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20 minutes ago, Long Suffering Bairn said:
Dare I mention the elephant in the room? Yes we have Morrison tied up for the next two years, but I think it is highly likely some team or other is going to snatch him from us in the close season. We should get a decent amount for him but I doubt we'll see Callumn in a Falkirk shirt next season. Goals talk. So savour his next few games. He's been brilliant for us. Might be many years until we see his like again.
If he wasn’t going to be here next season he wouldn’t have signed a new contract IMO. I’m almost certain he’ll start the season with us as a championship player , if his form continues like this he may well move on to a higher level at some point but it won’t be this summer and the club will at least now be in a position to demand a transfer fee if he should move on in the January or following summer.
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27 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
Money wise a draw and accies winning would mean another bumper crowd against cove.
Think the cove game will be well attended regardless, as a home game fans will want to be there to either congratulate or celebrate ect
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23 hours ago, Albert Beale said:
Not playing down what has been achieved but how do we know other teams budgets from this season? Is there a group chat or something?
The respective club boards have had conversations with the guys on our BOD, this was discussed at the AGM
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28 minutes ago, StuartA said:
Yep, went fine. Interesting presentation from the SMISA guy - our fan ownership journey has a lot of similarities and we aren’t far away from them in that respect. Membership numbers still edging up - 885 I think I heard. Nearly at 25.2% shareholding. Lots of ideas for engaging young fans (working with JB) and fans overseas.
Nigel confirmed we were on the third biggest budget in L1 this season. And mentioned a very frank video from the Morton finance guy which is worth watching.
To have outperformed both Cove and Hamilton by such a huge margin despite them both outspending us is yet another mark of how well Mcglynn has used his available budget, his success rate in the transfer market and the way he has been able to either move on or get more out of the players he was lumbered with has been quite remarkable.
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50 minutes ago, Raybowski89 said:
IF, and it's a big IF, this were to happen, it would definitely be in January 2025, when his current deal ends.
You're right, it's not realistic, but is it any more farfetched than signing Russell Latapy back in 2003?
Yes, Latapy didn’t have a club after being released by Dundee United who were only one division above us at the time, Arfield is wanted and playing every week for a club in the MLS, the nature of Russels departure from both Rangers then Dundee United for consecutive disciplinary issues probably put a lot of other clubs at a higher level of him to an extent as well. We as a club were also spending quite significantly in comparison to the clubs around us at that point which won’t be the case next season and the wee man was best pals with yogi, I was delighted but not overly shocked when we signed Latapy. Russel got a new lease of life with us under yogi and we probably got him playing better football than he had done for a good couple of seasons, the guy was obviously fantastic for us but the club at that time was good for Russel as well. The two situations are not comparable, they are different players at different points in theyre careers and it’s a completely different era in our clubs history.
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26 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Arfield himself has commented on ending his career where it all started and has been a theme on the forum over the last few months.
Hope this clarifies
Him randomly mentioning he’d like to end his career at Falkirk when he’s finished at the the level he’s currently at is one thing. Downing tools in the middle of an incredibly lucrative contract playing in the MLS against the likes of Messi ect and coming to the Falkirk stadium at this present moment is quite obviously another and was hardly ever a realistic possibility to anybody with half a brain.
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7 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Read quality over quantity.
You never know who may be available in the closed season that may affect McGynn's plans but he will have a general idea already on what positions and who he wants to fill them.
If money is as tight as he says then Arfield's big goodbye to the Bairns could be passed up. That would be a shame but needs must.
Case of wait and see.
At no point ever ever ever ever was Scott Arfield going to be signing for Falkirk this summer regardless of what our playing budget was! Where on earth are you getting this from?
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16 minutes ago, BPM said:
This is the same guy who was slaughtering the re-signing of Nesbitt.
Add to that the McIvor signing and also Mcglynn being kept on in the summer
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58 minutes ago, AJ1981 said:
this is a gr8 post and as i said before people like this involved in the foundation only makes me more worried than i already am about what how they go about their business
I actually find it amazing the club have no oversight or input whatsoever when it comes to the foundation, not even a seat on the BOD. It’s something that definitely needs to be looked at particularly when considering the foundation are using the clubs name, brand and facilities as a means of raising money via player recruitment ect. The organisation does seem to have ran away with itself a little and a bit of a re-set might be required to bring everything back to its grass roots.
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1 hour ago, Springfield said:
1 imagine that the footage of him celebrating didn’t sit well with CR. Thought at the time he’d be Jettisoned, surprised it took so long. Although well and truly financially backed club, hearing not all good on that front.
If he’d been putting in MOM performances or banging the goals in his celebrations the other week would have made no difference and he’d still be up there, I’d suggest he perhaps hasn’t quite set the heather alight is more the reason for his return.
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22 minutes ago, grumpyoldman said:
Ross is only 22
In that case if Raith offered him a deal in theory we’d be due them some form of compensation which probably rules him out as a signing, I don’t think he has anything on the table from them however.
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3 hours ago, grumpyoldman said:
Would there be a training compensation fee due to Raith Rovers for Ross
No, think that only applies to players 23 years of age or younger.
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6 minutes ago, Tea and Busquets said:
One thing that will go our way next season is not many teams will sit in against us. The Dundee United game was proof that we can pick teams off when they come onto us.
