Raith Rovers' Next Permanent Manager

[FitbaSupporter]

Every manager even those who have done great things elsewhere could go either way. None of us know how it will go at Rovers. If it’s Healy then shows that the board have probably done their research, looked around and not just gone for the predictable 

[embow]

Did a quick Google on Mr Healy and numerous news outlets mentioning Rovers approaching Linfield or Healy but only one mentions that he's agreed terms. That's Matt Elder at the Scotsman. Make of it what you will folks. If it comes to pass it's costing money as his contract runs out in 2025. I assume at the end of the season in June/July.

[FitbaSupporter]

Full article.

Raith Rovers want Linfield boss David Healy to take over as their new manager and have approached the Blues to speak to Northern Ireland’s record goalscorer.

The Belfast Telegraph understands that the Scottish Championship side are confident that a deal can be sealed to take Healy from Windsor Park to Stark’s Park.

Healy’s current deal with the Blues is up at the end of this season so some form of compensation would have to be agreed with the Linfield hierarchy to finalise the move but Raith want the 45-year-old and are keen to make it happen.

The Killyleagh man took over as manager of Linfield in October 2015 and has been a huge success at his boyhood club winning five league titles, two Irish Cups, three League Cups and one County Antrim Shield while on two occasions he has almost taken them into the group stages of European competition. In the past Healy has spoken about his desire to have a shot at management across the water and this may be his chance with Raith ambitious to win promotion to the Premiership.

Healy is well known in Scotland from his time as a striker with Rangers where he won the title. Linfield, who have won their first three league matches of the season and top the table, face Loughgall at Windsor Park on Saturday. At this point Healy is expected to be in charge. It is understood that Linfield will discuss the matter internally after the game. Raith have been on the look out for a new boss since Ian Murray was sacked earlier this month with John Potter and Colin Cameron placed in charge on an interim basis.

[Broken Algorithms]

I'd really struggled to notice much about Healy until I came across this. It provides a decent breakdown of the style of play they've used and what we might expect. It's nothing groundbreaking, but still plenty of positives to take from it. 

You'd have to imagine it's much of a muchness between Northern Irish top level football and the second tier in Scotland. We'll probably underestimate the standard over there, and they'll probably look at us and think they're better. Northern Ireland feels a bit like a market which Scottish football is keen to tap into in the post-Brexit world we live in now. It's a bit like Spain in the early 00s where you saw an influx through Steve Archibald. It's a very difficult league to dissect when there's very little info at face value, and the details which are there come from people posting on Follow Follow. 

As mentioned by @R.R.FC it's very hard to tell how well he has done. I've been terrified we'd appoint a substandard candidate like Liam Fox who is a great coach but doesn't seem to have any tactic awareness. You'll always get a degree of scepticism over the titles he's won given the league he's been in, but at the same time it's still better than a 'specialist in failure'. 

[CALDERON]

He's not a proven failure, and he's actually won titles in his career.

We could do a lot worse, all things considered.

[mrpaddyx]

3 hours ago, Been going too long said:

Who is Stephen Baxter?

Why is Stephen Baxter?

[Brashy's Boots]

12 minutes ago, mrpaddyx said:

Why is Stephen Baxter?

Why not?

[Ludo*1]

You lads have a f**king strange fanbase on Twitter that loves posting screenshots and crying about your own support being deluded.

It's f**king weird.

[Been going too long]

14 minutes ago, mrpaddyx said:

Why is Stephen Baxter?

Meant who

[MazzyStar]

That appointment will make those Raith fans with that UVF flag happy. 

[CountryBumpkin]

23 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

You lads have a f**king strange fanbase on Twitter that loves posting screenshots and crying about your own support being deluded.

It's f**king weird.

Don't you mean,

"It's f**king weird.

Thank you"

But yes, most twitter users are weird, or fascists or both. The Rovers ones primarily fall into the weird category. 

[ganainm85]

28 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

You lads have a f**king strange fanbase on Twitter that loves posting screenshots and crying about your own support being deluded.

It's f**king weird.

Aye someone has took a screenshot of my post, just been shown it in the pub  How dare someone have an opinion. 

[lgb61]

Hopefully his contract is written such as, if he is shite, we can punt him at minimum financial penalty, his bonus would come on promotion only.

[edin rover]

Kind of glad its not Brown. 

Now lets get this show on the road Rovers the league is there for the taking. 

Thanks for the memories last year Ian Murray 

 

[hatchetman]

I can assure you there is a large proportion of the Linfield support who won't miss David Healy. As is the case with any club any support.  I don't want to denigrate Healy, (I seen his goals and even forgave him for his rangers time) but you have made such a pigs arse of this that you are scrabbling about looking for anyone who might measure up. Just ring Stephen and be done with it.

[itzdrk]

Lee Bullen's name still not going away I see. 

[Brashy's Boots]

6 minutes ago, hatchetman said:

I can assure you there is a large proportion of the Linfield support who won't miss David Healy. As is the case with any club any support.  I don't want to denigrate Healy, (I seen his goals and even forgave him for his rangers time) but you have made such a pigs arse of this that you are scrabbling about looking for anyone who might measure up. Just ring Stephen and be done with it.

Thanks for your input.

[Been going too long]

3 minutes ago, itzdrk said:

Lee Bullen's name still not going away I see. 

Your persistent I will give you that

[FitbaSupporter]

Fans of other clubs will be lining up to tell us it’s a shit appointment and we should have stuck with Murray. They may be right, but personally until i see evidence to the contrary, he’s the reincarnation of Jimmy Nic 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

23 minutes ago, itzdrk said:

Lee Bullen's name still not going away I see. 

You got Tourette's now?