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6 minutes ago, bridge of allan bairn said:
rennie needs to not do a sheerin and be so inflexible. he has 2 easier games coming up so might persist and get results.
You've inadvertently summed up a part of the problem right there.
"Easier games" "Winnable games". We're in League One. Every single game, home and away, irrespective of opposition, should be regarded as a perfectly winnable game for a team with our budget and resources. If not, just shut the doors.
Games against the likes of East Fife or Peterhead are really no longer any barometer to progress - if they ever were. We were taking the majority of points against them without too many problems under the previous three managers. I'll be judging Rennie on what his team does against CR, Airdrie, Montrose and QP. That's where a massive, massive improvement is required. He so far has 1 point from an available 12. Nowhere near good enough.
Winning the next two games then stinking the place out at home to Airdrie is an entirely predictable outcome.
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Our record against the top 4 reads P12 W1 D3 L8 F8 A25
6 points from a possible 36.
A perfect summation of where we currently are as a football club. A midtable League 1 outfit who simply do not win games of football against any opponent other than the bottom three or four. Same problem we had two seasons ago under McKinnon. Same problem we had last season under Miller and McCracken. Completely unable to lay a glove on any of the better teams in the division. Despite many of these teams having an infinitely smaller playing budget. Over and over and over and over again.
No more faith in this management team than the previous one. A massive, massive re-think about how we get back to some form of respectable position within Scottish football is required because we are going absolutely nowhere. Complete wreck of a season. Again.
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8 minutes ago, ebobsboy said:
We will be stuck with McKay he's not going anywhere soon mores the pity, especially since Holt saw fit to tempt him with a three year deal. Ompreon and Wilson however if they could somehow get punted on the same day as Ben Hall would be smashing.
Wilson has played for - sorry, appeared for - two clubs this season. Because he utterly failed to cut it at Elgin City and they have no interest in taking him back, we are basically stuck with him, short of bunging him some cash to rip up his contract and bugger off. He and Ompreon will probably hang around on the bench for the remainder of the season, a useless pair of empty shirts. If anything happens to either of our strikers...
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5 points from an available 30 against the top 4 sides in the league says it all. There is no gloss or spin that can be put on such an horrendous statistic. Truly pathetic. Now on our fourth management team since relegation and the pattern remains resolutely the same. Pick up three points against a rancid Dumbarton/EF every four or five weeks. Fast forward seven days to a fixture against an opponent of a slightly higher quality and you can write the script. Rennie's abilty to change this is what I'll be judging him on, not beating a ten-man, bottom-of-the-league East Fife.
If - or given the above statistic more likely when - QP take their customary three points next week we're looking at the prospect of playing out the rest of a meaningless season drudging about the middle to lower reaches of League 1. Absolutely miles off it.
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16 minutes ago, ebobsboy said:
I don't think Montrose will either. Your really hoping the wheels fall off Queens Park, but they surely have to appoint a new manager at some point and if they get Jack Ross which is ambitious, then that's bad news for us.
I'd argue the wheels have never been on Queen's Park this season tbh. It seems to have gone pretty much completely unnoticed that they are having an incredibly mediocre season. They have won 6 league games out of twenty. One third of their league wins and one fifth of their goals have originated from two games against one particular club. A complete and utter embarrassment really. It explains why they are looking for a new manager. For me, the next two games are crucial in terms of giving us a much truer indication of where we are going under this management team. We simply have to start winning games against sides of a higher level than the East Fifes and Dumbartons, something we have failed to do, with the very occasional exception, for the last two and a half years. How costly that has been
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11 minutes ago, knee jerk reaction said:
How anyone can watch us today and still say we should spend a transfer fee and wages on Goodwille and not strengthen the defence is beyond me
There has not been one single post on here advocating that we do anything of the sort. You're just making stuff up.
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Just now, FFC 1876 said:
Apparently his loans up tomorrow so the fact he was in the stand instead of on the bench means he's either injured or he's not fancied so he'll be back to Dundee tomorrow. I'm hoping it's the latter as he's been brutal.
McPake has already confirmed Dundee are recalling their loan players in advance of them restarting on Tuesday night. He's away.
