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Curious given he hasn't played or done any previous media work IIRC in nearly 20 years - was there a coaching job or similar he was doing in the meantime? Not meant as criticism of Lilley, just how the currency within Scottish football media usually operates.

Wee Buhlly must be on the smack if he thought that was an even game. If you had a reliable xG on that game then Queens Park would have been in the 0.4s at best. A spawny goal does not earn a draw by itself.

A thoroughly deserved win. While I was concerned from afar about last week's scoreline as being a drop-off from recent levels (most obviously at Ross County), the team's performance tonight was really good overall. We were aggressive in winning the ball, mostly forward thinking with our passes and played some really good (occssionally risky) balls in the first half. The final ball was hit and miss, but we played some really good and smart football to get into the final third. My only concern was that our defence lacked protection and had to do a bit too much when we lost the ball in the first half, but we still should have been in front by half time. QP got a spawny goal from a blocked shot, when we had at least 4-5 similar efforts in the game and didn't get the good fortune of a rebound. The second half was one-way traffic in attempts at goal, and the only disappointment for me was that we didn't keep the momentum going in the final 15 minutes of normal time. O'Halloran's worldy finish was fully deserved, but happened when the game seemed destined to fizzle out.

Not sure that's the one you were after tbh.

I'm sure your Victoria Cross is in the post, champ.

I wasn't there, but the result has major slaphead Gus vibes. Having seen us dispatch them with a reasonable degree of comfort at the start of this season - we clearly haven't built on our excellent performance at Dingwall not too long ago, as we'd have run out convincing winners regardless of the week's turbulence IMO.

Perhaps the chairman should focus more on securing a Financial Director for a professional football club to avoid a parade of Hamilton-level fines and points deductions, rather than micro-managing hot takes on a managerial departure.

That you think either side is inherently 'trustworthy' is the key error you are making here. The source of this content has also been waist deep in various bullshit party lines on Imrie's behalf - not to mention white knighting for the very same 'lies and coverups' you are referring to, just 6 months ago. GMFC is better off well rid of the whole lot of them - with the exception of Imrie - but I'm not convinced he has entirely clean hands over this either.

No it isn't, because the story was - in my cynical view (but justified by previous evidence of the author's relationship with DI) - purely designed to give Imrie's departure from GMFC the best possible light. It's not about Raith Rovers, and as I said above, their fans won't care. You can certainly argue that any such decision was poorly judged or advised - but then so was applying for the Inverness job 0.5 seconds before they inevitably went into financial meltdown. As were the unwise choices made by Strapp or Keay within our own recent player history too. I won't be taking anything from that source as credible or not credible - it has no value either way. There are more than enough issues with club mismanagement to be getting on with anyway.

It really hasn't 'gone viral' - and why would a Raith fan give a toss about listening to a 7 minute voice note about a different club?

MCT members democratically voted - under significant duress, but the majority was decisive - to let BB and the gang play with the ball until the summer of 2026. They also moved for a review of the partnership this January. That second thing needs to happen, but only after that point can anyone at MCT, or indeed the GMFC start being 'proactive' in planning the future of the club. There's no CEO figure at MCT getting paid 40 hours a week to meet possible stakeholders - there's not even a CEO figure (or Financial Director!) at the so-called professional football club being run de facto by Dalrada appointees. Their credibility should be fast running out in anyone's mind, regardless of hearsay.

Counter point - he has also been applying for just about any rancid job opportunity for the best part of 2 years now. I mean Inverness, really? Imrie did a very good job as manager - and also did a lot of additional work and commitments that weren't required (see the evening with a Davies a few weeks ago. Butt he also did an excellent job managing his own reputation, not least by playing the workie writing in the Tele like a fiddle as and when needed.

If it was such a big problem, then Imrie could have walked away in May - or taken the Partick job when this club was beyond a zoo. People love to make these 'ordinary job' comparisons - well okay then, do you get a divine right to insist that your work keeps on a colleague? Imrie has been applying for jobs elsewhere long before any decision was made about Millen, it's such an obvious red herring.

