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16 hours ago, Van_damage said:
I have no idea to be honest. Just going by what McGlynn said regarding the budget being gone and not being able to bring in any more players. I therefore just presumed that any loan player would therefore be at us to gain experience and not require a contribution from us. Did we pay much for the loan players last season?
Didn't McGlynn say the budget was gone in regard to who he was after for a right back in that the player(s) wanted x and we didn't have that and didn't want to go after players that would cost less.
I'd guess Tumilty may have been on his radar, don't think his game has changed much since he was with us, decent going forward but a liability at times in defence, the reason he was subbed in the play offs.
I don't think Yeats long term future career will be at right back tbh, the link between him and Leahy is just hopeful thinking.
3 hours ago, Duncan Freemason said:Well my experience is very different from yours, that’s for sure. For example, we were paying 10% of Stokes salary, and in money terms, we will be offering up less than that now……significantly less.
I was told Stokes was our highest paid player that season albeit on loan.
I'd guess McManus would have been our highest paid player also.
The loan market not really different from signing players in that the good ones cost big money.
You will get inexperienced loans on the cheap but they are very much lucky dip and like your own inexperienced players, they sometimes need drip fed into the team.
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4 hours ago, Duncan Freemason said:
Carroll is the one who looks to have that wee bit of stardust about him. Not enough time to show it tonight, but that boy could be a seriously good player in the next season or three. I would bet he is already appearing on the radar of big clubs.
Please don't use stardust....
3 hours ago, Bainsfordbairn said:That would be for the manager to answer. I presume he'll go into detail about the squad when he does his first FFCTV interview. Not sure when that will be, though I'd guess once the League Cup games are starting. Or maybe immediately after the Arbroath games as it's at home and not closed-door.
The problem position has been right back even McGlynn seen that in getting Rowe in. I find it strange we get 5/6 in and no right back tbh, unless it's a loan I'll be surprised if we sign a right back now.
Can we win the league with Yeats and McKay at right back....the answer is yes but it all depends on how we set up going forward.
We won the league above with Hagi at right back when his right foot was for standing on. The problem tho is both could be targeted for in attack, both have separate attributes there
25 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:It’s another reason for getting the hell out of this league. As a L1 side, young promising player X will get you £100k on a good day. In the Championship, X might get you £350k. In the top flight, £1mm is possible.
I agree. The days of £30k and a crocked replacement need to be well behind us.
The last league one player for 100k ?
I'm guessing that lanky striker to sign for Morton.
The English are now wise of the Scottish market....took their time but you really have to be doing it in the top league to get those kind of fees mentioned.
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26 minutes ago, latapythelegend said:
They had a style and played to their strengths. We spent the final third of the season tinkering trying to find our strength. Could argue that McGlynn still doesn't know.
McGlynn's plan b was the diamond but playing four central midfielders in that diamond at times handed the opposition a chance to get at us or the upper hand.
Morrison up top for me doesn't work too, he is a wide player who gets a few goals, not a striker
12 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:McColl's Falkirk team took the pitch with a mindset of. 'This is out team we are going to have a go at you try and stop us if you think you're good enough' It was psychological and it showed in both sets of players and fans.
Falkirk have taken the pragmatic approach season after season and got nowhere.
Time for a change and a more attacking style of play.
Very much what McCall's thistle did at the turn of the year to win this league.
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7 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
I actually think he will use McGinn a lot less this season - save his legs a bit
Drop him back to a Scott McKenzie role in a back three, Henderson and Spencer middle of the park, Lawal Attacking mid, Morrison Right and McCann Miller left and two strikers...
Lets attack the league, best form of defence is attack
McCall would do something like the above, being far too cagey fuked us last season
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4 hours ago, FFC 1876 said:
Agyeman should be used out wide and we've got Honeyman & Rhys Walker as options out wide. Lawal also done quite well when he was moved out to wide left in the CSS game.
