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12 minutes ago, EdiBairn said:
Shepherd has proven that he can score goals when played in his proper position for the under 20s and now Edinburgh City. For some reason our fans have written him off based on a few 5 minute sub appearances at right wing.
O'Hara has had multiple starts and sub appearances upfront over 3 seasons yet has never scored a goal in his career, and hardly touches the ball when he's on the pitch except to give it away. Our fans act as if he's the next Messi.
What a load of utter drivel. Shepherd has made 62 appearances for Falkirk over a 4 year period and scored 2 goals - against Cowdenbeath and Montrose. He seems to have found his level at Edinburgh City and good luck to him, but he was never ever remotely good enough for us and would have been long gone were it not for Houston's madness and obsession with handing out 2 year contracts to complete dross. Your comments about O'Hara are almost as ludicrous - anyone with even the vaguest clue knows that whilst he's a trier he lacks any real quality and should, by this time next week, have been thanked for his services and sent on his way, along with many others. You surely cannot believe that his name is being chanted at recent games because of his contribution on the park.
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Byrne, Pittman, Cadden, Gallagher should all be high on the list
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Alex Smith has had some pretty significant achievements in Scottish football, but none of them have been at Falkirk. A speech and round of applause from both sets of supporters after the match would be appropriate and deserved. Unfortunately, this will be nowhere near enough for the Commercial Department who will be dreaming up all kinds of disproportionate, over the top, tacky nonsense to mark the "occasion". Yet another game where the 90 minutes are relegated to a mere sideshow.
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99.99% of the support could not give a toss about all the community nonsense and marketing bumf that is rammed down our throats at every available opportunity.
An entertaining, winning team is all fans are interested in. For those who run the club, however, the football is a mere sideshow. That's the disconnect.
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1 hour ago, ShaggerG said:
Don't think we have options on the loanees? Could be wrong though. I think, and again may be wrong, that only Harris, Loy and McKee's deals extend beyond this season although we have options on Robson, McGhee and Sibbald.
I can see a mass exodus in the summer and hopefully a lot more quality coming in, especially in defence.
It's utterly frightening that these are the three who have another year to go. Complete passengers and probably north of 2k per week in wages tied up which is going to be difficult, if not impossible, to shift. I trust Hartley will be telling all three. if he has not already done so, that they will be well advised to be looking for an alternative employer this summer.
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1 hour ago, bennett said:
Can someone please translate this post?
Sorry, all these words containing more than one syllable obviously threw you. Apologies
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52 minutes ago, lonewolfie said:
Willie headless chicken Miller spewing that Killie just shouldn't be winning at Ibrox. That nyaff Dodds echoing it all. The Beeb really are a disgrace to broadcasting.
No doubt tomorrow we'll have Bonner stumbling over Motherwell players' names and showing no interest at all in learning his stuff.
Yesterday's men the lot of them.Miller is now the biggest cretin on that programme, which is some achievement really. It started within, what, 30 seconds of the final whistle being blown at Ibrox. Killie have no right to be upsetting the "Natural Order" by winning at Ibrox. Murty, who was the best thing in management a couple of weeks ago, is therefore not up to the job. But hey, not to worry, there is a perfect replacement in the opposition dug out just waiting for the call. Predictably this train of thought was lapped up by the insufferable Dung and his equally obnoxious sidekick Dodds. Please, someone, anyone give McIntyre a managerial job so we do not have to listen to this incoherent little wingnut a minute longer.
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56 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
I think theres meant to be a sort of "gentlemans agreement" that if either side want to extend then they will. But you're reliant on people sticking by their word.
It's nothing of the sort. These are formal terms written into a players contract to protect the club from said player buggering off for nothing at the end of the contract. Sibbald never kicked a ball in August because he wanted a straight one year deal whilst the club would only countenance a year with a years option. Falkirk won. So whilst Sibbald may well be agitating for a move again this summer, he'll automatically be under contract for 2018/19 and any club looking to take him will have to cough up a transfer fee. The option is at the discretion of the club, not the player, otherwise it is totally pointless.
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42 minutes ago, GMBairn said:
Confirmation if it was needed that there is barely a man in our squad good enough to lead us to a convincing league win next season and actually carry us into the premier league with any hope of staying up.
I wonder just how many of this lot will survive the summer.
