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Lack of cutting edge sums it up nicely. Zanatta looking lively as usual, Fotheringham looking impressive too but we haven’t looked properly dangerous yet. Still plenty of time to go on and win this though.

I’ve just bought it no problem. Are you in England? Or are you using 4G/5G rather than WiFi? The site says that sometimes those show as being in England and the new rules mean you can’t purchase if you’re in England.

Only just discovered this thread. I am a massive FRabbit fan. Was lucky enough to see them live 9 times, including the TMOF 10 gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2018. Also saw Scott do three solo shows- his Owl John show at the caves in Edinburgh and his headline performance at Stowed out Festival (2016? It was basically a village fete) were probably the two best gigs of my life. I have never before and never will again mourn a celebrity. But on the morning it was announced he had been found I couldn’t stay in the house. I went for a run- put the midnight organ fight on full blast and cried and sang as I ran. I cried more for Scott than I did when my own dad passed away. Truly strange but he had that effect on lots of people it seemed. I met him a few times- at the Stowed Out festival I mentioned, me and my mate were standing to the side of the tent chatting to an older couple throughout the support acts. Just before Scott came on, this girl (who we recognised as his girlfriend from Instagram stalking) came out from backstage and stood next to the older couple. Turns out they were his parents. We chatted all through his set- what struck me was how often his dad said that he didn’t know or believe how good he was. After the gig his mum Marion grabbed me and my mate and said “come on, I’ll introduce you to Scott”. His girlfriend took some pics of us together. He did another solo show in kirkcaldy the following December, his mum spotted us and remembered us and took us to speak to scott again. I only wish I’d played it more cool rather than stuttering some fanboy pish. I’m gutted we’ll never get to see another live gig, but at least now he doesn’t have to suffer. Here’s a video I keep watching- musically it’s not their finest hour but it’s peak Scott banter and that’s what FRabbit live were about. http:// Enjoy, I’m off to watch all the videos already posted on this thread!

No, more like Sim assumed McGlynn wouldn’t want to sell, so said as much. But then after speaking to McGlynn, actually McGlynn had a different opinion. Really excellent statement I thought, explains the timings and thought process- not sure how any of us could realistically say that they should have done things differently.

Absolutely agree with you about this statement- would love it for us to be so transparent. However, if our board released that exact statement they would get absolute pelters from a lot of folk on here. It contains the phrase "couldn't stand in his way" twice. I don't think our board can win now- say nothing and they get slaughtered for not keeping us informed, put out a statement like the St Johnstone one and they'd get slaughtered too. What the St Johnstone statement does do well is make you take a step back and remember these players are human beings, not just assets of the football club. It's a mans career we're talking about- a human being who wants to earn as much money as he can in what is a short career. There are lots of other factors around the player too- does he want to move to a particular area etc etc. We tend to look at it in black and white from the perspective of only what's best for the football club. But this isn't football manager, this is real life and it's not as simple as doing what the football club wants and nothing else.

I’m going to disagree with you and agree with you all in one go. You’re right, we are what we are- a development/selling club. But where I’ll disagree with you is that it’s not about our lack of financial backing. Young guys generally don’t dream about trying help Raith Rovers get promoted to the Scottish premier. If a team comes in for them who can offer them the chance to play in front of 15-20k fans every week in a team established at a good level then any young guy with ambition will jump at that chance. And without spending an unsustainable amount of money on wages we’ll never be able to compete with that. That’s maybe a bit ‘canny stand in the lads way’ but it’s the sad reality and the best we can do is make sure we wring as much as we can out of the deal when it happens.

Oh I’m well aware of that. And it’s not the fault of Raith TV guys either I’m sure- as has been said most other club TV channels are the same. But it would be nice to hear answers to the questions we all want to ask at times like this.

If you're reading Niall, the pre-match interview tomorrow would be a good chance to ask McGlynn some probing questions....... Will we be getting anyone else as part of the deal? Did he get a say in allowing Dylan to leave? Does he have replacements in mind? Did we try and fail to strengthen the squad leading up the window closing? Will he be getting the transfer fee added to his playing budget? I'm sure others will chip in with some other things they would like to know.

Nope, two on each knee now I believe.

