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A night of mixed emotions for me. Been a Falkirk fan all my life but always played football on a Saturday so it wasn’t until the 17/18 that I got a season ticket with my Dad. We’ve been devoted fans since then and stayed to the very end of every game (deserves a medal after what we’ve seen the past few seasons) and backed the team. Unfortunately my dad took unwell unexpected whilst on holiday in late October last year and past away early December. Ive been both joyous and full of emotion tonight as I know he’d have loved to have witnessed what I have over the past few months. A glass was raised to him when I found out the league was won!

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I went to the pub to watch the game. I got a row from the barman for "being too loud" I just got home and got a row for "being too pished" What a day to be alive on this beautiful earth.

Super County go ballistic Rangers are c***s.

Listen boys, I'm no everyone's cup of tea on here and that's ok but I found out my granda died just before kick off. It was him that got me into Ayr, the first game he took me to was a 5-0 win so the boys did something really special for me today.

Not the catchiest of songs, is it.

Pleasing…..

14 years ago this week we beat Celtic for the first time in a magnificent display at Hampden. My youngest lad came to that game with me and it was his first County game. Fast forward 14 years and he was by my side once again as we managed to finally defeat Rangers. He has been a County fan ever since that April day in the glorious sunshine in Glasgow and he will always be a County fan. Win lose or draw. It moments like this that make football what it is, shared experiences that are never forgotten. It is such a shame that so many from the Highlands dont support their local team though. A flag in the away end said 'Dingwalls Chosen Few', what is that all about? Last week I thought we might be 7 points adrift of Saint Johnstone after this wekends fixtures. Thankfully its just 1 again. Onwards and upwards!

Don Cowie looking for his post match handshake.

The correct order here is your own (one and only one) team at the top, a whole load of don't care, then the ugly sisters in a category of their own where you actively hope for their death.

Shouldn’t laugh, should you?

'A rather unsavoury end' Crocker my man, the whole fucking thing is unsavoury.

Get the Dens Park sprinklers on now

Oh...

It's just so disrespectful and unprofessional from Clement. This is a big day for Ross County and Don Cowie, and as manager of the strong favourite Clement owes it to them to give them credit, if not just meet the basic etiquette at the end of a football game. Someone like Walter Smith would have been straight over to offer congratulations. It may seem like a small thing, it's just a handshake, but it speaks to a really ugly attitude.

Delighted to see some folk have made it into their third consecutive day of boozing

I think you were a bit lucky yesterday and until you scored the 7th I thought we had a chance of getting a point out of it… Fair play, league wrapped up nice and early and you can enjoy the last 5 games. I had the added bonus yesterday of being stuck on a train with the away fans as well as being out last night, I can safely say that from my experience, your whole fanbase was an absolute credit to your club.

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You understand why calling Raith "Rape" because they signed Goodwillie doesn't work when you're a United fan, don't you?

Spot the Orcish interloper in the home end...

We've apparently sweetened the deal a wee bit.

I tend to travel to games in company, usually on the train, so haven't heard Sportsound too much this season as Hearts have played a lot more Saturdays than last season, but on the occasions I find myself on the train by myself now I tend to listen to the English coverage on 5 Live. This is despite having more or less no actual interest in the Premier League. They talk about football. They spread the attention around. They develop the stories and big games from down the divisions. They don't manufacture arguments that then dominate the show for weeks. They speak to each other like adults. It's just high-quality, professional sports broadcasting. Sportsound is a complete disgrace these days and BBC Scotland should be ashamed of what it has been allowed to become.

I'm 49 years old. One of the big learning points of my life so far has been that those with imposter syndrome almost always shouldn't have it, and those without it usually should.

That reminds me - hats off to Montrose FC. No jobsworths in hi-viz trying to stop the party, no extra barricades around the pitch, no haranguing over the PA. We were made to feel welcome from the moment we arrived in the town - the cafes, pubs and kebab joints were great. Many thanks to the Legion keeping their lounge open for visiting fans even though they had a wedding on. The cops were good natured and just kept an eye on things without being arseholes. Although there were huge queues to get in the ground, they moved quickly with no hassle. Well done to the Montrose team for the guard of honour, although bending over to take seven was maybe a bit OTT Full of respect for Montrose, my favourite wee team now.

Dens failing the Tuesday pitch inspection before McDiarmid fails one on Wednesday is the outcome we need.

March 2020: Football is nothing without fans. March 2024: Let’s make it almost impossible for fans to attend.

