The New Raith Rovers Thread

[RAITHROVERS84]

5 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:

Stanton out until next month.

Confirmed where?

[Broken Algorithms]

5 minutes ago, RAITHROVERS84 said:

Confirmed where?

Courier.

No Brown and Fordyce until next week at earliest.

Edited 13 hours ago by Broken Algorithms

[pub car king]

For f**k sake, not surprised though. 

[Double Jack D]

A thoroughly depressing update. 

Stanton and Brown are consistently our best performers and, whilst we can't blame everything on these guys being out, it certainly weakens us considerably when neither are available.

[CountryBumpkin]

Probably as we all expected with that update. 

Here's the link to the article

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/5085465/sam-stanton-injury-neill-collins-raith-rovers/

[raith1974]

Which makes it even more concerning that there appears to rush to add bodies to the squad. If we lose on Saturday I can guarantee on all social media and on here there will be an absolute meltdown by fans.

[Heid_The_Baw]

I think there is something in what Murray alluded to just before his exit....

Why do we have/get so many injuries, and it take so long for the players to recover?  Also we get told they are out for a week or so, but months later players still out.

Honestly don't think anything sinister but it surely cannot all be bad luck?  Bear in mind it has been like this since McGrymm was here.

We need new players.  We can all see this, so surely the BOD can look into that rather than new bloody tumble driers and what colour paint for the tea room! 

The stadium is not in danger of being relegated!

Edited 12 hours ago by Heid_The_Baw

[Brashy's Boots]

11 minutes ago, Heid_The_Baw said:

I think there is something in what Murray alluded to just before his exit....

Why do we have/get so many injuries, and it take so long for the players to recover?  Also we get told they are out for a week or so, but months later players still out.

Honestly don't think anything sinister but it surely cannot all be bad luck?  Bear in mind it has been like this since McGrymm was here.

We need new players.  We can all see this, so surely the BOD can look into that rather than new bloody tumble driers and what colour paint for the tea room! 

The stadium is not in danger of being relegated!

 

Neither is the team ffs.

You're all over the place. You think there's something in what IM said, but don't think it's anything sinister but it can't all be bad luck. What is it then?

We've played 5 games. There are 93 points left to play for and the 5 teams above us are maximum 2 points ahead.

If current form continues to Xmas and beyond we'll be in danger of relegation. In September, with arguably our 2 best players still recovering from injury, we're not.

[CountryBumpkin]

7 minutes ago, Brashy's Boots said:

Neither is the team ffs.

You're all over the place. You think there's something in what IM said, but don't think it's anything sinister but it can't all be bad luck. What is it then?

We've played 5 games. There are 93 points left to play for and the 5 teams above us are maximum 2 points ahead.

If current form continues to Xmas and beyond we'll be in danger of relegation. In September, with arguably our 2 best players still recovering from injury, we're not.

Shhh, I got slated earlier in the week from some of the more panicky posters for having that opinion.

Therefore i'm now converted to the opinion that we're doomed, we're struggling because we're daring to do stadium work and apparently focusing on that is diverting people and funds away from the playing side. In fact, I hear that Stanton doesn't have a hamstring injury. It turns out that John Potter, while helping to renovate the kit room managed to drop a hammer on Sams foot.

[renton]

2 hours ago, Broken Algorithms said:

Courier.

No Brown and Fordyce until next week at earliest.

[Irosshed and I was wrong]

Is Euan Murray suspended on Sat?

[Hank Scorpio]

37 minutes ago, Heid_The_Baw said:

I think there is something in what Murray alluded to just before his exit....

Why do we have/get so many injuries, and it take so long for the players to recover?  Also we get told they are out for a week or so, but months later players still out.

Honestly don't think anything sinister but it surely cannot all be bad luck?  Bear in mind it has been like this since McGrymm was here.

We need new players.  We can all see this, so surely the BOD can look into that rather than new bloody tumble driers and what colour paint for the tea room! 

The stadium is not in danger of being relegated!

I’ve been actively avoiding this website for the last few weeks because I knew stuff like that last sentence would be getting trotted out and I knew it’d get on my nerves, so well done getting in there. 
 

The two things are completely and utterly unrelated. Just because the on the park side of the club isn’t going well at the moment holds no relevance to whether or not we should be upgrading the stadium. How can upgrading the stadium possibly be a stick to beat the club with? Should we phone the builders and tell them not to come in on Monday because we lost on Saturday? Completely backwards way of thinking. 

[renton]

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

I’ve been actively avoiding this website for the last few weeks because I knew stuff like that last sentence would be getting trotted out and I knew it’d get on my nerves, so well done getting in there. 
 

The two things are completely and utterly unrelated. Just because the on the park side of the club isn’t going well at the moment holds no relevance to whether or not we should be upgrading the stadium. How can upgrading the stadium possibly be a stick to beat the club with? Should we phone the builders and tell them not to come in on Monday because we lost on Saturday? Completely backwards way of thinking. 

Depends: can any of them play CB?

[buchan30]

2 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Should we phone the builders and tell them not to come in on Monday because we lost on Saturday? Completely backwards way of thinking. 

Depends, can they play centre back or upfront?

[Raith2711]

4 minutes ago, Irosshed and I was wrong said:

Is Euan Murray suspended on Sat?

Assuming yes, and this meaning a 4-4-2 on Sat ?

Unless we stick to 3-5-3 with Matthews RCB and Gibson RWB

[buchan30]

1 minute ago, renton said:

Depends: can any of them play CB?

Beat me to it.

[Michael W]

We are at the point when stadium maintenance is necessary. It was put off and put off in the past, but eventually reality comes calling. Wasn't there about £500k of work needing to be done at the point Sim put the club up for sale?

We *have* prioritised the team in the past, mostly unsuccessfully, to put stadium maintenance on the back burner. 

[CountryBumpkin]

18 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

I’ve been actively avoiding this website for the last few weeks because I knew stuff like that last sentence would be getting trotted out and I knew it’d get on my nerves, so well done getting in there. 
 

The two things are completely and utterly unrelated. Just because the on the park side of the club isn’t going well at the moment holds no relevance to whether or not we should be upgrading the stadium. How can upgrading the stadium possibly be a stick to beat the club with? Should we phone the builders and tell them not to come in on Monday because we lost on Saturday? Completely backwards way of thinking. 

Agree with this. Its a bizarre take. I don't quite get how people don't understand that both on and off the field work can be done without impacting the other. Its mental

[Varna Rover]

theirs one big difference this week and ic has mentioned jit in interviews. the team have had a full weeks training instead of just a couple of days which could make a difference

[edinburghrover]

 I guess a stadium can't get relegated but it can fall down?

I'd hope , that if we don't have the players available we don't persist with the shape that looks to be the preferred option, even on the basic SFA courses you're taught about adapting, being pragmatic and having other plans in the back pocket. However, I've not got a pro-licence so what do I know....?