CallumPar
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Was quite disappointed with the home crowd on Friday night. Thought we'd have got another 1000 on top of what came. Guess it being live on TV played a part.
7:05 kick off also made it difficult for a lot of people that would usually be able to make a Saturday 3pm.0 -
How does it work?
I'd have thought that the eventual compensation would be decided on the calibre of the player that we've lost. If Nissy is banging them in and standing out in the league above then surely that would strengthen our case?
No. It’s not a transfer fee, based on the perceived value of the player.
It’s a development contribution you’re due. Nisbet activated a clause that terminated his contract. If he had been a year older, you’d have been due nothing. It’s the equivalent of a 22 year old running his contract down and refusing to sign a new one.
The tribunal is supposed to decide a fair compensation amount, for the training/development during his time at your club. Level of football is taken into account and the player’s past. The fact he had top flight and championship experience before and dropped down to the third tier at the age of 21 will be taken into account. As will the number of games he played etc.
The SPFL guidelines only go up to the age of 19, but suggest a year in the lower leagues for a 19 year old would be roughly £9k. Due to his performances with Raith, I’d imagine this may be higher than that, but not anywhere near the £30k Raith wanted.2 -
Thanks for Nisbet guys. Despite many of your concerns, he looks a great player at championship level and has been offering a lot more to the team than just scoring goals.
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It just seems odd to me that someone playing schools football is deemed better than smith.
I thought we would have loaned out mcgill and kept smith.
McGill was involved with Boro u23s last season. Bowman (full back/wide midfielder) was signed from school football.
Regardless, Smith has been poor when he’s had his chance, other than one purple patch in August 2017. Two different coaching teams at East End have watched him in training and obviously haven’t liked what they’ve seen - neither did the coaches at Alloa/Arbroath, where he struggled for game time on loan.
I’ve also heard that there are question marks over his attitude.0 -
Anyone any idea how much money teams get from the live games on this BBC Scotland channel?
Absolutely nothing. It’s all added into the SPFL prize pot, majority going to top flight clubs.0 -
The second round is midweek is it not? We've played Ross County away from home so many times in recent years, I wouldn't be heading to that. A home tie against Aberdeen would be good assuming we're unseeded.
Second round is the weekend of 17/18th August. Was also at the weekend last year, when we played Hearts.0 -
on paper it looks great, my only concern would be it would leave us a bit more exposed defensively with Dow, Coley and Turner being more attack minded
but until we see more of those 3 it's probably unfair to judge them if they are asked to play a certain way, so could well work
Not sure Coley is the right player, if we need our wide men to do defensive duties. Time after time on Saturday, he left his man to push forward and didn’t track back. First half, he got away with it a bit because Andy Ryan covered for him - this left us disjointed though, as we were a striker down if/when we got the ball back. Once Andy Ryan went off, it left Martin with 2 players to defend against and resulted in midfielders having to move out of position to support him, leaving gaps elsewhere.1 -
Thought Turner made a difference for 10/15 minutes after coming off the bench, before disappearing - forgot he was on the park towards the end.
When teams are going to sit in and we are expecting more possession, I’d prefer the 4-2-3-1 from last Wednesday, with Turner playing in between the midfield and attack, running into any gaps and stretching the play.
Against the likes of the Dundee sides, I think we may need both Beadling and Paton playing deeper roles and the wide players to be drifting in at times. I don’t know if that’s maybe the role for Turner in that scenario. I certainly wouldn’t play him up top in a 4-4-2.2 -
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You seen your own team’s results?0 -
Rui Patricio wore number 11 last season, when he was first choice keeper at Wolves. Think that’s the most bizarre one I can think of.
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Lewis Martin (our first choice LB) is our number 4. Looking forward to the outrage, once people realise this. Tom Lang (CB) is number 3.
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Love our pace and ruthlessness. Don't love this defensive line.
Ashcroft literally ducking under the ball was also concerning.
Agreed. Better teams will punish our defensive errors. Ashcroft continuing to duck, rather than attacking the ball remains really baffling. Both CBS have been caught being drawn to the ball afee times in both games so far as well. Would expect Murray to be first choice CB this season.0 -
If we didn’t take our foot off the gas at 6-0, I think that would have been double figures tonight. I know it’s only Albion Rovers, but we played some brilliant football there, before just passing it around like it was a training game and giving some kids a run out.
Turner and Nisbet looked excellent and should have had 7/8 between them. Expect more rotation for Saturday. Ryan and Coley will likely come back into the team.0 -
How did Comrie and Martin play?
I thought they both played well. Didn’t stand out as fantastic players or anything, but both did their job with minimal fuss. Comrie struggled a bit when Djorkaeff came on, but he looked quick and had a bit of skill. Both look like solid enough full backs for this season.0 -
The soft centre thing. Yesterday in the second half our midfield disappeared and sat back off st mirren. They had space to run forward to our eighteen yard box unchallenged. Is this softness, bad organisation or a fitness issue?
