Shodwall cat Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 30 minutes ago, bairn88 said: And how poorly it’s working! Exactly. Mcglynns recruitment has been top drawer since he arrived and noone is complaining about signing decent quality players to two year deals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMBairn Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Not only has the recruitment been good but the club is being well managed so I'd imagine the contract side of things doesn't contain anything the club find objectionable in the way Raith fans always allude to from mcglynns time with them. In terms of the game I'm not sure how this will go, sometimes teams struggle after a hard performance and defeat against a stronger team. We do have a whole week to recover so hopefully the lads just take the positives from the game and look to take their frustrations about losing out on Raith by giving them such a pasting that even the Dunfermline fans feel sorry for them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 38 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said: You signed freeman to play right back surely? Yet you need another one. You signed Jameson to play up front yet you still need another striker. You've got a pretty decent sized squad but just keep signing more and more players. Freeman was the only right back until Dabo came in, you do understand the old cliche of having two players for every position right? I'm sure even Falkirk have that setup? Jamieson wasn't brought in to be a striker, he's a wide forward/winger. We've got a squad of 24 and another out on loan. Your squad according to transfermarkt is at 23 plus I think a handful of young lads that probably aren't listed on there. We've also got some long term injuries in our number. Another forward on loan would be good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starksdynamo Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 10 minutes ago, GMBairn said: I'd imagine the contract side of things doesn't contain anything the club find objectionable in the way Raith fans always allude to from mcglynns time with them. Any way of proving that? Or just hope? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Jack D Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 1 hour ago, Shodwall cat said: No the better sides tend to get their signings right the first time instead of having to sign more new players to cover the fact the first ones signed are rotten. So some teams deliberately sign shite players and some teams only ever sign good ones. Gotcha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18BAIRN76 Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Won’t speak of Raith’s recruitment strategy as don’t know the ins and outs, but they’ve definitely got a very good Championship squad on paper. Do have to say though, of all the criticisms that could be put at McGlynn’s door in his nearly 2 and half years in post, poor recruitment isn’t one of them. I don’t know exactly how many signings he’s made for us, but a Dunfermline fan could count up all the duds he’s signed on one hand and still have four fingers left. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMBairn Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 18 minutes ago, Starksdynamo said: Any way of proving that? Or just hope? Well I don't have a copy of everyone's contract to hand so no. But no one is on more than a 2 year deal and the club has moved from a massive deficit a couple of years ago to a profit this year so feel confident that the financial side is being well handled. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 7 minutes ago, Double Jack D said: So some teams deliberately sign shite players and some teams only ever sign good ones. Gotcha Noone gets them all right but the sides that do well get far more right than wrong. For years our recruitment was the opposite then mcglynn came along and our signings have been superb. The odd one hasn't set the heather on fire but that's always going to be the case. The successful ones though have been in the vast majority. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 6 minutes ago, GMBairn said: Well I don't have a copy of everyone's contract to hand so no. But no one is on more than a 2 year deal and the club has moved from a massive deficit a couple of years ago to a profit this year so feel confident that the financial side is being well handled. Raith undoubtedly have a far bigger budget than we have but I'm not sure they've signed better players despite all that extra cash available. Guess we'll know come may. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 The irony of contract length talk when 36 year old Lewis Stevenson has signed a 2 year contract and 34 year old Paul Hanlon has signed a 3 year contract 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 (edited) If I had the choice of new signings or the likes of Adam’s, Tait, Nesbitt, Agyeman, Mackie on long contracts, I would take the latter any day of the week, especially Keelan, get him tied down on a 10 year deal. Edited September 24 by Harry Kinnear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Jack D Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 28 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said: Raith undoubtedly have a far bigger budget than we have but I'm not sure they've signed better players despite all that extra cash available. Guess we'll know come may. I'm not convinced there is a significant difference in the playing budgets of each club to be honest. Would agree ours probably slightly higher but it won't be to the extent of half a team higher. I mean Squad sizes are similar and players like Spencer and Lang were signed from us on higher wages than we offered them, also Ethan Ross was one of our highest earners when he left, which is probably why he left. What's not in doubt so far is that Falkirk's squad is delivering significantly better value than ours is at present. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatapyBairn. Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 (edited) 1 hour ago, Starksdynamo said: Any way of proving that? Or just hope? I’d say it’s a pretty well educated assumption based on both the recruitment and on how the club as a business has been stewarded since the change in ownership. However if you think you know better feel free draw your own conclusions, you may well have more intimate knowledge than anybody else does however unlikely that may seem. Edited September 24 by LatapyBairn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 13 minutes ago, Double Jack D said: I'm not convinced there is a significant difference in the playing budgets of each club to be honest. Would agree ours probably slightly higher but it won't be to the extent of half a team higher. I mean Squad sizes are similar and players like Spencer and Lang were signed from us on higher wages than we offered them, also Ethan Ross was one of our highest earners when he left, which is probably why he left. What's not in doubt so far is that Falkirk's squad is delivering significantly better value than ours is at present. You started off with circa 600k of extra prize money this season and have a board happy to invest I would think you have a substantially bigger budget than us. 2 and 3 year deals to guys dropping down from Hibs won't be cheap. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 3 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said: I’d say it’s a pretty well educated assumption based on both the recruitment and on how the club as a business has been stewarded since the change in ownership. However if you think you know better feel free draw your own conclusions, you may well have more intimate knowledge than anybody else does however unlikely that may seem. Weirdly defensive response to a fairly simple question. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasperellon Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 There appears to be respect from Rovers fans to how Falkirk have been performing and likewise a minimum of disrespect to how poor Rovers have been. However, the joint dislike of the Pars is tremendous! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 6 minutes ago, jasperellon said: There appears to be respect from Rovers fans to how Falkirk have been performing and likewise a minimum of disrespect to how poor Rovers have been. However, the joint dislike of the Pars is tremendous! I’ve got family in Kirkcaldy who are Raith fans and it’s a standing joke between us as to who hates the Pars more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Perrin Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 5 hours ago, Starksdynamo said: Any way of proving that? Or just hope? Not hope expectation. We are now a very well run club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAITHROVERS84 Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 6 hours ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said: I see we've already sold 580 tickets Should be a banging Falkirk support despite this being our 5th away game in a row At the risk of bringing up crowd size with Falkirk fans I was expecting 2k+ of a travelling support. Early days still so might be around that. Dunfermline last time at Starks was honking 1300 or so iirc. We had done them dry several times by that point TBF. Partick are usually good for a 1000 on a Saturday afternoon so just thought Falkirks first time in Kirkcaldy for a while and current form would see big numbers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 I'm sure you will by the weekend, but a 5th away game in a row is absolutely brutal on the wallet! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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