Raith Against The Machine

Yeah, me too. Didn't look great at the time.

How we didn't win that game, I'll never know. Just totally abandoned what was working so well. Really poor game management. The fragility in this team away from home just will not disappear.

Has Hendry touched the ball since half time? Our match in microcosm.

We've started shelling it long, for some reason. All three of our forwards are hopeless in the air. Here's Dingwall for Armstrong. f**k me. Red card. Anderson.

We've reverted to the back three, but Clyde have equalised before there's any chance to see it. Rather than Armstrong at 10 behind the two strikers, it looks more like a wide attacking three. Armstrong stays right, Bowie goes wide left. Interesting, if nothing else.

I wouldn't bet against it. We're really struggling. All of the composure of the first half has evaporated. It looks like it'll take a goal to settle us down again, but it'll need to come on the break. I wonder if we'll see Dingwall shortly.

Think there was a foul in there. Two hands in Davidson's back at the back post. Not too convinced about the original freekick award either. Still, no need to panic. We've been comfortably the better team, just need to keep doing what we've been doing.

Is that all three Clyde subs on?

He is not. 4-4-2 today. Gullan left wing, Armstrong right wing, Bowie and Baird up top together. Armstrong has been relatively quiet, but Gullan is doing damage driving inside.

Rovers have had four good chances since the second goal went in. Clyde (or, David Goodwillie and ten strangers) are reeling. Not unrelated, I'd watch Regan Hendry do the dishes. Boy's all class.

That wee pass into the channel from Bowie was *kisses fingers*. Gullan still had a lot to do though, but his run and finish were excellent. Looks like his tail's up now, let's see what he can do.

Bowie must've gone 30 yards essentially unchallenged there. I'm assuming there was a big deflection that looped it over the keeper, but taking the shot was the right option. Great to see from the big fella.

At least 50 folk still outside the away end at the moment. Feel for the stewards a bit, not their fault, but taking a bit of stick. Queue's barely moving.

What the f**k is this? How difficult is it to pay into a football game?

I think that's the second time I've seen the Rovers score a goal like that. I can't recall many details about the other, but it was at the North end of Stark's. It's a tough one, because I don't think anyone's actually wrong. The linesman is flagging because Bowie's in an offside position, but the referee's better placed to see that Dingwall didn't play the pass. It's easy to say "play to the whistle", and fundamentally that's true, but everyone stops when the flag goes up, naturally. You only need to look at Bowie, to see that. At least it wasn't truly game changing, I wouldn't feel great about winning a game like that. However, that said, Glenavon were getting very worked up well before that. A lot of bookings for dissent in a game played in honour of a biscuit.

Really feel for Glenavon there. Linesman flags for offside as Bowie goes clean through, but the ball is as played by a defender. Everybody stops, including Bowie, until the referee waves the flat down. Easy square ball for the tap in. Christ, though, that should've been a damn sight easier than it was. Glenavon are very technically limited, but the Rovers didn't create anywhere near enough in the second half.

Grant Anderson off with a relatively serious looking shoulder injury. Looked to be incredible pain initially, then tried to play in, before almost immediately waving a white flag.

The flag was up for that massive Bowie chance, but aye, he's been taking his lessons in two-footedness from Regan Hendry.

I'll maybe amend that a wee bit. They don't look awful going forward. At the back though... eek.

This time it's a Glenavon defender and the goalkeeper who collide whilst conceding. This competition really is a menace for small playing squads. Make no mistake, though. These teams are miles apart in terms of quality. If the Rovers don't win this by three or four it'll be a travesty.

Equaliser out of nowhere. MacDonald was caught out by a long ball, but actually managed to recover and get goalside of the forward. It looked like he was shepherding it for Munro to dive onto it, but for some reason Macdonald prodded the ball goalwards, past Munro, and a following in striker had an open goal to tap into. MacDonald has also injured himself in the process. The joys.

There we are. Good turn and finish from Bowie, but Glenavon look every bit a side who've conceded 13 goals in their last two games. Armstrong has the bag of tricks out already.

One way traffic so far. Rovers must've had seven or eight corners already.

McGlynn served one of his suspended games in the Fife Cup because we don't have a Reserve side, didn't he? Hendry maybe the same? Incredible loop hole, if so.

No Benedictus for the next three weeks. The big question becomes whether McGlynn sticks with his in vogue back three and slots McKay in, or takes heart from Saturday's second half and reverts to a back four with an extra place for Armstrong to provide the width further up the park. There are real positives to both, but personally I'd like to see the 3-4-1-2 continue. It's made us look like a coherent team for the first time in a long time, rather than the lesser-than-the-sum-of-its-parts outfit that we have been. Give Armstrong free reign in Vaughan's role in the middle of the park against Glenavon and see how he gets on.