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Geordie_Munro · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 905 Location: Boise, ID.

Think of things this way. Craig Wilson turned down a new contract last season. He is now playing at the mighty Forfar Athletic. They are obviously offering more money than us. Where does that leave a manager with around 2 months to rebuild a squad in the summer? Say what you like about players and fantasise about players from Glasgow/Edinburgh playing for the Rovers jersey if you like, but the harsh reality is they only play for the money. We can't match the likes of Forfar in money terms so how badly do you think the managers hands are tied?
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AuthorUnknown · Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 5771 Location: KY1

Or maybe Wilson had to settle for Forfar because he couldn't get the sort of deal he expected he would. He was in the press during the close season pleading for a club so he might've ended up at Forfar because it was the only offer on the table in the end, not because they offered more than us.
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Marko · Joined: 25 Apr 2009 Posts: 1148 Location: Kirkcaldy

Forfar didn't offer more than us, but what they offered was part-time so it possibly worked out better for the amount of hours he would be there.

What we offered him was much reduced from his existing contract, so he thought he was as well going part-time if he was only going to be receiving that full-time. It wasn't as simple as Forfar offering more than us though, where we made a mistake is we never offered him the option of going part-time for the reduced terms we'd offered.

That was my understanding of the situation anyway - it's more or less speculation and could well be wrong before people start queuing up to shoot me down.
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Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1876 Location: Irvine

[quote="R12ATH"]I think McGlynn has been great for our club and turned it around almost single-handed from bottom up. For the record I voted, and I voted for him to stay. He has been our most successful manager of recent time and the work he has done from the youth academy up to first team is first class in terms of professionalism.

What annoys me is he seems so rigid and unwilling to take a gamble now and then to shake it up..He sticks with 4-4-2 religiously, he will stick with Hill religiously, he will move Murray and Ellis around the park to accommodate his favourites, he always waits till its too late to use subs... Its stubborn.. and for the average punter, its frustrating when your team is going through a slump... He did the same last season, we just didnt complain as we were winning most weeks and top of the league..

All I want to see is some change now and then and something a bit radical when required from the man. If we are 1-0 down at home, bring someone on at half time or no later than 60 mins, change the formation during the game to something more adventurous or something.. that is my only beef..[/quot

e]I guess that many share your view.
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hatrick · Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 580

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Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1876 Location: Irvine

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Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1876 Location: Irvine

Tam · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:24 pm Post subject:

Odd thing for Turnbull Hutton to come out with today in the press about the keyboard warriors, when a large amount of the fans in the Main Stand and the Southstand were berating the team and John McGlynn not just on Fantalk?

I think we all know that John works his boots off every single day for the club and has done so since his appointment, BUT he needs to learn from his mistakes and the teams mistakes, surely even Turnbull sees there is no Plan B in his game.

Graeme Meldrum · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 1254

I would rather Turnball praised the fans that have signed up for the various members clubs, and give us something positive in the papers.

rovers4ever · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 5314 Location: Burntisland

Graeme Meldrum · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 1254

Graeme_P · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 452

As I said in an other post this is just lazy journalism of the worst sort.

The tabloids should have no interest on a poll with 79 votes.

The FFP should be ashamed given the positive things the club are trying to do with Maggies and the wider community.

I don't believe anyone at the club should have given these journalists the time of day. Without the reaction there was no story.

If the FFP wanted to run a story about the clubs poor form or the bad results on and off the pitch fair enough. To use the vehicle of a poll which has interested a tiny (79) minority of fans is just lazy, simplistic, primary school level reporting. If this is how easy it is to earn a wage in local journalism I chose the wrong job. The Editor of the FFP should be kicking these folks backside and telling them to do some real public interest journalism.

zicoromaines · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7609

I think we should all get a grip we really are a wee team,with a potential of a max of 3000 to 4000 fans if everything is hunky dory.On a bad season we probably have a hard core support of 800 to 1200 this again depends on results.To assume anything different smacks on delusion.Wehave to live within our means and if that means a split squad of 20 full and part-time players I for one would prefer that.This gives the manager a bigger squad of players to chose from.

Marko · Joined: 25 Apr 2009 Posts: 1148 Location: Kirkcaldy