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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    All the best to JMcG. really gutted he's away. didn't have a chance to enjoy the glory days in the mid 90s due to being too young to appreciate everything that was going on - so the last few years have been the best ever for me supporting the rovers, and i credit almost all of that to mcglynn.

    all the best john, club legend.

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by moonhound

    Interesting link from the OS

    http://inbedwithmara...0&finalize=true

    My fave quote;

    "How he envisioned playing one touch football by investing in players who needed 3 touches just to control the ball is still a mystery." :D

    brilliant article! heard the story about AC St. Louis' first game before but it's still a belter. imagine that was us though...huh.gif

    edit to add: i'm stealing that quote for my sig, cracker! biggrin.gif

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    so what happens next i appreciate the league isn't over but i can't for the life of me see the pars throw it away now. the club has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years mcglynn has no doubt caught the attention of the football world coupled with a squad that is getting older campbell ellis and murray are well into their thirties and the tightening of budgets next season. i don't think we can put in a sustained title challenge again more a case of cementing first division status.

    or am i talking compplete shite

    nah man, i don't think you're talking complete shite at all. me and my brother were speaking about this yesterday post game - seemed the right time to talk about the future of the rovers.

    next season, i can't see us making a serious title challenge - tade will more than likely be gone, mcgurn could be on his way, and im not sure what is happening with davo? is he still linked to dundee united or was that just pish?

    my guess at players leaving the club would include...

    tade

    mcgurn

    weir

    ferry

    k mcbride

    either to pastures new (ie tade, mcgurn), released due to being out of favour with mcglynn (a la ferry), or not being good enough at this level (ie weir, which saddens me because i've always liked him, even though he hasn't scored for about 2 years.) dont think we could afford to sign kevin mcbride for next season but then again i'm not at all clued up on what finances mcglynn will have to play with for next season.

    i'm pretty confident that we've got one or two players to step up and start to take over in the defence - dougie hill would ideally replace grant murray for me, sparky and laurie are only 32 and 31 ( i think..) so they probably still have two or three decent seasons left in them at CB, maybe more. not sure what the crack is with wilson, as he's not really been the same player since he came back from injury, probably a confidence thing. hopefully he can turn it around for next season, as he's easily one of our best attacking players when he plays well. have to add i'm a fan of willie dyer at LB, should be first choice in that position IMO.

    as for up front, i really hope we have johnny baird for next season, he's been terrific. with tade probably going, we'll need to look at someone to come in to replace him. who would that be? gary wales getting signed and finally given a chance? damien casalinuovo? kevin smith? latter two look like they're improbable for the first division next season - club will need to cut back because of the poorer gates we'll get next season due to the ammies coming down to replace the pars and fake plastic club fc coming up.

    one thing it definitely is is uncertain, but i still think we'll have the sqaud to not have to worry too much about being in danger of getting relegated!

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    The sad reality is that we need to either go up or for Falkirk to win the league. Missing out on 2 crowds of over 6k people versus the Pars will be a massive blow for us. If the Pars go up, we'll survive but it will mean a wee bit of a financial headache. On top of that, we need Dundee to stay up and in business (the former looking highly likely).

    i've not really guaged other rovers fans thoughts on this on here yet, but what would you all prefer? winning the league and going up, to play teams like st mirren, motherwell and kilmarnock, and put up with the glesga bigots coming to town 4 times a season, or stay down in this league, having finished 2nd or 3rd and have our derbies with the pars and trips to dundee, partick, potentially livvy etc?

    winning the title would be absoultely tremendous, as is the thought of locking horns with the hearts, aberdeens, rangers and celtics of this world, dont get me wrong but i really like this league, especially with our level of competitiveness with the pars and falkirk this season, the competitive element which the SPL doesnt have is really attractive.

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