SanStarko Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Really don't understand this. We've signed a player who, at best, might give us a slightly better chance of making the play offs. But at the expense of making the club looking fucking awful, alienating fans, and pissing off our shirt and stand sponsor at the sametime. I mean yeah, I'd love to see us win promotion, but I'd have rather just continued with what we have even if it did mean we finish outside the playoffs. Getting promoted isn't really that important. You'd think with what's just happened with Greenwood that would have made somebody at the club think "Hey, maybe this is fucking stupid idea" 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candycelt Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Have to feel for the Raith fans man. Still baffles me how much Goodwillie was loved at Clyde. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Smokerson said: Strange one, mcglynn has absolutely lost his mind here. It would still Have to be sanctioned by a chairman / board or however Raith are run. Feel for the fans John Sim holds the aces but this wouldn’t happen without McGlynn wanting him. Not sure we’ll see that phrase “In McGlynn we trust” too often going forward. Goodwillie is pretty much the last person I ever wanted to sign for the club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tirso Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) he's never shown remorse or done his time either. even that argument doesn't hold. appalling. Edited January 31, 2022 by tirso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nairney Posted January 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2022 After the abandoned game against Dunfermline I was concerned that the club had damaged years of good work, and totally disregarded supporters, by not bothering to make a few extra tannoy announcements and letting Gordon Brown park Range Rovers all over the place. But this? It’s normally pretty irrelevant to me that I’m a female football supporter. I doesn’t, and shouldn’t, really matter in this day and age. We’re all fans. However I’m really struggling with the idea of going back to a game after this news. The atmosphere inside Starks Park is going to be vile. Fans turning on each other, fans turning on the players, management, board etc. The world is a shitty place right now. Going to the football should be a distraction from that, not adding to the shittyness. 77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavyDavy Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 14 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said: You clearly are c**t f**k off you w****r. Don't get all bitter because I've called you on your obvious virtue signalling. I haven't once passed any comment on the actual signing, only commenting on the hysteria. So dry your eyes, and once more...f**k off -19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpaddyx Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 8 minutes ago, Tattie36 said: Jesus, just had a quick look on your Facebook and the amount of support this signing is getting is astonishing and tragic. Feel sorry for the many good Rovers fans out there. Not everyone, a few folk that I know (women) have posting that they are not going back. These are fans that have been following the club for 40+ years. I don't blame them in the slightest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, Rugster said: Fucking hell I hope you’re joking with that. No. I’m unlikely to stop supporting Rovers. I get the outrage - although like most things on here these days and on Twitter - it’s completely hysterical outrage. Give it a week or two and these same people will be outraged about something else I would rather we hadn’t signed him as this will just alienate a large chunk of our fanbase, but we have. I would have thought the previous alarm shown by fans in December was the end of it, but no. Maybe the club will reconsider if enough fans pull their support. -16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavyDavy Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 11 minutes ago, RiG said: Go f**k yourself. Once again, not indicated support for or against the signing, just calling out the obvious virtue signalling. Big hard man typing insults like that on an internet forum. Have a word with yourself, fucking twat. -19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 f**k off you w****r. Don't get all bitter because I've called you on your obvious virtue signalling. I haven't once passed any comment on the actual signing, only commenting on the hysteria. So dry your eyes, and once more...f**k offIf you think it's only going to be a "20" or so fans from PnB who will boycott your club now, I think you're as out of touch as your BoD tbh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 4 minutes ago, RavyDavy said: f**k off you w****r. Don't get all bitter because I've called you on your obvious virtue signalling. I haven't once passed any comment on the actual signing, only commenting on the hysteria. So dry your eyes, and once more...f**k off "Tell me you're an INCEL without telling me you're an INCEL" 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Suffering Bairn Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 For a while it looked like Falkirk were going to sign him. Massive relief we didn't. I'm not here to gloat, this news would be a kick in the stomach for the vast majority of fans anywhere. Genuinely sorry for the Raith fans. I don't believe in all this rivalry crap, we nearly all support our local team, just an accident of birth. Had I been born near your club I would be one of you. