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22 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
Exactly and that’s a poor Dunfermline team. I don’t think they’ll finish in the bottom two though. They look to have a bit fight about them.
Partick thistle looked utterly stinking thats two heavy defeats in a row against clubs fighting it out near the bottom.
16 minutes ago, Caractacus Potts said:Having a look at who Yogi brought in January.
Goalkeepers- Stolarczyk on loan from LeicesterDefence- Efe Ambrose, Coll Donaldson
Midfield- Lawless, Chalmers, Polworth
Strikers- Kamwa on loan from Leeds
Some very decent additions.
Sorted out the spine of the side which is exactly what we needed to do. Ambrose was solid at the back and the midfield won its battles comfortably.
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43 minutes ago, Caractacus Potts said:
I just meant individually. Deans bought £15,000 worth of shares and Colborn bought £30,000.
Just relating it to the constant proclamations about people putting their own money in as though it removes them from criticism of how the club is being run.
Doesn't mean you can't criticise but i'd say at least if you have your own money at stake you're more likely to ensure your making the right decisions.
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3 hours ago, Caractacus Potts said:
I agree with this entirely.
The only thing I would say is that in fairness Deans and some of the old board did put money in to the club. As much and in some cases more than the patrons.
There has been a bit of bleating about guys putting their own money in which seems at odds to me when the old board did too. Ofcourse that’s laudable but it isn’t that different from previous incumbents.
The difference is that having heard from folk who know the board is that these guys, like you say, are proper fans who aren’t in it for themselves. That gets my backing, however doesn’t mean to say I won’t stop being critical about decisions I don’t agree with.
Deans mob put in a pittance compared to the Rawlins and the patrons though. They had zero investment in the club when they got on the board and it was only when the share deal was done that they actually put any cash in. They were there for a good while spending other people's cash badly before then.
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There is no point in joining fss if you are going to stop your direct debit every time they appointment a manager you don't agree with or sign a crap player and play 5 at the back. Just because folk have the club at heart etc doesn't mean they won't make mistakes especially in the short run when they are learning how to run a football team. They aren't deans crew just in it for the blazers and the addition to their CVS. They've pumped their own money in for a start. It's far easier to be popular if things on the park are right so they will be doing everything they can to achieve that . If they continue with Rennie they must believe he can do the job. I'm not 100 percent convinced but time will tell.
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3 hours ago, Barga Bairn said:
I agree with a lot of what you say but I think there are some important things to consider. Here's my take on it
Hughes found himself facing a transition with the loss of Latapy and the academy being 2 years short of producing enough players. So he signed quality but experienced players to see him through. It didnae work particular well, but he didn't take us down and we should have won the cup.
Presley was also full of bluster, but he made some very good signings on a low budget. He brought in El Alagoui, McGovern, Higginbotham, Taylor, and Marc Millar for example.
He also signed great youngsters like Murray Wallace, Will Vaulks and Luke Leahey, and played them.
He had possibly the youngest ever team in Scotland when he brought in Sibbald, Kingsley, Murdoch, Alston, Jay Fulton, Connor McGrandles.
Credit where credits due, these were all great players for us. The young team were a team worth supporting.
Holt was a disaster, both times.
Things were far from perfect, but I think Houston was unlucky, as Rangers and Hearts were dumped on us. That held back our promotion efforts.
I contend that it was from then it all went seriously, calamitously wrong. We made a bad mistake when we sacked Houston. His team looked tired and shorn of its best players after 2 decent efforts. He would possibly have turned it round and rebuilt. The guy had shown he was a decent manager in a business where few can be called that.
There were plenty of fans who wanted him out. There were also a hell of a lot of fans supporting the Hartley signings, the so called Brentford model. Plenty of idiots wanted rid of the academy. The utterly stupid board said the club couldn't support the academy financially, sidestepping the money we had made and the obvious fact that our best players on the park for a number of years were actually academy graduates.
The unfathomable mess started with Hartley and the sub moronic board, pushed even further towards oblivion by the Deans board.
I'm shattered by the last 4 seasons. I've no idea where we go from here as even starting all over again looks impossible.
Hughes success was signing players from arsenal , Ipswich etc . Young players that weren't quite good enough for them but we're more than good enough for the Scottish top flight. He merged them with some more experienced Scottish talent. However, he suddenly veered completely away from that and it was a financial disaster.
For every decent player Pressley signed he signed 2 or 3 absolute duffers which meant turning to playing the youngsters from the academy. To have all those great youngsters come through though and never get near a promotion place was pitiful. If he'd done better in his experienced signings we would've had far more chance in going up. Too many Haworth's though and not enough farids. Leahy started 5 games under Pressley and vaulks 4 so he didn't really play them. Houston got the best out of leahy and Holt played vaulks far more.