Losing Tait for such a relatively small fee would be hard to take in isolation. Then add the fact we lost Hendry in the summer. Then add the fact Spencer is out for a while yet. Then add the fact Vaughan won’t kick a ball for us this season (if ever). Then add the fact it’s happened right at the end of the window leaving no time to replace him. Unnecessarily weakening an area of the team which has already been decimated by previous player sales and injury since the end of last season is utter madness.

Does anyone think for a second that the club simply haven’t bothered to put out a statement on a done deal? There must be some sort of hold-up or hitch which means the deal isn’t done and dusted one way or another.

I wonder if it's due to COVID restrictions easing....... A lot of roles within the club are carried out by volunteers. Maybe during last season those volunteers were on furlough or able to work from home and could prepare statements/upload content/come up with ideas for new content quickly. Maybe the reason we are seeing content suffering now is because they are back at work full-time? I don't know this, I'm just speculating, but it would make sense. Obviously it doesn't excuse basic things like releasing ticket prices etc either.

Hopefully in the form of some sort of insurance policy rather than a simple release clause. I wouldn’t like to see us simply drop Lewis, and to be honest I doubt we would. I think both parties have enough history and affection for the other that neither would do the dirty. Both sides would have known the risks when a long contract was signed, I’m sure both sides will be content with what happens now.

Not much to add in terms of how gutted I am for a lad who seems like one of the nicest guys in football. On the positive side for Lewis, he knows what it takes to come back from this injury and he knows he can come back from a second injury in the same knee. He also has the financial security of knowing that he’s contracted for another year so he doesn’t have to worry about the club letting him go at the end of the season. From a Raith Rovers point of view…. Last season we had a squad full of good players and two absolutely outstanding ones. We have now lost both of the outstanding players for this season. If we manage to match the achievements of last season it’ll be an incredible effort from all involved.

Shows how big an impact Keatings has made that he’s essentially a ready-made replacement for Vaughan (position-wise) and I forgot he even existed.

Maybe both teams prefer the Tuesday as they’ll then have an extra day to recover before their championship games on the Saturday. Ayr don’t play in the cup this weekend but it means Raith have 2 days recovery after what should be an easier game against lower league opposition and then 3 days recovery between two tougher championship games rather than vice versa. Granted it’s not a huge difference but from a purely selfish point of view I bet that’s the way McGlynn would chose to have it.

Dunfermline and Ayr look absolutely humpty at the moment. What are the chances they’ll both be vastly improved by the time we play them in the rearranged fixtures?

That's just semantics though. Power failure doesn't have to mean no power. In fact, in this case it was specifically described as a surge which has tripped equipment in the stadium and prevented that equipment from being operational in time to allow the game to continue. If the power trips in your house how long does it take for your WiFi router to come back online after power is restored? Mine can be a good 10mins. And that's a single domestic router. So the power failure is stopping it from being operational long after power is restored. Very strange how you are so desperate to have the club take the blame. During a storm earlier this year there was a power surge which blew my mates telly. Is that his fault?

It was only a minute or so long clip, but it was a guy, probably in his late 50s, seemingly a bit under the influence. Started off with something along the lines of “no WiFi, no electricity, hundreds of people navigating their way home along dark streets- Kabul, Afghanistan? No. Kirkcaldy”. He then went on to describe RRFC as a shambles of an organisation. Not surprised he took it down after he woke up this morning and remembered what he’d posted last night.

Surprisingly accurate. Although I can manage a bacon roll. Yeah…. Kind of comes across like that’s what I meant, but I really didn’t mean it like that. I refuse to comment any further on breakfast choices as my initial (tongue in cheek) post was that someone commenting 3 or 4 times to say someone else’s breakfast was a weird choice was a bit OTT and I’m in danger of reaching the same total on the same subject.

At least you’re standing firm. I thought the opposite- if your mum is there to bring your bacon roll to your room then great but grown-ups have other things to do at the weekend.

There’s a lot of nonsense on this thread but I think my favourite is the guy who insists, over several posts, that it’s weird to eat cereal for breakfast every day.

Where have you popped up from? This isn’t true. Power in Pratt street down apparently. Floodlights on because they have their own generator. But with no stadium lights or cctv etc police wouldn’t let game continue.

Champions league standard floodlights obviously sooking too much juice, none left for the rest of the stadium. Embarrassing.

Can we talk about what the DAFC crowd display team is please?