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Topic: Match thread ~ Raith Rovers 2-0 DAFC FT
161. Author: GG Riva Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 07:28 DNCH, Sun 10 Mar 04:39 If my math is right, based on the last 3 years, about 39 points or 10 wins should see us safe. We need to get this season over with and then come back with a plan. Which hopefully doesn`t involve Peter Grant total football. Thanks for that, DNCH. I was going to check these stats myself. I think we need 3 wins from our last 8 games, or a combination of wins and draws, to be safe. Nobody will expect us to take 3 pts on Friday, which may actually work in our favour. United are hardly unbeatable, and we did OK last time we were on the telly. 🤞 Not your average Sunday League player. Reply
162. Author: weemike Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 07:28 We bossed that game up until the 2nd goal. Both goals were totally avoidable. On another day that game would`ve been the most comfortable 0-0 or even 1 nil to us. We need to make the keeper work more. There is an absolute belting team in amongst the squad we just need to unlock the potential. Can the current management team do that? I don`t know. I do believe we will be seeing the likes of McCann, summers, moffat for years to come. Similar to us seeing Byrne and shankland etc have decent careers. Reply
163. Author: 87Par Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 07:37 Alter Ego, Sat 9 Mar 21:28 ** of McPake with those words… the team were ** and didn’t turn up for the last half of the game” get those lazy shits into training on Monday morning and go through the game! Wtf? Reply
164. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:08 87Par, im gonna call it now. ,KRH will not be as effective in this league. He won’t be as effective playing against better defenders? That’s hardly rocket science, is it ? Ewan has so much potential but his first touch is a literal bombscare at times. I do wonder what Pars fans see sometimes. Perhaps his strength, running power, attitude and ability to play in a number of positions ? His first touch and passing will improve as he matures. Matty needs to get up a gear. He`s a talent. But it`s business end now. He’s missed a lot of games. You don’t get up to match fitness after a game or two and everyone is allowed an off day It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply
165. Author: 87Par Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:12 Raymie the Legend, Sun 10 Mar 08:08 87Par, im gonna call it now. ,KRH will not be as effective in this league. He won’t be as effective playing against better defenders? That’s hardly rocket science, is it ? Ewan has so much potential but his first touch is a literal bombscare at times. I do wonder what Pars fans see sometimes. Perhaps his strength, running power, attitude and ability to play in a number of positions ? His first touch and passing will improve as he matures. Matty needs to get up a gear. He`s a talent. But it`s business end now. He’s missed a lot of games. You don’t get up to match fitness after a game or two and everyone is allowed an off day Ok. Granted. But it`s March. We have to start getting results. Reply
166. Author: Berry Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:13 Tough one to take given we had the majority of possession and generally looked pretty comfortable throughout but fair play to Raith, they took their chances. This season is all about avoiding relegation and I still think we’ll do just that but it will be a close run thing. I don’t think anyone really expected us to win today, if they did then perhaps they’ve been disillusioned by recent performances. The positives are we got Benedictus back fit and more minutes in KRH and Todd. It’s also a tough fixture out the way, and very little ground made up by other teams in similar bother. Appreciate isn’t a great way to think about things, but this is where we are at the moment. Dundee Utd next Friday we could well face a similar fate. The signings of Holmes etc I’m reserved on my view on them tbh, when you see who McPake went for, they were the right kind of signings but it could’ve been a case of slim pickings in the end and a matter of just urgently needing to make the numbers up. We talk about McCann, every manager pre McPake has really rated him, are all of them wrong? I struggle to defend Mehmet though, really not a fan, beggars belief he got such a long contract off the back of a League One season and that save from the free kick was quite frankly brutal. Reply
167. Author: Indiapar Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:18 The question is how do we turn the good outfield play into opportunities in front of goal. You can only play as well as the other teams let you. We get closed down too easily in the final 3rd of the park, and when we do get opportunities we don`t hit the target enough and work the keeper. Obviously, the purpose of the game is to win. That means you have to score goals. We are doing everything else but that hence we are in the position we are. We are not a bad team, we have good players, but we need to focus more on creating chances and hitting the target more. Reply
168. Author: 87Par Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:24 Raymie the Legend, Sun 10 Mar 08:08 87Par, im gonna call it now. ,KRH will not be as effective in this league. He won’t be as effective playing against better defenders? That’s hardly rocket science, is it ? Ewan has so much potential but his first touch is a literal bombscare at times. I do wonder what Pars fans see sometimes. Perhaps his strength, running power, attitude and ability to play in a number of positions ? His first touch and passing will improve as he matures. Matty needs to get up a gear. He`s a talent. But it`s business end now. He’s missed a lot of games. You don’t get up to match fitness after a game or two and everyone is allowed an off day In addition. Not sure you were at the game yesterday or not but you could hear the fans wanting it to go wide to Kane. But expectations need to be lowered cos this league is different gravy. And sorry Raymie I want someone who is effective in this league especially given the position we find ourselves in.. I dont want to have to wave to Falkirk on the way past. See my post after the match before I get labled. Reply
169. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:28 KRH was very frustrating yesterday. Earlier in the season whenever Jakubiak got it wide, he would always try to beat his man down the line - didn’t always come off but at least he had a go. KRH didn’t once try beat his man yesterday, even when squared up against the booked Easton, he would always cut back then do nothing of note. Reply
170. Author: EastEndTales Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:28 How long is Chris Kane out for?? Ep.17 of East End Tales is out now with Andrius Skerla https://www.buzzsprout.com/1972630/15082607 Reply
171. Author: par-91 Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:53 EastEndTales, Sun 10 Mar 08:28 How long is Chris Kane out for?? ‘The foreseeable future’ is what I’ve been told. Seems quite telling that the manager didn’t address his absence in his interviews. Really hope I’m wrong, but if it was short-term I’d have thought McPake would want to reassure us of Kane’s availability, given how much we miss him on the pitch. Reply
172. Author: weemike Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 08:57 Did you even watch the game? 3 or 4 times krh took his man on. KRH played well yesterday Post Edited (Sun 10 Mar 08:58) Reply
173. Author: chris1883 Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:06 I know I will get accused of being patronising etc. but here is my take on Dunfermline. I feel that we defended better than we have in a long time. Big Kev`s save was phenomenal. If that went in you would have had a really good chance at getting something from the game. Thankfully it was kept out. I have so much respect for Kyle Benedictus - apart from being a genuinely nice guy he put in a good shift and the fact he has been out for so long I felt he played well. He is an asset to your team. Your keeper is as questionable as a keeper as Callum Smith is as a penalty taker. You played the ball around better than I have seen all season. The problem was no cutting edge up front. Every DAFC supporter I know tells me you need someone who can score goals... on that performance that is very true. Reply
174. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:09 weemike, Sun 10 Mar 08:57 Did you even watch the game? 3 or 4 times krh took his man on. KRH played well yesterday Your living in cookoo land if you think he played well yesterday 😂😂 he should have been hooked after an hour Reply
175. Author: par-91 Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:13 chris1883, Sun 10 Mar 09:06 I know I will get accused of being patronising etc. but here is my take on Dunfermline. I feel that we defended better than we have in a long time. Big Kev`s save was phenomenal. If that went in you would have had a really good chance at getting something from the game. Thankfully it was kept out. I have so much respect for Kyle Benedictus - apart from being a genuinely nice guy he put in a good shift and the fact he has been out for so long I felt he played well. He is an asset to your team. Your keeper is as questionable as a keeper as Callum Smith is as a penalty taker. You played the ball around better than I have seen all season. The problem was no cutting edge up front. Every DAFC supporter I know tells me you need someone who can score goals... on that performance that is very true. Can’t disagree with that. I’d say we were possibly the better team in 2/3 of the pitch, until we took Otoo off. After that, Rovers were dominant all over the pitch. However, the struggles in the final third have been there all season and there’s no excuse for not sorting this. Jakubiak (and others at times) made some good runs, then played the ball into dangerous areas and the only question was which Raith player was going to get there, since we had nobody trying to get into a scoring position. Reply
176. Author: hudza Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:19 Longer term concern is we are stuck with some of these diddies for at least another season after dishing out multi year contracts. Folk like O Halloran, Wighton n Mehmet must’ve thought they’d won the lottery getting offered multi year deals. Reply
177. Author: Ianoappar Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:21 It`s about time he was coming out and saying what we can all see,but hes responsible for giving him reportably a three year contract. Reply
178. Author: weemike Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:22 Dave_1885, Sun 10 Mar 09:09 weemike, Sun 10 Mar 08:57 Did you even watch the game? 3 or 4 times krh took his man on. KRH played well yesterday Your living in cookoo land if you think he played well yesterday 😂😂 he should have been hooked after an hour Nonsense, KRH was a positive yesterday Reply
179. Author: wee eck Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:24 KRH played his first full game after missing virtually three-quarters of the season. The only way he will get sharper is by playing games. I thought he did OK, all things considered. Reply
180. Author: Berkey Date: Sun 10th Mar 2024. 09:33 Agree with wee eck on KRH, his game is about sharpness in terms of pace etc so he’s going to need a good few weeks to get that sharpness back to give the edge over defenders. He may well struggle to make an impact but we won’t know for sure until the last 5 games of the season. What I don’t understand is playing a 3-5-2 type formation when we don’t have any strikers? I’m not sure which position you would consider Jak and McCann as being ‘good’ at but they ain’t strikers. If your plan was to play this way this season why sign or extend contracts of players like Jak, o’hallaran and McCann they just don’t fit into the system regardless of if they are even good enough which is a different issue. Now we’re likely stuck with 2 of them warming a bench next season perhaps even alongside wighton if he ever regains fitness. The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity! Reply

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