[Duncan Freemason]

When people eventually get round to it. This is Falkirk's big chance to cut their degree of detachment from the rest of the league to simply "bad" rather than it's current state of "ominously bad".
A win for Hamilton would push them 9 points clear of Falkirk. This would remove what little pressure exists on Hamilton, and would near enough confirm what most already see as a near certainty........Falkirk's relegation (with only the implosion of St Mirren offering any chance of a reprieve, but Falkirk's recent record against St Mirren is the worst in the league by a long way.

A draw is of little or no use to Falkirk, but it wouldn't be too shabby a result for Hamilton. Having said that, no-one playing us has anything to fear, and Hamilton could and should fancy themselves to dispose of this season's whipping boys.

I reckon either a turgid 0-0, or Hamilton to put us out of our misery in a 1-0 defeat.

Across the season, relegation's favoured group has featured Hamilton, Killie, St Johnstone and now St Mirren. I think we are the only ever presents in everyone's list. Now we turn to Paisley as the home of the club we just might catch (until we play them that is).

This post has been edited by Duncan Freemason: 13 March 2010 - 19:35

[The Hero of the Day]

Must win, this time it really is. No ifs or buts. We are relegated if we don't win this.

Pedro and Showunmi have to play upfront with a midfield player supporting. It's the only way we are going to score and then when we score drop midfielder and Pedro to a 5 man midfield.

[Bairn 4 Life]

Duncan Freemason, on 13 March 2010 - 19:25, said:

When people eventually get round to it. This is Falkirk's big chance to cut their degree of detachment from the rest of the league to simply "bad" rather than it's current state of "ominously bad".
A win for Hamilton would push them 9 points clear of Falkirk. This would remove what little pressure exists on Hamilton, and would near enough confirm what most already see as a near certainty........Falkirk's relegation (with only the implosion of St Mirren offering any chance of a reprieve, but Falkirk's recent record against St Mirren is the worst in the league by a long way.

A draw is of little or no use to Falkirk, but it wouldn't be too shabby a result for Hamilton. Having said that, no-one playing us has anything to fear, and Hamilton could and should fancy themselves to dispose of this season's whipping boys.

I reckon either a turgid 0-0, or Hamilton to put us out of our misery in a 1-0 defeat.

agree with you entirely. dont know if i'll go next week after todays performance i dont know. the football we have to watch in the SPL is average at and with cost of that and having to drive from cowdenbeath for every game is becoming an exspense that im finding hard to justify

[YER SISTERS YER MAW]

Would take a draw, but I hope Billy doesn't play for one, and hopefully sets out to have a go from the start like we did today. If we do then there's a good chance we will win and put ourselves in a very good position to stay up. I'll stick my neck out and go for another 1-0 win, courtesy of the in-form Flavio.

This post has been edited by YER SISTERS YER MAW: 13 March 2010 - 19:34

[Patrick Bateman]

Agree with YSYM, if we start with Imrie, MAC and Flavio and have a real go, I think we can sneak the win.

[badgers apprentice]

hope we start like we did today, but prey we dont get an official like we have had the last fortnight, the players should be out to avenge the defeat we suffered at falkirk where we clearly outplayed them first half and let ourselves down in the second.

[ffcsam]

The Accies will drive another nail into our SPL coffin I think. We just can't catch a brealk at all. A penalty today and a huge feck up for the second sums up our luck just now. I am not a Catholic but I might go chapel tomorrow and set the fire alarms off by lighting umpteen prayer candles.
Only God can save us now.

[badgers apprentice]

FFCSAM, on 13 March 2010 - 20:55, said:

The Accies will drive another nail into our SPL coffin I think. We just can't catch a brealk at all. A penalty today and a huge feck up for the second sums up our luck just now. I am not a Catholic but I might go chapel tomorrow and set the fire alarms off by lighting umpteen prayer candles.
Only God can save us now.

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[ffcsam]

badgers apprentice, on 13 March 2010 - 20:59, said:

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Marvin Andrews? Julie fucking Andrews would do for us the now:rolleyes:

[gav-ffc]

1-0

[Duncan Freemason]

FFCSAM, on 13 March 2010 - 20:55, said:

The Accies will drive another nail into our SPL coffin I think. We just can't catch a brealk at all. A penalty today and a huge feck up for the second sums up our luck just now. I am not a Catholic but I might go chapel tomorrow and set the fire alarms off by lighting umpteen prayer candles.
Only God can save us now.

