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2 minutes ago, Caractacus Potts said:
Am I not right to think Jordan Allan was one of the top scorers in the league when we signed him yet we’ve barely given him a chance nor made a system to suit him best.
Perhaps too good to pass up in January but difficult to change formation to suit and sometimes that happens.
Maybe Allan hasn't stepped up as management thought he might.
So many factors at play as to why it's not happened for him but as said I wouldn't discount any or them next season.
Different levels of course but Rashford couldn't kick his own ar*e last year and has been a standout this year.
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1 hour ago, FalkirkBairn2021 said:
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I'm still not sure we have a style of play really. Or certainly not a good one. This interminable passing ...
Interesting that some of our most successful teams in recent times have played this style.
Yogis team was often derided for the "tippy-tappy pish" IIRC.
Pressleys kids overachieved realistically but had a Farid or Lyle Taylor and Houston's was a fine side and were easy on-the-eye when compared to the route one guff we've enjoyed a few seasons ago.
Our only downfall is the transition and often we're not quick enough to catch the opposition out which is where ICT succeeded yesterday although I personally didn't think they were great.
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With all the striker chat I'm not sure what we all expected tbh.
McGlynn has tried his best to find goals but due to the squad composition at the start and everyone and their dog looking for a scorer we've had to make do with untested or un-prolific ones that we could afford.
Another pre-season to integrate Allan and Burrell with more games under his belt could be all that's required. I wouldn't discard them with another addition in the summer.
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1 minute ago, bridge of allan bairn said:
It's a complete waste of time anyway. They searched me and my pockets were full of stuff and he didn't even look to see what the items were anyway. Absolutely pointless
The entry to stadiums in today's world is totally draconian.
Funnelled through the smallest entrances possible in most cases, stewards doing performative searches for minimum wage and digital scanners for paper tickets!
I do think the queues are totally manufactured to drive people to the stadium earlier to mitigate the shortcomings mentioned above rather than tackle them.
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You do wonder sometimes.
Team building and continuity are valued by clubs who are perennially successful yet Falkirk - and moreso our fans it seems - want to chuck the baby out with the bath water after every, seemingly, poor result!
Today was far from a humiliation and yes we need better players but even the much maligned Gary Holt was correct in that turning over squads every year (as I've seen advocated on here this evening ) gets us nowhere.
Players improve, reach their peak and ultimately some dip - and all will eventually leave but you can't just bring in new teams every year at the finished stage.
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11 minutes ago, PedroMoutinho said:
Sorry, you don’t lose 3-0 in a Scottish cup semi final in a game that could’ve gone either way
Neutral observers tend to agree that it could.
I've seen the Scotsman writeup that suggests 4-4 or 5-0 to ICT would have been suitable scorelines for the game!
Maybe my cup isn't always half-full like yours and I can see the positives instead of continually looking at the negative, as you seem to do.
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1 minute ago, Braes_Bairn said:
Got what we deserved today. Very similar to the Dunfermline games, we had a lot of the play but Inverness took there chances.
Shows how far we have fallen that we can’t compete with Inverness in a semi final.
Big few weeks ahead.
Hardly.
Inverness took what would be classed as opportunistic chances - fair play to them - but we were never overrun or outclassed.
ICT very average and awarded a free goal really to settle them.
That game could've gone either way had we took ours and those half-chances they took turned out like 90% of them usually do for most teams every week.
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52 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
I thought we played ok and I didn't think they played that well but at the end of the day we lost 3 0. Pen put us right on the back foot. Thats the worst side of var. Cross hit in 100 mile an hour no way it's deliberate. Half hearted claims from one ICT boy ref rightly gives nothing and in the old days we all play on and noone gives a feck. Nowadays a pens given and your one nil down with ICT having done nothing but smack the ball off a defenders hand. ICT were all over the shop at set pieces and we had enough free headers that we really did not make the most of.. Two open goals missed and they take the first two chances they had in the game. Your the 3 down and chasing the game. I thought burrell did well up top. Caused them loads of problems with his pace but we needed to feed it into the space more for him. Who knows what may have happened without var we'll never know .
Probably the fairest assessment I've seen so far. We controlled the game and had chances but not the quality to finish them. ICT on the other hand were clinical but it's easy to do that when your handed a goal start by VAR.
