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Very odd interview from Holt there. He talks in riddles and reminds me of Houston’s last few weeks constantly talking about hard work and commitment.
Tbh I wouldn’t fancy being a manager working under him.
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3 hours ago, Passionate said:
would think Falkirk like most clubs trying to recruitment a new management team will not want to pay compensation, so most managers available are of the damaged goods vatiety..
To be honest I think it would depend on what the compensation amount is.
If the Rawlins identified someone who they feel would be able to meet their target of taking us to the premiership, I don’t think paying £50k-£75k or so would be an issue at all.
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6 minutes ago, 18BAIRN76 said:
I 100% agree with you. But I'd argue I'd have Buchanan over Durnan and (especially) Hall. Doyle is better than Mercer. You can't suggest Longridge is any worse than Leitch? Of course, we'd have hoped M&M could have signed better than any of these players mentioned. But they made decisions to actively keep the worst of the bunch!
Leitch and Longridge are different players. Really it’s Morrison who has replaced Longridge in the squad.
Longridge had 1 good game in 5 if he was lucky. Nowhere near good enough for one of the higher paid players at the club. Morrison has delivered much more in that position.
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4 minutes ago, 18BAIRN76 said:
Just goes to show how bad some of the Dumb and Dumbers decisions were last summer. Seems a bit mental they made active decisions to keep players like Hall, Durnan and Leitch, whilst punting Doyle, Buchanan, Longridge etc. Even worse when they bring in players like Mercer who is worse than Doyle.
I'm not for one moment suggesting the three I've mentioned are world-beaters or would have been good enough long-term, but we are in League One and M&M kept far worse. Example 4958405 of how out of their depth they were.
Neither Hall, Durnan and Leitch nor Doyle, Buchanan and Longridge are anywhere near good enough.
The three of them were quite rightly emptied.
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We don’t have the players to play 1 up front. It’s all very well saying Man City and Liverpool use that formation but they don’t have Leitch, Fotheringham and Alston as the midfield support.
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1 hour ago, roman_bairn said:
So just to be clear here, the managers have received the appropriate punishment for their failures, but you are quite happy to absolve our team of shitebags who were second to every ball for ANY responsibility for where we find ourselves?
Unbelievable.Clearly we have some players underperforming but who signed them?M and M.
15 players they’ve signed and very few have been good enough.
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32 minutes ago, TxRover said:
The other question will be is the coaching hire who can turn this around and regain the Championship the same coach who can succeed in gaining Premiership status and success, or are they potentially two different people? If they are possibly different people, then the next choice is from a wider, and possibly younger, field. If the BoD/DoF are convinced that one hire can do it all, then the list is much smaller, much more “established”, and may have to focus on an experienced coach seeking rehabilitation from previous mistakes...with all the risks that entails.
For me we need to be looking for a manager who can win us the championship and then stabilise us in the premiership. We will soon be on our 6th manager in little over 3.5 years- we can't continue with this level of management and player turnover.
Phil and Carrie Rawlins have come in with the clear objective of getting to the top flight ASAP- we need someone in who can achieve that rather than another short term firefighter.
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2 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:
He was scunnered at Motherwell with a ceiling of finishing 3rd and being runner-up in cups. The fact they fell into a relegation battle this season harms his chances of getting as good a job in England, but it would be a surprise if he dropped to a club like Dundee who are pushing to get out of the Championship, never mind anyone in League One.
It’s a non starter until we know if we’re going up, but if the Rawlins put forward a plan to get up to the premiership next year and then look for top six, he may be interested.
I also think the Rawlins would like a high profile appointment as a statement of ambition. I don’t see Darren Young really fitting that bill.
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To be honest none of the names mentioned so far excite me at all. I’d be tempted to wait and see if we go up as I think we’d get a better quality of applicant.
Realistically the Rawlins have come in to get us back to the premiership and I don’t see people like Peter Grant and Darren Young achieving that.
As others have said, the quality in the championship is not great at all at the moment and will be even worse once hearts are gone. We would be an attractive proposition imo if we get promoted and the Rawlins out the resources in place to get to the premiership.
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40 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Wondered about this line of though and searched for statements by Phil Rawlins about the Falkirk situation and couldn’t find anything. So is he scunnered with the whole shebang and writing off the investment, or is he perhaps quietly strengthening his position until he can grab the reins? Has he said anything, on or off the record?
As for his contacts, those mostly in the U.S. would be less useful for Falkirk in recruiting players, and would an MLS coach move to Scotland to coach? The MLS salary range is $30,000 to $100,000 (call it £22,000 to £73,000), and you’d likely need to bump that nicely to interest any successful coach (top end of that scale), and even an expat like Martin Rennie (coaching at the USL level, below MLS) would need a pretty good incentive as he has a established business in the U.S. that adds to his income.
The best case for Falkirk is, sadly, that this season trundles towards its inevitable cataclysmic crash, and the BoD finally relinquishes control to a competent individual or group (Rawlins is probably the ideally situated one) who decides to pump some money into the club to revive its operations, hire a competent management team and rebuild a team currently comprised of odds and sods. The other good news is Rawlins was always big on “Community” involvement and investment (both in a club and by a club). Perhaps the development squad with Ian Fergus is one of his first real moves? Is it also possible that Fergus will be in frame for the next four games, assisting Holt?
I don't see it happening, but I would be surprised if we were unable to pay the level of salary you mentioned in the event that the Rawlins identified a coach from the MLS that was willing to come to us.
