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Morrison is here until 2024. CALLUMN MORRISON SIGNS TWO-YEAR DEAL – Falkirk Football Club (falkirkfc.co.uk)

The club publish them, but all the filming and editing is done by a volunteer. He's the son of a former staff member, is a diehard Bairns fan and does it in his spare time outwith his Uni course in filmmaking. Really nice lad too. I've known him for years as I had a lot of time for his mum when she worked at the club.

Yep. I'm guessing that's just a dig at some of the newer posters on here, but when it comes to the FB pages it's 100% accurate. In recent years after we lost there would be a dozen new posts every Saturday evening demanding players managers / BOD members be sacked immediately. Usually with a hundred comments afterwards debating the pros and cons of what the OP wanted. Nowadays you get three or four positive posts which each garner about 25 likes. It seems most people only log on when they have something to complain about.

Won 2-0.

For me, Kennedy was our standout player in the game at McDiarmid Park midweek. He scored our goal and rarely failed to beat the fullback when he took him on. The boy looks a player. With him, Lawal and Alegria fit again our attacking options from the bench now look really strong.

What are you looking for? The player listing is up and has been for some time.. They could do with using the proper Kai Kennedy headshot but that apart it looks fine to me. Players – Falkirk Football Club (falkirkfc.co.uk)

They had an away game against a premier league side. I'm slightly wary of going into details in case the manager wants them kept quiet, but it was basically what he said in his FFCTV interview. The team was made up of players who're not getting game time right now with a number of the Under 18s featuring. McGlynn seems quite open in his interviews; I'm guessing he'll go into details in either his weekly press interview or the next one with FFCTV.

Last August. Beat Peterhead, Airdrie & Clyde in the League and East Kilbride in the cup.

Luke's a decent player. He was prolific in scoring at youth level, just as others before him such as Kevin O Hara, Scott Shepherd, Ally Graham and Thomas Grant were. He's probably at a similar standard to Scott Honeyman who we now have on loan to the Shire though I think he's a bit older. I'll be interested to see how his career goes from here onwards. Good luck to the lad. Except when he plays against us, obviously.

To the last question, yes it does and it's gorgeous. I noticed it on Saturday.

After years of the team being jeered off the pitch at fulltime in every game, that felt significant for me. Another sign that maybe, finally, we've hit rockbottom and are now on the way up again.

Shortly after that we played a cuptie in, I think Dundee. The team team had their prematch meal in a hotel up there and by chance Collum was also in it. He asked the manager if he could speak to Alston and when this was granted he said he'd watched the incident again afterwards and realised he'd got it wrong. Alston got an apology out of Collum for it.

Conversations with club staff around that time. In those days I was in almost every day due to the Commercial jobs that KK seemed to arrange for at least five days a week, and when you're sitting with players in a car heading out to a photoshoot you pick up bits and pieces. I obviously couldn't have mentioned it at the time but it's ancient history now.

I have no idea what we're paying for Hogarth, but at the time we recruited the likes of Mark Waddington and Aaron Jarvis it cost more to put them up in accommodation than it did to pay them. English clubs were happy to loan them out for pennies as long as they they were being pushed harder than they would have been in English youth leagues.

They're been covering the role between them since Connor Park left in September 2020 and were in place as his volunteer assistants for a couple of years before that. They've been at the club for somewhere between three and five years.

I thought that was a bit strange, so I asked the two media officers when I was in earlier for Hogarth. They very rarely block anyone and checked when I was there. Three people have been blocked in the last three years. Two were trolls from who supported Dunfermline & Aberdeen and the third was a Falkirk fan who said that Paul Sheerin should be hanged.

Yes he has. He ruffled Paul Hartley's feathers in a post-match interview and the manager refused to speak to him ever again. Thereafter every interview had to be done by Connor Park. Never underestimate a managers ability to take offence at the innocuous. And I say that from personal experience of the same manager. It's happened a few times over the years at Falkirk with different managers and staff/volunteers. Lewis is right to be cautious. Because if he did have a go at the manager, and the manager responded in kind, the interview would never see the light of day. And the interviewer might not be there next week, depending on how much support each side had from the boardroom.

Offloading poor players can be done by any manager, as long as he has one thing. Money. Or at least enough of it. I have no idea if we have but I'd guess not.

