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1 hour ago, Piracy said:

I think it's always been seen as an area for bampots. 

Seen that way by the club? Or seen that way by the bampots? ;-)

4 minutes ago, Eastendtales said:

Does Legends need a rebrand? Freshen it up and start catering to a wider part of the fanbase?

In what way does Legends not cater to any part of the fanbase?

Serious question, I always see people saying they don't like it or don't feel welcome there, and I'm never sure why. It's just a bar, with seats and beer and TV screens. 

Done 👍

2 hours ago, Grant said:

Now is it purely down to our attacking players, or do you think they way we are set up (And potentially the coaching?) has something to do with why attackers for us look so... Rubbish? 

Definitely agree with that - we don't make enough chances, or good enough ones.

 

2 hours ago, Grant said:

It's not reached the levels of Chalmers, but he does seemed to get jumped on a tad more than most, and certainly it seems to be that online he's getting it fairly tight. 

Fair enough - I don't use dot.net, so I assume it's pretty bad there? Doesn't feel like there's too much berating on here, thankfully.

On 24/04/2024 at 06:35, Grant said:

The amount of abuse that McCann receives is well over the top. 

Does McCann get all that much abuse? I feel like I never really hear anything against him at EEP - the usual groan if he misses a chance (which happens to all players), but nothing like the hectoring people like Mehmet and Chalmers get no matter what they do.

2-1 victory, well done the lads!

 

4 hours ago, Rossmcno1 said:

You mean the “Set Fare Arena” as it will be next season?  Or as some witty wags have already named it - the Cab Neu.

 

Either way, enjoy!

Thanks - but I completely forgot about it  and have only just remembered! D’oh!

Forgot all about this. Might head along the road, get used to the Pasta Bowl again for next season (or in case we aren't there next season!)

6 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Exactly this. ‘10 year plan’ what a load of ****! We’ve had investment yet the product on the pitch has went back the way ever since. Rovers get investment and turn into title contenders 

To be fair, a couple of years ago Arbroath were title contenders. There's no guarantee Rovers will have another season like this one.

I think McPake deserves a chance at this league without the insane injury list we had this season and with the strengthened squad we have compared to the way we started.

This is assuming we keep Edwards, Kane, MFW, MWH of course, which obviously isn't certain, but if we did, and we can keep more people fit than we did for most of 23/24, then I think we'd be in a better place this time next year than we are now.

 

But, I really think we need to move away from 5 at the back. Go with 4-4-2, and we have this sort of depth:

GK: Mehmet, Little/Whoever

 

RB: MWH, Comrie, Fisher (I think?)

CBx2: Bene, MFW, Otoo, Fisher, Breen

LB: Edwards, ummm... Otoo maybe? Or Breen?

 

RM: KRH, MOH

CMx2: Todd, Otoo, Hamilton, Moffat, Chalmers, Allan

LM: Todd, ummm... Allan maybe?

 

ST: Kane, Jak, Wighton, McCann, Sutherland 

Obviously that's over-simplistic (and I've probably forgotten some players), but I do think there's a decent team to be had in there, if we could add a left sided player or two. A team good enough to make the playoffs next time, which should be our minimal goal (although obviously we should be trying for the title).

Scoring goals might still be an issue, but I think we'd have more width, and would be making more and better chances than this year.

42 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:

Not happening. 1 or 2 at the very most. We made then look competent today. Bang average side.

Well let's hope not. But nobody expected 4-0 to Thistle either.

1 hour ago, scottyboy said:

We got an 8 point swing in goal difference, it won't happen. 

My concern is that QP might put 3 or 4 past Arbroath, while we lose by a couple. 

Definitely agree with a 4, not least because it gets KRH back into the position he's been best in for us, RM/RW.

In fact  if we must play 5 at the back, I'd go 5-4-1 to allow KRH to be there and still have a FB behind him. It's not like we'd be losing much having only one up front, it felt like that today anyway.

