Raith Against The Machine
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Such is the nature of curses.
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17 minutes ago, renton said:
Another day, another curse.
Speaking of curses, I see Akio has taken Ethon Varian's "lucky" number 18.
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Oh ya c**t, I think Dylan Easton just retired someone.
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Can we switch ends again, please?
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We've deserved that, on the balance of play. Caley really haven't gotten going. They look quite ragged, in a way that we have for large parts of this season. Obviously got a couple of players with real quality, but silly mistakes and bad choices stopping them from getting any momentum.
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We'd started really well, but let Caley in twice in quick succession with defensive errors.
Millen has basically been playing as a right winger. As soon as we've got the ball, Brown drops into the right back position and Millen is pushing right on. Unsurprisingly, Caley are struggling a little when Vaughan, Connolly and Millen are all attacking their left back.
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Just now, StoneThrowAway said:
He is 100% not a no.9
For fuc...
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Will he stay near the goal? That's all I care about. I can't watch another striker foraging around the midfield for a touch of the ball.
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Maybe I'll regret this once I listen to what he has to say, but fair play to Steven MacDonald for sitting down and doing the interview. A willingness to communicate directly is a significant improvement.
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5 minutes ago, renton said:
Not much in the FFP on line. Apparently there is talk again about a Hovercraft link between leith and Kirkcaldy so that's exciting.
Hibs fans will be looking forward to jumping on the Raith Rovercraft for their next trip to Stark's.
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That sounds more like the interview in the Athletic that the ex-Rangers kid gave. He'd been at Ayr. I can't remember his name for the life of me. Also said he wouldn't go on trial to a League One club because it was beneath him.
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An unfortunate failure to learn lessons from the Rose in that second half. You can't play that high a line with that slow a defence. Gullan could've had four, quite easily. Good to see him staying central and running at goal, though, after a first half mostly spent floating about on the wing again.
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A somewhat idiosyncratic refereeing performance.
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Absolutely stunned to see we're having to play a numbers game of just letting the ball rumble around the final third hoping something happens, as opposed to anything with real intent or design.
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12 minutes ago, PWL said:
Darvel goalie is my daughter's maths teacher. She's supposed to have him second period tomorrow. Can't see him being sobered up by then.
Maths Damon.
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25 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:
We don’t seem to have had Colin Steven as a referee since the last time he reffed us at home to Inverness. What’s the chances of that? Surely there isn’t that many referees who take charge of Championship games.
edit: I make it 37 competitive games since we last had him stretching back nearly a year.
We're essentially onto a whole new roster of referees. Since the Premiership introduced VAR, they use twice as many of the "good" referees as they used to, each weekend.
The likes of Colin Steven now spend most Saturdays in a wee box watching replays, while we get the dross who would've otherwise been doing League One games.
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Every single international match that Italy have ever played in has taken place since Dundee last won the Scottish Cup.
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On 17/01/2023 at 08:02, Ludo*1 said:
Bowyer on Coulson:
"He’s been with us for a few days. Scott Paterson knows him from his time at Cowdenbeath. He’s a young lad who has come in and trained with us. He has looked OK but that’s where we are at the moment with it. What sometimes happens in January is some clubs who try to help out players get sorted with a new club. Sometimes you get a player given a free transfer in January to get his career going. At this moment, there might be another one coming in on a trial basis. But we are probably looking for a more permanent fixture if I’m being brutally honest.”
Basically, Coulson is just here as a favour and being looked at for the development team but nothing major in it.
Quinn Coulson has signed for Alloa.
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2 minutes ago, StellarHibee said:
If VAR wasn't in place, he would have given it live. VAR itself wouldn't be an issue if there was a clear intent to be impartial.
Ah I see, you're a haver. Carry on.
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1 minute ago, StellarHibee said:
VAR isn't the problem. But when you take the same cheating institution and put them in charge of it, it's hardly a shock that the cheating continues.
Well VAR is the problem them, because that's how it works.
You hear this all the time. "It's not the technology, it's the way it's being used." Yeah, which is an integral part of 'the technology'. It relies on human interpretation, and what we've seen time and again both here and abroad, is that referees can't use that technology to provide better outcomes than they did when they were just refereeing games in the traditional, analogue sense.
I'm sure some VAR apologists could come up with some number for whatever increased percentage of decisions are technically correct with VAR, but it's not worth everything that's lost when VAR is used.
If Kevin Clancy sees that incident live and gives a penalty (which he didn't, of course), it'd still be wrong but you can forgive it. Football's a fast game and he only gets one look at it. But when you take three minutes out of the game, where everyone in the ground is left on hold, and two referees look at multiple slowed down replays and still think that's a penalty? It's a scandal, and it's VAR that's the root cause.
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Right back cover is certainly no bad thing.
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31 minutes ago, McGuigan1978 said:
According to Wyscout, we've had 380 touches in the opponents box this season, which is the third highest in the division. Only Dundee and Partick Thistle have more, with Queen's Park fourth on 364.
Thank you. I'm a little surprised, but I suppose it's a reflection of the players behind the striker (and the striker as well, obviously. They're not always wandering about, Gullan's goal at Hamilton was a perfect example of predatory striking) driving into the box with the space that's created.
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I know I'm a broken record here, but I feel very strongly that we need a striker who wants to just be a striker. Actually someone who's very much not in the Marc McNulty mould. He's like the forwards we've already got, with a game that's built on industry, doing the running, stretching the defence, dropping back into midfield or going wide to get involved.
I'd love to see the stats on our touches inside the box versus other sides in the division, especially if you could isolate it to just whoever the "main" striker is at any given time.
There are balances to be struck. Against a lot of defences (think of going up against a back two of Berra and Steven Anderson, for example) where you'd want a Gullan or a Connell who's going to drag them around and create other spaces. But that's all we've had all season, regardless of the opposition.
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I can't believe any of you are even humouring this. It's like someone coming on here and posting "Raith Rovers play in black and white stripes!". It's so demonstrably false it's not even worth engaging with the premise.
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😺 Raith Rovers v Inverness CT 🔵 🔴
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Make no mistake, we should've won that by a clear margin. Caley offered very little more than what we gave them.
It's another game drawn because we've thrown away a silly goal. The positive is that there's clearly something to build on, but this is the middlest of all mid-table Championship sides.