The Falkirk FC Thread

[Ranaldo Bairn]

5 minutes ago, Springfield said:

On an entirely different topic, reading an article about the Hearts foundation, close on 8700 fan’s contributing around £142K monthly. Pretty mind blowing that there’s £1.7M invested yearly as an additional income source.

142k x 12 = 1.7M

[Springfield]

10 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:

142k x 12 = 1.7M

Thanks, missed the dot

[NavyBlueArmy1876]

13 minutes ago, Springfield said:

On an entirely different topic, reading an article about the Hearts foundation, close on 8700 fan’s contributing around £142K monthly. Pretty mind blowing that there’s £17M invested yearly as an additional income source.

Or averages about £16 per person a month. They have 15,500 season ticket holders so around 56% of those pay in 

That was born out of a complete crisis though with Hearts coming perilously close to going bust. Difficult to compare to our situation 

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:

Or averages about £16 per person a month. They have 15,500 season ticket holders so around 56% of those pay in 

That was born out of a complete crisis though with Hearts coming perilously close to going bust. Difficult to compare to our situation 

Exactly. 

FSS are  currently at around 34% of our adult ST holders and averaging £12/month per member. Hearts also benefit from some rich overseas members who are paying in excess of £50/month.

FoH’s biggest surge was In administration. We haven’t had that thankfully but need to drive the message that, we need to grow membership to avoid it and field a good team on the park.

At the moment it’s not possible to do either till we can grow income and/or reduce overheads to fund a £400k shortfall. 

The good news FSS numbers are growing and have had a 7% rise since the turn of the year. 

If we got to 56% of our STs on the same average then that would be an extra £5340/month or £64k/year. Would make overall contributions £160k/year and us the largest fan organisation outside the top 6 clubs in Scotland. 

[Wingman]

1 hour ago, Springfield said:

On an entirely different topic, reading an article about the Hearts foundation, close on 8700 fan’s contributing around £142K monthly. Pretty mind blowing that there’s £17M invested yearly as an additional income source.

Surely £1.7mn?

[HopeStreetWalker]

4 hours ago, FFC 1876 said:

Couple of good pieces of play from Lennon Walker at the weekend, number 11 for Bo'ness. Also ex bairn Mark Stowe(number 7) setting up the winner for Linlithgow. 

Whilst I'm on the youngster front saw the shire posted this on twitter, with us not having a game this weekend not a bad option if you fancy taking a look at Scott Honeyman or Kyle Connolly they've both been starting regularly.

 

Would like to see Shire return to the league structure always had a soft spot for old shirey with memories of Arthur Hammill and many a pint in the Shires club afterwards.

[GunnerBairn]

Presuming the EEP undersoil heating is on tonight. Nippy.

[NUMBER 7]

1 hour ago, Van_damage said:

Exactly. 

FSS are  currently at around 34% of our adult ST holders and averaging £12/month per member. Hearts also benefit from some rich overseas members who are paying in excess of £50/month.

FoH’s biggest surge was In administration. We haven’t had that thankfully but need to drive the message that, we need to grow membership to avoid it and field a good team on the park.

At the moment it’s not possible to do either till we can grow income and/or reduce overheads to fund a £400k shortfall. 

The good news FSS numbers are growing and have had a 7% rise since the turn of the year. 

If we got to 56% of our STs on the same average then that would be an extra £5340/month or £64k/year. Would make overall contributions £160k/year and us the largest fan organisation outside the top 6 clubs in Scotland. 

If the current membership is say 650 it might get to 1000 in the short term if we were promoted.  The target / aim should be to that 650 members to " Sign Up" one or two lapsed / ex pats / relatives that call Falkirk their team but don't go see them. The membership doesn't need to come from folks that actually go to games. I could probably get 3 people without any effort to sign up for a tenner a month, and i'm sure many other members could do the same.

[Guest]

39 minutes ago, NUMBER 7 said:

If the current membership is say 650 it might get to 1000 in the short term if we were promoted.  The target / aim should be to that 650 members to " Sign Up" one or two lapsed / ex pats / relatives that call Falkirk their team but don't go see them. The membership doesn't need to come from folks that actually go to games. I could probably get 3 people without any effort to sign up for a tenner a month, and i'm sure many other members could do the same.

I totally agree. We’ve put the information out there and currently running a prize to win 2  tickets to whoever can refer the highest number of new sign ups.

If we want FSS to work properly then we all have to help and not just the volunteers on the committee. Heard people say the FSS have never contacted me to up my subs or to move to SO. We just don’t have the resources to speak to everyone individually and have put the information out there(and will continue to do so) so hopefully goes without saying if you can afford to up your subs or want to help save money by moving to SO then we’ll be delighted to help. Subscriptions@falkirksupporters.org

Also if you have 3 ex pats you can sign up then please do so. Make sure they let us know you signed them up too so we can give you credit for the Latapy night tickets. 

[Patch]

On 27/01/2023 at 17:09, Duncan Freemason said:

Sorry, can’t help, but it’s probably a Bonnybridge thing. Council Member William Buchanan would be the best guy to contact.

 

 

Apologies for bringing this up again but as some may be aware the chap who allegedly took the "famous" Calvine photo has now been named as a Kevin Russell probably now in his 50s and potentially a Falkirk fan.

Does anybody know Kevin?

