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Not really. Telfer, Alston, Morrison & Fotheringham are ahead of him in the pecking order at the moment. If you want to replace any of them with an offensive midfielder then who's left? Gomis & Miller aren't creative, Connolly's injured, Todd is gone and Aidan Laverty doesn't seem to be rated despite having had several contract extensions.

Holt signed Peter Grant but I was told that Houston subsequently had the option to cancel the transfer and didn't. No idea if that was true or not, but given that Grant never featured in the first few months it's possible. However, when Vaulks moved into midfield Houston not only made Grant an ever-present but quickly gave him a contract extension. So I think it's fair to say that Houston eventually recognised his ability. Can't argue about the dross he brought in right enough.

I think it was about looking after season ticket holders. Ours get FFCTV for free if they're not allowed into games. At the time seasons went on sale we were looking at a 27 game season, so say 13.5 home games. I did a quick search and our "middle" season ticket price was £185. (for the main stand - prime seats were £225 and South stand £170) So working on that basis, our season ticket holders would pay an average of £13.70 per game to watch on FFCTV if all games were played and fans were never allowed in. In which case setting the "walkup" price at £13.99 seems understandable.

He wanted to stay after we got relegated and was led to believe he'd get a contract. Then McKinnon dumped him. We've been paying for it ever since. Every f'cking game he has an absolute blinder against us.

I believe the company who bought out the car garage are still paying for that signage. It’s up to them if they want to update their branding.

For me Houston picked up more decent players than any manager who’s followed him. Nobody since has recruited as many who had the impact of Tom Taiwo, Peter Grant, Mark Kerr, John Baird, Danny Rogers, Lee Miller or Myles Hippolyte.

There was booing from outside the stadium.

He only got one start, in a match where we were largely dominated so he was starved of service. If either Todorov or Laverty had been given the game time that Aaron Jarvis got we may not have gone down.

I'm sure I saw the missing lamps laid out in the South stand this morning. My guess would be that's it easier to install the framework without all of them being fitted.

Josh Todd in the foreground, Aidan Keena in the back.

The statement implies that the SPFL have the power to impose what they want and ignore the wishes of their member clubs. Over to you Mr Doncaster. Give us the 18 game league that many of us prefer....

I agree with you but I think it's irrelevant. Craziness happens. For example, it would be crazy if an English club could train at the Oriam but the Scottish club who were based there weren't allowed to. Hull City train at Oriam in Edinburgh as Hearts told not to - BBC Sport The SFA will decide whether League One games can resume or not. But the government evidently have an input, though I don't know if they have a veto. Suspension of Football Update | 9 February | Scottish FA The problem is that I don't see the SFA allowing us back at a time when our goverment are taking a "not just yet" stance with the rest of society. .I don't think they have the balls for it.

It specifically says "non-contact" so they won't be playing football. Posted at 14:4814:48 Numbers who can meet outdoors set to be increased next month The first minister emphasises how she hopes more pupils will return to school in Scotland from 15 March. This will involve getting the remainder of primary school pupils and more senior phase secondary pupils back into the classroom for at least part of their learning. Ms Sturgeon adds that she also hopes to restart outdoors non contact group sports for 12-17 year olds in this phase. And it is hoped the limit on outdoor mixing between households will be increased from four people from a maximum of two households.

Around 2/3 of the current squad will be out of contract. Exceptions being Morrison, Dowds, Alston, Keena, Miller, Mutch & Sneddon.

Dale Brooks.

Although I'm retired now I mainly worked in Glasgow during the decades when Rangers were the dominant force in Scotland. And my hatred for the club stems from the people I met back in those days. As a very rough generalisation, the Celtic fans I knew were ordinary folk. Whereas a lot of the Rangers fans were guys who were as thick as shit and whose job was to sweep the floors and clean the toilet. They were right at the bottom of the intellectual and evolutionary scale. But they thought they were special. Because they supported the Rainjurs. And if Ally McCoist scored against us on Saturday you could be sure they would always make a point of passing my desk on a Monday morning to remind me that they were The Peepul. Nowadays the gloryhunters have probably been following Celtic for the last decade or so. But as I don't know many of their lowlifes they don't bother me so much. Sorry for taking the thread away from Falkirk. But it's surely better than reading about suggestions of Neil McCann for manager?

Must admit that I'd love to the see top league declared null and void. I have a lot of (otherwise-decent) FB friends who're diehard Rangers fans and the gloating from them atm is doing my head in. The absolute fury it would provoke would almost be worth it. I despise that club more than all the rest combined.

From a purely statistical point of view, there was no "new manager bounce" when we changed policy to a club who sacked managers instead of blindly sticking by them. Hartley failed to win any of his first nine matches, seven of which we didn't even score in. McKinnon lost six out of his first seven. M&M were a slight improvement because we stopped losing games under them (Clyde excepted), but were still drawing with the likes of Airdrie, East Fife and Stranraer. And of course failing to beat Raith. Partly for that reason I have my doubts that they'll be binned before the season ends. I suspect they'll get the chance to finish the job they started, providing of course that we don't bomb again over the next couple of games.

I usually have a look round at who's in the stands and while I can't be certain because they're all wearing masks, I haven't seen Andy Thomson at an away game since Kirkcaldy. Gary Deans at Clyde was the only time I've seen any Falkirk director outwith TFS since the season began. I don't think any of them are travelling. We have a media officer who writes the match report, tweets during the game and sometimes does a post match interview, as he did after Clyde. He's quite capable or setting up the camera on a tripod and then pressing the "record" button without any help from me.

FFCTV weren't there to make any. One of the East Fife TV guys said they would interview our management for us after the game. No idea what happened to it.

Go talk to the FFCTV guys about the treatment they received from a certain ex-manager. When he was actually prepared to talk to them. Which wasn't long, because after a very mild set of questions following a defeat at Firhill he never did a post-match interview with them again. Everything afterwards was done by a club employee. I'd hate to do that job. No matter what line you take you piss someone off. Either the fans who think you're being too soft or the management who won't take what they see as disrespect from an unqualified nobody.

Yep, because the likes of Camelon Juniors, Shire and Stirling Uni Women are still allowed to play.

Professional sport follows a different set of rules which were agreed by the government. before the season began. Those haven't been changed. If professional sport followed the same rules as everyone else then none of our games could have gone ahead. You're not allowed to leave your council area if you're level three, which we've been for the majority of games since we started playing again in mid September.

I wouldn't disagree with this, although there are on or two exceptions in Falkirk's case. Gary Holt at Alloa after Phil Roberts threw a hissy fit after being sent off was one. Steven Pressley at Peterhead when he slaughtered Jack Compton was another, though I think that was only in the press conference rather than to a TV camera. Paul Hartley at Firhill when his contempt towards the FFCTV interviewer shone through clearly was another, as it gave an insight into how odious he could be IRL. Zak's Ruddens "I'm just here to effin score goals" at Firhill was a good one, as were Housties "deal with it" and "journeymen" for the rage they created amongst opposition fans. I think I can mind him getting some sort of SFA charge after slaughtering a ref at Ibrox on FFCTV too.

The FTV ones are usually done on a Friday, at least with the current management. I think "accidentally forgetting about" injuries is standard practice for most managers. I've sat in press conferences with different ones over the years when they've given their squad a clean bill of health when asked by the journos. Meanwhile, I'd just come back from a school visit with a player who got lumbered with the job because he was injured and so unavailable for the weekend.