The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Raith Rovers boss planning summer shake-up after branding team ‘just not good enough’
An angry John McGlynn has branded Raith Rovers simply “not good enough” after yet another setback in their promotion bid.
And the Stark’s Park boss insists he does not have “the tools” to fix the problems that have resulted in them slipping to third in the League One table and a massive 15 points adrift of leaders Arbroath.
The Stark’s Park outfit went into the season as favourites for the title but, with McGlynn replacing Barry Smith in the dugout in late September, have dropped too many points to trouble runaway championselect the Lichties.
Saturday’s 2-1 defeat away to Forfar appeared to be the final straw for McGlynn, who insisted he has not given up hope of playoff success but could not hide his frustration at his team’s failings.
He said: “We’re not good enough, let’s face it. This is not new, it’s happening all the time.
“If we were good enough, it wouldn’t happen. We’re actually not good enough and we just have to face up to that.
“We’ve got a characteristic or something that’s missing. We don’t have a magic wand, we might not get that this season.
“We can do it on certain days, we can do it, yes, but overall there’s something missing, and unfortunately we all have to live with that.
“Unfortunately, this is where we are at the moment. We are not good enough. It’s simple. It’s going to take a summer of recruitment and getting organised.”
In a frank interview with Raith TV, he added: “We have seven games to go and we’ve still got an opportunity to go up, there’s no doubt about that, and we’ll do our absolute utmost, as we do every single week.
“But if we could have fixed it, it would have been fixed.
“We go in and we talk about it and we go over the same things all the time – how cheap the goals are we lose, how often we have opportunities to score that we don’t take and how we end up feeling horrible at five o’clock on a Saturday.
“The repetition of what’s going wrong is simple, we just don’t have the tools to do it.”