A few players looked knackered after the 70 minute mark (Coley and Dow in particular). But then, we only managed 2 pre-season games, so that’s hardly a surprise. Crawford said himself we needed at least 1 more. Dumbarton cancelled on us last minute, that’s just unfortunate.
First half, we played a high press and the guys did a lot of running. That requires a lot of fitness and it may take the league cup campaign for the guys to get to the fitness levels required to last 90 mins. Would expect some rotation over Wednesday and Saturday.0 -
I'm not sure Pars fans should be throwing stones in this particular glass house. The treatment of the last few managers has not been a model of patience and politeness and there are a fair few people that were pretty negative about Crawford.
Care to expand on this? Last permanent manager to be given less than 2 and a half years was Stephen Kenny in 2006/7...
Jim Jefferies even survived a 3-0 home defeat to Cowdenbeath in the playoffs, which should definitely be a sackable offence.
John Potter was always a temporary appointment, to the end of that season. It didn’t work out and we kept him on as a coach, telling AJ he had to work with him. I’d say that’s pretty decent treatment...0 -
Raith fans tried to tell us Nisbet is useless outside of the box... he did really well to nutmeg his man and run half the length of the field with the ball, to set up Andy Ryan for his goal today. More of that please.
Can’t really fault anyone’s performance yesterday. First competitive game, few scary moments, but a lot of positives for me. Dow and Coley were excellent and I prefer Beadling when he’s given more freedom to get forward.0 -
PJ Crossan signed a 1 year deal with Dumbarton yesterday. Grass isn't always greener...
Think he’s still only 20. A good season there and he could get himself a good move. Hopefully his career can kick on now - although, it feels like he’s wasted 3 years of it.
Looked promising with us.0 -
Is Louis Longridge one of your trialists tonight? Noticed he was in your club’s photo on twitter, coming home from your training camp.
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Can we use smartphones as a ticket maybe?
This would be a very good option - a popular one too, I’d imagine. Possibly costly to introduce though, which is why I suggested membership cards - we already have a system in place for reading these cards for season tickets.
If affordable, a system that allows mobile/print at home tickets would be ideal in the modern day.0 -
Re the ticketing issue - some clubs offer ‘member’ cards. Would this be an option for us?
For example, pay £10 for a membership card (like a season ticket) but you can top it up with games online or in the club shop. For the home end, this could certainly help solve the cash issue/queuing to buy a ticket. There would need to be a cut off, for these to be activated in time, but seems like a practical system. Cost dependent, obviously, but we already have cards/readers for the season tickets. These can have cup games added to them, so surely must be a possibility?
No idea how to solve the issues with the away end, although suspect we didn’t expect so many on the day sales for them on Saturday.0 -
Wasn’t it £12 last season?
If so a £3 increase is hardly breaking the bank, and it’ll help the club enormously.
I understand some folks being put out by this when their personal finances could be really tight, but £3-5 increase isn’t really that sore, especially if you want to see the club prosper in a way we’d all like.
As stated above, buy one pint less on match day and it’ll not only help you, it’ll help the club too.
Our adult prices are a 50% increase from last year - that’s fairly significant. Remember not everyone goes on their own as well, if 2 of you go, you’d get a 3rd person for the same price last year. Concessions are also double the price they were last year - the same price is cost for an adult last year! How can you argue that’s not a significant jump?
A dad and 2 teenagers last year would have been £20. This year it will be £35, that is a very big difference!
We’re charging 25% more than even the top flight clubs, just after using ‘competitive pricing’ as an excuse for league prices going up - which I didn’t have an issue with. No harm in charging the same as everyone else. Charging 25% more than Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell, St Mirren etc (for no obvious reason) doesn’t seem to be in line with the board trying to encourage fans to come back, does it?0 -
As chubbychops says, I was happy with our reasons for increasing league prices. We brought them in line with everyone else. The board stated how important competitive pricing was.
Genuinely interested to know he reasons our board have decided our league cup games will cost 25% more than the top flight clubs are charging for them. That goes against the whole competitive pricing argument.
For me, this should be used as a chance to encourage some of the fans that disappeared last season, to return and see the new squad. It would be good for the players to play in front of a semi-decent crowd as well. Instead, we announce the highest prices of any team in the group stage, discouraging fans from turning up.
Starting to feel like the board are taking the piss out the fans.0 -
Any news on ticket prices lads?
£15.00 for us
In the same announcement that we’ve said the home games are £15, we’ve confirmed prices for all 4 games... £12 for the away games.0
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Jackson Longridge, who we sold to Bradford 2 months ago?
Interesting to see so many Falkirk fans happy to sign Louis, given the fact so many were apparently happy to see the back of him and said he wasn’t good enough...