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Surely the Quitongo tribunal has been concluded and we are awaiting the decision? Anyone?
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1 hour ago, Heaton said:
Falkirk have signed more than us I think. I suppose you could argue that our players we had are playing closer to their potential now under a competent coaching team. So having higher standard of players already helps us. Wage budget will be up there based on the contracts given last season for sure.
Absolutely
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6 hours ago, Shandon Par said:
Really didn’t see us being contenders this season
Come on, biggest budget, bookies favourites and dropping a level.
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34 minutes ago, Jack Reed said:
Murray done that all the time.
I'm not averse to that but if the players don't suit the system, you need to change the system!
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19 hours ago, She who dares gins said:
There’s just so much I don’t understand about how and why we did things today - the sense of confusion is overriding being pissed at the result. Moving Justin to the left after benching Euan despite having just signed a player capable of fitting in there if needed. The decision to still go for it when everyone could see the game was probably gone at 3-0. Rhys and Dycey staying on the park when perhaps making a sub and managing the damage would have been better. Everything that could have gone wrong did and they absolutely demolished us. So fair play to them.
It looked to me like he tried to get his best 11 on the park, regardless of positions. It didn't work!
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1 hour ago, Diamond Oracle said:
I wouldn’t be disappointed with a draw next weekRhys's first blip in management yesterday and there will be a lengthy queue waiting to say "It was never going to work". He's under more pressure than most if he goes on a bad run.
So it's an away win for me.
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1 minute ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
And herein lies the problem with todays performance.
Come on, 1 defeat in 28 and we're giving up.
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Some observations from today:
Pretty sure Rhys doesn't fancy Euan Deveney.
Justin Devenny is a midfielder.
Rhys got it tactically wrong when chasing a game that was done which i'm sure he will admit shortly.
I'm already losing faith with LJ.
Ballantyne's red doesn't leave many options for next week.
Keep the faith though, one result doesn't ------------
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27 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Based on a bad game last week?
Not for me, a couple of decent games but generally not looked good enough. Young enough too improve but not ready yet.
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7 minutes ago, Spring Cup Winners said:
Starting line-up and formation totally baffled me even before the game started. Devenney at left back - why? Wylie gets a start in centre mid - why? Only proven goalscorer on the bench - why? Then, as mentioned by others, continuing to play 3 up front with 10 men just seems completely unrealistic.
So many players off it today.
Hopefully a wake up call.
Probably because Euan Deveney is not up to it although fair to say it didn't work!
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6 minutes ago, 2lgm said:
That was murder. Really naive to think you can play 3 (sometimes more) up front when you’re down to 10 men. 2 at the back in the 3nd half too. Justin Devenny isn’t a full back. Add to that too many players having a bad day at the same time. Fordyce was terrible today. Here’s hoping he learns from that. Stupid sending off too. Would’ve been better letting the goal in.
It was going by the post!
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21 minutes ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
What has the ref seen there?
Deliberate handball, definite penalty and red card. Ref spot on unfortunately, even if it was going by the post.
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So has Murray Johnson gone and it's Alex Henderson in goal today?
Rhys's match preview seemed to suggest that Josh Rae is still not ready.
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Interesting on the hot topic of player recruitment from Peterhead chairman.
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1 hour ago, Airdrie76 said:
“I think the ref said himself after it that he had to make a decision. I don’t know why he felt he had to make a decision but he did. It’s one that was wrong but we move on.”
That’s what Mackay is quoted as actually saying on it.
Hardly translates to “the ref told me he knew he made a mistake”.Spot on, people haven't obviously read the report. For what it's worth, it was a goal to me.
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6 hours ago, parsboi said:
Turning to the disallowed goal. The ref saying after that he made a mistake pretty much nails it for me. He wouldn’t be saying that if he didn’t believe it. Thems the breaks, one will go for us in the future.
Apart from the fact that he never said that.
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16 minutes ago, Rossm25 said:
Sorry its just when you say
"With the window closing its looks like ATS is the only show in town"
Its looks like your saying he's our only option cause the window is closing the window for transfers being the one your referencing I'm assuming and that has no bearing on how we conduct business. I don't want to have a go im just pointing out the transfer window , other than allowing other teams to solidify thier teams and maybe rethink who's going out on loan, it's totally irrelevant to us.
