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Raith Rovers Jan 27th

 They used to be sh!te, but now they're alright

 

Inverness face a treacherous trip to the home of the new, improved version of Raith Rovers. This would have been a game where we might have expected to pick up at least a point over the last twenty odd years. However, they are more resillient of late and testament to that is our two meetings this season when late goals saw Rovers snatch all six points from Inverness who deserved more from both games.

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Match/Ticket Info

Scottish Cup v Hibs

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Venue Pld Won Drn Lst For Agst + / -
Home 22 14 5 3 41 17 +24
Away 18 9 5 4 34 22 +12
Neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 40 23 10 7 75 39 +36

Raith broke the mold back in September when they won for the first time in 23 years:  Record Breakers

Never had there been a better time for Raith Rovers to break the Caley Jags hoodoo! Inverness, without a win in their last eight games, and Billy Dodds and the management team under fire. A 23 year run of games without a win for Raith Rovers was brought to an end today when Jamie Gullan smashed home from 15 yards with five minutes left. It was harsh on Inverness who dominated for long spells earlier in the game, but it leaves the management with some tough decisions to make. There will be dancing on the streets of Raith tonight!

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And in December:  Just Like Buses

None for 23 years then two in a row as Raith came from behind to win with a time added on penalty converted by Jamie Gullan. Billy Mckay had opened the scoring with a header on the hour but a late surge by Rovers won it. Lewis Vaughan four minutes from the end then the penalty to take the win at the death scored by Jamie Gullan. We should have had a penalty of our own after that, but Mr Williams chose to ignore it. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and that one hurt.

image.pngChampionship Points

Dundee Utd    - 44

Raith Rovers   - 44

Partick Thistle -36

Airdrieonians - 27

Morton -           26

Dunfermline  -  23

Ayr United    -   23

Inverness CT  -  21

Queens Park  -  20

Arbroath FC  - 18

 

Latest Team News

Inverness Last 5 Championship results:  

Big Dunc has been dabbling in the January sales both in and out over the last couple of weeks.

Out:  Sean Welsh, David Wotherspoon, Cillian Sheridan, Zak Delaney, Harry Hennem (departed), Lewis Hyde, Keith Bray, Ethan Cairns (loaned out)

In: Striker Alex Samuel, the rest are all defenders:- James Carracher, Cammy Kerr, Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen, Remi Savage

 

Raith Rovers have suffered three defeats on the trot: Airdrie & Queens Park in the Championship and a 2-1 defeat to Livingston in the Scottish Cup last weekend.

Zak Rudden, Shaun Byrne and Kyle Turner are new additions in the January sales. Rudden was the latest signing and he will be available for tomorrow.

Jamie Gullan has left Rovers to sign for Dundalk.

Last 5 Championship results: 

 

Team v Livi in the Cup last week
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Millen   Brown   Dick
 
Connolly   Mullin   Byrne (Gullan 83)   Turner (Easton 67)  Smith
 
Hamilton   Vaughan
 
Subs Not Used:  Thomson; Masson, Hannah, McGill, Corr, McNeil, Murray
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5 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

Aye, as long as yer happy mun 😵‍💫

 

Not particularly but we are where we are eh .. 

No mention of the cup final and the horses at hampden..🙄

 

16 minutes ago, Satan said:

No mention of the cup final and the horses at hampden..🙄

 

1980 ( terracing) or 2016 (seating) ? 

The one  where the horses charged the rioting bigots, and still means you cannot enjoy a pint whilst attending football in this country.

Atmosphere inside grounds wasn't in decline in the decade after the alcohol  banning order. Punters may have been thirstier I accept. 

5 hours ago, Leaky Blinder said:

As money has made the game elitist in certain parts of the world so society has moved on and the well established working class ritual of attending a football match has been diminished by the removal of terracing to comply with "requirements". Perhaps if proper inspections had been introduced by the Taylor Report for clubs of a certain size safe terracing could then have been introduced incrementally instead of going from one extreme of dilapidation to plastic central on a budget. The legacy is we are left with half empty stadiums everywhere devoid of atmosphere as costs of regular attendance have risen and the attraction has paled. Away fans buck this seating requirement by standing up for 90 minutes and making a day of it.  Historically If you wanted to sweetie rustle there was always the main stand. Fans historically were also left to get the atmosphere going.. without pyros as we couldn't crowd fund back in the day or source them they were the preserve of foreign clubs .. (ironically health and safety now doesn't extend in reality beyond plastic seating & bovril being served luke warm ) you also weren't choreographed over the head and reminded it was happening " Right here Right now" or whatever guff at full volume. Fair enough a club tune as teams come out but loud music on a loop pre kick off is just awful. Should we trust clubs to get even more innovative we'll probably get music blaring from an electric organ every time the ball goes out for a shy or a corner, ice hockey esque 

Rant over 🙂

 

 

The tannoy/sound system operating at in the north stand at Caley stadium is terrible.  It is absolutely deafening too.  I take my ear plugs which makes it just about bearable... Why oh why does it have to be so loud?... It certainly doesn't help to create an atmosphere.  Indeed it drowns out any attempts by the fans to create an atmosphere pre match which the youngsters attempted to do at the Dundee Utd game recently.  The guy who sits beside me has been season ticket holder for years and said he's complained to the club about it but to no avail.

Maybe something the supporters trust could take forward if there is a general agreement.

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3 hours ago, Leaky Blinder said:

1980 ( terracing) or 2016 (seating) ? 

I recall the 1980 cup final, it was a very interesting day out…….

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