I think we've had the breaks we deserve. Under EM, we played like startled rabbits. Elvis has tried to instil a bit of fight, but in truth, that's all its been. The psychological approach that Elvis prefers clearly hasn't made any material difference so far.
His claim of us being in the SPL next season wasn't foolish..........it was a gamble. He was hoping it might rub off on the players that he believed in them. Sadly, as the defeats start to mount, the gamble isn't paying off, and now his words start to sound rather hollow.
There does seem to be a general concensus that we are in this mess because of the lack of financial common sense last season. If so, then this whole sorry mess sits squarely with the BoD. If they simply haven't had the balls to say "no" to Yogi, then we are certainly about to pay a heavy price for that ineptitude over the coming months.

[ffcsam]

Duncan Freemason, on 13 March 2010 - 23:13, said:

I think we've had the breaks we deserve. Under EM, we played like startled rabbits. Elvis has tried to instil a bit of fight, but in truth, that's all its been. The psychological approach that Elvis prefers clearly hasn't made any material difference so far.
His claim of us being in the SPL next season wasn't foolish..........it was a gamble. He was hoping it might rub off on the players that he believed in them. Sadly, as the defeats start to mount, the gamble isn't paying off, and now his words start to sound rather hollow.
There does seem to be a general concensus that we are in this mess because of the lack of financial common sense last season. If so, then this whole sorry mess sits squarely with the BoD. If they simply haven't had the balls to say "no" to Yogi, then we are certainly about to pay a heavy price for that ineptitude over the coming months.

That is a quite a fair assessment Duncan. We simply don't have the players to pull us out of this mess.
As for the BoD, well, could someone have a word with the Bairnstrust:lol:

[Ned Nederlander]

Duncan Freemason, on 13 March 2010 - 23:13, said:

I think we've had the breaks we deserve. Under EM, we played like startled rabbits. Elvis has tried to instil a bit of fight, but in truth, that's all its been. The psychological approach that Elvis prefers clearly hasn't made any material difference so far.

You know, I'm still not saying we're staying up but f'kin ell I'm getting tired of your posts.

We lost a tight game today against a team that reemed us in Perth, our fixtures are 'favourable' and we're still in touch - it aint great but we're not down and out


I, like most, would have rather seen an accomplished manager take over when May left but we got Elvis, I think there's been a slight improvement, a f'ck up at the end cost us a point today, we weren't reemed

bring on the next game - there's very little else we can do other than get right behind the team.

This post has been edited by Ned Nederlander: 13 March 2010 - 23:23

[Scotty Tunbridge]

If we win I think that should be us safe hopefully.

[Tubbs]

Pressure all on Falkirk and Elvis doesn't have the brains to play anything other than going for it full pelt

[Duncan Freemason]

Ned Nederlander, on 13 March 2010 - 23:23, said:

You know, I'm still not saying we're staying up but f'kin ell I'm getting tired of your posts.

We lost a tight game today against a team that reemed us in Perth, our fixtures are 'favourable' and we're still in touch - it aint great but we're not down and out


I, like most, would have rather seen an accomplished manager take over when May left but we got Elvis, I think there's been a slight improvement, a f'ck up at the end cost us a point today, we weren't reemed

bring on the next game - there's very little else we can do other than get right behind the team.

Simply don't read them then. Look, I comment on what I see, and what I think. It's the easiest thing in the world to say that we have to keep behind the team. I would imagine you do that in the same way as I do..........by going along to games. It's easy to say "next week we'll turn it round, we're not down yet".
Internally, I probably do the same thing, but in terms of a football forum, it would quickly become a seriously damp squib if that was the sum total of people's opinions on their respective teams performances and prospects.
Some choose to live in the land of eternal hope. I am prepared to nail my colours to the mast (and take the risk of being shot down), and say that regardless of what games are left, I think Falkirk FC, on the evidence to date, do not have what it takes to stay up.
I appreciate that twenty posts of "we are going down" somehow seems disloyal and sticks in the craw compared to a hundred posts saying positive things (no matter how much that flies in the face of what we are seeing with our own eyes). No opinion is any more valid than the other, and neither will affect the outcome of games. It's just opinions. Better I voice my criticisms this way than screaming abuse at the players each and every game.

