RicoS321

Sack Glass

Fucking hell, it's Craig Samson that's on the bench. Mental.

Jute must be really ill. Montgomery back in for no apparent reason. Very harsh on Kennedy. Otherwise, second half team from the Tims game Samson and shingler's list on the bench.

Jet was exactly the type of signing you expect from a manager who really only sees a player play against his own team. Exactly as McInnes did on numerous occasions. Exactly the type of signing that you expect a recruitment specialist with equal say in these matters a veto over. As we didn't have such an employee at the time, it's a completely acceptable error. He's not as shite as Calvin Zola, which was the equivalent McInnes signing in his first window. I'm guessing besuijen is the benchmark for how signings will be made in future, and we can judge Glass on his ability to get the best out of guys like that. Jet might give us a vital ten minutes between now and the summer, but I think that's the best we can hope for.

Were you at the game last night?

Apaloo is the tactics person. Unfortunately it seems he has to setup really badly first in order to see what the problems are. I didn't think the back three was a bad shout in fairness. A decent game in the end, we were unlucky. Think it's offside. Their second was lucky, the first was atrocious goalkeeping. Some really good freekicks, with two great balls from Ojo who did okay when he came on (McGeouch was pish). Gallagher had a solid game and looked far better than McRorie has done in there. McRorie was far more reliable at right back and needs to stay there. Ferguson had a great second half and another goal against the Tims, and Ramirez' finishing is really top drawer (especially the offside one). The balance of the team was so much better with Kennedy and besuijen on the wings, who both played well. Hayes good again too. Just the first half setup and the stupid errors that ruined it.

I second the motion that it'd be great for the forum if you didn't die, so get well soon.

Thank fuck. Found his level.

But that would imply that Glass would actually drop Ojo rather than shoehorn him into goalkeeper or striker.

Jack Ross for me too. It's not like we've ever taken a failed Hibs manager and regretted it.

Should be an easy game. Important that we put out our best side to win this one. We can easily rest a few for the easy cup game.

It's not totally wrong though, is it? We're in a transition season because Cormack didn't get his shit together earlier. He hung McInnes and, by extension, the dons out to dry with the previous January window with the final day Hornby and friends fiasco. Losing a window is a massive setback for any team, you just can't afford to do that. Having made that error, presumably because he didn't trust McInnes and Richardson, he then took over six months to rectify that by employing Mowbray. That meant the inexperienced (in both management and UK football in general) Glass being expected to both coach a side and scout and recruit at the same time. I firmly believe that Jet wouldn't have been signed had Mowbray been there for example. We lost another window. I actually agree with Cormack's strategy of coaching positions rather than the traditional manager approach, but he was unacceptably slow at implementing it. It should have begun under McInnes, starting with the director of football and then recruitment. The majority should have been in place prior to the first interview, and that is entirely Cormack's fault. I don't believe Glass is a great manager, but he's been hung out to dry by poor decisions above him.

Nine bookings for Livi. Fucking impressive. How did Anderson avoid a booking? Clancy run out of cards?

I missed the first 25 minutes, and I thought about not turning on. Wish I hadn't. We've been very poor. Switching wingers as the solution is just shite. If you want to take the ball to the corner and fire it across, then persist with it for the game, don't just change it at the first sign of difficulty. They've worked out that hacking us to break up play prevents us from playing. It's been obvious since day one that works against us. We have players that can damage on the break, but we have nothing if we're held up and are forced to take on a player or draw a team out. That comes from midfield, and our midfield has one type of player in it, repeated three times. At least the Tim is getting a run out.

Aye, and a former player in Nicky Low returning to haunt him with a great performance. To be fair to McInnes, Arbroath look a very difficult team to play against, especially at gayfield. They're very physical and like a punt, relying on the wind to do something for them. It'll be very interesting to see how Hibs fair against them. I suspect if they go an hour without scoring, Arbroath could be favourite.

Certainly was.

My only lack of understanding is why you're not watching the top of the championship clash? Some game, Arbroath beating Killie to go 4 clear. They are fucking intense like, some team.

