Brian Carrigan

Realistically this is the only move for him if he wants to continue playing football. Mick Kennedy - Use your peri peri cash and get it done ASAP so we can finally stop these weird Goodwillie cucks from spouting about 'bringing the captain home'.

Not their finest hour.

Aw it’s *very* Jim Duffy. I think with McAllister it’s because he’s a bit of a b*****d, so maybe managers feel that’s a bit wasted at RB. Danny Lennon, and actually Clyde managers in general, have a propensity for playing whoever they can out of position. It’s extremely weird.

Danny Lennon absolutely hates full backs playing at full back. The fact that we finished the game with 2 right backs playing centre mid and a centre mid playing right back was almost like DL was parodying himself.

Yeah. He looked good last season but I always worry about signing players that went a level up and it hasn’t quite worked out, so they need to drop back down. Doesn’t seem like he done much at ICT barring a couple of decent goals, so he may be playing with a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

Jamieson’s done nothing since he came back. That red today was pathetic.

Ref was mental today but that was one of the most pathetic Clyde performances I’ve seen in recent years. I don’t get Lennon’s weird habit of not playing actual full backs. Page starting and then Cuddihy on at RB with Mortimer and McAllister in centre mid - wild. Tade and Jones up top - two shambling husks without a header won between them. Fair play Dumbarton though, team really turned up and the young team are always good for a bit of fun. Wright looks a great signing and Bronsky is exactly what Clyde needed, good job we have a completely inept recruitment team.

Jesus Christ almighty

Yes. That's why we're asking.

Right honestly, you're missing the point. Just because he was legally deemed to have been adequately punished does not mean he has some kind of divine right to be employed as a professional footballer.

I was wondering this too.

See, this just highlights a wider issue. It's notoriously very difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt the crime that he committed. A quick look at the general statistics relating to rape convictions will tell you this. A read of the court documents, which admittedly I didn't do when he first signed, will tell you what you need to know. By accepting him in this club, we have all been complicit in allowing this situation to unfold. The least we can do for his victim, her family and all victims of rape/sexual abuse who have been put through hell by having this dragged back into public consciousness is to stand up and not allow history to repeat itself. Raith Rovers fans have showed us how we should have responded collectively the first time round. It'd be doing victims a disservice if we didn't follow suit.

That may have been a kernel of sense in what you're saying if 'reintegrate back into society' and 'being a professional footballer and a role model' were in any way interchangeable. He was INCREDIBLY lucky to have what he had at Clyde. A wife, child, home, career and sidebar as a part-time professional footballer are not often privileges furnished upon men who have been deemed to be a rapist. This whole situation has further shone a light onto who he is as a person, if we didn't know full well already. Not that it made it any more acceptable, but we're not currently in a position where signing him could be the difference between L2 safety or the club imploding and ceasing to exist upon relegation. He should not be re-signed.

Let’s be totally honest - if you think that Goodwillie is welcome back at Clyde, you’re a fucking idiot. He had it good here when many of us were uncomfortable but willing to have him here because he practically single handedly saved the club we hold dear. He decided to give that up and drag his victim, her family and his own family through the mud causing a tremendous amount of upset. Wanting to welcome him back here at this point is absolutely pathetic and extremely weird.

The absolute most roasting hot of Graham Spiers type takes.

It's entirely ours, arguably. We've given him this platform - doesn't matter how desperate we were or how we tried to justify it.

Just you away back to your own thread and get ready for signing Griffiths.

To be honest, f**k him. As has been said, he had it good and wanted away - putting the victim, her family and his own family through this absolutely awful circus.

The situation isn't the same as it was when he first signed (not that that's an excuse for us condoning it). We're not staring down the barrel of the Lowland League and financial oblivion. Bringing him back in would be an absolutely insane decision.

It's not uncommon for a manager to do a blind vote, where players basically stick their choices in a hat and the manager looks at them and uses it to inform his appointment.

It definitely isn't this, at all. At whatever level of football, the captain is an essential link between management and the players. Normally in changing rooms there is a leadership group headed up by the captain - coordinating everything from fines to nights out. As touched upon earlier, the captain should be level headed because ultimately they're the on pitch representative that can speak to the referee. This whole 'captains don't matter' stuff is bollocks. A good captain makes a lot of difference.

On the point of captains - there isn’t really anyone in the squad at the moment that I feel would be an ideal captain, whether it’s because they don’t seem to have the “classic” leadership qualities or they just aren’t good enough footballers. I still think captaincy is important, especially within dressing rooms. The captain should be experienced, enjoy a rapport with the fans and also be the first name on the team sheet and be ready to grab the players and/or the game by the scruff of the neck. With all that in mind, I think that the most ideal candidate is Neil Parry, but I hate when goalies are captains so probably Ally Love.

It's really not good. I would ask why you were here talking about it though but the answer is obviously to goad said moonhowlers into biting. I would chastise you for it but the amount of times I've been on the Airdrie thread talking about Yaxley-Lennon is wild.

I don't feel you or any other Raith fan should feel guilty about attending tonight's game or any subsequent fixtures for that matter. It's a horrible situation you've been put in. On this situation - I thought long and hard about whether or not to attend Clyde games after DGW had signed. Ultimately, I cancelled my club ownership status but still attended games. At first, I tried not to celebrate his goals, but in the end I flew with the crows and celebrated them the same way I celebrated any other players goals. Because Clyde are a part time club with a lower public status than Raith, the furore wasn't as extreme, died away quickly and was reduced to the occasional group of fans shouting that he was a beast. On reflection, that obviously wasn't nearly enough. The dying off of the furore from Clyde fans has probably contributed to the old white men that run Raith thinking that the reaction would be minimal. Tl:dr, it's a toughie.

He came on for us on Saturday and looked like he could barely move. I do however think his injury problems have been overstated because he doesn't want to pick up a knock ahead of a potential move. I attributed his lack of 'getting stuck in' on Saturday to 'wanting to stay out of it'. Chances are Clyde would have been reasonably happy with it given the value of a potential move.