Laid-back Accie

Was given a 3 year deal during the week apparently...

Pleasing to get in half time a goal up. Had no idea an Alloa player had got sent off during the 2nd goal. It's not over, off the ball we are really suspect, no press and always give them time and space.

May as well, Rankin probably won't play him anyway.

For the 2nd leg, can the players just stay out at half time and have a walk around the pitch, keep them as far away from Rankin as possible.

Have a really horrible feeling about these games. Managing duo that have achieved nothing of note, and widely regarded amongst the support as not good enough, sign a 3 year deal right before going into their most important games of their tenure. Can see where this story is going, can only hope there's a twist. We lost before our away legs in the play-offs last year 1-0, and while we showed that can be overcome, why not do ourselves a favour and go for the advantage early, and take it into the home game.

Ruined my day

Performance today summed up Rankin as a whole, completely gutless and incompetent. Don't care where we are next season, if he's in charge I'll seriously consider not renewing my season ticket.

Well shows where my faith in Rankin was at the start of the season and despite being 2 places higher, I still think we've underachieved. We've been limping to the finish line since the start of the year and if QotS or Cove had their act much more together, I think my prediction would have been more accurate.

More of the same, a good result but not a great performance. Will more than take this trend if it continues into the play-offs, but I can't see us troubling the championship side with these performances. Falkirk fans, the ones on here anyway, have shown many times that they are an obsessive bunch.

Like most Accies fans I believe the league is pretty much finished, won't catch Falkirk and barring a real collapse, surely too far ahead to be caught for 2nd. Having said that, that's no excuse for us to give up here and lay down, a win may not do much for us league wise, but might bring about a bit of optimism for the play-offs. Would also give them their first league loss, and if you're not going to win it, at least make sure to get a few good hits in.

Like others have said its been a pretty nothing window. The signings made definitely haven't improved us significantly if at all. One of the main problems is still here, which of course is the coaching. I'd really like to know how much of a say Rankin had in the players coming in, because if its more than I believe it be, then he's a worse head coach than I thought. The bottom line is, where we are right now is where we'll finish, so it's all about preparing for the play-offs from here till the end of the season, that's the realistic situation imo anyway. So for Rankin it surely has to be the case of if we aren't promoted, he's out the door, as with the amount of backing he's had, it will be a big failure to not go up. The other main problem is of course Mr Strain, who tbh is getting worse with every update. I'm now in a place where I dread looking out for the clubs notifications due to the utter cringeworthy drivel he spouts throughout. Like with Rankin he needs to go, we surely can't carry on like this.

Always had a bit of a soft spot for Queens, so I offer my condolences.

Very disappointed and surprised this was called off, weather was certainly fine at the time and last night. Can only imagine it would be that part of the pitch the binos fan mentioned, that doesn't get any sunlight. Never been one to buy into clubs pulling "tactical call offs" definitely comes across as a bit of laziness by Stirling though. Would also like to hear a better explanation to why the covers being put down would have made the situation worse.

Weather seems no too bad here, so if it stays at around 4-7 degrees like the forecast says, I'd be disappointed if tomorrows game was called off barring heavy rain. The whole social media aspect is a shambles atm, something that needs to be looked at as a priority during the summer, this can't go on. The Tait statement is the same passive aggressive nonsense that was found in the Williamson signing statement, definitely no place for it coming from a supposed professional account. I know you can't just say Loan terminated early either as fans will want to know why, but there's far better ways of going about it. But aye no really a big miss, showed some quality here and there early in the season, but that has long since tailed off and we are better without him in the team.

Well it's certainly been set up for tomorrow, with the people at our club managing to piss off the Falkirk support, so might be a slightly more hostile atmosphere than there normally would have been. As for the game itself, don't agree with a lot of what i'm reading. I think this game could be even more cagey than the first. Rankin will certainly set us out not to lose, convinced of this after the last game of last season, where we really needed to win but he was happy to settle for a draw. Don't know about Falkirk, but being away surely they might start out more reserved than they would at home.