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Another striker please

Can have legitimate arguments about the formation, but dropping Burrell is incredibly harsh. You couldn’t blame him for being pissed off.

Hopefully beat Fash FC on Saturday to get secure in 2nd and start building a bit of momentum again.

Thank f**k

How are Allan and Burrell linking up?

Let’s see if we can hold our lead until half-time this week

Yaaaaaas

I’d really like Jordan Allan to get a goal tonight.

By the way - I appreciate we should have had a clear cut penalty on Saturday and we’ve been on the end of some fucking atrocious decisions this year - but some of the outrage it’s generated online does seems to be deflecting from the fact that if we had just like… defended properly and not chucked a 2 goal lead when we were cruising, it wouldn’t have been game-defining.

Sigh. Same team as Saturday please; the formation worked well for the most part and Oliver and Burrell posed some threat. Hope McCann's injury isn't too bad, but don't have too many issues with Hendo deputising if needs be. Given our recent points return, I'd be close to grouping this as a must-win with Airdrie breathing down our neck; aware that there isn't too much difference between 2nd and 3rd but I think there would be a psychological element involved in going into the play-offs if they overtook us with us having been clear in 2nd for so long.

With the number of players that came through our youth ranks to have good to great careers, we're absolutely due a Stephen Dobbie-esque signing of a player that has made his money and comes back simply due to his love of the club. Sign him up xxx

The pitch getting replaced with the funding options being offered to the club is very sensible; McGlynn mentioned he’d potentially lost a couple of signings due to how poor it is and imo it’s looked done for two or three seasons now.

Good summation which sums up how I feel.

Oliver and Burrell have to be our starting two, thought they linked up well. It’s almost as if some of us have been saying for months that Oliver would work great with a partner, and Burrell is a natural finisher who gets you goals!

Started brilliantly and then completely bottled a two goal lead. Second half was decent in spells, but you could tell they were pretty happy sitting in for a 2-2. Burrell is the best striker in our squad and should start every week.

Not completely shed our propensity to absolutely bottle things, I see.

Started well here

That 2 up top or Oliver dropping back into midfield?

No entirely sure why I’m going today. Self-torture?

Hard to disagree with this from one of our most improved performers this season (although it would be churlish not to point out Dunfermline's consistency, too). He's also spot on in saying it's still in the players hands whether this season is success or not - we need to get back into the rhythm we enjoyed in the middle section of the season heading into the play-offs and the semi-final, starting tomorrow.

Thinking we should probably be setting our sights a little higher than letting Dunfermline absolutely canter to a third-tier title ≠ thinking we have a god-given right to do anything just because we’re Falkirk.

I think it’ll be a combination of: 1. It’s a bit of a dead rubber (I know it’s a derby and we still have lots to play for, obviously - but talking in comparison to the previous derby games this season. We know they’re going to win the league and we’ll in the play-offs) 2. The fact that the last two times they’ve gone full out on social media promoting the game for days before, we’ve proceeded to shit the bed.

It’s indisputable that McGlynn has improved us significantly, but I always thought that any chat of “we’ve had a great season” was premature to say the least. Yes, we finished 6th last year, and even though the team we had was dreadful, I think it would still be fair to say that they under-performed under terrible management. McGlynn is a proper, proven, competent football manager, so he wasn’t really going to do any worse. Still lots to play, but we really need to buck up our ideas soon. Some may find this harsh, but I genuinely believe that any season Falkirk spend in the third-tier where we don’t gain promotion via either winning the league or the play-offs cannot be considered anything other than a failure. It doesn’t really matter where we finished last year, or how we played up until that point. This could, of course, be off-set by anything we might pull off in the cup, but realistically, our expectations are very low on that front. Over the months, I’ve been full of praise for McGlynn for most of this season and still think he’s done a very decent job so far, but his rigidity/stubbornness is beginning to annoy me a bit. Things need to kick into gear again, starting on Saturday.

If he starts with Oliver as a lone striker on Saturday I’ll be absolutely fuming. I can see him doing it as well.

I don’t doubt that there are one or two on here with their own agendas - that has been evident for a long time - but I’m not sure it’s ‘basking’ in anything to point out that 2 points out of 12 and 0 goals in those 4 games in League One is appalling. That performance today was Martin Rennie level bad, and it’s okay to claim that if we didn’t have a semi-final to look forward to, we’d be talking about near-capitulation territory here given where we were sitting before the Pars game only 3 weeks ago.