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I think he was seeking clarity and it is definitely worth the debate. As you said this is all very new so questions should be asked and deserve fair answers.

I do wonder if, in the future, we will implement a rule that no one who wants to represent FSS is also a patron. Obvious pro and con to this is - Pro - Balance. Far cleaner having 2 pure FSS members than 2 guys who could be accused of being unbiased, given they’re patrons and potentially know the other 2 patron board members fairly closely Con - Potentially missing out on 2 guys who would’ve done a good job as FSS board representatives. Maybe they’re a better fit than 2 guys who FSS have put forward that year who aren’t patrons.

The main difference being we now have a 400 strong (and growing) fan group who now get to anonymously vote who 2 board members are. It will never be as bad as the old pals act, because of this fact. In many ways, we now get the board we deserve, as fans need only pledge the fairly small amount of £10 a month to have a meaningful say. Agree however that it is poor to have had an FSS member, who was up for nomination, who was also a Patron, without being alerted of the fact before vote - should’ve been told before. Imo that is just an oversight - these guys are new and learning on the job. Fine by me.

Not bothered to look it up, but I think your lot have won or drawn every game at falkirk stadium since we’ve been down? “Dreading” that game is a luxury!

I think interviews can be largely irrelevant to a coach/manager’s performance but in this case it’s looking increasingly likely you are correct.

Airdrie 9/5 on William Hill. Easiest bet of the season.

My thoughts on us for the last 3 years condensed into 2 sentences.

Got downvoted last week for saying the club should now be on the hunt for next season’s manager. Can anyone provide a reason why that shouldn’t be the case? I actually think Rennie has recruited decently. Despite that, performances, and results, have gotten worse. And that is from an incredibly low base. I could see nothing from his history that suggested he’d be great, including fans of other teams saying he was very uninspiring for them. This season is done, and if the new board want any sort of ST uptake, he cannot be here next season.

Definitely a back 4, can’t have McCann and mcguffie as the left 2 of a 5. Better team barring Miller, and no ATS to be seen. Hopefully Kabia fit enough for a cameo when it’s 1-0 Clyde or 1-1

Good post and agree with the sentiment re winners/leaders dragging up the levels of performance from others. However, don’t think it should require a Griffiths level of player to do that. Anyone with any leadership skills whatsoever would do that for us. Unfortunately we haven’t signed any of those for about 4 years - more woeful recruitment. Griffiths being furious at some of the shite he saw v East Fife was refreshing to watch

100% this. None of them look fit. The most a lot of them can muster is a jog, running through treacle. It’s embarrassing.

Steward with the fist pump. Love that Tbf! FullSizeRender.mov

An absolutely perfect day for us. A result which pulls us away from bottom 2, which is currently the performance level we’ve been operating at for 5 months. A performance that continues to confirm, to the board, that Rennie is getting absolutely zero out of this squad, and doesn’t have long left (maybe 2/3 games) before they can turn to each other and say right, the hunt for the next manager starts now.

Awful team.

I agree. Williamson played in a back 4 last season that ended up scooshing the league, McCann played in a 4 with Airdrie who were decent defensively, consistently had our number, and finished above us in the league. Of course that may be down to having 2 good Centre backs, not sure.

I was referring to Grainger

That was a belter that, after we’d been swatted aside by Cove at home if I remember correctly . An absolute loser that guy

Given the shitebag antics of Williamson last night, and the last throw of the dice nature of the game on Saturday, surely it’s time to deploy our secret weapon? Jaime Wilson at right wing back

Tbf there’s defo something in that. They’ve shown themselves up on twitter big time the last few months - not looked favourably upon by football people I can tell you that much. Dowds has come back to us, probably when he didn’t want to, and has outworked and outplayed everyone in our team who are fighting for their playing careers. He deserves the move to arbroath or the prem and you won’t find a falkirk fan saying otherwise. Quite why you don’t believe that is strange behaviour.

Whatever strike force we manage to muster up next season, it will not be as good as Griffiths, Dowds, Kabia.

Long post incoming. Felt worse after that than the QP 6-0. I hate using the word but I was ashamed at everything tonight. Watched on Falkirk TV, so first thing’s first, the commentary. Self pitying shite with a dose of unprofessionalism with comments about the referee too. As said previously, it is an attitude I do not like about the club that I hope others do not share. Rennie’s post match interview after Airdrie I think it was was of similar vein - it was all the ref’s fault. Well, the game itself. Is it an exaggeration to say the worst performance I’ve ever seen from us given we didn’t actually lose the game? Maybe. But a part time team have just came to TFS, presumably with 1 training session between the Airdrie game and tonight and a sizeable injury list, and completely outplayed and outfought everyone in our team. They were quicker, smarter, more skilled, and had far better shape than we did. Why is that? Trolls like random guy can come here and say it’s the fans fault, as we shouldn’t expect better than that. Laughable. As I said after Cove, we have a core of 12 or so who should comfortably battle it out with any team in the league. Mutch - been excellent since his injury. Saved us again tonight Williamson - literally played for the team that pissed on the league last year. Paul Watson - meh defender but decent enough for this level. Performances haven’t dropped that much since his first spell with us. Leon McCann - airdrie player of the year (last year?), I like him. Gets played once every 3 weeks. Mills - young tall kid, looked good tonight in only his second game. Was dropped for brad fucking McKay for 3/4 weeks. Dixon/ATS - jury out. I’d suggest adequate cover at this level. Nesbitt - ridiculously good for his first month with us. Hasn’t done it since. Jury out I guess Morrison - still contend he is a weapon at this level. Quick and his final product particularly shooting isn’t as bad as some make out Telfer - skillful player who’d do well behind the front 2. Played about 6 yards in front of the Centre half! Hetherington - been a let down, but when we got him from Alloa they guaranteed we’d be getting a player. After years of watching him for them, were they wrong? Or is it far more likely that, for some reason, he just hasn’t done it for us yet? Kabia - serious player. Pace is frightening with some touch too. Knows where the net is. Hope his injury isn’t serious Dowds - baller, another one who’ll be off to at least 1 league higher in the summer Griffiths - has looked pretty guff but had been starting games for Dundee first half of the season. If you don’t think, with any sort of service at all, he wouldn’t score barrels of goals in L1 you need your head checked. This is before we get to the fact that Rennie was given the funds to sign 6 players, including a bank breaking LG, and has had 2 months to sort any problems given the loan window doesn’t end til next week. I would love to be wrong, but I’ve seen enough. I struggle to see him as anything other than a youth coach. Much like Cones and M&M. His interviews are as deluded as the end of Cones’s reign - eg, Peterhead coming here and sitting in. What a disrespectful attitude. They came here and deserved to win, playing better football. Sacking him now would be ludicrous, obviously, but the board have played a blinder getting him on a 6 month contract (despite the appointment itself looking like a gamble that hasn’t worked). Final point - this may be controversial. Imo we haven’t looked like a football team since McKinnon. Sure, his reign wasn’t good, but I think he was the last guy we had who could be labeled an actual manager of a professional football team. Which leads me to say the Summer appointment needs to be an older head, who has actually managed at a level. The list of names will be grizzly (Jim McIntyre anyone), but we’ll have to grin and bear that, as we’ve tried the young football “coaches”, with no success.

Worried that that is still an attitude at the club. Complaining about the ref should be so far from anyone at the club’s mind. Concentrate on ourselves.

Difficult when they’re outnumbered 3 to 5 (every game)

5 defenders and Gary Miller in the middle of the park it seems