If Oliver's playing(hopefully sparingly) it should only be as the 8 or the 10 in midfield, he's wasted upfront as he spends all his time dropping in or pulling out wide.
I'm guessing we went on our best run of form/results with Oliver up top on his own.
Our worst form was when McGlynn started his tombola of the starting 11 and a bonus ball for a formation.
Injuries played a part mainly Morrison and Kennedy but there was a few strange selections last season.
Expecting two untried youngsters to step up is asking a lot to fill wide positions,personally think Lawall is a centre mid, he may do a job if we are on top out there but not when we are not for me.
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6 hours ago, Ian Mcleod said:
I will come back to this comment when we score at least 10 goals alone between the 4 games against Falkirk
Perhaps BPM was highlighting the now jokey league phase of the league cup that we won't concede 10 goals
That's how I read it
A lot of the season ahead for me is dependent on how McGlynn sets us up, we go the one up top route we can only hope McIver or Agyeman is better than what we have. I am not a hater of Oliver but as it stands minus the two mentioned, he is the only one capable of doing the lone striker role, Allan on appearances last season and comments from previous club fans isn't the answer.
I think we also have a midfield squad of mainly centre mids, nesbitt and Lawal ain't wide players, Oliver can revert there, Henderson also, Spencer, Mcginn and Yeats, that for me is 6 players competing for 2 places if you take out Oliver as a genuine CM jersey filler.
Morrison or Miller gets injured, does that leave Agyeman and Nesbitt as cover ?
Time will tell how we set up, I think we need to be more pro active in formations and not too fukn rigid ala Sheerin but not too all over the place ala Rennie with 5 formations in one game, you can tell previous seasons has broke me.
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23 hours ago, HoBNob said:
They both did, Jeffries relegated us twice although he was absolved of all blame.
Hughes was far more influential in a Dunfermline relegation.
Huge difference relegation from top league to 2nd tier than 2nd tier to third. We are/were a yo-yo club. I'm sure one of the relegation season under Jeffries we were 3rd or 4th top goalscorers too.
Jeffries very much gets my vote.
7 hours ago, Enigma said:Not when he’s in the stand injured…
Debatable tbh
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I personally don't think you can have McCall in there, job perhaps was 3/4 done when he left but you have to see a manager work under pressure in difficult times to see what he is made of.
The fickle world of the football supporter made me chuckle when McCall left....yep life changing money for him made Falkirk supporters forgive him easily, whereas Jeffries left for his boyhood team and it was obviously a difficult decision with or without the faked Fulston heart attack. I'm sure some Falkirk fans still haven't forgiven him. He also had the metal to turn up to collect manager of the millennium not long after leaving too.
It's simply Jeffries or Hughes for me, the latter tho took the players away from the supporters with a massive divide in the final season putting Jeffries ahead on points and he also relegated Dunfermline
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On 23/06/2023 at 09:21, scottsdad said:
Here's a question for a quiet Friday. Who is the worst manager we've ever had and why?
Biggest dick not in the Eddie May manner would've been easier.
Presley, Hartley and Lambie probably topping that list but I hated Gerry Collins more than Lambie for sticking around after Lambie resigned, so many stories of him being a total dick around that time.
A new list of out their depth managers starting with Eddie May, Ray McKinnon, Martin Rennie and Paul Sheerin
On 23/06/2023 at 10:22, Bairnardo said:I remember Lambie but not the details really....
I will go for Paul Sheerin. Hartley was a c**t, but his first season was good.
What Sheerin served up was the most spineless football i've ever sat through.
I'd personally have Rennie above Sheerin. We had more than one good performance under Sheerin. The wheels coming off and he had no clue what to do kinda shown him up and why he will never be a manager again.
Rennie on the other hand brought in 6/7 players and brought in Griffith's a wage that that could've gave us us 4 players and his signings weren't much better. Kenny Miller done better rallying the players than Rennie too.
