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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    2 hours ago, stevoraith said:

    It’s been a couple of days and I’m still not over the disappointment of Sunday, but it’s not at the result or the performance of the players, it’s at a section of our own support. 

    I’ve seen a couple of mentions earlier in the thread about the young team and I feel the need to have a bit of a moan about the problems they cause with selfishness. 

    My first Rovers game was in the mid 80s and I started going regularly in the early 90s. Travelled home and away through my late teens and early twenties until pals moved away and work and family came along. 

    My daughter is now in her early teens and I’ve been taking her to the odd game for 5 or 6 years. This year she’s really bought into the feeling around the club and we ended up buying half season tickets and we’ve been to more away games this year than we managed home games the last couple of years. 

    She is quite an anxious person so I always plan where we sit carefully. We have to be close to the end of a row so she can get out to the toilet easily and find her way back etc. 

    I bought tickets for Sunday second row from the back on the end of a row for that exact reason. 

    Unfortunately that was the exact area that the young team decided they were going to stand in, regardless of the fact they didn’t have tickets there. 

    By the time we got through the massive queue for security and stood in a long queue to get a pie we didn’t head to our seats until about ten minutes before kick off. 

    By that time the stair well was completely full of young lads who had decided to stand on the stairs to watch the game. 

    I made the mistake of thinking I might be able to still get to my seat so pushed through them. 

    When I got to the top all of the rows had about twice as many people as seats.  In the row I should have been in they were standing on the seats with some folk standing on the ground in front of the seat. 

    I then got told “just go and sit somewhere else” by a 14 year old. 

    How the suffering f*ck are you supposed to find two seats together in a sold out stand with ten minutes to go before kick-off? And why should I have to when I’ve deliberately picked good seats?

    I went down the front, found a couple of empty seats, only for the owners to rock up about 30s later so we were on the hunt again. 

    I squeezed in another row, next to another couple of guys who had been displaced from their seats up the back but as we were only 4 or 5 rows from the front, right in the corner and everyone was standing I could see very little and my daughter could see absolutely sod all. 

    I was raging and she was in tears. 

    As the half wore on I could see there were plenty free seats in the north east section (probably where a lot of the fannies up the back were supposed to be sitting) so at half time we moved over there which was better but the view was still shit and not what I’d chosen and by then the mood had been dampened. 

    I know I wasn’t the only one that had to move because of them, I saw another guy with two daughters a lot younger than mine having to also go right down the front where they wouldn’t have been able to see. 

     

    I’d really like to know if I’m alone in my thoughts that they cause almost as many negatives as positives at away games in particular. 

    It’s made us think twice about travelling to more away games- I’ve seen them cause bother by standing in the wrong place at other grounds (Tannadice springs to mind) but we were lucky that it didn’t affect us. 

     

    Can anyone think of what clubs can do to just make them sit in their allocated seat?

    Are there any of them on here who can understand what problems they cause for others? Any parents who can have a word?

    Does anyone else agree with me that they are a pain in the hoop?

     

    I didn’t expect us to win the tie on Sunday, I just wanted to go up and show my appreciation to the team and have a good day out and I feel I had that ruined by selfish laddies. 

    Unfortunately it's not only the young team that causes these kind of issues. At one of the home games (can't remember what game but it was a near sell out. I wasn't there due to work but the folk I sit beside told me) a guy came in with his 2 kids and sat in the row in front. He then got up with his son to go to the kiosk and left his daughter. One of the members of Fife Finest staggered in and sat next to the wee lassie, he was told someone was sitting there but told them where to go. The guy came back and asked him to move but was told to go sit somewhere else as that is where they always sit, the directors know they sit there and nobody would care. They almost came to blows with lots of shouting and swearing but the FF eventually moved a few seats away. The kids were upset and they disappeared at halftime, probably been scared away from attending another match.

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    7 minutes ago, Youngmcnaughtleigh said:

    Why the main stand? 

    Mentioned before put them in railway stand just as easy to control especially with a steward armed with a high power hose ready to turn on when flare thrown

    Railway stand isn't fit for purpose atm, too much work needed on it. Tried the north end before and it's too far from the rest of the support. Only other place available is the main stand 

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Langtounlaud

    Calum Hannah wins young player of the year

    Lewis Vaughan wins players player of the year

    Ross Matthews wins Malcolm Szpera award

    Kevin Dabrowski wins managers player of the year

    Special merit award goes to groundsman Stewart Biggar

    Goal of the season is Scott Brown's vs DU

    And sir Sam Stanton wins supporters player of the year

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Langtounlaud

    Everyone saying United has won the league already. We play Morton next week,  who have previous for allowing teams to score as many goals as needed. I'm sure if we talk to them nice, they'll allow us to score 40 🤣

    Seriously though, it's been some season, Arbroath and Airdrie aside. Don't think anyone predicted us to finish 2nd.

    Don't know who I'd want in the playoffs, just hope we win..

    Do we go gungho or continue with the defensive play?

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    The New Raith Rovers Thread

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    At the start of the game, why was Easton playing so far back?

    At times he was behind Dick and not running past for the overlap. 

    When he did get the ball, there were 3 or 4 players surrounding him. I would have had him on as a late sub.

     

    We certainly got our tatties in the 1st half but improved drastically in the 2nd. If only Connollys shot went in, I felt we could've went on to win it. Of course we left ourselves too open and got hit with the suckered punch.

    Couldn't believe some of the shouts from the crowd last night. Guy in front of me hollering at the board that they've got what they wanted by being in the playoffs. 🤔 As if it's a bad thing considering where we've been. 

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