Proudtobeabairn

P.s this constant chat about 'jobbers' is disrespectful to players who haven't even played 90mins for us yet. On paper some might not be amazing but let's give them a chance.

I am questioning why we're where we are and its been down to years of mismanagement. We've gone down a different route now and I'm relatively happy that a new broom is sweeping through the place even if it means it puts a few noses out of joint. We need to try something different. Still a few signings to come in so maybe the Rawlins don't feel they need to invest more at the moment. maybe that'll change when if all goes to plan we go up this season - who knows. And as for the £600k, Its been covered to death. Yes everyone agrees that an extra £600k in the coffers could be useful but most can also understand why the Rawlins wouldn't want to give away their decision making authority at this point in time.

I don't need to and neither should you. If she rips up the way things have been done over the last 10 years and we're successful on the park then happy days. If we're not then I'll be joining the cries to hound them out. Until then I'm prepared to see how we get on doing things a different way.

Complete pish that the McCann announcement has been timed to try and boost season tickets. He's been in self isolation and this is the first opportunity we've had. He's a good signing but hardly a Marquee big name wheeled out to sell shirts. A lot of folk on here are going to be very unhappy it seems if we stroll to the title this year.... "but...but... what about the way Mrs Rawlins spoke to someone who knows someone I know, or the way the b*stards announced poor Mark Durnan was leaving"

Excellent signing. Experienced keeper next please.

All priority groups should now have been offered at least 1 dose. When publishing hospital figures we really need to start seeing % of those in hospital after 1 dose and % of those in hospital after 2 doses. Otherwise we're going to be held back due to folk who have refused the vaccine or who have tested positive while in hospital for completely some unrelated reason. Just showing infection rates and total # in hospital is not a true reflection of how dangerous the virus is anymore.

Optimistically, most of the signings we've made will be an upgrade on what we had, the main concern is that not by much and most have been given 2 or 3 year deals. Had we been in the Championship I don't think theres one signing yet that we'd be happy with though they might be just enough to get us out of League 1. Ideally we still have 5-6 to come in. McCann sounds a good prospect and the others really need to be a step up from the likes of McGuffie and Nesbitt (who sound very much like David Smith/Alex Harris type signings). Sheerin must surely have expert knowledge of the under 20s so hopefully a few decent loans will be secured before we kick off.

I get what you're saying here but I don't remember anyone sensible welcoming in Kenny Rogers. The Rawlins have genuine experience and should have the knowledge to know what they're doing. Tried to watch the Dark Knight but got bored by the self indulgent 45min car chase and switched off..

Your regular reminder that 6-12 months ago everyone was so sick of MR and SA that they were desperate for the Rawlins to start shaking things up and to take control over every aspect of the club. They're doing that now - did anyone realistically expect that everything would just stay the same (including personnel) but we'd magically get better? This could still of course go horribly wrong but we chose this route and so let's see what happens. Communication has been appalling but I suspect much to do with KK not being around. As someone else said, we're late on things like new strip, ST sales, refunds etc but its not as though all other clubs in the league are announcing theirs so maybe the pandemic knocking usual timescales for everyone and we need to give a little more slack on some of these things. Not defending how shit we've been at communication (particularly GD and the missing Q&A) but all over the last couple of months has not been bad. Positives around clearing out the dross, development team created, new management team appointed etc. Biggest negative for me so far (along with communication) are the 2/3 yr deals being handed out and too much authority being given to Holt. Overall, I think we're at a point where we need to grit our teeth and hope the changes the Rawlins make see us start to improve. We've tried almost everything else. (and I include fan ownership of sorts through SA and MR, fan representation on the board (bairns trust etc). Personally I don't care whether the board are Falkirk fans or not as long as they look after the finances and on the pitch we head in the right direction. Jury out on both but you'd think on here most days that we're days from liquidation.

McGuffie is a poor signing. He'll be about as effective as Josh Todd. If we have another 5-6 coming in then at least 3-4 need to be improvements on the standard we've brought in so far. As others have said, 2 year deals for guys who are very unlikely to cut it in the championship is also bizarre. Surely at the very least Sheerin will have some under 20s identified and be trying to bring them in on loan.

A fundamental requirement for a footballer even.

Can't honestly say I know enough about Hetherington, Nesbitt or MacKay to slate them (yet). Nor McGuffie or Paton. One constant here though is we're bringing in guys from at best lower championship sides - nothing to suggest we'd not have to rebuild again next summer if we do go up. Having said that It's not going to be hard to be better than last season and with Partick gone we should be favourites.. would 100% replace Mutch though with someone a bit more experienced, vocal and generally solid though.

Falkirk 0 v 1 Whoever they're playing against

Hands are tied re Miller with the mental 2 year deal - hoping his influence won't extend to being on the pitch!

Good to hear from Sheerin and although nothing he said was incredibly exciting, nothing was particularly concerning either. Sounds like Holt and Corrzo will help find the players but Sheerin will have the final say.

