BairnBrainBrian
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This is brutal. There isnt a footballer on that park.
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Anything that MC says will be total and utter bullshit.
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Happy to see that MC Chancer has been told where to go.
The MSG take almost 100 days to finally conclude MC is a bawbag, spend a fortune on getting us one of the worst managers Scottish football has ever seen, and not one of them seems able to do a Google search.
Hopefully this decision will warn off any other football clubs that MC tries to bullshit.
Now we will have more third rate soap opera story lines to look forward to at FFC.
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13 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Levein for Falkirk ?
He still has a job. Youth operations, whatever that is.
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I hate to be so blunt, but there is some pish being spouted on here tonight!
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This could be provide MC with a way to withdraw his offer and save what little dignity he has left. It is not difficult to imagine him saying that he wanted all of the MSG shares or none at all.
At least it looks as if something is happening at long last. I certainly hope MC is sent on his way. It is better having a shite team than no team at all.
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14 hours ago, Gordon EF said:
If Arsenal are the worst 'good' team you can think of then you clearly have an extremely high standard for judging a team to be good. One which no team in Scotland currently meets and no Falkirk side in history has ever reached. Personally, I find that a very strange perspective to have.
I have a soft spot for Arsenal, I went to quite a few games when I lived in London way back in the day.
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15 hours ago, Fast_Action said:
Could it be the other way around - that Falkirk are a poor team in a better league than they expected? That Clyde and Raith Rovers are better than they anticipated? That is why they are not running away with the league despite their resources, and go in to November sitting in third place, and only three points ahead of Clyde who are in 6th place?
I am not sure that works. Falkirk are a poor team but still only two pts off the top, to me that suggests that the teams above, who both have not beaten Falkirk, are not really that much better.
Football is such a hard thing to quantify, there are so many different opinions about what makes a good team and what makes a bad team. But it does seem universally accepted that Falkirk have the best squad and that they should be playing better football than they are. I think Ray has to take a huge portion of the blame for it, but the players are not exempt from criticism. There are just too many of them not putting in an honest shift.
There is also the possibility that Falkirk are not as bad as I think they are, but we all have an idea of what we consider a good team, and as was said before, 100 people could have 100 different opinions about what makes a good football team.
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2 minutes ago, lanky_ffc said:
Can't speak for anyone else, but my definition of 'good' would be a team averaging at least 2.00 points per game. In the last 15 years, only 3 champions have failed to do this. None of ourselves, Raith or East Fife are at the level at the moment, although that could obviously change.
We're currently on 1.73PPG which would see us finish on ~62; piss-poor given our resources. I'm not expecting us to romp it with 102 points like Rangers in 13-14 or even Queens with 92 the season before, but Ayr, Livi and Dunfermline have all had healthy points totals in recent seasons with comparatively lower budgets.
Football is such a difficult thing to nail down to things such as good and bad, there are so many other factors to consider. Your 2 points a game gauge is based on past results but even those have to be pulled apart for different circumstances.
Some teams can have a horrendous bout of bad luck with injuries and that is their chances of the league gone.
But, when you have been watching footbal for over 40 years you know a good team when you see one. I don't need to be a Michelin chef to know when a sausage is boggin.
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13 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:
I should probably have said "arbitrary" rather than subjective. What you consider a good team is obviously competely different to what 100 other people might consider a good team.
Of course, you are completely entitled to your opinion but given that good / bad is an entirely arbitrary label for football teams, your opinion cannot be any more correct or incorrect than anyone else's.
And trying to prove the point with logic is ridiculous. Of course if Falkirk are not a good team then them only being 2 points off top spot in a particular league would mean the league is not good. But you're just definining Falkirk as a poor team based off some completley arbitrary comparison of your own.
Who would you consider the worst "good" team in Scottish football?
Regarding your first point, I think you would find it difficult to find a Falkirk fan who thinks we are a good team, I dare say there will be some, but I am confident most would agree that we are not a good team. Does that mean we are not a good team? Of course it doesn't, it only means that the majority of our fans think we are not a good team. Dumbarton fans might think Falkirk are a brilliant team because we defeated them 6-0. and Clyde fans probably think we are rancid. Of course everything, or most things, in football are subjective, it is difficult to be objective when your team is involved. But our opinions are fed by facts and figures, and more than a hint of personal experience. We all have an idea of what a good football team is, and yes a 100 people might well have 100 different opinions, but there are some facts to be considered as well. As an example it is a fact that this year Falkirk easily have the largest budget in the league. Therefore it is not a great leap to expect them to be playing much better than they are. I know a bigger budget does not guarantee success.
