with the club. So to that extent you won't get a Jeremy Paxman cross examination.
There were so many snippets came out of this for example the pitch side adverts had been unpaid for years and nobody had bothered to take them down.
Very interesting comment that when McGlynn was in hospital he sent someone down to check on Smith who was temping. That's a whole can of worms there.
I'm more than a bit circumspect about some of what we were told.
Re the pitch side advertising. That type of business is all about dialogue and communication. You don't just steam in and rip them down, you go to the customer and offer them a deal to pay for next season in advance so they get to keep it free for now. Thats how a commercial agent works, not by doing nothing for 18 months, not by being too shy to pick up a phone and certainly not by out-sourcing it to your pals in their new marketing firm.
Re David Goodwillie, is it really coming out of Sims pocket or is it being paid by the wealthiest man on the board? If it's coming out of Colin Smart's wallet then surely it'd be money that would have been coming the Rovers way anyway and so in effect Rovers are still losing out. I've said all along the 4 on the board who voted to sign him should bear the financial responsibility of a terrible bit of business and if Ms McCartney has also (as it seems) had a paw in this then she should be paying something too, if the rumour mill is true she's on about the same wage as GW and is giving about the same return it seems.
Titan is proving a white elephant, wonder what phrase will get hung on the new 4 story Hub when it's built?
Not sure I believe the story about JM & PS either, those two are tight and Mr Sim has no love for McGlynn despite what he'll say. Rovers planned to Sack McGlynn in April and give the job to Smith, the fact that Smith opted to go with McGlynn to TFS and not take the managers job at Starks tells it's own story.... or maybe he's just trying to avoid spending extra time in the CEO's company too.
Kudos to GK for his interview, but I too think there were a few open goals that could have been taken.
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2 hours ago, Heid_The_Baw said:
Take it that it was the scumbag heartless fascist
leaderpuppet of the Zieg Heil antiScottish Tory Party?
I think you may confusing him with the Neanderthal Steward supervisor at the away stand entrance, although to be fair I don't think he was a Tory party member.....I suppose he could be though!
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Good performance yesterday from Rovers, the team starting to show the energy and hunger that Murray promised he would deliver.
Great work effort from Ross, Gullan, Easton and Connolly but a special mention has to go to Sam Stanton who is a Rolls Royce of a player in this vein of form. Defensively we looked sound again with Dick, O'Riordan, Nolan and Millen (who easily had his best game in a Rovers jersey) looking as though they can gel into something more than decent. I feared when Brown limped off that we would lose our bite in midfield but although his presence was missed it wasn't too noticeable.
On a cautionary note like the week before where we played the worst Morton side I've ever seen this good result was not against a great Accies side. looking at the league so far I don't see the quality in it of recent seasons and that goes for all 10 teams, I suspect that will change once the loanees start appearing at certain clubs (eg Arbroath).
We looked confident and capable, the passing at times was a joy to watch (unless you were an Accies defender, then you didn't even know where the ball had gone to!) and the willingness to get a shot on goal great to see.
Hopefully we can take this confidence into the game at Firhill, though I suspect the Jags will prove a sterner test than anything we've faced so far.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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Maybe so, but I got the distinct impression the Chairman pushed for the deal more than the manager.
Perhaps having already having signed Brown and Easton, Murray just wanted the money to be spent elsewhere.