It was said in last weeks programme notes by Jamie Swinney that they hoped to add another 2-3 players by the end of the transfer window. Two subsequently signed after that article in Burrell and Lawal. Lets speculate that the third signing could be a rightback to replace / compete with Williamson, given that he was dropped in favour of Yeats yesterday. Which leaves us with four midfielders in Hetherington, McGuffie, Morrison and Nesbitt that many want dropped. Who do you replace them with? Based on my speculation in the first paragraph, we probably won't sign another midfielder. So you then have possible midfield cover of Henderson, Kennedy, Malcolm & Ross, all of whom are injured atm. Yeats is an obvious candidate to return and based on what I saw yesterday I think Lawal has something to offer, But you're still going to have two out of the original four starting every week. The only other possibility I can think of is playing two up top, say Alegria & Burrell, with three in midfield of Yeats / McGinn / Lawal. Then five across the back with two attacking wingbacks in McCann & Williamson. (or a new RB). But I don't think we have enough fit central defenders to do that unless MacKay is able to return alongside Mackie & Donaldson. Unfortunately I don't think it's as simple as just saying "drop all four" from yesterdays midfield.

It was always obvious. If you post on the same subjects, with the same frequency, using the same language syntax then you're giving very large clues. He gave himself away weeks ago when he replied to something I posted. There were two replies from two separate posters but both said the same thing in almost the same words - privacy, anonymity and private lives to be respected. Which I did, because I commented on the behaviour of a username and not the real human being behind the name.

I assume this refers to me? That’s not a new one; I’ve been accused of being a board sycophant / areselicker (inset any random insult here) by multiple people in relation to different boards over the years. Usually in an attempt to discredit something I’ve said. Which part of the current board am I reporting to? Is it all of them? There appears to be a disagreement between one former board member and presumably two of the others, at least judging by your claims. Am I on the side of the FSS, which I should be given that I’m a member, just as I was of Bairnstrust? Or am I siding with the two patrons and reporting back to them? Or am I part of some fiendish plot by the old MSG board to undermine everybody? It’s complete nonsense, just like most of the conspiracies that get aired on here. I have no communications or contacts with anyone of the board. The only time I normally see them is when they walk into the office on a day I’m working there. Two of them - Nigel Serafini & Kenny Jamieson - are folk I’ve barely spoken to, though when we have chatted I’ve found them to be pleasant & personable. The same description would apply to former director Douglas Moodie. Of the remaining two, I like Gordon Wright. He seems to be at most of the youth games I watch and any director that goes to see the kids gets brownie points from me. He often stops to chat about their performance when he’s walking along the touchline at the end of a game. I just find him to be a pleasant, inoffensive old man. As I think I said previously, Keith Gourlay and I are former work colleagues. He always makes a point of coming over for a blether when he sees me and we do get on well. I’d describe us as being friendly but not quite friends. We didn’t keep in touch during the 20 years our careers diverged and we’re not in touch now, despite your insinuations to the contrary. That’s probably all I want to say on board stuff as I think folk are getting bored with it.

I’m afraid we’re going to disagree again. And the reason I disagree is because of your final sentence. You are 100% correct in what you’ve said in it. Neither of us know if there is an issue, but I think it’s very likely given the comments from some of his friends and his response to them. The question is how you deal with that. For me, you do one of two things. You come out openly and tell the world what the problem is. Or you keep your mouth shut and work quietly behind the scenes with the FSS committee to get it fixed so your successor doesn’t encounter the same issue. What I don’t agree with is endorsing people who’re dropping hints and innuendo. I just don’t see any benefits to anyone in taking that approach. It’s neither open nor transparent, which is something we’d been promised the new setup will be.

I assume you're taking that from the contact page. FFC has ten non-football employees, some of who are part-time. Seven of those employees are listed on the contact page, with the omissions being the groundstaff. SLO appears to be a volunteer; the role has previously been done by both employees and directors. I believe the lady currently doing the role is on the FSS committee. Safeguarding is a volunteer who's been at the club for decades. Disability Access used to be a director who then became a volunteer and has now left. The last three roles are, I think, requirements for all football clubs under SFA rules. Football Operations comes under John McGlynn in the same way as kitmen, physio, sports science etc.

The BOD is Gordon Wright who stayed on after the previous group all resigned, Kenny Jamieson & Keith Gourlay elected by the patrons and Nigel Serafini & (formerly) Douglas Moodie elected by the FSS. As for volunteers, Jamie Swinney said at the last AGM that he had 10 staff and 35 volunteers under him. I think the majority are only needed at home matchdays, such as boardroom attendants, hospitality hosts, 50/50 sellers etc.