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7 minutes ago, BooBairn said:
What a relief that Queen’s Park goal was… season over so time for the board to make a decision now.
There is no decision to even make. If anyone on this board is watching the abysmal product on the park, or looking at the ever increasing gaps in the stands, or seeing how utterly moribund and apathetic the whole club is, and thinking of keeping him on for next season, we are sunk.
Just confirm that Rennie and Miller will not be with the club next season, whether they see out the last three meaningless games or are put on gardening leave or whatever, makes no real difference. And start the process of looking for a new manager. Not a youth coach. Or a "club legend". Or a former ballboy. Or a "left-field appointment". An actual football manager.
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4 minutes ago, 18BAIRN76 said:
Would love to know what McCann has done to Rennie. Must be pretty galling seeing the shite that get picked ahead of him.
Think he's just to got to sit tight and hope, like the rest of us, that this clown will be history very, very shortly.
Incredible that he is never given a chance while reams of utter dross are being selected week after week after week after week after week
Get yourself so far to f**k Rennie.
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19 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Not good reading.
It's not, but it's a pretty accurate assessment of the season, and a bit of honesty is probably an antidote to Diddy Rennie's utterly delusional "flying in training" garbage week after week.
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9 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
Let’s see MR motive and organise them……or not.
His profile also says that he is an accomplished motivational speaker. Let’s see the man deploy that skill set.
If he had had any of that skill set we'd have seen it long before now. He hasn't.
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11 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
The BoD may well see it differently. If they keep him, good luck to them. I don’t think there will be too many precedents, that’s for sure.
Given the importance that is already being attached to next season, I struggle to even contemplate them making the decision to keep him in position. They'd literally just be dismissing the mountain of evidence staring them in the face - performances, results, complete absence of the merest hint of any fight or professional pride, apathy on an industrial scale, rapidly diminishing crowds - crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. It's a gamble we simply cannot afford to take. How could they begin to justify awarding him another contract? They couldn't.
He now has an irrefutable, statistically-provable inferior record to his predecessor.
21/22 League Record under Sheerin: P16 W6 D4 L6 Pts 22 PPG 1.375
21/22 League Record under Rennie: P15 W5 D3 L7 Pts 18 PPG 1.2
No one was looking for miracles but it surely wasn't too much to expect some improvement, especially in respect of the healthy budget he was provided with in January. There has been none. I really hope the conclusion has already been reached that he'll be gone, at the very latest as soon as the season is over, and that replacements are being considered. If not, we are in serious bother. Given the potential make-up of the league next season, I'd genuinely fear a relegation battle if he is still in charge. This experiment needs to end.
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3 minutes ago, Ecosse83 said:
Hopefully Rennie told to pack his bags with immediate effect and never darken our door again
FTFY
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10 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Lolkirk
But but but, we know we're crap.
Whilst your mob are being taken to a race discrimination tribunal by a former player and your knuckle draggers knocked a Cove Rangers fan unconscious last week.
We'll never sink to the depths of your scum thank f**k
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8 minutes ago, Taxi for De Massis said:
I believed that Sheerin would have had us relegated by now.
Eh? We'd have been relegated by now had Sheerin remained in charge??!!
Sheerin was sacked on the 5th December. We had 22 points from 16 games.
As of today 2nd April, East Fife are bottom of the table with, erm, 23 points.
So you're pretty much saying that you did not think that Falkirk under Sheerin would have taken a single point - literally not one - in four months??!!
You have clearly overdosed on the Spin Doctor's Kool Aid.
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9 minutes ago, FFC1982 said:
Why don’t we just change managers every week? Get someone from the South Stand to do it because they once got us into the Champions League on Football Manager.
Their is a sickness at this club and its not a short term fix. Sack anyone who doesn’t improve things in ten minutes, sack the board if we aren’t in the champions league by Christmas, they over communicate ands its still not enough for some on here. Who would want to come anywhere near us, booing when its nil-nil at half time, shouting abuse at our own team, fighting with each other away at Montrose, what a club!
The new board deserve our support, we wanted Falkirk supporters and we have them, if they have belief in MR and KM, they should at least be entitled to a summer to try and build a squad and see where we are in October. Our problem is we don’t have the patience and we always want a quick fix, no matter what we do here it ain’t coming.
Ah, the old "It's all the fault of the Big, Bad Falkirk Support" theory. I wondered when that would get an airing.
Utter, utter, utter drivel.
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55 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
If it is an early indicator that MR is staying, then I will have to accept that the key reasons for keeping him have nothing to do with performances, man management or results. What that doesn’t cover, I do not know, but that (whatever it might be) is the deciding factor.
