Raith Against The Machine

Does anyone know what the status of the Reserve side is for this upcoming season? We took part in the nine-team Reserve League 2 last year, but this tweet from the Shire suggests we might not be this time around. It's not definitive, there could easily be another team added, but there are nine there already. I don't think an approach to the Reserves was mentioned in Bill Clark's interview, but I could be wrong. I'd be interested to hear what the plans are for the younger players in the squad, who aren't likely to get many first team minutes.

I love Iain Davidson. f**k all y'all.

Davidson and McKay both confirmed.

That is a very weird thing to put in a statement. "We worked out how much we can spend without losing money. Then the gaffer asked for more money. So we gave it to him." Prudent.

It was a retweet from when we were relegated.

John Sim: "If we hire a woman, we won't be able to spit on the floor." Alan Young: "And we can't take our pants off when it gets real hot." Eric Drysdale: "And we won't be able to pee in the bovril! I mean... not... you know, if we wanted to, not that I ever... did."

I think if semantics are your best defence against the accusation of being a rapist, you just might be a rapist.

He reportedly declined a move to Airdrie because he doesn't want to play in League One.

Have you run out of rapists to defend?

Nisbet to Dunfermline confirmed. No fee agreed, will be decided by tribunal.

"Paul! With a modest five figure sum, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like... a left-back!"

"You said if we offered you a new contract, you wouldn't go to Dunfermline!" "Muzza says a lot of things. Oh yeah!"

If this is the beginning of a new chain of Rovers Simpsons memes, I'm all for it.

Maybe you should write to the club and suggest this, it's probably never occurred to them.

The Young Team; very good at singing, very bad at Twitter.

Dunfermline have just sold Jackson Longridge to Bradford. If they've known that was coming down the track, it explains the willingness to spend. I still think there's better value out there than Euan Murray, but it does make a bit more sense.

An insult to plants.

This is like watching Siri and Alexa trying to have a two-way conversation.

Not if you're planning on winning it.

Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised to see Anderson used as a right wing-back, should the 3-5-2 make another appearance. He'd be much better suited to that role than the likes of Euan Murray or Dave McKay.

The boy's clearly a trodden on grapefruit in a tracksuit. Best ignored.

I make no apologies for turning into Mark E Smith.

Victoria. Victoria. Victoria. Victoria.

I wouldn't be surprised if SPFL clubs, in total, submitted more than 150 registrations yesterday, and there's probably only two or three office staff processing them. Patience is a virtue, boys and girls.

With the registration window opening yesterday, I imagine the SPFL (SFA?) received a deluge of registrations, and there'll be some manual element to processing them. It could well be a day or two. I believe this is a relatively new phenomenon, because professional contracts are required to run until certain dates (either 31 December or mid-June). Previously you'd have had registrations expiring right across the summer (like the year all the Rovers' contracts were set to expire before the end of the play-offs...) based on each club's own whims, so there wouldn't be the same watershed moment for registrations. Anyone who's announced a signing prior to yesterday has been announcing an agreement, rather than a completed deal. Airdrie and Stenhousemuir have both been burned this year. In theory, it could've happened to us with McGurn. It'll be the turn of someone else, who hasn't learned the lesson, next summer.