I'm not saying there's not a lot of sense in that as an ideal set up but the point is it failed. That means either the conditions attached by the fans group were unacceptable to the current board or the Rawlins were against and influenced the board to reject. Most likely both though I'm not in any way itk. I'm not surprised if the Rawlins were against it as they want to do things their way. Its not attractive to them to be part of an equal share committee even if that does make more sense to us as fans. To get this through a different approach is going to be needed. That might be to give the Rawlins the control they want but drip feed the investment and make it dependent on the Rawlins achieving set targets that are designed in the clubs interest. A bit more creativity basically than here are our demands take it or leave it.

As others have said, this year will be a big test of exactly what the Rawlins plans are and whether they're likely to move us forward. I have no affiliation with the board whatsoever (or any fans group) but I said previously it was naive to expect the Rawlins to allow the fans group to have parity before they'd had a chance to do what they originally bought into the club to do. If the fans group had invested 12 months ago or been prepared to negotiate their red lines then things could have been different but the Rawlins got their first so are not likely to want to dilute their influence before they've had the chance to do things their way. Don't forget, they're only here because the fans backed their investment. I get how in black and white the value of the fans group investment should allow them to have a say but things are not always so straightforward and both timing and demands made are important. Overall what I've heard about the fans group on here is positive and hopefully a safety net if things go tits up but some of the whinging on here doesn't do the fans group any favours, and the bull in china shop approach is very unlikely to get any of the current board onside.

Come on now, Dinamo Zagreb would be quite exciting. If only for the pre season friendly and chance to recreate Ceske Budejovice style scenes

You do know Rawlins isn't American?

Could be the start of a long wilderness spell for Killie...

Agree we need to see and hear more from them and hopefully they are over here soon so we can ask these questions directly. In the interests of this discussion not just becoming a wind tunnel of only one point of view, the counter point here is that since the Rawlins came in we've seen MR and SA influence reduce, a new board structure, appointment of a Sporting Director, restart of a youth team and academy coach appointed, a new manager... Again - a few months ago this forum was full of folk demanding all those things. I'm not saying they've all been done well (Deans and Holt have massive question marks over them and staying in League 1 is a disaster) but time will tell. The easy thing for them would have been to walk away when we failed to go up.

The extra detail is very interesting but I can still see why this failed. The Rawlins got in first. They want to do things their way and don't welcome interference to the extent the fans group are asking for. This could turn out good or bad for us but giving the Rawlins the influence they need to do things their way is what we all wanted a few short months ago - let's not forget that. In that respect the fans offer could maybe have been better timed. Instead of going in with an all or nothing offer which was unlikely to win the Rawlins support (given the above) why not try and work with the Rawlins for a while and stagger the investment or put conditions in place that guarantees investment and gives the fans group more influence over time. E.g if certain conditions are met over the next 6-12 months. It does also look (to a complete outsider) that the fans group have walked away when discussions became fraught at least twice now (in the public domain). This was never going to be an easy negotiation and maybe some of the "red lines" could have been relaxed or delayed to get a better outcome? Its unrealistic to expect to remove board member, choose the manager and make possibly other demands that the Rawlins would see as unpractical (or certainly not beneficial to them). These type of discussions are always going to be fraught and should really only be made through lawyers for some of the reasons we're seeing in the detail. Yes the fans investment is higher but you have to take into account the fact the Rawlins are only here at all to do things their way (and we as fans enabled that only a few short months ago). I just can't see a benefit to the Rawlins of the fans group offer (other than the initial funds which the Rawlins would be unlikely to have control over) - if anything the offer seriously hampers the plans the Rawlins have for the club. Again this might work out well and maybe it won't but if they get us to the Premiership and make a bit of money along the way on player sales, is that so bad? Sounds like the Rawlins response has been petty but let's remember we are getting only one side of the story here. The Q&A coming up is where the hard questions need to be asked.

The 500k would have been something good - the red lines maybe not. It sounds like I have 100% faith in the Rawlins. I don't but I just think we spent so long trying to get control from MR and SA to someone with a bit more know how. We seem to have that and most of you seem to want to take that influence away and hand it to a group of fans (who haven't even made their identity or proposals public) before the Rawlins have even made it over here. On top of that it sounds like MR and SA seem to be in favour of letting the fans group in (which would have been the ultimate red flag a few weeks ago). Its a typical Falkirk made mess.

Again... didn't we want someone to come in and 'throw tantrums' - upset the apple cart and do things differently? A few months ago 99% of folk on here wanted exactly that (and that's what pushed through the Rawlins deal - fan support for getting them in and letting them loose).

Well let's hear about them then? How many have been in positions of influence during successful periods for clubs like Stoke and Orlando (or similar)? Sorry - you can't expect to win support just by being fans with money. Maybe there's more to the fans group than that (I'm sure there is) but nobody other than a select few knows anything about them.