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.

Mentions of players being promised the possibility of joining us on this amazing journey back to Premier League football is utter nonsense. We are struggling to get out of the third tier so we need to ditch this 'we're too big to be at this level' crap! Leagues are the fairest competitions - you finish where you deserve to be. Lets just concentrate on signing players to get us to the championship then we sit down and re-evaluate.

I really hope the new manager lands on his feet and we see improvement quickly. Unfortunately, the appointment has left me underwhelmed. It has echoes Cathro's fairly forgettable outing at Hearts. This is a huge gamble as avoiding relegation to the bottom division is probably as likely as promotion to League 1 given the ineptitude of the squad. Fingers crossed it works out but we do appear to be going all in blind!

Sheerin comes across as a decent man. Like Eddie May, he is the wrong man in the wrong place. For those who say we can't keep on changing managers, what actually is the alternative? Sheerin is not capable of doing the job he was hired for. In any other walk of life, he would be told to leave. Who cares how that makes the club look. It can't get any worse than how it's viewed tonight after our biggest 3rd tier defeat in our history! And please, don't forget the harm inflicted by those previously on the BOD over the past decade. Many of them are as culpable as the spineless, talentless imposters wearing Falkirk strips today.

The worst ever 3rd tier defeat. The worst league defeat since, I think, 0-6 v Dundee in the Premier League at Brockville. Scandalous!

Seriously worrying times. As another poster said, it will only take a few half decent performances for the feel good factor to return for a good chunk of our support. We'll hear how difficult a division this is and how things still have a chance of coming good. That's all fine and well as that's how fans generally behave. There's always tomorrow. But, that last night was a wake up call for me at least, and many others I hope. To quote a good old scottish saying... It was just wind and pish! Accountants thinking they know best. Bean counters more interested in producing endless reports and stats trying to convince us they have a credible plan. As for Rawlins. We really need a genuine Stoke City perspective on whether he was indeed the messiah or merely in the background selling otters noses at the colloseum!

If the Americans were, quite ridiculously, given 'control' for the princely sum of a new 5 bedroom detached in Kinnaird, then how much are those still holding the majority of the shares looking for to walk? The spiralling decline of the club, and its not bottomed out yet remember, surely makes the valuation a fraction of what it could have been a few years ago. Just as shares rise and fall in the stock exchange, surely Falkirk FC with its part owned stadium, third tier status and absolutely no saleable playing assets must be worth little? The share value must have decimated. On that basis, why don't those really in control cash in their diminishing pile of chips and let some others give it a go for a realistic price? They won't though, because they're power hungry, greedy egotists!

We have become a basket case of a club. Illusions of grandeur mean we appoint a CEO, operate a DoF and have a head coach answerable to the DoF. This is third tier Scottish football ffs! Sacking Sheerin would be merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The same wage thieves would still consistute the playing squad, the same charlatans would still hold the shares and the same lackeys would still be flouncing around with their club ties on thinking what a great job they're doing. With that in mind, there still exists the possibility that we could be a division below Kelty Hearts next season and facing a trip to Bonnyrigg Rose. How sobering and pathetic does that make our 'Premier League' ambitions look?

Feel sorry for Sheerin. Like May, he is sadly another uninspiring appointment by a board that are living in a weird parallel universe. CEO, DOF... its all fantasy stuff. For too long too many talentless suits have ponced around our boardroom thinking they're big time Charlies. Can someone in that bizarre place please accept the reality. We are in terminal decline and you are a huge part of the problem. If they are genuine 'Falkirk people' then they need to accept their failings and walk. MR and SA... your time is also at an end. Put the club up for sale and let's usher in a new era. And before someone mentions the Ewings, errm, sorry, the Rawlings in America, the price of a new house in Kinnaird would clear their input. 'Book your buses for Stranraer' used to be a choir favourite at Brockville. It might be our 2021-22 strap line for selling season tickets?

Feel sorry for Sheerin. Like May, he is sadly another uninspiring appointment by a board that are living in a weird parallel universe. CEO, DOF... its all fantasy stuff. For too long too many talentless suits have ponced around our boardroom thinking they're big time Charlies. Can someone in that bizarre place please accept the reality. We are in terminal decline and you are a huge part of the problem. If they are genuine 'Falkirk people' then they need to accept their failings and walk. MR and SA... your time is also at an end. Put the club up for sale and let's usher in a new era. And before someone mentions the Ewings, errm, sorry, the Rawlings in America, the price of a new house in Kinnaird would clear their input. 'Book your buses for Stranraer' used to be a choir favourite at Brockville. It might be our 2021-22 strap line for selling season tickets?

Terminal decline. Two words that underline our predicament at present. Who's to blame? Where do we start but the infamous 'next level' pish was the start of it all. We really could be in the 4th tier next year with this gang of boardroom charlatans and on-field fraudsters! How bad will it need to get before we take up the fight to save our club? Sad times