NorthStand10 Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 34 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said: Giving Dodds a two year contact in June this year. The correct answer is giving Richie Foran a 4 year contract. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydeTon Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 Gus Macpherson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 The halcyon days of Simon Stainrod. Ultimately ended by two utter pumpings by Forfar and Berwick. Gary Paterson, Ian Gilzean and an endless list of charlatans. Dark, Dark days Squandering £300k in the early eighties from the Stevie Nicol transfer. Waster Dalziel signing this guy on an alleged £2k per week Playing one of the more prolific strikers at the time, Colin McGlashan as a winger Paying transfer fees for Joe Love, Alex Bone and many others Somerset Boab Those fucking scarves I could go on 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond1924 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Crazy at the time but turned out to be a success 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenmavis Diamond Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Diamond1924 said: Crazy at the time but turned out to be a success Was going to say the exact same thing. Lots of fans were saying it was a disaster waiting to happen, far too young. Player managers don't work etc. But what a season it was. Not only from gaining promotion from the godforsaken league one, but 2nd highest goal scorers in Scotland, bringing some incredibly wild and wonderful games and goals with it, not least, owning Falkirk and skudding them in the play offs. Edited July 25, 2023 by Glenmavis Diamond 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 4 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said: Was going to say the exact same thing. Lots of fans were saying it was a disaster waiting to happen, far too young. Player managers don't work etc. But what a season it was. Not only from gaining promotion from the godforsaken league one, but 2nd highest goal scorers in Scotland, bringing some incredibly wild and wonderful games and goals with it, not least, owning Falkirk and skudding them in the play offs. We’ve all done that, in fairness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 In reverse order: 3. Having Mark Birighitti as the number one choice goalkeeper last season. 2. See above. 1. See above. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 In my lifetime, up until 2021, it was giving Davie Hay the job after Calderwood left (think we rejected some exceptional, willing candidates like Javier Clemente) but hiring Peter Grant takes the biscuit. Playing wing backs at centre half, refusing to play centre halves in general, playing your best player (a winger) at centre mid, signing some boy from a Uni team called the Wildcats…I mean, we could be here all day. An absolute balloon of a man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB-Scotland Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Selling GMS and Armstrong to Celtic in January. Birighitti. Not replacing Birighitti in January. Continuing to play Birighitti. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky1990 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Raith Rovers loaning Lewis Vaughan to Dumbarton has got to be up there. Or the Goodwillie saga. Or the Claude Anelka thing. Or John Hughes. Come to think of it, how the f**k are Rovers still kicking about the upper end of Scottish football. A series of basket case decisions over the years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 8 minutes ago, Jacky1990 said: Raith Rovers loaning Lewis Vaughan to Dumbarton has got to be up there. Or the Goodwillie saga. Or the Claude Anelka thing. Or John Hughes. Come to think of it, how the f**k are Rovers still kicking about the upper end of Scottish football. A series of basket case decisions over the years. Our latest away kit is based on the 100 year anniversary of a trip to the Canary isles where this happened... In fairness, appointing Yogi didn't seem a bad decision at the time. He didn't get nearly the same backlash as when we appointed Locke. The end result was the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Biggest mistake Dunfermline ever made was trying to push Jim Leishman upstairs and giving the manager's job to Iain Munro. Going from crowds of 7 and 8 thousand, huge away followings (6 or 7 different supporters clubs running a bus to every game), a real connection to the local community, a PR master etc in favour of a dour coach with no real personality, with a massive rally in the town (as it was ) and losing thousands of fans (some who never returned) then on top of that the club did all sorts of things to further piss off the fans like shutting down the bar in the stand etc. We could have been a fairly established Premier League club but instead got relegated and became a bit of a yoyo club before Masterton and Yorkston thought they could bring back the glory days. Inadvertently it turned out OK as Bert Paton was appointed eventually and got us back into the top flight but speak to a Fifer or a certain age and they'll likely tell you that they used to support Dunfermline before Leishman was "sacked". