JulioBairn
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2 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Maybe.
I've got the uber-fear for this season. Our full backs can't cross, Durnan will spend 6 matches under suspension, Tidser has not really impressed so far, and while our 1st XI should win the league, our squad size is, to repeat myself, a fucking humiliation.
Three injuries and we are goosed. It's like a pub team hoping everyone turns up on a Saturday morning and isn't too badly hungover.The fact that 3 of our goals have come from headers from Dixon crosses is pretty devastating to your argument.
Durnan got sent off for absolutely nothing so I’d like to know where your plucking the 6 match suspension from?
Anyone who’s seen him play knows Tidser is a level above where we are playing.
We have enough to moan about from the boardroom without inventing more problems.
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8 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
Surely it is pretty obvious that if the MSG and Board has accepted the BTB investment in the timescale agreed we would not be in this unholy mess?Absolutely yes, they are entirely to blame and it’s just the latest in a long line of mistakes but the manager was given a budget and has chosen to spend it this way.
The point I am making is we can’t have a 22 man squad of the quality we have signed. It’s either fewer good quality players or more poorer players
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23 minutes ago, CC52 FFC said:
There shouldn’t be any debate here. A professional team, no matter what league they are in, should be running with 19 players. Just take the incident on Saturday with Durnan. That could happen to a few players over the course of the season where the Ref gives a debatable red card. That’s even before injuries kick in when we end up kicked off the park (ie Telfer on Saturday).
How long is Telfer out for?
How many injuries did any of last years diddies get? Or any season for that matter?
Why does everyone now expect we will suffer all these injuries?
Ray has said he is looking at signing one more then the loan market will come into play. We can’t have our cake and eat it when we’ve just been relegated. We either sign more players of a poorer standard or fewer but better players. Again I know what I’d rather have.
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18 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
So spaces on the bench every week and that’s before injuries, suspensions and loss of form.
Great idea.
See response above.
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1 minute ago, falkirkzombie said:
so can't fill our bench then? and that's with a fully fit squad
He’s said he’s looking at cover for Dixon and we’ve not even looked at any loan deals yet - they tend to happen late in the window
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Surely it’s pretty obvious that we can’t have everything. Yes we could have signed 22 Tom Owen-Evans and Dan Turners or 18 Tidser, Telfers and McManus.
I know what I’d prefer.
As it stands we have a bench of probably McShane, Leitch, Johnstone, Toshney and Mutch.
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2 hours ago, CPBAIRN said:
Dixon, Buchanan, Telfer and McManus are injured. Sammon and Gomis are suspended.
Now pick your team...
I can’t recall any season when 6 of the starting 11 are missing at the same time. Can you remind me of anytime this has happened?
Would be pretty unlucky for it to happen this year.
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3 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:
So, we have a squad of 15 signed players which includes 2 goalkeepers. Agreeing that due to the league that we are in we have to cut our cloth to suit and run with a squad of 18 - 19 players that means that we are 4 players shy. Due to the fact that we can only play signed players, and this being the day before the real action starts, does that mean that all our trialists now hold the whip hand and can up their demands for the the salary and length of contract that they want?
I think we’ll get confirmation pretty soon of at least 2 or 3 signings. Don’t think we need to worry about being held to ransom by some trialists who don’t have a club 1 day before the season starts
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2 minutes ago, knee jerk reaction said:
And if this was true then why did we sell so many season tickets last season? Where were the protests? Did you not buy a season last year in protest over the board's running of the club over how many years? If Hartley's diddies had been great and we went up would people be protesting against the board?
I'm not saying the board are great, everything is fine or couldn't be better, our problems were mainly on the park last season, the board did what a good board should do, backed the manager and are doing it again this season, there are worse people running clubs. Statements from the board have been terrible, scrapping the academy a disaster, keeping fans in the dark isn't great and we could improve in loads of areas but and it's only my opinion that's not enough to boycott the club. Everyone has to make their own choice about that.
