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badpress139 · Joined: 19 May 2015 Posts: 2620 Location: Glenrothes

Still everything to play for as we are ahead of where the club had targeted us this season. Its going to be hard to win the league now as the Arabs will have a spring in their step but they could easily still mess it up.

I actually thought we did start with the right line up, but guess I was wrong. Utd tend to get beat when they lose the first goal and the crowd get on their back. Think the plan was to get right at them from the start, which we did, albeit for only the first 6 mins!!!!

We talk about the luxury of having a number of players in the bench but in some respects this is going against us. What I mean is the we are top heavy with midfielders and IM doesn't know his best midfield. If his hands were forced we would maybe get on better and be more settled.

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

And if the attacking line up had worked what would we be saying? If the early shot hadn’t been cleared off the line then who knows? What if we had played a more defensive line up and still lost would fans be still criticising IM for not playing more offensively?

IM has made some “unusual” choices this season and it has got us into a promotion battle that very few would have expected.

I’m sure there are 8 other sides in the Championship who would love to be in our position just now.
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Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4933

Of course if we had won we'd be saying different things about the line up but we didn't win. Hey that's football and a manager will live or die by his decisions.
It used to be that a disappointing performance and result in a big game would sour my mood for days but I'm already just about over today's let down.
What does worry me though is that for all the talk of us as a club being ahead of where we thought we would be there is still a decent enough chance that Partick, maybe Morton or god forbid Dunfermline might do us in the playoffs and end up getting promoted. This season could yet become one that we'd rather forget.
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Northern_Rover · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 2725 Location: Granite City

Ironically in theory the Pars could stuff us after us having them in our hip pockets.

Partick aren't out the equation for second either.

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Armagh Rover · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 5742 Location: Nottinghamshire

When will Murray learn that Brown isn't a CH and never will be, ok as a very temporary cover in a game if we lose one, kinda like today, l would've thought we'd get at least a draw up there but it wasn't to be, and that penalty was one of the softest I've seen given.

Onwards again though 3 home games to come , what the teamlines will be is anyones guess though

CALDERON · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 1723 Location: Aberdeenshire

Murray made a mess of that. Starting with the lead up to the game, calling United rattled to the national press was a crazy thing to do. Not saying it won them the game, but it wasn't a very wise thing to do a all.

Team selection was wrong, was called out as wrong by fans before the game, was obviously wrong from watching the 4th minute onwards, and remained wrong throughout the 90 minutes.

Still in with a shout, but a minor one.

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

It’s all “should haves” and “could haves” for some fans.

These keyboard wannabe managers Very Happy

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scotty · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 9065 Location: Almost Dysart.

I calls it as I sees it.

I'm not the 1st Rovers fan to suggest we are where we are in spite of IM not because of him.
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Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4933

Welly, it's a forum for discussing Rovers matches. Not much point in it if we can't say who we rather see playing and how the team should be set up.
When you have managed a team that sits second in the league and will probably finish with a points tally that would be enough to be crowned champions in many a season then criticism of that manager is somewhat surprising. That said, over his time as Raith manager Ian Murray definitely gets more leeway than McGlynn did from a certain section of the support.
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StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 4025

Would love an in depth discussion with my views put across but after a couple of drinks in the house, a few en route then reaching pub at about 12pm, I was too inebriated to fully grasp what I was watching.

I basically supported the yellow against the orange disregarding who was playing and how we were set up, seemed to be mostly us defending 1st half and lucky to only be goal down. Expected a reaction 2nd half but we created very little shooting towards our support. Penalty looked harsh at time, confirmed on highlights, might we have made a late bid as they dropped deeper entering the final knocking of game? Ref put payed to us ever finding out. Highlights however also confirm to me that we were easily 2nd best, disappointing day.

embow · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:39 pm Post subject:

Club statement out regarding the throwing of a bottle on to the pitch.
I really hope they can identify the pillock and ban whoever for life 🤬🤬
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Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4933

Doesn't sound like StarksBarmy can remember much about it to be fair Embow.
In all seriousness though let's hope this idiot or idiots are identified and dealt with harshly. Imagine if that glass bottle had connected with Watts head? Every chance the game could have been abandoned.
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