It's very simple really. If the board are using anything OTHER than these metrics to decide whether the current manager should remain in charge into next season they are making a massive mistake and will deserve every bit of criticism that would follow. Barring a totally unexpected upturn in form over the past five games - not impossible, but highly unlikely given they include three of the top-four and a rejuvenated AA under Rice - his tenure can only be adjudged as a complete and utter failure. And no amount of bullshit "it's all Deans/Holt/Sheerin's fault" propaganda will convince me otherwise.
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53 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Didn't Henry initially join on loan under Totten, then go back to Killie and return permanently? He was fucking tremendous in his loan spell. Had it in my head he was a Totten signing.
Signed by Totten on loan from Kilmarnock towards the end of 1998. Massive impact.
Signed by Totten permanently from Kilmarnock in September 1999 the same week Moss was sold to Dunfermline. Totten allegedly had the choice of keeping Moss but took the money on offer from the Fifers to bring in Henry.
Signed by McCall on a free in the summer 2002 following Airdrie's demise.
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15 minutes ago, Ecosse83 said:Didn’t see the game today but read a lot of the comments tonight. From what I can read and admittedly I’m drunk a lot of the criticism of the manager seems to be taken as criticism of the board, surely the 2 can be separated? Just because the manager is being criticised surely that doesn’t instantly mean that the new board is being tagged in with that?
Rennie's appointment in mid-December was generally met with a positive reaction. The 6-month contract was viewed as a sensible decision which minimised the risk to the club if things did not work out. He was given a budget in January that outstripped, by a huge margin, any other manager in this league and the majority in the division above. There's nothing in any of that to criticise the board for. It's obviously been a disastrous appointment, but that is with the benefit of hindsight. No-one could realistically have conceived after the 6-0 abomination at Firhill that we would be replacing Sheerin with someone even less suited to the role. But here we are.
Where they will deserve plenty of criticism is if, in the face of all available evidence, they decide to retain the management team regardless, when it's screamingly obvious they are not cut out for it. They'll have completely wasted the advantage that the short-term contract gave them. I think a lot of fans are also getting pissed-off at the (not-so) subtle shifting of the goalposts, whereby a manager recruited on a 6-month deal is now apparently tasked with a "long-term turnaround project", which strangely enough is only being referenced after it has become clear that he is spectacularly incapable of beating anyone other than Dumbarton or East Fife. The ridiculous spin of one or two on here does not help that perception. They are fooling no-one.
The search for a new management team needs to begin immediately.
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8 minutes ago, Blame Me said:
After this I want to see MR take no prisoners! The inconsistency has killed us and the cool headed approach is no longer going to cut it.
Time to call out those who are letting him down. He's got nothing to lose now
What inconsistency?? Against anyone other than utter rancid, pub-team dung like Dumbarton we are consistently, relentlessly abysmal. To our despicable record against the top-4, we now have a manager shit-scared of the sight of Peterhead and unable to beat Clyde. You could not make this up. Sacked Sheerin and appointed an even bigger dud. I never thought it possible.
I don't want to hear anything more from Rennie. This season is over, planning for next needs to commence immediately and the first decision, an incredibly easy one obviously, is that the current management team will not be having their contracts renewed. Confirmation of that as soon as possible please.
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50 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
The weekend was pretty telling. We won on Saturday, it wasn’t pretty, but we won. Had we lost the forum would have exploded. As it turned out it was pretty much like a ghost town. Says it all really.Surely you can understand why this would be the case though? It seems to be pretty obvious, both anecdotally and by the dwindling attendances, that quite a few fans have simply had enough of the never-ending underachievement on the pitch. Had enough of rancid, pub-team standard dross like Dumbarton appearing to be pretty much the limit in terms of the standard of opposition Falkirk can realistically expect to beat these days. Had enough of being unable to lay a glove on any team of even moderate quality. Had of enough of the gutless, spineless, "beaten before the referee has blown his whistle" type attitude whenever we are faced with an Airdrieonians/Cove/Montrose giant of the game. The lack of any real enthusiasm for Saturday's result can probably be explained by the fact that (a) a lot would not have even bothered spending money to watch the game and (b) that it followed seven days after a predictably abysmal 90 minutes in a far bigger and more important game against a direct rival.
It's only my interpretation, but in his post-match comments, Rennie appeared to be believe that the Dumbarton result somehow made up for the Airdrie capitulation the week before. I'm sorry Martin, but it really, really didn't. Does not even come close. I think, this season, a diet of wins against the likes of EF/Dumbarton, the occasional 3 points against a Clyde or Barry Ferguson-led Alloa, and 6 points from 39 against the top 4 is simply no longer enough to sustain the interest of a growing chunk of our support. And who can blame them?