ICT quick crosses were main difference whereas we had too many touches trying to spring in behind.
More quality needed up top and solidity in defence IF we make the Championship.
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Anyone else feel like we're getting the "Darvel treatment"
I know we're the lowest ranked team left etc but not hearing a lot from ICT and to me, feel like I've been bombarded with the plucky underdogs player puff-pieces all week.Our relative silence going into Darvel and Ayr was key to our mindset for those two ties. Hope I'm just over-reacting and worrying over nothing
However, if they announce a McGlynn dressing room speech in the next 24 hours they can GTF!0 -
3 hours ago, Sputnik said:
This was from August 2016. Come on you Kriklaf bairns!
Once the weekends over somebody at the club needs to get these tracked down and permanently erected in the main stand concourse/ground. What a photo opportunity that would be with one/all of our previous Hampden scenes as a background
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5 minutes ago, Hisingdoon said:
Tbh I don’t blame your fans for not wanting to leave Inverness at 6/7 o clock in the morning for a 12.15 kick off in a 1/4 full stadium when it’s on national tv even if it’s gonna be a good game
6 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:I don't think even moving the game to Aberdeen would help ICT's numbers, only 30 minutes of a difference in travelling time. It's the 12.15pm kick off that's screwed things up for ICT.2 hr 38 min (103.8 mi) via A963 hr 8 min (168.8 mi) via A9Agreed. It's not just one issue (distance) that's the problem. Kick-off time, pricing and Hampden not being fit-for-purpose all contribute to fans staying away.
The SFA should have the foresight ahead of the Euro's bid to redevelop Hampden into a national stadium fit for any size of game (and improved aesthetics for smaller games like ours) whereas at the moment we have a 1930's bowl with 1990's retrofit which suits no-one.
I'll overlook the location as that's more to do with government and council to solve transport links and amenities but the SFA/SPFL could do more to resolve this perennial bugbear with using Hampden for less than box-office games - in some peoples opinions.
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Two goal start and civility on this thread. How very unsettling today has been so far!
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It was mentioned on Saturday and Tuesday that Donaldson seems to have a bias for the right-to-left diagonal instead of the easy ball at times.
After recent performances fans do seem to be highlighting these foibles as I can't recall them being such a big deal when we were winning
Quite simply the preferred formation and shoehorning of players into roles they can't play or those who lack game time and haven't been good enough over time cost us on Tuesday.
We have to hope when the semi comes we play our best XI and also that a couple of those play above their recent best to stand a chance at the moment. Ultimately that means Oliver, Donaldson and Morrison playing exceptionally well on the day!
Onto the FSS vs. FF debate and I also can't see why anyone would A) contribute to both or B) contribute to FF only.
Even if you're not behind fan ownership the fact that the monies enter the club and you could get a say via the fans reps makes it the superior offering and agree with @Zbairn that the club has too many initiatives that seem to be acute slices of the same fans pie.
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12 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:
... Just waiting on the roll out of the deflection stats to show how many other leagues we are winning (best home record league and best points gained from a losing position being my particular BS stat favourite ...
You're just inviting the Fifers most corners retort
but a very good summation.
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It's not been mentioned in the thread but the atmosphere in the last two home games in the KM has been subdued.
Took until we scored for any singing and to me there was a great deal of chatter in the stand so can only imagine how that translates onto the pitch. The only real noise (screams) came from the community teams in the Main stand.
You feel it shouldn't have to be co-ordinated or instructed but really need the singing section to get going continuously in the play-off games.
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11 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
... there's a whole heap of stuff to play for whilst over the last two years we've been finished and hanging our boots up with feck all to show for it at this stage...
Can you tell the players that as I can't discern the difference between those that downed tools with nothing to play for and those last night with a play-off/semi on the horizon
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Last night was bordering on the shambolic.
I think it's fair that questions are asked of the manager considering we're pretty much at the tail end of the season and what he believes his best XI to be has toiled and yet with the relative depth he's been afforded he is unable to change it for the better.
Quite rightly the focus has been maximising the budget but to have 4 attackers vying for one position then playing Oliver as the lone striker suggests it's been mis-spent.
That a number of players have gone off the boil so easily also suggests the fragile mindset of previous seasons remains and I'd question whether they have the bottle for the play-offs/semi now.