M and M would have been on more than £73,000 between them.
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28 minutes ago, Trump said:
You might want to speak to him but he sure as hell won’t speak to us.It would be a long shot but may not be a non starter if we go up and the Rawlins can offer a one year plan to get back to the premiership and then a competitive budget in the top flight.
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Stephen Robinson is one I would be speaking to but not sure whether he would want to manage at this level.
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By my count we have signed 78 players in the last 3 and a half years since Houston was sacked- the vast majority not good enough.
I strongly suspect if the board had given Houston a tiny part of the money that has been spent on signing and paying off players and managers over that time to get some extra quality in, we’d have been in the premier league at the moment.10 -
5 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Our budget means feck all the now when we're using it to sign shit. Houston managed to get us second in the championship playing decent football, competing with rangers and Hibs and also having a youth system.
The problem is that virtually every signing made by M and M hasn’t been good enough.
Mercer- not good enough
Hall- not good enough
Neilson- good
Mclelland- jury’s out
Deveney- not good enough
Sneddon- not good enough
Fotheringham- not good enough
Todd- not good enough
Alston- not good enough
Morrison- good
De Vita- not good enough
Francis- not good enough
Dowds- not good enough
Keena- has done nothing so far
A list of players sighed under Houston, Hartley and McKinnon would likewise show the vast majority not good enough.
Changing the manager will make no difference until we have a proper scouting and recruitment system in place. We can’t continue changing the whole squad and paying off players every 6 months.
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14 minutes ago, Hank von Hell said:
Well Leeds United operate with a squad of 19 in the EPL. They then dip into the U23s for cover as and when required. As the U23s play in their own PL league (which they won) , you don't have a situation where you have a load of players sitting about not playing football. That has to be the model.
Of course we don't have an U23s side or any youth system as Craig & Margaret said we couldn't afford it and didn't need it. Although now we are employing a DoF and his 2IC to bring it back.
Having a youth system (which I agree should be reinstated gradually) is totally separate from the need to have a first team with the right depth and quality.
Look at our bench from our playoff games in 2014- absolutely packed with youth players. Scott Shepherd, Liam Rowan, Botti Biabi, Liam Dick, Ryan Blair and Lewis Small.
None of them good enough or ready to play for the first team. No options that can come on and change a game. It’s no good having a tiny squad supplemented by youth players who aren’t good enough or ready.
Reinstating the youth system has to be done in a way that is sustainable and is not diverting resources from the first team.
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13 minutes ago, TxRover said:
You’re preaching to the choir here with that line, but looking at the team, the Coach’s, DoF and BoD simply aren’t listening. When Raith killed the development team, they signed a few Modern Apprentices to get young players in and around the team, rather than leaving them away at Fife Elite. We’ve since signed a couple to full contracts (Tait and Bowie, who has already turned a pretty penny to Fulham), and that kind of flow is exactly what Falkirk should be looking for until the Academy gets resurrected. It’s no assurance for success, but feeding some young talent into the team that way is vastly better in the long haul than over-reliance on loans or poaching players.
The suggestion for a base team of 18, filled with loanees, reminds me of the after Christmas run last season, and that lean team just might have been what cost Falkirk first back then...but perhaps that was more a factor of it not being the right 17 or 18. If the players are flexible enough, 2 keepers, 6 defenders, 5 or 6 mids and 4 or 5 forwards could work, but it’s terribly thin when an injury appears.
Absolutely- a squad of 18 is a ludicrous suggestions. You’re going to pick up and injuries and suspensions over a season and you need to have players available to come in and cover.
Players will also have periods of poor form and again there needs to be players who can replace them and take their chance.
We’d struggle to field a team at all against Cove if we’d gone with 18 players. The board would rightly have been slammed.
Just look at the 13/14 season under Holt- a brilliant starting 11 with players like McGovern, Kingsley, Fulton, Sibbald and Loy but we had to field a 17 year old Scott Shepherd in the play offs due to having no cover for injuries.
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Kelly could well be a decent option if fully fit. Alston for me would be one of the first out the door- he’s bound to be on a decent wage and has offered almost nothing all season.
Dowds likewise hasn’t done enough to earn a new contract imo.
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Mutch, Dixon, Telfer and Morrison are the only ones I’d want to keep regardless of what league we’re in.
Gomis maybe if we stay down but he seems done to me- definitely no use in the championship.
Unfortunately though Miller, Alston and Keena are all contracted for next season and none have offered enough for me.
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3 minutes ago, BooBairn said:
Wouldn’t advocate to keep many players at all. Paul Dixon certainly wouldn’t be one of them. Still not over these comments he made. Please get him to f**k along with 95% of the squad.
Paul Dixon is one of the few decent players in the squad.
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42 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:
I agree totally, squad of 18 decent players instead of 22 shite players. We also really need to use the loan market a whole lot better.
A squad of 18 doesn't work- you've got to have competition for places in every position. One of the reasons players like Alston and Keena are performing so poorly this season is because they know they'll be playing every game no matter what as there is no depth in their positions.
There will also be injuries and suspensions over the course of a season- you need to have players able to come in to cover. We would be unable to field a team on Saturday if we had gone with an 18 man squad this season and the board would righly have been castigated for approving it.
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I wouldn’t expect a director of football to be picking tactics and formations. There is no pony having a manager if that’s the case and I don’t think Holt has come to the club to do that.
Holt’s remit imo is 1. Recruitment and 2. Youth development.