Raith Against The Machine

That's much more like it, though. The first step on a long road back.

Well, aye, us on here and the 500 quote tweets and 350 replies to it, which is more engagement on any tweet the Rovers put out other than Goodwillie related tweets. By comparison, the "We're in a final!" tweet had 52 retweets of any kind and 23 replies. As a general rule, if you're going to try and run a social media account, you want to avoid putting out content that actively encourages a pile-on. "No publicity is bad publicity" is categorically not true.

I wonder if Marie Penman is considering it.

Please explain how.

The tweet is still up, and somewhat unsurprisingly given their entire ethos seems to just be pulling stuff off Twitter, the Fife Free Press are now running a story on the backlash. Just brilliant, brilliant work from the Rovers. Great football club, very well run, 10/10.

Still there. Still being retweeted to a wider and wider audience. Still dragging the club's name through the mud.

Well, no. It's damned if you do badly, damned if you don't do at all. There is such a possibility as handling things well.

Was that worth the time it took? No, it was not.

This was the output for last year's International Women's Day: Look at how good all of that is! It's better than anything I've seen from any SPFL club this year (granted it's still quite early and I've hardly done a comprehensive audit) with proper investment, engagement and a clear purpose. How on earth did that club go out and sign a rapist? Because the people who sit in the boardroom don't have a clue about the sterling work their staff and volunteers are (or were) putting out into the world. That's the football club I thought I supported. I cannot believe they've managed to go from that last year to where we are now. Unbelievable self-sabotage.

Hasn't been deleted yet, either. FFS.

There's definitely been a change in the Twitter approach. Just look at these two tweets on the passing of Frank Burrows in November and Frank Connor last week. It's not the most important thing that's happening right now, but it is noticeable.

Incidentally, today would've been the perfect opportunity to release a *gasp* video or statement from *gasp* an actual person, addressing what's gone on and, in the spirit of International Women's Day, setting out what the club is going to do differently going forward. But instead, no, we've got vague notions that have been copied and pasted from somewhere else, with no specificity or ownership. It's the worst of bland bandwagon jumping that's all over Twitter today, and prior to that Rovers tweet the worst of the hypocrisy was coming from organisations with significant gender pay gaps (see @PayGapApp on twitter for more of that). But this is really something else. It pales in comparison with some of the utterly brutal actions taken in the name of the club recently, but it's another indicator, weeks down the line, that lessons aren't being learned.

Probably, but he's not any other manager. I don't really think there's anything to be gained (really) by sacking him now. Bundle the management position into a full review in the summer alongside the board structure and everything else. Let McGlynn finally see his team out for a final and see what the options are once there's a couple of months breathing room. We're not going up or down regardless of what decisions anyone makes now.

(I'm not at the game today, so I'm maybe lacking the visceral rage of others.) There's no point sacking McGlynn. We're not going to get relegated. Worst case scenario, we finish somewhere in mid-table. Sack him and the best case scenario is another manager gets us to fourth and we lose in the playoffs anyway, which he still might manage himself given how garbage Caley Thistle are. Just leave it til the end of the season and re-assess then.

(But for the other side.)

It was a fucking shanner, tae. Corner kick swung in between the penalty spot and the six yard box for Farid El Alagui to header in. I think a lot of proper goalkeepers would've conceded it. Other than a shot in the first five minutes that Stevenson pushed away, Ayr offered nothing else all game.

This isn't just a David Goodwillie thing, or a Pie and Bovril thing, it's internet wide: If you type out a post, and then at the end of it you read it back and realise it's an utterly moronic opinion, don't add a coda that says "I bet I'll get slaughtered for this!". Just delete it. I know it took you a few minute to hammer out, but that's okay. You can just chalk it up to experience. Don't click Submit. Just delete it. Move on.

Should Mehmet be available on time, Alexander should play. You think we didn't have back ups on back ups? This is just how it starts.

Yogi playing the hits.

I've got no expertise in the area whatsoever, but would you not expect the maximum payout to be his weekly salary multiplied by however many weeks are left on his contract? Ie, that's the "no negotiation" figure, if the Rovers just unilaterally decided to bullet him. Why would there be a scope to negotiate above that figure? To use your example, I'd have thought that without negotiations Goodwillie cancelling the contract outright would mean he walks away with £0 (which he'd never do, obviously), and the Rovers cancelling it means he walks away with £150k as a lump sum. All the negotiation is about finding a payment figure inbetween and a payment schedule that suits too. Clyde's involvement will have complicated that, but ultimately it's between those two limits. No?

Hang on guys, I've looked it up and I think he might be right.

Aye, it doesn't really change things for the Rovers. They still had to come to an agreement to get Goodwillie off the books. That was probably made easier when there was a definite destination, but the end goal is still the same. I imagine Clyde will end up on the hook for a small percentage of the final settlement in exchange for cancelling this loan, but with any luck the next statement with his name in it will just confirm that he's no longer an employee of either club (or any other) and then the c**t disappears forever.

Only in the same way that if you actively jump off a bridge you'll get "shafted" by gravity.