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13 minutes ago, Rugster said:
So are you on standby or whit??
Not as such, no. You can't be on standby when you're not paid. I don't sit around waiting for the phone to ring.
The club try to give me as much notice as possible if they expect something to happen. Normally I know a day or two in advance, and occasionally, if an agent has said a player will sign when he returns from holiday, there's been times when I've known a week before.
As a general rule, these things happen pretty quickly. A recent signing was released from his parent club on the Wednesday and we signed him on the Thursday evening. That's fairly standard timing.
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10 minutes ago, ilostmyself said:
Season tickets on sale tomorrow, maybe a signing or two today to get folk excited?
It doesn't work that way I'm afraid. Signings are announced pretty much as soon as they're made because the longer you wait the more chance there is of someone leaking the story.
And while the PR or Marketing folk might like the idea of timing arrivals to coincide with sales events, I doubt the manager would agree. Telling a potential target that he has to wait a week before signing might give him the impression that he's not really wanted. And it would increase the chances of someone else snapping him up in the interim.
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57 minutes ago, ebobsboy said:
Interesting that there are contract offers to players within previous squad. Only one i can think of is Sibbald. Longridge and Welsh knocked back terms so who else is there?
One of the youth players. I don't think the club have mentioned him anywhere so I'd better not, but if you check back who graduated from FVFA in the summer of 16 there's only one who's name hasn't appeared on the released list.
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30 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
Jasiu? Is that a made up name??
Naw it's real.
It's hellish to pronounce as well. Every time I speak to him I get it wrong, much to my embarrassment.
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1 minute ago, wee_bairn said:
Are you going to be sticking around the stadium today for any other reasons...
No, and I'm not in the stadium today. I don't expect to be either.
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1 hour ago, wee_bairn said:
Would be interesting to see what his assists stats were like.
From my way of counting assists, Nelson had four. As did the Yak and Harris. Those above him were Loy with five, three of which he had by the opening league game of the season, then Sibbald and Longridge with 9 apiece.
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58 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
Is that a community side?
Aye. He was with them for over an hour and put on what, to my inexperienced eye, was a very good session. It's fairly obvious when you see him on a training pitch that he knows his stuff.
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53 minutes ago, FalkirkLad said:
The new signing letting slip that the Jak might be on his way back, horny.
At the Roman Bar fans event the manager was asked about the possibility of Jakubiak & Nelson coming back. He said we'd be keen to make that happen if it were possible.
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34 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Was only a day out
A miss is as good as a mile.
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17 minutes ago, Rugster said:
They've already publicised the details. Maybe another snapper has been summoned
You're the second person in a few days to post that. Do I smell a conspiracy here?
I didn't bother reading the key dates thing in full; I thought the strip announcement was still to be made. D'oh.
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25 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:
Sure I read somewhere the strip launch is 22nd June. Same day we sign Neymar.
I think that date will be pretty close. The players return on the 20th and there are a few strip-related things scheduled for the end of that week. I imagine the club will publicise details around the time when the season tickets go on sale.
The Neymar, bit, sadly......
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20 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
Getting another snapper in for it. Don’t want you getting too moistEither way it looks like I have a couple of days off to enjoy the good weather.
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38 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Hearing another signing tomorrow but maybe Wednesday. They are like buses.
I think you might just be wrong on that one.....
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6 hours ago, Rizzo said:
I wish it was a high resolution photo.
Here's a slightly higher one then. He's a big lad.
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28 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:
Are you related to O'Hara by any chance? Only I don't see you jumping on here to defend Alex Harris or Joe McKee or trawling Facebook pages to find people criticising them.
I have no relation to any of the players. I'm very passionate about my team, which is why I read & participate in all the forums and have done so since the first of them, One F, went online around 14 years ago. It doesn't take much browsing to identify folk that have an agenda. Normally it's relatives of the players, which admittedly you could still be.
Some are fairly subtle but the majority are as clumsy as a bull in a china shop. You're obviously one of them. Someone who's rarely posted about our club and then jumps in with strong opinions about a single topic stand out a mile.
