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4 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Can’t see that, as Millen was shown as not really suited to the right back role in a back three. IM is unconventional, but (despite what many, including me, have said) not blind. Perhaps:
Millen/Brown/Murray/Dick
Byrne
Mullin/Vaughan/Connolly
Hamilton/Smith
That's more or less how I see it but I think (hope) he'll play Vaughan up top with Hamilton as I don't really like the Hamilton/Smith partnership.
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I imagine it’s four at the back with Brown and Murray as the CHs.
Probably Hamilton and Vaughan up top (although maybe Vaughan might play off Hamilton and sit a bit deeper).
Byrne at the base of the midfield diamond with Mullin and Connolly wide and Smith at the tip.0 -
Gies peace min.
Signing a striker does NOT mean we won’t be signing any defenders.7 -
7 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:
Plenty life left.
We haven't even had Hopey or Bodge yet.
Come to think of it, are those two related?
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I was starting to think “who’s left to induct now” to be honest.
Maybe time to make it less frequent- maybe once every five years or something like that?
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2 minutes ago, buchan30 said:
It was the same game, I remember fans giving him pelters then he done that and i think everyone’s jaw was on the floor.
Must have just been confusing one soulless plastic stadium with another!
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I remember the goal- were we not giving him pelters for being fat and slow and he scored a screamer from 40yds or so?
Unless I’m thinking about a different game though I thought it was at Stirling?
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I’d be sad to see Gullan go, but more because he seems to be a nice guy rather than for what he offers us on the pitch.
As harsh as it sounds I don’t look at a bench with Gullan on it and feel comforted that we’ve got a threat to come off the bench if we need it.
Having said that, I’d rather have him available than nobody so we should only let him go if we can bring in a replacement.
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Absolutely mental that some folk think that Murray doesn’t realise that defence is our main problem, and possibly even more mental that folk think he realises but just isn’t doing anything about it.
There are two important factors at play. One is that we can only sign players who are available to be signed. We can’t conjure a player out of thin air.
The second is that we have a board who want to do what’s best for the long term strategy of the club.
Being outbid for O’Reilly proved that they won’t just chuck money at a player if they don’t think it’s the right thing for the long term of the club.
That might well prove to be a mistake but they’ve clearly got their heads screwed on and won’t let emotions cloud their judgement.
If folk prefer we could always see if the board/management team from 2 years ago want to come back and panic sign players in the January window regardless of how it will affect the club.7 -
Just now, pub car king said:
I can see looking at this pitch why folk are against them.
Has it been laid on a concrete base?
Crazy how two pitches laid by the same company in the same summer can be so different.
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Really good interview with Andy Barrowman, a great advert for our club, not only from Barrowman but the professionalism shown from Raith TV is highlighted again.
No major revelations in the interview (other than the railway stand is high on the priority list and that safe standing is something they’d like to introduce) but a good update and one which re-enforces the good feeling around the club just now, and makes me want to take the day off work tomorrow so I can go to the game!
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Murray said in the QP post match that Millen will be “back next week”.
Of course he may have mis-spoken and what he meant was ‘next league game’ but Murray seems to be quite considered when he’s being interviewed so I’m pretty confident he’ll be available for this one.
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Hopefully in the cold light of day tomorrow some folk that have posted in the last few hours will realise they’ve massively over-reacted and feel a bit embarrassed.
I think we can all see that a lack of quality defensively has been a problem all season.
When the attackers were firing on all cylinders it didn’t matter but now that they’re tired/the opposition have learned how to play us/ they’ve dipped in form the defensive frailties have been exposed.
Last summer we did some phenomenal business to provide quality in depth in the attacking positions.
My hope is that if we don’t go up this season we’ll be able to recruit that kind of quality in depth for the other end of the pitch.
If we manage that we’ll be in with a fantastic chance next year, especially if it’s Livi that come down.
Having said that, this season is far from done yet. United only ahead on goal difference and we still play them twice.
And there’s two weeks of transfer window left for Murray to shore up the defence.
Hopefully someone shows him how to remove the ‘midfielder’ filter from that excel sheet of signing targets he has.4 -
Updates from Murray’s post-match interview;
Watson and Matthews picked up little niggles at the end of the week, expected to train fully on Monday.
Dabrowski 80-85% fit, performance of McNeil made it an easier decision to rest him.
Stanton 3-4 weeks away maximum.0 -
Turner looking like a very good signing.
We looked very comfortable until the last 10mins there, very good pass and finish for the equaliser though.
Plenty time to be a bit more clinical in the second half, far from panic stations yet.
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Difficult to see how we change things from that bench if things aren’t going our way.
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11 hours ago, Gorgie greatness said:
Is that Fergusons first defeat at ITC?
Airdrie, Arbroath, Morton and Raith have all beaten ICT in the league since Disorderly took over.
