Raith Against The Machine

Hiya GM's lawyer, hiya pal!

I'm not massively in favour of this particular idea, but I agree with those who say it's a step in the right direction. Probably will mean a couple of years of a ridiculous system, but hopefully by 2018 we should have a half-decent set up.

Do you think the lad at the top is selling ad space?

Yes.

Posting so bad it could've been handled by the First Scottish group.

A responsible club, of course, wouldn't budget for cup games at all, and would treat the extra income as an added bonus. I doubt such a club exists in this league, however.

A smoked sausage supper only has one sausage. A sausage supper has two.

Surely it carries ten mugs?

Listen, I'll tolerate a lot of things, but I will not have my club compared to Ayr fucking United. I used to like you, Jimmy.

I imagine they'll actually sell quite well. This website isn't a brilliant snapshot of the "market" for these scarves. We're all big enough Rovers fans that we go out of our way to spend time chatting inane shit about them online. We're not going to buy something with any other team's badge on it. There will, however, be a lot of Celtic supporters who see the Rovers as their "wee team", or even vice versa. Again, if they were to pop up and say such a thing on this website, they'd be slaughtered. But you know there are equivalent folk in your workplace/primary school class. There'll also be a few a lot of folk who come along to this game and it'll be their first Rovers game, or the only one they've been to in years. Chance might be they fancy a wee reminder. The bottom line is, like it or not, there's a market for this product. It's no worse (in fact, it's a damn sight better) than SPL clubs giving over "home" areas to Celtic (and formerly, Rangers) fans to boost their gate receipts. It's the world we live in. Until there's a fairer distribution of wealth, Scottish clubs have no choice but to "flash their gash" at the Old Firm. Morals are all very good, but they don't pay the bills. It's a half-and-half scarf, it's not like we're agreeing to play the game without a goalie in exchange for £50 and some old training cones.

It's called revenue generation, and most football clubs try it, to go towards things like player wages. It's okay if you don't understand.

Time to wheel out the Weegie Triangle?

Yeah, this bothers me too. It's a very "Primary School" thing to do. Like girls who say "Daddy".

I don't think I've ever seen a Rovers goalie go up for a corner. I'd like to see it happen.

McGurn, Stuart Anderson and Dougie Hill are all part-time. I'm not sure about any of the others.

It seems like the "Go to first unread post" button is humped on threads with more than 50 pages. It doesn't usually bother me, but I've been reading General Nonsense a little more over the last few days and it's fucking annoying.

Michael Owen tweeted 'Bradford are on fire!' earlier. I lol'd.

Signed a one year deal in July

In fairness, the standard is pretty high. It's Simon Mincing.

Shite not having a game today, eh?

On the ticket issue, I agree with the majority. There's plenty chance for everyone to get a ticket, so going out of the way to limit sales in any way would be daft. I'm perfectly comfortable with season ticket holders taking as many tickets as they want. Now, I'm only just getting round to reading Turnbull Hutton's reaction to the Celtic game being on telly. I'm bloody delighted with that. Some real sensible stuff there. Should keep the wolf from the door and hopefully let us knock a real chunk off the debts, and that'll save us some money on interest going forwards.

Was this an error that has now been rectified, or am I being a posh spaz? If you said "being a posh spaz", you'd be correct. It's here!

Cheers pal. Thought they'd been enlarging my overdraft as well as my flaccid boaby.

Could someone who plays Roary's Lotto online do me a favour and check to see how the payment appears on their bank statement? I've got a payment down as "CTT Charity" and it's the only thing I can think of...

I wonder if Falkirk are taking all of the cash for the tickets they sell because they played hardball with the negotiations. It sounds like they've been owed money for a massive amount of time and they could be lodging some pretty serious complaints. Every chance they're holding off and keeping all the ticket money as payment. Either that or the money owed is more than the Pars are going to be able to pay anytime soon and Falkirk are taking the ticket money so that at least they're getting some money in now, as opposed to getting all of it on some undefined date in the future (or never...).