ToonBairn
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Houston is notorious for doing his business early as a manager. However, if it means waiting around for the best options, so be it. I would like to think a striker has either already been signed or close to signing
As for the boy Gallacher, as already stated by fellow posters, what a chance that kid has
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Jon Richardson gets on my tits on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown
It's quite clear everyone else is on it for a laugh
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Will be interesting to see how Queens handle this exodus as such. They have probably had it too easy for the last few seasons, in the sense they've had a settle squad and a lot of momentum.
Will be a test of Fowlers' managerial credentials this summer but I'm sure they will be able to attract a decent standard to Dumfries. Queens fans may now know what it's like to lose good players year on year
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Replacing Loy is going to be massive, not so much for his goals (Colin McMenamin scored for fun in this league), but his style of play. He's such an important player and we saw how much we struggle without him in the team.
Houstie really needs to pull one out the bag here.
Agreed on the style of play matter. Loy was tremendous at linking the play and also his running between channels gave us a different dimension going forward. I think a target man would be an option but Loy alongside Baird last season proved we don't necessarily need that
Houston has knew for months, probably even beyond, that Loy was leaving. Got to have our faith in him he will deliver the goods.
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Said elsewhere we need an LB and was met with a storm of people saying Luke is fine,
He's maybe fine going forward but the boy cannot defend.
He has came on leaps and bounds this season but I still have reservations on his defensive side. This is highlighted as a lot of teams target our left side at times this season. Technically good but still has loads to learn
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My view really echoes that of other neutrals in that you were very, very unlucky, but I disagree with those who are having a go at Falkirk's first half performance. ICT didn't exactly pound your goal in the 1st half and let's not forget that you were a foot away from scoring with that 30 yard effort from Vaulks. In the end, I think your players saw a chance to win the game in the 90 minutes and paid the price for showing a bit too much ambition.
In hindsight, if we had taken it to extra time we may have had a better chance but it still wouldn't have guaranteed us anything. I don't fault the players for going for it at the end, everything was going for us and there was only one team going to win it. A rare break from Inverness and a couple of mistakes all in a mad few minutes lost us the cup.
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Its just never going to happen for us is it? I echo the sentiments about the last 5 mins been the worst experience in football. Even Crunchie says that was worse than '97 and he was playing that day! Am sick of the hard luck stories now, I would rather we had got beat 1-0 and never created any chances
Watching some of our older diehards at the end of the game on Saturday was tough. It remains the holy grail and we can only hope we might get another chance at it
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The positivity of some Falkirk fans on this thread is just too much took take at times..
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It still scars me that Burton Obrien was on 3 grand a week
He was on nowhere near 3k a week
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You know the Gowans family personally?
No a don't as a matter of fact but I would think that tragic day nearly 10 years ago, that they have moved on with their lives
The point is, Hughes doesn't need to publicly come out with all the stuff about Gowans again in this the build up to this game
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The pleasure of Michael Stewart and Steven "how many times can he interrupt folk speaking" Thompson tonight
No wonder no one watches this dung
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The question was about Hughes.
Exactly and that's the point I was trying to make. The club have the memorial service every year and it is important that we do remember him and continue our tributes.
However, this cup final isn't about Craig Gowans. Hughes gave his father the honour of leading out the team in 2009 and maybe rightly so. The club has moved on and so has the Gowans' family.
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What's other Bairns' fans thoughts on Hughes coming out in the press yesterday and mentioning the lad Gowans?
I fully acknowledge he was the manager when the tragedy happened and that he still has strong feelings for the whole situation. However, does he have to go to press about it and this far on? The club has moved on and more importantly the Gowans family, therefore I feel this is unnecessary from him. Our club do their bit every year to remember Gowans and rightly so but I just feel Hughes digging this up again isn't required
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Suppose it was inevitable that Murray was going to move on to a massive club in a bigger league....
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Just like when they pumped them in the semi final? Or when we knocked them out of the League Cup at Celtic Park? Or even Inverness beat them twice in the league this season? Or when Thomson scored for us with a header?
I'm not suggesting that his teams don't play against Celtic, I'm stating fact that his love in for them is rather cringey. I expect it to be rather sympathetic this week after what happened in the semi final
This is the same Yogi who when we got humped off Celtic 8-1 in 2004 says "They were a joy to watch at times"
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Will ICT against Celtic be competitive this weekend?
I fully expect Yogi to be licking the arse of his beloved team and his big pal Collins in the lead up to this game. The result is irrelevant
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The SFA had to throw a spanner in the works somehow for our day
William f**k*n Collum ????
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He was the latest defender we've got on loan from a top flight club who've turned out to be no better and in some ways worse than the players we already have. Marr, Perry and him and you'd be struggling to make a decent player out the three of them.
I wouldn't do many players the disservice by mentioning them in the same breath as Ross Perry to be honest. He was awful and just sums up everything that is wrong with Rangers' youth system. The fact he was on thousands a week at Rangers is even more sickening
Shaughnessy was solid IMO and I think would be decent in the SPL. No thrills going forward but thats only to be expected as he's more of a centre half than full back
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Spoke to a couple of club employees today, they are hoping for 15,000-20,000 tickets to be sold for Falkirk.
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I would say 20k is achievable and would be tremendous to see a sea of navy blue
It's our time
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The new strips are looking great. The old classic design will go down well IMO
I still hope the team wear this years away top in the final however
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He's cut from the same cloth as the likes of McGlynn in most ways. What a would describe as a cancer in Scottish football
He will get a job in the juniors were he belongs
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POTY - sibbald
Players POTY sibbald
Young POTY sibbald
Best goal sibbald
Under 20's POTY Ohara
From tonight's gala dinner
Don't think anyone can argue with those. It's hardly surprising Sibbs has walked away with a clean sweep.
A fantastic player and an even better lad. Makes t even better that he is one of our own
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Will be interesting to see what we do here. We need only look to United and Ciftci to see how easily some of these cases have been thrown out.
The rest of Scottish football have to make a stand here. I hope every other club, including Falkirk so everything to help Meekings and Inverness
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It will definitely be Celtic. Hughes is a shitebag, defeatist, backwards thinking c**t coward when it comes to Celtic and Sevco. Just listen to his interviews. It's like he thinks it's their duty to lose. The reverence he holds Celtic (and Sevco) in is sickening.
Your spot on with regards to his love in with Celtic. He claims he's a Hibee but really he is a Celtic man
We played them in the CIS cup years ago and were beaten 8-1. Yogi after the game "Celtic were a joy to watch". Embarrassing stuff
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Very similar to her great leader, who sounds like a cat drowning on these kind of programs