Houston was packing in at the end of the season anyway but should never have announced it as it gave the players an excuse to down tools. He certainly wasn't going to hang about for a rebuild that's for sure. He was tactically astute but did far better with Pressley and Holts players than he did with the players he brought in. His recruitment was God awful with the likes of Taylor Morgan and Rory boulding stinking the place out. A constant decline in the calibre of players being brought in lead up to the disastrous final season of his.
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4 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
The problem has been we have never looked long term properly. I hope the Board get their plan in place, measure their progress, tweek if it needed tweeted but stop the knee jerk stuff of the last 12 years.
The commercial income needs to go up, we need to manage our cost base, we will need investment, Patrons, FSS and possibly outside and we have to get the product on the pitch right as that will drive income too.
I have said since the new board came in this is a long term recovery job. Nothing I have seen so far has changed my view.I know but in order to do most of the things we want to do we really need to get back in the championship.
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Hughes decided for some crazy reason to completely move from the policy that had worked so well of signing young players from down south to signing old farts on ridiculous wages plus Bob. We'd only missed out on top 6 by about ten mins the season before. A tweak was all that was needed. He's replaced by Eddie may when the club must've had its best ever options of a new manager in my lifetime. He's finally released from his agony and who do we replace him with another complete rookie who promises us that we'd stay up but in fact we go down without as much as a whimper despite Killie hardly winning a game for about two months. After pressleys miserable failure what do we do?We reward him with a new bloody contract. We then have a few years of never looking like going up as pressleys recruitment us in the main utter dross apart from the odd complete diamond. We then get a break as someone incredibly wants to pay money to take him off our hands. That bit of luck is then thrown out the door by replacing him again with another guy with zero experience who immediately loses a 3 0 halftime lead In a cup semi final . He's given a bigger budget but chooses not to bother spending it all and a piss poor Dundee side win the league whilst we lose out to Hamilton in the playoffs. Holt runs back to Norwich and finally we appoint an experienced head in Houston fresh from winning the Scottish cup with United. We have a disappointing first league season but we somehow manage to get to the cup final which we throw away. Next we have a fantastic season.with Houston's tactical nuance getting us second in an extremely tough league . The play off final proves a step too far though and we're muscled out of it completely. Houston says we need to sign some more physical players. Next season Houston doesn't sign any more physical players. We have a decent league campaign but have a disappointing exit to a mediocre United side in the playoffs. Poor recruitment is already beginning to tell on the ability of the squad. Next season Houston signs Alex Harris and Rory Loy who both turn out pish. He also announces he's retiring in the summer and the team down tools after a good pre season. With the club heading for relegation we sack Houston and appointment Hartley who signs some decent players in January and steers us away from the drop zone. The next season there is a great deal of optimism at the club despite the decision to suddenly dump the academy in order to sign players from clubs down south. Hartley stupidly goes along with this and takes the blame for it being a pile of shite and is sacked . He's then replaced by McKinnon who ends up costing us a fortune despite having no real successful track record as a manager. We are again relegated without much fight. The board couldn't make the same mistake again surely oh yes they could and he's kept on before being sacked when 3 points off the top of the league. We then return to our old ways of giving it to people with no experience and a hairdresser and fitness fanatic takeover. They do ok with McKinnon's players but a few poor results and more dreadful Jan recruitment mean we lose out to Raith by a point when the league is shutdown. Next season they start off well before the board appoints Holt again this time as dof. Team loses one game and collapses. Recruitment in January is 3 kids . M and M sacked holt takes over and we get somehow even worse and end up out the playoffs completely. A new manager is appointed. Aberdeens kids coach takes over and we have a super new recruitment system which basically is as shit as the old one. After a decent first few games we lose one and again collapse. Sheerin is sacked and replaced by Rennie who has absolutely no experience of the Scottish game. He signs 6 players but we are no better than we were before really. Queen's parks terrible form keeps us in sniffing distance of a spot in playoffs we all know we have zero chance of winning. Next year who knows.
I'd say that about sums it up.
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13 minutes ago, Springfield said:
Exactly this, for the sake of FFC
I'll be amazed if Mackay isn't still here next season. One year to go maybe but two years on a decent wage he's not going to get elsewhere the payoff he'd want would be a small fortune.
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The problem with looking long term is that chances are we'll run out of cash / go part time or certainly will need to make serious cuts I would think if we don't go up next season. Being in this league for a 5th straight season is therefore unthinkable. This season coming is therefore make or break to a certain extent. We can't keep making mistakes on recruitment whether it's management or players. If we don't get it right next year then I fear what kind of position the club could be in. If it's Rennie then so be it but we all need to pray it's the right decision or we're goosed.
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2 hours ago, bridge of allan bairn said:
and Jordan mcghee was MOTM. I remember some folk saying he wasn't good enough for us...
Not sure about him not being good enough he was ok but not outstanding for us . Played a lot at right back but his crossing was honking. Always felt he was a bit lightweight for centrehalf too back then. He captained our relegation side which is probably why he's seen as not good enough. Was still young though and has obviously improved since then.