[Ned Nederlander]

Duncan Freemason, on 14 March 2010 - 00:00, said:

I appreciate that twenty posts of "we are going down" somehow seems disloyal and sticks in the craw compared to a hundred posts saying positive things (no matter how much that flies in the face of what we are seeing with our own eyes).

Fair dos - I think the thing that irks me the most about your posts is that I'm pretty much the most negative Falkirk poster on here and even I can see that we aint at the point where we are dead and buried.

I think it's incredible that we are still in touch but we undoubtedly are, we weren't played off the park today and that gives me a bit of hope, we may well go down and we're are in a shite position but I just don't see us as having absolutely no hope like you do.

[ffcsam]

Whilst I will back us to the hilt, do any Falkirk fan's think this is it?
What I am worrying about most is the financial implications should we go down.
We do have our fair share of fans (not just on here) that are total defeatists.
I have grew up watching Falkirk in the South Enclosure at Brockville before moving round to Hope Street, the "Choir"
Should we recall our loan players? Is it too much to call them back?
I may think that we are down but I will NEVER voice that onto the pitch.
They need support, not negativity.

[Tubbs]

Oh dear i see post match yesterday Elvis blamed the refs

Still he has to offer the fans something as he guaranteed SPL football next year

[Ned Nederlander]

Tubbs, on 14 March 2010 - 09:37, said:

Oh dear i see post match yesterday Elvis blamed the refs

Yes, I saw that when it was mentioned on here last night and then on the thread that was posted about it this morning.

[Doctor Chist]

gav-ffc, on 13 March 2010 - 21:20, said:

1-0

Lima would only score if the goals were in row z of the stand.

[ditots]

FFCSAM, on 14 March 2010 - 00:41, said:

Whilst I will back us to the hilt, do any Falkirk fan's think this is it?
What I am worrying about most is the financial implications should we go down.
We do have our fair share of fans (not just on here) that are total defeatists.
I have grew up watching Falkirk in the South Enclosure at Brockville before moving round to Hope Street, the "Choir"
Should we recall our loan players? Is it too much to call them back?
I may think that we are down but I will NEVER voice that onto the pitch.
They need support, not negativity.

Agree with that. A few wins and some other results going our way and we will be right back in it.
Get right behind them fellow bairns.

Then all the dross can gtf at the end of the season

[Duncan Freemason]

Ned Nederlander, on 14 March 2010 - 00:09, said:

Fair dos - I think the thing that irks me the most about your posts is that I'm pretty much the most negative Falkirk poster on here and even I can see that we aint at the point where we are dead and buried.

I think it's incredible that we are still in touch but we undoubtedly are, we weren't played off the park today and that gives me a bit of hope, we may well go down and we're are in a shite position but I just don't see us as having absolutely no hope like you do.

I appreciate that Ned. There is always a flicker of hope until it's done. Last season, I felt we had a team that were underperforming, and doing so because the manager had stopped doing his job in the right way. He was more interested in engineering himself a move rather than letting that happen as a result of his achievements with the club who employed him at the time.
This season, I think we are looking at a squad who may well have been performing to the best of their abilities. Some up, some down, but incapable of grinding out decent results for any number of reasons (ability, leadership, age, experience, tactics). The good results we've had may well have been a combination of our best days, the oppositions worst days, and a bunch of individual errors. I think the sporadic nature of our points gathering supports this, as we've never strung two such results together.
That being the case, then we might well muster another two or three such occasions this season. I reckon we might be good for something like another 8 to 10 points, and I don't think that'll be enough.
There's a real malaise about the club right now, and I think it all points to a general decline that's going to end in relegation. None of this will change whether or not I go along to games. I've been there since the late sixties (yeah, I can actually remember Alex Ferguson in a Falkirk shirt) and I'll be there next week hoping for the best, but not being too amazed if we geat beat again.

This post has been edited by Duncan Freemason: 14 March 2010 - 13:10

[Back Post Misses]

3-0 Bairns

[Patrick Bateman]

Back Post Misses, on 14 March 2010 - 13:14, said:

3-0 Bairns

I think you will win 5-0.