It was difficult to tell going into this how up for it Falkirk in particular would be bearing in mind the title race was practically over, they have an important semi final and fighting to stay above Airdrie for a more favourable playoff position I can’t see being a big motivator for the players right now.
My assumption would be they would be aiming to just not lose the game but the way they came out, they hammered us and deservedly took the 2-0 lead, still in disbelief how Falkirk ended the same half at 2-2, almost 2-3!
That match very much sums up majority of our season, we’ve rarely blown anyone away in this league, our performances haven’t been spectacular with our first half slowness well known and talked about previously but McPakes got us grinding out results, learning not to lose, only the glitch away at Montrose which we repaid the favour on recently, that’s what has been most impressive.
It will be interesting to see how we get on next season, still think we need new strikers and wingers to be more of a threat up top but defensively across the season we’ve been reasonably sound.
As for Falkirk, I don’t particularly care if they come up with us or not but if I were a fan of theres I wouldn’t be too downhearted, they can still end the season likely exceeding their expectations, they can still very much get promoted and it’s not inconceivable to see Falkirk in the final.
They do need to pick up some form though and quickly. Partly deflated after losing to us at EEP and probably now eyes focusing a little to much on the semi-final I would’ve thought.
League will be sewn up officially next week at some point and hopefully gives us an advantage when it comes to sorting the playing squad out for next season.