Stop being so pompous Ross, i already acknowledged your points earlier in thread.
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10 minutes ago, Rossm25 said:
I'm not saying we don't need signings just saying there's no window we need to worry about other than the loan one. The transfer window will pass and our ability and position to sign folk doesn't change.
That's not my point.
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1 minute ago, Rossm25 said:
There's posts above chatting about signing windows closing this week. Just pointing out that doesn't make any difference to our business.
I think everyone is aware of that but there are side issues to it. Injuries and suspensions are inevitable we need to crack on with signings before we get caught with our pants down.
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21 minutes ago, Rossm25 said:
Correct , some folk on here living in a parallel universe where we pay money to clubs for players. We don't, and the loan market is still open so let's dial down the daft "the windows closing were doomed" statements. It doesn't matter to us , never has.
What will hopefully happen is once everyone's (teams who actually buy players) squads have been confirmed this week , they will know who else the want to send out on loan.
Also don't want to just sign a player cause he's "experienced" Falkirk are full of experienced players and it's worked really well for them. I want good players regardless of age who will actually add something to the squad. Our bench last year had Allan, ritchie, lyons, kerr and caves none of them are turning games bar the rare Allan goal. This year we have all strikers bar one off the mark, 2 of them on the bench, wylie , mcmaster and the young laddie. Although I'm not sold on wylie yet , that's already stronger than last year. Add another left back to the squad and defensive cover and we will be rocking. We are unbeaten after the toughest start in years , and playing lovely stuff. Will this stop all the panic posting....Time will tell....
Also , anyone noticed how much better we are at attacking set pieces this year ?
Point's taken but we can't wait much longer and you've got to question why players are still out of contract players at this stage with the season well underway.
Attitude, too greedy, perhaps clubs unsure of them? Also they might have missed a good pre season therefore might not be up too speed.
Hopefully the good start we've made might sway a few.
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11 hours ago, Diamonds are Forever said:
11 points from 15 is a great start considering the fixtures, I'd say we've had the hardest 5 fixtures of any team in the league (Montrose perhaps similar but they've had 3 home games) Dunfermline, QOS, Falkirk and ourselves were the top 4 favourites going into the season and we're the only side out of the 4 to have played the other 3 so far. To come out of those games (2 of them being away) with 5 points and winning the other 2 games is excellent.
We all know about our head to heads against Cove/Partick/Raith costing us in recent years, for me the aim has to be to win the 4 game head to heads against those 3 teams this year - so at least 7 points against each. Easier said than done obviously but we've had the ideal start to do that, if we do that we wont be far away. The results so far show our first 11 is as good as anything in the league on its day, it's just a case of how our squad holds out, I'm still worried as we move into the winter we'll pick up injuries and suspensions and I don't think we'll have the depth that others have to cope.
With the signing window (loans apart) now only a few days away, it seems like Taylor-Sinclair is the only show in town and whilst i really don't know much about him, a left sided defender is top priority. Deveney has done ok'ish but it was clear to see yesterday that he's not yet ready to be a regular starter.
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I think Ballantyne v Edwards down that side will be a fascinating contest.
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1 hour ago, CallumPar said:
Don’t know why I’m bothering responding, given you’ve admitted to adding 20% to what you consider to be the ‘actual’ figure. But, you’re including players in our u18 squad as first team players? You’re getting really desperate here. To be fair, anyone using our website for information is going to get things wrong. We haven’t even got Martin Harty listed as a coach, despite him being contracted to the club since day 1 of preseason.
Since we don’t have a reserve squad this year, they’ve just put anybody on a professional contract, or that has been named in a match day squad, in the ‘first team’ section. But 6 of them (Rennie, Beagley, Young, Tod, Sutherland, Archibald) are members of the U18 squad and McPake has said he won’t throw them into league football. Another one (Miller Fenton) is out on loan, so he won’t be able to play for us.
We have 18 first team players. Including 2 who are injured fairly long term (Dorrans and Allan). We aren’t a million miles away from having a full squad in terms of numbers, but we have a lot of midfielders, a lot of strikers and not much cover anywhere else.
Thanks Calum
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4 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
Nice to try and get the excuses in early though, not that you'll need them.
Wrong track mate, i'm just wishing we had a budget like yours.
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