Are Dundee United and Raith Rovers trying to throw the league?

[Richey Edwards]

Looks like it.

[ExiledLichtie]

The championship is always the league that nobody wants to win!

[Richey Edwards]

1 minute ago, ExiledLichtie said:

The championship is always the league that nobody wants to win!

And I totally get that. A far more exciting and prestigious league with a worldwide TV audience.

Why would anyone want to leave it?

[cb_diamond]

Akin to Morton players purposely throwing the league in 03/04?

[Dee Man]

5 minutes ago, cb_diamond said:

Akin to Morton players purposely throwing the league in 03/04?

MorTen in a throwing the game scandal? Who would believe that?

[ICTChris]

The Caley are outpacing almost everyone in throwing the league.  Watch in envy losers.

[Richey Edwards]

10 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

The Caley are outpacing almost everyone in throwing the league.  Watch in envy losers.

I don't know. Arbroath have been superb this season at throwing the league.

[Hank Scorpio]

Heard the Rovers board have told the players they can’t afford to be promoted due to bonus clauses and additional costs. 

 

/s

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Nobody wants to DeCinch their Friday nights.

Let some shite like Dunflunkey come back up.

[SirJimmyofNic]

Yes, but which one is trying harder

[SirJimmyofNic]

23 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Heard the Rovers board have told the players they can’t afford to be promoted due to bonus clauses and additional costs. 

 

/s

Ah so that's the reason why Millen was shown the door after he accessed the laptop

[moses1924]

52 minutes ago, cb_diamond said:

Akin to Morton players purposely throwing the league in 03/04?

Didnt realise how much ALex Williams life went off the rails after all of that. 

[Thumper]

Raith used up all their fate points on all those ridiculous late goals early in the season.

Jim Goodwin contrived to get beat by Darvel while managing one of the largest teams in the country. He is simply quite bad at football management.

[Richey Edwards]

9 minutes ago, Thumper said:

Raith used up all their fate points on all those ridiculous late goals early in the season.

Jim Goodwin contrived to get beat by Darvel while managing one of the largest teams in the country. He is simply quite bad at football management.

He did well with Alloa tbh. Overachieving with a part-time team in the Championship is probably his glass ceiling. Give him more resources and he'll f**k it right up.

[Hammer Jag]

Goodwin is so hopeless that if he was trying to throw the league on purpose, they would end up winning it.

[AyrExile]

Did similar not happen a few times recently until one managed to get a run going the last few games

[Rhys McCabe Hype Train]

Goodwin is an imposter of a manager, and Ian Murray has a habit of bottling the big moments (see Airdrie playoff defeats in 2021 & 2022).

it’s not so much either are trying to throw it, it’s more there’s not enough ability there to actively go out and win it.

[FitbaSupporter]

VAR, The Old Firm, more defeats, relegation, no Fife Derby, grass pitch. Rovers Board have seen the promised land and thought f**k that. 

[A Diamond For Me]

1 hour ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:

Goodwin is an imposter of a manager, and Ian Murray has a habit of bottling the big moments (see Airdrie playoff defeats in 2021 & 2022).

it’s not so much either are trying to throw it, it’s more there’s not enough ability there to actively go out and win it.

I don't think the 2021 one really counts as bottling, to be fair.  By the time of the final the team had been playing two games a week for about two months, they were running on fumes by the end of the season and it was the Walking Wounded XI we fielded, especially in the second leg.   Hard to say if Morton would have been too much for us without the injury list, but they were just better than the team we actually had available.  I think it's only really a bottling when you chuck it away from strong position (like Morton in 03/04, or Falkirk in 20/21) or bungle a game you should really be expecting to win (like us in the final against QP the following year). 

[Thumper]

2 hours ago, AyrExile said:

Did similar not happen a few times recently until one managed to get a run going the last few games

Playing on different days has a habit of coinciding with this. Obviously it's happened a few times this season in the top flight as well.

The only real pity is that (as with the top flight) the rest of the division are all either total pish or even bigger bottle merchants, so there is zero chance of a third party sneaking in.