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Accies were on decent form though. If you look at their run in they weren’t losing all that often. They weren’t cannon fodder and we were scrambling to come up with a back 4 after Janny’s Red card. I think we’re a bit weak but there’s still time and the play off games are a very small sample size.

I’d completely missed that. Link to David Hutton’s page below and great to see it doing so well. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/huttsafc?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20230628_&fbclid=IwAR1fz4EryxuTE7HGSVU9SZk3lUN2R2t2XAr1jf2dPbhuGDFlt5SW9u-f4kQ_aem_AeocVUpPQuyOmsVNR5B9d-cZzGklTiDkjv_6YyoeH16KmjeWKMYOnnTHRbC8etNOze0

Great signing and great kit. Thought we’d struggle to hold on to Frizzell. Brilliant that he’s staying

My dad wants them in a diamond formation

Very good and fair question! How did Falkirk lose £1.2 million in a year?! if QP are paying a market rate (whatever that is and I can’t see why the SFA would do a Sweetheart Deal) then fair enough. I do worry that what is happening at QP doesn’t feel sustainable. Dempster, Beuker, Coyle, a Brilliant Team, Firhill, Ochilview, Hampden, training facilities, Stadium Build over runs. Haughey seems to be a genuine Philanthropist and I hope that’s the case. QP was here before him and will be here once we’re all gone if the custodians do their jobs.

That’s nonsense. If the SFA’s bid was below market rate, then why didn’t you sell it to someone else for more? if the alternative was the SFA moving to Murrayfield then you’d have been left with a 52,000 seater stadium to maintain which you couldn’t afford unless you come up with a better business model. It’s not unique to Hampden. Our 10,000 seater stadium is worth nothing unless someone else could come up with a business model to make it work. it might cost £100 million to build Hampden as it is these days, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth more than £5million to anyone else.

Not if you were paying Market rates…. I don’t understand how Thistle can be in such a bad way financially meanwhile QP can do so much with presumably a fraction of the gate receipts and 3 seasons of renting grounds. I know you got £5million for Hampden and that Willie H is minted, but is he just writing cheques?

USA 1994 style!

Defeatist Attitude! Airdrieonians All Out Attack!

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And chooses not to comment on the Airdrie fan being pushed down the stairs!!!

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I don’t even think you need to be going near part time. Avoiding paying well over the odds (I don’t think there was a queue of suitors for McCann. He’s not awful in any way, he just always has been better going forwards and found wanting when teams pin him back with constant long balls down his side). Just pay the going rate for stand out League 1 talent and avoid short termism like signing Jordan Allan when any analysis of his career to date would suggest that he wasn’t a stick on to fire you to promotion. You could have got him in the summer for no fee if your recruitment team believe he has the fundamentals to take you up the leagues. Let’s say Allan cost £10k, that’s the same as 41.67 people paying £20 into FSS for a year. Or one person paying into FSS for 41 and a half years and that’s before you pay him any wages. No harm to the lad, but it doesn’t feel prudent in any way.

My my, they were all hovering over their sweaty keyboards at full time a year ago!!

Posted just after the Play-Off final last year. I mean you may get the chance to post it again next week knowing us, but this play off business is tricky @Senor Bairn eh?!

For what it’s worth, I think Falkirk are crying out for some stability. That might not mean staying with McGlynn, but he has done a lot of good and so I think you should avoid tearing everything up and look to build towards a league win next year. Airdrie have built an excellent squad (given our resources) but it’s taken a few years. The 4 players in the team of the season are a good example. Fordyce and Gallagher we’ve had for 4 seasons. Gallagher so good he gets to be our only part time player. Fordyce given Assistant Manager I’m sure was part of keeping him happy and with us. Frizzell was excellent recruitment 2 seasons ago and Ballantyne was last summer. The play-offs are inherently unfair, you finished above us due to consistency over the season. As we saw with Queens Park last year, it counts for nothing in the end of season crap chute. Some of you like to go on about your home support. All banter aside, it’s very impressive that so many of you come back season after season in these “banter years”. It should give you a massive competitive advantage in terms of income. However you’ve seen the likes of Airdrie and Montrose use resources more effectively over recent years and finish above you. That wasn’t the case this year and a good summer in terms of recruitment would see you as heavy favourites for the league. How you managed to lose £1.2 million last year is galling. From what’s been said on here, the good guys are in charge now. I suspect that the stadium rental deal and potentially some of these “soft loans” from recent year may be undoing your competitive advantage which would go some way to explaining the need for FFS AND Falkirk Forever on top of 4K attendances. Could Falkirk be a bit more like Airdrie and Montrose? Apparently we signed Leon McCann on £100 a week. Breaking into the first team got him up to £300. Falkirk gave him £750 to move. I dread to think what the Griffiths debacle cost you and Jordan Allan is not worth a transfer fee. If the club is going to ask you all for money to secure a better future, it needs to look after those funds properly. The assumption that income is directly correlated to footballing outcomes can fall over if things aren’t done as well as other clubs. Despite the drivel that comes from a large section of your support, I want to see strong provincial teams thrive. Falkirk offer far more to Scottish Football than some vanity project like Cove or Queens’ Park and, if we stay down, I really don’t fancy our chances over a season when some of our guys will have moved on and you’ll have further strengthened. If you’ve got this far well done. Look at the attached image. That’s the kind of think that makes my heart sing as a football fan.

That’s a bit strong IMO We didn’t look better at the 3-1 loss at home. Falkirk were flying at that point but looking at the teams’ respective fourth quarters, Airdrie had finished stronger and so you felt we had a real chance in this tie. McCabe seemed to have Falkirk worked out. We haven’t used the long throw all year but McCabe obviously felt it could be deployed here and I think led to 2 goals over the piece.

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If it’s voted for by the players it just shows that even they don’t like Falkirk!!

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I think there’s something in that. I’d have it more as Dunfermline’s resilience being key to your title win and both those outcomes. You showed what you should do when Down in numbers. Solid in formation, offer no space and everyone do your job. Both games we were naïve. 2 of your goals in the comeback were pile drivers. One of which was deflected. We’ve plenty of guys who can hit them but seemed determined to walk the ball in. I was also impressed by your first half performance. League won but players clearly up for the game and better side first half. Thought we were really good second half until the dismissals!!

That’s more like it!