Top of Meeks Road

I'm fairly sure Tommy Wright commuted from Northern Ireland when he was at St Johnstone. I'd be astonished if he was interested in a third tier appointment in Scotland.

Rennie going. No surprise. The process starts again!

We are in real danger of falling to a level that will be hugely difficult to escape from. You only need to look 9 miles to see a club like Stirling Albion struggle for decades in the lower reaches. They used to have a similar support to us and probably share not too different a catchment potential. No one gets promotion on the basis of crowd figures or fancy stadia or innovative ideas. Our illusions of grandeur can be well summed up in Sam McGiverns decision to quit. We are immediately advertising for a replacement when we, as a struggling 3rd tier outfit, have a CEO doing what precisely? Honestly, gie me peace!

I've said it already but while we need an absolute cull of arguably the worst squad of the last 50 years, we also need new dynamic leadership in the boardroom. Someone(s) to make us believe there is a way out of our sleepwalk to oblivion. The Rawlins seem to have changed little. What was their motivation? If it was taking a punt on the basis that we could quickly return to the top tier and share values would rocket , then that gamble has failed miserably. We need energy, loyalty, a determination to succeed from those custodians at the top. Ritchie, Alexander and all the other cohorts already gone oversaw the carnage. Surely to God, there must be competent entrepreneurs and successful businessmen out there capable of better... and who won't judge success purely on spreadsheets and fancy graphs. During the boardroom shenanigans in the 80s and 90s, there always seemed to be rumoured investors sitting in the shadows. Where are they today? Are we that much a basket case that you'd be a lunatic to even think of getting involved? For a club located in the industrial hub of the nation, we really have under achieved.

We cannot blunder again. The next decision is critical. I know we are all capable of exaggeration when our emotions are running high, but the apathy and resignation within the support is palpable. Quite simply, the future of the club is at stake. Absolutely no disrespect to Montrose - a club that nearly lost its SFL place only a few years ago - but Falkirk should never be capitulating in a home match to a part time team. Stewart Petrie has worked wonders with what he has... our succession of duds are not in his class!

This is as bad as I remember for over 40 years. Rennie hasn't worked. End it now and give someone a chance to use the upcoming games to some advantage for next season. Keeping Rennie would absolutely be the straw to break the camels back. If the BoD opt to persevere with Rennie then I'll be like the club - finished!

Put simply, once it's mathematically impossible to reach the play-offs (due any day soon), Rennie should walk. Despite the tripe he's inherited, his remit would have been securing a play-off spot. He's failed miserably and has improved nothing. Keep him on and all the BoD do is hasten our continued free fall to football oblivion

The ordinary fans can't turn this around on their own. Yes, ST money provides working capital but we're at a level where gate money is the main source of income. There's no TV money, limited hospitality drawings, lowered sponsorship - all factors that mean it will be impossible in the long run to justify an operating model more suited to an upper championship/lower premiership club. There has to be external funding. Those custodians sitting with sizeable share holdings need to quite simply sell up, at a hugely reduced rate, or gift their influence to others before there's no club left!

We are fast heading towards one of the most critical decisions the club will ever make. New manager absolutely needed... Inadequate squad gotten rid of... Injection of substantial funds desperately required. Can the current BOD deliver all three? I'm very dubious. With the division becoming stronger next season, I really fear for the future as this is as bad as its EVER been. We are currently in our longest spell outside the top tier in our history. This all stems from stubborn obdurate board members not deserting the sinking ship that they captained.

Despite now having excellent facilities at New Hawthorn Park, I'd imagine the reason for Duns not playing EoS senior football remains the same. Like most Borders clubs, players were not interested in travelling lengthy distances to play matches hence their return to localised amateur participation. Unless the EoS league attaches a Southern or Borders section to its bottom tier then I don't see that changing.

Irrespective of what changes occur, or not, over the next few months, the support could do worse than forget ST purchases and show their intent via PATG. Like the old days when STs were generally bought by a few in the main stand, the crowd figures will quickly become the barometer of success (or failure). With a huge ground capacity for the 3rd tier, its not like there won't be enough empty seats every fortnight. Are enough prepared to put performances on trial? If the club delivers, a greater number of PATG fans would actually produce higher income.

The game has changed greatly in recent years as it doesn't take the injection of that much cash (Gretna aside) to become a competent middle ranker. Our current predicament means clubs such as Cove, Queens Park and Kelty are now direct challengers. Unthinkable around a decade ago, it's a reality because it's frankly what we deserve. Fancy grandstands, highest wage payers, annual bullshit slogans, Director of Football, CEO.... its all delusional nonsense. The club produced too many hangers-on when times were good. There really has to be a decent book in this... The Falkirk Story - How not to run a football club. Sadly, we have no idea how to change things as successive and countless bad decisions keep eating up vital funds as we merely fill the pockets of poor footballers and managers. Worrying times doesn't cover it - these are the absolute worst of times.

We are truly at a watershed moment for the club. After this latest debacle, we are almost in last chance saloon. I have no idea how anyone in the board thought a wholly inexperienced left field appointment would be a realistic solution after Sheering was relieved of his duties. We will shortly be looking up at Cove Rangers in a division above while battling in the same tier as a Kelty Hearts club that I watched playing against Camelon Juniors not that long ago! Who would've thought that! We absolutely must get the next appointment right or we will guarantee to lose at least 50% of our regular support. All this loyalty pish will count for nothing when the product becomes so continually stale that people just give up. This is the worst since 1978 and I'm yet to be convinced those in charge have any idea of how to arrest this potentially irrecoverable tail spin.

Was convinced Rennie was a 'trendy' appointment with nothing close to the requirements needed. When your club is in the state we are, left-field just isn't the way to go. Was equally convinced Griffiths is a mere shell of the player he was barely 18 months ago. We are nothing more than a hostel for the country's poorest full-timers. Get the next appointment wrong and we are in real trouble. I'm convinced the BOD will feck it up again as they appear stuck in this 'we're too big for this level' Illusion. This 5 year nightmare shows no signs of ending anytime soon.

As someone just old enough to remember seeing George Connelly squeeze into a Falkirk strip barely three years after being named Scottish Sports Writers Player of the Year, please leave Mr Griffiths to some other club. Like the man I mention, he's rapidly become a shadow of the player he was and arguably still could be.