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2 hours ago, Springfield said:
Had to read this a couple of times to get my head round the debt. Was there not some financial rules brought in to stop this happening?
Doesn’t say if they are sitting with any debt or not, just says they ran at a 2.9 million pound loss.
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5 hours ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:
As much as this is a joke Fulton would genuinely be a good signing for Falkirk given in goals is clearly the weakest area of the Grangemouth Galaticos.
He’s out of contract at the end of the season so I suspect he’ll be gone if we don’t get through the play offs. Only negative is he is made of glass.
I’d take him in a second and your correct in that the goalkeeper is the one position we’ve not properly addressed this season although I still think there could potentially be a keeper in Hogarth if he can improve his decision making as he is actually an excellent shot stopper, he’s also at an age where time is on his side.
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7 minutes ago, Hugh Hillshaveyes said:
I think I agree with how mcglynn sees it... Morrison & miller...then Ross with Alfie a distant 4th
I think the way McGlynn has been using the 4 of them has been perfect, it’s great to have those options on the bench and the 4 of them all keep the pressure on each other to perform. I’d be keeping all 4 if possible.
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2 hours ago, Rocco said:
Absolutely. Watched the game back last night and was good to see Lee Miller. Started thinking about his and McCracken’s time in charge and you forget how much Holt actually ruined them. Forced them to change to his favoured formation and his spell as interim manager was dreadful. Then you add on all the dreadful signings he made, the poor appointment of Rennie and then his comments at the Q&A and you realise just how dreadful he was for the club.
Im not saying Miller and McCracken would have succeeded if Holt wasn’t there as the cracks had started to show before Holt was appointed but there is no denying things got considerably worse after his appointment.
Before Gary holt came in we were sitting top of the the league and grinding out results, the change of formation and dreadful January signings done us, holt apparently was even making appearances on the training ground! I actually think we would have managed to shit fest our way to promotion that year had holt not been forced onto miller and McCracken.
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4 hours ago, Accie1 said:
Rumours are he was tapped up and was heading to Falkirk at the end of the season anyway. If that was the case no point keeping him.
Does he not still have another year on his Hibs contract?
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1 hour ago, Rocco said:
What is Alfie’s contract situation? I can’t remember if he had a 2 year deal or not
Was 2 years
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So I’ve went for Donaldson as well, much the same as everyone else as in it was a toss up between him and Morrison. One who hasn’t been mentioned by many for POTY I also considered was McIver, obviously notched a few goals/assists but it was more taking into account how important he is to how we play as a whole and as that focal point no other player in the squad can actually do the same job like for like for us where as I feel in every other position we do have players that can come in and cover or allow us to rotate the squad a bit. He’s totally changed the attacking dynamic in final third for us this season linking the play and bringing the best out of the three players up supporting the striker whoever they may be.
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1 hour ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Club not tied into anything! Good grief man Falkirk are tied to a 99 year lease.
You can't be taken seriously after that - go away
You are either purposely avoiding the obvious or incredibly stupid as I’m certain this was all explained to you previously multiple times on here by various people, the club have a lease on the land which from memory I’m sure was actually for 175 years (it may have been 125) for which the club pays a grand total of £1 per year! We are not tied in to any lease regarding the use of the council owned top two stories of the main stand as we pay the council on an ad hoc basis for using the corporate lounges but are under no obligation to use these facilities should we choose not to. The club own the pitch, the seats, the bulk of the ground story of the main stand and the north stand so obviously use this free of charge. Sandy Alexander has the south stand which he rents back to the club. Now please stop spouting mis information, you are either one of these people who cannot accept when they are wrong or have some sort of strange hate agenda against the council. Either way it’s pretty tiresome now.
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35 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Then a business plan has to be put in place to provide the facility the marketplace needs.
Office space? No, plenty of empty office space already in the vicinity.
Hospitality? Stadium has hospitality already so the council would veto
As for free from Council money grabbing regarding the stadium. That's been talked to death, the council have the club tied up tight. We are stuck in the current facilities till the lease ends.
