santheman

This is it in a nutshell. Doesn't matter what we think he's the guy who sees him every day in training and you either trust his judgement or you don't.

Hope he gets as much game time as we expect as Raiths current LB is Lewis Stevenson and he's been almost an ever present last season and this one so far although he is now 37 but still as fit as **** apparently.

One of their forums quoted just over 4000 with 1500 away fans. Sounds about right.

Same here but the penalty would have been given if it was in operation.. Hate it when it's there and miss it when it isn't especially if a decision goes against you. Que sera.

A really interesting piece on YouTube about it by a guy called Callum Blyth if you're interested.

All true. The boycott is hitting them where it hurts in the pocket. 362 at their first game v Montrose when it was 1400 at the corresponding game the previous season. My uncle a season ticket holder of over 40 years isn't going back until the charlatan who owns the club is gone. It's a bit of a mess and good to see we're helping out their young players( and tapping up their better ones hopefully)

Saints fans slaughtering him over on their forums so at least we're all agreed that he was just plain rotten. On the SOD penalty I thought at the time it was a stonewaller and still do but he did kinda do some theatrics by throwing his hands up in the air a bit when he went down which probably gave the ref the excuse he was looking for. Dont know if it is just me who thinks that? Where's VAR when you need it.

Saw his man up at Stenny in the main stand with his notebook and pen furiously scribbling down his masterplan.

Correct, Its in what was/is the memorial garden and Its the disabled fans entrance at the very end of the POD stand you use to access it but no signs up yet . I'm assuming that's something the Well Society will address as it confused a lot of people on Friday.

I notice that too in the WOSL games I take in. With the explosion in gymnasiums and personal trainers and some of the bigger teams being into sports science in a big way the level is definitely improving in the lower leagues.

I would say partly that and partly smaller teams are getting better coached and lower league managers are getting more tactically aware about how to set out their teams to frustrate the big boys.

On that I think most of our corners seemed to be outswingers which gives the defence time to judge the flight of the ball and the goalie doesn't come under the same pressure.The few inswingers seemed to be aimed at the far post for Balmer to make a late run. A few more inswingers right on top of the goalie to see what he's made of on Tuesday please.

Went exactly how I thought it would. A new manager trying to establish a completely new style of play while integrating new players up against a team who put 10 men behind the ball to frustrate . Is anyone REALLY surprised we struggled to break them down exactly as in the previous 2 games. Tell you what though I'd rather watch that style of football than what I've endured for the last 2 seasons.

The only people who really know the reason will never divulge the true story. And that's exactly the way it should be.

He wasn't the scource, I was standing next to him talking when I saw the drum incident with my own eyes as did a few others, but hey its ancient history and theres more interesting things to talk about.