Shadwell Dog

Any decent Raith players out of contract this summer?

If Raith don't want him then it's a no brainer.

I don't think you'll get many on here agreeing with you re me having a glass half full attitude. We've been abysmal on the park and recent boards have treated fans abysmally off the park. You could possibly say that the loyalty of our support has worked against us at times as bods have seen approx 2500 season tickets sold every season no matter how crap we've been on the park and that's given them little encouragement to really improve things. Other clubs have seen crowds plummet due to similar circumstance. Feck me QoS who used to have a decent support had 600 turning up the other week and that was then still in the champ. Aye, Raith, Morton have never seen crowds recover. We are beginning to reach a stage where things need to turn around or crowds will finally started to really dive . Thus season is a big one for us in that sense.

Home fan attendances haven't changed that much though incredibly enough. The crowds in 2017 were boosted by away supports of around 1800 on at least 6 occasions. In league one your lucky if you get 200 from away supports with some only double figures. Compared to some other clubs who have spent seasons down here our crowds have held up pretty well.

See it's quite simple really you add all the attendances up accept the two limited ones and divide by 16. That's not an estimate it's not a made up figure written on a napkin it's exactly what the average attendance outside those two games was. My original figure wasnt 3000 anyway it was 3400.

Christ it's no feckin rocket science. No point including two attendances where the crowd was limited by the blooming govt surely even someone from Airdrie can grasp that . The other 16 games give you a more accurate figure of our average which was 3400. In 2017 you also have to take into account that we had away supports from Dundee United, Hibs and Dunfermline who bring slightly more than cove, Airdrie or Montrose for e.g.

You can't count two crowds where you were only allowed 500 folk in due to govt regulations FFS. It's 3700 to 3400. Jesus wept man.

Yeah I know but the two restricted attendances are officially registered as 500 and 400.

Doesn't help when your getting 3 men and a dug turning up every week in the away stand. We've lost about 8 percent of our crowd from our first season in league one. Not that much considering performances.

It's just over 3000 if you include the two games that were restricted attendance.

Our average crowd was 3400 that's without the two games with restricted access due to Omicron at Xmas. Pretty good considering we've been pretty honking for 5 years now. However, it won't last much longer if we don't start getting things right but I'm sure the new bod realise that.

I'd think that McCann would tell him to drop everything and come straight away it's great here surely. If there's one manager he'd want here it would be him

Hughes has a contract till next summer so to me he's a complete nogoer.

Come on anyone that thinks that these days chats between clubs and managers doesn't go on is very naive. We made an arse of it with McKinnon by doing it far too obviously. If a manager is going to be out of contract in the summer he's going to make sure he has a job in place.

Just be patient. If the manager is in post elsewhere they won't be able to announce it till his commitments with his other club have finished. That doesn't mean they haven't discussed things with him. We don't want another McKinnon situation though.

Why are you so convinced at this stage that they know exactly what they are going to do though? The bod aren't sitting their thinking ach weve got a new manager but we won't tell the support as we can't be arsed As has been already mentioned we are going to be full time as stated by the directors any time they have been asked. They will not announce a manager until they have an agreement in place with a manager and if currently employed his commitments at any club he is currently at are concluded. The budget will be determined once they have finished stabilising the situation at the club. That goes for first team and youth. Absolutely no point in coming out saying we are going to do this, this and this to then find out we can't and I would also think decisions on these will also depend on the new manager . The season isn't even finished yet. Season tickets won't be on sale till June as per normal nor will the transfer window be open. I'd expect the bod to have completed and informed the support in good time for season ticket sales at the latest. I can't remember any other bod we've had coming out and telling everyone their complete plans for the next season on the Saturday the last one finished.

Yeah as I said then. Few will be on higher football wages than our full time guys probably those at cove. Others may have a higher combined wage and may have received help with employment via the club they play for. You do sometimes wonder in the merits of being full time at this level.

Was decent his first season in the first team but has become more and more unreliable. Mind you playing behind our centrehalfs probably hasn't helped. I'd like to see us getting a more experienced head in next season if he moves on. I presume you guys are going full time then next season?

The better part time players he talks about will be the likes of vigurs and Reynolds etc at cove. I highly doubt any of the rest of the part time outfits pay more than our full time gang.

With clowns like Mackay and hall playing inside him is it any surprise. If you're going to play attacking full backs you need rock solid centrehalfs to allow them to get forward and cover for them. We've not had that all season and he wasn't really given a sniff under rennie even with Taylor Sinclair and Dixon stinking the place out. He was excellent for Airdrie last season.

The fact we have 14 players on full time contracts mean we will stay full time and the budget will dictate how many more players and of what standard we can sign. McCall as usual has his finger on the pulse signing guys like Milne up. We play against these guys and yet either never sign them or sign them and don't give them a proper chance like dowds and McCann.

They won't know the budget till they have a clear view of the financial position of the club for starters. It's going to be full time as confirmed previously by the bod . Manager will be announced once we have one I would think. You talk about leaks but apart from Kenny miller touting himself there hasn't really been a peep from the press. No idea why we need to know about background administration to be honest and again academy situation will depend on what cash is available to fund it

He did feck all in his 12 hours for a start and that was the job he was paid to do. The bod have far better things they could be doing instead of giving up their time for hee haw to sort out shite at the club and getting pelters for doing it .Do you personally know any of the guys on the board or do you just fancy a pop at them.

Where are we getting this new board being full of Falkirk fans with egos pish from? Unless having an ego means having to give up your time to work 7 days a week to get your club out the shitter of course .

Not open to the ordinary fan ?you make out as if you have to be a millionaire to get in FFS. I'm an ordinary fan and will be attending whenever it's held. Of course the bod need to be held accountable but you also need to give them time. Rennie didn't work out unfortunately. He's away. People were quick to point out that it's hard to get decent players in January well the same could be said for managers mid season. They now have a full close season to get the right manager in and allow him to sign the players that will give us a decent team back . They also have their hands full trying to sort out the mess left by the last lot. They will be judged like any other board though on how we do on the park this season but let's at least give them a chance to get things right first before we start calling for their heads.