SanStarko
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Looks like that might be at least one of the retro tops starting to make their way out now. Just got an email about the 89/90 top, still heard nothing about the 90/91 top which I'm sure was up for pre-order close to a month before the 89/90 one.
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Fully expect Dick to re-sign if we're still in the Championship next season. He's not going to do anything spectacular but works hard and just gets on with it, clearly Murray trusts him given that Dick usually ends up with the captain's armband if Brown and Matthews aren't on the pitch. I wouldn't expect him to be the starting LB but then that might not matter as I get the feeling Murray would like to play a back three more often but realises he doesn't really have the players for it and Dick looks pretty comfortable playing that LCB role in a back three.
I think the guy's done pretty well for being almost setup to fail when he first came in. Replacing Kieran MacDonald was always going to make it tough, but having McGlynn come out after he signed and pretty much say that he'd tried to sign other LBs but couldn't get them so Dick was the last option didn't really come across as the best way to introduce your new signing.
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17 hours ago, philpy said:
I'm now wondering why we replaced Gullan with rudden. Gullan was always a good impact sub, and also scored a few important goals for us. Rudden on the other hand, I genuinely can't think of anything he's done that's been worthy of noting.
It's not like we replaced Gullan with Rudden by choice, Murray was pretty clear at the time that he wanted to keep Gullan but that he wanted more gametime and we couldn't guarantee that so he wanted to leave.I think the biggest issue with Rudden just now is you compare him to Hamilton in that role, the ball gets hit up to Hamilton and he's a good chance of either winning the ball or winning a foul. Whereas when Rudden tries to play that role he does neither, the ball gets hit up to him and he barely wins anything, and the odd time he does he ends up miscontrolling it. You seen it in the ICT game, after Rudden came on every ball that got cleared up to him just ended up coming straight back at us as he couldn't win it. We were a lot more free flowing going forward when Rudden first came in and it seemed to suit him but he's really struggled recently.
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Thought it was interesting in Murray's post match interview he mentions hoping to give Corr more time next season. Pretty sure Corr only signed a one year deal so wonder if there's been some discussions about keeping him on to see how he progresses.
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3 minutes ago, embow said:
Thank Christ we've got second place already wrapped up, for this is painful to watch. Nobody seems to be able to hold on to the ball up front. Rudden is just plain awful!
Yeah, ending a game with Hamilton instead of Rudden makes more sense. Nothing sticks with Rudden so every cleared ball is just coming straight back at us.
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10 minutes ago, philpy said:
No easton??
They've updated it, he's on the bench.
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12 hours ago, Raithfan2711 said:
Retro hats? Wonder if they will be like the retro strips that I paid money for two of them weeks ago and not a peep since.
Somebody asked about them on the Facebook post about the bucket hats and the reply was soon. Just checked and it was the 8th March I ordered the first one, didn't realise it was as long ago as that.
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3 minutes ago, pub car king said:
I can't partake will it be available to watch afterwards?
It's not been mentioned in the email or on the call, unless I missed it.
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5 minutes ago, TxRover said:
IM looking a bit pensive before the Club 1883 Q&A right now. It’ll be interesting to see how this all goes for the first time.
He's probably preparing himself for the 40 "Why you no play Corr?" questions.
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That felt like a team who'd accepted the title challenge was over after the Utd result last night and were pretty flat as a result.
On the positive, second place secured and we know we'll be playing one of Airdrie or Partick in the play offs so have three weeks to work towards it. Regardless of what happens in the play offs, it's been a fair turnaround from last season both on and off the pitch.0 -
41 minutes ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
How do Raith fans feel about Dabrowski? He was signed to reasonable acclaim at the start of the year and he has pulled off some big saves (remember one against us at Starks earlier in season), but is it fair to say he's been culpable for some big goals too?
Looks like he was so slow to move for Frizzell's first and even for McGregor's goal leaves the whole near post are for McGregor to pick his spot... albeit I didn't think Lewis had a finish like that on his left foot in him.
Some people seem to get really upset and go overboard on the criticism of him. I think he's absolutely fine, he has things he needs to work on but that's to be expected when you bring in an inexperienced and young (by keeper standards) keeper. He was always going to come with mistakes, if he was the finished article with no weak points to his game, he wouldn't be with us.
On the plus side, it's fairly clear what his main weak points are, kicking and dealing with cross balls. And in both those areas he has improved since the start of the season, still a long way to go but it's clear he is working on them.
For the third goal last night, watching it back it does seem like he's maybe misjudged where he is as he did leave a far bigger gap to his near post than I'd expect. But given the shot I don't think it would have made any difference if had been positioned properly.
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11 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
I personally think the title is gone, Utd have to lose 2 games out of the last four and we need to win them all....... christ we cant get even past Arbroath even if we did beat Partick, ICT, and Morton before that game
The way this season has gone, Utd will make a complete arse of things on Friday, we'll win on Saturday and this will drag on till the last game of the season. In a way I kinda hope it's all done and dusted this weekend, Utd win on Friday we draw on Saturday to secure 2nd and we can just concentrate on preparing for the play offs.