So unless there is a Leaseholder / Market identified then no 4th stand or build a stand to hold fans and thats it.
The latter is the cheaper option.
But anyway - whatever it is thats seasons away but the club could agree the design, how much it costs, building approval then if the funds become available there is a shovel ready plan is on the shelf.
Do you have trouble retaining information, seriously? The club are not tied into anything, we use the council owned areas of the main stand on an add hoc basis(the upper level corporate lounges and catering facilities) because we have no alternative elsewhere in the stadium, we do not “lease” these areas but pay a percentage of what profits there are from club run hospitality on match days, the club already has outline planning permission (already approved by the big bad council) for a stand with corporate catering facilities on the east side where obviously we could in theory operate independently on corporate hospitality and functions ect, financing it is the issue not the council! There is no council veto and this has been explained to you a million times already on here.
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It’s pretty clear the club so far under fan ownership is being better run now both on and off the park than it probably has been for the best part of 20 years, bearing that in mind and while it’s obviously not a priority there could well be unexplored options regarding a 4th stand or structure over that side of the stadium that could be done either cost neutral or within a budget potentially generating the club an income 7 days a week longer term and/or allowing us not be at the mercy of council charges for use of the corporate catering areas in the main stand. Despite not being an immediate priority it definitely should be part of the clubs longer term thinking and should not be swept aside as an afterthought.
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3 hours ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:
I think Hamilton this season are also a reflection of what we were last season. Capable of playing good football and racking up pretty decent winning runs (Q1 for them, Q3 for us last season), but ultimately not consistent enough to mount a proper title challenge over 36 matches and will finish on around 70 points. The majority of our team is unchanged from last season apart from 4 key additions which were upgrades on what we had (especially Lang and Spencer), highlighted below
Hogarth
Yeats Donaldson Lang McCann
Spencer Henderson
Morrison Nesbitt Miller
MacIverCouple that with adding better options to our bench such as Dylan Tait, Ethan Ross, Alfie Agyeman etc and the transformation has been huge. That Hamilton squad isn't a million miles away from being turned into league winners but I'm not convinced they are a better side than we were last season, or that getting rid of Rankin will solve all their problems.
And can you remember the clamour for McGlynn to be sacked, imagine if the club had actually went for the knee jerk reaction and done that? Would we be sitting as champions at the moment?
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24 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said:
I never claimed Falkirk have an obsession with Morton*. Just funny that Falkirk fans start talking about Morton, then cry "obsession!!!11!!111!" when a Morton fan turns up.
*Although given that a handful of you Grangemouth tramps turned up at a Morton friendly to sit in the away end last summer, maybe you do have one.
. (if we are using the same Seville calculator you've been using to calculate your 1k away support, it was actually 719 fans instead of a handful 
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Wow. Are you ok pal?
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13 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said:
Falkirk fans thinking they take an average of 1,000 to away games is the funniest things I've read today. I don't think you chumps manage even half of that when you visit Cappielow.
edit: you also think Cove have a bigger budget than you this season?
Wtf am I reading?
Tell me you’re stupid without actually saying you’re stupid.
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1 hour ago, Aufc said:
Montrose will almost certainly be better off compared to this season. Arbroath is a derby so will get two decent crowds. The first game against Falkirk this season moved to mid week due to cup game so reduced everything. Assuming the same doesn’t happen next season with one of the derbies
Lots of falkirk fans said it. I found it hard to believe. I also find it hard to believe cove have a bigger budget. If they did then they would surely be out of business
Can you show me these multiple Falkirk fans that have said this? I’ve read back and can only see the one poster who was corrected as being confused with Cove and Hamilton having higher budgets, not Queen of the South.
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16 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Including their income from other jobs maybe. I know what some of your players are getting. Not a chance Cove are paying part time players more than that on their own. Possibly more than some of Falkirk's full time players, but not ANY of them.
