Zbairn
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26 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
I'm guessing that's the player people were hinting at a few months ago coming in as a player coach with the view to possibly being the manager in the future.
Not sure about a 1st team coach just yet. I've seen too many former players attempting to make the transition from playing to the managerial side of things and not making the grade...but who knows. Worth a try ?
However, as a player I would have him back at the club in an instant. Just the type of player we have been missing and need in the middle of the park.
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23 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
Shite service for a shite price.
The semi's and final are supposed to be SFA/SPFL's showpiece club events. They should be selling the tickets online via their portal as they do for Scotland matches. In this day and age there is absolutley no reason for fans to have to go to the shop to get tickets for this match.
As for prices.... £91 for a new Scotland top tells you all !
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2 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
At those prices I'll be surprised if anyone bothers coming down from Inverness. Anyone got a wheel chair I could borrow?
thank god I qualify as an OAP. Wonder if they will check your age ?
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4 minutes ago, Springfield said:
Our Scottish Cup Semi-Final v Inverness Caledonian Thistle will be taking place on Saturday 29th April, Kick-off 12:15 and will be broadcast live on BBC One & Viaplay Sports. Ticket pricing for this fixture can be found below.
Following consultation and discussion with the three other Semi-Finalists and the Scottish FA, the following pricing structure and ticketing arrangements have been agreed for the two Semi-Final matches.
Ticket pricing for Falkirk supporters:
South Stand Lower Section P Adults £38 Over 65 / Under-16 £18
North Stand Section C Adults £38 Over 65 / Under-16 £18
West Stand Section B Adults £28 Over 65 / Under-16 £13
North Stand Wheelchair Users Adults £20 Over 65 / Under-16 £10
South Stand Wheelchair Users Adults £15 Over 65 / Under-16 £8
Further ticketing information will be announced in due course.
I take it this is what the bigot brothers will be paying. wowza......more cash for us.
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41 minutes ago, Springfield said:
On the Rawlings, it’s all went very quiet, and there was some whispers that they were bringing in additional funding? I’m assuming this is not the case now? Are they still happy at the club? Or are they trying to negate an exit?
Not sure what the Rawlins really intended for our club, but no denying that their cash at the time was very helpful. It's just a pity it coincided with possibly the worst set of circumstances on both the playing and Boardroom front for many a year. I'm not surprised they left with a bitter taste after possibly being decieved and witnessing total melt down at the club in terms of administration.
If they were investing for the first time this season, we may have seen their additional investment coming in and a completely different outlook in terms of finances from the "3rd leg" of the club ownership model, which would have helped for the future.
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Just a comment re atmosphere. The place was buzzing last night. Just goes to show what a near full house and winning team can do. . Yep it would be better with the corners filled in and a 4th side….but it’s not as bad as some make out. Roll on Hampden and revenge!
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38 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
Yeah, but Bayern fans are not horrible, bigoted b*****ds.
True!
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58 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:
If I was a multi-billionaire with money to burn I'd buy both the Arse Cheeks and amalgamate them! Their fans would go apoplectic and stop attending, the new club would go bust and Scottish football would finally be competitive. We can all dream, can't we?
If I was a billionaire, I’d do a Man City with Falkirk and really shaft the bigot brothers up
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4 hours ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
We are less competitive than those leagues you mentioned Tbf. Celtic have won 93% of league games this season rising to 95% in all domestic games. Bayern 61%. Arsenal 77%. PSG 77%. For leagues with similar ranking to us, Belgium 75% and Austria 80%. Our top league is easily the least competitive when you consider Rangers have won c.80% of league games also and Hearts in 3rd are 25 points behind 2nd.
Ours is the worst by a mile.
My point is not based on the stats from this season but generally over the piece. Bayern have won the German league 17 times in the last 22 years. Pretty comprehensive one horse race in my opinion.
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25 minutes ago, Rizzo said:
There's certainly no denying an overall lack of competition in the top flight of Scottish football. Myself and a friend were discussing this recently and we both realised that since we started going to games around 32 years ago no one other than the bigot bros have won the top league. Indeed the only other team that have won it since we were born was Aberdeen on one solitary occasion. It's utterly pathetic how the media portray the two as anything other than greedy, cheating losers.
We aren’t the only country with a lack of competition. Think the same could be said for many leagues where cash is king. In Spain, Barca and Real with the very occasional outlier. Possibly even worse in Germany with Bayern winning the league most seasons. Holland has a dominant Ajax.
There are not too many leagues with a semblance of competition e.g Italy with the Milan’s, Juve, Lazio, Roma etc. England maybe as well.0 -
3 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
We were 2nd best 2nd half of that there is no argument however with just over 20 minutes to go this changes the game.
PS The behaviour of the contrived ultra supporters area of the stadium (West Stand?) was a disgrace.Have to agree. The stewards and police should have intervened. Every time our player went over to that side there was a chance they would be hit by something thrown from the crowd. What really was annoying was the fact that there was no attempt to stop it as though it was acceptable.
The referee was just as culpable as he should have cleared the pitch before allowing play to continue.
I hope the club put in a formal complaint. Deduct the 3pts from them and declare we won 3-0. Plus shut down EEP for a season.
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48 minutes ago, Numbers_One_To_Eleven said:
Dunfermline have only lost one game but they’ve dropped points too. For me the two defeats against Dunfermline have been the costliest.
In hindsight, yep, winning the 2 games with them would have been a 12 point swing.
However winning the 2 games against Kelty would have had us at the top league before last nights match. Then it would have been a “must win” game for them rather than, as it stood, having the comfort of knowing a draw was a good result.
As I said….if yer auntie had baws
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A bit of realism....although hard to take. Dunfermline are where they are on merit.
