BountyBairn
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21 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Complete misrepresentation of the point I was making.
I repeat you cannot demand that an academy produces x number of first team ready players per season.
That fact certainly does not make having an academy pointless.
You seem unable to understand how an academy system works in the real world.
You can’t guarantee it of course, but you can’t dispute the stream of graduates from our academy getting to the first was a sign that our academy worked to an extent.
I dare say that all graduates with the exception of maybe a handful were way better to watch and done more than some of the total jobbers we’ve had in the last few years.
We did manage to miss out though where a fee might have been on the cards for maybe 4 or so who went to play higher level than us, but we lost them without recoup.
for me the academy worked well but started to go downhill, the further into the younger age groups we reached to get first team players. Usually caused by slashing budgets and woeful recruitment.
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2 hours ago, Grant228 said:
Most academy's would be delighted with one player a season establishing themselves before then selling them on.
They would wouldn’t they? Makes it all the more ludicrous that we canned ours. We created decent batches for years with 2/3 a season coming to first team (not saying we cashed in on them all of course).
for a club our size creating first team quality graduates is very useful even if they don’t get sold.
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3 hours ago, LatapyBairn. said:
This was a good one, I actually like it as it is with the navy socks. Seems to be a controversial thing to say on here but I’m not fussed on having red on our strips, navy/white and as simple a design as possible for me please.
Not red on our strips but would say that i defo like red as an away colour, least favourite are these yellow versions and light blue. Reverse of Navy White, with main colour being white is suitable.
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5 hours ago, PedroMoutinho said:
In my view the approach the current board are taking on the academy is the right one- i.e. not chucking cash we don’t have at it.
It needs to be understood imo that the academy is there to support the first team and not the other way round. We are a professional football team, not a youth club, and I think that distinction was lost at times with the previous academy.
Clearly closing the academy entirely was the wrong decision but I do think what was being spent was unsustainable. I don’t think we should be looking to just reinstate the previous structure any time soon as it needs to be done in a sustainable and affordable way.
How much were we spending on the academy previously?
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Minter
14 minutes ago, Malay Robertsons Shorts said:Got to say guys but your manager and assistant have there heart in Kirkcaldy. You can talk about who is the biggest team ,for between us but you will never get over the mighty raith fucking you in the Scottish cup. If we managed to be paired.Again than I am sure that we would goose you by at least 3 goals and by the scum by at least 5 goals ,PS I hope Airdrie win the league
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Fucking box office bairns. Over 7000 in league 1 is crazy. Always good away supports either way round in these ties too.
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Yeah he is selfish but also top scorer is he not? I was raging he missed don’t get me wrong, it was on balance the wrong decision but understand his selfishness to a certain degree
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That penalty denial was something else. Officials shocking for both sides (only saw second half but they were ganting)
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How’s the first half been? Trying to watch online but FTV issues with my account and still not sorted…..SSN for me it seems
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6 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
Quite a few posters go missing when we win
Always been the same with our lot unfortunately.
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42 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
All the signings are funded by fans.
Ooooft BPM for chairman with this patter!
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53 minutes ago, Just a bairn said:
I’ll be happy with a better performance than the Dundee game.
Aye me too. Maintaining some performance even if we don’t win is important here to keep league on track.
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3 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
Last time we changed about for a cup game Dundee scudded us. Keep a settled side and bring your subs on earlier if you want them to have a better run out.
Hard to disagree with this. We did totally wreck our momentum last cup game.
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Pretty honest feeling assessment and response from McGlynn IMO.
Its a cliche but hard work is the way to address that. I hope those players now realise they will get done if they turn up on a Saturday again thinking the games won before even warming up.
and yes some of the dead wood still needs thinned out.
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Thought the two new boys looked ok when they got on. Could maybe kick on. Maybe.
Sean Mackie was probably our best IMO, but that’s not saying much.
Hopefully injuries aren’t too bad.
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3 hours ago, Russ said:
If you can’t get on board and excited about a random 2 footed and tall attacking midfielder being signed up then there’s no hope for you tbh.
He’s either going to be absolutely ganting or a swashbuckling cult hero and I for one can’t wait to find out which.
Part of the journey innit.
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1 hour ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Quite disappointed in this statement, actually seems to fuel the rumours of discord rather than clarifying the situation.
I tend to disagree….maybe it’s a very personal reason?
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50 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
Just found it a bit surprising there only being one candidate after there being quite a bit of noise on here, a few posters have been quite critical of the FSS for no particular or obvious reason other than the directors being members of both the FSS and the patrons group and have tried to paint this as a negative where in fact I actually see it as a positive. If there genuinely was a like minded feeling amongst our fan base I presumed somebody would have stuck they're head above the parapet. Maybe I’m just reading to much into a few pedantic posters on here, could well be the case most don’t agree with that sentiment.
Maybe those complaining simply aren’t members?
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Goal line clearances
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17 minutes ago, Beaver The Bairn said:
Hetherington has been absolutely outstanding
He was everywhere
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Decent result. Happy.
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Robbed there - what a joke from lino
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13 minutes ago, alonso said:
Puma seemingly will be supplying the Foundation strips again this year. Not sure if that means Puma will be new kit also?
Think it’s already been discussed here tbh - there another year on the puma deal was mentioned.
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7 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Lesser Hampden has been getting rebuilt for about 5 year. I don't think any of us will see QP play there in our lifetimes.
really?
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