CallumPar

It’s the mentality of every club, outside of those at the very top. Even the likes of Celtic/Rangers are happy to sell their top stars for Premier League money. The issue we’ve had is that nobody signs a contract extension/long enough contract for us to be able to demand a fee. In recent years, players see out their contract then get their move. Nisbet being the obvious exception. 2 year deals are risky, but I understand that it’s probably all we can offer most players. Can’t have players signing 3 year deals and ending up being a waste of a wage. The issue is though, that in their first year, the player settles in and shows signs of progress. Second season, they continue to improve and attract interest. By December/January, they have no interest in signing a new contract because they can get more money by leaving as a free agent in the summer.

Would imagine Barnsley will only be particularly keen if they don’t get promoted. With that in mind, we should be trying to show him how keen we are to get him to sign on. Any player at Dunfermline should know that we’ll sell them at the right price. Signing a 2 year deal doesn’t mean you’re here for 2 years. If you perform well and a club makes a decent offer, you’ll be allowed to leave. It just offers the club some protection, in terms of getting a fee if the player performs well. I like Breen and think he’s had a very good season. I think staying with us (and working with McPake/Benedictus) and performing at the next level would be beneficial for him. But money talks and it all depends on whether we can match (or beat) any other offers financially.

I couldn’t see us dropping points against Clyde (twice) or Peterhead. Clyde are fighting for their lives, don’t write them off. We need to focus on getting our job done, before worrying about their result.

It’s not the easiest thing to work on a mobile. No idea why under 12/carer tickets seem to come up at the top. I’d have thought adult should be the ‘default’ option.

Buying an adult ticket worked no bother for me. Did you scroll down to select an adult ticket?

It’s the goal at home to Peterhead that’s been nominated. No deflection on that one.

Dry your eyes. You and your friends couldn’t stay away from this thread when you were on form. Now McGlynn’s bottled it, as we said he would, you’re coming to our thread with this nonsense. We’re going for the title, with our rivals in second place. Of course we’re going to be talking about them/enjoying their implosion. Even after the game against us, you were on this thread talking about how there was no chance you’d drop 5 points in 3 games. To be fair, you were right, it only took you 2 games. You do realise the irony of your post as well? A Falkirk fan posting in a Dunfermline thread to say that we’re obsessed with them…

His range of passing is excellent. I don’t know how some people seem to miss his diagonals into a great areas. Some of our fans have an agenda against him. He’s had a very good season. Nobody’s trying to re-write history and pretend last season didn’t happen. But his mindset has changed since Hughes left. He’s been looking forward a lot this season, supporting the attacking players and has played some great passes. When he’s been missing, you’ve really noticed. We’ve really struggled to create anything and get the ball into good areas when he’s not been on the park. His set pieces are also very good. Yes, he has his weaknesses and lacks physicality. But McPake has found a way to use him that plays to his strengths. Hopefully he can continue this form next season, assuming we make that step back to the championship.

Great initiative. Signed this now.

It’s a strange one. Alloa, Edinburgh and Falkirk have probably been the 3 poorest teams against us this season. I can only assume that they’ve been better almost every other week, then have just been horrific against us. Airdrie are, by far, the best team we’ve played. They’ve obviously struggled for consistency earlier in the season though, because they now seem to be getting the results I’d expect them to get. Clyde and Peterhead have managed to score goals and take points off of us. Montrose managed to beat us and have made things tough for us. Goals against us and points we’ve dropped: Airdrie - 5 (4 pts dropped) Clyde - 3 (4 pts dropped) Montrose - 3 (3 pts dropped) Kelty - 2 (2 pts dropped) Peterhead - 2 (2 pts dropped) QoS - 1 (2 pts dropped) Falkirk - 1 (2 pts dropped) Edinburgh - 0 (2 pts dropped) Alloa - 0 (0 pts dropped) If we’re being honest, the main reason we’ve pulled away and stayed ahead of Falkirk, Alloa and Edinburgh is because of our results against these teams. Falkirk had been similarly good against the teams around them in the table, but McGlynn’s bottled it again recently.

Ah wait, you’re right. They’ve had 2 shots on target, my bad.