Have to say, I love the Friday night games, it's great coverage of the championship. Hopefully Campbell gets a quick brace before losing by a goal. Don't wish him or McInnes any ill, but would love to see Arbroath win that league.

Yep, totally agree, that's why it needs forcing and support from above. It's against a manager's interests, and that was very clear under McInnes. It's just tweaking that we need to the squad setup that sort of forces the manager's hand. I expected that to happen under Glass, but so far the balance hasn't changed. All it takes is the refusal to sanction certain signings. McInnes shouldn't have been allowed to sign McGeouch for example, his hand should have been forced. Longstaff shouldn't have been allowed, and perhaps not Jenks either and Montgomery. Obviously, you wouldn't go too far, but those were guys who were brought in when we had players in the positions they fill. They take up the minutes when injuries hit and the 10-15 minutes in games where the manager has to give them a run to maintain squad harmony. It just takes the slight edge off the manager's desire for self preservation. I don't think it would have a huge effect on our league position.

That's fair enough, you're probably right about the two crimes. I probably instinctively, and incorrectly, feel that two blokes fighting and one getting hurt is somehow more acceptable, but it isn't (and often the fight is just a one sided battering by a bigger guy). The main difference between the cases would be the subsequent sentence and charge. Gallagher has faced justice as laid out by the system and - in theory - is rehabilitated to the extent required to free him. Goodwillie has never faced justice. He's too frightened to. He'll know what he's done, but if he shows contrition admitting to what he did, then he'll be charged and go to prison. Unless he's willing to do that, then he can stay in purgatory - he can't possibly be rehabilitated. That's his difficult choice, he can't have his cake and eat it. I'd feel differently if he'd done his prison time. Probably.

That's not clear from what you've written at all. It's a very strange thing to pick up on too. It's a weird angle to take on rape. It's a crime that's second only to child molestation, but you seem to be concerned about the level of outrage. I could understand if you were saying that you're encouraged that more people in society are now outraged by two guys escorting a paralytic girl from a night club, telling concerned bouncers that they were taking her to the hospital, before taking her to a friend's flat before - both - raping her and leaving her naked and alone in the empty building, but you're not. For some bizarre reason, you're charting the trajectory of outrage over time.

I'd say it's because of this we should be vocal. We were wrong. I still attended dons matches, when I should have told them to go and fuck themselves. I had read what he'd done, and read the interviews his victim had given - refusing her own anonymity. Yet in the years that followed, we all sat in a ground with other fans singing "we know she said yes" and "he shags who he wants". It was a fucking stain, and we should be embarrassed. The fact that as a club and individually (I don't speak for everyone, just me), we're hypocrites, is neither here nor there. We can still be both vocal and severely critical of Raith because we've seen first hand the reality of it and can look back on it self critically.

Surely that's a good thing? I mean, aside from the blatantly obvious fucking reasons that signing for full-time Raith might provoke more of a reaction than signing for a part-time side bottom of the spfl at the time, that a world famous writer removing their sponsorship might turn a few heads that might otherwise not have heard of Goodwillie before, if society is recognising rape in a more serious and unforgiving light is that regression or progression in your eyes? There's no fucking bandwagon here, just greater publicity for something that people are fairly disgusted by. But let's not overlook the fact that plenty were outraged when he joined Clyde, as a basic Google search would show. Plenty of Clyde fans chose not to follow the club anymore. Rape crisis Scotland (think that's what they're called) were just as outraged as they are now.

It doesn't sound like you do agree with Raith's latest statement at all.

Rape is worse than assault. Try and imagine for a second, a man putting his dick up your arse when you're too pished to defend yourself. Most blokes trying to defend goodwillie would likely, and justifiably, be close to suicide if that happened to them. It's no different for this girl. Read the transcript from the court case before commenting. It's fucking disgusting. He got off with it because of a failed justice system. It's pretty fucking easy for most right thinking people to think their way critically through these issues, you're not saying anything particularly profound here, you're not making people think. It's straight forward. You rape someone in such explicit and clearcut circumstances and you lose any right to a career with a public profile, whether your Goodwillie or Spacey. He can quietly fuck off and be a car mechanic if a garage will have him. Somewhere the girl doesn't have to see his name mentioned in the press every time he does something.