stevoraith
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Gardening leave doesn’t make any sense in this context.
If he’s resigned then we won’t be paying him anymore- when (former) employees are on gardening leave they are still on the payroll.
It’s not like, for example, Formula 1 where he could resign and then go to a rival and tell them all our secrets.
I can’t think of any reason we’d want to keep him on the payroll to keep him quiet or keep him away from rivals.
Having said all that, I have no idea why you’d still be talking to someone who has publicly resigned.
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19 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Massimo Donati getting mentioned in the interview with Matt Elder on Rock Sport Radio.
That’s bizarre, a mate who lives in Hamilton was playing tennis with him the other night.
Apparently that’s where he lives now but he travels to Italy to commentate on Italian tv every weekend!
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Can’t disagree with any of that but surely if you are an ambitious manager who believes in yourself you wouldn’t see the negatives?
Someone who believes in themselves will surely think the only full time team in the league with the biggest crowds in the league and a good quality (if small) squad who are currently sitting top of the league would be a good place to be?
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6 minutes ago, whereismillar said:
Are you having a laugh! smith can fugg right off, goodwin will stay and finish what he started.
It’s no fun having a good manager is it!?
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3 minutes ago, renton said:
Lennon merely matching expectations at Clyde.
I hadn’t been keeping an eye on league two but seems you’re right.
Still, he has, or at least had, a reputation for playing attractive football which would be a revalation here.
I’d still rather have him than Duffy or Hartley or........
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2 hours ago, Specky Ginger said:
Smith either going to Morton or back to Dundee? McCann's demise must be imminent.
Goodwin to St Mirren, Smith to go back to Alloa.
Lennon will have a clause in his contract allowing him to leave for a club in a higher league.
Sorted.
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47 minutes ago, PJ_2014 said:
Am I right in saying a trialing can be selected in the match day squad in league 1? If so I’m surprised Gary Irvine hasn’t need brought in on trial to at least have a look at him and add an extra player to the squad. Screaming out for a RB and last I heard he was screaming out for a club.
If we don't have any money to pay his wages what is the point of him coming in on trial?
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1 hour ago, Broken Algorithms said:
For me, there's a few factors. Losing Lennox to injury was one. .......... Also later in the season we dropped Dave McKay in favour of an unfit Benedictus.
Agreed.
I think if we hadn't lost Lennox to injury in the first place we'd have done better.
If we hadn't dropped the utterly-gash-but-still-part-of-a-solid-defence Smith for the returning Lennox we'd have done better.
If we hadn't dropped McKay for the shadow-of-his-former-self Benedictus we'd have done better.
Bad decisions following bad luck in my opinion.
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1 hour ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Are we using a different camera to film games this season? The footage seemed juddery and poorer quality than I’m used to. Watched it on my TV via chromecast so that might have had something to do with it.
I was thinking that last season as well to be honest, other teams footage seems to have come on leaps and bounds and now makes ours look pretty poor quality.
Our filming and editing is as good or better than anyone out there but the quality seems to have suffered.
Do we need new equipment or is it something to do with the quality of the upload?
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12 hours ago, Stevo Fife said:
one of the Cowden fans said, and I quote "Absolutely buzzing ! I know it's only Raith but 2-nil away first game has got to be a good start.
Christ, is that how far we have fallen? It's going to be a long season.
We need to give Smith time before we get on his back, but if the first quarter doesn't look promising then we need to get a new man in with a transfer window to work with rather than making someone else work with Smiths duds (if that's what they turn out to be....)
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3 hours ago, Muza73RRFC said:
Get your finger out rovers.
Quite happy for there to be a bit of hype and expectation about the Dumbarton side.
Might take a bit of the pressure away from us.
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4 hours ago, CALDERON said:
For me, the full time/part time debate comes down to quality vs quantity. I'd expect at this level we would either run full time with a smaller pool of quality players, or have more strength and depth by going part time (or a hybrid model) but reducing the quality a wee bit.
I don’t think it’s as simple as that.
There’s not a cut-off point where you play full-time if you’re better than the cut-off or part-time if you’re worse.
We saw when we had the likes of McGurn and Gary Wales that there are players out there that are capable of playing at the top end of the championship but who prefer to play part-time football.
I believe if we’d gone to a hybrid system this season we’d have been able to keep the backbone of the team (I.e the defence) full-time and have the pick of the best part-time players.
There must be a reason not many clubs do that though, it must be difficult in terms of training.
I agree with the rest of your points though, perhaps we should have gone to part-time. I guess we’ll know in a few months whether we made the right decision.
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23 minutes ago, Muza73RRFC said:
That's Vaughan away lads.
Sent from my SM-G950F using Pie and Bovril mobile app
To who?
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11 hours ago, kev23 said:
It could be nonsense but a friend of a friend who knows Spence mentioned he had 9 offers for part time football (0 full time) after his release with the top figure being £375 p/w.
Ties in with what I’ve heard.
A mates son plays for Hearts and one of their young lads signed for Arbroath for £400 per week allegedly.
That might include travel expenses etc but is a bloody good wage for a part time footballer!
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24 minutes ago, fcrover said:
Us and Cove each with a nice new artifcial pitch too......
Hearts having a new Hybrid pitch installed too.
Could be a scheduling nightmare if all three are running late with the pitch installations!
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Nicholl, Dalziel, Mickey Cameron, Big Marv.
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12 hours ago, GhostZapper said:
Do Bayern and Arsenal not have some kind of hybrid plastic/grass pitches?
Closer to home, Hearts are installing a hybrid pitch during the close season.
Costing in the region of £1million apparently.
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12 minutes ago, Ding Dang Doo said:
Ok so this talk about "it's real life"..
it's no sense. If I was that bad I'd be sacked and easily be sacked. End off. Calm down. Goodnight!
But would you “have the decency to walk away”?
Would you bollocks.
The guy needs to pay his bills and feed his family like the rest of us.
This isn’t a game of champ man.
If the board decide to sack him then fair enough but to suggest he should just leave without the recompense he’s entitled to is naive in the extreme.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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As a relative newbie here there's a good chance I'm being dense..... but do we have separate threads for cup games or do we just ignore those?