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Says it all about Jaime Wilson that he gets brought on when we're two nil up and yet the manager prefers a def midfielder to him when we're two down.
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1 hour ago, Springfield said:
Shocking and if results stand how the Fck are we still in contention for the playoffs (top)
Because the standard is fecking honking that's why.
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10 minutes ago, knee jerk reaction said:
Is one reason why I'd look to keep Rennie, he hasn't had a chance to turn the team around with his own players. Does anyone really think young loan players were his first choice? January window with COVID means it's harder to get players than before. However things are bad, I'm sitting here thinking do I get livestream from today or not when if we are going well there's no decision to make!
He's only brought in two youngsters kabia who has played in the top flight and who looks like a good signing and mills who hes flung under a bus by playing him in midfield.
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22 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
I dont think you can offer up Jacobs as evidence of Rennies failure to strengthen the midfield?
Jacobs had a lot of what we need. Had.
I'm not sure we were to know hes done. The criticism isn't signing Jacobs. It's not signing more on top of Jacobs.He's another midget though. Our midfields full of them already. Plus I thought wed have at least watched him play a few times at some level before signing him which would give you an idea of his current state surely. The fact that Rennie preferred a young inexperienced centrehalf to him last week is a dining endictment of that signing.
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14 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Bounce games are no more than training sessions in a realistic setting. Trying partnerships, formations, players in new positions and developing understandings. Spotting whos up whos down whos jaded who flying.
If people read into them something they are not more fools them.
The demise of the reserve teams took away that competitive edge.
I know that I was only having a laugh.
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1 minute ago, Amarillo Bairn said:51 minutes ago, Springfield said:He does come over well, talks the players up and it’s a pity come three o’clock on a Saturday the players leave all the good work back at the training ground
I'm thinking we should just have open training sessions, go and watch them instead of wasting a Saturday, according to the last two managers that's when our bunch seem to shine before they turn into hopeless haddies on a Saturday.
We seem to be great in bounce games too no matter the opposition.
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49 minutes ago, Springfield said:
He does come over well, talks the players up and it’s a pity come three o’clock on a Saturday the players leave all the good work back at the training ground
Sheerin was exactly the same until the very end. Players are great lads, training was brilliant, we're working so hard to turn things around and then your pumped 6 0 by queen's park. There's not a Falkirk manager I've not wanted to do really well but at some point you need to stop talking about doing it and actually do it. Interviewer is off his trolley trying to talk about giving credit to a squad getting pumped every time we come up against a half decent side. The unfortunate thing is that even if we put 6 past Dumbarton on Saturday it means very little in the long run.
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1 minute ago, gav-ffc said:
Despite his injury record the boy Wilson at Morton only signed a deal to the end of this season after leaving Dunfermline he would have been more suited to what we need.
I liked him when I saw him a few times at Killie and was surprised when he ended up at the pars.
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24 minutes ago, gav-ffc said:
Polworth is exactly the type of player we have at the club, soft as shite.
Always been decent when I've seen him play. Did well at both ICT and well in the premiership. Who knows as was said a couple of posts above whoever we sign tend to turn up shite anyway.
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6 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:
He would have turned to shit within 3 games. It's our way.
He and polworth who signed on loan for the pars early march would both have been decent signings for us. Be interesting to know if we enquired about either.
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Effe Ambrose playing for the pars tonight. He's the kind of player that would have done a great job for us. When we got knocked back for Craig we should have got him instead. Didn't move till the pars on loan till after the window had shit.
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20 minutes ago, gav-ffc said:
Calling us a disgrace is a bit much when the person who questioned Dowds ability (Holt) was gone.
I like Campbell but he’s talking shite.
Is that a player hes hiding under his shirt? What a size of a gut. Heart attack waiting to happen right there.
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16 minutes ago, bairn88 said:
Raith hybrid is a stretch isn't it? Fairly certain almost all of their players who won the league were full time.
Partick
Raith
Arbroath
Ayr
Livingston
Dunfermline
Morton
Rangers
QOS
Cowdenbeath
I make that 8 out of 10.......clear majority?
We've just spent the last 3 pages talking about Raith having been a hybrid model and now you're saying they're not.
You also said recently which to me is 2 or 3 years not 9 or 10 . If cove, Airdrie or Montrose win the league and it looks like it that will be one fully full time team in the last 4 years .
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6 minutes ago, bairn88 said:
And, as said previously, a clear majority of recent winners of this league have been full time.
Just because we have royally fucked it for a decade plus, and are possibly one of the worst full time teams in the world, doesn't mean it is being full time that is to blame.
Arbroath part time, Raith hybrid, partick full time and looks like cove part time. Where's the clear majority?
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I've no idea why big clubs sack decent experienced managers and then replace them with complete novices. Aberdeen and Hibs both have done that recently and it's done absolutely nothing for them.