Raith_Raver

A brief pitch inspection after the downpour, but seems ok.

Bene and McKay at CB is reasonable. Relieved to see Mackie dropped. Spencer

Based on what data - media promotion?

Parrots don't talk with intelligence, there's nothing bigger about the Ayrshire derby except the boasting. Apart from the Fife towns being bigger, the Ayrshire derby is a one sided affair with Ayr winning less than half the number of games Killie won, compared to Dunfermline Rovers where its not far off half and half.

Bigger? Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline have bigger populations than either Ayr or Kilmarnock. I'm talking from years of irritated observation that the Ayrshire derby is a darling fixture of the West coast media, especially the BBC ("you can be sure we'll cover every kick") "Scotland".

I agree that McGlynn has changed things, what I said is that I don't think he has found an effective way to counteract high pressing tactics. Some teams can take advantage and expose the weaknesses of high press, we've been unable to do so. I don't think there will be any doubt about how Dunfermline will approach this game, just as QOS did on Sunday, when we were on the back foot until we changed from the two up front.

Yes. If it had been the fond Ayrshire derby it would have been all over BBC Strathclyde.

Naw

I think the majority of us agree that most teams have decided the most effective way to play us is the hundred mile an hour high pressing game, and Dunfermline have done this in our previous three fixtures. What gets me is that McGlynn hasn't figured out a way to counter this tactic, other than to hope we can ride it out and hope opponents run out of steam later in the game.

Playing with the meaning of words to try to cover clear contradiction?

You think Comrie won't play again but won't be surprised if he does.... "It just gets worse and worse"

I would make Dunfermline favourites too; it takes us too long to get into games. I expect them to be like QOS were for the first hour until McGlynn changed it. But who knows, we might just click from the start or once.

After the match on Sunday McGlynn said he wouldn't be giving the players the day off (yesterday) because of the importance of Wednesday's match, so he doesn't think that fatigue will be a factor - maybe if there had been extra time.

It's more or less a must win for us both; a draw would give us a slim chance but would be almost certainly bottom two for you. i'm not optimistic, Dunfermline have learned like every other team in the league that we can't match high pressing high tempo tactics that give us no time on the ball. That said, if it's still even after an hour when the pace inevitably drops I think we'll win, just like Sunday.

I'm not worried about Williamson and Gullan being unavailable. I'd be worried if it were players like Matthews Stanton or Connolly

Even if he was ready his lack of match fitness would rule him out of a game of this importance, unless he came on late if we were out of sight. I'm not contributing to their coffers either this time, the townies didnt much bother to come to the games at Stark's.

McGlynn saying in his post match that injuries were still limiting his team selection for Wednesday, so I take from that there will be no Berra, maybe also referring to Spencer and possibly others.

Irony... Explain...

You're concerned about fck all of your business. You're an attention seeking arsehole, just GTF.

Look at the quality on that bench who aren't fully fit - Vaughan Berra Spencer Zanatta

Thompson has never had a good word to say about us.

How's that three year plan going