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Isn’t that what just about every thread on here has become?

Sack Grant and we win. Simple as that.

It’s minor, but our Twitter shortening Arbroath to ‘ARBFC’ for every update made no sense to me. Surely we either use ARB or AFC?

Not having that. I don’t think any Dunfermline fan would have been confident of a win (even at 2-0), never mind ‘certain’. Honestly, you’re just making things up now.

Dumbarton (when they’ve been hit by a covid outbreak) and Stenhousemuir. Doesn’t make sense that our form/performances against them hasn’t been matched in the championship.

Probably Grant still upset about the ‘no alcohol before 11am’ rule.

They’ll think the booing at full time and actions like that are the cause of this defeat. Cause events/actions after the match clearly have a huge impact on the team’s performance during the match. I have never experienced the fans booing the players or not being supportive before things start going wrong, despite the board’s claims.

Get him out of there. 2 goal lead and we lost 4-2. We will not win under him, never mind achieving this promotion target he was given. The guy can’t manage a football team. This was proven in his previous roles, but this is just embarrassing. If he isn’t sacked, I won’t be there next week, despite loving 5 mins away and having a season ticket. I’m not wasting my time. The board simply don’t care about the club anymore if they leave him in charge. So why should we?

Connolly must be injured? He’ll be a big loss, he’s very much the leader in our defence.

Arbroath - 0 Dunfermline - 1 Wind - 3 Fully expecting the bitter wee guy writing for the official site to lead with this, after we get pumped 3-1 today. Hopefully one of Vytas’ punts up the park gets caught in the wind and goes into the top corner for our goal too, but we don’t acknowledge that.

Honestly, if anyone recognises anyone in the video, or knows this Jay Herd boy, I’d recommend identifying them to the club. I’d also hope their families can see how vile these kids are. I hope that the same happens for Dunfermline fans (or those of any other club) singing vile songs like this. All for the banter with rival fans and winding each other up. The celebrations at both goals were what these games should be all about. It’s a shame that a handful of fans can sour things like this.

Just seen people talking about this on Twitter… hopefully Rovers are able to track him down and ban him.

Hadn’t read the match preview until reading the above about it. It really is horrific. At one point it mentions our 5 goals in 11 games. Then the league standings section mentions our 6 scored and 15 conceded. To be fair, with the last one, I think they just haven’t bothered updating post Tuesday - although they’ve updated the points tally and form, to show that extra point… add in Arbroath being x points ahead of us and the conditions bearing us, rather than the football team (seriously, how disrespectful is that?!) and it shows how amateur and unprofessional we are, even down to our website. I don’t care if it’s run by volunteers, we’re a professional football club and shouldn’t have our official website reading like a teenager’s fan blog. Screenshotted examples, so that people don’t have to waste their time reading it all.

Got to be fair, a large part of that is because Arbroath are a very good championship side. They just beat Inverness away and have had a very impressive season so far. We have been awful and I’d back any championship team to get at least a draw against us, but Arbroath would quite rightly be expecting to beat the likes of us, Morton, Hamilton, Ayr and QoS wherever the game is right now. Our home game v Arbroath was abysmal from our perspective, but Arbroath did look very good and could have scored more. If our players turn up with the attitude we showed there in February, we’re in for a hammering.

He played away to Ayr and hasn’t been seen since.

This is true. Except that it was 4-1. Bizarrely, when we appointed Grant it was revealed that this was the game that convinced our board that he would be a great manager for us.

Absolutely this. They do a good job creating an atmosphere and EEP would be a terrible experience for fans and players without these guys turning up in numbers and making that noise. But I’d much rather they focused on supporting the team than making up rubbish like that to sing about opposition. To be fair, most weeks it’s all about us. It’s when it comes to these ‘bigger’ games and that section is twice as full as usual that we tend to get these songs. The ones there every week don’t appear to be the issue and should be encouraged to continue making noise and getting behind the team. Not excusing what happened last night. But I’d imagine a lot of those who were singing these songs won’t be back at a Pars game until the new year derby.

Wait, our fans are singing about a 17 year old who is on loan to Cowdenbeath being a sex offender? Sorry, but that’s truly awful ‘patter’. Assuming it’s this guy… https://www.raithrovers.net/48934/luke-mahady-2.htm

Both unacceptable. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Unfortunately for both teams, these will be the guys that won’t turn up at all until the next derby. Then we’ll hear the same stuff and both supports will look bad again. We also seemed to sing (again) about someone being a sex offender. I’ve got no idea who that was even about (Luke someone I think?). But there’s no need for that stuff - unless I’ve missed something with someone at Rovers being placed on the register?

Like a lot of us, chubbychops is pretty regularly posting about the disappointment we have had so far. I’d actually say he’s fairly reasonable with that vast majority of his posts. If he didn’t give a f**k he probably wouldn’t get so worked up about it all and post a lot of those emotions on here. Trying to argue that he doesn’t give a f**k because he was (quite rightly) frustrated at full time last night makes absolutely no sense. Not giving a f**k would be applauding the players anyway, claiming it was a good result/performance, saying the manager deserves more time etc. That’s not a dig at you. I understand your reasons for applauding the man of the match announcement and applauding some individuals who deserved it. But don’t go full .net style on us here and claim that those calling out mediocrity don’t care about the club. That’s honestly s***e behaviour. We’re all struggling this season, don’t need to start fighting amongst ourselves.

Honestly, could the guy look any more miserable? I don’t think he wants to be here anymore.

Dick Campbell had us sitting top of this league when we sacked him in 1999. He’s someone that players seem to respect and enjoy working with. I’d be happy if we brought him in, however given his age and other commitments, I don’t know how realistic that is. It’s one of these that we have to ask - does he just seem to be better than we have, or is he the right man? Any football manager in the world would be an improvement, but it doesn’t make them the right man for the job. I’d ask the same about McIntyre, who hasn’t achieved much since leaving us. Although, I have it on fairly good authority that he doesn’t want to return to management. I do think we need experience, at least until the end of this season. Priority this season is survival in this league now. We honestly can’t afford to be planning for next season (or beyond) until safety is secured.

As I said to your previous post, it’s just mental. DT scored a brilliant goal. At the time, there was a decent chance of that saving Grant’s job. But because of who scored it, he couldn’t even applaud, smile or congratulate his player. Grant’s ego/arrogance is clearly more important to him. He’ll probably drop DT for celebrating in front of the bench like that.

I noticed that and thought that said everything. He couldn’t even get out of his seat after that goal because of who scored it. Incredibly bitter/arrogant man. OFW, Vytas and Thomas have all been very good since being reinstated to the team. They’ve all been frozen out by Grant at some point. He isn’t a good manager and clearly doesn’t know what makes a good player. Just a reminder, Ross Graham was ever-present earlier in the season, while Vytas warmed the bench. We failed to score a home goal and struggled away from home, while the manager refused to play DT - who now has 2 goals in his 2 starts at EEP. He signed Mehmet and let him gift several goals, before accepting OFW was a better keeper. It’s not just the results, it’s that abysmal standard of management that is a huge issue.

The only reason we’ve drawn the last 2 home games (rather than lose) is because Dom Thomas has returned to the team. The manager refused to play him for the first 8 games ffs. It just further highlights how clueless he is. Bringing Thomas back in isn’t a stroke of genius, it just shows how naive and arrogant the manager was to leave him out for so long. All because he didn’t play well as a central midfielder [emoji2361]