If he so and he wants to be left alone I'll make sure he is from my point of view. 

By the way your ex player Will Vaulks is doing fantastic for us, Sheffield Wednesday, and an absolute diamond of a bloke. Does a lot for children hospital in Sheffield 

[RandomGuy.]

8 hours ago, Caractacus Potts said:

Don’t dare come on a Falkirk thread and call Callum Davidson a shite manager!

A man who won you 2 major cups, finished 5th, kept you in the top flight and currently has you in 8th place fairly safe from relegation.

If you want to learn what a shite manager is, then let us tell you a story about the 4 seasons prior to this one. 

Coming on here and saying that is akin to telling a homeless person you sent back your fillet mignon because there was too much peppercorn sauce. 

 

Hes our John Hughes (how he done with ICT anyway, not sure how well it matches with you).

- Early success with someone elses squad

- Squad is gradually getting worse while the money spent is going up (we've spent more in 2 windows under Davidson than the previous 4 managers spent combined. Our squad has over 30 senior players. Offered £100k for Jordan White).

- Clear feeling that momentum is backwards and we're simply circling a drain, backed up by results (we're losing more games this season than last. 6pts have come in the final 10 mins of games where we'd been losing comfortably until an opponent got sent off).

- Next manager will struggle due to what will be left (half our current line up is 30+ or on loan).

- Nobody outside the clubs supporters can see past the early success and understand why fans arent happy.

We'll almost definitely be relegated if he sees out his contract until 2025.

Edited March 6, 2023 by RandomGuy.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Patch said:

Apologies for bringing this up again but as some may be aware the chap who allegedly took the "famous" Calvine photo has now been named as a Kevin Russell probably now in his 50s and potentially a Falkirk fan.

Does anybody know Kevin?

If he so and he wants to be left alone I'll make sure he is from my point of view. 

By the way your ex player Will Vaulks is doing fantastic for us, Sheffield Wednesday, and an absolute diamond of a bloke. Does a lot for children hospital in Sheffield 

Sorry, I don’t know a Kevin Russell. As for Sir Will of Vaulks, we are fully aware of how much a diamond he is. I would struggle to think of any player with his number of appearances who is held in such high regard by the our supporters bar the likes of Stainrod and Latapy.

Hope someone can help you in contacting Kevin Russell.

[HoBNob]

29 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Hes our John Hughes (how he done with ICT anyway, not sure how well it matches with you).

- Early success with someone elses squad

- Squad is gradually getting worse while the money spent is going up (we've spent more in 2 windows under Davidson than the previous 4 managers spent combined. Our squad has over 30 senior players. Offered £100k for Jordan White).

- Clear feeling that momentum is backwards and we're simply circling a drain, backed up by results (we're losing more games this season than last. 6pts have come in the final 10 mins of games where we'd been losing comfortably until an opponent got sent off).

- Next manager will struggle due to what will be left (half our current line up is 30+ or on loan).

- Nobody outside the clubs supporters can see past the early success and understand why fans arent happy.

We'll almost definitely be relegated if he sees out his contract until 2025.

I fully see where you're coming from. And it's fair enough. 

 

But I'd fucking love a manager to win a national domestic cup with us, I'd take all the relegations. 

 

As it is I've seen all the relegations but no cups to back it up, buggery. 

[Bigbrbairn]

A large amount of the Bonnybridge UFO sightings appeared to happen after the pub shut!

[AL-FFC]

2 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:

A large amount of the Bonnybridge UFO sightings appeared to happen after the pub shut!

You can also argue that it wouldn't be intelligent life as let's face it why would it pick Bonnybridge if it was intelligent?

[RandomGuy.]

12 minutes ago, Grant228 said:

I fully see where you're coming from. And it's fair enough. 

But I'd fucking love a manager to win a national domestic cup with us, I'd take all the relegations. 

We've come from a manager who could both win us domestic trophies and have us performing well in the top flight, maybe the comparison is simply unfair.

As it is though, the feeling is that 20+ years of hard work are being chucked down the drain. The Browns have all but stepped back from the club too (Steve Brown has taken a back seat role for years and is cutting all ties this Summer no matter what, leaving us with no real chairman and a club up for sale with no buyers) which makes the doom feeling stronger.

[Patch]

33 minutes ago, Duncan Freemason said:

Sorry, I don’t know a Kevin Russell. As for Sir Will of Vaulks, we are fully aware of how much a diamond he is. I would struggle to think of any player with his number of appearances who is held in such high regard by the our supporters bar the likes of Stainrod and Latapy.

Hope someone can help you in contacting Kevin Russell.

Is that Simon Stainrod? He played for us as well. Bit infamous though for previous misdemeanor against the club

[Salvo Montalbano]

3 hours ago, GunnerBairn said:

Presuming the EEP undersoil heating is on tonight. Nippy.

It is. 

[Reggie Perrin]

21 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:

A large amount of the Bonnybridge UFO sightings appeared to happen after the pub shut!

Always thought that being midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh airports might have something to do with the lights in the sky.

[FalkirkBairn2021]

The ZalUs/Council of Nine pish from Billy Buchanan was fucking genius.

Convinced some idiot Americans to stay in the local area on a tourist trip looking for aliens. Unless they stumbled into the Pee Weep they left disappointed. 

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by FalkirkBairn2021