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tirso Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Just now, RavyDavy said: f**k off you w****r. Don't get all bitter because I've called you on your obvious virtue signalling. I haven't once passed any comment on the actual signing, only commenting on the hysteria. So dry your eyes, and once more...f**k off "virtue signalling." shunning smug rapists came before these 'culture wars' tropes having a backbone isn't virtue signalling ffs, plenty is. this aint. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Raith Against The Machine Posted January 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2022 Well, that's the final whistle for me. It's been fun. Like everyone else, this football club has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is having my photo taken in my parents' back garden wearing the full "Kelly's Copiers" kit, the one they recently re-released. I loved that shirt. I've been a season ticket holder for somewhere in the region of 20 years. For the last fifteen that's meant a 100 mile round trip for home games. I didn't mind. It was worth it. It's something I do with my Dad. Going to Rovers games. It's a shared passion, and it's nice to feel part of something bigger. Something that carries with it the hopes and dreams of a community. Something that does good for that community too, and uplifts it. Well, it was nice, until tonight. I can't in good conscious go on from here. I thought about it, before when the rumours first emerged, and again today when they resurfaced. Could I just ignore what he did? Could I maybe just sit on my hands, support the other ten players and ignore him? No, I'm afraid I can't. I can't put my name alongside his, or alongside this club. "Who do you support mate? Oh aye, they just signed..." No thank you, not in my name. People seem all too willing to forget that rape isn't some buzzword. The way this conversation gets framed sometimes you'd think it was like that open goal Chris Iwelumo missed. "Oh, don't sign him, he did that thing that one time". He raped a woman. There's a human being who has to live her life in a totally altered state because of the actions of this man. Nobody mentions her much. I hope she's okay tonight, as her rapist's name reverberates around yet again. I can't imagine she is. So from that incredibly significant impact, to an incredibly small one. I'll be logging off. There's no reason for me to post here anymore, a man without a football club. There's not much call for journeymen P&B posters. I expect I'll still lurk from time to time, the draw of lower league football is just too strong, but it won't be the same. I might pop up now and again, like Yoss does. He always was the best Rovers poster on here. And I might pop up at Stark's Park again. Hopefully just once he's gone. Maybe a year or two. But maybe longer. Can I in good faith cheer the manager who signed him? Or the owner who paid his wages? Maybe I'll have a new team by then. Only time will tell. Goodnight everyone. Enjoy your football. 179 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 4 minutes ago, SanStarko said: You'd think with what's just happened with Greenwood that would have made somebody at the club think "Hey, maybe this is fucking stupid idea" Nail on the head. The club knew full well how this would be received and did it any way. Which compounds the misery, really. Fucking awful decision. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 No. I’m unlikely to stop supporting Rovers. I get the outrage - although like most things on here these days and on Twitter - it’s completely hysterical outrage. Give it a week or two and these same people will be outraged about something else I would rather we hadn’t signed him as this will just alienate a large chunk of our fanbase, but we have. I would have thought the previous alarm shown by fans in December was the end of it, but no. Maybe the club will reconsider if enough fans pull their support. He's signed a 2 and a half year contract now, I'm not sure the club can really reconsider at this point unless they want to pay him up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TedCrilly Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Just now, 19QOS19 said: If you think it's only going to be a "20" or so fans from PnB who will boycott your club now, I think you're as out of touch as your BoD tbh. Aye. I’d also rather keep the fans who have stuck by the club up to this point than attract a few glory hunters through promotion. They won’t stick around when it inevitably goes tits up again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R12ATH Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I just cancelled my monthly contribution to the player development fund and emailed the fund as to why. Im not contributing to signings like this. Will review next season. Hopefully others do likewise. I am truly astounded we have made this signing and taking on the fall out and baggage that will no doubt follow. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavyDavy Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Just now, 19QOS19 said: If you think it's only going to be a "20" or so fans from PnB who will boycott your club now, I think you're as out of touch as your BoD tbh. You don't think this is hysteria? The guy has continued to play professional football for over a decade since the allegations/civil court ruling... Haven't seen anyone protesting this? Signs for Raith and all off a sudden all hell breaks loose... Like we've plucked him out a prison team FFS. -15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM. Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Tade approves anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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