Jilted John

Afternoon guys, can someone help me out? Was the old Telford Street stadium where B&Q is now?

Thanks Zen, will give it a listen!

Did anyone manage to listen to the K107 show today? They had an extended interview with Ian Murray. I missed it and it’s not available on catch up yet. Was interested to know what was said?

It’s not worked out like that for the leagues in Wales or Ireland.

Peterhead are part time and looking to sign part time players so no, I don’t think it applies to us.

You’re probably right with that. I wouldn’t be surprised if we faced Peterhead with the same squad we have just now. Thankfully they seem to be struggling too so it buys us a bit of time. With regards to Jim McInally’s piece on player recruitment, I don’t think it’s remotely comparable with our situation. Theirs is more to do with geography and presumably the cost of fuel.

I get that side, but you have to balance out against the commercial side of getting your business done quickly too. Season ticket sales started off really well but I bet we won’t have sold many over the last couple of weeks. If we had an exciting squad already built and had been firing on all cylinders then we probably would have sold more.

While I completely agree that booing (I didn’t hear any) at a friendly is way over the top, I don’t think it’s an over reaction to be unhappy at how we have played in the last two games. While some may be happy to go with the ‘it’s just about building up fitness’ line, the club are still charging people to come and watch these games so the players should still be expected to perform to a certain level.

Yeah I’m with you there. One of the things Murray mentioned in his first interview was that teams would never out work us. We might not always win, but we would always work harder than the opposition. That’s not been the case in the last two games, both against ‘lesser’ opposition.

If anyone from our media team are on here, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE drop that team sheet gif. Most of us look at the team to try and work out the formation etc but it keeps resetting before you get the chance to take it all in.

I’d rather we used Scott Agnew as a stop gap to cover injuries than waste a loan on another centre midfielder.

Watched the lotto draw online and noticed the club shop full of home tops. I phoned the club to ask if if they had a medium in stock to be told they are sold out are expecting a delivery later today. I asked roughly what time as I’d nip in and get one. The lady told me they hoped to get them in so they would be on sale at tonight’s game. I said that I had noticed them behind Tom Morgan in the video, only for the lady on the phone to get a bit embarrassed and say she didn’t know what the state of play was… I don’t mind them wanting to give people at tonight’s match priority it they are upfront about it but to tell a fib is a bit out of order.

Really like the top. If the away one is white with navy pinstripes it’ll be a cracker!

They resubmitted the lineup with him in it. Macdonald, Spencer and Matthews missing from the squad though. Also thought we might have had Agnew on the bench too

Guessing it’s him rather than the one we had previously

Just because people were upset by the clubs actions a few months ago doesn’t mean that they feel any less passionate about supporting them. You’d have been hard pressed to have found many fans who weren’t pissed off at the time. Some were just more vocal than others.

Superb bit of work. I’m sure they speak for all of us.

While there may be a few negative reviews from his former clubs, I’d like to think Ian Murray, being a former defender and playing at a good level, would be more than qualified to spot a good defender. I’m more than happy to trust his judgment on this one. I’d go as far as to say Murray is probably more likely to start himself at centre half next season than Liam Dick. Failing that it’ll be Scott Brown filling in until we get someone else in the door.

In the nutmeg clip you can hear them shouting ‘Tony’ at the end… wonder who that could be?

Murray did say that the squad would swell over the next few weeks to bigger than it’s ever been… or words to that effect.

I don’t think it’ll be Matthews that will go. If anything, he will be the captain. When Murray talks about hard working players, no one in that team works harder than Rossco. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Zanatta go. Potentially someone might want to buy Ethan Ross but I doubt Murray would want to lose a player of his ability.

Just to add to that, I also saw the post online about the Raith U14’s winning a cup. A side featuring Kieron Bowie’s twin younger brothers. It’s so pleasing to see the community side of things starting to shine through again!

If you look at last season’s squad, apart from the youngsters we had three first team players, BRS, Keatings and McKay all loaned out that were deemed surplus to requirements. We also had Musonda who struggled to get a place in the team and was shoe horned into whatever position was available just to try and give him game time. If our new squad doesn’t allow for these kind of surplus numbers of obvious first team players then we still won’t be in a bad place.

https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/football/new-raith-rovers-boss-murray-set-to-trim-squad-size-3724657?fbclid=IwAR1irdVuMS-7cWWmY45Yhe0l0PaYeL136XKAlNkzkjEN-u7Vu4erdNGssUY&fs=e&s=cl When you see the number of players we had on the books (29) there’s no wonder we need to reduce that. I wouldn’t panic at that headline, it doesn’t mean we are in trouble.

I remember thinking we would never get another Craig Wilson or another Jason Thomson, now it’s another Tumilty. These guys can all be replaced.