60`s bairn
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1 hour ago, PedroMoutinho said:
As I have said, the club should be making sure there are as many options as possible for people to contribute to the club. FSS should be one part of that.
I’m also not sure how the closure of the academy prevents us selling players. Vaulks, Taylor, Wallace and Flynn have all been sold without coming through our academy.
Will be controversial but another thing I would do to stop the gap becoming any bigger is to cap academy spending at current levels until we are established in the premier league.
There is a danger imo (which the board have done well to avert to far) that you have coaches and fans understandably wanting more investment and you end up as an academy with a football club attached again.
The current approach also frees up resources to take gambles like Yeats, Lawal and Adams.
Ryan Flynn was sold to Liverpool from our Academy in 2005. Murray Wallace was brought in from Rangers Academy to ours and spent a year or so in our Academy before getting into the first team.
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4 hours ago, MrDust said:
I met him in behind the wall after one of his hat-tricks with him sporting a black eye with me being such a fan boy
I`m sure that was the Dundee U game he got his black eye.
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Don`t really have a hatred for any clubs (outside the old firm).
Although I`ll maybe make an exception for St Mirren, whose chairman threatened to go to court to stop us getting promoted to the Premier League if we won the vote to groundshare with Airdrie for a season. I`ll pin that one on their board rather than the fans though.
I believe Dunfermline, Aberdeen and possibly the two Dundee teams voted for us?
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43 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
They've been doing that since (I think) 2014. Albeit they didn't get into the ward in 2020, 2021 and 2022, probably because of covid.
Massive shout out to the nurses and the NHS in general. I met the ward sister on our first visit and it was great to see her again on Monday, nine years later. No matter who the players or management are they're always very good with the kids, as anyone who's attended the junior bairns training days will know. But the real heroes are the nurses. They do an amazing job.
Visited Stirling while Forth Valley was being built. This is 2010.
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37 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
Just spotted this.
My missus and I are in this photo, all blurry. It was a great goal from the angle we were sitting at, we could see the curve of the ball. Some strike!
This one any better???
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10 hours ago, FK1Bairn said:Just watched the highlights on Falkirk TV. Obviously Coll's goal is a belter of a hit, check out Ross's reaction at the edge of the box as the ball hits the net!
"Gobsmacked" springs to mind.
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10 minutes ago, #GSC said: so you know nothing then
Did he not leave yous for hibs ?
There was a Jordan McGregor in the u17s a few years back, the same team as Ryan Blair & Scott Shepherd.
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45 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
He was.
Luke was a prolific goalscorer and a decent player for our youth teams. At the time he became too old for the U18s there was nothing in place at FFC for him to progress further like we have now. I remember his dad having a real go at the club and the setup on one of the FB pages at the time. He subsequently signed for Alloa. No idea whether he's still there and out on loan, or has been released.
I think I remember asking you about him as that story`s familiar.
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"Honeyman with a goal and assist for the Shire at the weekend"
I might be wrong but I think the guy he assisted (Luke Rankin?)was in the U18 team with him a couple of seasons back..
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2 hours ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
No, I'm pretty sure he went to Tannadice a few days later. Haven't checked the dates though so I might be wrong.
That`s my recollection too. However, it may be that the Arbroath game in January that we won 4-1 was his last & that`s where the mix up is?
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20 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Nesbitt's goal is a reincarnation of Latapy v Gretna at Fir Park.
That was a belter!!
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9 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
Was that a 3-2 game?
2-2, Nathan Austin & Muirhead with a penalty. The pic is Bairdy winding up the keeper after Austin scored.
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18 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:
for some reason, f**k knows why he turned into an aggressive wee arsehole everytime he played against us.
Was that not after he signed with Dunfermline, I don`t think we ever played Partick or Killie when he was there? I know he got pelters from the Falkirk support when he appeared with them.
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18 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
I think they were there at the same time aye. Baird didn't feature much for us though as he fell down the pecking order and spat the dummy. He spent more time being a seething mess in games against us than an actual effective player which was always amusing. I do miss him.
Yes, we signed him and Mark Kerr from you in the January window 2015. They were both very effective for us. (Kerr for the second time as he came up through the youth system in the Brockville days)
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30 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Wee Baird? Indeed.
Would I be right in thinking they played together with QOS ??
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1 hour ago, Disco Duck said:
It was. He was an arse.
He had a habit of winding the opposition up which often backfired.
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5 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:...apart from the fact that it looks like it was taken at a school's 3G pitch.
Your ground still needs a 4th side.
He looked just as happy from the other side!!
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3 hours ago, Shodwall cat said:
It looked like he tripped him from where we were sat more than outmuscled him. Will be interesting to see the highlights
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3 hours ago, Kircer bairn said:
Understand the under 18s lost 3 nil last week to Alloa
They did. I blew the cobwebs off my camera gear and headed down for that game last week.
At least the sun was shining!!
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38 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Was that the same day Liam Craig was an unused sub, but still got sent off?
Was that not why the wee soul came down, tears streaming down his face, to say LC had said a bad word?
I couldn`t remember what kicked it off but you could be spot on!! Wee Russell having to calm the situation.
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56 minutes ago, Gaz said:
I was at Celtic Park that night
In here somewhere??
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1 hour ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Brilliant video! Clash Janie Jones with it made my night. I am away to put some Clash on. Saw them numerous times Brilliant.
Enjoyable & memorable night for fans & players alike.
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1 hour ago, Hughsie said:
Looks like there’s more than 82 there.
Better have a recount.
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9 hours ago, 60`s bairn said:
82 v Raith.
Another pic from the Raith game in April 82 shows the sparse attendance in the enclosure. The pic shows Wilson Hoggan scoring a penalty in the last 5 mins of the game to give Falkirk a 3-2 win. I think attendances were still suffering from the 3 seasons in the bottom league.
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You were quoting them along with Vaulks and Taylor as players we had just picked up and then sold on without them being in the Academy, I was trying to point out for the sake of clarity that they had been in our Academy and subsequently moved to Liverpool and Huddersfield respectively.