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11 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
Inspired by whatever the f**k Nathan Shaw was playing at earlier, who are the worst set of players you’ve watched in the Championship this season?
For me:
Harrison Sharp
Zach Mauchin - Gordon Taylor - Oliver Denham - Paddy Reading
Roy Syla - Joao Balde
Barry Hepburn - Nathan Shaw - Akheem Rose
Alex Jakubiak
Obviously being managed by Robin Veldman.
You’ve put Jakubiak in a ‘worst’ team ahead of his black-and-white-striped teammate Craig Wighton?
Bold.
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52 minutes ago, R.R.FC said:
The issue I have with the talk of the Premier League being boring or not enjoyable because we’ll lose more games than we win is that it suggests that’s guaranteed not to be the case in the Championship.
Since the turn of the millennium we have had as many relegations (3) from the Championship as we have top 4 finishes. We’ve only finished in the top half of this league 4 times in our last 23 seasons.
There is obviously hope things are looking up under the new owners and it’s not one season or bust so it’s definitely not a disaster if we don’t go up this season but that has to be the aim eventually.
There are more than enough examples of similar size clubs going up to the Premier League and having success and also plenty examples that we can have disastrous seasons at Championship or even League One level so even if we failed it would be going some to beat our worst seasons in the last 20/25 years!
Very good counter to my January-blues pessimism post last night.
As is so often the case, facts have dispelled the gut feelings. That's my puss shut.
I'd still rather the old Firm were not in the Premiership though.
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3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
The most pathetic post ive ever seen on this site, and thats genuinely true.
Never thought id see a fan of any club on here talking about their side is "too small" to achieve anything when theyve seen St Johnstone win a double, ICT finish 3rd and win a Scottish Cup, Livingston finish in the top 6 in back to back seasons etc., in the past decade.
By the sounds of things you dont actually pay attention to the top flight and are just rattling out generic complaints based on what others say.
Thanks for that.
I feel my post has been misinterpreted a bit.
For a start, I absolutely do not subscribe to the "we can't afford to go up" or "we don't want to go up" bollocks.
What I really should have said was that this season has been bloody brilliant fun.
And if we go up, I'd be surprised if next season is as much fun as this one, mostly for the points you've quoted me on.
But yeah, I was perhaps being a tad pessimistic last night in assuming we’ll be scrapping with relegation and forgetting the fun of visiting grounds we’ve not been to in years.
I’ve followed the Rovers throughout the 90’s so remember how much fun that was and the highs a club like ours can achieve.
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Getting promoted is a funny one for me….
Do I want us to win the Championship? Of course I do, that’s why we’re all here, to win games of football and end the season as the best team in the league.
However….. Being in the Premiership means being beaten more often. It means success is not being relegated. It means lots of teams with not much to play for for the last couple of months of the season. It means 6 or 8 games a season where you play teams whose budget for a week is your budget for a year. It means having horrible sectarian nonsense in the town between two or four times a season.
It means the temptation to spend outwith our means to keep up with bloody Motherwell and spending significant amounts on new infrastructure.
Is it possible to win the Championship, collect the prize money and the gate receipts from a season in the Premiership but still play in a league where there aren’t any teams that are utterly despicable, anyone can beat anyone and you never know from season to season who’s going to win it?
Because that’s what I’d like to do.
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Definitely disappointed to lose him, I would have kept him over Murray or Watson to be honest.
However, got to look at the positives and it means our board obviously won’t be bullied by players/agents/fans into deals that they don’t think are in the best interests of the club.
It would have been very easy to look at the fact he scored the winning goals against the Pars and that we’ve got a defensive crisis right now and chucked him whatever he wanted to get him to stay (and to be honest, that’s probably what I would have done!) but they’ve resisted that pressure.
Hopefully it’s because they’ve got something better lined up.3 -
On the topic of Raiths budget, a very good point was made on the Rovers podcast a few weeks back.
And that is that we have no ‘fat’ in our squad. With the possible exception of the two teenage defenders, every man in our squad is quality and can be brought on without a significant drop in quality to the player he replaces.
It means that we don’t have a very big squad but because we have so many quality options off the bench it appears to others like we must have spent a fortune.
Compare that to ourselves in previous years, or indeed clubs like Inverness who have players in the squad that are really just there to make up the numbers.
I think we do have a budget which is probably in the top four of the division, but I think the key point is that we’re spending more wisely than, for example, Dunfermline.1 -
Just to bring us back to the Pars game for a second…. I’ve seen people mentioning Ross Millens “yaaaass” at full time but I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone mention Ian Murray’s celebration when he came over?
Double fingers in the ears followed by a GIRUY salute- glorious!
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Murray’s Maestros versus Ferguson’s Fanatics, 27 January (AI “improved” title for neutrals)
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Thinking about it though, there's a good chance we get overrun in the middle of the park if it is a back 4 and the midfield consists of Byrne plus a bunch of attacking midfielders......