Double Jack D
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Shite cup or not, if the Pars win next week then the Semi has the potential to be our biggest game of the season.
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1 minute ago, Scottydog said:
Part timer!
Glory hunter
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Now we're into the semis am right up for this!
Hope the pars skelp dundee next week.
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Genuinely surprised that Arnott has failed to impress at Brechin. He has looked comfortable in a decent championship side.
Hope Brechin haven't broken him!
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Not sure it's ever too early to go up. The ability to hold on to key players is much enhanced with the financial benefits of promotion.
Staying in the championship leaves you at risk of losing a few key players to clubs in Premier League or Leagues 1 and 2 in England and having to find replacements in a more challenging market.
Queens are easily the best side I have seen this season, they should be going for the title all guns blazing.
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1 minute ago, Skeletar Spider said:
We don't have a good enough squad to make wholesale changes to the team without essentially forfeiting our chances of winning, but it might be the smart move.
Never been a fan of resting players for cup games, but this is pretty much the first time it's actually been something for us to consider.
Looking at who we have available and the team we are likely to put out, not sure playing your B team will definitely equal a forfeit.
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On the one hand, I'm not hugely fussed about our progress in this tournament. The league is a far higher priority.
On the other hand, a win sets up a semi final at Dens or East End which has the potential to be an absolute cracker.
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2 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Looking forward to this, Friday night games are class. If Stanton is back I’d swap him in for Vaughan.
Same.
I'd much prefer Friday Night games all the time.
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2 hours ago, Scary Bear said:
EoSFL? Bit of a saturated market for Fife teams.
Or do you fancy killing another club with league status?
I’d rather stay in the SPFL, preferably Championship or higher. Ideally we’d have some people in charge who love the club and have the time, principles, and talent to make us a well run and sustainable club. I won’t hold my breath.
Id settle for a new stadium lol. Don't know what is more realistic
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1 hour ago, Enigma said:
Honestly think it would be quite good fun starting again in the EOSFL and climbing our way back up.
Ha, I'm not the only one
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1 hour ago, Scary Bear said:
Airdrie had to kill Clydebank. Only footballing royalty like Rangers get immediately voted back into the league structure. We might have to go EoSFL.
Is it wrong to be mildly excited by that...
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36 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
Maybe we should just go all in and liquidate. We can come back as The Raith Rovers.
Why even the "The" ?
Just liquidate the company that operates the club and get a new one, the club stays as Raith Rovers. Airdrieonions and Rangers have done it previously so there is precedent.
We may need to start again in (or be demoted to) League 2 but we can carry on with our name and full history intact.
Definitely more palatable than trying to service/ pay off the debt.
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40 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:
How come every other club manages to go into admin and do some 2p in the pound thing and get rid of their debts, but we still have this situation?
Other clubs are smart, they owe money to folk that don't run them
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The first sign of smoke from a club about to implode is the "expanded top league" chat.
The rest of the season may be more interesting off the pitch than on it...
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3 hours ago, Dalziel8 said:
You’re not wrong however a lot of these clubs owned their previous stadium/land which they sold in order to fund the new one. Starting from scratch would take a hell of a lot of pints and parking spaces to pay back.
The predicted maintenance costs of Starks park over the next 30 years may not be any cheaper.
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Totally agree that any ground move is pie in the sky. Not even remotely on the radar of the club.
However the longer we continue to throw good money after bad at Starks Park with it's very limited ability to generate revenue and it's growing maintenance costs the longer the investment in the football team will suffer.
Other teams that built out of town stadiums not near public transport hubs or pubs solved this issue buy building car parks and pubs in the grounds. Then they charged for parking and sold pints in the pub at a profit.
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4 minutes ago, JaketheSnake said:
The atmosphere was class like 12 years ago. It's not the stadium that's to blame for a shit atmosphere, it's the fans.
There hasn't been a "class" atmosphere at Starks since the big stands were built.
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40 minutes ago, Brashy's Boots said:
Where are these "plenty spaces" for a stadium and facilities?
There is ample space at the north end of the town next to the A92.
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22 minutes ago, virginton said:
Unless I'm missing something, Raith no longer own Starks' Park so what exactly is going to fund this new stadium? If you demolish your ground and flog it for property*, the proceeds would not automatically go towards building a new purpose-built stadium.
*in a market with significant short-term turbulence
The stadium is owned by Sim so, yes, there is no guarantee he would use this as a way of fundraising for a new stadium. I don't think anyone knows his intentions there.
The club are facing a significant financial stadium investment in the next 10 to 15 years whether they remain at Starks, build a new stadium or go homeless. In any of these scenarios it is not clear what will fund it.
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I think the default decision will be to stay at Starks, due to lack of any work or vision from the club to cost assess relocation to another site.
I can think of very few positives for Starks Park other than it is our traditional home.
It doesn't have an atmosphere, even when full. There is pretty much no spectator facility at the side of the pitch, where most folk would want to view football. Corporate facilities are terrible. It's not a great place to watch football. Even walking to it on a match day with Pratt Street always open isn't an enjoyable experience these days.
The forthcoming £500k bill for maintenance is just to keep it safe. The tip of the iceberg. This is only likely to increase and become more frequent as the big old stands age. At some point in the medium term, major structural work is going to be required which will not be too dissimilar to the costs of a more modest new facility, wherever that could be.
My view is the costs of staying at Starks will far outweigh the costs of moving. The Nairns site may or may not be suitable, but Kirkcaldy has plenty spaces where a new ground could be built with facilities in addition to hosting 18 football games a year to generate income.
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I've said for years that Starks was a huge financial noose around the clubs neck. It's a shite place to watch football and maintenance of the structures must be colossal (and only growing). The community set up seems to be doing well but Starks doesn't cater for it well at all.
The sooner the club looks to move to a smaller, more fit for purpose stadium the better. It would be great if somewhere within the town could be found but there is plenty space on the outskirts which could be developed. I often drive past the Nairns site on Victoria Road and wonder if there was enough space for a wee stadium opposite the car wash. Wherever it was built, a decent site with facilities and car parking could be in use 7 days a week and would surely be worth an investment on it's own.
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All I want for Christmas is to shoot the right way...
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Big game this for getting the wagon back on track a bit. A win or draw keep a nice cushion from the trouble below but a defeat would make promotion play-offs appear a bit more of a dream and make the next month or so a bit of a scrap at the bottom.
Whilst there is plenty talent in the squad, I'm not convinced we have the mentality for a relegation scrap.
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9 hours ago, roverthemoon said:
The Challenge Cup is pretty dull until you reach the latter stages, but after that it can be hugely enjoyable. Not sure why anyone would choose to boycott it at that stage. Imagine missing our win over Rangers, Partick away in the semi-finals just before covid or last years win over Queens in the final. All great days/nights to be a Rover. Joy can often be few and far between as a Rovers fan. Just embrace it.
I'm with this.
Queens Park away is a tough game and going on recent form we will start very much as the underdogs. However, if we manage to get through then a semi final at Dens or East End has the potential to be a tremendous away day.
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Got my tickets and thoroughly looking forward to it.