Thought I would leave my views till today mainly due to being totally goosed after Saturday. I will never forget 30th March 2024 at Links Park, Montrose. It is the first Championship of the social media era which will keep memories bright for ever for everyone. I met so many fans on Saturday who have been there through thick and thin and the joy on so many faces was very emotional to witness. This season has been special. As I said on Falkirk Daft a couple of weeks ago this togetherness has never been witnessed in my lifetime. I am so pleased for the under 25’s. Very few will have witnessed Brockville or a title win. Enjoy it guys they don’t come around very often. No one should underestimate the job it has taken to turn this club around behind the scenes. We as supporters inherited a shambles and it should never be allowed to happen again. The Board, Jamie Swinney and his team deserves huge credit for their hard work and decision making. Us as supporters should take a collective pat on the back to help finance the football club. That should never be forgotten or abandoned for ANY large future investor. Finally to John McGlynn and Paul Smith thank you for putting together a side that we are truly proud of. A team that will be thought of very fondly for years to come.

When Cammy Bell had that howler against Motherwell in the playoffs (I think someone on here described it as being like watching a drunk man trying to punch a seagull away from his fish supper), we all had a good laugh at it, but nobody said that it was "cosplay football". We've all seen keepers letting in stupid goals, players sending spectacular acrobatic clearances past their own keepers and strikers missing sitters the exhumed corpse of Ívarr the Boneless would have put away. We all chuckle at that, but we don't use that as a basis for delegitimising the competitions they're playing in, or saying it isn't real football. Because we're not utter bellends.

OK, usual prelude, ran 1000 simulations from here to end of season with team ratings based on Elo, so in the sims the teams at the top of the league are more likely to beat the teams at the bottom rather than just same chance of win / draw / loss. I don’t put too much stock in the individual results and outcomes of teams as Elo can’t account for injuries / morale / Colin Steven and is probably weighted too heavily towards season long rather than recent form- I try and balance this but it's hard-however it’s useful for what’s likely to be needed in terms of points. So for 1st, with the two teams falling over each other on the way to the line it reckons 69 points (nice) will more likely than not be enough (i.e. > 50% chance) to win, with the race almost 50/50. Raith’s game in hand being levelled out by DU’s point advantage and higher Elo rating as well as DU being favourites for the game on Saturday (says the spreadsheet, not me). 73 points would give a 95% chance of lifting the trophy. For the promotion playoffs, a low total of 51 points is the current > 50% chance of being in mark with 54 being more than 90% sure of getting in. A knock-on effect of this is that for safety the greater than 50% chance total is a very high 41 points with 43 being the more than 90% sure of safety total. In the 1000 sims teams finished 9th with 43 points on 44 occasions, finished 9th with 44 points 10 times, with 45 points on 2 occasions and there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the South side of Glasgow if this one-off possibility played out (I don’t keep the scores that lead to this point but would assume very unlikely) The lowest point total that stayed up was 37, on 3 occasions - ICT x 2 and Ayr the lucky teams. %s don't always add to 100 due to rounding but no-one needs them to multiple decimal places. Arbroath stayed up automatically 4 times out of 1000 from here, although they did finish 7th once. So you can post the Dumb and Dumber meme, lads edited for formatting and typos

Listened to the game today while out running. My favourite moment: Pat bonner talking about a Celtic goal, to which Richard Gordon said ‘and it all came from a Celtic goal kick that rangers didn’t deal with’ ”I KNOW THAT RICHARD” boasted Pat, irked by him questioning his extensive knowledge of the game. “yes Pat, but the people listening might not” “oh right, of course, yes”

If my name was Luigi I'd try to avoid falling out with a club who's main weapon is mario kart style posters.

TONIGHT, ON ORC WATCH

I thought worth discussing without the added dimension of an actual person as in the other thread. Get these minutes applause in the bin for me. We halve a half dozen a season at Tannadice now. It's the social media-ification of conducting all your business in public and the expectation that everybidy else should care creeping into real life Fair enough for well known figures at a club that everyone was aware of and fans might want to acknowledge collectively but that's it and preferably before the game.

There’s yer January signing laughing at your tinpot wee outfit. Stay doon

It's only the third tier, and it has been shameful for our dear old sweetheart, one of the pillars of Scottish Football, to be here for so long. We deserved to have been languishing here, and all the slaggings were merited. I must say, the best wishes from opposition fans have left me a bit disarmed. They are all very much appreciated. No big GIRRY from me, just a huge sigh of relief, and a wee bit of a wobbly lip when I consider the season we have pulled off, and the consequences if we had not... This team man, this team. New, stern challenges await us next year, but this is a once a generation season. Filling up here, so for the last time this season... 10th 9th 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st The fucking glorious NAVY BLUE FALKIRK BAIRNS

