Call to stay full-time just as important for Raith Rovers…
JIMMY NICHOLL tells a story of when he put forth to an understandably nervous board of directors his sincere belief that Raith Rovers should go full-time.
This was in the early 1990s, Nicholl was manager and could see the club, then in the old First Division, was being held back by the players only training twice a week. Raith always finished below full-time opposition and always would unless things changed.
After a lot of talking, fretting and much bean counting, a decision was made. Raith Rovers would go full-time and within a few years the club would win the 1994-95 Coca Cola Cup, gain promotion to the Premier League and, incredible, at half-time away to Bayern Munich, this tiny team from Fife would be 1-0 up.