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2 minutes ago, Bigbri Bairn said:
Think Rennie and Miller should be preparing for next season. They have been left with a side of duds and not even a decent window will sort it. Would be very interested what they could achieve if they had a summer to build a team. They are already improving the players who have any skill at all ( in that I don't include Hall McKay and Miller)
Rennie and Miller are contracted only until the end of the season. As things stand, there is no "next season" where they are concerned. Their sole aim should be to somehow manage to get us into the top four - God help us that that is now the absolute limit of our aspiration for the remainder of the season, to try and finish just above midtable in League 1, but here we are - and then take our chances in the play-offs. Given our utterly pathetic inability to beat any team other than the absolute shite, even that looks a pretty erroneous task at this stage, albeit not impossible. The next two weeks are absolutely crucial in terms of recruitment to replace some of the dross who are continually selected week after week after week despite their consistently horrendous performances.
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19 minutes ago, champions said:
If theres a way to lose then I suppose that is it. Plenty of effort and clear cut chances.
Tbh, that might be fair enough if we were in the Premier League. At this level, I'm not too interested in Falkirk "losing the right way". We've lost - again. That's it.
There is simply no sign of any change to the pattern that has been set pretty much since we were relegated to League One two and a half years ago. Knock a few past a rancid Clyde or Dumbarton without too many problems. The following week, against any opponent who would even come close to meeting the description of being remotely competent or organised - well, we simply are not winning games of football. 5 points from a possible 27 against today's opponents in the past three seasons sums it up - just shameful.
Trust there will be significant movement on the player front this week - both in and out.
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9 minutes ago, alonso said:
Cheers, just saved me wasting 3 mins of my time!
Really frustrating how we never get any updates on players injuries. Names just appear and disappear on team sheets at 2.15 every sat very rarely without any explanation or consequent updates.
It's been discussed on here a few times. The suggestion being that it's some sort of club rule not to give out any information whatsoever with regard to fitness or injuries for fear that it gives a competitive advantage to the opposing team. Certainly a policy that's been working out incredibly well for us over the past few seasons at least.
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27 minutes ago, Rocco said:
I was more referring to you calling me deluded because you have no idea how deals are done in football.
No. I've every idea of how deals can be done. I simply choose not to believe that this particular deal is being done in the manner you describe. Really not that difficult.
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7 minutes ago, Rocco said:
I’ll accept your apology anytime @AGPar
For what? Choosing not to believe an unsubstantiated rumour posted on a football forum?
You'll be waiting a while.
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5 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
I think you are being naive if you don’t think tapping up goes on.
Of course it goes on. That's not the scenario he's outlined.
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11 minutes ago, Rocco said:
Are you new to this? Maybe because he told them he wanted to speak to them. Go and do yourself a favour. Read up on why Daniel James didn’t transfer to Leeds in the January deadline day before he moved to United in the summer. Maybe you’ll actually learn a few things instead of thinking you know everything and dismissing what other people know.
I couldn't give a toss what Daniel James did or did not do at Leeds or Manchester United. If you think Clyde are giving permission for Goodwillie to go off and speak to other clubs without having an acceptable, concrete offer on the table, you're deluded.
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2 minutes ago, Rocco said:
Are you actually kidding? Players meet clubs all the time before a fee has been agreed and is usually approved by the players current club. I even gave the example above of Trippier and have said that the club would have had to ask Clyde for permission, which I’ve been told both Falkirk and Raith did.
Why would Clyde provide permission for their best player to go off and talk to other clubs without any guarantee that these clubs will make an offer that they deem acceptable? Whatever you've been told, it's a lot of bollocks.
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Just now, Rocco said:
I have been told by a reliable source. That’s usually how transfers work btw. Club aka for permission to speak to player, club get permission, they speak to said player and agree terms, club then make an offer to players current club. That’s exactly what’s happened with Kieran Trippier.
Erm, no. The club will only grant permission to a player to speak to another club when an offer has been accepted. The scenario you've described means that, on top of signing a rapist, we'd be leaving ourselves wide open to another tapping up charge for doing so. And if that came to pass, it really would be time to shut the doors.
