Ranaldo Bairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Just now, PortyMo said: That was a horrendous challenge and could easily have been a red. As others have said, I thought Steeves (No. 3) was off. There is no defence of Steeves, he should 100% have gone but I think yellow was ok for Nesbitt. Trying not to be too biased... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Not out of September and the league is a two horse race already. That can't have happened this early very often. Montrose look like they will be odds on to come a distant 3rd and be in the playoffs. After that it's anyone's game for fourth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 To make the Steeves one worse, he then yellow carder a Montrose player shortly afterwards, for taking Morrision out in exactly the same way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Brummo said: That was unlucky from a Montrose point of view. We were under the cosh for much of the second half. If we'd had Thomson on, I think we would have made more of an impact up front. We handled Falkirk's attack pretty well for most of the game. Their first goal, we had a man down on the park and I think our players allowed that to distract them while the Falkirk player didn't see it and pressed on up the pitch, which led to their equaliser. The away stand was too far away for me to see whether or not the Falkirk penalty was deserved but although the keeper took our player down on the edge of the box, I think as he denied the player a clear goal scoring opportunity as the last man, that probably justifies it being a penalty. Both our goals were well taken. Morrison's goal looked an absolute screamer and was such a sickener from a Mo. perspective. The time wasting in the last few minutes of the game is hardly unexpected to be fair. I think we would have been glad of a point considering Falkirk's dominance in the second half. Although the result was a sickener, it shows the Mo aren't miles off the pace and there is still room for improvement, especially when we have a full squad to draw upon. I thought, besides picking up a booking, Ryan Williamson had a pretty decent game. I was genuinely surprised at the hype concerning Agyeman. Rather than "running riot", I felt he was well contained by the Mo defence and his final touch was poor today. In fact Falkirk seemed to improve after he left the pitch. We piled on a load of subs, presumably to give them game time experience at a bigger venue. That might be useful in our cup game against Raith Rovers. Overall, disappointed but not disheartened. Williamson never got booked. I thought he had a decent 1st half but was really under the cosh in the second half and struggled sometimes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PortyMo Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Think we can agree that the referee made some bizarre decisions during the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyBlueArmy1876 Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) Thought Montrose were the best side we've faced so far this season tbf. Defensively resolute like QotS but carried a threat going forward and played some good stuff. Contributed a lot to an entertaining game (minus the chronic timewasting) though we certainly deserved the 3 points. Thought the officials were fairly hopeless for much of the match. Our penalty looked soft, Spencer making the most of any contact, I didnt notice a handball either. Will gladly accept after last season's farce and the fact it all came from a Montrose player being down 'injured' made it all the sweeter. Would need to see it again but even from the south stand the Montrose penalty looked outside the box. You'd imagine Long gets a red if it is though. Steves should also have walked and the immediate substitution was a real comedy moment. Pretty mental ending as we looked very comfortable at 2-1 and all of a sudden out of nowhere a Montrose forward is bearing down on our goal without a Falkirk defender in 20 yards of him. Thought we had thrown it away especially with Donaldson missing that huge chance at 2-2, but Morrison's absolute #banger worthy of winning any game. Morrison my MotM but throught Gary Oliver did well when he came on Thought the fans were brilliant throughout and stayed with the team right to the end, just like the last home game Sets up next week against Hamilton very nicely indeed Edited September 30, 2023 by NavyBlueArmy1876 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broomiesniper Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 19 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said: I had a horrible sensation I was watching Gazza on Gary Charles when Nesbitt did that. Looked like he properly fucked his knee. Hope I'm wrong. Couldn't believe they made him walk all the way around the pitch when he was clearly in a lot of pain. I had said that too, can’t believe there wasn’t a stretcher for him just incase he made the injury worse by walking round the pitch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 3 minutes ago, PortyMo said: Think we can agree that the referee made some bizarre decisions during the game. Just the norm for this league. In our 5 seasons in the league I think I have maybe seen a handful of decent refereeing performances. I bet fans of every team would say the same, the standard is honking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bainsfordbairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 8 minutes ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said: I didnt notice a handball either. His momentum was carrying him forward, so I'd be surprised if the ball didn't come into contact with his arm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbrbairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 14 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said: His momentum was carrying him forward, so I'd be surprised if the ball didn't come into contact with his arm. Another shot of Spencer in mid air! Does he just hover? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilostmyself Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 I thought our penalty was a stonewaller from the challenge but I might have been willing it to be that way. Again a game I think we'd have lost or drawn last year so absolutely delighted to win and it really sets up next week as a cracker. Impressed by Montrose having a proper go and you can imagine they'll be fighting it out for 3rd. Thought their keeper was decent at shot stopping but looked pretty dodgy for passbacks and kicking it out. Delighted with every aspect of the Williamson stuff. Us booing him, him giving it to the fans when they scored, us shouting back at him after we took the lead, him laughing while timewasting at 2-2 and then finally him looking completely broken as we all celebrated the last minute winner. Pure football theatre and one of the best things about going to games, 10/10. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabba Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 The Spencer one was given for the handball even before the sliding challenge made contact with him. The Montrose penalty looked a good yard outside the box but Long would’ve had to go so probably did us a favour in the long run. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Think there’s a lot of bias on both sides here. Both teams wasted time when it suited, both teams could have argued that they would be disappointed to lose the game and for the most part I thought the ref was okay although I would be willing to reconsider that if I watch the foul for our penalty back and it was outside the box, it was certainly close from what I seen. Overall, a good game of football, a good day out and a performance against a very good Falkirk team for the level that we can take positives from. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 What was the attendance today, I must have missed it if they announced it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Harry Kinnear said: What was the attendance today, I must have missed it if they announced it. 4093 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 68 away fans Jesus feckin wept. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double t Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 1 hour ago, broomiesniper said: I had said that too, can’t believe there wasn’t a stretcher for him just incase he made the injury worse by walking round the pitch I did see he was offered help by Chris, the kit man, plus the physio but he seemed to tell them he was ok to walk round. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcastic Bairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 4 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said: Ryan Williamson should know you never do things like that until the job is 100% done. He wouldn’t know, he’s never usually on the pitch at 90mins. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbrbairn Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 1 hour ago, ilostmyself said: I thought our penalty was a stonewaller from the challenge but I might have been willing it to be that way. Again a game I think we'd have lost or drawn last year so absolutely delighted to win and it really sets up next week as a cracker. Impressed by Montrose having a proper go and you can imagine they'll be fighting it out for 3rd. Thought their keeper was decent at shot stopping but looked pretty dodgy for passbacks and kicking it out. Delighted with every aspect of the Williamson stuff. Us booing him, him giving it to the fans when they scored, us shouting back at him after we took the lead, him laughing while timewasting at 2-2 and then finally him looking completely broken as we all celebrated the last minute winner. Pure football theatre and one of the best things about going to games, 10/10. Football theatre ! The best quote of the night. Totally sums the game up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardle is Magic Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 3 hours ago, Shodwall cat said: Not out of September and the league is a two horse race already. It was a one horse race from October or so last season tbf. -9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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