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17 minutes ago, Stardog_champion said:
The way I see it is the Pars must not lose or they are in real danger of a relegation they can’t afford.
I don't think getting beat tonight will define whether we get relegated tbh.
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18 minutes ago, CallumPar said:
I must have missed the 3 times as much comment, sorry I thought it was the amount being disputed. Yes, it’s complete nonsense to suggest that 5th in championship gets 3x as much.
It’s not a good look to lie about these things, that can be easily disproved. Makes it very hard to trust what he says.
Aye, from the very good summary by Digs on the EEB forum (Not sure if he's posts on here but he does a very fine job of getting everything jotted down). As you say, when you can disprove some of the things Cook says, it becomes very difficult to trust him fully on other issues.
"Last year we were relegated and even winning the league didn't give us much back - £120k for winning the league. The gap in the championship is huge though, mid-table finish in this league is treble that"
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1 minute ago, CallumPar said:
Got to take VAT off the £149k, which makes the amount £124k. This is something a lot of people forget when looking at ticket prices etc too.
Fair point.
Also worth pointing out that 5th place in the Championship also gets charged VAT so it still wouldn't be three times as much.
It's small things, but why say it?
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On 01/02/2024 at 12:59, WestHibee said:
One small piece of gossip today for Pars fans. I believe former NZ Captain Tommy Smith has turned down the chance to join on a short term loan until the end of the season from MK Dons. Ex Ipswich and Colorado Rapids CB was keen to move north but wanted a permanent deal but the Pars only wanted a short term loan
26 minutes ago, The Toun Clock said:For anyone interested, if you jump over to the EEB forum, there is a pretty good rundown of last nights supporters meeting. I think it was for members of supporters clubs etc hence why no open invite.
Decent read and should hopefully add some meat to the bones and put some rumours to bed about missing out on guys for the sake of £100pw etc.
Depends if you can fully trust everything Cook says, there's a few points that I'm dubious about which can be disputed through other sources available (Spfl prize money and the xG stat). When you get to the stage of dispelling rumours you're trusting that he's being more honest about the Tommy Smith situation than say the first quoted poster is.
There's some good stuff in there with things to be optimistic about, but I'm not quite at the stage with Cook where I reckon you can just take everything he says as gospel. As opposed to say Ross MacArthur, who for any faults he may have had at picking managers, you could trust everything he was saying was to the best of his knowledge, truthful and honest.
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1 hour ago, Wacky said:
I know football fans will cling to any hope of survival at the highest level they can attain, but I’d hate us to survive at the expense of another team’s demise (naturally if this happens then so be it)
I don't think anyone wants Inverness to die.
But if they were to go into admin and that was to save us? I'd take that.
Likewise if all 9 teams in the Championship hit the skids and we finished top by default? Ach that'd be fine.
Best of luck to Inverness, great city, but I hope they finish in the bottom two one way or another, cheers.
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13 minutes ago, grumswall said:
I'm not even sure it's the overall squad that's the issue. The tactics are woeful.
Correct.
Well at least that's what I beleive, and it's what I was getting at in the original post.
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30 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Grim that we're apparently so reliant on an injury prone loan player whose top goal return in a season is 10.
For me the biggest issue I have with this, is that we signed Kane halfway through February.
It's not exactly news to Pars fans, but does that mean the first 6 months of our season were a write off because we didn't have a striker?
I'm not disagreeing that he's a good player, but I think people are overstating how good, and how important he is. We've all been guilty (I certainly have) of thinking "When *insert player* gets back we'll be fine". It's happened with Bene, Todd, KRH etc and we still don't look any better going forward.
It's a damming indictment on the state of our squad that we only have one striker, and he was signed in February ffs.
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1 hour ago, VinnyPar said:
Think Wighton is complete done at this level tbh
I have a suspicion we've never seen him fit, at least not at this level.
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1 hour ago, Rover1883 said:
Have to disagree with the few Raith fans that are on this thread hope Utd turnover the townies because imagine spending a million to win league one to just get put right back down again.
That might be the most wee team post I've ever seen.
Hating Dunfermline more than you support your own team, oaft.
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1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:
We any closer to getting a replacement for Shields yet?
He's put his new job up on linkedin.
Not seen anyone else come in.
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Just now, RAITHROVERS84 said:
I’d change your user name TBH. It’s the footballing equivalent of having the moniker ‘Saville’ unfortunately.
See, there's not a single poster on this thread who'll not find those images disgraceful.
However you're looking like a dick here, it's faux outrage on your part, trying desperately to link this with a whole stand. And bringing up Saville? Christ.
It takes some doing to look like the dick in this situation but you're managing it, bravo.
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9 minutes ago, RaithRyan said:
Well lads, the incident at East End we were told the laddies had nothing to do with Northwest and “not Pars fans”.
Unfortunately I doubt you can deny this or deflect away from any of this.
What on earth are you on about?
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11 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:
Given he was shaking his head at the boos that decision got he obviously thought that it was the correct change to make. I'd really like to hear him justify it as it was a really bad move
I jus don't get what he was hoping to achieve with it, with the change what was he hoping would happen, what would improve us?
Proper head loss of a decision that has made me concerned as f**k tbh. The McPake of last season is as good a manager we've had since McIntyre, however the past couple of months he's been far, far closer to Hughes with his bizarre decisions and poor subs and tactical changes.
In the same way that a player might lose form it feels like McPake is doing the same.
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5 hours ago, Been going too long said:
, good to hear there was a mix in montagues etc, way it should be but that March from oconnells to the ground with the banner will always attract Fannie’s imo and would be better diverted away from links street
Aye, agreed.
3 hours ago, The Toun Clock said:.
