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10 hours ago, DreamOakTree1 said:
Maybe I’m a bit old school, but much as I’ve always loved Raith Rovers’ stadium, I always rated them alongside Hamilton Accies as the most anti-football teams I’ve ever seen, so I don’t get this new Pep-espues poshness that they are somehow technically superior to Morton. Having said that, I like to see a variation in football between passing and being more direct. I really can’t remember Raith ever being the team with a style I would want to aspire to, so I just don’t get the tone from some Raith fans on here.
You obviously know nothing about us.
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17 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:
While I'd have no issue with being described as a long ball side - I couldn't care less what style of football we play as long as it's effective - I do think the stat is a bit misleading. We regularly try to play balls over the top for players to chase, but hanging punts up in the air for a physical aerial contest with the opposition defence isn't something this team does often, because we don't have enough height in the team to do it. People see a stat about long balls and subconsciously translate that into "aimless punts", but with Ugwu away we don't have anyone to compete with centre backs for that kind of ball so rarely do it.
Going by the definitions used to compile those stats both our second and third goals on Saturday there involved long balls, but the second while definitely being a long ball was an excellently measured pass to find a well timed run off the shoulder of a defence playing a high line, while the third was a great passing move that involved clipping the ball down the wing to the full back who'd started the attack then made an overlapping run.
Kick and rush came to mind
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2 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Morton were easily the worst team I’ve seen this season, but they do seem to have picked up a fair bit lately. Dick at centre half did well on Saturday, as did Ngwenya at left back. I think if Nolan is fit he will come back in but it would t be a disaster if we had to go with the former again. Frederiksen will have had another whole week of training. Keen to see him partner Gullan at some point but I think going 4-4-2 away from home would be risky. Imagine we will see the big man in the second half again.
Murray said we needed to be "less nice" and I think we'll stand up to gangs like, Morton Inverness and Arbroath better now.
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11 minutes ago, PB1994 said:
No but I watched the full 90 minutes.
Did you agree with what Dodds said after the game?
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57 minutes ago, PB1994 said:
we beat you 2-0 about 5 weeks ago m5
Were you at the game?
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13 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:
Being unable to ever beat the Caley in league matches is clearly starting to mentally affect some Raith fans.......and not in a positive way.
We're positive all right. You're likely to find out why in a fortnight.
When was the last time you beat us on merit?
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Morton roughed us up a bit at Stark's; I wonder if they concentrate more on playing football at home?
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2 hours ago, PB1994 said:
...have a better squad than all three teams...
Aye?
And how many teams have you beaten that finished with eleven men on the pitch
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2 hours ago, grumswall said:4 hours ago, Raith_Raver said:The reference is to the first half, It's not the dive and booking. Watch what Megginson says in his interview and you might form a different conclusion.
Yeah I hadn't seen that. I'll need to watch the highlights to see what he's talking about now.
We were one up at the time, the folk around me thought it was dodgy.
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12 hours ago, PB1994 said:
Cove then Hamilton and Raith at home. No reason we shouldn’t be winning all three of those but I’d be quite happy with 7 points out of those 3 games.
There's no reason why you should...
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1 minute ago, grumswall said:
For what? Megginson 100% dived and I can't remember any other shout for a penalty in the game.
The reference is to the first half, It's not the dive and booking. Watch what Megginson says in his interview and you might form a different conclusion.
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Nice of Jim McIntyre to acknowledge that we were "better to a man" on Saturday. He rejected the excuses offered by his interviewer and even suggested that Cove's 15 minute spell of pressure was maybe us "taking the foot off the gas". He's gone up in my estimation.
PS - apparently Rovers admitted that Cove should have had a penalty.
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13 minutes ago, madton said:
Should be a decent game. Play like we did yesterday and confident of another 3 points.
If we play like we did yesterday we'll be confident of another three points too...
...should be a decent game.
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Yea, Stanton easily MotM for me. O'Riordan steady and dependable as usual. I thought Millen was playing well too until these two daft short passes to MacDonald with a Cove forward feet away
I thought Longstaff looked good for them when he got on the ball.
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26 minutes ago, PB1994 said:
Hopefully we can carry on for another 22 years to see how you are feeling after that.
Keep hoping - see you in a fortnight
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McBride and Connell dropped, understandable, but Easton too.
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3 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
If your players stopped two footing opposition players it might be a start.
...or maybe if your players quit diving and feigning assault, which I suspect is part of your training regime
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Just now, Sir Tarmo said:
Hello pal. Hoping you can move up to 6th place today, would be a great shame to see you down in 9th x
Aye, would be good if we got a benevolent referee for once....
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Murray tends to be a bit conservative with making too many changes (notwithstanding taking off the defence and bringing on every forward available if we're behind with ten minutes to go) so I don't expect both Matthews and the new Haaland to be starting.
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You've got to wonder how these hoors keep getting benevolent referees
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Ya hoor, he's finally here...
If he's in the squad for tomorrow that might put a couple of hundred or more on the gate
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35 minutes ago, RRFC_Liam said:
Craig Cairns in the Courier has put out the club are looking to extends O’riordans loan past January
That's terrific news. We can all hope it comes off.
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37 minutes ago, CoveRangers1922 said:
Lang expected to play tomorrow for the Rovers? See Ethan missed the QP game last week.
Lang's still a month or so away. Ross has been off the boil for a while and has been warming the bench.
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Motherwell Sligo levels of incompetence.
Fackin useless na na nana
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The Ton v Raith Rovers 15-10-22
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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We're responding to the false claim that we're anti football, now you come up with the low trick of the opposite extreme that we think we play like Manchester City. Keep up the low life sarcasm, its what's expected from your mob