Double Jack D
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33 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
Oh can fully understand the Hamilton grumbles.
So if the last Derby at Starks gets moved for TV, so it's on a Friday night, which will be on the telly for free, and won't be on the season book you'll fully understand the away fans grumbling at the £24?
Just so I can get in there early, I do like a moan, thank you.
I think the prices are too high, but I agree that charging more for higher demand games is perfectly acceptable for clubs to do as they see fit.
No point grumbling about it, vote with your feet. That's what I'm doing this Friday and next... Its also what our fans did at the last derby and the DU game before that. Two of the biggest home crowds in a decade....
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1 hour ago, HoBNob said:
Considering how many Raiths fans thought £24 was a fair price in the run up to the last Derby at Starks I'm surprised that so many are complaining about £20.
I'm an advocate of having categorised games where you charge more where bigger crowds are anticipated. Given that two of our biggest home gates in the last decade were in the game mentioned above and the Dundee Utd game would suggest that the decision to increase the price for these games was a good move by the board.
I'm not necessarily a fan of the pricing categories being £22 and £24 however having a season ticket doesn't expose me to this.
Charging £20 for the fourth game of six this season between the teams, a game which is
- on a Friday night,
- on the telly for free
- Not on Season book
- In the Christmas shopping period
I don't think is a good move and I would be stunned if the resultant crowd doesn't reflect that.
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16 hours ago, Heaton said:
Subsidised by the Pars and United fans
Falkirk type banter imo
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18 hours ago, Beachbum said:
That's brilliant!
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Fair enough. Audio commentary it is...
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7 hours ago, Always next quarter said:
Just went to buy tickets for Friday then didn't. £20 adult and £10 kids!! Simply cant spend £80 on challenge cup tickets with a run of away games coming up. Had hoped for maybe £12 and £8, bairn got offered free tickets to Pars game at his club tonight...won't be there either
Same.
Change of plans meant I was able to go but I'm not shelling out that money for the challenge cup when it's on the telly.
Madness.
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Brown first name on the teamsheet for me... well him and Stanton.
With 2 fit centre halves, he moves into midfield alongside Byrne and Stanton moves up to the number 10 role. Beyond that Murray can pick any starters and finishers he wants across the front 3.
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I really enjoyed the game on Saturday. 2 good open teams having a go at each other and the result really could have gone either way. A great advert for the league as they say...
Noticed a huge difference in our energy in the middle of the park when Masson came on which allowed Brown and Stanton to each move forward. Can understand why this didn't happen from the start as Masson still learning and Airdries attacking play could've exposed his inexperience.
Thought we won the first half against the run of play and Airdrie won the second against the run of play... football eh?
Another point in the bag though and no real change in standings so not a bad weekend.
Hopefully more bodies available next week.
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Whilst new signings would be welcome, I have to say we have cover across all the key positions. Trouble is we are currently using it to the extreme.
The fact we can put out a team as strong as we did last night and on Saturday with the number (and quality) of players not available is testament to our squad depth this season.
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There was a tweet by the club showing Todd cupping his ears with the caption "listening for who the Pars got in round 2 of the cup" or something like that. Not sure that would translate to the whole club rattled by him.
Haven't seen any comment about him being a cripple either, that sort of shit needs called out if true.
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On 22/10/2023 at 01:29, Salvo Montalbano said:
3-0 Rovers, wee team fans to get all excited before their season fizzles out over the winter.
What are the guest pies going to be?
14 hours ago, DAFC. said:Can’t remember heading in to a game against the Wee Team less arsed and expecting a hiding at the same time.
Although it’s always darkest before the dawn, and all that…
Still seems a bit too early for Bene unfortunately. Badly need him back.
13 hours ago, Rob1885 said:Expecting a doing here.
13 hours ago, HoBNob said:Aye this could be a shagging. At a wedding so thankfully missing it.
22 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:Could benefit us that Raith are massive, massive favourites here and we get away with a narrow defeat.
Come on City boys, you're starting to sound like Falkirk fans with all this "Rovers are big favourites" pish.
Both sides likely to be missing key players through injury and there has been a bawhair between the teams in both games so far. Expecting a tight affair as usual in the Championship.
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With a red weather warning and advice not to travel into Red and Amber areas there is no way this game can be on, regardless of what the weather and pitch conditions are like at 3pm Saturday.
