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No doubt Imrie will be firing in another application.

Proper leadership and accountability starts by having a chairman, a chief executive (by whatever title), not to mention a Finance Director for a professional football club and business. That's the bigger picture here - GMFC is a rudderless ship and when that is the case, farces like the turnstiles not working are only the start of the potential problems coming down the line. The football side of things should barely register by comparison to that.

I'm sure the CEO will be along shortly to crack the whip.

Warren 'Iron Man' Hawke should be brought back to Cappielow in a cage and forced chisel open the old turnstiles with his face. £100k spunked away by the Michelle Mone of football executives.

I have a bad feeling we will lose and at least one ex player will score, it seems that kind of day/week.

Murdoch was poor in the League Cup and again the other night. He's at the beginning of his career so I'm not writing him off, but these excuses about not having the right defenders to work with, or the weather conditions, are deeply patronising. I've little doubt that Murdoch considers himself capable of playing well against Stirling fucking Albion. And any poor performance on the night was only matched by the failures of more senior (and higher paid) players to score a single goal in the entire second half between them. Which is something that the hysterical outrage about team selection continues to overlook.

We didn't know anything about Murdoch's development since August, because he had not played a single minute of competitive football. And now we do. So your complaint is factually wrong. 'The cup' is doing a hilarious amount of heavy lifting here, when we are very much still in the cup. And only under exceptional circumstances should Murdoch now play in the cup against Stenny - we now know that a replacement keeper is needed before any departure of Storer (not after).

Yes it was, because: i) bottom of League 2 dross is an entirely reasonable test for a backup. As are Scottish conditions - it's not as if Parklea was consistently tranquil last season, and ii) Storer was linked just last week with a change of club/loan in the January transfer window. So we need to know whether we could play our current no.2 for a game, possibly two, at Championship level - if we are required to find the best available replacement for Storer. The alternative is that we need to act first to secure a goalkeeper - even a pretty mediocre Championship level option - as insurance in case Storer leaves. There are costs to that decision, but there are also costs to shipping goals in key games in January. Only by playing Murdoch again do we get the hard evidence to show that he's still* not ready yet and so we need to be the first mover in the transfer market for a keeper - again if there is any substance to a potential move for Storer. * i.e. Any progression on the training ground, working with the defence since the summer is not enough to rely on.

Erm we don't play another scheduked midweek gane between now and the end of the season champ, so last night was literally the only game to rotate, rather than have Moore or another key player crocked for no good reason whatsoever. That is the key reason why fringe players should have started. And had Moore or similar been injured last night, then no doubt the decision to start them in a tinpot diddy cup tie against the worst team in the SPFL would have been slated by others on here too. Your first point is - once again - ridiculous because we can not and should not be paying for 4 Championship-ready, Rolls Royce centre backs each week, just so that two can sit their holes indefinitely on the bench. There is always going to be a drop-off between starters and fringe players - what needs to be tested is how large that drop-off is. A player like Corr was signed with much fanfare by our previous manager and/or the board - we need to know if he is capable of stepping up in the real cup against Stenny if required, or if the alarming drop in form is more serious than that. Last night's performance helpfully cuts away the case for many fringe players to be retained as dependable cover, just before we can actually do something about that issue. This is the secondary reason why they should have been played. And had a more than strong enough team done anything at all in the second 45 minutes, there simply wouldn't be howls of outrage and derision at the selection. It is a response based purely on a result, which was very much in the selected team's capacity to resolve.

There is always 'money on the table', so can we never rotate and rest key players mid season? The bizarre assumption being made on here though is that we would waltz our way to the grand prize, despite not being the strongest team in the cup and having no prior record of doing so. The decision to swap out players really should not be patched based on a bit of wind and rain either. People are taking their quite rightful disgust at the outcome, and blaming the selection process. But the team selected has to take full responsibility as professional first team players - and also had a full second half to score a single goal to overcome whatever cock-ups took place in the first. And previous managers would have done the same thing in these circumstances.

Desperate times indeed when you're trying to dredge up Imrie's record in this competition as some sprt of standard bearer for success: how many final appearances and trophy wins did we have under his tenure? Imrie treated this competition with the exact same level of 'respect' as the current coaching staff. Put your toys back in your pram.

We were not playing Championship opposition. If you want to run our starters into the ground and risk having to play Corr for weeks against real opposition, to fulfil: "our only realistic chance of a trophy (Citation needed - GMFC haven't even reached the final for over 30 years)" then you are delusional and wrong. Still no explanation forthcoming as to the 'disastrous' nature of, err... not making the last 16 of the Challenge Cup though.

I don't understand your claim here. Hart is clearly down the pecking order because of what he does in training - that's the job of the coaching staff. Does this mean that backup options should never be expected to go out on the park against a team far lower than the level they were signed to compete against, and do a competent job? What other, nice plump soft balls are we waiting for in order to rotate our squad of full-time professionals around for? That applies across the team btw - not a criticism of Hart's performance. I don't see anyone in that starting XI this evening, who has been left cruelly exposed at work by being expected to beat Stirling fucking Albion.

? The keeper perhaps, but the likes of Corr and Hart were ostensibly signed as first team options. If one or either of them, as well as others in the team can't do the job against the worst team in the SPFL, then that information is worth having just before the January transfer window opens. Explain how it is a disastrous result please.

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?