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Post by rovers on May 23, 2024 19:06:34 GMT
Whats the thoughts on season?
What was the highlight and lowlight?
For me, nice to visit new grounds and see new teams but the dross of the league aka caley braves, Broomhill and the B teams outweighs the highs. Plus the loss of money from the LL.
The lower crowds is also noticeable.
Highlight for me was the EK away game and I wasn't even there.
Lowlight was all the B team games. Crap and meaningless games against good full time teams.
Can you tell there's no fitba on at the moment?
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Post by photomclean1 on May 23, 2024 21:32:17 GMT
I ALWAYS look at games from a photographer's perspective, and the 2 standout games were Armadale away in a South Challenge cup game in October and then Kilwinning in the same tournament
in November.
The 'rustic' Armadale stadium facilities were great, as was our pre match visit to the Regal Bar. They showed us great respect by switching off the flute band music when we arrived, but turned out to be a friendly lot nonetheless.
The Kilwinning Rangers game in November ended with a grim result. I was very happy with the photos from the day but the result and performance was absolutely terrible.
Despite all that, I'll be back again next season to record our promotion back to League 2.
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Post by arfcdm on May 24, 2024 7:10:39 GMT
Glad the first 2 posts have been fairly sensible.
The LL is dreadful. The standard is worse than I thought, B (childrens) teams, some of the 'grounds' are nothing more than public parks, and the vast majority of the teams have no fans beyond the players mums and dads. Added to that we were rank rotten, half hearted players and were set up to be defensively minded in a league v not very good players.
That said I actually enjoyed the away games at Bo'ness and Scottish cup game at stirling uni.
Even worse than the LL is these cup tournaments we have to play now, and we even managed to humiliate ourselves there too.
Sorry not an overly positive assessment but it is what it is.
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Post by jimbo42 on May 24, 2024 7:38:46 GMT
It was mostly embarrassing!
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Post by bucky on May 24, 2024 11:00:08 GMT
The visiting new grounds and playing different teams novelty will certainly have worn off . Defeat to Civil Service strollers with no crowd is soul destroying- no other way to describe it. That said I enjoyed my long weekend in Fife and caught our game against Newburgh- cracking ground, very welcoming people and seeing homemade tablet sold with bottles of beer is a first for me.
The standard of football is very variable. Tranent and Bo’ness impressed. There is some dross in there. Kick those b teams out and you could have the beginnings of a decent league. Unless somebody comes with a shedload of cash our only option is to build a team. Only thing is our best players will get cherrypicked. I can’t see anywhere out this unless there is league reconstruction or they start to open up L2 to give clubs a bit of light and the end of the tunnel.
It’s my 48th year supporting the club and only my second time scoring 30 goals a season. Bernie Slaven in 1985 albeit in the old 2nd Div and Niyah. Some Rovers fans are in for a rude awakening this season (no LC monies, half parachute payment). Wonder how Cowden will get on , this is their first season with no parachute payment.
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Post by eunan1882 on May 24, 2024 12:04:06 GMT
Positives: I enjoyed a lot of the new away days, Newburgh, Armadale, East Kilbride, Gretna and Uni of Stirling away in the cup, Joe getting his big move to Burnley.
Negatives: crap football, couldn’t even beat statistically one of the worst teams in Scotland in Edinburgh Uni, lost 4 times to CSS, losing 3-0 to Kilwinning Rangers was embarrassing, the style of football Sandy plays was just dreadful to watch, the hooliganism from so called “fans”
Overrall: tough season with some positives but mostly negatives, no way we’ll challenge for the league next season, sorry but after the amount of times I’ve watched us last season Sandy ain’t the right man to lead us forward but he’s here till next season so I hope he proves me and lot of fans wrong
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Post by eunan1882 on May 24, 2024 12:08:11 GMT
Positives: I enjoyed a lot of the new away days, Newburgh, Armadale, East Kilbride, Gretna and Uni of Stirling away in the cup, Joe getting his big move to Burnley. Negatives: crap football, couldn’t even beat statistically one of the worst teams in Scotland in Edinburgh Uni, lost 4 times to CSS, losing 3-0 to Kilwinning Rangers was embarrassing, the style of football Sandy plays was just dreadful to watch, the hooliganism from so called “fans” Overrall: tough season with some positives but mostly negatives, no way we’ll challenge for the league next season, sorry but after the amount of times I’ve watched us last season Sandy ain’t the right man to lead us forward but he’s here till next season so I hope he proves me and lot of fans wrong sorry lost 3 times to CSS |
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Post by Edrover on May 24, 2024 14:25:29 GMT
It's an awful league. I've got no problem with us being in 5th tier, if that's our level, so be it. My problem is the structure, it's the opposite of what every other league strives to achieve - to keep games meaningful for as many of the teams for as long as possible. About 80% of teams had nothing to play for since autumn. And of course the inclusion of B teams only disenfranchises the fans further. Remove them and introduce play off spots and suddenly it starts to look like a proper, credible league. Unfortunately, and shamefully, any proposals that I've heard about for restructure all seem to be based around what would be best for the B teams rather than the supporters of the other clubs.
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Post by tonythejambo on May 24, 2024 15:11:24 GMT
The few highlights for me came majority came in first few months of the season the performance against Kilmarnock was superb to remember we only lost 2-1 to a team that ended up finishing 4th in the premiership. Gretna and Bo’ness away were a great away day as well as beating Tranent at home in the spfl trust cup. A personal highlight off the park was seeing the bar run by the supporters trust was great to see and the prof bus express genuinely having so much interest was great to see
Oh yeah beating ek away from home on Boxing Day 😅
Lowlights
Just the poor results overall the kilwining rangers one in the south challenge cup and the civil service strollers in lowland league cup where two really poor performances . The season was done after February which meant last few months were a slog. Was a relegation hangover season but onwards and upwards
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Post by marmiteman on May 25, 2024 16:32:41 GMT
Highlight Gretna match where we almost got The Prof married to a local sheep.😎
Lowlight was seeing some fans steal from the local shop outside Linlithgow after the final whistle.
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Post by sam on May 26, 2024 0:36:53 GMT
Highlights:-
Annan in the league cup. Probably gave me a false impression that escaping the lowland league was on the cards
Newburgh, a lovely picturesque wee ground. and Armadale.. where it didn’t really matter where you were hiding your carry out, you were still getting in plus being able to watch the game whilst having a ‘swing and miss’….
Lowlights
Caley Braves…. an embarrassment… simple as. How they are involved in the pyramid structure is beyond me. There are Junior… oops sorry West of Scotland teams who have a better fan base than these charlatans but yet the SFA think they have the proper requirements to play in this league.
Civil Service strollers:- another lot you have to wonder why they’re in the league… albeit they handed our backsides on a plate more times than I care to remember
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