Matter of time before it is binned imo. Be as well just calling it today.
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1 hour ago, parsboi said:
You trying to tell me there won’t be a gross profit from ticket sales at your club?
Posting profits is not something we've done much of recently.
2 hours ago, da_no_1 said:Cool story, Tory boy
Being happy at the billy big baws big city team subsidising the poor town wee team isn't really tory behaviour, but whatever... cool story as you say
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22 minutes ago, parsboi said:
“Encouraging the younger generation” I’m sure was nowhere near the list of considerations on what to charge adult away fans.
Any club, including my own, charging more than £20 for an adult to watch lower level Scottish football is quite frankly taking the utter piss out of fans. They are dependent on the nature of the “fan” relationship to drive behaviour, while if this was any other industry, the “customer” would just say nah, bolt.
£24 therefore, is just profiteering. Anyone attempting to defend that with “logic” just looks silly in my opinion.
You have to make a profit first surely?
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23 minutes ago, Wacky said:
Suckling at the teat of Fifes biggest team since The Pars were formed.
I don't think you want to go down the rabbit hole of discussing management of clubs finances. Wee team pays its debts.
Rovers fans had the chance to vote with their feet regarding the increased price at the recent Dundee United game and, despite quite horrendous weather, we had our biggest home gate in over a decade. I'm not sure I heard any gripes about ticket costs.
I get why it boils your piss that Pars fans attending will be boosting the Rovers coffers, but the club exploiting games where there will be significant extra demand to increase the clubs revenue is not something that particularly bothers me.
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Quite a lot about the club that I back just now, makes a quite refreshing change.
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To be honest, I've no issue with clubs categorising games and increasing prices when it is expected there will be more demand. The fact that we had our biggest attendance in 10 years against Dundee United a couple of weeks ago confirms that it hasn't dampened demand and if it creates more revenue for the club then struggling to see the down side.
Pretty much every other form of entertainment tiers prices according to demand so not sure why football should be any different.
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This is going to be box office however it goes eh?
Love the championship this season....
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Sorry but appealing that decision is mental. How anyone from Dundee United could sit down after the event, calm down, watch the video evidence and still feel aggrieved enough to appeal the decision is beyond comprehension.
A red card all day long. Well done to the assistant ref who got the call absolutely spot on in the heat of the moment.
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Absolutely. The boy needs game time at Senior level to develop so loaning him out is a good way to do that, still got plenty time to develop into a first teamer.
Just to note that I am hugely satisfied that pretty much all our young players are now contracted to us and are either in or around the first team or out on loan to develop. We don't have 4 or 5 young loanees from other teams being developed by us for others to benefit.
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10 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Two ways to look at this. Ethan Ross has asked for more game time and we’ve said we can’t guarantee it due to the level of quality we have in the squad in that area. Alternatively, the Rovers are keen to unload a good wage and give us money to strengthen elsewhere. Or a combination of both. Not buying that this is some terrible decision. He’s barely had a good game for about 18 months.
Agree with this. This move makes a lot of sense all round but it does mean we will lose a very good, albeit very injury prone, player.
Very much a real world difficult decision. Even if the only reason is to balance up some finances then it seems like a sensible move.
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Pretty torn by this. Ethan Ross can be a very very good player.
However, in his time with us he has done very little and if you were to list the forward players in our squad in preferential order, he would come fairly far down the pecking order. A luxury we perhaps cannot afford or can use far better elsewhere in the squad.
Falkirk fans must be happy with this though. If he can stay fit, he will absolutely be a huge asset towards winning League 1
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13 hours ago, parsboi said:
I laughed at first, then I remember a lot of your previous posts - and I’m realising you might be serious…?
On a side note, why the hell are Partick loaning a striker to another championship club? We’ve all seen that movie a couple of times!!
We won a fucking Oscar for that one!
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2 hours ago, ribzanelli said:
If the QP board had access to those pictures on the last page and still went ahead with the appeal, they should be taking pelters from their own fans. The appeals board were only ever going to deal in facts and not get into calculating the probability of the left back getting back. Did he play the man with no attempt to play the ball? Yes. Was the striker clean through? Yes.
They're from the match highlights, there's every chance they were part of the appeal.
At the match I thought it was a soft red, however the rules of the game have been followed to the letter. Well done to the ref.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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What part do you disagree with?
Do you think all games should be the same price?