I have to say, despite our appalling record, Kirkcaldy is still one of my favourite away days. Easy to get to, easy to get back to Dunfermline, pubs are a stone throw away from the ground and of course it's a derby so it has that wee bit of edge to it. If we were to compare to having to go to Grangemouth it's night and day.
Agreed, I don't think I've ever went out in Grangemouth, but on Saturday I stayed in Kirkcaldy then went to my first Fife Flyers game, it was alright.
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7 hours ago, Been going too long said:
Totally agree that would avoid the flashpoint as it’s always at the estuary and your right brings them out nearer the away end , in days gone by the pars never had a pub on the high street , we always had the Elizabethan but it was at the right side of east end for us. Wouldn’t solve all the hassle but pretty sure it would help a lot, sick of seeing little green street wannabes wandering around being the big men
Aye? My first derby was in 2009 and I remember drinking in the Penny Farthing/The Abbey, there's also been Pars fans along the high street.
Ended up going to Montagues pre and post match and it was absolutely fine and trouble free, mixture of Pars and Raith fans.
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Just now, SirJimmyofNic said:
BBC were saying it would've been a penalty if VAR was being used, so guess they're wrong as well as the ref
Correct.
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Stinking decision by the ref, was never a free kick.
Games been as even as they come outside that.
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25 minutes ago, RR #1 said:
Aye of course they were asked about it. Professional responce would be to say 'I've no interest in what their social media says' or 'we'll do or talking on the pitch'. Giving the journo a multi paragraph answer greeting about why we shouldnt be posting such things on our socials just makes them look absolutely rattled. I would be embarrassed if it was other way round.
He was utterly raging that we had the cheek to celebrate a last minute winner last time at Starks.
Of course McPake wont be giving it big licks and will just respectfully make his way down the tunnel if he pops his Fife Derby cherry tomorrow (aye right).
Changed his tune from last season it seems when he was defending wild celebrations after his team won a league 1 game in November
"The players will feel good, the fans will feel good standing in front of that. I’ll apologise to nobody for that – albeit, it’s November"
You're coming across far more raging tbh.
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40 minutes ago, RR #1 said:
Amusing to see both McPake and that striker who never scores in the courier moaning about how rattled they get by our social media posts.
According to McPake the only time players, staff and fans should be celebrating a win is if it clinches promotion or it's a cup final. What an absolute fanny.
Aye, they'll definitely have brought it up, and not just answered a question put to them by a journalist.
He doesn't say that either?
"For what I’ve seen of the Raith stuff, if it gets them traction and gets them publicity then great for the football club.
“I would just be pretty careful because this game’s got a horrible way of kicking you."
"the best time to do it is if you’ve won the league or got promoted through the play-offs, which I know is very tough to do because I’ve done it.
“Then, it’s great fun, for everybody involved.
“I think if it was me I would be waiting until we had achieved something.”
He's not saying fans shouldn't celebrate? He's still talking about the social media stuff and saying he'd wait to give it big licks until after you've won the title. Hardly ground breaking stuff.
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18 minutes ago, Wee Sandy said:
My understanding for calling us The Wee Team titlle was that, at the time, we were getting lower attendances than Fife Flyers......nothing to do in comparing RRFC with DAFC!!....but comparing San Starko attendances with Fife Ice Arena!!
Aye? I've always just taken it as Raith being smaller than Dunfermline tbh.
12 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:First time I ever heard "the wee team" as an insult, or the "you're just a wee team" song was well into the 2000s (I'm pretty sure it was Jason Barber who used the phrase "the wee team along the A92" at an open night around those times) - certainly don't remember anything like that when I stood in the cage in the 90s - so I'm surprised to hear people say it's been "we fucking hate you" since the early 90s. It's always been "we don't even hate you" as far as I've heard it, from the mid 2000s up til about 4 or 5 years ago when the young guys started a singing section in the North Stand when a few started the other version. Maybe I'm wrong and it started earlier than that, but "we don't even hate you" makes so much more sense.
Mind you, football fans are idiots. When I lived in Southampton they used to sing "Que Sera, Sera (wash your mouth out son)" and the final line I'd always heard ("Pars are number one") which rhymed with son and gun in the previous lines was supplanted by "and support the Saints" which doesn't rhyme with any other line in the song. Really annoyed me, that did!
Aye first time I'd heard of it was 2009 when we were sharing the league for the first time in a decade.
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48 minutes ago, Double Jack D said:
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The fact we are looking at a 2nd home sell out this season and the increase in attendances across the whole of the season would suggest that the board have pretty much got the pricing right.
I reckon challenging for the title has more to do with that tbh.
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1 hour ago, Enigma said:
Well, they’ll certainly be coming after us next season given they’ve got a guy who’s been abusing his position at another club to have digs at the Rovers in charge of their socials.
Reckon Enigma is odds on to lose the rag next year under the auspices of "Likes to give it out, doesn't quite like taking it".
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Aye, I fully get why the players in involved in them would feel annoyed (I thought it was McPake in the GoKart, and Wighton and Benedictus might well feel slighted), but social media is all about that content. I've posted before but I feel some of it is more suited to tiktok where teams taking the piss out of each other seems a bit more common, but we're splitting hairs.
We tend to use the medium of a giant bear to rip the pish.
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41 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
I absolutely love how posting a story of how our social media has got to the Dunfermline players, and there claims that DAFC are more respectful has the 'fermline fans wetting themselves to justify Sammy and his Tank again.
It was literally just an example of how you are no more respectful than our socials have been. Calm down people!
You're wrong, again. Which is what the crux of this is.
People aren't wetting themselves, but on here if you make bullshit claims you will get pulled up on them, thems the breaks.
I only wish you'd been on PnB after that game, at least then you might have been funny.
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Did he apologise for that "Reeee" pish against Autistic people? Absolute belter.