ShaggerG

You'll know better than me, but is a player not deemed to be offside when trying to get to the ball, whether they touch it or not? Maybe that used to be the case and it's been changed since. Wouldn't be surprised as the rules seem to be changed every 5 minutes!

Really difficult decision for McGlynn to make next week re the defence. McGinn would probably be the best option IF he was fully fit, however I don't see him lasting a full 90 minutes. Does he therefore start with Bisland and bring McGinn on if necessary, hoping that Bisland is up to it and we don't concede too early? Or does he pull MacIver back into defence? Personally, I think I'd start with Bisland with my fingers crossed! The other decision he's got is whether he starts Long or Hogarth. If we hadn't lost Donaldson and Henderson it would have been easy to play Long to let him say goodbye with one last performance, however, with such a make-shift defence I would prefer Hogarth for some continuity in defence.

Just watched the highlights and a few things struck me: The Annan 'defending' for our first was dreadful, our third looked offside because Miller (I think) tried to head the ball while standing on the line and it's virtually impossible to tell if the 2nd penalty was legit or not. The first penalty was as blatant as you're likely to see however. Very proud of the fact though that the guys can come up with such a battling performance when all of the circumstances are taken into account. Well done Falkirk!

Good chance that we could have 4 full backs as our defence next week. Not sure that I'd want MacIver playing at the back? He'd be good in the air obviously, but he looks like his concentration can waver a bit at times for me.

Don't agree. It would be up to the ref to decide whether a player meant to injure an opponent not the player.

Given the circumstances I thought we did pretty well yesterday and I'm certain we would have won had Donaldson stayed on. Nesbitt was far and away the best man on the park and fully deserved his MOTM award IMO. If I have any criticism at all it's that, defensively, we played very narrowly following the dismissal and Kelty made very good use of the width of the pitch. Also, I felt that the best chance of us grabbing a winner was keeping the MacIver and Morrison combo on as Ross was winning a fair few headers with Morrison benefitting and looking dangerous. Having said that, Alfie did just as well when he came on, but I would definitely have kept MacIver on to partner him. I said a few months ago that we could be in trouble if we lost Donaldson and Lang, thankfully that's only going to be for 2 and 3/4 games, but it will be a big ask to have only one player in the defence playing in their true position over the final two games. We really need the forward players to turn up over these games so that any defensive mishaps may not prove too costly. To an extent I'm also with Shodwall re his take on players' punishment. I've long thought that players being booked or sent off for totally accidental incidents is unfair. The issue there though would be that refs would have to make the call as to whether an incident was meant or not and no doubt we would have players trying to make a deliberate act look innocent.

Maybe it's just me, but I felt that the sending off affected our performance yesterday.

I'd like Annan to beat Embra and Stirling to beat QOtS. Not that I've anything against Queens, just that it would make it really interesting at the bottom.

I think it likely that a centre forward that was instrumental in Morrison, Nesbitt and Miller scoring 40 odd? goals, whilst also knocking in 20-30 himself wouldn't be playing for Falkirk.

I'm not.

Exactly this. MacIver is pivotal to the way McGlynn wants to play, which is why he signed him. Just because he doesn't score loads of goals doesn't mean he isn't good at his job.

I've voted for Leon McCann's 30 yard screamer against Alloa on May 4th. Absolute belter.

You're welcome.

Alloa aren't guaranteed anything at this point.

Thanks very much, but it wasn't me that was asking originally. Isn't the Bog beautiful though!