Broken Bairn

Fantastic and very emotional night. Congratulations to all Bairns across the entire globe. Also taking a wee minute to remember all the Bairns dancing up in heaven tonight including my proud to be a Bairn Dad. COYB.

Good Work Harry, Excellent remix 35 years down the road! COYB.

"Christmas Time, Lager and wine, Falkirk Bairns are doing fine, 5 past the Morton & 3 past Clydebank, We all agree Jim Leishman's a W**k. The Record, The Sun say they're number 1 but we know better than that, Big Gordon's (Marshall) his name, the league is his aim and Leishman's a slavering twat." Penned it on a boring afternoon at Falkirk College back in 1988 and started singing it with the Ellwyn boys back in the day in the old enclosure. The choir caught on and hey presto. Sir Cliff's never been in touch though! COYB.

It really does not matter if he is cheap or not. If they keep him they will lose dozens if not hundreds of season tickets and fans that might never return. This is the boards last chance to invest and invest big to get us out of this league and allow the club to recover. It will not be easy and they may not have the funds, if this is the case, they really need to be up front and scream for help from the main stand roof. I realise they have always been open to investment but i get the feeling that most fans just trust they will sort it and let them get on with it. Hopefully the AGM gets all the cards on the table and we have a white knight in the wings waiting to sort this mess out. If not, i really fear the worst.

The club has been dying slowly for a number of years now. We lost some diehards when we left Brockville, we lost some to the new stadium being away from town and the lack of atmosphere compared to Brockville. We lost more due to the crazy decisions of the previous people running our club and we now have the last of the diehards seriously questioning if it is all worth the effort. Many will find that this season will be the straw that broke the camels back and will make them break the habit that they have had for decades and not bother going next season. This is a watershed moment in the history of FFC. The new board must invest and get further investment in like never before to try and keep these fans and even entice a few back. This will be no easy task for so many reasons happening around the world at the moment, but you have to give us hope, and by keeping the current management team you will kill that hope instantly and possibly our club with it.

Hope you don't dissapear Harry as you are one of the best on here.

"clarity on player recruitment" Eh no BPM- If we had this from the club we could have saved the last 40 pages!! They only had to say we have not and will not be signing DG.

Are you thinking he is going back to Killie with McInnes BPM?

Signing Messi would split our support. Some would protest he is past his best.

Whilst i agree that the board statement makes it easy to think we are about to sign DG, i am thinking our actual target has been named a couple of pages ago and nobody has picked up on it? Having just agreed to terminate his contract in Cyprus, has connections to Kenny Miller and at 34, he realises he will have to drop a level to stay in the game, Kyle Lafferty could be our man. Of course, he will have to take a significant wage cut, and will definitely split the support, but will be accepted much more than DG. That statement could be a great deflection piece by our new board.

Fantastic news that Holt has gone and no need to replace him when we are languishing in the 3rd tier. Time to unite everything at the club and get it going in the right direction again to get us out of this league at least. Rome wasn't built in a day, but we may have just laid the foundations.

Exactly how i felt. Strangely however, one of my most special memories of Crunchie was being cheered and applauded by both sets of fans when subbed at Easter road in a cup tie against us.

Tony Parks, Andy Nicol, Tommy McQueen, Gary Smith, Yogi Hughes, Davie Nicholls, Kevin Mcallister, Scott McKenzie, Sammy McGivern, Simon Stainrod, Paul Rutherford- How lucky were we to see 11 like them and many others who wore the navy blue with pride. Simply provided us with everything we ever ask for as a Bairns fan - 100% effort EVERY time you pull on the shirt. My goodness, how times have changed!!

Fantastic 7 minutes watching the genius of Crunchie. Good luck to the CI and every fellow Bairn in 2022. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I give you all Billingham Synphonia in 1988 in a weekend that we also played Darlington. We were put in a cage at Darlington game for our "own safety" by the local police- lasted about 2 minutes and we were out mixing on the terraces. The Billingham game ended 2-2 and back to the towns ICI club for refreshments. Remember the ICI plant pumping all sort of shite into the sky - made the Grangemouth site look Eco friendly.

