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1 minute ago, The Grass Is Greener. said:
I doubt very much you'd have the same opinion if say, Alan Stubbs told everyone at a fans meeting what a Falkirk player was making.
It wouldn't bother me personally. It's not my wages. (though I'm retired now anyway
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Once the genie is out the bottle, it's gone.
The onus is on players, their agents, and their "ITK" friends who post on messageboards to keep schtum. If they don't then they can have no complaints when the information ends up somewhere they don't want it to go.
Which is why I don't think the reveal is a valid reason to attack our manager.
Fill yer boots though. I'm sure you will anyway.
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21 minutes ago, The Grass Is Greener. said:
Lets say PH does know, do you think he should be blabbing at a fans meeting? Looks like he's making excuses already.
If Houston knows, then it's probably open knowledge in the football community. The money that the "other guy" gets is a hot topic in any occupation, never mind one like football, where there are massive variances across different clubs.
Why shouldn't he share that with supporters if it helps him make a point?
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1 hour ago, BottiBiabi said:
It appears we have a goalkeeper in on trial with us, don't know his name though
No we haven't. We have a goalkeeper who's taking part in training because you need four when there are two small-sided matches going on simultaneously.
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3 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
No trying to be a smartarse or anything here, but how do you know?
I only ask as I see occasionally some stuff posted on here and wonder if its people who are within the club and genuinely know this stuff?There are people who post on here who have, shall we say, an association with certain players. Which is why if a trialist appears in a U20 game he often gets named either on here or social media.
The problem is that so much shite gets posted it can be difficulty to separate the accurate from the asinine.
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1 hour ago, ilostmyself said:1 hour ago, Marshmallo said:
Shepherd should've been released, he's never going to make it and is clearly not part of Houston's plans.
Why would we release someone who's under contract? You'ld almost certainly have to pay him his full salary to get him to leave unless he waived his right to it. I wouldn't.
Better to keep him as part of the squad where he may be needed. He was needed last year, when we recalled him from his loan at Brechin, and he set up two goals. One of them gave us three points instead of one at Raith Rovers and without it we wouldn't have finished second. The other goal set us on our way to beat Hibs in that glorious "GIRFUY Stubbs" night in May.
He may yet have a contribution to make. As for that matter may our much-maligned captain.
If we have to pay them, keep them at the club and let's see what they can do for us.
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18 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:
That is a lot of assists over one season between the full team, I make that 59 before you get to the 2 assist players and down?I'm a sad so-and-so and have an interest in Falkirk stats. Every time we score a goal I review it on FTV to see which Falkirk players was the last one to touch it before it was knocked into the net, assuming the touch was intentional. For example, if Alston wins a penalty from which Baird scored, I class that as an assist for Alston. We scored 84 goals last year and I calculated 83 of them as assists. These figures are purely for my own amusement and have nothing to do with official stats, if such a thing exists for this. And yes, Smith did have 6 assists. For example:-
25/7/15 East Fife Smith cut the ball back from the byeline for Baird to lash it high into the net.
18/8/15 Peterhead Smith put in a cross from which Cooper headed past the keeper.
22/8/15 Livingston Smith cut the ball back from the byeline for Vaulks to score.
28/8/15 Dumbarton Smith put in the cross which the defender miskicked to Alston, who scored.
12/9/15 St Mirren Smith crossed to the back post for Leahy to loop a header over the keeper
12/9/15 St Mirren Smith cut the ball back from the byeline for Baird to sidefoot into the net.
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36 minutes ago, lanky_ffc said:
Can't find the stats for assists, but last season Alston scored 10 in the league and Vaulks got 6. I'm not convinced Craigen and Rankine will make the same contribution, so it's up to other players to step up or we're in for a tough season.
By my reckoning, Vaulks had 12 assists and Alston had 10. They were the two most prolific chance-creators in our team, along with Sibbs who also had 10. Muirhead & Baird had 8 and then on 6 were Smith, Miller & Leahy. Nobody else created more than 2, with the exception of McHugh on 3.