We’re not boycotting over poor statements and a lack of communication. We’re boycotting as they have contributed to us being at our lowest point most of us can remember, they appointed a conman as a scout without knowing his background, they scrapped our academy and let the newspapers break the news, they accused us of racism, they threatened to take the fans to court over a badge they didn’t even own, they illegally tapped up our manager, they are wasting our money by the bucketload trying to make up for their mistakes, they insisted they would allow a share issue to happen to allow the fans to have a say in the running of the club to then change the goalposts and look to line their own pockets and have since chased away every prospective investor through their own greed. They are driving us backwards at an alarming rate and can’t be trusted with anymore money or to take us forward.
Hence the protest
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4 minutes ago, knee jerk reaction said:
How the hell did we sell so many season tickets this time last season when everyone knew how bad we were going to be? Oh sorry, it was just the board who were meant to be fortune tellers and see last season coming in advance...
Do we really need to go through all the boards failings again?
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43 minutes ago, BooBairn said:
The 10% discount really doesn’t entice me any more to renew my season ticket. Neither does the difference of £20 in the early bird offer.
What’s most enticing is Craig Campbell leaving his post along with Lang and any other scumbag associated with the mess at the club over the past couple of years.This 100%. I’ve not heard any fan say they are not renewing their season ticket due to being relegated. The reason for not renewing is Lang, Campbell and the MSG.
Once these diddies get moved on the fans will renew in numbers
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6 minutes ago, AL-FFC said:
Like i say with the investment comment on the site that would appear the MSG sticking around and i would read that on wanting the fan ownership model to agree to put up the funds for a piss poor effort of a say or no say in running the club i.e. thanks for your money but we think we know whats best (given the past 2 season shows they don't)
The fan ownership proposal has had to change as previously the MSG were happy to dilute their hold on the club. They now want cash. They can’t be bought out and still control the running of the club
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6 hours ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
But it will be the squad budget that is the deciding factor. The club is up for sale, therefore the owners are not going to commit to funds for next season since that would come off what they would get for selling out. Factor in the fact that Income will be down and by a lot. Entry prices, Support, Sponsorship, Hospitality will all show a drop in income. We will be lucky if we can match or better these clubs wages you mention.
The club isn’t up for sale as such. Three separate groups have made offers to buy the club, at least two of which from fans groups who are quite rightly unhappy at the way the club is being run.
We currently have 5 players. The people taking over the club know they need to have enough money to sign players good enough to win this league. I’m not convinced you’d make an offer if you couldn’t do that.
I’m convinced we’ll be able to better the teams I mentioned but I might be proved wrong
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8 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Money is important but just as important is the short playing career of 8- 12 years 4 - 5 years at your peak if you are lucky. Players want to play at the highest level they can, be challenged and become better players because of that. We have to realise Falkirk will be well down the list of players looking for a club, simply we are not an attractive club to sign for any more. The days of Will Vaulks knocking on our door because of the clubs name are gone and unlikely to come back anytime soon. Reality check. We need a few old pros. Take a chance on some players coming back from injury Rory Loy was a good example. Some grafters and throw in Laverty and Dunne. Squad of 17-18 get promoted and then take stock of what we have. If we have 5 -7 that are going to be good enough to challenge for the premier league we will have done well.
If the choice comes down to signing for us or Alloa, Arbroath, Morton, Dunfermline, Ayr etc etc the deciding factor will be money...nothing else
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1 hour ago, Back Post Misses said:
Sorted it for youThe silence from the board suggests to me their reign is over, if not they’d have the begging bowl out by now looking for season ticket money.
Im confident they will be gone this week
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28 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Big budget is one thing but who wants to play in the first division?
Make no mistake...the most important thing in a players contract is how much they are getting paid.
I expect we will be able to better what’s on offer at every Championship club apart from the Dundee clubs and possibly ICT so what league we are in shouldn’t affect us too much.
