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inside the city wulls · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 858 Location: East Lansing, MI

Grant Murray? Would he have the quals?
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Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4928

Apathy, thats what i feel now in regards to the management situation. I had had enough of McGlynn after we were dumped out of the Scottish Cup by Morton but i feel he might as well see out the season. Our fate at the end of the season has already been decided, i don't know if thats relegation or not but a change of manager isn't going to make any difference at this stage. Even if we do stay up we'll just be in the exact same position next season and the next and the next. The club at a board level is a rudderless ship but worse than that as a club it appears we are holed below the waterline.
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Keith S · Moderator Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 1169

The next 4 games may well decide our fate. McGlynn MUST turn it around and he has 2 days to do it.

Lets hope the masterplan he's been working on for the last 14 months is just about to pay off.

Scary Bear · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 2739 Location: Sunny Kirkcaldy

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

JMcG and the BoD are oblivious to what the fans are seeing and saying. Clearly, they don't give a toss. I would suggest staying away on Saturdays until JMcG has resigned and the following home game, put the backdated entry fees into the big blue bin. However, that would threaten Rovers' existence, so any better ideas out there?

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

Would sacking Mcglynn right now do anything? I dont know. We cant afford it though. Mcglynn would be daft to quit, and we cant afford the compo to sack him and then bring someone else in.

Things are very poor right now. Very poor. Now Mcglynn has never been a master tactician. Substitutions etc have long been a point of discussion on here. However, we have seen teams with a fantastic work ethic and good organisation. For me, that has made up for the lack of "footballing" talent. We had a great cup run, a league title and got within 3 games of the SPL on the back of it.

Now, of course, this season was always going to be difficult. I didnt expect to reach the heights of last season, not at all. However, from about September onwards this team has looked defeated. In previous seasons, if we went behind I would be adamant we would get back into the game. This season, I've been tempted to head straight home after conceding. We dont have the extra dig, that extra fight and that extra 10% Without that, quite frankly, we are rank rotten and awful.

Mcglynn tried to play a different style of football this season, and it lasted all of 3 games. Now we are left with a team that cant pass, cant play attractive attacking football, and now cant battle and scrap. We are doomed unless we have a significant upturn in results. Alas, that does not look in any way likely.

Should Mcglynn go at the end of the season if we go down? I dont know. For the first time, Im leaning slightly towards yes. For all he has done for the club, there wont have been any long term progress. When John Mcglynn took over, we were a struggling part time Second Division side. If we get relegated, we will be a struggling part time Second Division side - probably in a worse position to be honest.

Here's a sobering thought. The Heatherston/Scott season ten years ago is widely regarded as one of the poorest seasons in living memory for the Rovers.

Here is the league table as of 23rd February 2002.

[url] http://www.statto.com/football/stats/scotland/division-one/2001-2002/table/2002-02-23 [/url]

Graeme_P · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 452

I think the Board need to ask a couple of questions.
1) Do they really think McGlynn will keep us up?

3) If not can we afford to get relegated and still have a club?

Personally I have very little faith that we can turn this season round.
Overall his record has been quite poor.
In the league: 3 Seasons to get out of the 2nd division and even then we only just stumbled over the line.
7th and 2nd in the first division. Now looking grim for this season.
In Cups: Out in the early rounds of every cup with the exception of our run to the semi final.
We have a dreadful record when the pressure is on. We have a terrible play off record. A poor record during the run in even when we won the 2nd division.
An
ll in all the football has been very poor for 5 season. Occassionally succesful but not good to watch.
The Board have backed the youth set up. It has produced 1 first teamer in 5 seasons.
The Board have backed his signings, some of these have been simply awful.

The Board take a lot of stick on here but they have backed the manager. I don't think they are getting aq good return for that faith and backing.

I think most of the supporters will admit that he is a nice guy and works hard but is he really good enough to keep us up? Will the football improve and attract crowds back? I don't think so sadly.

Scary Bear · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 2739 Location: Sunny Kirkcaldy

sonofwallace · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 7382 Location: kirkcaldy

I am a diehard and have met the players and john mcglynn on a few occasions at functions aswell as hospital visits.You will never meet a better bunch of lads than them which makes having a go at them difficult to do.I dont know why they arent performing as they have done on occasion but they better start.They are playing for their jobs because if we go down there will be a clear out and we will be part time.In fact part time football is the way forward am afraid as full time is doing nothing for us.In fact even if we stay up there will be a clear out and there has to be changes throughout the club because we are stuck in a rut and going nowhere fast.
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