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    Wasps Vs Bairns

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

    Posted

    To all my detractors.... 😂 Already nailed my colours to the mast that Falkirk were the best team in the League. All signs pointing going to win it at a canter as well without anything interesting happening with the top two aswell. Nothing peaked the last minute excitement of that Raith - Ayr season where it was fun to be a part of.

    Today was sore for the goal difference but not unexpected. A right good 45 with the narrowest of margins (at a front post) separating us. Didn't start the second and sure the players wanted it over by 60 odd minutes. Like I've already said much more important to brush it off, forget about it and move on to next week against Annan. Bankers and six point games rather than a highlight victory.

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    Cove Thread

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, CoveRangers1922 said:

    Just read our pre-match and Hartley says he's finished in the transfer market this window. We have 19 players which is light, he recognises that.

    https://coverangersfc.com/2024/01/26/queen-of-the-south-preview/

    For League 1 historically, I don't think it's too bad - certainly when we were promoted with Jim Goodwin - my recollection was the bench was a few senior players plus the kids. If Plan A didn't work you'd just regroup for next week.

    I'd be surprised if we run such a comparatively huge squad again - there's a few seasons of large squads now and I think it's better to be streamlined - barring serious injury to key players of course.

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    Cove Thread

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    Quite like your business @coverangers1922. Think you guys are the current winners of window with offloading the dead wood and adding a couple decent faces.

    ...although if we can still get domestic loans until end of February there's still plenty of time for the rest of us to make some late additions. Fairly confident despite our meetings that Cove will be secure for the playoffs at this point. I'm not unconfident in our chances against Accies and sitting secure in second has a way of flattening you out before a lottery of playoff games.

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    Wasps Vs Bairns

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:

    not some sort of “free hit”...

    Easy to see the free it if you look at Falkirk's return against other teams they've so far surrendered 1 point to Cove, Hamilton, Montrose, Queen of the South and Edinburgh. Taking maximum points from the other games. 

    A loss means losing 1 point in competition with those other teams mentioned as I'm writing off a late run for the title. I'm sure we can agree a 27 point lead over the next 17 games is nigh on unreachable.

    Gaining 3 points or two on Cove, Montrose, QoS and maybe Hamilton might be nice but like I said I'm not going to go home in gloom if we are still on 26 points on Saturday night. Far more important to take points off those teams who are in direct competition for places around. Those games are the cliched 6 pointers. So absolutely no pressure on us - I'd take another performance like we produced at Motherwell.

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    Edinburgh City

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    Dickson was reluctant to say how much it is costing to run the club - which is in the third tier of Scottish football - for a season but confirmed it was in excess of £500,000.

    Shows how beneficial it is to own your stadium. Don't think our costs are that high but we can generate savings and have an income from the stadium. 

    I remember someone credible telling me when Edinburgh put us out the challenge cup a good few years ago that they were paying 3 times the wage of our highest paid player to their top earner. Just seems mad to me that you'd throw all that money down the drain and not build any basis for the future.

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    Wasps Vs Bairns

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:

    Tbf in the game against Edinburgh we rested most of our first choice 11 and even Man City would've struggled to play football on Bonnyrigg's mudheap of a pitch.

    No excuses if we can't get a result on Saturday but confident we'll be back to our old selves 

    Wasn't too long ago there was a strong 'McGlynn can't be trusted' narrative though. Self inflicted for Edinburgh and if that's the turning point of your season I'm sure a few dissenters might be back.

    Although I've said it after the first couple games though that I'd much rather 3 points from games against the teams around us than a 'headline' win against the league leaders. Either way I feel like this game is a bit of a free hit.

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    Motherwell FC v Aloha

    in Domestic Cup Football

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, printer said:

    I thought Virtanen did OK in both positions. Not sure I'd be comfortable with him starting at RB against Miller (or Morrison) next week, but maybe we'll have to go with that.

    Or could Kev stand in? 🤔

    Behave😂

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    Motherwell FC v Aloha

    in Domestic Cup Football

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, Magic Hat said:

    For me PJ and Scougall were our best players and special mention to Virtanen who I thought looked comfortable playing at right back.

    Thought that myself - sods law he's been waiting for game time and two players that he can cover for go down in one game with serious injuries.

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    Motherwell FC v Aloha

    in Domestic Cup Football

    Posted · Edited by LeodhasXD

    Quite surprised on the media stuff. Expected Motherwell to be a much more accommodating place with doing the media. It was like they were surprised to have us there but I assume much bigger media teams than us work there regularly. We are way too reliant on Sky in this country. The setup felt a bit archaic and muddled. BBC had one single camera, QTV had one single camera and despite what it says in the commercial requirements we didn't manage to get a feed from them. Really disappointed there's not any more joined up thought in these competitions.

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    The Alloa Athletic Thread

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by LeodhasXD

    I watched quite a bit of the youth games with streaming the home fixtures. Luke Rankin in my opinion was far the superior striker. Rayan was physical, but frequently offside and with a touch reminiscent of what we saw with Conor Sammon in the first team.

    The foul and penalty won against Falkirk was a handball no? If it was I'll give Mohammed the credit that he was going for the challenge on I assume Brad McKay and forced the error. We got a fee for him and I thought it was good business at the time but he may well have improved at Dundee.

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