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15 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
We really are in the last chance saloon this season. If this goes into a tail spin yet again, there is no way on earth that Sheerin and Grainger’s reputations can be trashed while key board members along with Holt attempt to sail on feverishly trying to avoid accountability or responsibility for it. No more statements required.
The club/board/owners have taken the decision to go top heavy in terms of management structures, and squad lite in terms of experience and quality. The first team squad has been padded out in terms of numbers, but absolutely not in terms of quality.
Last season was the first time we won our opening game in 13 years. It might be a while until we repeat that feat. There are glimpses that Sheerin is trying hard to introduce a different brand of football. Are the owners/board/Holt giving the guy the players he needs to make it happen? Up to now, we should all have our doubts.
I hope the falkirk support aren’t dumb enough to think Sheerin and Grainger are the ones to blame for the shitshow that’s about to unfurl.
Unfit, unprepared, nowhere near enough quality, lack of depth, hated DOF who sniffs about the training pitch. The only saving grace is I don’t see us being anything other than abject from the start, unlike last season.
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On 19/07/2021 at 11:44, bairn88 said:
No football for me for 17 months and now 2 away games in 4 days where I can go to the pub before for a few. Fucking, buzzing.
(btw ayr tickets now on sale)
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18 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
Which is about 33.5% of Ibrox's capacity. 33.5% of TFS is about 2700. We wouldn't get 4000 v Peterhead in any case.
This is far too simplistic imo. The real risk of transmission with 17k comes from public transport, sharing busses, cars, pubs etc before and after the game, not the couple of hours you’re outside, still sitting a decent distance from each other.
Which is why I’d hope common sense would apply to smaller grounds such as ourselves where public transport to and from games is far less than rangers/Celtic in a major city. I’d hoped we’d get a bigger share % of capacity allowed into ground. Either way, I hope the club ask and keep on asking.
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I see Rangers have 17k next week for Livi game. We should definitely be applying for 4k v Peterhead...but the club probably just won't bother.
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No football for me for 17 months and now 2 away games in 4 days where I can go to the pub before for a few. Fucking, buzzing.
(btw ayr tickets now on sale)
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Totally irrelevant to the result of course, but this offside in the first half was just hilarious. Linesman should never get another gig, our boy was still onside about a second after the ball was played ffs
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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
All about opinions. We have had a DOF in since January and he cant identify a striker or a CH so he gives a two year contract to a donut. Doesn’t empty Miller, Hall, Dowds etc etc. These are key positions that you build your team around. It’s poor IMO
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
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7 minutes ago, Proudtobeabairn said:
I don't imagine Holts purpose is anything other to make the goalkeeper training better for the other 2 (didn't Caig say he liked working with 3 keepers?). Doubt we'll ever see him near the team.
I was very critical of Holt’s signing (given hes 23 not 17 or anything, and the SD’s son)....but maybe it works in our favour if we can pay him total peanuts because of that fact and get away with it
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Thank feck this clown didn’t get the gig. Spouting this nonsense if he was our manager would be embarrassing
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5 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Kai Fotheringham, is there a player there, and at what level should he currently be playing? Seems he just followed us on Twitter (yep, it’s slow enough to be reduced to this sort of rumor).
Still a child, wouldn’t want to rely on him for more than 20 mins every few games or so at our level never mind yours.
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18 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
First of all, only three best runners-up rather than four are going through now due to there being an extra team in Europe.This format has been in place for five seasons, and in four of those seasons you have needed 9 points to go through, and in the other one you needed 8. Therefore 7 points is highly unlikely to get you through, and even 8 might be a push.
Great stuff, cheers
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With AR beating ayr on pens at weekend surely we have a decent chance of going through now, at worst as one of the best 2nd place teams? Is 7 points typically been enough to advance in 2nd? Maybe one for @craigkillie or the likes
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That team looks rotten - relegation battling level imo. Will reserve writing any more nasty words about them until I've seen them play a few times
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Look at the crowd at Edgbaston for the cricket today. Can't have more than 500 per stand at Celtic Park or Ibrox though, oh no
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1 minute ago, Thereisalight.. said:
The 2k in stadiums is appauling. Comparing Ibrox/Celtic Park to the likes of Falkirk stadium and saying all can have 2k is crazy. Somerset gets classed as standing even though we have one seated stand, so we're only allowed 1k. A kick in the baws
The seating/standing thing is absolutely the worst sh1te I've noticed after reading those rules. You're allowed half the income if you only have standing sections, whilst its about 15 days until we're all meant to be piling into nightclubs and pubs with no distancing....she's gone completely mad with power.
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14 minutes ago, Chinatoon Bairn said:
Got an email through with my ticket for the Hamilton game this morning, my entry time is 45-60 minutes before kick off. Wouldn't even contemplate it if I was next to my pals never mind sitting with no one around me.
Just ignore that pish, got the same for a euros game at hampden and turned up an hour and a half after My ticket said to. No one cares because it’s young lads on minimum wage scanning your ticket, they aren’t gonna cause a fuss are they.
Im not one of those Dawson park boy “these rules only end when we end them!”, wronguns, but with complete and utter pish like this, it’s kind of true. Just ignore that rubbish as a collective and there’s nothing they can do about it
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Ooft, a big kick in the balls about going down was defo the utterly weird fanbase that is raith rovers. Enjoy them lads.
Wonder if you’ll manage to pull off a Hearts and get a point out of the game or something. Rules are there to be interpreted after all
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Sheerin’s interviews are so decent, enjoyable stuff compared to previous duffers efforts
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49 minutes ago, gav-ffc said:
You’d hope so, government rules are bull.
I see Aberdeen have applied for 8k for the first game of the league season.
Gonna be a right riddy when all England leagues open with full stadiums for league fixtures, and we have 1k spread out across 3 stands with a morgue like atmosphere (even more so than usual)
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On 07/07/2021 at 19:26, Strikerturnedkeeper said:
Holt will bring his son back in to sit on the bench and pay him 50k a season as well. Holt is killing FFC and needs to go.
Called it perfectly - we have a new ITK ladies and gents.
Holt GTF
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Holt’s son. This cannot be real. Nothing this horrendous could ever happen to one club. Surely.
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3 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
We're offering out two year deals like it's a tesco meal deal. Now I hope to god we're all wrong and Sheerin has identified him as a player that will suit the football he wants to play but by god on the face of it it's an absolute honking signing. Dumbarton fans weren't even bothered about him going.
The posters on their thread who clearly know a bit about football basically choked with laughter at the thought of him going full time/being good enough for promotion challenging team. Get holt to f**k!!
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2 year deal for Jaime Wilson. This disgusting club is in for a right laugh this season. Mutiny beckons
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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I don’t think we’re even close to being the most negative fan base in the country.
Even last summer when we had an as yet unproven (bad or good) M&M, a few additions who we thought would bring some decent quality (Alston, Keena, Dowds, Morrison) the mood on here was pretty positive. Same with season before. This summer however, now we have a guy on 50k who’s job is to give us a good transfer window, has been the most pathetic in my memory and we have only been let down for the last about decade.