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Just read Sheerin’s interview in the FH. Apparently as Hetherington’s already been sent off this season we’ll miss him for 2 games. Brilliant stuff!
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Quite incredible we’re 3 points off top with a central defensive mid that is rungs below the quality and effectiveness of an ancient Gomis
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Think we’ll score at some point, but it won’t be enough. 2-1 Clyde
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Wouldn’t touch them either. Far too raging with that night and their subsequent silence to let them off the hook with it all being a big funny joke
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13 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said:
Unfamiliar with scouting reports but do they always focus on the opponents' strengths instead of weaknesses?
My thought too. Good example being Leon McCann - he was regularly very good against us and don’t think we once targeted him. Every other team in the league seem to know you can shell balls up to him and he’ll either be 10 yards out of position or will lose the header. We didn’t seem to know that though.
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55 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
If it couldn't get any worse the contents have now been released online.
This is one of the pages apparently. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff but Tbf I don’t know how these reports usually look
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I see we continue to ooze professionalism - good thing we don’t “act like a league 1 club”
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24 minutes ago, BudBairn said:
I thought the squad that “finished” 2nd to Raith in 19/20 was decent enough, and was sure to win the league if the league had resumed.
Why did we dismantle this team? It wasnt the fans that made the call.Yup. Look at the Eleven you can get out of this compared to now. Another fabulous decision to dismantle it
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On 17/07/2021 at 23:33, bairn88 said:
Spot on. Key positions more important than many think. All well and good having an adequate CDM and LB. That isn’t enough. We do not have GK CB or striker sorted. Key positions. Imo it’s embarrasing Holt hasn’t realised this and we’ll be found wanting big time this season. Would love to be proved wrong
BPM and I called it from the start.
Some okay midfield players but Dixon the only borderline adequate Centre back and no strikers. Ah well, 50k a year wasn’t troubled so what do we know.
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The away end tomorrow when we go 2-0 down
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33 minutes ago, GeordieBairn said:
Danny Grainger looking a broken man in that interview. Were on for a hiding tomorrow barring a miracle. Embarrassing.
Complete meltdown of self confidence and belief. Sad to see. The job is just far too big for these 2 from what I can see
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25 minutes ago, gav-ffc said:
Payne was on trial with us last season so he’ll raise his game imo.
Peterhead once employed David Mcracken so we can’t possibly be expected to win this game.
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Personal highlight for me this one. Our chairman genuinely saying what fans of other clubs have accused us fans of doing since we’ve been down here. “It’s unfair the other wee teams raise their games against us cos we’re the big boys!”. Absolutely fucking pathetic!!!!
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Serious, serious traction on twitter now about this. Doubt it’ll be going away in the next couple of days. Maybe the best thing the club have done recently is put that laughing stock out to the public
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7 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said:
As an outsider looking in, Falkirk appear to be getting successively worse with each managerial appointment in the past five years. Each and every one has effectively been hounded out via social media. Even when they were top of the league last season Falkirk fans were not happy.
Maybe Falkirk need to show a bit of balls and stick with a management team for more than 12 months and they might turn things around.
Very very decent attempt that, had me going for a few seconds.
For the trolls who come on here after our weekly loss, that’s how it’s done. Already a few bites I see
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6 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Do you know the other 12 strikers you missed out on? Using Robinson and McManus may have been intentional to highlight the fact that they were offering deals to strikers you had little chance of getting, both money wise and level wise. I highly doubt Robinson would drop down 2 levels, McManus possibly would've dropped down one level but obviously the Welsh could offer him much more money.
I'm guessing you probably enquired about Duku, Godorov etc. I sound like a broken record here but a lot of guys won't be prepared to drop down to the 3rd tier.
It’s an absolutely meaningless statement but actually fairly smart from him.
I could’ve been DOF, offered a contract and wages to Tony Watt, Stevie May and Shankland. When they then knock those back because we’re in a shit league and can’t really compete wages wise, I can’t then say I’ve done my job but alas because we are where we are I didn’t get my intended targets. Which is what he’s done. Not fit for purpose, no matter how promising the youth team stuff is
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No more home games for me.
