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2 hours ago, Springfield said:
We told the players that anyone who wanted a picture with their families was to come up to the stage after the fans had left. There seemed to be an endless line of players, staff and volunteers who wanted shots with different folk and I think the SPFL staff were pissed off waiting. So much so that they started dismantling the stage while pics were still ongoing.
That image was one of the last ones, hence the last of staging at the back. It was 1845 before I took my final picture. Hence why there will be no hospitality images this week.
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12 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said:
Hope that horrible c**t Doncaster doesn’t come near our stadium tomorrow.
He'll be there, but won't be announced as it would just lead to jeering when people should instead be cheering for Jim Jefferies. Just ignore him.
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As a club, why would you allow a newspaper to break your stories?
Depending on how close you are to the local rag, you might give them advance notice of a story and tell them you're going live at 1700 so they can release the story at the same time as you.
But letting them break your stories? That's just totally tinpot. If I worked in your media department I would be raging.
We used to have directors that leaked signing stories all the time, but that was just to their mates, not the papers. And the club still ran all their own stories even if various "I want to look ITK" fans on facebook had told the world first.
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1 hour ago, printer said:
Did he not take that role over from Houston?
He may have been earlier in his career. When McCall arrived at Falkirk to take the managers role in 2002 Houston appears to have been assistant to Craig Levein at Hearts. A quick online check shows that he want to Hearts in 1995 along with Jefferies.
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1 hour ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
I thought he was Ian McCall's assistant?
He was. Kevin McAllisters was Tottens assistant but both were removed when the team were relegated. Then Airdrie went bust, McCall arrived and a new golden age for the club began.
Tony Docherty was a community coach when Alex Totten was in charge.
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2 hours ago, bairn88 said:
Mcglynn, Mcinness and Docherty up for manager of the year. Think if we avoid defeat on Saturday it’s only heading one way
Saturday's result won't matter; all the votes are already in.
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1 minute ago, Springfield said:
Also think the club missed a trick on the amount sold, going by a few FB pics of the amount queueing at shop.
I'm guessing here, but it might have been a way of getting rid of the remaining stock left over at the end of the season.
Whether more could have been made would I suppose depend on lead times and minimum order numbers. It might not have been feasible bearing in mind that we'll be releasing new kits shortly, probably around the time the team return for preseason training in June.
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20 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Can only assume @Bainsfordbairn has phrased that really badly. Still photos rarely tell you much but on the face of it the photo looks like a penalty and his post about being "fractions late" and the "ball had gone" sounds as clear a description of a penalty as there is. Something lost in translation perhaps. I'll wait for the footage.
No, I've phrased it in such a way that it can't cause offence to any players or club officials, all of whom I know personally, rather than suggesting they may have been at fault. Professional football people can sometimes be incredibly sensitive to what they perceive as criticism, as anyone who dealt with a certain odious creature who used to manage us will testify. I don't think Finn is like that but I'm not taking chances.
While still putting out the picture that I think explains the decision.
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8 minutes ago, Roboccop said:
Thank the ref. What was that second pen for?
No-one knows for certain. The only thing I could see is that after an Annan player hit a shot, his leg came into contact with Finn's boot as he challenged. You can see the ball behind the number fours leg so Finn was literally a thousandth of a second too late with the challenge and the ball was there to be won. I showed him the pic on the bus home afterwards and he was bemused at the award as the ball had gone.
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49 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Cal Morrison won every male football award on the night (from memory).
Yep. FSS Player of the Year, Junior Bairns POTY, Players POTY, Fans POTY & goal of the season. (Montrose I think).
On the womens side, Iona Bridges won POTY, Ella Stewart breakthrough POTY (now a first teamer while still a schoolgirl and a cracking wee 'baller) and Outstanding Achievement went to Rachel Pirie. The women will have their own private awards night for players and staff after the season is over, hence why the categories are a little different from the men.
On the recognition side of things, Jean Sneddon got a Lifetime Achievement, Joe Wallace (retiring groundsman) an Outstanding Contribution and Robert Cox (longstanding volunteer and current boardroom attendant) Special Recognition.
The Foundation did similar awards for some of their people.
Club staff are likely all off today but I'd assume there will be announcements, stories and pics uploaded tomorrow.
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13 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:
Great to see. With the Alloa game hopefully being a historic occasion would it be too much to hope for that Falkirk TV have multiple cameras at the game so that we can see the crowd in all its glory? Cameras behind the goals even? I'm sure I watched highlights of one of our recent league games and the other club (can't remember who it was, sorry had )at least 2 cameras in use.
There are plans to record more than normally happens. The young student who does "story of the matchday" runs her own company and some of her people will be there on the day to record additional footage. She's very good, as to be fair Luke was before her. In addition to her input, the club were testing / trialing a new remote video camera at the weekend. They intend to capture as much as they can of what will be a historic day.
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1 hour ago, Shodwall cat said:
What's the situation with the current apprentices? They will return from their loans this summer but how long does the apprenticeship last for? I presume there is a time when a final decision has to be made regarding signing them for going forward.
