Bainsfordbairn

Hopefully the rest of their lives, given that they're the supporters of the future who'll spend 40+ years watching the team, just as us oldies have done. The buzz of being with your mates, in a gang, and being allowed to make a racket and behave in a way you can't do at school is a draw just now. Some of them have been pulled from the ugly sisters because of the ultra culture. Watching a winning team is certainly a draw for them, but it's not the only one. And I recognise many of them from previous seasons so they haven't just appeared out of nowhere, even if their numbers have swelled now that it's an organised group. A fair number of them are longterm fans who're not schoolkids but adult men in their twenties.

Whenever we played Inverness in the past the boy Oakley always looked a handful. I see he's now at Cappielow, and given that we can take anything Morten value any time we feel like it.....

Donaldson & Henderson were signed by McGlynn.

Yes he is. The is the second year of his two year deal.

You're thinking solely in monetary terms and forgetting the most important factor of all - what the player wants. I think it's safe to say that if money were the sole priority, he would either have joined Linfield or waited until the summer before deciding his future. As there will be other clubs who can pay him far more than we do. He completely threw that idea out the window by committing to Falkirk. He wants to stay here for a while longer. He's already spoken publicly about his admiration for McGlynn. He comes from the area and has a young family who're settled here. He's adored by our fanbase. He's now signed three deals with Falkirk, each of which would undoubtedly see his salary rise to the point where he's probably out top earner. All that combined may be more than enough for him to want to stay with us for the full length of his contract, regardless of who comes knocking and what they offer. Sometimes, job satisfaction and a happy working environment are more important than money.

Nothing against you Ned as you're a sensible poster, but there's a pattern here. the team gets announced it has some rotation in it someone (usually multiple someones on different forums) complain about the selection and occasionally slag the manager the team win anyway and prove the doubters wrong. Given what he inherited, McGlynn is shaping up to be one of the best managers we've had in my 44 years of supporting the club. What does he have to do for people to trust him to make the right call without the benefit of hindsight?

Probably more than the article suggests. We know there are two other contract offers on the table. For the sake of numbers, let's speculate those are Yeats and Shanley, as it was reported the latter has an option. (though we don't know whether that lies with the club or player) So for the out door you likely have six players. Hogarth, McKay, McGinn, Mackie, L:awal and maybe Allan if we wants to leave. We currently have four loanees in Ross, Tait Bisland and Long, That suggests there could be up to ten gaps in the squad. Though my guess is we'll spend more cash on better quality so the overall numbers will reduce slightly. Particularly as the modern apprentices will be in their second year and some of them might be considered ready to challenge for a place.

When Putin says the West has no democracy, he’s not correcting us. He stating an opinion which is then ridiculed by his audience. The same applies to you. You’ve corrected no-one. You’ve made claims which you refuse to substantiate. You’ve attacked posters, board members, fans and the club. You’ve gone out of your way to be insulting to people who tried to engage with you. You’re free to do all of that, and I’ve no doubt you’ll continue. But when you posted about the U18, U16s and recreational teams you showed a knowledge of Foundation activities which no-one would have without being involved. The details of your claims were spurious because the youth teams were created before the dev team folded and at least one of the rec teams was created by players, not Foundation staff, but you still knew the basics. In the eyes of people who read this page, that knowledge marks you as someone connected to the Foundation. And no amount of denials will change that. It’s ironic that you posted in support of the Foundation. Because all you’ve achieved is to piss people off, at least judging by the reaction to your posts. You’ve stirred up hostility against the very organisation that you’re trying to help. Good job mate.

I believe the hope is for the club to have a full academy up and running again for season 25/26. This presumably means that next season we'll still have only U6s and U18s teams with nothing below them. Whether we can afford to recruit enough current U18 player on modern apprenticeships to make up a development or reserve team next season remains to be seen. Only the BOD will know the answer to that, and ATM they've made no comment on the subject. Which is fair enough as there are other things to be secured first. I expect we'll hear more about the youth /reserve setup in the close season.

Kick offs in Alloa are 1030 and 1300 I believe. Time to reach both from Falkirk if you leave now. I might have made the 16s game if the weather had been decent but I'm still drying my gear out from last night.

There will be plenty, but I'm just home and have a date with a beer. Might get a chance to look at them tomorrow after I come back from the girls game against St MIrren. The club used the one of him waving a scarf at the end and Falkirk Daft might use some when they post early in the week. If they don't I'll get back to you midweek.

In a cup no-one cares about where the opposition may not have played their strongest squad or may not have been 100% committed. All this talk of what we might do next year scares me. I'm sure we'll aim to be competing at the top but I'm worried that expectations might be so high that a bad start sees the atmosphere turn quickly.