Shouldn’t have taken this long but I find it difficult not to go. Thankfully didn’t renew my season ticket after I saw the state of the squad in August.
Not sure why this feels like a personal turning point where I’m fully done with them - should’ve had happened months if not years ago.
Look forward (slightly) to some of the away games.
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14 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Colburn starting blaming the fans. Unbelievable.
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8 minutes ago, Zanetti said:
The post he was replying to was daft to be fair. It clearly assumed that we've only won 5 out of 10 games while playing at our best, when in fact we've been relatively poor for a while now and have still managed to remain undefeated (while maintaining the best defensive record in the league, and one of the better goalscoring ones too).
I don't think we're necessarily a better side than Falkirk - I'd be very surprised if you don't turn it around at some point actually, and I'd expect the title race to go right down to the wire, but the only "high horsery" on display here is the suggestion that you should be somehow scooshing this division with that squad.
In my opinion you’re a better side than we will be at any point this season. Our recruitment has been the worst since we’ve been down here and many of us said so before the season started.
The Queens park boy stated because our team is currently below them us fans can’t judge said team. That is utter utter bollocks, whatever way you paint it.
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13 minutes ago, an86 said:
Nobody has ever claimed we are anything special. However, we’ve also lost zero of our ten games if we want to play with stats. I’m not sure why a mid-table League One club, and that’s what Falkirk currently are, having finished 5th last season, and currently sitting 5th, would be casting judgement over a club that is outperforming them.
Stop the internet lads, football fans can no longer have any opinions on any other club that is currently above them in the league pyramid.
The sanctimonious high horsery of many fans of other clubs on here never ceases to amaze.
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15 minutes ago, Enigma said:
Surely the medium term answer for Falkirk here is to go hybrid part time. It would pretty much allow you to sign the best of the part time players going instead of having to dish out 3 year deals to shite like McKay to even get them to think about signing for Falkirk. We’ve done it twice and gone up as Champions. Being fully full time in League One is a thankless task as you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of who you can actually sign.
I think there’s some validity to what you’re saying but I don’t think it’s a simple solution.
I would argue over the last 2 and a half seasons (and beyond that) we’ve signed eleven after eleven that are capable of playing at this level and higher. Almost every player we’ve had has gone from being atrocious or part of an atrocious team to doing fine elsewhere (an obvious example being half of our ex eleven now strolling it for Queens Park). That to me suggests recruitment has been okay for the most part - apart from this season where Mr. Holt has been in charge of that.
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1 hour ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Christ it's twenty odd years since I got excited about a Scotland match. Last nights effort against the hundred eighteenth rated side in the world was brutal. Back in those days scraping a result against the 80th ranked side in the world was seen as not good enough. Now it's celebrated like we've won something. It's hard enough watching the bairns never mind that bunch these days.
We did win something, namely the match
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3 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
I don’t think it’s a moan. It’s a legitimate observation. Sheerin is well enough prepped in his interview technique and content (apart from his unravelling a couple of weeks ago), but calling some players by their first names or nicknames and others by their surnames is a genuine tell as to his relationship with /perception of any given player.
In the case of Nesbitt, there really isn’t anyone better knocking at the door. Like it or not, what he calls them is an insight into how he relates to them as players….just as in every other walk of life.
If he’d have called Nesbitt “Aidan” and Keena “Aidan”, you’d have been on here complaining that he’s not being clear?
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So a full quarter now complete and 3 points behind first. Surely we can’t be as bad in the 2nd quarter. League absolutely there for the taking (again).
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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We don’t have to play him?
Pre match Sheerin said R. Williamson was back in contention. He didn’t even make the bench, but maybe he’ll be fit for next week? If so I’d have him at right back and possibly G. Miller in the only position he should ever have to play for us - CDM. He was excellent there, admittedly about 18 months ago now