Zbairn
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2 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Looking at the fixtures 4 away games on the trot early on will be season-defining.
Of course every game is important and home and away even themselves out but 4 away games in a row is a tough gig.
September 17, 2022 3:00 pm
cinch League OneEast End ParkDunfermline Athletic FC v Falkirk FC
October 1, 2022 3:00 pm
cinch League OneFalkirk StadiumClyde FC v Falkirk FC
October 8, 2022
3:00 pm
cinch League OneBalmoor StadiumPeterhead FC v Falkirk FC
October 15, 2022
3:00 pm
cinch League OneLinks ParkMontrose FC v Falkirk FC
Wee bit surprised by that….it’s usually 2 away or 2 home on the trot…..in between the usual home/away basis.
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4 minutes ago, Hughsie said:
That is disappointing, if true.
Out if interest, when was the last season that you paid for the board? Surely you weren’t paying for advertising space up until last season and they’ve removed it without asking if you wanted to renew this season?
Quite pleased that the club have taken action and removed advertising that hasn’t been paid for e.g Imperial Cars. The free advertising fiasco didn’t cost the club anything, but it sure could have p****d off those that did pay.
Knowing the guys in Marketing and Sales, I am a little surprised by the fact that they didn’t contact you before taking your board down. Maybe you just slipped through the net, or maybe you should contact them and ask for a rebate to produce a new board.
I actually thought the level of advertising wasn’t too bad when I looked around last Saturday. More is better though!
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2 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:
I dont mind that the blue seats in the main stand are beginning to fade/ rust a bit but can they not replace those blocks of white seats in the main stand upper with new navy ones? Especially as we also need to replace about 200 seats in the north stand and could do a bulk order now
Would be nice to have the seats spell out KM7..in the Crunchie Stand.
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12 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
If you get the chance pop over to the website, it's absolutely outstanding!
Fixtures working.... players page still honking ! 1876 Club winners stuck on February...nothing since !
Still a wee bit work to do
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4 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said:
Can be a grumpy bugger but his commitment to the club can’t be faulted.
Understatement
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22 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
If you look back at the previous posts it appears Jamie Swinney responded to fan who raised this on Friday, accepted there was an issue, said the club had identified it and a fix was being put in place in time for next week at some point.
I don’t do twitter! ……I also have a slight issue with Jamie responding to individuals (some may think no bad thing) but as CP stated, the responses should perhaps be made to a wider audience via social media channels.
I actually mentioned the website issues (fixtures, players, sponsorship, personnel) months ago when trying to get a Marketing person contact, only to find old info. Delving deeper indicated serious deficiencies within the site and at the time I made the comment that this is the public face of the club and first place to get info. Not a lot has been done since.
Maybe not of great interest to most, but it is a little bugbear of mine that the club still hasn’t sorted it out after 4 proper competitive matches into the season, when the problem was identified months ago.
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29 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
Whatever it is that’s wrong with the website could one of the posters who have an issue with it please email the club! Maybe they’ll take it on board and sort it! Agree with BPM, the amount of attention it gets on here for something as trivial is getting a bit boring/tiresome. Especially after we just won a league cup group containing Hibs and Morton, I’d have presumed we’d more be discussing that to be honest.
Have done on several occasions. Still to see an improvement.
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1 hour ago, CammyDick said:
the borderline bullying people into silence who offer up even mild criticism of the club is something that needs nipped in the bud very quickly. even more so if this bullying is coming from close friends of the ‘new regime’.The new regime is not faultless, far from it. But in relation to the old regime, there is absolutely no comparison. I would like to caveat that with “old” regime being one or two individuals who saw the club as their own personal plaything and used it to further their own personal causes.
To criticise the new regime on a forum like PnB is fair game, as long as it is justified. To defend them, when you know things are wrong is just sycophantic.
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Thought I’d join in on the grand website debate. In the great scheme of things, what’s on the park comes first……but the website is the public face of all things related to official FFC stuff. Irrespective of an “international”audience or simply local fans looking for info.
At the moment, it’s a disaster area and something that should and could easily be rectified. As an example, shirt sponsors should be able to see their names against the players they have paid for. This is part of the sponsorship package. Putting fixtures up is the simplest of things. All in all it doesn’t reflect well on the Admin side of the club.
It may not be a football playing related issue, but it’s still a significant part of advertising the professionalism of the club.
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11 minutes ago, Van_damage said:
Can the club reduce the price?
Wouldn’t change much other than the FSS or others getting more bang for their buck and as you say it shouldn’t be unexpected given the current circumstances. As you say too it might appeal more to people getting X number more shares for their £500 or whatever it may be.
Its just a number game in the great scheme of things. Buying shares in FFC is an emotional investment rather than a financial one. Does it really matter if you are buying in at 40p a share or 50p a share. In reality your £500 gives you hee-haw other than the right to attend the AGM. To have a few less shares if the price is 50p rather than 40p is irrelevant.
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1 minute ago, Zbairn said:
No we didn’t
…..or Chic Young has made an arse of it. He said Hetherington missed
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Just now, roman_bairn said:
Won the penalty shoot out at least….
No we didn’t
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15 minutes ago, Van_damage said:
Just to say we’re now past the 1700 mark for the opening of the Kevin McAllister Stand tomorrow night. That alone is amazing but hopefully we’ll breach 2000.
Don’t care what Dunfermline fans or others say, that’s an amazing turnout.
We may have taken a battering on and off the field but we as a fan base we are definitely up there as one of the most loyal.
Absolutely ! When you read back at some of the posts on here stating that “Killie is the wrong choice”, “ Friday night is rubbish”, or any other moan, then tomorrows attendance will get right up them ! COYB
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Fixtures out….Fireworks night (5th nov) at home to Dunfermline. Need to travel to their place on 2nd Jan. other dates against them…17th Sept away…8th April at home.
