Big chungus

I’m not suggesting we rip up the entire squad though. You said we need 2-3 new signings. But you’ve also said McKay, lawal, and McGinn will go and the two loan players will need replaced. Well that’s 5 signings already. And that’s also presuming we keep Morrison. 6-8 new signings at face value may seem like a lot but what I’m trying to explain is when you break it down that’s about the number of signings we will need in order to keep the same squad size. I am also giving you the benefit of the doubt by resigning Mackie and Oliver which I think at least 50% of the fan base would not resign. Plus shanley who we’ve only seen for 70 minutes and Hogarth who you’ve also stated there is still question marks over. Again I think most of the fanbase would agree with that.

At this level with most players on 1-2 year contracts 6-8 signings every summer is getting on for being the bear minimum. Like I’ve said the other players out of contract will need to be replaced. Not including Yeats, Donaldson, Mcann and Hendo and who I think everyone would keep will need to be accounted for. The simple maths equates to 6-8 new signings.

Yeah I do agree we don’t need too many new players. But we also can’t get complacent /naive and believe that just two or three new signings and all of a sudden we can compete at the top end of the championship. We need 6-8 new players that will come in and provide quality, competition, and cover. You talk about keeping some players that are out of contract. Ok let’s say we do manage to keep Morrison, and we resign Ross, Hogarth, and shanley. Long and Bisland return to their parent clubs. McGinn is retiring. So there’s 3 signings right there we need. Who out of mckay, Mackie, Oliver and lawal are you keeping? We cannot get complacent and use up some of the budget on players that cannot get a game for us is league 1 and weren’t good enough to get us promoted last year. Especially if we have aspirations (and rightly so) of competing for play offs/ promotions and maybe even the title.

Considering there’s 6-10 players that are out of contract and either won’t be renewed or will leave, whatever way you cut it we will need a lot more than 2-3 signings. Just to simply keep a 20-23 man squad. Long, Hogarth, Bisland, McKay, Mackie, McGinn, Oliver, lawal, Ross, Morrison and shanley are all out of contract. That’s 11 players. Say you keep Morrison, Ross, Hogarth and shanley. That’s still 7 players we need to sign to keep the same squad size. Now, Morrison we will probably struggle to keep, and we will definitely need to replace him. Ross I would keep but he’s not nailed down a space in the starting 11. Shanley is too early to tell and the jury is still out on Hogarth.

Euan Henderson is only on a one year contract. I would take him in the championship next season tbh.

Yeah we still need 6-8 new signings next year to compete at the top end of the championship next season.

Yeah, I think everyone would love the stadium to get completed. But that’s sort of the point I’m making if we could get back into the premiership and average 5.5k -6k home fans for a run of the mill premiership game. Then big games like local derbys, or Scottish cup quarter finals could attract even more fans, then at that point a fourth stand is both economically sensible and financial viable. I think for most fans a forth stand is an absolute pipe dream but the point I’m trying to make it that maybe, just maybe we aren’t actually that far away from it. Yes yes, not even promoted out of league 1 yet and I’m getting far too ahead of myself.

Couple of things. Firstly, we were last in the premiership 15 years ago. A lot has changed including population etc. Secondly, the last few years have probably been the lowest point in Falkirks history and attendances hovered between 3500-3700. Last season when things got a little bit better attendances averaged about 4000 home fans. Therefore, our 25 unbeaten run has only really added on an extra 4-500 to the gate. Unfortunately, league 1 football playing against mostly part time teams still fails to attract a lot of fans. A Falkirk team, in the premiership, playing against a lot better opposition with a significant increase in standard could definitely attract an extra 1k -1.5k Falkirk fans through the door each week. Appreciate this is just my own opinion and others may disagree.

4400 Falkirk fans there last night, 4500 the week before. That’s in league one. Is it totally inconceivable that a Falkirk side competing in the top flight could attract close to 6000 home fans? At that point we would 100% need a fourth stand!

I take it the rumour of Allan storming up the tunnel when shanely got brought on is just some bs made up on Facebook?

Hud that Hartley.

Hopefully shanley can get a goal here then.

Can see now they have removed McKay

Seems unlikely

Have we got an extra player on the bench today? I’ve noticed Mcglynn has said previously that Ola is sitting in the stands because there’s no spaces left on the bench. But I’m pretty sure we’ve got more on the bench than previously. Please correct me if I’m wrong?

He’s not gonna get them all right ok?

We only score goals when shooting into the KM stand tho…

Interesting that Agyeman hasn’t been in the starting eleven since October yet he’s still our third highest goal scorer. Some people on here have wrote him off too quickly and easily. He’s got many attributes and I’m sure will have a significant impact as the season progresses.

Tbf when I said a “fair few” I meant a couple of hundred.

We’ve got a great support and Stirling Albion will bring a fair few but no chance of breaking 5000 imo.

If we win our next game that gives us a 2.6 points average per game. If we were to replicate that in the second half of the season that would give us a 92 point total. Dunfermline finished on 81 last season. Obviously, it would be really hard to keep this up and we have only played cove once. However, it really does put into perspective just how good we’ve been this season!

I would disagree. If we were to offer Hendo a new 2 year contract at a higher salary than what we are paying now then that increase would be effectively immediately. That’s my understanding of it anyway. It’s like when cal has signed new contracts in the past his new wage wouldn’t become effective until the end of his old contract, it would be effective straight away. Obviously if the new contract was on the same wage then it wouldn’t make a difference. But any wage increase would have to be found from this years budget.

Yeah no need to offer any contract extensions right now. Also any new contract extensions would take money out the current budget.

A certain someone can read the Falkirk thread then try and pass it off as ITK.

If it’s a case of he signs a PCA in January, it may be best for all party’s he leaves in the January with a small fee attached. At that stage it’s probably Mcglynns call. You do run the risk of Morrison basically giving up once the PCA has been signed.