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12 hours ago, Van_damage said:
Would’ve been a happy man if that was the away top. Looking forward to seeing what we do realise though. Love the ability for bespoke design with O’Neills
Really ?
I shat myself with the post reveal that it was our 2nd strip, only George Fulston would sign that off as first team outfield strip.
White away top please
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I got an away bench and terracing post from Brockville at the auction, I have never done anything with either as of yet
Plenty of other memorabilia signed balls tops etc
I bet someone will have part of their garden done with the artificial pitch that has just been lifted
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12 hours ago, ShaggerG said:
Ken Mackie was another one.
Afore my time
8 hours ago, HoBNob said:Reuben Sammut, I remember when Falkirk signed him and being sucked in as an opposition fan that he'd be a fantastic signing, his CV looked nuts. He gave me the fear that Falkirk were going to be a very good side that season.
He was infact, quite shite.
There was a goalkeeper that Falkirk had during that time who is talked about as a disaster, but I'm sure he had a stormer against Dunfermline.
I don't think Sammut was the worst of that batch but many thinking being captain in an EPL u21 team did mean he is the next Stevie Gerrard to some . He would be playing with many Johnny foreigner in that Chelsea team that he may have even got that captain role due to speaking English.
Sammut could've been a squad player for us that season pretty much was, not the superstar that a few thought. If Sammut was all that, he wouldn't be at a 2nd tier Scottish side, like many of the Chelsea youngsters at that time, he'd be English championship or league one in England not with us
Fasan had a stormer against QoS....he made a 3-0 out of what could easily been 10-0, even still if memory is right he should've done better at 1or2 of the goals he did concede that day. He did have a worldy save in him but would roll the ball in the net after that
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Stevie Logan destroyed us nearly every game against us for Meadowbank.
25k or 30k transfer to us and he never reached close to any of the performances against us.
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16 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
With respect it won’t really be targeted at our demographic. I would be surprised if the club didn’t take on board advice from the manufacturers and their retail partner as to what sort of thing will sell best.
I generally haven't bought many tops years gone by but the steeple one I bought home and away because I loved it, so obviously there is a window for me to be included within.
I play football twice a week now, so as said if I like the white one I will purchase.
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I'm not so keen on the new top, too much red for my liking and I prefer simply navy blue and white.
I reckon if the the away one is white, I'll prefer the away top and may purchase that one.
The last tops I really liked was the ones with the steeple in the middle.
A winning team on the park is all that matters to me no matter what they wear
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It's goals my concern as it stands especially if McGlynn sticks with one up top.
The midfield seems top heavy in CM, McGinn and Spencer too similar, the options of goals from our CM options isn't great and forcing a diamond at times last season was very much trying to put square pegs in round holes.
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21 hours ago, ShaggerG said:
I think Nevin kept Crunchie out of the Chelsea team as well?
Nevin got most his caps whilst playing for Tranmere.
Nevin himself reckons he played his best football there and tbh he went up in my estimation of his game too at that period.
Arfield another should've been capped for Scotland
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I'd like to think signing players on a 3yr contract would have our board interest to say yeah or no.....other than that I'd guess most clubs let managers do their job on a basis they will be there for minimum of two or more year before a ball is kicked. A 2yr contract for the majority of our contracts to new players will be minimum at our level and status. The players we have signed on one year deals probably had either PT contracts or one year full time options elsewhere on less money.
I am very concerned about us next season, if we don't go up or get that cup run we are in the shit.
We will be very much in Airdrie territory if we don't go up next season, hybrid and hoping we get management and recruitment within that model to go up.
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16 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said:
May I ask an innocent question? Are you for keeping McGlynn or would you rather see him gone?
The reason that I am asking is that it is all about perspective and from my "McGlynn out" perspective, I thought that McGlynn still had a lot of support here on P&B. @PedroMoutinho, @caractacus potts, myself and recently @Duncan Freemason have all been keen to see McGlynn being replaced but others such as @Back Post Misses, @grumpyoldman, @Reggie Perrin and @Shodwall cat all seemed to be in favour of keeping him on.