That rings a bell. Everyone else piled on and after a while the abuse came to a natural end. Then you appeared. You weren't just flogging a dead horse. You were flailing around with a whip long after after it had been turned to glue. Boring doesn't even come close to describing your posts. I've given you a greenie for admitting it. Schadenfreude has been ordered and will be served in due course.

When we got relegated there was the usual pile-on for a couple of weeks as every opposing fan ripped the piss out of us. And then there was one QOTS fan who kept posting on our thread, for probably the whole of summer, with a fresh post on the same subject every few days. He was incredibly boring. Can't mind who. I'm so tempted to look back for those posts and respond with a picture of the Champions when we finally win the league.

It doesn't matter. The league is won, and while we're all so cautious after being burned in the past even Morten couldn't throw this away. We need three wins from our last eight games and that's worst-case if Accies win all of theirs. It will happen against either Edinburgh at home or Montrose away. The only reason to have a preference is if you can't make one of those two games. I thought it was interesting that today saw the first "championees" songs being sung.

McGlynn is very good at getting people onside and all our players love him. As for Tait, he's only been here a month and a half but we haven't seen anything on the field to criticise him for. He works hard, shows for the ball and genuinely looks to be a very good player. His arrival undoubtedly improved our squad.

The whole stadium certainly was. I don't remember the photo and it's not one I've kept, but I think everyone knew that when he walked down the tunnel at fulltime his time was up.

I can't remember the wording of the departure statement, but he was definitely sacked. The QOTS game was our eighth competitive match of the season and in almost every one of them we were outplayed by the opposition, including three games in the League Cup against lower-league teams. After his final league game there were no shortage of calls for the manager to be binned. On the Monday the reserves were away to Brechin for a match against Aberdeen. As I always did, I sat beside our media officer on the team bus. He also doubled as our football admin person. Because of that, his phone never stopped ringing all day. Emergency board meetings, management called in for discussions and by the time we got back to Falkirk I knew he was gone. The departure wasn't his choice.

He was sacked on Monday 27th August 2018 after a 3-0 loss to QOTS in which Queens had 27 shots on goal and we had 3, none of which were on target.

Sorry, but this is complete and utter nonsense from start to finish. We have sixteen players under contract for next season with offers having been made to others. There will be no major rebuild. Evolution not revolution, to quote a conversation I had with a director. All arrivals will be surprises because the club are now good at keeping transfer activity private until it's been announced. For that reason, you have no idea whether there will be surprise departures. And it doesn't depend on getting up, because if it did the club wouldn't have announced extensions already.

Having looked through the pics, I'm beginning to wonder if Long should have had a foul. Looks like the boy jumped into him, and from the angle he was at the ref wouldn't have had a clear view. Possibly number 17 and definitely Finn Yeats would have been blocking his line of sight. The fact that Long was knocked over while the forward stayed on his feet after the punch suggests to me there was contact. Shouldn't make any difference in the long term but maybe someone needs to make the case for Longs defence.

I'd say there's a slight difference. Were you at Inverness in 2006? We were 2-0 up and then ICT put a high ball in on our keeper, Scott Higgins. He tried to punch it and got about five yards distance on it. Caley realised that was a weakness in his game and for the rest of the match they just lobbed high balls into our box from everywhere on the pitch, including our own half. It worked. They beat us 3-2 and every goal was a carbon copy of that one we conceded yesterday. Higgins never played for the club again. Every opponent we face will have seen yesterdays video by the time we play them. They'll all try the same thing. Including Cove on Tuesday night. If he deals with those balls confidently and plucks them out of the air it won't matter.

That has already happened. A number of years back, I took a picture of a young girl, maybe 3 or 4 years old, sitting behind the wheel of a lorry when MAN trucks were a sponsor. I know her father and he and the player are diehard Bairns. I always hoped that one day I would photograph her as an adult in the senior womens team because it would kind of complete a cycle for me. Three months ago, following a conversation with one of their coaches who's a friend of mine, I covered their awards night. Under 13 girls. For probably the last time. That whole team now play in the strips of Bo'ness United.

Unfortunately I've heard a similar story, though as I haven't heard it first hand I can't be certain it's true. Hopefully our board are aware and will be asking some questions.

I might be wrong on this, but there's something in the back of my mind about the Foundation largely funding the development of the South stand interior. Because as a charitable organisation they were able to get external funding for the benefit of the wider community which wouldn't have been available to a professional football club. And build a meeting space to help train unemployed youths to find a job, or a blether with lonely older people, or help folk with their mental health. All are laudable initiatives. I think that's what it's used for most of the week and then every second Saturday it gets turned into a bar run by FFC volunteers to benefit the club and our supporters. I think the same charity funding route applies to the construction of the community pitch at the back of the stadium & Woodlands. And presumably this new project that they trumpeted about a few weeks ago.