They could go 2nd in a division with multiple points deductions involved, having failed to do anything of note under similar circumstances last season. The only thing Graham can point to at this stage in his management career is that he's not one of the parade of donkeys managing Queen of the South to a more obvious underachievement. I'm not saying he'll never be a good manager, but there's nothing on a CV to merit a step up.

I really don't think he has. For Alloa's squad and likely budget to be consistently below Stenhousemuir in the same division, and for them to pose no serious challenge for promotion are both signs of underperformance. If Graham didn't have a Morton background he wouldn't even remotely be in the conversation right now.

Do they, aye? https://www.raithrovers.net/directors/ They've got an ex-Kelty guy, an assorted money man, and a child 'digital director' on board - having sacked their own CEO in February and deciding not to replace them. I think people are being very complacent about Imrie departing and us being fine afterwards - but Raith are really not some well-oiled professional outfit than an exasperated Imrie could only dream of working within either.

How is the club 'run by volunteers'? Last time I checked, the 'adults in the room' either representing or handpicked by Dalrada have an equal say in running the show - and back a chairman who turns responsibility for club affairs on and off like a tap.

When is this scheduled for?

Ross County are where they are in the league for good reason. A motlew crew of mercenaries who have no connection to each other as team mates, or it seems much time for each other as individuals either. Their keeper seems to despise his own defence. We earned a comprehensive win today but it wasn't due to some one-off, worldy performance (like when we scudded QoS 0-5, for example). Our performance was similar to the one against Arbroath last week, though going up an extra gear in terms of shape/pressing off the ball. On the ball we also benefited from a further week in the same system, with Shaw transformed into peak Antoine Griezmann playing behind two central forwards. I've been banging on about this since day 1 of this season and will take my victory lap now - we do not need to play a formation with wingers. In fact, we were far more dangerous in wide areas today without our Subbuteo-style, rigid 4-3-3/4-5-1 shape. The narrow starting shape still allowed Shaw and Moffat and Delaney (and sometimes Adeloye too) to drift around and completely overload the right side of their defence in particular. Had we spotted Delaney more often as the completely free out ball, it could easily have been 0-3 at half time alone. Longridge and Moore were excellent in winning their individual battles, but were greatly helped by the superb work rate and organised pressing from the front that limited all service to White/Hale. Playing with a partner even halved Adeloye's job off the ball - he can quite effectively corral the opponent down one side of the pitch, where we were able to then win the ball back with good numbers. The key difference between the margin of today's score and last week's equally deserved win was the nick of the opposition though. Arbroath were no mugs after losing the ball and fought hard to stay organised and win it back straight away. Ross County are hilariously, catastrophically inept at doing so. As soon as a Morton player earned a second of time today, a simple pass or out ball almost always presented itself, with little serious risk of losing the ball for the next passage of play. When Ross County coughed up possession, they never looked likely to win it back straight away, and so got picked off by well-worked Morton moves. My only concern from today is that 'Uncle Roy' may consider swapping over a manager, given how inept they were. Otherwise, so long as we stick to this setup (which also suits Garrity, Blues and Crawford very well - and takes a bit less of the holding burden off an improving Wilson), then we can be a match for any team in the division, home or away.

Findlay was an obviously good defender, which makes Celtic clinging onto Stephen Welsh instead for so long all the more baffling.

Nice try, but I'm not actually interested in playing whatever bizarre parlour game you've devised here. Option B, as per the link on the email, is dark navy. A cursory zoom on my phone confirmed this, to inform my voting choice within 60 seconds of the link actually working.

If the folk you've been talking to think it was black and white, then they should probably stop injecting bleach into their eyeballs first tbh.

Try some specs.

There's more than one good reason why GMFC are not shifting many kits, and aren't in a position to demand bespoke kit deals either.