Fans aren't stupid you know. They're quite capable of working out what they think of players and if someone with an agenda tries to manipulate that, they quickly get found out and are ridiculed. As some of the replies to your previous comments demonstrate.
Mind you, if you're a fifer troll, as is also possible, then I suppose your clumsiness would be easily understandable.
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51 minutes ago, Believe The Hype said:
My mate is a dj there. I can confirm Scott, is once again, full of shite.
There's a boy on one of the facebook forums who's been slagging O Hara relentlessly for a couple of weeks now. It would probably break P&B forum rules for me to name him, but he won't be hard to spot. He comes up as being a student of Law & Politics at Edinburgh Uni. He looks about ten years old in his profile picture.
I suspect that's ooor EdiBairn. Kev probably got a bird that he fancied or something equally trivial.
I never understand folk who go online and OTT if someone upsets them. Why not just man up and speak to the person directly?
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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
Rumours been going around for at least a couple of weeks that the club didn’t offer Sibbald his deal in time for us to take the option up. This true or not?It's honestly not something I know about, though if it were true that's hardly surprising. I don't imagine folk at the club would publicise their errors.
However, as posts both here and on FB earlier this week prove, things do have a habit of leaking. You said to me a year or so back that certain directors "sing like canaries". I'm no longer as sceptical about that as I once was.
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29 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
I got the impression at Elliots last night that Hartley was preparing us for news of Sibbalds departure.
As of last night the club didn't know what his decision would be. If today is the deadline then we may get an announcement this evening, but I suspect it's more likely to be next week before we know for certain.
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48 minutes ago, Believe The Hype said:
Hope you're right.
He is right.
There is still time for Sibbs to decide to return, or I suppose for Hartley to decide to force him to. Though the latter is unlikely, at least judging from PH's comments last night.
It was just a case of getting the news out quickly. The club rarely sit on things when it comes to signings.
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18 minutes ago, Falkirk_Bairn_1983 said:
Jesus Christ there ain't half some shit gets talked on here. Having O'Hara as a 4th striker is hardly going to make or break our season.
Didn't we have Ryan Mcstay in our squad the last time we won the league??
Aye, and if I mind right he scored the goal that clinched the league title. That was the only goal he ever got for Falkirk too.
Bugger. Rugster beat me to it.
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3 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Can see O’Hara getting some game time from the bench initially. Think Shepherd May go out on loan again though.
I felt sorry for Kev when he got his eight game ban at the start of November. Sheps had just gone out on loan to Edinburgh, Rory hadn't started since the end of September and Hippo & Fash hadn't scored for a month & two months respectively. We were crying out for a goalscorer. That was his chance to get game time, impress the new manager and show what he could do. Instead he got an unjustified OTT ban and by the time he was able to play again the transfer window had opened and Nelson/Jakubiak had arrived.
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6 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:
There's digs at Alex Harris and Scott Shepherd in most posts on this thread
Yes, but you generally target only O'Hara. Most folk aim at Harris, which i don't think you do very often.
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21 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Am I alone in thinking that O’Hara still has the quality we need and is still developing?Both O Hara and Shepherd (who I think Edi Bairns posts are championing) have quality. Shepherd's awards this season at Edinburgh City prove that. Both are pacey, have a bit of skill and can finish, at least when the pressure is off. (Both have missed glaring chances for the Falkirk first team, but have been prolific in spells when dropping back to U20s) . And I say that from the perspective of having seen 99% of their games in the navy blue, both at first team and U20 level. I would be surprised if they didn't manage to get careers in the game which follow a similar trajectory to Andy Rodgers; ie scoring goals at multiple clubs for a long time at lower levels.
I'm not sure either have the step up in quality to be prolific at either Championship or higher level, though for obvious reasons I would be delighted if either could prove me wrong. It seems both will be FFC players next season so they will have a chance to do so.
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37 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:
I hope these Q and As don't just turn into the usual chorus of "Why aren't we playing the young boys" - because they're not good enough, "why is x player(usually O'Hara) not in the team"- because he's not good enough, and "why aren't we signing junior players"- because they're not good enough.
Do you think you'll ever manage to make a post without getting a dig in about O Hara?
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No, and I'm not in the stadium today. I don't expect to be either.
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