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11 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Tried it at the start of last season and it never worked. We all said then he won't be trying that again.
It worked away from home to an SPL side when we beat Patrick.
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27 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Johnny Flynn....(Shudders)Aaargh. I won't get to sleep tonight now.
You used to be my friend Mr W. Goodbye.
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10 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
This is bonus money and should be reinvested in full on a couple of players to excite the fans not ones at the tail end of their career or raw youngsters. Problem is a lot of the options are now signed up but that's the problem with selling players once the season has started.
Unfortunately the club don't have any control over when bids come in and the one that took Vaulks away wasn't on the table before the season began.
As for raw youngsters, Vaulks was 19 when he arrived. The same age that Liam Henderson is now. We have no way of knowing whether he'll turn out just as good as his former teammate. And despite what has been posted previously on this thread, Henderson was signed for the first team and not the U20s. Is it possible we already have the replacement for Vaulks on our books, with Rankin a short-term stopgap until the younger player gets up to speed?
I don't know. I do know that during the 36 years I've been watching Falkirk, our best players have either been ones at the "tail end of their career or raw youngsters". (Stainrod, Latapy, McAllister, Kerr etc). That's the market we traditionally operate in. It hasn't stopped us being reasonably successful.
And on a slightly different note, I wouldn't rule out some of the U20 midfielders coming through in the near future. I watch them every week and I was very impressed by what I saw of (Scotland Youth International) Reis Peggie last season. Cameron Blues may not be far away either.
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3 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Look m8 unlike our board I'd like to see us get out of this league in the near future. We'll never do that if we keep selling our best players and not reinvesting the cash in some quality players. You may be happy at losing players like vaulks and replacing them with the usual journeymen and that's your prerogative but I'm not and that's mine. Yes players move on but we need to reinvest the cash in the team now that we no longer have money issues.
Money is being reinvested though. Many of our current squad have signed new contracts in the last couple of years and it's a reasonable assumption that their wages will increase each time we do that. I'm pretty sure it was announced that we paid transfer fees for a couple of the recent acquisitions too. When was the last time we did that? Alan Gow?
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3 minutes ago, Andreas Kelevra said:
Houston should have players scouted and potential targets for positions where players could likely be sold - like Grant, Leahy, Sibbald, Vaulks and O'hara.
No one is Scotland can match Vaulks for his athleticism, look at the way he celebrates a goal for Christ sakes! Signing Rankin as a replacement would be a slap in the face to the fans and further proof of Houston's poor, lazy and unambitious recruitment.
Havers. The fact that we signed young players with potential like Gasparotto, Kidd, Austin & Hippolyte suggests that Houston knows exactly what he wants and will bring them in when they become available. You might get the odd stopgap signing on a 6 month contract in between, such as Kevin McCann, Lee Miller (or John Rankine??), but in the end I trust Houston to bring in a suitable replacement if Vaulks leaves.
Whether we'll get that younger replacement in this transfer window remains to be seen. I suspect not, unless we're willing to pay over the odds for him. And in the meantime, if Rankine does sign, he'll get the chance to prove he can do the job. Folk said the same thing when we signed Miller and Kerr and both have done alright.
In Houstie we trust.
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5 minutes ago, Trump said:
So Mr Dust your alternative to Leahy is, Dick? A guy who couldn't get a game over Leahy? Happy to be proven wrong if people can suggest a serious realistic alternative that would be better than Luke at left back.
The alternative to Leahy is Tony Gallagher, the U20 left back. He's very good and will probably go as far if not further in his career than Steven Kingsley. And I raved about Kingsley long before he made his debut for the first team.
