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30 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

I think he has been one of our best players this season. I am so annoyed we haven't got the best out of him through no fault of his own. His link up play can be fantastic as we saw today. Honestly, so frustated at what could have been.

Who, Oliver? He's made more appearances than any other player in the squad this season. It's Burrell who has the real cause for complaint. Oliver had a very good run of form in January and February coinciding with the team as a whole playing well, and scored four or five goals. No-one suggested he was being mis-used during this period. His hold-up and link play has also been fairly good, the lack of goal threat is the downside.

The lack of playing time afforded to by far our best forward is the real frustration. Hopefully today marks the end of the loan, isolated striker against packed defences crap and Burrell being cemented in the starting 11 from here on in. He needs to be the focal point of the attack, no-one else. Should have happened weeks ago, but better late than never. 

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Loan striker or two strikers were not the difference IMO today it was the midfield diamond with Morrison finding loads of space all across the front line. It allowed much better service into the front players. They couldn’t cope with it all game. 
Their number 16 was awful. 

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Theres guys in this thread who are always "in the know" or speaking down to other supporters. Proper Falkirk fans should bin them. 

 

Edit- Basically I am saying theres guys around your club you should get punted. 

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Form means little going into playoffs, thankfully. Queen’s Park last year a good marker. I think we’re unbelievably soft but we may have happened upon a usable formation today that will cause problems to teams.
 

4 games in the next 13 days, players should be running themselves into the ground to make the Scottish cup team, that 11 is really up for grabs now 

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6 hours ago, Kircer bairn said:

The only two I’d take from their team is the number 3 & number 14  as the rest are essentially journeymen 

Hilarious. What does that make your shower of shite then? No wins in4 attempts. We have 6 extra points from the derbies plus 5. 

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36 minutes ago, bairn88 said:

Form means little going into playoffs, thankfully. Queen’s Park last year a good marker. I think we’re unbelievably soft but we may have happened upon a usable formation today that will cause problems to teams.
 

 

If that is the case - and I must admit I share some of that suspicion - form, formation, tactics, team selection won't matter a jot. We'll be going nowhere. We are now well into April and I genuinely still don't know what to make of us. On the one hand, I think McGlynn has built a squad of very decent players - there's no-one I look at and think "complete numpty", although Wright may fast be approaching that status. On the other, I still wonder about a soft underbelly, typified by the first half today when we went from total control and a thoroughly merited 2-goal lead after 30 minutes to complete panic stations 10/15 minutes later (and Todd should really have buried that chance to send them in 3-2 up at the break)

Right now, someone could tell me that we'll (a) be kicking off in the Championship come August or (b) collapse like a house of cards in the play-offs and be flailing around with the Airdries of this world for a fifth consecutive season, and I'd find both scenarios completely believable. This could still turn out to be a very good season. Or a pretty crap one. It's not boring at least.

 

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7 minutes ago, AGPar said:

If that is the case - and I must admit I share some of that suspicion - form, formation, tactics, team selection won't matter a jot. We'll be going nowhere. We are now well into April and I genuinely still don't know what to make of us. On the one hand, I think McGlynn has built a squad of very decent players - there's no-one I look at and think "complete numpty", although Wright may fast be approaching that status. On the other, I still wonder about a soft underbelly, typified by the first half today when we went from total control and a thoroughly merited 2-goal lead after 30 minutes to complete panic stations 10/15 minutes later (and Todd should really have buried that chance to send them in 3-2 up at the break)

Right now, someone could tell me that we'll (a) be kicking off in the Championship come August or (b) collapse like a house of cards in the play-offs and be flailing around with the Airdries of this world for a fifth consecutive season, and I'd find both scenarios completely believable. This could still turn out to be a very good season. Or a pretty crap one. It's not boring at least.

 

This is the biggest issue with the team, we can play nice stuff and we usually have to, 30+ passes plus to score a goal.

 

When we don't have the ball though, any opponent that can manage more than 3 can cut us open and have the ball in the back of the net before any of the players seem to realise what's going on.

Could easily get battered by an Airdrie team scoring for fun at the minute if we let them have more than 10% possession. 

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12 minutes ago, GMBairn said:

This is the biggest issue with the team, we can play nice stuff and we usually have to, 30+ passes plus to score a goal.

 

When we don't have the ball though, any opponent that can manage more than 3 can cut us open and have the ball in the back of the net before any of the players seem to realise what's going on.

Could easily get battered by an Airdrie team scoring for fun at the minute if we let them have more than 10% possession. 

Could easily batter Airdrie if their arse crashes as usual.

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