Ro Sham Bo Posted Thursday at 08:09 Share Posted Thursday at 08:09 2 minutes ago, da_no_1 said: No New Year Fife Derby? Odd Is Falkirk your derby? Looks like we've been given Livi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted Thursday at 08:09 Share Posted Thursday at 08:09 Thats a tough first month, bogey team to kick off the season and then the two teams that have been impressively bolstering their squads before we get to play Livingston. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted Thursday at 08:11 Share Posted Thursday at 08:11 Just now, Ro Sham Bo said: Is Falkirk your derby? Looks like we've been given Livi. Dunfermline play Partick at new year. Bizarre. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toun Clock Posted Thursday at 08:15 Share Posted Thursday at 08:15 Weird set of fixtures there gents, at least I can start 2025 a little more positively rather than a routine defeat to Raith I know they have to move things about but us away to Thistle and you guys away to Ayr for New Year is a shambles. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanJM Posted Thursday at 08:20 Share Posted Thursday at 08:20 Absolutely amazed our first home game v Thistle hasn't been chosen for TV. BBC love a Rovers v Thistle match. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Machina Posted Thursday at 08:22 Share Posted Thursday at 08:22 1 minute ago, AllanJM said: Absolutely amazed our first home game v Thistle hasn't been chosen for TV. BBC love a Rovers v Thistle match. Assuming they're expecting us to both be competing for the title and saving their TV games at Starks Park for later in the season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted Thursday at 08:23 Share Posted Thursday at 08:23 3 minutes ago, The Toun Clock said: Weird set of fixtures there gents, at least I can start 2025 a little more positively rather than a routine defeat to Raith I know they have to move things about but us away to Thistle and you guys away to Ayr for New Year is a shambles. I've got two theories about why it's happened (both have a high likelihood of being wrong). First is that there's been a disagreement in getting them arranged. I suspect our preference would've been Dunfermline at home for new year given last new year we were at East End. Dunfermline may have asked for Falkirk at home, and Falkirk may have asked for Dunfermline at home. It might be the SPFL have seen there wouldn't be a consensus so forced the hands of all three clubs. The second is that at the last few derbies there have been isolated incidents of crowd trouble away from the ground, including one more high profile case at new year. This is far more of a stretch but it might be that they've been asked to move the derby from new year. I've no idea how likely either of those are. It's a shame as it's always a great day to look forward to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toun Clock Posted Thursday at 08:29 Share Posted Thursday at 08:29 4 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said: I've got two theories about why it's happened (both have a high likelihood of being wrong). First is that there's been a disagreement in getting them arranged. I suspect our preference would've been Dunfermline at home for new year given last new year we were at East End. Dunfermline may have asked for Falkirk at home, and Falkirk may have asked for Dunfermline at home. It might be the SPFL have seen there wouldn't be a consensus so forced the hands of all three clubs. The second is that at the last few derbies there have been isolated incidents of crowd trouble away from the ground, including one more high profile case at new year. This is far more of a stretch but it might be that they've been asked to move the derby from new year. I've no idea how likely either of those are. It's a shame as it's always a great day to look forward to. Both very plausible mate. We do meet in mid-December which should still be a good one but the new year derby at Firhill is slightly less appetising. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted Thursday at 08:31 Share Posted Thursday at 08:31 They're also moved to 4th January, is it even still new year then? I am quite glad that they've moved away from cramming 3 gams between boxing day and new year like we used to and its a bit more evenly spaced. Both of the Tuesday night fixtures again are mirrored though. Last season we had Morton, this time its Airdrie. Fun 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rover the Moon Posted Thursday at 08:47 Share Posted Thursday at 08:47 FFS, the New Year derby is almost the last tradition of Scottish football. Now that's in the bin too. I see the Ar$e Cheeks and Dundee derbies are both on Jan 2, so how come the Championship ones are all over the shop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embow Posted Thursday at 08:52 Share Posted Thursday at 08:52 41 minutes ago, da_no_1 said: No New Year Fife Derby? Odd SPFL indulging the Pars and Falkirk with their pseudo "love-in" derby three days before New Year. Why it isn't the Fife derby on that date, defies any logical sense. Then again, logic and SPFL are never to be found positively in the same sentence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyBlueArmy1876 Posted Thursday at 08:54 Share Posted Thursday at 08:54 1 minute ago, embow said: SPFL indulging the Pars and Falkirk with their pseudo "love-in" derby three days before New Year. Why it isn't the Fife derby on that date, defies any logical sense. Then again, logic and SPFL are never to be found positively in the same sentence. Bigger crowd/ bigger derby bbz -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudia Gentile Posted Thursday at 08:54 Share Posted Thursday at 08:54 42 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said: Dunfermline play Partick at new year. Bizarre. You've never heard of the famous Maryhill & Dunfermline derby? ️️ Nope, me either 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted Thursday at 09:08 Share Posted Thursday at 09:08 43 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said: I've got two theories about why it's happened (both have a high likelihood of being wrong). First is that there's been a disagreement in getting them arranged. I suspect our preference would've been Dunfermline at home for new year given last new year we were at East End. Dunfermline may have asked for Falkirk at home, and Falkirk may have asked for Dunfermline at home. It might be the SPFL have seen there wouldn't be a consensus so forced the hands of all three clubs. On the first point I can't see this being an issue between Dunfermline and Raith, at one of the meetings last year (might even have been the fixture released one) it was explained that there's an agreement between the clubs that we swap the Festive derby location each season so it's fair on the club's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted Thursday at 09:08 Share Posted Thursday at 09:08 59 minutes ago, pub car king said: How can you start and finish with an away game Bizarre, isn't it. We're in the same boat. In the old SFL days, your first three fixtures were either Home-Away-Home or Away-Home-Away, which where then reversed for the final three. Meant every club had one of the first or last at home and one away, and that nobody had a double header very soon or very late. This year we have back to back home games before our final away game. 1 hour ago, Ro Sham Bo said: No derby game at New Year?? Also bizarre. Annoyingly, they've also got us playing both our derbies at home in the first and third quarters, and away in the others. Would much rather they were mixed up, especially when we have Raith and Falkirk back to back in March, both away from home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langtounlaud Posted Thursday at 09:22 Share Posted Thursday at 09:22 1 hour ago, pub car king said: How can you start and finish with an away game Gives another week to get the new grass pitch installed for playing in the Premier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted Thursday at 09:30 Share Posted Thursday at 09:30 34 minutes ago, Claudia Gentile said: You've never heard of the famous Maryhill & Dunfermline derby? ️️ Nope, me either It’s fine, we can just have a big Joe Cardle love-in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted Thursday at 09:38 Share Posted Thursday at 09:38 8 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: big Joe Cardle He's 5ft 8in Mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SerieA Posted Thursday at 09:47 Share Posted Thursday at 09:47 1 hour ago, AllanJM said: Absolutely amazed our first home game v Thistle hasn't been chosen for TV. BBC love a Rovers v Thistle match. Have the TV games been announced? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithie Posted Thursday at 09:50 Share Posted Thursday at 09:50 Don't think we could have asked for a more trickier opening set of fixtures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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