As for O' Hara, he's been an excellent player for us at U20 level. Deservedly player of the year at that level last season. He hasn't quite clicked at first team level yet but I wouldn't be surprised to see him do it this year, assuming he gets a chance. Nathan's arrival puts him slightly further down the pecking order but both he and Scotty have the potential to do well. I wouldn't be averse to seeing either going out on loan at a lower level. It didn't harm Mark Stewart's career and it would free up a space for Mark Stowe to shine. He looked like another gem during the match against Stirling Uni.
And on a separate topic, where are all those nice Hibs boys tonight? Out drinking Carlsberg to show their love of all things Danish?
I love the Danes, so I do. Quite fond of the Maltese too.
GIRFUY Edinburgh.
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14 hours ago, FalkirkLad said:
Nothing has been officially said but apparently so
He sat in the main stand with the rest of the unstripped players so no he's not away.
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17 minutes ago, Senor Bairn said:
Really impressed with Austin and Gallagher, look absolute ballers
I thought Gallacher was fantastic. He just strolled through the game.
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Are we going to hear if Rogers has made his mind up before the team fly to ireland?
I'd think that depends on what he said. Clubs don't usually make statements on failed attempts to bring in players, so if he knocked us back there won't be any official comment. It will probably come out the first time a news or TV reporter asks McInnes or Houston what happened.
If he agrees, then I'd expect it to be announced once all the paperwork is signed and sealed.
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Surely a guy Stenny fans thought was shit isn't gonnae save the day. I'd assume we will need to spend a long time moulding him.
It's all opinions of course.
I think even Ronaldo would look shit if you surrounded him with Stenny players. There could have been a dozen reasons why he didn't shine at Stenny - carrying an injury, being played out of position, etc etc.
Houston obviously sees something in him and I'd prefer to trust his judgement than a Stenny fan.
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I was told that Henderson is seen as a future replacement for Kerr and that he'd learn the role in the 20s. Not to say he won't get some game time though.
Fair enough R. No doubt once the players return for training there'll be a few FFCTV interviews with the gaffer and we'll get a better idea of what his plans are. Henderson's a big lad and I wouldn't be surprised if he was going to be used to add a bit more physicality to our midfield. Houstie admitted after the Killie game that they outmuscled us and that it's something we need to address.
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I would have both McMinn and Henderson as development team.
Jury is very much out on whether we will see Shepperd kick a 1st team ball too.
Liam Henderson will be 20 in two months. I'm therefore dubious about the ongoing stories that he's been signed for the Under 20s, particularly when you consider our limited budget. Are there any direct quotes from the management team to support this theory?
As for Shepherd, he's been playing well ever since he came back from Brechin. He set up a couple of goals for the first team at the end of last season and was used ahead of O Hara in a few of the playoff games. I agree that the arrival of Austin probably pushes him further down the pecking order, but if he continues his form of the last few months he won't be far away.
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I didn't understand why Rogers signed that new deal up there.
If they weren't willing to consider him for next season then why stay?
Perhaps he thought he was going to be first choice?
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Kevin McHattie and John Rankin? Give me strength.
I doubt either are true though.
I was at a press conference recently when Houston recently identified the positions he wanted to strengthen and they weren't in midfield. He stated defence, but
I can't see us looking for a left back when Tony Gallacher is waiting in the wings. Centre half, rightback and goalie are more likely IMO.
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Am I remembering it wrong or did he score an overhead kick?
They were both close range finishes. Once was a tapin from about a yard out and the other saw him flick a cross past the exposed keeper. He did put in an acrobatic cross to set up Jay Fulton for the third though, so it may be that you're thinking of.
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Thought I'd seen Dunfermline linked with him.
That would be fantastic. Another reason to hate them.
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Absolutely, but even so there is space for another player or two at that level out with the 17's who come up.
For example Rhys Peggie was brought in mid season last year
And Reis Peggie too.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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He was a schoolboy at Forth Valley Academy and although he got a few games for the Under 20s he wasn't one of the ones who was offered a professional contract. So his departure from the Academy didn't free up any money.