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Anyone who was waiting on a season ticket in the post not had it through yet?
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From the outside, it looked more like a Kids Club than a singing section on Saturday.
I really don't want to be negative, but I can't help but think it's a rare miss from the new regime.
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It's definitely not a penalty, it's a dive, but I do think there's some mitigation for the referee. It's exactly the type of scenario that looks like a penalty.
You see it all the time where a defender only has eyes for a ball he's looking to clear, and the striker comes from his blind side and is taken out. At the time, from the other end of the ground, I called it naive defending. It's only seeing the replay that actually the defender does the right thing and doesn't take a swing or stick out a leg, he tries to keep out of the road.
The charitability towards the referee comes from the angle that he's at. Looking at it from behind Vaughan, he's seeing the same thing I did, essentially. It's only when you rotate by 90° and go to the camera angle that you see that there's minimal contact, if any.
Or to put it another way, it's a very good dive, if you'll allow for such a thing. With the movement of both players and the ball, there's a high expectation that there could be a foul, which completely sells it to the ref.
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Vaughan has every right to anticipate contact when faced with such an aggressive team and fanbase IMO.
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7 minutes ago, Mr November said:
From reading that match thread it seems like there was some Jai Quitongo/Raith beef today. I know there was the thing where Ian Murray called him a diver last season too but I thought you’d enjoy this excerpt from the Rico Quitongo tribunal last season:
“On 29 December 2021, during an Airdrie and Queen’s Park game, there was a verbal altercation between Mr Murray and the claimant’s brother. Airdrie won the game but the game had been ill tempered. Mr Murray shouted into the Queen’s Park dressing room, as he walked past it, “Go tweet that you little fanny”. This was aimed at the claimant’s bother.”
This is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Good triumphs over evil. You simply love to see it.
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Broadfoot's got egg on his face there.
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We've been all to bits since half time, moving people and formation every five minutes. I think we'd just finally gone to something that might work and the equaliser has gone in. Big ask to go on and try to retake the lead because we've had no semblance of control since before the break.
Fifteen minutes asking a shattered Vaughan and Hamilton to try and maintain a press was a ludicrous waste of time and effort.
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Quitongo going off. Hope it's nothing insignificant.
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Not a chance both teams finish with eleven.
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Total switch off and lack of communication on our left hand side there. We had three players over to cover Morton's three but managed to get completely fangled and leave one completely free. After that, it was obvious that Muirhead, who turns into Ibrahimovic every time we come up against him, would score. I think you'd want your keeper doing better, though. Very central.
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Penalty looked soft. Could see it coming a mile away and the defender needs to be savvier, but Vaughan (?) was absolutely looking for it.
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17 hours ago, Thistle4eva said:
I’m really happy Milnes signed on for a year, but am I the only person that thinks he’s pretty terrible defensively? Maybe I’m over reacting because he’s been out for so long and is obviously just getting match sharpness back.
What he brings to the team obviously excuses it but, I’m just wondering if I’m the only person that thinks it.
If you think Milne is terrible defensively, I can only assume you've never watched literally any other full back in this division try to defend.
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20 minutes ago, CrossgatesCynic said:
Fancy the Rovers to get a few goals today.
Whether they can stop Morton from doing likewise is another story altogether…
Millen being back would be huge on that front. I've absolutely nothing against Scott McGill, but fielding a defence with everyone playing in their natural position is going to make a huge difference.
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Just now, diegomarahenry said:
There can't be many reasons for someone to be harassing individuals at the club. If it was just to meet them or to batter them, there is a fixture list showing where they will be every Saturday from now until next May.
My money is on a fixated fan after their Nat King.
It sounds to me like someone has been pinging out texts along the lines of "Hey its me Frankie/Sean/Jamie/Aiden, I lost my phone and this is my new number, can you add me back into the group chat?" but that it's escalated from that recently.
I don't know what the most charitable explanation is. That it's an overzealous Ayr fan who's just trying to get an inside track? But then why turn nasty? Very, very weird.
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My card hasn't arrived yet (although I do have the email and the Fanbase wallet).
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1 hour ago, mojito said:
Any fans heading to the game tomorrow looking for a pint and a bite to eat tomorrow will be more than welcome at Kirkcaldy Golf Club.
Just along the road from Stark’s Park too.
Groundsman has maybe gone over the score with the weedkiller there.
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23 minutes ago, Raith fan in Yorkshire said:
Hi everyone - new P&B member here with a daft question.
I'm wanting to buy the new home shirt but I've never bought a Joma shirt before. Is it like Macron where you have to go a couple of sizes up from your usual, or is the sizing the same as your usual size?
Hoping for a good performance and result tomorrow - I like the way this team is shaping up. Hopefully Hamilton can find his shooting boots soon.
Not a daft question at all, it's been heavily debated! General consensus seems to be one size up from your usual, aye.
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I'm surprised Ngwenya has decided he's happy going in behind Milne, who he's got absolutely no chance of supplanting. I think he showed enough last year to demonstrate that he's good enough to play Championship football. He never looked out of place when he got time on the park, but he was very much second fiddle to Liam Dick, and Milne is twice the player Dick is.
He never asked, but if I was advising him I'd have said Thistle is the last place he should go. At his age and ability, he needs to be starting games every week.
For Thistle though, it's an excellent capture. He's not going to win Player of the Year, but I think he's about as good as you'll get as an undisputed back up.
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15 minutes ago, renton said:
Move back to 4-2-3-1.
Stanton and Byrne in the 2, Easton in the 10 role, Smith and Mullin wide, Hamilton up top.
Never want to see that 4-1-3-2 again...
Aye, it's exactly this. Murray has been talking up the 4-1-3-2 in pre-season but I suspect that's been down to who he's had available rather than any real desire to play it.
For basically all of pre-season (and Saturday), we've been playing with three "profiles" in midfield. Someone sits, someone links, and the rest attack.
Since we played Montrose, Stanton has been sitting, and Easton has been tasked with making sure the attack isn't isolated from Stanton. Byrne lets everyone move up a category into where they're more natural. Stanton gets to drive from deep instead of holding, and Easton goes back into the attacking pack.
Someone else drops out of that attack, and on form it's probably Vaughan although for some reason I wonder if it might not be Callum Smith, with Easton going back to the left.
Whoever makes the starting eleven, we should have a bench that stacks up remarkably compared to last season, even accounting for our usual injury pile-ups.
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20 minutes ago, Raithie said:
Hibs have only given us 1000 tickets for cup game. Guessing there will be scope to have this increased if we sell out the initial allocation?
Rovers confirming on Twitter that this is indeed just an initial allocation for the game at The Grant Anderson Backward Header Stadium.
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18 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
Well shit, there you go. I always assumed it was a football.
Likewise. I'd heard "holding a belt buckle" (possibly in an Ian Rankin novel?) but I thought it was a joke, like holding a computer mouse.
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How did Jamie MacDonald get on on Saturday? I'm looking forward to seeing him back at Stark's so unexpectedly soon.
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3 hours ago, johnnydun said:
You can take the boy out of Dundee...
But only with the permission of the Sheriff, and not after 10pm.
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The New Raith Rovers Thread
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Well, if nothing else it's reassuring not being the only one.