Tbf I think we knew this long before today. The fact that Pea Heart Harris has slithered his way back into the squad, and today, onto the park, sums up the utter poverty of our squad. If we are remotely serious about making any sort of challenge this season, the number of players to be retained will be comfortably counted on the finger of one hand.
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3 hours ago, roman_bairn said:
Funny, isn’t it, how hostile so many of us have become towards Hughes?
He was a good servant to us as a player, and we also had one of the most successful periods under him as a manager.
Must admit he has a tendency to rile me too from time to time.
However, what is it that’s made him so disliked amongst our support? Arrogance, misuse of cash on certain players or the 2015 Cup final?
Cue the response of ‘because he’s a f*****g halfwit’ or worse...
Signing Kevin McBride and playing him every week
Signing Roman Wallner and never playing him.
Didn't like the style of play, deadly dull.
Along with the Tent Salesman, spending the club to the very blink of oblivion, from which we have never recovered, and openly boasting about doing so.
Whoring and touting himself around for any job going whilst being under contract to FFC.
Developing a monstrous ego and believing himself to be far too big for the club.
Hughes is a thoroughly nasty and unpleasant individual, to which plenty of people who worked at the club, especially in the latter years, will testify.
His utter car crash at Raith, and recent desperate attempts to talk his way into jobs he has not a hope in hell of getting, show he has not changed. He never will.
Fortunately he'll never darken our door again, next stop EEP when they eventually empty Clueless Johnston
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They voted for them to be parachuted straight back into the 1st Division in 2012. If you don't think they are in favour of this, you're even more delusional than I thought.
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15 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Has anyone heard/does anyone know anything further about the clubs position on the shambolic Colts fiasco?
They're in favour of it and will be voting as such as and when.
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6 minutes ago, snorkie said:
Very happy about this ,a fresh start for him and something to prove . Falkirk fans will be seething
Seething? The guy is done. Niggling the opposition centre half and chucking himself to the floor in an embarrassing manner at every opportunity will be the limit of his contribution. Enjoy.
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3 minutes ago, roman_bairn said:
No love-in here, but your focus is on their performance this season which I totally get. However, mine was on the POTENTIAL some of the players have which we have simply failed to exploit under Hartley.
Let’s see what he brings in to replace what we have although I have previously highlighted that Hartley’s signing record causes some concern.
You are right that he has to do something because in terms of motivating or getting the best out of what we have he has failed miserably to date.
I was trying to see what Nelson brings to the party based on previous record but struggling to find his goal scoring record with Harrogate Town...He's scored 1 goal in senior football, worrying if that is the calibre of player being lined up tbh.
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5 minutes ago, Russ said:
We’ve scored 3 goals since 8th October with only 1 of them being from open play.
January can’t come soon enough.No goals in the last 5 games I think.
Hartley has had 9 games in charge. We've scored 3 goals in that time.
Abysmal does not even begin to describe it. Beyond dire.
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6 hours ago, andylivi1 said:
I heard a rumour that Scott Pittman was being lined up by Falkirk so if we are looking at Nathan Austin then it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a swap deal or something.
Personally I’d rather we kept Pittman as he really is our driving force in midfield but it’s another scenario like Danny Mullen, he’s out of contract in the summer and may want to look at his options, the club maybe want to get something or someone for him.
Only time will tell.
I'd presume that is the case as there is surely no way Livingston are in a position to pay any sort of fee.
Sad to see Austin go if true, excellent in the final three or four months of last season. He's been garbage this season, but who hasn't, plenty of others I'd have emptied before him. Beggars belief that Hartleys number one striker is a past-it Miller, who offers nothing more than chucking himself to the ground at every opportunity.
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17 minutes ago, paul wright scores said:
I presume you mean Stewart and not Levein
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Ban Stewart for expressing an opinion, one which most people would agree with? If you are going to do that then there is no point in having pundits.
While I don't agree with him all the time I think Stewart is the best pundit by a mile. Miles better than his sidekick who still doesn't want to upset anyone still playing.
I would agree with you banning Boyd at this time, as IMO he should not be discussing other teams/players whilst playing for Killie.
It goes way beyond expressing opinion, he's got some pathetic, petty agenda against Levein dating back to when he was a player. Levein is quite right to question whether the national broadcaster should be giving the guy the platform to push said agenda at every opportunity. Stewart is just as impartial as Bonner, Fatty Boyd, Ferguson and the rest, just in a different way.
