Bainsfordbairn

It's a lot harder than it was when new, causing more jarring on the body when you run on it.

The kits will be launched after the players return to training. Probably being worn by new signings to get a bit of a buzz around the place. I think preseason was scheduled to begin 15th June so I'd expect the kits to be unveiled around the middle of next month.

Me too. They gave us a brilliant week in Ceske Budejovice which was the first time I ever went abroad in my life. Doing it to follow Falkirk made it extra special. I know of at least one saddo memorabilia collector who went round the sports field after the first game nicking all these posters Probably still got them in his house. Anyone remember buying the fish on a stick?

There was no time to do an interview last week. He came in at night, met with the board, presumably had his reps scrutinise the contract and then signed it. An hour after doing that the photographer - me - got him and PS for ten minutes to take some images so that the club could release the story. Then on his first day today he met the press to answer questions and posed for images from the two media outlets who sent photographers. He was planned to do an FFCTV interview today but for a couple of different reasons it didn't happen. I don't see it as a big deal. It'll be done in the next few days and it wasn't down to incompetence from anyone, as I think you're inferring, or conspiracies from dodgy staff / directors which was a major theme on here this time last season. It's just life. Sometimes things don't always go to plan.

It was one of the questions he was asked at the PC today, and he basically replied that he already knows a great deal about our players. To answer the previous poster which you were responding to, I don't think there's any danger of the contracted players returning in the next few weeks. Particularly as many of them are already abroad on holiday. I can't see them back until pre-season training begins in mid June.

There was a press conference and photcall today. Falkirk TV interview will be later in the week. As far as fanfare goes, it's possible they might have some sort of "meet the manager" event during the close season. I'm guessing that if it happened it would be once season tickets go on sale.

The trialists who played that day were Jordan Allan and an ex-Motherwell defender called Luke Watt. I guess it's possible he could have travelled up with the squad but he didn't get any gametime.

No, and I don't know when I will be. Not yet anyway.

Yes. He was here pre-season in the summer of 2018 and came on as a sub in a 2-0 loss to the New Saints. He was injured during the other friendlies and didn't get any more gametime, so no deal was offered.

Yeah that's possible, and it would be a good sign IMO if it were true. Either way though I don't think anything can happen until we announce a manager.

I suspect you may be waiting a while. Normally the manager tells the players after the last game if they’ll be offered a new contract, and the ones who won’t are on the release list which goes out a few days later. This year there is no-one to make those decisions. It’ll be up to the next manager to decide if he wants to offer deals to the likes of Mutch, Telfer etc, assuming they haven’t signed for anyone else before he arrives. So until he’s in place I don’t think you’ll get much of a release list. I guess the alternative is to put up a list of everyone who’s out of contract and add a caveat that the next manager might ask some of them to come back, but that would seem a clumsy way of doing things IMO. We’ll see in the next few days.

Not according to Robbie he hasn't.

I've no idea. All I know is they play under Club Academy Scotland so there ought to be something somewhere. The league FFC are in has us up against Alloa, Stirling, QOS, Montrose and Elgin. I think the league you can play in is determined by the number of teams / staff / facilities you have but I'm by no means an expert. I just turn up and watch them.

So were Hearts dross when they beat them last year? And Fife Academy when they took four off them? And an SYFA select when they did the same to them? Or Celtic when a 17s team lost only 2-1 to them in the cup a month ago? You can only beat what's in front of you. I'd agree the standard of opposition they face in the league isn't great, but that doesn't mean there aren't good players in our teams.

And immediately before that the U16s won 5-0. Yet some people still think these kids are on the same level as what you would see playing down Dawson Park. Some great football on show from both our youth teams.

Spoke to Robbie Mutch five minutes after the game yesterday and he gave me a stat which at the time I couldn't believe. I subsequently checked up and found out he was right. In the first season after relegation, we lost 18 goals. Eighteen. As opposed to 48 this year with one game to go. The season with finished bottom of the Championship we lost 49. Says it all really.

Because someone used the phase “stinking the place out” and I'm pretty sure it was you, although the post has now been edited so I can’t prove it. It was made in response to a question as to why staff were resigning. You said that you hoped "the new board would clear the fucking decks. Sick of seeing the same old faces stink the place out year after year. Gut the place." That's a pretty offensive statement. Particularly when made in response to a question about employees who work in backroom areas such as Finance, Retail, Commercial & Hospitality. Which all four of those leaving / left do. Many of these people are my friends. Are you really surprised that I would make a post defending them? Oh, and before anyone jumps on a bandwagon, this is neither a post defending nor attacking the board. Or the previous board they replaced. I’m generally neutral on boards as they tend to be composed of decent guys and arseholes. I’m cautiously optimistic about the current board as they were elected from fans groups and I like Keith Gourlay, having got on well with him when we were the only two Falkirk fans working in a weegie railway depot 20 years ago.

Or describing them as stinking the place out and demanding they all be sacked when the first team, their manager and the directors who picked him fail at their jobs. Your description of todays events is accurate, albeit the announcement came from FCSL staff who've worked with her for the last fourteen years and wanted to thank her. Sharon will be a massive loss. She's of the nicest human beings I've ever met and at 55 years old I've known a few. She did a massive amount for our club and will be hard to replace.

You already took the pics of them?. No. The earliest strips used to get released was the last game of the season, but there's no danger they'll do that this year because of how things have gone. I don't imagine the strips are even in the country yet.

Cracking strip that, first top I bought myself with saving my pocket money. Talking of strips, Does anyone know if are we still with Puma for next season? Yes. It's their final season I think.

The club didn't announce his contract duration on the day he signed but Camelon Juniors did. It was 3 years.

You missed Steven Hetherington, Finlay Malcolm. Paddy Martin and Jaime Wilson. The deals for Lemon, Cammy Williamson and Weekes are up in the summer. The accurate number is 14, at least based on the dates given on the website the day they were announced. Edited to add that if you guess a squad of 20 there are only 6 spaces to be filled in the summer, assuming of course that none of those under contract can be persuaded to move on. Edited again because I miscounted. Do'h!

It was just one of the standard wind-up posts that I presume are meant to be funny on the COYB FB page.

I know the dates; I was there. This had been planned for some time. If you don't believe me speak to either of the two of them. They won't post on here but Sam at least is contactable and is still at the club. I doubt the plans for his job would be considered confidential, particularly once he leaves in a couple of weeks.

Sam was brought in by Kieran Koszary to be trained up as a longerm replacement for Alex Totten. The two got on very well and the intention was that Sam was to be learning on the job, closely mentored by KK, for at least for the first year. Then KK went off sick and eventually left so that when Sam arrived he was basically on his own, apart from one lady in Commercial who works part time. He was up against it from the start. His arrival had nothing to do with appeasing fans.