What we would need is some sort of way of measuring what is good and what is not good, but even that would come with some subjectivity. For example, would a good team be two points off the top of the table right now, or would a good team be 6 or 7 points clear? Maybe it is too early to say? Maybe it is not too early to say?
I wouldn't agree that 'good/bad are totally arbitrary terms in regard to football. A team that is stranded at the bottom of any league are not good relative to that league and that is what they are being judged on, it is immaterial whether they would be a good team if they were in a different league.
I am defining Falkirk as a poor team based on their poor displays. There are times watching Falkirk this year where for parts of some matches it looks like the players are playing together for the first time. A team that, for a good amount of time, depended on the full-back floating balls into the opposition box and hoping for a result, is not a good team by any stretch of the imagination. But you might have an imagination that stretches that far.
As for the worst good team, in my subjective opinion, based on what I have seen, I have found that Arsenal continue to frustrate.
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34 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:
Good is relative though, isn' it. And that's the whole point.
Bring someone who only watches Premier League / Champions League on TV to any L1 game and they're going to think it's shite. Bring someone who watches South of Scotland football every week and they'll probably say all the teams are "good".
It's a very well worn P&B trope that fans of teams who're undeperforming or below where they want to be will decry everyone and everything as shite. It's either a "if we're (relatively) shite then everything has to be (objectively) shite" or a "we're used to so much better cos we're such a big team".
It's not exclusive to Falkirk.
Everything is relative (arguably).
Obviously everything I stated is only my own opinion, but I genuinely do not see a good quality team in this league at the moment. There may well have been teams in previous years that have won this league and gone on to better things, but I don't see any team, Falkirk included, that look like a decent side. Yes, that is my subjective viewpoint, and relatively speaking people watching Sunday League might look at L1 and think there is some good football being played, whereas, as you say, Champions League viewers would dismiss L1 as very poor.
But, it is completely logical to look at my team Falkirk and honestly say that we are not a good team. Undoubtedly, we have a few players who should stand out in this league. Take Tidser as an example, I thought he would stand out a mile in this league, and for whatever number of reasons he has been a severe let down. He has, perhaps, a handful of good assists, but overall he has not been a good signing thus far.
Now, if I look at my team and I can admit that they are not a good team, and we are only two points off the top of the league then it is perfectly logical to conclude that A) SInce Falkirk are not a good team, then all other teams are also not good, or B) Perhaps we are not as bad a team as I think we are.
It is just my opinion that this league is dire, I am willing to be proven wrong, but it would take a minor miracle.
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12 minutes ago, Angusfifer said:
If it as dire as you are making out, why are teams such as Alloa Athletic, Ayr United and Arbroath more than holding their own in the Championship?
Those teams are not in this league this year.
I am referring to the league as it is now, it is dire.
Do you think there is a good team in this league?
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2 hours ago, Fast_Action said:
The big difference is that you are full-time and paying wages that the rest of us could only dream of.
I am genuinely not sure what difference that makes to my arguments.
I think most people would agree that Falkirk has the best squad of players in this league, and probably any manager in this league would have us top and playing much better football.
There are no decent teams in this league, and I include Falkirk in that statement. Take Clyde as an example, they beat Falkirk (twice now) then have results like losing 2-0 to an absolute rank rotten Montrose team, and draw with Forfar, and get a pumping at Airdrie.
I think the fact we are playing so badly, yet we are 2 pts from being top, tells you how poor the other teams are. As I have said many times before, if Falkirk are so shite then why are we only two points off the top? Obviously it means that the other teams are not any better than us and a few are a hell of a lot worse.
We all know that Falkirk *should* be playing better than they are, and that Ray has every advantage you can possibly think of, except for good managerial skills. Yes, we pay the highest wages and are full-time, but that guarantees nothing, we are a group of individuals, some who should be stand outs in this league, but for some reason they are not playing as a team.