They all got two years deals last summer, as did Pearse Carroll the year before them.
I imagine the gaffer will look at their performances during preseason before deciding to either put them out on loan or retain them for part of his matchday squad.
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20 minutes ago, Gaz said:
I used to teach him. He's a good lad. He was on the bench for a game against Edinburgh (I think?) a few months ago. I've been trying to keep an eye out for him.
He and Liam Carmichael are the two centre-halves for that team and are both young enough to still play for the team next season. He's a big lad (I think he's taller than Logan Sinclair) so he'll have a chance of making it. As I said earlier, I'm really curious to see who gets apprenticeships this summer.
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9 hours ago, Gaz said:
Was a lad called Cameron McNab playing in either game?
Yes. He's a centre half with the U18s.
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51 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
U16's beat Stirling 3-0 and the U18's followed suit winning 3-1.
Dominated the ball and had plenty of chances to win more convincingly in each of the games.
There are some really good players in both those teams. I'm going to be interested to see who McGlynn decides to give apprenticeships too.
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37 minutes ago, 60`s bairn said:
I believe his former team mate Luke Rankine scored 4 in the same match v Celtic "B".
Yep, Luke is a very good player in my eyes. He scored goals for fun in the couple of years I saw him and was probably unlucky that his birth date meant that when he was too old to play another season at U18 level there was nothing else for him at FFC. Nowadays we have modern apprenticeships but the money for those only became available after he had to leave. I think he's at Alloa now and on loan to the Shire.
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When the academy was relaunched, there were a fair number of online doubters on here who went out of their way to criticise. The worst ones were doing it just because they opposed everything the old board did, but they weren't the only ones. There were all sorts of allegations about recruitment and the standards of players being no better than Sunday league.
I disagreed, because I was watching the boys most weeks and saw some really good footballers.
One of them was this lad, whom I've heard nothing but good things about since we loaned him out to the Shire. He scored the first Falkirk goal in the first new academy game and is the only one left of that team who's still involved at the club. As a winger, he's got a hell of a job to dislodge Morrison, Miller, Agyeman & maybe Ross next season, but at least he's doing well at the level he's currently at.
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43 minutes ago, Bairney The Dinosaur said:
It's great news!
I'm still hopeful we will see a bit more investment towards the women's team (and wider pathway) - success like this only increases the chance!
AFAIK, no-one invests anything in the womens team. All the staff are volunteers, the girls do it for the love of the game and the money to pay for things like GPS vests comes from external sponsorship. The team bus we had today was paid for by everyone chipping in as the Foundation wouldn't supply anything.
The coaches deserve enormous credit for the work they've done.
A wee side story about today. Someone associated with Forfar claimed that our girls are shite. In the last two games against them we've scored nine and conceded none. I'll take that level of shite every week.
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4 hours ago, Bula Bairn said:
The only other banners I can remember at TFS or Brockville was calling for a board or manager to be sacked!
Thirteen years ago.
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32 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Even allowing for the fact you have the best squad in the league it was a supremely stupid decision to let Dylan Tait go.
The boy is far too good for this division.
Dyl getting some practice in before the game next week.
Banter aside - Accies fans - the boy is an absolute quality baller who looks perfectly at home in our team.
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2 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
So has everyone just decided to award the Kelty OG to Morrison now?
As we discussed before, he wasn't even counting it himself when he got to 50!
This sort of thing messes with my ch'i @Bainsfordbairn
He didn't count it so I guess we don't either.
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1 minute ago, bridge of allan bairn said:
Like this and thanks for sharing @Bainsfordbairn
Out of interest, how do you define the assist on a penalty? Is it the player that won the penalty?
Yes, it's the player that won the penalty. Unless the player fouled is the scorer, as Morrison was at Palmerston a few weeks back. In which case I give it to his teammate that set him up to be fouled, which on that day was MacIver.
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7 hours ago, RC55 FFC said:
I think the SPFL may have it wrong tbh. Our (podcast) stats man has Morrison on 23 goals & 11 assists, granted that’s across all comps.
It depends on how you define an assist. I keep my own notes and my definition is the last Falkirk player to touch the ball before the scorer puts it in the net.
By my reckoning:-
14 Miller
12 Nesbitt
11 Spencer
8 Morrison, MacIver
6 Agyeman
5 Mackie, Oliver
4 Henderson
3 Yeats
2 McCann, Donaldson, Shanley
1 Lawal, Lang, McGinn, Walker
8 goals had no assists as they were set up by a defender clearing to a Falkirk player.
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2 minutes ago, LeodhasXD said:
I must say I'm traumatised from seeing the images of folks fingers getting chunks blown out them though so you can feel free to hold on to it. I'll not be doing that.
As I've never held a flare and likely never will I have no idea if your fingers can get chunks blown out them or not. In the interests of public safety though, I'm sure our fans would appreciate some clarification.
Can we see these images which traumatised you so much?
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I've no idea. I haven't contacted the guys today, but they tend to be dedicated and would likely have put them up today despite the hangovers. However, the Alloa highlights removes some of the urgency so I'll guess at tomorrow.