What a load of drivel. Dunfermline have failed to score in 3 league games all season. Falkirk have failed to score in 3 in a row. Even in the games against each other, we’ve had more attempts on goal every single time, so I really don’t understand why the simpletons in the Falkirk support have made up this nonsense about playing a better brand of football. Our manager comes up with tactics to try and win the game. Passing the ball between CBs does nothing but boost meaningless stats. At least our manager understands that you need to score goals to win games. You’ve had 2 shots on target in the last 4 hours of football against us. We’ve scored 4 goals against you in that time. But, somehow, after watching those games, it’s our style of play/tactics that you’re criticising? Also, our squad is really not all you’re making it out to be. Very few of these players got any game time in the team that got relegated as well. Most were fringe players/subs. If McPake worked with Falkirk’s squad and McGlynn worked with ours, I’d imagine McPake’s team would be the league leaders and probably by a similar margin.

There’s also that free flowing attacking football they claim to play. They don’t do boring football, like us. They play football the right way. We’ve failed to score in 3 league games out of 29. They’ve failed to score in 3 in a row.

To be fair, I think our attack is overlooked because of the defensive strength. We do score most weeks and rarely concede. On our day, we’re a good attacking team. Just tend to be wasteful in front of goal/lacking that killer ball at times. Kane Ritchie-Hosler has come onto a game lately and is lightning quick. Wasn’t at the game, but would imagine McCann in/around the box would have caused them some problems. He’s a big powerful guy. You also don’t need me to tell you what Wighton’s capable of, on his day. Yes, Hamilton’s excellent. Had to be patient early in the season. He’s a real asset in midfield, in terms of protecting the defence. We played a back 3/5 a lot earlier in the season, so struggled to find a role for him. But we’ve looked very good in the last few months, when he’s been starting every week. Think him and Chalmers work very well as a midfield pairing. They compliment each other well.

That’s quite uncharacteristic of us this season. Our success has come from our defensive solidity - 29 games played and we have the same number of clean sheets as goals conceded (17).

Close enough. Had a double on this, so a bit disappointed it wasn’t quite right. But overall very happy to be 11 clear. Scoring 3 goals is decent as well, Montrose have made things tough for us this season. For those at the game, how did we play? Going by updates, McCann seemed quite heavily involved. How were Otoo and Mahon?

Quite a lot of changes for us. Hopefully Mahon and Otoo have good games. Looks like a 4-4-2. Think I’d have Todorov ahead of McCann. But McCann will be there to run around and put defenders under pressure/create space for Wighton. If we need a goal in the second half, Todorov will come on. Just seems a waste to play 2 wingers in a 4-4-2 and not have Todorov there to get on the end of crosses. Still sticking with my prediction of a 2-0 Pars win.

There is, they’d be guaranteed whatever the agreed compensation is. Works the same as a notice period in any job.

It’s quite amusing that Falkirk went on a good run of form and they couldn’t stay away from our thread. For 2 months, because they were 2 points ahead of us in the ‘form’ table, they genuinely seemed convinced we’d fall off a cliff and they’d win out the rest of the season. 3 games, no goals, 1 point and they’ve gone back into hiding. Don’t want to get too carried away. We haven’t made the most of it yet. We need to get the job done today.

how’s that working out for you?

Now just 14 points required from our last 8 games. Falkirk failing to score for a third consecutive league game.

Worth pointing out that a 3 year deal doesn’t mean that, if we sack him, we’re due to pay off the remainder of the contract. More often than not, there will be agreed compensation/notice periods within these contracts. Even most 2/3 year contracts in the real world have break clauses/notice periods.

McPake and Mackay signed new deals to 2026, been announced now. Brilliant sign of commitment from them and the club. Here’s hoping it works out. So far, they seem a good fit for the club. But there will obviously be tough times/challenges ahead. Here’s hoping they have what it takes to guide us through these.

Kelty will win on Friday. We’ll win this 2-0 and go 12 clear.

Perhaps McPake shouldn’t have responded. But that’s easy to say as an outsider. As he said in his tweet, his kids are young. I would imagine that, in a few years, there’s a good chance they’ll start using social media. Should he be having to worry about his young children seeing tweets like that? I think this is part of the problem with the likes of Twitter. That kid is posting anonymously and thinks he can say whatever he wants. If his name and photo were attached to his profile, there’s not a chance he would be posting that kind of thing. Also, McCann came on as a winger. Can’t imagine Todorov going up and down the left wing ffs. I’m sure Todorov would have been on, if we didn’t have so many enforced substitutions in other positions. McPake and Mackay have both said in interviews that if we need a goal late on, they want Todorov in the box