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Rennie could name 50 different line-ups and they'd all receive the exact same reaction really. Because the squad is dire, certainly back-to-middle. So for all the outrage about someone like Hetherington, is a Jacobs or a Ross any more palatable? He's dropped one complete numpty from the defence in McKay and replaced him with another in Taylor-Sinclair. There aren't loads of - make that any - better options that he is refusing to play. One look at that bench tells you everything about the poverty of our squad. It's brutal, brutal stuff.
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2 hours ago, Blame Me said:
I'd give him another 6-month deal rather than have us both commit to longer terms.
Those in the boardroom either have the confidence in Rennie to take us out of this league (at the right end) next season, in which case they need to back their judgement with a minimum of a one-year contract. Or they don't, and we part company at the end of the season. Another six month contract would just smack of indecision and not really being sure either way. Like the signing of Griffiths on big wages for a few months work, it would also be a complete contradiction of this "long-term" narrative that the manager is now promoting at every opportunity.
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14 minutes ago, Just a bairn said:
On the football front - I would be shocked if Rennie wasn’t here next season. He is clearly very, very aware of the deficiencies in the squad. He has obviously been brought in to set up a long term plan and does not seem like a till the end of the season appointment at all.
Eh? That's exactly what he is. He literally has a contract until the end of the season. If he was brought in to enact a long-term plan he should have been given a long-term contract, not a six-month one, and it should have been made crystal clear to the supporters at the time of his appointment that that was the job he had been brought in to do. You bring in a manager mid-season on a short-term contract to try to engineer, in a short space of time, an improvement in results, performance and league position and unfortunately Rennie has completely failed in that regard. In fact, he has made us worse. So we'll now just shift the goalposts. Absolutely nothing ever changes at this club.
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20 minutes ago, latapythelegend said:
You're right but im already get frustrated by it being the first thing that comes out with each board statement. Yes, whatever implications come from the last board have to be dealt with but it seems to be the first line of defence every time now and that won't wash for very long. As a club we need to work with the hand we're dealt and move on.
As far as the dross on the park is concerned, it doesn't really wash at all. That we appear to have done the unthinkable - replaced a clueless, totally unsuitable, out-of-his-depth numpty, with an even more clueless, more unsuitable, more out-of-his-depth numpty - lies squarely at the door of the current board. It has f**k-all to do with Gary Deans. Ditch the "everything is Deans/Holt/Sheerin's fault" spin, own the mistake, and try to rectify it.
The comparison has already been made a few times, but Morton sacked McPherson the exact same weekend we emptied Sheerin. His replacement had no previous management experience, inherited an awful squad and only had the budget to bring in a couple of fresh faces, yet he has, by all accounts, effected a massive upturn in both performances and results. Rennie was given a very decent budget, signed six players, benefited from the return of an in-form Dowds, yet if anything, things have gotten even worse, which I barely thought possible. There certainly has been no improvement. No-one expected us to look like Guardiola-era Barcelona but I expected at least some sign of progress. Whatever the polar opposite of a managerial bounce is, we're experiencing it. Despite that, I still fear that they might try to brass this out, continue to blame Holt and Sheerin for everything, hope we can pick up a couple of wins against the likes of Dumbarton and Alloa, and give Rennie a free pass and clean slate to carry on next season. That would be a huge mistake.
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24 minutes ago, ebobsboy said:
I've already withdrew mine. That statement that included stats absolutely has came from Rennie trying desperately to justify himself and keep himself in a job beyond this season. That is an absolutely terrifying prospect and 100% cannot be allowed to happen.
You can only hope/assume that if they were leaning in that direction, today's pathetic, gutless, spineless capitulation will have concentrated a few minds. As a couple of others have mentioned, he basically hid in the back of the dugout for pretty much the entirety of the 90 minutes, only emerging to oversee that nonsensical substitution involving the removal of Griffiths and the introduction of Hetherington and that utter nothing "Seb" Ross. In short, he offered absolutely nothing.
I quite liked the appointment of Rennie. I hoped he'd show at least enough progress to justify continuing into next season. He hasn't. I've no idea who we get to replace him or where we go from here but I'm absolutely certain that, wherever it is, it cannot involve the current management team. Thank You and Goodbye.
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4 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
I'm not comparing the two, I'm simply saying that it's not impossible for him to turn it around. Also, Hearts weren't there in Houstie's first 11 games, Cowdenbeath were though.
Houston's fourth League game of his first season was a 4-1 defeat at Tynecastle. His second and third were against Rangers and Hibs, the latter which we won 1-0. Glad you aren't making any comparison, as it would be utterly fatuous. Houston had an infinitely tougher job.