Looking at scenarios for the final fixtures, we might need Morton to get a point at Inverness if everything else goes t**s up

 

Morton 44

Dunfermline 43

Ayr 42

Inverness 38

Queen's Park 37

Arbroath 23

 

26+27 April

Airdrie - Dundee Utd W

Arbroath - Queen's Park W

Dunfermline - Inverness W

Morton W - Raith 

Partick Thistle - Ayr W

 

Morton 47

Ayr 45

Dunfermline 43

Inverness 41

Queen's Park 40

Arbroath 23

 

3 May

Ayr W - Dunfermline  

Dundee Utd W - Partick Thistle

Inverness W - Morton  

Queen's Park W - Airdrie 

Raith W - Arbroath

 

Ayr 48

Morton 47

Inverness 44

Dunfermline 43 / Queen's Park 43 (GD)

Arbroath 23

Cowardly stuff from the Pars today. Thistle do us exactly the favour we need, and at the end we're wasting time instead of trying to keep our thin hopes of promotion alive for another week?! FFS. Total lack of ambition, seemingly based on not losing.

And I'm not at all convinced that we're as good as safe. QP away at Arbroath, while we host an ICT team who need to keep fighting to get away from the playoff spot. Just takes another bad day and we're looking at being 3 ahead with a game to play and a trip to Ayr on Friday night needing a point.

So frustrating.

Well played Kane today, and most of the defence, most of the time (although none of them were without a dodgy moment either). Couple of great saves from Deniz. That apart, pretty poor all round, with some notable lowlights.

 

Here's how it works:

 

Not sure my scores app quite understands the McPake system...

 

1 hour ago, Digs said:

1500 tickets sold so far 👏👏👏

Spread across the 3 matches, right? Not for a single match. Looks that way on the seating plans:

Germany:

Switzerland:

Hungary:

 

A very decent start to sales I reckon - still waiting on that press release though...

Further interest - I never realised that he had an album recorded at Carnegie Hall - the REAL Carnegie Hall: 

 

3 hours ago, DougieDave said:

Spot On Stanza - I heard the word for the first time many moons ago from Billy Connolly on his first hit album “Solo Concert” - I think it was used in the “Ivan the Terrible” story where a wee six stone welder decides to have a go with Ivan the Terrible - the monster wrestler from abroad who was performing at the local Fairground ……. Needless to say - Shug the six stone welder gets the better of the big man by biting his willy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also, a point of order, Mr Speaker... Ivan the Terrible is on "Get Right Intae Him" not "Solo Concert" - @DougieDave has therefore gravely misled this House and I call on him to correct his remarks.

3 hours ago, DougieDave said:

Spot On Stanza - I heard the word for the first time many moons ago from Billy Connolly on his first hit album “Solo Concert” - I think it was used in the “Ivan the Terrible” story where a wee six stone welder decides to have a go with Ivan the Terrible - the monster wrestler from abroad who was performing at the local Fairground ……. Needless to say - Shug the six stone welder gets the better of the big man by biting his willy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Definitely a word he's used elsewhere too. I've never heard the Ivan the Terrible story, but I remember the word from a tape my dad had of, I think "Cop yer whack"... "Ah'll kill yooo... Ah'll molacate yooooo..."

 

Actually, now I say it, it might not have been Billy Connolly, it might have been one of the old Only an Excuse tapes (back when they were funny).

Ah, that's very sad news, RIP Davie.

Fair play to Airdrie as well, in their last 10 league games they’re W 7, D 2, L 1 (and they won the Challenge Cup in that time too). Outsiders to win the playoffs?

28 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:

Anyone else still got the fear re 9th?

Ask me again after the Queen's Park game. You'd hope we would have enough to at least avoid defeat there, but I'd we did lose, it puts a lot of pressure on the Inverness game.

Ah well, looks like that's that for the top 4.

Focus now on a home win next week v QP to guarantee no relegation risk. Or at least don't lose!

All in all, as a promoted side, consolidation is fine IMO. Although, as Airdrie have proved, it can be done.

Hopefully we can strengthen a bit in the summer  have a bit more depth than at the start of this season, and avoid having so many injuries (surely?!).