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Yeah, can’t be any complaints about the breakaway being stopped after seeing McKennnas two-handed push to the chest. There couldn’t really have been too many complaints if he’d walked either. Incidentally, I heard McGlynn was keen to sign him in the summer and he had talks at Raith but obviously decided to stay at Arbroath. We’ve not been at our best the last couple of games which is strange considering the squad ha been as full as at any other time of the season. But the run continues and if you can draw away from home to the better teams in the league and beat them at home (as we’ve done with Arbroath) you’ll be in a decent place.

Well aye, McGlynn doesn’t exactly strike me as being the type that believes in hoodoos so he’s probably aiming to keep the unbeaten run and the momentum going. The other thing is that we tend to like to play in a certain way. Most of the fringe players would be capable of coming into an otherwise unchanged team and maintaining the style of play. McGlynn might think that making wholesale changes would disrupt our style of play and that would be unproductive.

Maybe McGlynn wants to end the Inverness hoodoo so we don’t have it hanging over us for the next league game. That’s the only vaguely reasonable explanation I can think of for such a strong team.

Is that your video? I was about 6 feet to the left of whoever took the video. Really sad to think that that was the last song of the last ever Frightened Rabbit gig. I used to love it and hate it in equal measure when Billy would drag that fucking massive cymbal to the front of the stage- you'd know that it meant the last song of the night was coming up but also you'd know that the last song was always the Loneliness and the scream, and that Billy was going to batter f*ck out of the cymbal and everyone in the room would be singing along for a good five minutes after they left the stage. Good times. I stupidly told the wife about the Work book so she's bought it for my Christmas. So I know it's in my spare room but I'm not allowed to look at it yet!

The only disappointment from a Raith point of view this season so far is that we had two attempts and didn’t manage to beat a Dunfermline team managed by an utter buffoon.

Fair enough, don’t know why I would ever doubt the Tex! Still think there’s zero chance of him going back though.

Not sure where you’ve read that Tex. https://www.raithrovers.net/48707/matej-poplatnik.htm I mean, there probably is one but I don’t recall reading about it and it seems very unlikely it will be used.

Cheesin’! Well done John [emoji1376]

Not sure why there’s constant speculation on Matej being recalled by Livi in January. He was signed on a season-long loan so it was obviously never the intention of Livi to have him back in January. I imagine if he’d scored 20 goals for us or if all of Livis forwards were injured there may have been a clause in there to allow him to go back but as neither of these things have happened I think you can put Starks Parks mortgage on him being with us until the end of the season.

Maybe the article says his ambitions are to become as good as Ross Matthews?

This. I started going in 91/92. Had my first season ticket in 92/93. I just assumed that’s what supporting the Rovers would always be like. The only part I’d disagree with was that it didn’t really dawn on me for about ten years that we wouldn’t always be fighting for promotion to the top league.

So we can ‘bank’ on conceding when he’s in the team?

No need. Clearly we should all know before each game the appropriate level of celebrations based on the league position of our opponent.

To be fair, the Inverness player did do a massive twist and pirouette in the air…… but it was because he’d been absolutely clattered! Not sure from the footage if Matthews even got the ball. Red all day long, anyone suggesting otherwise has a serious pair of blue-tinted glasses on.

I’m one of those who suggested we should win on paper and the rest of your post pretty much mirrors what else I said and backs up the point that we should ‘on paper’ win. Form team in the league with the manager who most would agree is the best in the league against a team who haven’t won in ten games being managed by a guy so far out of his depth it’s barely believable. That’s an ‘on paper’ win if ever I heard one. But as you said in the rest of your post, and I also said in my post, this is a derby, we’ve got a lot of starters out, add in a few other factors and remember that games aren’t played on paper and there’s no way this is an easy win for us.

Unfortunately I agree that this is reasonably likely. On paper this is an easy win for Rovers. We are a better team with a manager who is light years ahead. But we’ll be missing three starters and the guys who played yesterday have had a tougher shift than usual having to play the second half a man down and don’t have much time to recover. Add in the fact it’s a derby and the chance for an ‘upset’ is a reasonable one.

If the question was just our three best players the answer would be different, but I think the intention was for the three players that would integrate into and improve the current team. For me the area where we lack the most is goal scorers. So I’d go for; Craig Brewster Gordon Dalziel And I’d add Colin Cameron as he’d be a worthy replacement for Hendry in the centre of the park. With those three slotted into our current team we’d win the league at a canter.

We’re on 17 now, same as Killie but we’re in 2nd on goals scored. 17 in the first quarter is a fantastic haul and, as SJM pointed out a couple of weeks back, is more than we managed in any quarter (third) last season.

Genuinely torn here. On the one hand I’m pissing myself laughing at the absolute rip-roaring c*nt your board have been making of themselves since the minute they appointed that buffoon, and that they’re still managing to find ways of making things worse. And I’d find it quite amusing if you spent a couple of seasons in league one with Falkirk. But on the other, the memories of Locke and Drysdale are still quite fresh and the similarities are striking. Most of you lot are just the same as most of us- supporting your local team instead of taking the easy option. I feel for you cos I know how shite it is when the board blame the fans to cover their own incompetencies. On balance I’m probably on the ‘point and laugh’ side of the fence but hopefully you get the poison out of your club before you start to lose the younger supporters coming through.

Starting to get worried now, Dunfermline definitely been the better team in the 2nd half, we haven’t really looked dangerous.

How has Spencer missed that!? [emoji31]

The boy up front from Motherwell is a bit of a.........

League cup bans certainly used to be carried over to the league. That’s how Scott Thomson was able to play in the final in ‘94 despite being sent off in the semi.

Are you guys confident that a competent manager could get a tune out of your current squad? Or is it imperative that a new man has at least the remainder of the loan window to work with?

Yeah we kind of look like we’re going through the motions of what a team ‘should’ do when going forward but we don’t look like we’ve got much imagination or that we’re ever likely to do anything that the queens defence are not expecting.