The New Raith Rovers Thread

[TxRover]

1 hour ago, Jilted John said:

Who was the other boy that played in that game? Local lad with curly hair. There was a cult following wanting to get him signed up.

The word was it was Cammy Lewis.

 

“Dario Valente

 

@Darval2711

f**k me I’ve just heard wee Cammy Lewis scored for the Rovers tonight. I’m sure it was only a few months ago I heard he was getting telt to shut his puss for singing Rovers songs during his exams

3:26 PM · Aug 20, 2019”

[Raith_Raver]

3 hours ago, Brashy's Boots said:

Announce Fletcher!

We anounced Timmy Abrahams....

[McGuigan1978]

Lewis Vaughan ruled out for six weeks. That’s far from ideal. 

[Hank Scorpio]

Just now, McGuigan1978 said:

Lewis Vaughan ruled out for six weeks. That’s far from ideal. 

Oh, f**k off. 

[Michael W]

[MC_Lachlan]

That last 30 minutes of the Hamilton game really came at a heavy price.

[Ex Machina]

[Raith Against The Machine]

On 07/08/2021 at 21:37, Raith Against The Machine said:

Not everything needs to be amazing or abysmal. There's room for nuance. 

No there isn't. We're fucked. 

[TxRover]

16 minutes ago, McGuigan1978 said:

Lewis Vaughan ruled out for six weeks. That’s far from ideal. 

Guess we see if Keatings can do anything.

[R.R.FC]

1 minute ago, MC_Lachlan said:

That last 30 minutes of the Hamilton game really came at a heavy price.

65 minutes gone, 4-0 ahead, top of the league, playing great football, on course for our 5th consecutive clean sheet and excitement building for a successful season ahead with Spencer and Vaughan pulling the strings.

25 minutes later, we’ve conceded 4 to draw the game, lost Brad Spencer for 6 weeks due to a broken foot and Lewis Vaughan for the same period with a cartilage tear and it’s suddenly hard to see when we’ll get our next win.

Football eh?

[Raithie]

Acht well, that's us fucked good and proper. No amount of 'oh but we have X, Y and Z that can step up' is going to cut it I'm afraid. No Spencer and Vaughan is pretty catastrophic to our squad at the moment. 

[Ro Sham Bo]

At least it's weeks rather than months, which is something given Vaughan's history.

These next 6 weeks are going to be a grim old struggle though.

[renton]

I now agree with @Ro Sham Bo, we're down...

[Jilted John]

Hi Jack, can I speak to Jamie please?

[CALDERON]

Can't spin that any other way than an absolute fucking disaster.

Need to try and shitfest our way through to October and take it from there.

[roverthemoon]

Grim news indeed. Can’t catch a break on the injury front. 

[Double Jack D]

f**k sake. 

[kev23]

I find it quite daft when teams lose games with freak events, lose big games more often not or have horrendous injury luck and we’ll have posters from that club saying “only *insert team*” as if it’s never happened to another team before but f**k me, only Raith Rovers.

[Gigi Alabocheré]

Dinny sweat it lads. A cardboard cut out of Lewis Vaughan would still get a brace against us. 

[TxRover]

So, with Vaughan out we have a couple of choices. Keatings is a similar, if less productive (so far) player to Vaughan, so we can plug him in. Alternately, we switch to a different approach, perhaps two up top (Poplatnik and Varian or Mitchell as the heavies), and play Connolly and Zanatta wide in a 4-4-2 or 4-2-4.

Of those two, the slightly riskier is the second, but the lack of playing time for Keatings suggests JMcG might not be totally confident in him. Additionally, Keatings for Vaughan certainly reduces some of the threat, pace and creativity that we loved last year.

So does JMcG use the Aberdeen match as a test for formation adjustments or simply plug in a replacement for Vaughan? Might he take the third course and try Varian for Vaughan without other changes? It certainly would be outside his normal position, but he has played as a second striker before…and on the other hand, he is reported to prefer his left foot, so might match well with Keatings in a front two.