Someone highlighted the disagreement over who should take the penalty against Peterhead, all that shit should be sorted out well before hand. There are far too many examples to go into, but I haven't lost heart yet.
I think we can only improve, lets be honest we have probably played well for the equivalent of about 180 minutes in total.
People say this is a 'tough league', or a 'hard league to get out of' and 'there are no easy teams in this league. That is bollocks, this league is dire, and any half decent team should be skooshing it, whether they are full-time, part-time, highly paid or playing for a tenner a week.
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Well, as pish as we are, I am still confident that we will win this league. I feel that something will happen, perhaps a clear the air chat between Ray and the players where they both listen to each other, or Ray throws a double six and hits upon a winning formula, or even we throw more money at Ray in January, but I still think we will eventually click into a half decent team, which is all you have to be to win this league.
Let's be honest, if there was a half decent team in this league they would already be skooshing it, but as utter shite as we are at the moment, we are only two points off the top.
Expect the unexpected!
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18 hours ago, Domino the Dug said:
Are the commentators actually alright? Mentally, i mean? They sound like a cross between Mice and Men's Lenny, and Boxer from Animal Farm, playing the club narrative to the seemingly dwindling numbers left listening to them. The "sun in eyes" wasn't preventing us successfully and easily defending the often overhit, and even more frequently aimless crosses along our box. They should also check up on their offside, and maybe too keep an ear out for who replaces whom from the bench.
I really couldn't care less, and about Falkirk's fate, like the vast majority of us i'm sure. It's an attitude for which is why East Fife, Montrose and Peterhead fans are the only ones in L1 who actually virulently loathe us for not joining in their L2 diddy club pity party, however these clowns carry your club stamp. Their visceral fantasism along with butchering the language are two core reasons for your total meltdown, thus landing you on our mantlepiece until February. Just let us know if you want the heating turned up or down.
What the actual f*ck are you on about?
Is this a game where we have to decode the message?
You almost have as many mistakes as you have words!
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1 hour ago, Bully Wee Clyde FC said:
The introduction of acronyms into the tautology discussion is brilliant. Personally speaking myself, I nearly always guard against using ATM machines.
Bravo mate, my cap is well and truly doffed!
That one came from well off my radar.
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8 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said:
What language is this?
Fitba forumese.
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57 minutes ago, maxruby said:
Aha! Then our correspondent would not have called his baby a wee baby but a large one hence negating any possibility of a tautology. However, I do accept your point and indeed thought of your example as I posted my original thought. I was once called a “hair splitting pedant”. You can imagine my immediate response. All this aside I’m sure she is a delight for now. From experience I can tell you that in 10/11 years time, Dad’s opinion may alter a little.
As for Saturday’s game? No idea what may happen.So many little things annoy me when they really shouldn't. Like people who use the word 'literally' in a figurative sense, or say 'they could care less' when they really couldn't.
The poor quality of writing that passes for 'journalism' in many of today's media, people who randomly use throw in an apostrophe and they have no idea why, or those who don't know when to use their, there or they're, the your/you're brigade and the random comma guy, all drive me up the wall.
I dare say it is an age thing.
As for the fitba', I think home advantage will help us to a one goal victory.
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19 hours ago, maxruby said:
Tautology alert! “ Wee baby daughter”! Excellent example of the art.
I am not sure this is the best example of a tautology. Not all babies are 'wee'. e.g. I doubt that a 12lb baby girl would ever be described as a 'wee' baby.
I always thought that 'PIN number' was a good example of a tautology in everyday speech.
In logic, your example definitely is not a tautology.
Context is everything.
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I am more worried about Ray getting a new contract than I am in winning this league.
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I hope Ray doesn't shite it because we are playing a big team.
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Our national team truly is rancid, but what about San Marino? They are so bad they probably would struggle to finish 2nd to Falkirk in this year's League One.
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Any day now, or in two weeks time, I fully expect MC to apologise to the board and fans and say he has to withdraw his bid. The excuse will be along the lines of 'a big boy took my money and ran away with it.'
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Peterhead v Raith Rovers
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Peterheed is a difficult place to get 3 pts.