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2 hours ago, Braes_Bairn said:
Could have predicted the low turnout. I recon lucky to make 1,000 for a friendly. Would have been so much better unveiling at first league match.
sorry.... but this is a match solely to commemorate Crunchie, invite his friends, ex team mates and family down. The focus is on the wee man, irrispective of opposition. To have done it with a league match v Dunfermline or the first game of the season would have just totally distracted it from the occasion it should be.
Those that go will be there to show their appreciation to a Falkirk legend and nothing else !
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As a fan, I would like to see The Craig Gowans Stand
........... although it would take some persuading of his family to accept it and would bring back unhappy memories ....so in all probablilty a non-starter.
However , it would have been a fitting memory to a young Bairn taken too soon !!!
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3 hours ago, FFC1965 said:
Some of the more recent posts have given me some reassurance that it wasn't just me who experienced a commercial shambles at the club.
At the start of the 2020/21 season I sponsored a players shirt for the first (and as it now turns out only) time.
It wasnt cheap, but as I was WFH not commuting and spending money socialising was a no no , I decided to take the plunge to help my club out.
Once the cash was paid I heard nothing from the club after the season end. I know that the pandemic meant there wouldnt be the normal shindig with players & sponsors. When I signed up I even asked the club to just post me the jersey once the season had finished, and specifically asked for them not to go to the trouble and expense of getting it framed as I just wanted a jersey to wear playing 5s.
Emailed the club twice after the season finished - no reply. In the end I gave up.
What really surprised me was that they didn't even approach me to ask if I wanted to continue as a shirt sponsor for season 21/22, which Id probably have done if my arm had been twisted (and the situation with the 20/21 shirt resolved).
I wasnt expecting the red carpet treatment but the way it was handled (or not) was simply negligent.
i do hope that the new management gets a hold of basic stuff like this.
Have to admit I'm surprised by this. There was an issue in getting shirts signed during Covid and then framed by Fanatikool (think KK was at fault for this) and I didnt get mine until the start o fthe next season. However, Sharon at the club did keep me informed. Normally it's not an issue.
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If the club got shafted by Clarke EPOS.... can any one tell me why they are still prominent on the clubs website ?
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I sometimes despair at what our fans will moan at.
It took 2 and a half years to get this accomplished, at times against an uncoopertaive and hostile board and we still get folk complaining. I don't think people understand what a mammoth task this was to get the project up and running, to finance it, to organise all the details that will make it a success on the day and to bring it to fruition.
Then folk take umbrage at the fact that it's Killie that is the opposition for the stand opening, simply because we lost to them in a cup final in 97 and in the play off's. If we go down that route then we can't play against Rangers or ICT. Why stop there?...what about losing to Partick in a LC semi, Dundee Utd in a play off or Stenhousemuir in the Stirlingshire Cup? What about the teams that voted against us getting promoted because we didn't have an all seater stadium?
Realistically this is as probably good as it gets, if we consider Crunchies links. Hibs didnt want to play, Leeds and Chelsea would be a non-event with their under 16 team turning up (if they deemed to play us at all). That leaves Albion Rovers, Camelon Jnrs, Bonnybridge Rose and Stirling Boys Club. Hardly a huge draw for the crowds.
This event has nothing to do with Killie. It's all about honouring one of our own, a legend at our club. Time some folk backed off and just accept the fact that this is for Kevin, no one else !
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1 minute ago, GNU_Linux said:
Noticed while watching the highlights of the South Challenge Cup final the wall/fencing opposite the main stand had been taken down . Some kind of work going on?
For the Killers concert.
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14 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
Was hardly a gift, the council own and use a large part of the main stand, the club only have the outside pitch facing facilities (the seats!) and the changing rooms. In fact the council actually charge the club to use the catering facilities and function rooms. Pretty decent deal they have ended up with!
I’m pretty sure that the deal with Morrisons included land owned by the council. We only got a fraction of the total cash from the sale of Brockville and the surrounding land.
The council did stuff us though. If the Camelon mafia in the Labour group got their way, we would have got no council cash at all to build the Stadium. In hindsight, might actually have been a good thing in the long run.
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Good timing to get his own squad in order. Despite the rumours, it appears our new BoD have been doing the work diligently in the background to get this over the line.
Fingers crossed we reached our lowest point last season. Onwards and upwards. COYB!
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40 minutes ago, Proudtobeabairn said:
This is a very good point, grass would be destroyed quickly with Shire playing on it too. A winter mudbath would be worse than the astro. Wouldn't have Jim Dawson to look after it either.
If there are grants to be had for making it available to the community (even if bookings are low) then probably makes sense to replace with a newer version of astro.Heard from someone (cant remember who) that the pitch was pretty much on a downer as it was neglected. Some tlc from the Groundsman has actually helped to preserve it's lifetime. Still needs to be replaced in a year or so though.
I've actually played on the new generation pitches and they are incredibly good.
Jim Dawson at Murrayfield has a grass / plastic hybrid. Costs a fortune though.
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48 minutes ago, ChrispPancake said:
now we can leave league matters aside...
Anyone know why Dumbarton were always invited to play in the Stirlingshire cup?
Dumbarton for some reason were members of the Stirlingshire FA when it was part of Scottish footballs organisational structure. Think it’s defunct now, but historical links still apply
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........... although it would take some persuading of his family to accept it and would bring back unhappy memories ....so in all probablilty a non-starter.
The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Found this one a wee bit strange, unless there are some "add ons" to the contract.
From what I read, we have only given him a one year deal and then immediately farmed him out to Bo'ness. Doesn't make sense to me.