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Ah, Davie goes back to this. A right good question on it, just a sharp listing of all those income streams that Michael mentioned above, and an ask as to why that "perfect storm" led to a loss. The answer... is somewhere between condescending and obfuscatory. Some amount of shite about cup draws we didn't get years ago.
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Queen’s Park v Raith Rovers
Raith Against The Machine replied to Bring Your Own Socks's topic in Domestic Cup Football
If you really want to stretch definitions, the Rovers did the same in 2019/20, albeit the Cup was shared with Inverness and the league was decided on points per game.- 111 replies
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He's just defended a couple of corners by himself. I don't imagine Connell would've done that. You know how on Fifa there's a game mode where you can take control of a single player instead of the whole team? That's what this game has been like. Every single player on the park is putting in the same run-of-the-mill 5/10 performance, except Tom Lang who's flitting about the back line doing Cruyff turns and trying to go on mazy runs through the entire Queens' team.
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Queen’s Park v Raith Rovers
Raith Against The Machine replied to Bring Your Own Socks's topic in Domestic Cup Football
Got away with one there. Definitely a handball in the box.- 111 replies
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Frederiksen has been... fine? Like all of our strikers, he's had to drop deep to get involved, but his touch has generally been alright and he's managed to offload the ball a few times. Did as well as he could with the one reasonable cross, but it was a few inches too high even for him. I think we're missing an opportunity sticking with the one striker. Gullan has been really well marshalled by the right back but he's been sellotaped to that touchline. Surely it'd help both him and John to be up top together.
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Two teams who haven't offered much, and the referee has been there with his whistle any time some football has threatened to break out. Just a very scrappy, midfield stalemate. The Rovers have maybe been mildly more threatening, and Gullan did hit the bar from a corner, but neither keeper has really had to do much.
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Queen’s Park v Raith Rovers
Raith Against The Machine replied to Bring Your Own Socks's topic in Domestic Cup Football
Back four is correct. In front of that it looks fairly fluid, but probably best categorised as our usual 4-2-3-1. Easton has dropped back alongside Brown. McBride is playing as the 10, with Gullan left and Mitchell right.- 111 replies
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Queen’s Park v Raith Rovers
Raith Against The Machine replied to Bring Your Own Socks's topic in Domestic Cup Football
Murray said in advance that he'd be resting MacDonald. I suppose that's basically a 4-1-3-2. Either Masson or Lang moving over to cover at right back. Mitchell and McBride on either side of Easton as the three, and then Gullan playing off Frederiksen. Interested to see how we'll manage to play two out-and-out strikers, with another filling in on the wing, and still not manage to touch the ball inside the box.- 111 replies
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🌤 Dundee v Dunfermline (take 3)🌤
Raith Against The Machine replied to The Master's topic in Domestic Cup Football
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It's clear that the market hasn't gotten any better since the summer. There's not suddenly loads of young, promising strikers available for loan. As Murray says, it's the same faces being offered out to the same clubs. Connell, for all his faults, is a known quantity. Murray obviously knows what he's like around the place, and while he's not the ideal type or quality of striker we need, he's been underwhelming more than actively terrible. We've all seen much worse loan players from the Premiership. It's a tight squad, and games are coming thick and fast. If Murray wants to keep hold of a player he knows, and knows (presumably) that he can afford, I don't think that's a catastrophic error when there's precious little else out there.
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I don't think Stanton has a 'natural' position in the current system we're using. Not from the start. He's obviously not taking Brown's place and you don't really want him out wide, so he either replaces Spencer or Vaughan. He's not as good a 6 as Spencer is, and not a good a 10 as Vaughan. He's perfect to come off the bench, though, because he can come in for Spencer (or Brown) if you're chasing the game and need more drive, or he can come on for Vaughan and give you a bit more dig in the middle if you're holding on. That's not to say he shouldn't be starting, I think he's comfortably in our best eleven players, but you'd need to find a different setup to not be crowbarring him in a little currently.