Really don't want it to go to the last game of the season, we miss out and go into the play offs on a downer and get knocked out straight away. Seen it with Queen's Park last season, with ourselves in the season against Ayr, going into the play offs when you've lost out right at the death doesn't go well.
Saying all that, if Utd do mess up on Friday and we win on Saturday I'll be right back on the "We can still win this" bandwagon.0 -
2 minutes ago, chris1883 said:
With Lee Ashcroft, the term used was "he has returned to his parent club for treatment" which I read as his loan has ended. I wouldn't really want to put a player just out of rehab into the team either.
Pretty sure his loan hasn't ended as he's still listed as a Rovers player on the player lists at the back of the programme, etc.1 -
15 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Where the feck has this come from
Completely made up. Brought up in Murray's post match interview that Vaughan's been struggling lately and not been able to train properly.2 -
Well that went well. I wasn't that upset at the starting line up and thought we were doing ok, nothing spectacular but it was fairly even. Then we decided that letting Frizzell just waltz through the pitch with nobody putting a challenge in or closing him down was fine, and he promptly scores. Not great, but only 1-0 down, we can still get back into this, then we just go and do the exact same thing again and we're 2 down. Doesn't really matter what tactics you're going with if you defend like that.
Second half, full Murrayball and we looked really up for it for the first 5 minutes, then it looked like Airdrie adjusted to it and nullified it for a bit. We got it going again and had a lot of the ball, but we didn't really have a lot of shots on target. Balls into the box which the Airdrie defence dealt with, or balls that there was nobody in a blue shirt to actually attack. We got the goal and if Connolly's shot goes in off the post then maybe we'd have went onto win. But playing that style you're always liable to get hit on the counter and Airdrie were constantly looking to do just that. Airdrie had it spot on second half, wasting time where they could, being solid in defence and then trying to hit on the counter at every opportunity. Well deserved win.5 -
Didn’t want to win the league anyway.
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35 minutes ago, pub car king said:
On a loosely Rovers related topic, it's the 1883 Q&A where members can submit questions. What absolute lunacy is going to sent in for the panel to try and answer?
Don't think the email said when the closing date for questions will be but I'd assume it'll be after the Airdrie game. Win the next two games and it'll be standard normal questions, lose one or both of them and then it'll be absolute manic questions.
Just noticed that the last half hour will be open for questions so if it goes wrong over the next three home games I look forward to somebody asking if we're throwing the league because we can't afford to go up.0 -
11 minutes ago, AllanJM said:
It really annoys me how people seem to think of almost any defeat as "bottling it". My mate who supports Falkirk was slagging me for Rovers bottling the league on Saturday. Not sure how losing away from home to easily the biggest team in the league is bottling it. Arbroath away on the other hand........
To be fair, given it took them five years to get out of League One and getting thumped in the play offs last season a Falkirk fan would be well versed in the art of bottling it.
But I'm all for Ro Sham Bo being negative, I think every time he's been negative this season we've went on to completely prove him wrong.0 -
Dundee Utd have put out a statement that they’re working with Police Scotland about the incident to give them information and acknowledging that Rovers have identified the fan.
So it is being dealt with.
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Just back in from the game. That was all on Murray, he did a McGlynn and made a mental change to his team in a big game. The whole season has been us having Byrne, Brown or Matthews in that role in front of the defence, going with Turner instead was crazy. We never got a hold of the midfield at any point as a result and Utd looked pretty comfortable the entire game. I was hoping we'd get to half time still at 1-0 and make changes, but Murray kept it the exact same even though it was clear it wasn't working. Did the Utd keeper have to actually do anything in the second half?
Not going to say that's it over as both teams have made a habit of arsing it up so who knows what'll happen. But there's not really any room for error on our side now, need to get 9 points out the next 3 home games and see what happens.
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Just now, Pride of Fife said:
Never seen so many dots disappear so quick in my life
It was mental, trying to click a seat and they just kept disappearing.
Also, am I missing something is the ticket price not less now, that was £25 but I was sure it was £27 last time.0 -
3 minutes ago, embow said:
Any indication of what size of a turnout Lewis got? I'm aware that a fair few folk bought tickets despite being unable to attend for a variety of reasons. Also, as long as everyone has come through the match injury free then it's a case of congratulations to everyone for your efforts both on and off the pitch.
Think they said it was 2,200 or thereabouts.
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Got told about Utd restricting the amount of tickets they were giving us a few days ago. Didn’t say anything as I’d hoped they’d change their mind and increase it.
Mind you, I was told we were only getting 1,000 tickets so it has been improved on that, barely.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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I've just had the one for the 90/91 top now too. I'm hoping the Completed part means they've got them and stuck them in the post.