Raith Against The Machine

I'm pretty sure you could fit two Pat Clarkes in a Sam Parkin jersey. I reckon everyone who featured on Saturday will be offered a new deal. They might not be reduced deals and they might not accept, but Murray wasn't slow to jettison Malone and Anderson (unlike Livingston, oddly, who played a barrel load of players already announced to be leaving). You know, if I dared to dream, I'd look towards John Baird's contract expiring at Dundee and Bomber Brown looking to reshape a squad. They'd be daft to get rid of him, and there would be others ahead of us in the queue to offer him a deal, but ooh, if only...

Stuart Anderson gets stick because he doesn't just put his head down and run towards the goal until he loses possession. He doesn't panic, he keeps possession, and he helps to build attacks. Scorpio is correct that Anderson is much more effective in a midfield 3 rather than a central 2, but I'd definitely have him on the list for next season. Also, he's part-time and (I'd imagine) not one of the higher earners, so I'd be surprised if he's not at Stark's next year.

I'd rather have Bob Sloan than Mark Ferry.

He isn't. In fact, he's two leagues below them. I've seen the Albion play a couple of times this season, and a few games last season too. Ferry isn't even their best midfielder. On his day, and he doesn't have that many, he's a good Second Division footballer, but no more. Calling for him to return is absolutely ludicrous.

Mark Ferry!

We literally can't be relegated. I'm pleased with that, given the budgetary constraints the club operates under. I'll be pleased if that's the case again this time next year, because the league looks like it might be even tougher. I'm a realist. I don't operate under the assumption that I follow a big team just because I saw them play Bayern Munich once back in 1995. If you can't take any joy or satisfaction from seeing the Rovers avoid a relegation battle, I suggest you stop watching them for the next five to ten years and save yourself a lot of anger and upset. The situation is going to get worse before it gets better. Hopefully the Celtic money has eased some worries this year, and might even stave off the threat of 100% part-time football for another 12 months, but we won't be on the telly every season. As a club, we're essentially clinging onto life, waiting for reconstruction that might not come in time. There aren't many clubs ahead of us in the queue to become the next Dunfermline. And despite all of this, in his first year of management, Grant Murray has kept the team clear of relegation and progressed well in both cups only to be knocked out by Celtic. I don't care if the Rovers aren't winning trophies, as long as I can still go and see them every Saturday. Maybe some would prefer it if the board hired a tried and tested manager on inflated wages and gave him the budget to take the club to the SPL, despite the financial situation at the club. I'd suggest they speak to the Pars fans about how the other side of that feels, though.

I'm livid. Incandescent with rage.

Staying up = good enough.

I'm sure people tell him this all the time, but Ross Callachan looks just like a young Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

There's now a US TV sub-forum in the TV forum. Eh?

The final was on Wednesday or Thursday and Anderson came in sixth. Not massively surprising given that he ran himself into the ground on Tuesday night, although I don't think he was the only one. Pretty sure he won the sprint, too. Beau won...

What kind of a name, for a footballer, is "Beau"? Bet he wins.

Tomorrow we're announcing the signing of Sammy the Tammy.

I suppose you don't want to stick "He's only here til the Summer on half a wage cos he's got no other options, then he'll be off to the SPL." in an official statement. I'd be surprised if it's anything other than that, though.

He's one of the ones you'd expect to resurface in the SPL. I'm surprised that he wasn't picked up by someone like Dundee or Ross County. It'll take a game or two to get used to seeing him in the blue, but the squad is stronger with him than without.

Torn faced little ba... stand out on the wing for the Pars, caused us no end of trouble over the past few years. Presumably he's playing for peanuts. Welcome to the club, Joe.

25% of the players in the Rovers matchday squad are products of the club's youth system.

If two successive managers have deemed that certain youth players aren't ready for regular first team football, I'd suggest it's because they aren't.

The Steering Group would not appear to know their arse from their elbow.

You know, once you've piped crowd noise into your glass house...

It wasn't annoying, but I saw this wee exchange on Facebook earlier and it made be laugh. "Does anybody else have to have the volume on everything set to an even number or is it just me?" "What are the odds of that happening?" "Remote"

"Sky Sources" being a Jim Jefferies interview that I read yesterday or the day before? You can tell it's an international weekend.

We tried that already against the Pars. We were two men down by half time and got pumped.