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Jeez I was merely pointing out that Raith clearly had a budget in mind for the season ahead and it seems the reason they've been able to sign two decent players is because they've overspent said budget,, however it's presented. Is that not a fact? If you guys trust the current board not to do this repeatedly over the course of a few season and get yourself in the shit again (albeit on a much smaller scale than we did) then fair enough. Just my opinion, but it sets wee alarm bells ringing when the board repeatedly ask for bigger crowds to turn out whilst relying on local businesses to fund the playing squad.

"the club hopes that our supporters will also back the team in increasing numbers in the season ahead"

Pure speculation. Your budget IS boosted by external funding, one of the many ways we "cheated" in the past. It caught up with us eventually. Just an observation.

Time to climb down from that moral high ground lads.........

Local businessmen helping to fund new signings............what could possibly go wrong with that?

Hunt won't be signing for us.

Probably best keeping that to yourself TBH

Fail to see how the strip is a "shocker" - I probably won't buy it as I never usually do - but it's no better or worse than most Pars tops over the last 5 or 6 years.

The guy looks the part. Hope it happens.

Yeah. Still slightly OTT though I'm sure you'll agree.

Yeah.......were one poster compared Josh leaving to the death of a close family member. Roasters on every forum.

Can I bin my "league one" bookmark yet?

I had a copy of this dumped on my desk today by a guy from Methil who's been telling me for the last 3 years that The Rangers being "relegated" to the bottom tier of Scottish football is "doing all the wee teams a favour" There's so many holes in it I don't know where to begin. Dunfermline went bust in 2013........... "Cash strapped" Ayr............. "The temptation will be to bump up wages to attract better players — but that strategy has got teams into trouble in the past"...........that's right folks, everyone else should tighten their purse strings whilst they sign 33 year old journeymen for 25k a week. "Rangers were booted down to League Two in 2012" "Minnows"........ What a pile of patronising horse-shit

It seems Rovers fans don't like it up 'em....

Calm doon flower, it's only the net. Not real life

Yes it would, although I'd hazard a guess that for the majority of the nineties & noughties a fair percentage of teams from the top two leagues massively overspent at some point (yourselves included) It used to be the way. Not any more.

Well I don't think any clubs' owners would come out & say "we'd happily settle for 6th place" in a ten-team league. I'd be quite happy to stay up but I don't think there's much between the teams outwith Hibs, Falkirk & yourselves & given that 2 out of those 3 have new management teams, I bet AJ & the board secretly harbour ambitions of the play-offs. I heard that Leishman interview & I'm fairly certain he said we have a top 6 set-up in place, which is arguable if he was talking about the stadium etc. I'd agree with you & stats would support it - in my time supporting the Pars (30-odd years) we've never been an established anything, apart from a fair size chunk of the noughties which was all built on sand of course...........

Yes I believe so. If you read Ross McArthurs' end of season report on our website I have complete and utter faith in the people in charge of my club. That's not to say their decisions can't be questioned but I know they're made with the long term stability of our club at heart. We've even made a small profit, even whilst playing in the third tier of Scottish football.

Missing the point mate but just a light-hearted reply to one of your own having a pop at our old habit of spending money we don't have. Oh and posting on a fans football forum does not equal obsession. Look it up in the dictionary....;o)

Still got local businessmen paying wages the club couldn't otherwise afford? What could possibly go wrong with that I wonder?

Fucks sakes talk about a climb down!

The over-reaction by some of the Raith fans on here is laughable. Nothing like giving someone a chance eh? Also, the notion that the board would deliberately appoint a sub-standard manager as some sort of "GIRUY" gesture to stay-away fans is ridiculous. Do you really think the BOD consult P&B over who to appoint? This is like .net at its worst.

Jeez give the man a chance!

True though