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Starko Rover Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 22 minutes ago, Jacky1990 said: Raith Rovers loaning Lewis Vaughan to Dumbarton has got to be up there. Or the Goodwillie saga. Or the Claude Anelka thing. Or John Hughes. Come to think of it, how the f**k are Rovers still kicking about the upper end of Scottish football. A series of basket case decisions over the years. Not sure Yogi Hughes appointment while a complete clusterfuck even comes close to the other two events both of which could have finished the club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 7 minutes ago, San Starko Rover said: Not sure Yogi Hughes appointment while a complete clusterfuck even comes close to the other two events both of which could have finished the club. I'd say it was overshadowed by the incident where we started a midfielder in goals because our board, which contained an SPFL board member, didn't know the rules over signings. We still didn't even finish bottom of the league that season too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanlineayr Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Appointing David Hopkin after his "management" of Morton strikes me as being the most recent example for Ayr. Bringing Somerset Boab out of deep freeze could become a challenger this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Turning Berndt Schuster away. He went on to manage Real Madrid. Good Times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) The appointment of Yogi was a decent shout on paper - his record at that point was pretty good. Can't really criticise the club for that. Anelka was obviously a bizarre situation, but I guess the club were pretty rooked financially. The Vaughan loan . I seemed to remember Vaughan wasn't having the best of seasons, and it was just off the back of his first ACL the season prior. The decision to send Vaughan out on loan, whilst unpopular (and not one I personally would have agreed with) wasn't the craziest shout ever. Sending him on loan to a team 4 points behind us, who went on to play a part in relegating us with his help....wow. What was even worse was effectively swapping him for Ryan Stevenson. The Goodwillie one will always be the craziest decision. Even looking beyond the obvious reason why it was an awful idea, there are 3 things in particular that I will never understand. 1. How that decision went through multiple people. I'm not surprised that someone mooted the idea, but the fact that several people thought "yeah, this will work out" and nobody with that power putting their foot down and stopping it was fucking wild. 2. The fact our interest in Goodwillie was leaked in the papers a month prior, to almost universal condemnation, and the club still went ahead anyway. The equivalent of testing the waters, finding out it was full of sharks, then proceeding to swim in them with a suit made out of steaks. 3. Why Raith Rovers thought they could make it work. Goodwillie was obviously playing well below his level, but nobody made that leap to sign him. That alone should have set alarm bells ringing. Everyone knew why he wasn't playing a higher level, and if it was a good idea then bigger and better run clubs than Raith Rovers would have made that leap. That time in particular was just terrible. I personally still went to the games, but the atmosphere around the place was just surreal. I remember going to the Hamilton game the weekend after he signed, and it was like a morgue - until someone turned up wearing a shirt with "Goodwillie, 9" on the back. Never thought I'd see the day where John Mcglynn wasn't held in the highest esteem by most Rovers fans considering what he did for the club in his time, but its fair to say his legacy has been soured somewhat by it. Edited July 25, 2023 by CALDERON 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 4 hours ago, Jacky1990 said: Raith Rovers loaning Lewis Vaughan to Dumbarton has got to be up there. Or the Goodwillie saga. Or the Claude Anelka thing. Or John Hughes. Come to think of it, how the f**k are Rovers still kicking about the upper end of Scottish football. A series of basket case decisions over the years. Bouncebackability? Luck? We spent quite a few years in the Seaside League on account of those decisions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halbeath Raith Rover Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 15 hours ago, Broken Algorithms said: Our latest away kit is based on the 100 year anniversary of a trip to the Canary isles where this happened... In fairness, appointing Yogi didn't seem a bad decision at the time. He didn't get nearly the same backlash as when we appointed Locke. The end result was the same. Under Locke there were a few good moments: Coming back from 2 down to get a draw away to Dundee Utd. Four points in the first two Fife derbies. Taking Hearts to extra time in the cup replay. Draws home and away v Hibs. Not defending him as it was a dark time but Yogi was far worse imo. Joyless stuff and an absolute p***k too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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