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The other isn’t Finishd but I kear he’s a bit of a meatball.

I've got my doubts on that one. Anyway on the subject of getting some bodies in, I see Jack Hamilton has gone on loan at Hartlepool, that's a blow for us as I'd heard he was a signing target.

Fair comments both. But if your short of centre backs because you let 3 go why not just sign a dedicated centre half? Also I’m not convinced yet with Easton, he looks like a player who can add the Gloss when you’re fying but can’t help dig you out of a hole when you’re under the cosh. To my mind We already have one of those, his name is Zanatta.

And McKay for that matter. in an ideal world we would punt all 3 and bring in better, but where exactly do we get better? FWIW I’d have made more of an effort and kept Frankie and probably McKay too. Tumilty was always going so finding a decent replacement was always going to be hard, jury is out on Millen and we can but hope he comes good. Midfield is a clusterfuck! Matthews didn’t get his op when he should have due to the club being a shambles without a manager. Easton might have been poty in L1 and Brown might be Peterhead’s poty but are they better than what we already have? I’m not convinced. It’s still early days and it will take a while for players to gel to Murray’s ideas, add a good signing or 3 things might not look so bad. Once the injured guys come back we could be looking good, I just hope we aren’t cast too far adrift.

Am I looking at the wrong leagues? Accies are only on 7 points no? QotS 8pts +4gd, A win or a draw and a penalty shoot out win would see us through by my reckoning.

Quite galling really, if we'd been good enough to beat either of Dumbarton or Stirling we'd be there too. Even a penalty win over Stirling would have been enough to see us through with a draw at Pittodrie.

I'm sure of that's the case it would be all over the press abd club website. I call your bluff Definitely this, I spoke to the owner about a month or so ago, at that point he was saying that we should have news of his departure soon. With that in mind I'm sure the club will issue something when/if it ever happens. In the ideal world Sim, Sinton, Morgan & McDonald would be issuing a joint statement saying that they've personally paid up his contract and he's away.

If I'm honest I feel less than enthusiastic at present, not just about the coming season but the club in general. I definitely feel that in the course of this year a bit of the passion has gone, which for a Rovers fan who's gone H&A since 1977 is a bit of a strange feeling. Hopefully Murray will get it right and get the right people in but for me the wheels came off the bus last season and simply changing the coach driver isn't going to solve the issue. Yes there were changes need after last season but the ones that have been implemented haven't shown signs of being the right ones....at least not yet! Matthews, Stanton, Spencer and even Arnott are very good players, but are Brown and Easton vast improvements to what was/is arguably our strongest area of the team? Is Ian Murray an improvement on John McGlynn? As I said the wheels definitely came off and I fear in the process we also careered off the road, I'm hopeful if not massively confident those running the club know what they are doing to get us going again. I'm struggling for optimism, so perhaps a decent signing or 2 would help.

In years gone by McGlynn was starting to deal in players earlier and earlier (Keatings, Tumilty, Lang and Zanatta) but that was never going to be an option for us this season. Strangely though no other teams got any early deals done either. It's been a strange close season.

Yeah, sign Foster and get in Broadfoot and Toderov too. In fact while we're at it we may as well wheel out Goodwillie too! It's been a poor poor start to things in many ways, hopefully it can only get better.

A relatively comfortable 32 deg at 5pm in Bratislava last night at teatime. Its a mere 28 just now, quite pleasant.

You shouldn't have any problems. I watched the Peterhead game on Wednesday in the Highlander bar in Vienna. Planning to do the same today but farther along the Danube.

They cobbled that up nicely

I see Airdrie are also looking for a new Physio. Announce our latest signing...

Of course booing a friendly is a tad OTT, but when you support the Rovers you have to be used to that kind of behaviour, it's really nothing new, you can take the dour Fifer out of Fife but you'll never take the dour out of (some) Fifers. All the same there were more Rovers fans leaving the ground yesterday shaking their heads than smiling that was for sure, and it's not hard to see why. Murray has made promises and though there's no indications as yet hopefully the signs will appear soon that his methods are the right ones, otherwise we are in for a long hard season. What concerns me is the players he's brought in and most importantly hasn't (yet), last season we conceded too many goals yet despite 4 departures the only new defender through the door so far is Ross Millen (who's performances thus far haven't filled me with hope). Instead without even seeing us play Murray has brought in 2 new guys to compete in what most would probably agree is our strongest department. Are Brown and Easton better than what we have in Stanton, Arnott, Spencer and Matthews? I don't think so, in fact so far they don't look as good, I only hope they settle in and improve massively. I fully understand that adapting to a new coach's style will take a while, but I'm still concerned that the level of quality in the team has if anything dropped a notch.

Ok still a friendly same as QotS was but where is the "high press and quick attacking football" cos' I'm yet to see it. As I say very early days but with age comes experience and tbh I'm concerned.

Watching the highlights of the QotS game, Berra is the main culprit for their winner but Dick is culpable too, he's on his heels not expecting a pass and then manages to get back only to get done by the attacker. Poor defending all round. FWIW I think theirs was a justifiable penalty but our looks like it hits McKay in the face.

Help ma Bob, you'd think they'd have learned from experience.

Aye that'll teach them!

On a different note I see our average attendance last season was our lowest in the last 12 years. Several mitigating factors like derby games being played outwith Saturdays and games being covered on BBC Alba. Add in the DG fallout too I suppose. https://www.transfermarkt.com/raith-rovers-fc/besucherzahlenentwicklung/verein/2795

Only hard and willing workers need apply?

Well at least the pies would be fresh!

I wasn't their either but I herd there Pies were good.

Thank heavens for that, I’ve just woken up from a dream (I’m on nights) in which we got beat 4-0 Of course you can’t read too much into pre-season friendlies and the standard of opposition was low but that would have been worrying.

Listening to Christophe's interview he says the championship gets harder and more physical every year as the standard improves. I thought the standard had gone down last season, I am in agreement with what another poster said about English lower league sides having to look elsewhere (as they cant get foreigners) and I think it's having a cascade effect on north of the border. Not seen or heard a lot of transfer activity up here and definitely nothing really outstandingly good! On the plus side it could be a great time to help improve the younger ones.