However, the league was not won or lost just on last nights performance (albeit, we never turned up).
Our form in the first quarter and a bit of the season is what has cost us the league. Losing to Kelty twice, drawing with Clyde, drawing with Airdrie / Montrose at our place (not to mention losing a late goal to Alloa a few weeks back) have all cost us points. If yer Auntie had baws and all that!
All is not lost and hopefully we can get the wheels back on the wagon on Monday night. However, a few who didnt turn up last night need to be a lot better. The cash from a cup semi is hugely important to the club and a win might just give us the momentum back that we will need for the Playoffs.
It would also be good to give The Pars a doing at our place in a few weeks time........
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23 minutes ago, Kevin James Left Knee said:
So let's say 1.5million out of £5million - pretty much one third of your assets. Now I have no idea who you are but let's say you own a house worth £100,00. Will you give the club £30,000 as a donation from your relative worth?
Again…..it’s a slight difference retaining £3.5 million to live off than £70k…….if your house is worth £100k by your reasoning. It’s all relative based on your net worth. Much easier to do the wealthier you are.
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3 minutes ago, Kevin James Left Knee said:
PERSONAL VIEW - I wonder how many people would hand over an asset work say 1/5th of all their assets for free? Say their new car? I do think people are ungrateful at times for the soft loan that is the MK stand. It is easy to spend someone else's money.
Slightly different scenario if your total assets are £5 million, compared to £500. To be left with only £4 million is still pretty dandy. Notwithstanding the cash it has already generated for him.
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32 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:
We've been paying SA £75-85k a season in 'rent' for the last 13 years, or just over £1m in total.
Given it cost around £3m to build at the time he's still got a fair way to go before getting his money back
Don’t think it was £3 mill. to build. Heard it was nearer £1.5 mill.
Therefore, not such a bad idea to try and buy it, considering the cash it has generated over the years for SA. To gift it to the fans at a knock down price, would be a lasting legacy.0 -
55 minutes ago, Springfield said:
The club has tried to engage and maximise as many STs sales in the past few seasons without increasing the prices. However this Is simply unsustainable and I expect to club to increase the pricing by around 15%. Difficult and sore on all the supporters, but I don’t think anyone could really complain that the club could sustain freezing STs for a fourth year is the best business decision decision going forward and can’t see it happening.The example RP has used above is probably one of the most expensive prime seats at £320, and should the club use a 15% increase, the prime seat main stand would be £368, an increase of £48. Many ways of looking at the increase, an increase of £2.66 per game.
The 10 year season ticket becomes even more attractive
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16 minutes ago, FFC 1876 said:
If it's a grant we're getting it'll definitely be astroturf.
Watson & Williamson two to three weeks away and Lawal not far behind hopefully only a month before he's back in contention.
Can’t see Williamson even getting in the squad. If he played, he would last about 15 minutes before going off injured……and that’s without tackling anyone from the opposition.
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9 minutes ago, PedroMoutinho said:
That option is clearly off the table for political reasons
The administration and cost to do this would be pretty significant for every FSS member. Each individual would need to be registered at Companies House as well. I don’t think it’s anything to do with politics.
That’s why there is a minimum amount that an individual can buy shares (£100?) from the club, to cover time and cost. I believe that anyone can do this at anytime and proxy their share to the FSS if they wish. Would need someone from the FSS to confirm.what could be done is something similar to the old Sharesave scheme. When a certain threshold of payment is passed, the option to transfer the shares into an individual’s name could be offered.
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8 hours ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
It wasn't presented as a plan in my eyes. Rather one of four options.
The first option was to go back to where we were under the MSG. Figures were given which showed that we made an average loss of 450K during each of the nine seasons we spent in the championship. Those losses were offset by players sales, cup runs and soft loans in the bad years. As neither player sales nor cup runs could be guaranteed this model was seen as too risky to be a viable business plan, so it appears to have been abandoned. Albeit we gambled this season and needed 145K in soft loans from six individuals to get the accounts signed off. Though the cup run may have negated that now; I wasn't quite sure on that point.
Second option is to cut our cloth, budget cautiously and plan to breakeven every season. Which if we'd done that this season wouldn't have given us enough money to pay the 14 players still under contract, never mind recruit more.
Third option is to seek external investment. Nobody mentioned them, so I will. George Fulston & Hamish Deans spring to mind.
Fourth option is for the owners of the club - the fans - to put in more money than they're doing at present via FSS, Partrons, sponsorship or any new commercial initiatives the club comes up with.
Those present in the room were asked for a show of hands and the fourth option was the only one that got votes.
At least that was my take on proceedings. If anyone disagrees feel free to chip in.
The last option was unanimous with the exception of one person who wanted the “club to be sold off” option.
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8 hours ago, Reggie Perrin said:
With the best will in the world I cannot see fan ownership ever happening at our club.
It’s already there……or will be very shortly. Between the Patrons Group and the FSS, the % is working towards a majority of shares issued.
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Very very impressed with the young Ukraine lad today. Must have been difficult coming on for Henderson, but after 10 minutes he looked like he was a sure fire starter for the next game. Won loads of balls, worked his ass off, put in crosses, quick feet.
I’d be thinking about starting him in place of Nesbitt.
Good to have these choices in our squad.
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2 minutes ago, ClathyDave said:
Has the stream not started yet on FalkirkTV?
Falkirk tv not working tonight I believe.
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Strange decision to massively change up top. Would still prefer Donaldson back in defence.
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Exactly. Really can’t see any benefit of the FFF over the FSS. The cash all goes into the same pot anyway. At least with the FSS, shares are purchased to enhance the fan ownership model.