There’s no reason why we can’t build a side more than capable of winning this league once we’ve sorted the issue in the boardroom
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3 minutes ago, AL-FFC said:
I wouldnt expect them to agree to the fan ownership model not for the reason of the club being at risk but more they wont get as much in their own coffers.
As I said earlier I don’t expect them to do the right thing but I do expect them to move on.
Think Kenny and David have put together a good proposal so we can only hope.
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1 minute ago, JustLuvinThepian said:
Some numbers from last season to bring it home the hole we are in. League one squad sizes. The average squad size was 29. From that 29, 24 actually played in a game and 21 played in at least 10 games.
That being so, and just to get to a squad size able to meet the average playing more than 10 games, we would need an additional 16 players.
That's 16 players that need signing and we are 4 weeks into post season and 26 days before pre season training commences. Our rivals are building squads for next season, we are conducting a review while giving no feedback to its customers. The club's primary source of income is the fans. More income may come from sponsorship, advertising and other commercial funds but that money will not come in if there is no fans to see the products being advertised.
You have to tell the fans something or risk losing them
Can’t see them telling us anything cos it’s got nothing to do with them and the only thing they care about is themselves.
They will collect their money and disappear. It will be left to the new guys...whoever they decide that is going to be
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100% the board should have communicated everything better. However could this silence not now be seen as a slight positive. It looks to me as if they know there is no way back and are now deciding their exit strategy.
No point in them releasing statements and making signings as they are gone. I do not trust them to do the right thing but I am glad it looks as if they are on the way out.
I might be wrong but I believe the next statement will be next week when it is announced who is taking over the running of the club then things will start to move
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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
I am sure that is what he want but he has no chance of getting it unless funding comes in via new owners or the MSG dipping their hands in their pockets
Yes I think that’s pretty obvious
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2 hours ago, Rocco said:11 hours ago, JulioBairn said:Hi guys. Never really posted in here but was getting bored of the “my c*ck is bigger than yours” debate so thought I’d try and change the subject.
Not expecting much to happen until the shambles in the boardroom is sorted but hearing Ray has asked for 15 players. 10 on bigger money, circa £1000 a week with 5 on lesser dough of around £400 or £500. If true and we can budget for this then no reason why we can’t build a decent sideIf this is true and he was to get his wish, I'm assuming he would have a few young guys as part of the squad as well? 15 seems a very low number for a squad
I think this is on top of the 5 we already have and I think we still have 1 or 2 youngsters on the books. So possibly a squad of 20-22?
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7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
IMO (not disputing whether you heard it or not) that budget is a huge overestimate.
Also, Senor Bairns cock is bigger than everyone elsesWould that budget not be similar to what we pay just now? I’m guessing most of our players are on somewhere between £500 and £800?? Smaller squad, some on lesser money might not be too dissimilar?
I’m not sure just trying to work out if this is realistic or not
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Hi guys. Never really posted in here but was getting bored of the “my c*ck is bigger than yours” debate so thought I’d try and change the subject.
Not expecting much to happen until the shambles in the boardroom is sorted but hearing Ray has asked for 15 players. 10 on bigger money, circa £1000 a week with 5 on lesser dough of around £400 or £500. If true and we can budget for this then no reason why we can’t build a decent side
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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Got some genuine questions as I’m starting to find it all a bit confusing.
If Mr Campbell is the con artist that some are trying to make him out, what does he actually stand to gain from taking us over?
Would John Park get involved if there was no money?
We are currently at our lowest point for 40 years, with a board we want rid of, little to no money in the bank and no academy to plug the holes. We don’t own the whole stadium so surely he can’t flog that so If Mr Campbell is a con artist what’s the worst that could happen?
I know nothing about the guy and there’s stories flying around everywhere but if he’s true to his word we are looking at significant investment in the team with the aim of getting back to the premier league for the first time in over a decade, finishing the stadium, bringing back the academy and improving facilities around the ground. I want to be excited about this...