Raith v Saints Preview

Last updated : 05 March 2004 By Stuart Gillespie
Raith fans can complain all they want but the fact is that the majoirty of their foreign imports dive, and therefore cheat. Quite simple. It was their diving which cost them a point at Love Street last year. Some foreign bloke went down "injured", the referee decided he wasn't, we didn't give the ball back and eventually scored.

Of course, tomorrow's game will have some added spice, thanks to the fact that former Saint, and permanent moaner, Andy Dow will be in the Raith lineup. Hooray! That's them starting with ten men. Dow did nothing aat Love Street except moan about how terrible it was that he'd been sacked by Motherwell. He left for Arbroath and scored against us for them. Oops. However, like Scott MacKenze before him, Dow's best performance at Love Street came with his new team, as a week later he missed a last minute penalty and Arbroath went down. This season his ego resurfaced once more when he refused to be a sub for an Arbroath game, obviously thinking he was better. He quit, claiming he was giving up football. Arbroath would have sacked him (don't they remember he was sacked?), and then he ended up at Raith! Odd times indeed.

Saints go into tomorrow's game mising Barry Lavety, Eddie Annand, Kevin Twaddle, Laurie Ellis and David Jack for one reason or another. The only (haha) other problem iswith Kirk Broadfoot, the defender currently struggling with an injury. Hopefully we'll see Craig Hinchcliffe back between the sticks tomorrow.

The game is important as Raith are in the drop zone and we are only a few points better off ourselves. Hopefully we'll win.

There will, amazingly, be a match report of this game barring any problems (like me getting lost on the way to Stark's Park) and it will probably be up on Sunday.