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8 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
If he gets time - On current form that's debatable - then I'd imagine in 18 months time, if still managed by him, your squad will not contain a single player you have at the moment.
He'll get time - despite some legitimate doubts about how things have started, we will not be emptying another management team anytime soon, and nor should we.
I would not be surprised if the the look of the squad is radically different a year from now. What I also think is a certainty is that some players he lets go, of undoubted ability, will go elsewhere, probably to direct rivals, and start looking like world-beaters, at which point questions will be asked about whether Hartley should have got more out of them. But in a lot of cases, I'd question the attitude of the player before the manager.
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18 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Hartley planning on punting the squad and bringing his own team in is hardly a shock. I don't know why you guys even doubted it was going to happen.
I'm not sure anyone really doubted it tbh, Hartley seemed to like a large turnover of players at Dens, and there is already some evidence of the same MO with us. It's only going to get ramped up in January and, on current form, that cannot be a bad thing.
I actually think Hartley is maybe the one who is a bit surprised. He probably looked at the squad on paper, and even in action against Dunfermline in the cup, and thought there was plenty to work with. But it is not happening, and it not going to happen, with the current players. It is clear that a massive churn is imminent. It's needed.
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34 minutes ago, knee jerk reaction said:
Once again I find myself disagreeing with almost everyone on here! I don't think the players are not trying or have downed tools etc etc. We are in a tight league where there is very little between all the teams and it's been like that for a few years, just on Saturday Brechin got a result against United, over the last few seasons how many good results have Dumbarton got v bigger teams? Unfortunately for us we have gotten a little bit worse in all areas and that has made the difference, the keeper has cost goals that Danny Rodgers would've stopped, Leahy both set up and scored goals and is a huge miss, Grant isn't the player he was pre injury, Kerr is getting older and we haven't replaced really Vaulks, up front Austin hasn't kicked on into the player he could be potentially. Throw in the boost of confidence a winning team gets compared with a losing one and you find players like Hippolyte who thrive in a good team starting to go missing in games, you can also throw in injuries like Taiwo. This overall drop in quality in the squad has taken us from slightly better than most of the league to where we are now, I believe the players are giving 100% it's just not good enough at the moment.
Sorry, you are naive in the extreme.
This isn't some temporary blip or collective loss of form. We have been consistently poor for the thick end of eighteen months now, last years second place finish belies the poverty and lack of ambition and entertainment displayed in so many performances. The difference then was that we were still capable of digging out a draw or the odd run of 2 or 3 consecutive wins. That has now vanished.
Sine the start of last season, we have played twenty six league games at home. We've won eight, the last one on April 1st. We've scored nine goals in fourteen games, the same as Brechin. Only Cowdenbeath and Edinburgh City have a worse record in Scotland. It is shocking.
What was the last even decent Falkirk performance, Dundee United away in the play-off maybe? You'd be struggling to name one player who has played even close to their potential this season, far less above it.
It's actually quite embarrassing that you are casting up Brechin and Dumbarton results to somehow legitimise our current position, it only defeats your argument and shows how low we have sunk.
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3 minutes ago, FTOF said:
We also had Mallan. Morgan and Magennis.
IMO Falkirk don't have any youngsters who could make as big a contribution to our survival as these three did.
They could do with a manager of Jack Ross' quality.
The same Jack Ross your fans were shouting and screaming to be sacked this time last year? No thanks.
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1 hour ago, billyg said:
Put it this way , I know for a fact that St Mirren have enquired about his availability , and Hartley will be looking to completely revamp his squad. Hartley already dumped him last season , so you can see why JRs sniffing about again !
Not a chance. We have not got the money to pay him off. St Mirren would not be able to get near his wages or pay any sort of transfer fee. Not happening.
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McKee's beef with Shiels relates to his father, nothing to do with his eye.
This does not fit the narrative though, so they'll be looking to concoct some other fallacy to continue the persecution, issue a long ban and keep the crybaby Fifers happy.
Kangaroo Court does not even begin to describe this complete farce.
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No, we really aren't. Pretty much the most compliant, docile and passive support in Scottish football these days, more's the pity.
Campbell (and Laing) are just stooges for those aloof, remote individuals who hold the majority of the shares. Trademarks, budget shambles, claiming fans hate the club. He's a complete embarrassment and, if said majority shareholders gave a toss, he's be on his bike. But they don't, so he won't.