Raith Rovers blunder again on David Goodwillie but media snub won't make this story go away

Raith Rovers had an opportunity on Saturday to win back a little bit of goodwill out of the David Goodwillie scandal.

It wouldn’t have been pleasant but manager John McGlynn and preferably also a senior board member should have spoken either before or after this match.

That would have been the least everyone deserved, the Raith supporters, football in general and, of course, the woman who was raped by Goodwillie and another man, someone who many seem to have forgotten about.

But nothing. Not even a badly written press release.

Those of us covering the match at the weekend – and the football came a distant second - were told, by a fan who does work on Raith TV, that nobody from the club would be speaking.

We were later asked to leave, as if the media were the bad guys, and watch out for that line to be peddled soon enough.

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It’s understood the decision to have nobody speak came from the top. Shame on them and how stupid of them because this story isn’t going to go away. McGlynn will have to talk at some stage, or maybe that will be it for the rest of this season at least.

It was a bad decision in a week of bad decisions.

It is time we heard from those at the club. An emailed press release is not enough.