Fair point and well made. But like most of us, he would give his back teeth (or cash) to see us being successful as a club and at the end of the day that is all that matters. I am sure he will never put himself in the position he found himself in at the Q &A. I hope he is big enough to apologise for the shambles that the Q&A became, and we can all move on and upwards together.

If we realise our capabilities, we will achieve the ambitions of around 90% of our support, and leave your pile of pish miles behind us!

As someone who knows Gordon Colburn and his fellow family members, we should be in absolutely no doubt they want the best for our club. He would be the first to admit the Q&A was a complete car crash and wishes it had never happened the way it did. Tonight is the first time in 5 years there could be a chink of light in the huge black tunnel our club has been in. Lets all pull together and get us back to the place we think we belong. It may be our LAST chance to do so. COYB.

"Scunnered" for me sums up the whole club at the moment. There will always be high's and Low's supporting Falkirk. Watching Dave Clarke's giants in the mud to Lambies's pile of shite, then God, Sammy and crunchie in full flow, go unbeaten in Glasgow for a full season, 3 cup finals in 18 years, we were spoiled and felt immensely proud of our team and our town. It was never going to last, but should never have plummeted to the depths we are at now. Until the club and fans take everything to do with the club by the scruff of the neck and realise where we are is our fault, i don't think things will improve. Every opponent in this league gives 10% extra against "Big Team" Falkirk as that is how we come across to the opposition. Until we have a team that is willing to match and go beyond this extra 10% every time they pull on the jersey i fear we will struggle. It shouldn't be difficult,as most have been giving 80% for seasons now. Passion and desire coupled with hard work costs nothing but for me we have to pay the minimum, with large win/promotion bonuses to attract the right attitude and ability(in that order!) to our club. The fans will match every bit of effort ten fold- of that i am sure, and the positives start to flow from there. One of the biggest seasons in our history coming up imo, we simply cannot afford to mess this one up.

I have no idea as to who will be the perfect Coach/Manager for us, but i do know they must be the following; Have a track record of at least "Being a Winner" Be able to put up with a DOF telling them in some form who they should sign, and who and how they should play. Inherit a number of proven failures who are likely to be on a better deal than anybody else will offer them. Come to a team with a record of sacking managers within 18 months. A board and support that could not be any more poles apart in opinions. Try to set out a team to play in a likely toxic stadium atmosphere if things don't get off to a flyer. The plus side is that if they play flowing attack minded football, and take this league by the scruff of the neck, they will be half way to success with fans that have been starved of entertainment for a number of seasons. So WHO fancies the job and is the right man for it? Answers on a postcard to....................

So 24 hours after our new and hopefully final "rock bottom" we are all hurting like hell and trying to remember the good times. The fact is- none of it matters and none of it can be changed. The future however, CAN BE changed. We must as a fan base, stop financing the club with immediate effect - No season tickets, no sponsorship, no 50/50s- NOTHING AT ALL.. Then they will not be able to afford overpaid pish, two managers and a DOF in the third tier of Scottish football. They will also not be able to pay superfan his 80k rent for the stand he "built for the club". What we MUST do is set up a bank account run by fans we entrust, and put every penny we would have spent on the above into it until we have enough to get rid of the MSG, even if we have to overpay, in return for a say in running the club, OUR club, to the best of our abilities. We had guys come close to this before and i am sure there are plenty others out there would be savvy enough to run our club properly moving forward. A club with a two year plan, a five year plan, 7 year plan and a 10 year plan, reviewed on each occasion and targets set and achieved. Within this plan, we must also buy the stadium from Falkirk council to help fund the club for the years ahead. We should comfatably be a club in the lower end of Scotland's top division if we are run correctly, but i fear if we do not take this opportunity now, we are in danger of becoming the team everybody wants to beat in the third division of scottish football, until we fade away and become a memory for good.

If "Superfan" is even a fan- he will surely realise he is becoming more unpopular by the hour and at least sell up and get out. He can hold the door open for the rest. The club has become the laughing stock of the country who's football is a shambles from top to bottom.

We have been watching the slow death of our club for a good few years now, tonight, it has just stepped up a gear. Sad and painful to watch.

Changed days Grangemouth Bairn. Twenty years ago the sun was never seen until after midday as it had to burn through all the shite the BP had pumped out overnight. Get the sun cream on!!

Much more likely he is just "Rattling"