Well you’d be wrong then, there remain players at cove still on part time contracts earning more than any of the full time players in the division. Whether the wages are supplemented by the clubs owners or not is pretty irrelevant to be honest.
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10 minutes ago, LeodhasXD said:
But surely not from just Cove. Would be from their part time job too? They are fishing in the really low end full-time market like QoS. That's a lot of cash wasted if they have similar budgets.
Had a friend who went to hospitality at yours and he heard boasting about how much falkirk were paying a player and I about fell off my chair. I'm assured this person was in the know too.Directly or indirectly players are being paid by the club and/or by individuals and directors who own the club, the people running cove are actually quite open about it. It’s does not take the brains of Britain to work out what is going on up there.
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1 minute ago, tirso said:
Find that really hard to believe with their crowds but if so shows the draw of the Navy blue
, were it not for money.
What do crowds have to do with it? Look at the money Queen’s Park are spending, or Gretna before them ect ect. The list of Scottish clubs that have been able to spend outwith their means is endless.
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25 minutes ago, LeodhasXD said:
There's a persistent rumour that Falkirk have the third biggest budget in the league, which I'm incredibly dubious about. I don't imagine Cove will come close to Falkirk and Hamilton's outlay either so it gives me a chuckle whenever someone says it.
Both Cove and Hamilton are operating higher football budgets than Falkirk, this was confirmed by their own directors at TFS. In fact there are players at Cove still on part time contracts earning more than any of falkirks full time players.
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37 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Says who? It's undeniably been a shambles of a season. We should as a minimum, have been in the promotion playoffs and not still looking over our shoulder. The idea we have a bigger budget than Falkirk though sounds nonsense. I'd imagine we'll also be behind Hamilton.
I’d imagine you’re correct.
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21 minutes ago, Baggio said:
Of course he will
I just think that suggesting someone like McIver isn't good enough when this season isn't even finished and he has played such an important part, is a bit unnecessary. We've scored so many goals and had such a great time doing it.
Anybody who thinks McIver (or any of our front 4 for that matter) isn’t good enough and won’t improve further again under McGlynn hasn’t been paying attention. We will of course strengthen but I’m pretty certain all these players mentioned will hit the ground running again next season picking up where they left off and yet again make some of the nae sayers on here look stupid! Most of the clubs already in the championship would bite your hand off to have these players! we should enjoy!
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23 minutes ago, Baggio said:
Our front four have scored 50 goals between them this season. They absolutely deserve the chance to start next season in the championship and I'm uncomfortable with our own fans talking any of them down after such a brilliant weekend.
Most of the teams in that championship would bite your hand off to have a front 4 players like ours! Finding players that would be an improvement on any of them next season is going to be extremely unlikely.
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9 minutes ago, Raybowski89 said:
Budget isn't everything. If that were the case then Queen of the South would be 2nd or 3rd in the league. If I recall correctly, their budget is higher than ours, as is Cove's. Can't recall off the top of my head what Hamilton's is.
Hamilton and Cove were both reported to have been operating with a higher football budget that Falkirk but I don’t think queen of the south were and I doubt that would have been the case anyway.
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7 minutes ago, Springfield said:
With respect let’s move on .
Sorry but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive some of this individuals for what they nearly done to our club. Maybe you can.
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How emphatic was that!? By all means go win the league but fucking boom!!!!!! That quality this crop of players have shown us this season is a thing I don’t think will ever be properly appreciated due to the level we are playing at. Feels every bit as good as our last promotion if not better.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
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Posted · Edited by LatapyBairn.
You’d presume so but it doesn’t say that one way or the other, the owner may well be funding the shortfall by way of soft loans against the club but could also simply be doing a Roy McGregor and writing the money off. Either way it’s still unsustainable and should not be allowed, it’s crazy there is still no form of FFP legislation in Scottish football whatsoever. Sooner or later clubs ran in this manner inevitably hit the buffers when the sugar daddy gets bored or runs out of cash.