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28 minutes ago, mo83 said:
Sense alot of frustration here this morning from the Falkirk fans.Honest opinion though please ,how did Ryan Williamson play last night?
Did well but half expect him to be out injured now
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Our seasons petering out and we've had one result since the Dunfermline game where you could say we looked like a team with purpose and hunger (Ayr).
I'll discount the Montrose game as we should be beating them comfortably despite some of our less convincing performances against them in L1.
Posters can keep banging on about the Fifers exceptional form and how any other season we'd maybe have been there-or-thereabouts but likewise we've been honking and can probably count ourselves fortunate to be where we are after some of the insipid displays we've witnessed.
No denying the season has been much better on paper but when you really get into our season it's very much been a mixed bag.
Last night had been coming for a while in all honesty. We've rightly focussed on the attacking issue recently but more concerning should've been the failure to keep clean sheets.
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4 hours ago, Bairney The Dinosaur said:
sclaffing a shot to Kennedy is anything other than extremely fortunate.
Harsh. To me it looked a deliberate pass to Kennedy but as main striker you could argue he should be taking that himself.
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Too many attacking players going missing during games and defensive lapses being punished.
Kennedy seems to be a 20 minute player and then falls out the game.
Oliver doing donkey work but not quick enough to get in behind - he's no Burrell - and also seemingly refs taking the view he's giving as good as he gets and he gets nothing from them on most occasions.
Donaldson and Rowe seem to switch off 2nd half too often and our hold on games evaporates as it unsettles everyone else. Taking our chances has been an issue we've never really resolved and games where we should have racked up Airdrie-esque scores we've conspired to draw or lose.
Credit to them for the season they've had but we've had times when we should have shown what we were about and turned up short, which let them run away with it. In hindsight it was never really a title race and instead was just a plucky attempt at keeping apace sadly.
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16 minutes ago, SouthStander1876 said:
In that case, whats the point in saying theres an option, because that means there's an option for every player.
In this case I believe the player is contractually obliged to accept the 1-year extension if the club wishes to use it whereas in Nesbitt's case he has a choice whether to extend or leave.
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5 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:
Why would Airdrie have the upper hand? We've dominated our last two games against them
If they won tomorrow they may come to that conclusion - just as we might, if we do.
Didn't think that was a controversial statement
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On 13/04/2023 at 07:32, NUMBER 7 said:
Not sure the Airdrie lads issue, but it’s crap
Three of us have season tickets, sit together but when it comes to matches such as we had for Ayr in the cup we needed three transactions to get our usual seats, there’s no facility to link and purchase on behalf of family and friends
So after doing some UX it's possible to do what you want.
- Go to ticket.falkirkfc.co.uk
- Click the red "SIGN IN" button in the top banner - this takes you to your dashboard.
- Enter your email/password
- Choose "My Network" from the displayed tiles
- Click the "Add Network" button
- Enter an email of another user already registered with the ticket site
- The request will show as pending - I assume the other user(s) have to accept
- Once that pending status changes the added user(s) will appear in the list of people you can assign tickets to when purchasing.
Hopefully that sorts your issue for the future.
Definitely improvements that could be made and the club kinda did just chuck it over-the-fence at the time and expected users to do A-B without explaining how you do A-Z even though they heralded the improvement it would bring the club not necessarily the fan experience.
I'd hope the new club site FAQ's that seem to be appearing will address this type of question. Again to @Nkomo-A-Gogo's issue phoning the club ties up a resource whereas the question could've potentially been answered without the inconvenience.
Anyway, I'm off this week and writing any more user guides is for Monday!
Bring on the weekend and let's disperse of any Airdrie notions of having the upper hand in the play-offs.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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I appreciate we've been in L1 far longer than we'd hoped but we're now clutching at straws with calls to sack McGlynn.
Credit to Dunfermline in bouncing back as every season you're down the pressure grows and you can end up desperately going through players and managers to get back up - sound familiar?
Every year you don't compete begins to take its toll and boards make bad decisions hoping to strike it lucky eventually.
We're all disappointed we've not won the league over our rivals and yesterday was a step too far but spinning the wheel again having invested what we have so far, I think, would be folly.
Stay the course now and if ultimately McGlynn isn't the man get rid at the end of his contract. Creating unnecessary drama now only weakens the club ahead of the playoffs.