On that subject, if we were to hold a straw poll on P&B right now(Falkirk fans only please), who would vote to keep McGlynn and who would vote to trebuchet him?
Both Airdrie play off games and the league last quarter was not pretty viewing.
A manager who I've never seen looking like he has in that last quarter previously, flapping looking like the pressure has got to him.
He is going nowhere, little point of asking the question but a poor cup display in the Mickey Mickey mouse of cups will see him under pressure.
The league cup ain't a priority but the knives that are sharpened will be close to perfection if we are pish and a poor league start will see them at full power and he will be gone this year if he can't deliver early on.
He needs to at an absolute minimum start the league campaign well, see the fifers last season. The tail end mess is very much splitting fans and it won't be split if it goes Pete Tong.
15 hours ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:I am - you are spot on. Imvho, I don’t think Sheerin was a particularly young manager when we employed him at 46.
Inexperienced perhaps and those interviews will haunt me for a long time, albeit Rennie was worse
1 hour ago, GeordieBairn said:Wonder if Regan Hendry would drop to this level. Probably has no end of offers from the 2 divisions above.
He was at Tranmere last season on loan in league 2 and looked a shadow of the player he was at league 1 in Scotland. He is back in league 2 now with Forest Green. The loan was pre big Dunc coming in tho.
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22 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
All this "waahhh everyone is laughing at us" pish is embarrassing and just wrong.
In your clearly in depth study of world football, what's your take on the Argentinian top flight? Where only the clubs with the lowest 3 year average get relegated? Now THAT'S done for a reason.
How about the MLS, with, err, zero promotion places available?
Would you see anyone copy the Argentine format, I think not. I personally think change is a good thing in the leagues, especially when you play each other 4 times a season.
Are you classing the MLS as a real proper football league ?
It's a league where players over 30 go to retire from the game and they call it soccer too
22 hours ago, BullyWeeStonehouse said:A league in Australia has no relegation, either and only 12 teams in the league.
See MLS above regarding Oz soccer
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3 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
For a spell until recently, 1 up, 1 down is all it could possibly be in the top flight. What exists now is better than that.
I'm torn. I don't think there was much wrong with the old 2 up: 2 down. Mid-table getting a shot at promotion does seem a bit daft, but there's no doubt that it extends the season.
What would you advocate?
For me it requires bigger leagues for play offs to work, see England bar the non league promotion which matches Scotland. I'd be hell of a scunnered being a Notts county fan getting a 100+ PTS and no promotion.
The play offs equal excitement but I preferred when you got 4 new teams every season, we played Alloa 6 times last season, could've possibly been 8.
Six is enough to bore but we will have 4 again next season, cups play offs again may see us reach those heady heights again or more. It's a borefest and that is Scottish football
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3 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
It probably does feel that way if you support a comically underachieving club.
After last season I said from day one play offs minimum, should be the absolute minimum for a full time team in league one don't you think ?
The possibility of one up one down does make Scottish football a joke though as far as I'm concerned. I don't think you'll find a league in the world where this can happen and it's for a reason.
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One up one down possibility is just one of the reasons Scottish football is a joke
My thoughts were the same when we finished out the play offs last season
Hopefully Airdrie and Annan swap places but the system of promotion and relegation is a joke
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Still we have Nesbitt on a 2yr contract
Every cloud....not sure of the lining
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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No right back and an abundance of centre midfielders, not sure that's settled. I'm sure Houston didn't have a right back for one season tho really all his time minus Duffie. I still sweat thinking of Gasoparoto playing there
The pars forwards weren't exactly huge goalscorer pedigree last season, effective but I don't think any of them scored a massive lot in one season.
I said way back our season will hinge on Agyeman, Lawall and Allan turning up and maybe MacIver, I fully expect Morrison will and Oliver will chip in. The lack of natural right back won't hurt much in league one but the lack of scoring goals will if the above don't deliver.