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1 hour ago, ShaggerG said:
Of course I realise that we were playing the likes of Sevco and Hibs
Exactly, chuck Hearts in there as well, rendering any comparison largely meaningless. Houston was confronted with, by a million miles, the strongest second tier ever, containing three of the four or five biggest clubs in the country, with multiple times his budget. It was a huge task. Expectations were adjusted accordingly. Rennie was appointed on a 6-month contract with the aim, presumably, of getting a hell of a lot more from the existing playing squad than the previous manager, of overseeing a fairly rapid improvement in performances and results, and ultimately making us look something vaguely like a team capable of getting out of League One in May. To help with this, he was given a budget far in excess of any other manager in this division, signed six new players and also benefited from the return of a striker bang in form for the leaders of the league above. The circumstances could not be more different really. This is no long-term "project" or turnaround. Rennie was brought in to do a short-term job and It's therefore perfectly understandable that judgements and criticisms are being formed much more quickly than with some of his predecessors. The standard of opposition alone dictates that. As a standalone body of work, with no reference to any other Falkirk manager or regime, what we are seeing week-to-week simply has not been good enough, despite the spin of one or two on here.
And I speak as someone who liked the appointment of Rennie and still hope that he can show something in the final couple of months to justify him being in charge at the start of next season. It simply has to start on Saturday. Another gutless, beaten-before-we-get-on-the-pitch type surrender that we have become all too used to in recent years, and I think he'll lose quite a bit of the support and goodwill he still seems to command at the moment.
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16 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
In his last 15 games Sheerin amassed 12 points.
Rennie has had 9 games since the window opened and 14 points.
I am not saying it is great far from it but results have improved.
I will be like this IMO for the last 9 games, some good, some bad, some indifferent. This is not a 5 minute fix
How many good performances have we seen under Rennie so far?
No-one thought this would be a "five-minute fix". He's been provided with a budget to sign six players, including Griffiths, and also benefited from the return of Dowds. I hoped that would have translated into something a bit more than a series of dire, turgid, boring performances that are barely discernible from those being served up under Sheerin. I've no appetite for another managerial change and large turnover of players, but at the moment Rennie isn't showing much to suggest that he is capable of taking us where we want to go. There needs to be a hell of a lot more over these final games for him to be worthy of a contract extension. Just not seeing it.
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21 minutes ago, Kircer bairn said:
As for Gary Miller - a charlatan of a player who runs about chasing shadows - nuff said that he stayed in for whole match
I would not go so far as to describe him as a charlatan. He's just a player well, well past his best and consequently unable to do what I presume is being asked of him. I still remember a game towards the start of last season at Firhill when Miller looked like he was moving through treacle as the Thistle midfielders literally jogged away from him at regular intervals. That was in October 2020, months after being awarded a two-year contract by the ludicrous "M and M". Here we are going into March 2022 and he's still being selected pretty much week in, week out. Please, let's hear no more from the ridiculous "But who could we get, there's no one out there" brigade. They cannot possibly believe that it should be beyond even us to source and recruit a younger, more mobile, more energetic central midfielder than an utterly finished Gary Miller. And ultimately, he is not selecting himself.
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23 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
Aye, you could argue that but Falkirk fans still wouldn't give him 4 years to get us promoted.
Ian Murray is getting the absolute maximum out of his Airdrie squad on a pittance of a budget compared to what we are spending. Give him the kind of cash that has been handed to various substandard management teams over the past few seasons and he sure as hell would not be taking four years to get us promoted from this league, or anything like it. He's well and truly had our number for three consecutive seasons now. Doing an excellent job. Would have him here in a heartbeat.
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Have you been to either of the two most recent home games? The drop-off in support is staggering. I wasn't at the Montrose match but the South Stand yesterday felt as empty as I can possibly ever remember it since its opening 13/14 years ago, certainly for a league fixture. I could easily foresee an equivalent terrible away support at Methil on Saturday. The attendance figures discussion has been done to death on here and elsewhere, suffice to say they are nonsense as they include all season tickets sold so bear no reflection of the actual attendance on the day. There was nothing like that number against Cove.
Whilst it's clear that many have, understandably, chucked it for this season, I'm not totally convinced there will be a massive drop-off next season even if Rennie is inexplicably kept on. A decline certainly, especially when you consider the wider economic climate, but we've had what, five seasons of basically utter dross and season tickets and attendances have held up remarkably (and undeservedly) well in that period. I still remember the summer we went down, 2019, when morale was at rock-bottom and the clowns in the boardroom were trying to flog the club to the Bexley shyster. Everyone was saying "not renewing", "will pay at the gate", "won't be back until the club is sold". We still reached something like 2200/2300 season tickets.
I'm still holding out hope that (a) those running the club cannot possibly be so wilfully ignorant as to what is staring them in the face in terms of on-pitch performance, diminishing fanbase and the incredible degree of apathy gripping the club and (b) that Rennie's next season/planning for the future schtick is just the standard bravado and defence mechanism of a manager who knows that he's finished but has to keep up the pretence/delusion for the sake of his future employment prospects. The alternative is too horrendous to contemplate.