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4 minutes ago, Rocco said:
I’ve been told he has spoken to both Falkirk and Raith. I had heard we had made a bid and @sick boy confirmed that he has heard Clyde rejected it
You stated that personal terms had been agreed. Again, how do you know this to be the case?
The poster you quoted has claimed inside information in relation to various transfers. Most of it has turned out to be total nonsense.
There's clearly a desire on the part of the club to bring him in, that's now crystal clear. That's still a hell of a long way from the scenario that you have outlined.
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9 minutes ago, Rocco said:
The fact we’ve made a bid for Goodwillie and the FSS have put out a poll would lead me to believe that it’s happening. I very much doubt they’d have met with the player, agreed terms and put a bid in if they weren’t serious.
How exactly do you know that any of this has happened?
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22 minutes ago, Chinatoon Bairn said:
I'd bet on Dowds not being with us come the end of the window.
And that scenario should be dependant upon three things. Rennie does not see him as part of the plans. Arbroath pay the fee requested. We already have replacements signed up. There's not a chance in hell we should be letting Dowds go whilst still being lumbered with dross like Wilson and Ruth.
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45 minutes ago, Caractacus Potts said:
What other strikers can we get?
Euan Henderson (Hearts). Loan period at Alloa finishes next week. They may well want to keep him or loan him to a Championship club, but worth asking the question. I remember SD getting slaughtered by the usual suspects on here when he suggested we should have signed him instead of waiting around for weeks and weeks for Aberdeen to let us have Ruth. Excellent scoring record in a very poor side. Really good player, far ahead of anything we have in the final third.
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27 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
2nd of January and 21 points behind Cove Rangers. f**k me what a riddy. This is by far the worst Falkirk team I’ve ever seen.
Yes, for anyone still unclear as to the reasons for some fans' desperation to be rid of the presence of Gary Holt, or for those now falling over themselves to vigorously defend his ongoing employment, a quick glance at the league table tonight should make things a whole lot clearer for them. Shameful, shameful, shameful stuff. Mile and miles and miles behind Cove Rangers, and being massively outperformed by the likes of Airdrie and Montrose, vanishing well into the distance despite them possessing a fraction of our resources. He was appointed to the role on the 14th January. The performance throughout the whole of 2021 has been an utter, utter, utter disgrace. He's the Sporting Director. Therefore he oversees the football side of the club. Therefore responsibility for this mess lies at his door. No-one else.
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5 minutes ago, roman_bairn said:
Hmm, I wonder how we could do that?…Certainly not by issuing some nonsensical statement in response to one line in a tabloid newspaper article.
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19 minutes ago, roman_bairn said:
We both agree (for once) that it’s time the club came out with something on future strategy.
However it takes about 5 mins to shut down negative publicity but the club haven’t done it which only allows the rumour to grow arms and legs and keep alive the possibility that’s it’s not just a rumour after all…..What "negative publicity"? You'd think our alleged interest in Goodwillie was all over the media. It was literally one line in some speculative, quote-free tabloid nonsense that had Raith Rovers as the frontrunners to sign him. Nothing even remotely worthy of a response from the club. A quick glance at their thread or official website and it doesn't seem to be a thing at all. No discussion about the morality of his signing. No demands for RR to issue a formal denial. Just a statement on the official website about signings, contract renewals, players leaving. Basically a club seeming to be going about their business in a reasonably professional manner, and by f**k I wish we'd get this Goodwillie nonsense in the bin once and for all and start addressing the deep-rooted problems that we are drowning in, because there's more than enough of them at the moment without all of this utter garbage. Move on.
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1 hour ago, Back Post Misses said:
There is a hysteria about this - understandable considering his record.
There are perfectly valid reasons why Falkirk supporters do not want Gary Holt involved in the process of recruiting players, in fact do not want Gary Holt involved in the football club in any capacity whatsoever. And such a viewpoint sure as hell isn't "hysteria", or anything even approaching it.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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We won three consecutive League One games - Peterhead, Airdrie, Clyde - under Sheerin in August.
There are, unfortunately, any number of alternative, and equally horrendous statistics to support the joke of a full-time club theory. Four home wins out of twelve - all, surprise surprise, against bottom half teams, the negative goal difference, the 6 points from an available 36 against the top four. Take your pick really. There is no progress whatsoever.