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Anybody heard any other names? Aaron Taylor Sinclair and David Goodwillie anyone want to raise the pot?

If he's watched any of our games this season then he'd have been aware that Hall & Mckay were absolutely dung so the fact we've been starting the two of them in a back three points to the fact that's the formation he wants to play. I stated on here when he was appointed according to transfermarket his preferred formation is a 3-4-1-2 so that further backs up the case that's how he wants to play.

Rennie's most likely going to persist with the 3-4-1-2 so in January our signings are obviously going to have to compliment that. We all know the spine of the team is the priority. So we need a right sided centre back, a dominant centre midfielder and two strikers if he's sending Ruth back to Aberdeen. Interesting that Rennie cited injuries as the only reason for 11 of our players being missing on Saturday.

Yet* but there's clearly potential there. Strong in the air, relatively quick and physically ready.

I don't even remember ATS playing at centre back ever in his time against us so it would seem a bizarre signing.

The Goodwillie chat has been ongoing for years in our fan base so it's not surprising we're suposedly after him. Declan Gallagher played with Scotland having caved somebodies head in with a baseball bat. Marcos Alonso plays at the highest level even though he killed someone whilst drink driving in Spain. Numerous different examples of it in football which obviously doesn't make it right.

On the one hand Rennie can't do much until there's players brought in but f**k me that was horrific. When you don't have the players to play the formation you want don't play it. I'd rather have Jean pick one of the 500 fans out of her tombola to start the game than see Brad Mckay on the pitch for us ever again.

Worst boxing day ever. Fucking Brad Mckay.

Kieran Offord starting for St Mirren tonight due to their covid crisis. Wasn't he part of our Forth Valley Academy?

Don't fancy Mcguffie as the left wing back but hopefully that's just because Mccann is out either injured or with covid. Was there any trialists playing?

Never mind Covid, Jaime Wilson's just remained on the bench for the full game tonight for Elgin. There's levels to this eyes on scouting!

Could have Covid or be out injured. Or he may have returned to Huddersfield with Grainger leaving us.

Can't make out what formation that team selection is. Could Morrison be playing up top with Keena? Martin Mckay Hall Dixon Williamson Miller Telfer Mcguffie Nesbitt Morrison Keena

Quite enjoyed the "= connoisseur of crayons" though.

BPM said Dixon needs surgery on his wrist so no idea how long he'll be out for, on that basis the 3 at the back gives me the fear as at least two of Miller/Mckay/Hall would be playing. Was Hetherington suspended against Cove or just left out completely? Rennie's only got two days to have a look at them in person so it'll be very interesting to see the team and formation he goes with. Martin Williamson Hall Lemon Mccann Krasniqi Morrison Weekes Telfer Keena Ruth

Actually took me until now to find out you had employed Stevie Crawford as manager. Really nice bloke, had the pleasure of meeting him when he was the Falkirk assistant manager under Pressley so I hope he does well(after Saturday of course) Should hopefully be our first viewing of how Rennie wants us to play, covid test dependant. He'll only have a couple of training sessions before Saturday so I'm not expecting miracles but hopefully he can get more out of our squad than Sheerin did.

On a positive note it's good to hear them talking about improving the spine of the team as it's badly needed. A right sided centre back to play in beside Dixon when he's back fit, two centre midfielders and a striker to play up top with Keena/Ruth or Dowds when he's back. The feedback I'd heard from the meeting was that Rennie already has targets in mind which will hopefully mean Holt has bugger all to do with the selection process.

Listed the new signings from the summer below and who was most likely responsible. Paddy Martin? Luke Holt - Holt Ryan Williamson - Holt* Brad Mckay - Holt* Mackenzie Lemon - Academy Leon Mccann - Holt/Sheerin Cammy Williamson - Academy Steven Hetherington - Holt* Seb Ross - Sheerin Aidan Nesbitt - Holt* Ben Weekes - Academy Ernaldo Krasniqi - Grainger Craig Mcguffie - Holt* Declan Mcdaid? Sammy Ompreon - Sheerin/Grainger Jaime Wilson - Sheerin Michael Ruth - Sheerin *Players Holt signed on pre contracts before Sheerin was in the building. Looking at the list I don't think you can possibly say Holt's recruitment was good before Sheerin started picking donkey's as Holt signed Mcguffie, Hetherington and Brad Mckay before Sheerin was in the door. Not to mention he resigned Ben Hall. No question that Sheerin is also culpable as he had the final say on a lot of the rest of the players but essentially Holt's remit was to put forward the players to Sheerin so the blame lies fully at his door. Absolutely incredible that he's seemingly managed to side step the blame for recruitment considering he was employed in the main to improve our terrible recruitment process.

Going by what has already been said on here he arrived in the country today and as long as his PCR is negative then he'll start on Thursday, therefore I'd imagine he'll be in charge on Saturday.

What an absolute walloper you are btw. They've only been in the door a week. Given Rennie's supposed to be a life long Falkirk fan he's probably very well aware of the team and the leagues in Scotland despite having never managed in them. If you genuinely believe we only train twice a week then you need your head checked. We've plucked a guy who's got a 53% win ratio in over 300+ games which is quite fine by me. He's got 6 months to show what he can do and if he's not up to it then we part ways in June and look elsewhere. Moaning about who we've got as a manager whilst also moaning about him only getting a 6 month deal is a funny turn of events.

We told you Durnan & Sammon were pish so don't come on here trying to blame us for your shambles as well. We have enough of a mess on our hands thanks to Stevie Shithawk Hetherington.

Holt was never right for the role of recruiting players you need an ex scout in that position with years of knowledge or get lucky and have a Ross Wilson right on your doorstep. A competent manager at this level should be able to recruit better than what Holt has produced so now it's up to Rennie to show what he's worth. Imagine moaning about the man who oversaw the signings of Brad Mckay, Jaime Wilson & the resigning of Ben Hall leaving.

How many loans can we have at the one time this season? Is it still 6? Martin Rennie will do what every sensible coach would do in his position. Assess the squad with his staff, identify where he needs to strengthen and then start looking at who he can actually bring in to improve us. You can only do so much in January as there won't be many free agents floating about so we'll most likely rely on loans to turn us around but as BPM has said it'll be the playoffs at best. Be interesting to see if they bring in a proper sporting director when Holt is inevitably punted or whether Rennie will assume the role of finding players to recruit. Either way they don't have to do much to better the quality we've brought in via Holt. I'd imagine Dowds will be back in January until Rennie's had a look at him especially as we didn't let him play in the scottish cup for Arbroath. Rennie's biggest challenge is he's going to have to try get a tune out of quite a few of our underperforming players this season as we'll only be able to get rid of some of them and bring in maybe 5/6 players dependant on the loan rules.

It's not Ruth's fault that's he's been brought in as our main number 9 due to honking recruitment. He has something to offer coming off the bench but shouldn't be our starting striker every week. Scored a peach against Dumbarton and a peach against East Fife at home the volley from outside the box. Doesn't matter how he scored the other two only matters that he scored.

Or Michael Ruth.... Ruth gets it tight from us due to the fact he's Sheerin's loverboy but on the face of it he's a 19 year old with 4 goals in 12 games which isn't a horrible return for us considering how bad we are. Dowds has 3 in 14 for Arbroath who are fairing a lot better than us this year so make of that what you will.