R12ATH Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 52 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said: Are these brand new edgelord accounts all the same guy? No idea what an edgelord account is .. but long time reader never contributor..however on monday that changed when i was so disgusted by the signing i made a post about it, also stating i was withdrawing my contribution to the player development fund, which will still be witheld. Now returning to reader and non contributor. Thanks for your interest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Obviously, Graham Spiers is the b@st@rd love child of John Sim and Nadine Dorries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, renton said: . So I can kind of see how, a blinkered manager under pressure to get the result would offer up the name to the chairman who would see it in the same narrow footballing/finances from promotion terms and ram it down the throats of a compliant board. The CEO who could have offered an independent and critical analysis was in fact not independent probably backing her husband's position which in turn was simply McGlynns. An uninterrupted, positive feedback loop. Nope, I really don't see it. For one they had the prior warning from the start of the month that the fans would react awfully, they couldn't have had a clearer reality check. Even after they decided they were to to pursue him they had a board meeting, they knew it'd be bad, really bad. How many signings do you think require a board meeting to go through? How many signings have directors threatening to resign? Despite this they still battered on with it. No, I really can't understand it at all, McGlynn is a rape apologist and I hope he gets reminded of that en masses at every game he has the audacity to manage. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) Good things in the world of Graham Spiers - Defending a racist Defending a rapist Bad things in the world of Graham Spiers - Fans banding together to demand their club not sign a rapist Eating lunch in the BBC canteen with a woman who isn't his wife Edited February 3, 2022 by Highland Capital 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I have only been dipping in and out of this thread, but I am pleased for all decent Raith fans - and the last few days have shown that there are so many. It is so easy to be tribal in football, and I suppose that is one of the things that makes it so compelling, but it can too often lead to some defending the frankly indefensible. It should never have come to this, of course, and hopefully there is more to come for those responsible for the signing, but credit to all those who stood against it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Spiers previous for backing McKay means he's at best a weirdo. But, I'm genuinely incredulous at the sentence 'there is a key issue now facing the Scottish football community... How to help David Goodwillie.' You mean the unrepentant rapist who is about to pocket a six figure payoff for doing f**k all ? I'll set up the GoFundMe page Graham. Jesus wept. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 1 minute ago, Grant228 said: Nope, I really don't see it. For one they had the prior warning from the start of the month that the fans would react awfully, they couldn't have had a clearer reality check. Even after they decided they were to to pursue him they had a board meeting, they knew it'd be bad, really bad. How many signings do you think require a board meeting to go through? How many signings have directors threatening to resign? Despite this they still battered on with it. No, I really can't understand it at all, McGlynn is a rape apologist and I hope he gets reminded of that en masses at every game he has the audacity to manage. I had so much respect for John McGlynn until this transfer, he’d done a great job for us in 2 spells with the club. However bringing Goodwillie in which must have been his decision is unforgivable and I expect him to tender his resignation if he’s any shred of decency left. He’s every bit as culpable as the board members for this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I keep seeing people on Twitter saying - if he shows remorse then he admits it and he might be liable for prosecution. Yes he might. That's part of owning what you did if you are genuinely contrite It's not contrition to say - I'll hold my hands up but only if there is no consequences 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Paul Paton joins Graham Spiers in today’s “f**k me that’s a bad take.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I think McCartney will be thrown under the bus for this by the board. They will say thay she was hired to do the day to day running of the club. She did not do enough due diligence in regards to this transfer and did fully understand/disclose to the board the potential ramifications of this move. Being married to Smith she has not been impartial in this which in itself was ridiculous when appointing her really. McGlynn and Smith will go at the end of the season unless we do by some miracle go up. Smith might go before hand if his Mrs is emptied. Allan Temple wrote that Benedictus was the only person from the club to speak to the press and has probably tried to make the best of a bad situation using only football clichés. As a side note it would have been interesting to see which players left the club in June as a result of this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, lionel wickson said: My first thought was, surely Speirs' Twitter account has been hacked, but looks like it's genuine. Here he is going into bat for convicted sex offender. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Spiers previous for backing McKay means he's at best a weirdo. But, I'm genuinely incredulous at the sentence 'there is a key issue now facing the Scottish football community... How to help David Goodwillie.' You mean the unrepentant rapist who is about to pocket a six figure payoff for doing f**k all ? I'll set up the GoFundMe page Graham. Jesus wept. Why the f**k would it be the job of the Scottish Football community to help this scumbag? As far as I can see, the Scottish Football community have this week fulfilled a long overdue obligation to mete out a punishment in lieu of the courts doing it for his victim and for society. If anything, our community only failed in taking to long to hound him out and show him the consequences of being a horrible rapist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 This has been updated and no 24 has gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Was he signed on a 2 year deal? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 1 minute ago, pub car king said: Allan Temple wrote that Benedictus was the only person from the club to speak to the press and has probably tried to make the best of a bad situation using only football clichés. That they allowed Benedictus to hang himself out to dry was kind of the final indignity in the whole mishandling. I don't particularly blame Benedictus for that, myself. The players were put in a difficult position. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, smpar said: Paul Paton joins Graham Spiers in today’s “f**k me that’s a bad take.” I wondered how long it was until the mental health klaxon was sounded here. Perhaps, maybe just perhaps, Goodwillie's victim might feel a little bit better now. Presumably her mental health can take a nearly 3-year long bath in Paton's eyes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 38 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said: This specific point is more an appalling journalist issue than a Raith Rovers issue, but here's a take as bad as anything in this thread. There isn't an argument that Speirs isn't prepared to get on the wrong side of for clicks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 5 minutes ago, smpar said: Paul Paton joins Graham Spiers in today’s “f**k me that’s a bad take.” I now feel much, much more justified in chanting about him being an arsehole every time we’ve played against him for the last 9 years. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 5 minutes ago, smpar said: Paul Paton joins Graham Spiers in today’s “f**k me that’s a bad take.” Jesus wept, I hope his clubs fans let him know what a rapist apologist scumbag he is. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Being at the centre of the storm, there was a chance for Goodwillie to engage with the debate. To open up to young people about respect, how getting drunk impaired his judgement, resulting in his criminal convictions for assault (whilst drunk) and the civil court ruling against him for rape. He could have said how much the victim’s story really opened his eyes to the hurt he has caused. Instead it’s silence and somehow he is a victim? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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