I’ve thought similarly, our style of play should actually really suit teams being more open against us next season. We have a lot of pace in the side and are capable of turning defence into attack with a fair degree of speed and precision when given space.
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4 hours ago, FFC 1876 said:
My ideal would be,
St Johnstone and Livi getting relegated with Dundee United and Raith getting promoted.
Arbroath and Queens Park getting relegated with us and Alloa getting promoted.
This but apart from Raith. Keep them down and let st Johnstone have one more season up in the premier then the championship title next season will be quite obviously ours to loose!
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11 minutes ago, G51 Red said:
That’s fair enough, however, with all due respect to the other teams in this league , Accies would have been expecting to deal with all of them apart from Falkirk , who the club would be expecting to be competing with at the top of the division.
So by dropping points at home to the other teams ( and by not getting any where near Falkirk) we have fucked it up ourselves.
As I have said before , fair play to Falkirk , best team in the league by far , and to have the chance to go through a league season undefeated is incredible .
But , me thinks that the club would have expected to be closer to them ( if not top) than we are …. So again we have fucked it up regardless of the other teams .Even if you had been a little closer, 2nd place is still 2nd place. No chance accies were ever going to pip that Falkirk side to the tittle.
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1 hour ago, FFC 1876 said:
Bring him home.
Probably the last good keeper we’ve had in fairness, all the others since we’ve been in this division have been awful or at best ok. The second half of that relegation season Burgoyne had some brilliant games.
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8 minutes ago, StewartyMac said:
We're talking about paying at the gate. Do keep up.
Near the beginning of the discussion If you’d bothered to read my initial post I never mentioned PATG (which should also be a thing at this level as well anyway) Do keep up!
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4 minutes ago, StuartA said:
We have about 12 players signed for next season. The most obvious one we want to re-sign is Yeats, but I guess he has offers and there’s negotiations. We won with Cal though. So yeah it’s about 8 more.
I’d presume a loan player or two over and above that as well. Then would also would love to see one or more of the apprentices who have spent this season on loan making in impact for us, guess that comes down to how they perform preseason.
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5 minutes ago, StewartyMac said:
Rock up to Hampden soon when the national team are next playing and try and pay at the gate. Oh wait, it'll be advertised as all-ticket.
You can literally buy tickets for these games right up until kick off (I’ve done it!) at the stadium if it isn’t sold out. Don’t think it’s much to expect the same for a game in the third tier with a fraction of the crowd!
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36 minutes ago, Raybowski89 said:
How often Gary Oliver scores late goals is actually quite impressive. Fair play. COYB!
He’s making it very hard for Mcglynn not to offer him an extension, fair play to the guy.
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If tickets are still available they should be sold right up until kick off, what an absolute joke. Every effort possible should be made to get paying fans to games not involving the arse cheeks here in Scotland, instead we put barriers up, mental!
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1 hour ago, Blame Me said:
Quite impressive and would be ideal (and relatively unique) down at TFS.
Instead it seems there will be a peripheral building for the Foundation for at least 25 years. I can't decide whether it's an opportunity missed, lack of foresight or circumstances.
Agree is seems a bit of a missed opportunity, I’m sure the club might eventually be allowed some form of use from any new changing facilities but the appeared lack of communication from the foundation does seem disappointing, the organisation should be working alongside the football club and it does have a feel of the tail wagging the dog a bit here. Any construction should have been in collaboration with the club having some level of input which would have maximised its usefulness to all parties, hopefully there’s still a line of communication there where this might happen.
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10 hours ago, BPM said:
All this wittering on about the Foundation going to build this or build that and not involving the club seems a bit odd. Surely there should be a joined up strategy to benefit both organisations?
Looks from the outside the Foundation are merrily ploughing their own furrow without any thought of the badge they seem to use to help them be relevant.
This!
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1 hour ago, PedroMoutinho said:
Personally I think a fourth stand is a waste of resources until it can be filled on a regular basis. The stadium can currently accommodate circa 7000 home fans (if the north stand is segregated). The home attendance at the Hamilton game was apparently the highest ever for a league game at 5500.
Therefore, all a new stand would do is spread fans out over the stadium which would make the atmosphere worse imo. The atmosphere at the likes of Rugby Park and McDiarmid Park suffers from a stadium that is too big. Far better to have a full KM and main stand for big games than 3 partially full stands.
We need more corporate and hospitality space that is not subject to council charges. That would be a benefit if a way could be found to fund at a neutral or low cost. A stand should not be looked at as black and white as the number of standard tickets sold every second Saturday but viewd as a facility the club can use and generate income from 7 days a week.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Posted · Edited by LatapyBairn.
Let’s see if he starts next season with us then, I’m pretty certain you’ll be proven wrong here. It would be very unusual for a player to sign a new deal then immediately move on only a few months later. Can’t think of many examples where this has has happened elsewhere in such a short space of time, normal protocol would be for the player to simply run down his contract maximising both his potential club options and earning potential, signing a new deal restricts all that. If the intention or indication was that a summer transfer was brewing any football agent would be advising they’re client to simply wait until May then flog themselves to the highest bidder completely unrestricted or hindered by the parent football club, in Callum’s case this hasn’t happened and the boy has singed a new deal at Falkirk which to me signals he intends at the very least to start next season here.