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wellyboot · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 2567 Location: Aberdeenshire

Can’t fault our efforts today!

Celtic and rangers beaten by Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock beaten by us. Makes us best in scotland

WillieKirk · Joined: 08 Feb 2014 Posts: 1956 Location: Portobello

Great day out with my pals with a burger to finish at Forrestors in Portobello. Brown was magnificent today and will be the key player for us this season in that performance. Action packed for the most part. Smith a handful for any defence. Hibs shaded it but proud to be a Rovers supporter today - well done team and supporters.
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Franco · Joined: 10 Oct 2019 Posts: 1196 Location: kirkcaldy

Well that was a frustrating game!! Left with a feeling of " what might have been". But we can't concede from a corner and fail to keep it tight immediately after scoring and expect to beat a team from a higher league, to agree with SG.
I was sitting pretty close to the Hibs' goal but undecided if LV might have done better when he hit the post. He does get praise later for winning the ball and feeding Callum Smith to score though.
I would give our MotM to Scott Brown. What a difference he makes to our team.
Optimistic for our game against the Pars, although Scott McGill ( or whatever stand in
LB we field ) will be targeted at EEP.

embow · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 6:59 pm Post subject:

embow · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:11 pm Post subject:

Had an email this evening from my good friend, Tom Wright, who has been the Hibs historian for years. He's been a weel kent face around Easter Road for many years.
I've copied his comments on the game and posted them below for your perusal.

Was at the game today and although Hibs won in the end Raith put on a good show, an opinion I think that was shared by many of the home support.

Again according to most of the Hibs supporters I spoke to at the end the Red card for high feet was extremely harsh as there was no malice in it merely a misjudgement, but that is probably a sign of the modern game.

However your lads played well, never at any time resorting to long balls and attempted to play football at all times.
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Long time fan · Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 79 Location: Kirkcaldy

Pretty much sums it up Embow, never a red card and we pretty much matched Hibs over the piece. Had Lewis scored instead of hitting the post and Gullan squared it to Ross instead of trying to put the ball past 2 Hibs players, who knows. Looks like we lost 2 soft goals from our end, but need to see the highlights to see how bad they were. Difficult to tell.

TxRover · Joined: 02 Jun 2018 Posts: 3511 Location: North Texas, USA

StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 4025

Missed chance today but cold light of day we need to appreciate that we are an aspiring 2nd tier side who are still trying to gel and without several key players playing at at very good Premiership side.

However…

Vaughan HAS to score

That opener…come on, 6’6 Keeper, not to mention our four defenders all over 6ft yet a corner is floated in to the six yard box for goodness sake on to attackers head :/

The red card should be appealed. Attacker is on blind side, dips his head in, Dick is making an honest attempt to play the ball. Could it be a yellow? Probably, never a red though.

Anyway, decent showing, a few quid raised…let’s get full focus on the league…and sorting out the indecisive defending!

TxRover · Joined: 02 Jun 2018 Posts: 3511 Location: North Texas, USA

Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1873 Location: Irvine

Would be interesting to know what the “ brief” is regards corners.

Some keepers tend to stay on/ close to their line, others are happy to come for the ball.

From what I have observed it is the former.

Is this team orders?
Personally, I would have thought the defenders are split between looking at the ball and also watching who they are marking whilst the keeper has an excellent view of the ball coming in.
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PS. Forgot to mention, keepers have long arms with hands on the end......doesn’t that give them some sort of advantage to catch/ punch.
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Heilan Rover · Joined: 24 Dec 2018 Posts: 600 Location: Lorient

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Franco · Joined: 10 Oct 2019 Posts: 1196 Location: kirkcaldy

The view from behind the Hibs' goal confirms that Marshall didn't get near Josh Mullins' wicked cross ball, Lewis's shot hit the post. The shot was firmly struck ( LV didn't scaff it) so he was unlucky. He did hit it with the outside of his right foot, obviously he must have been more comfortable doing that than using his left foot. I can't think but that a left footed player would have scored. The aftermath shots of Lewis suggest that he felt that he expected to score.
Overall I thought that LV played well ,firstly on the left side of the attack combining with Liam Dick ( although the absence of Jack Hamilton meant they had to play low balls into the box) and thereafter when he moved inside ,including creating the Raith goal from a combination of harrying and a neat layoff to Callum Smith.
It's great that we now have a number of options in forward areas and LV is one that we are privileged to have. But will IM give him the opportunity to be the matchwinner on Saturday?

Specky Ginger · Joined: 16 Jun 2012 Posts: 4258 Location: Dysart

If the club are considering appealing the red card, they should buy a copy of today's Courier, or better still, speak nicely to their photographer, as there's a photo which clearly shows Dick having his jersey pulled by the Hibs player as he attempts to clear.
I'm neither a physicist nor a professional footballer, but there's no way that the jersey pull wouldn't have affected his balance and the trajectory of his leg and foot as he stretched.
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