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For extra anorak points I went and added the fortunes of Morton, Airdrie and Ayr - all teams who in the 90s would be classed as reasonably sized clubs alongside us and who all had pretentions of chasing the premier league around the same time. There is a very similar trend of decline in all of them from that mid 90s through the 00s, with Morton recovering first (but with a more spectacular fall) note I've just carried Airdrie forward from Airdrieonians through Airdrie United to the current incarnation.

What I might do is add other first division clubs, It'd be interesting to see how the effects of the SPL formation, lack of play off spots and TV money has on other clubs who were 'chasing the dream'......

I don't get that long for lunch I do agree though, it's amazing how far backwards the club went in that decade from 96 to 06 though, isn't it. Regardless of management or players (and we had a some good squads at times) we just seemed to slide back relative to other clubs in that time. Just goes ot show what a competent business model can do for a club.

For me the interesting thing is how steady our decline is after 96, if your drawing a trendline through it. Basically, while Claude Anelka and his men may have been a spectacularly newsworthy fiasco, it was not the precipitation of a decline, but rather a watershed moment where we ended changing how the club was run. Before that is a fairly steady decline in fortune, regardless of who was managing or playing for us relative to the clubs around us.

Here you go, something no one wanted - a graphical representation of how shite we've been over the last 25 years.

1. Dead Space 2 2. Alien Isolation 3. Doom 4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 5. Command and Conquer Red Alert.

Apart from the Livi game.

Pretty much well covered by Raithie and 92/93, but his positional sense is practically non existent. The number of times he sells out the guy next to him is unreal. Add to that his default setting is swing at the ball and boot it to f**k, which is not awful, though it concedes possession more often than not... but when he swings and misses.... There is a direct correlation between us losing games by 4 or 5 and then going on a 7 game unbeaten run conceding 3 goals or something in that time, and him being dropped.

In all honesty, Oddly is outgunned in the creepy as f**k stakes by Young stalin, on that post anyway.....

Paco has a point in so much as Callachan was due to go out on loan to P'heid, he didn't go and instead injuries allowed him to get himself a run in the team, and more, become an integral part of that team. Before that he might easily have been on his way out.

Was at Spartans in between as well.

I don't recall Dunbar playing much at all, which is part of why he decided to jack it in and head back to the Juniors.

Yeah, it's Carrick: http://www.raithrovers.net/18022/rovers-secure-hearts-star-on-loan-deal.htm

That was in the Courier, have we been linked to Heffernan? That one went right by me....

Any idea if it's likely to happen, or is it just a query at this point?

Good interview with dougie hill in the ffp. I think it does help show why we are looking more solid at the back

Best bloody hurry up if we are.

The other was a blistering top corner free kick against Alloa.

Some of my best mates are the guys I was in halls with back then, and subseuqently shared flats with in town. I loved Heriot Watt, yeah it was a bitch getting into town at times, and you learned to appreciate Edinburgh Uni's student union but HW was great for the reasons you give, also a damn fine Electronic Engineering course.

Weird one, I know he hadn't featured all that much for them last year, but he was banging them in recently (I think,anyway - we were all drunk when we were looking this up in the pub)

Full of Nazi gold?

Having said that he comes across well enough, no bullshit...

Listening to Malpas' interview at work. If your ever stuck in the biggest lingerie store in Ireland, and you need to make a discreet exit, pray you have Malpas with you.....