Whole time I was in the car on the way back from our game they never even read the full scores out, or gave a rundown of even the big games outwith the top tier. Maybe they went through them when we were getting out from our game, but they should give the scores in full at least once a bit later. Did Stenny clinch their first ever title? Did Clyde manage to get off the bottom of League 2? Raith and Dundee Utd both winning at the top of the Championship - feck that, here's Hey Jude. Now, I like Hey Jude. Fine song. Great band, the Beatles. But come on, this is dire programming. It's not even that I want or expect a full-length interview with Rhys McCabe, but let's get some balance here. Every time the Championship is mentioned we get told how great a league it is, but but it's more important that we hear some weather presenter talking about some songs than giving it any actual attention. I've also come to really resent the shallow analysis they give of the games they do cover. Everything is about "character" and "leadership" and "signing quality players", but this menagerie of former professional footballers, managers and people who watch and talk about and write football for a living can't ever bring themselves to talk about tactics. Tactical anaysis is just absolutely nowhere on the radar. If a player isn't having a good season we get pop psychology about him not being happy at the club... but never anything about how the manager is using him, or how he fits/doesn't fit into a system. Analysis of the actual games being played is so, so poor, it's all about the HIGH drama and fecking VAR. Just lazy, lazy programming and lazy, lazy analysis.

When Putin says the West has no democracy, he’s not correcting us. He stating an opinion which is then ridiculed by his audience. The same applies to you. You’ve corrected no-one. You’ve made claims which you refuse to substantiate. You’ve attacked posters, board members, fans and the club. You’ve gone out of your way to be insulting to people who tried to engage with you. You’re free to do all of that, and I’ve no doubt you’ll continue. But when you posted about the U18, U16s and recreational teams you showed a knowledge of Foundation activities which no-one would have without being involved. The details of your claims were spurious because the youth teams were created before the dev team folded and at least one of the rec teams was created by players, not Foundation staff, but you still knew the basics. In the eyes of people who read this page, that knowledge marks you as someone connected to the Foundation. And no amount of denials will change that. It’s ironic that you posted in support of the Foundation. Because all you’ve achieved is to piss people off, at least judging by the reaction to your posts. You’ve stirred up hostility against the very organisation that you’re trying to help. Good job mate.

I really hope that guy and his wee boy finally made it to the game at the third attempt to end up in tears.

Fkn hell. I’ve just braved looking at the table for the first time in a long time, it does not make pretty reading so I have been avoiding it as much as possible but was genuinely amazed at how comfortable you are looking for 4th spot and the play offs. That is a great achievement from Rhys McCabe, I will happily admit at the start of the season I really was not buying it - kind of had a good idea who a lot of your players were and thought you’d be a tidy team but at the back the lack of pace and physicality would maybe kill you a bit. When you rolled up to Gayfield early doors and had Craig Watson right back, ATS and Fordyce centre half and McCabe sitting in front it looked to me like I had thought right. McKenna actually even mentioned it a bit in his post match interview that day, he said that he fancied us to get that kind of result. I kind of in my head thought that things would maybe start to get tougher for you but you’ve went from strength to strength. From watching highlights of games recently I think McCabe has signed so very well with the lad Megwa. He has brought pace down that right hand side and tightened it up a lot. Also think it’s been a good move for him to take himself out the side (might be miles off, maybe he’s injured or something I’ve not fully looked into it but have noticed he’s not played as much) and have more legs in the middle of the park. Guys like Fordyce and Watson really seem to have improved and worked hard to get up to speed. Think all of the above has allowed all the clever wee midfield players to really enjoy their football and play some good stuff. A prosper team unit who all work hard for each other it’s a fans dream. To get into the play offs is a very good achievement especially in a league that’s very very tough week to week (except when Arbroath have been on the card this season unfortunately) and it also gives you a small outside chance of getting into the Premiership. I remember getting myself carried away thinking about how strange it would be to go to and host Rangers, Celtic, Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen on Scottish Premiership match days - I had actually fully resigned myself to bottom place and zero wins however the excitement of it was still tremendous. Start day dreaming over what kind of players you could maybe get to the club etc. Who knows maybe if you sneaked in you could do similar to Livingston or Hamilton, very very similar in regards to the 2 clubs. Always thought that when we were nearly on the way up. Don’t think there’s much a difference in their fanbase and support and ours or indeed yours. You’d also have the benefit of FT. Best of luck for remainder of season. I think pound for pound you have probably done the best out of all 10 teams.

She's utterly obnoxious aside from the whole trans/women's rights stooshie. Before this was ever a feature of her online presence, she used to dick-ride and cheerlead the absolute worst of the Unionist twitterati, end up in constant playground spats with the terminally online, then immediately threaten lawyering up and "do you know how rich I am" with anyone who had the temerity to stand up to her. She also apparently believes that her status as a wealthy individual means that other people should be prevented from walking down the public street she lives on if she happens to disagree with their politics. Thankfully Police Scotland laughed that off. She's spun some utterly bullshit rags-to-riches tale about her being a brassic, on-her arse single mother that had to resort to hanging around in public spaces to avoid freezing to death, which is, to put it mildly, a complete distortion of reality. She also plagiarised several lesser known works and, predictably, threatened to lawyer into oblivion anyone making too much noise about it. She maintains she's perpetually "silenced" and that women are being "erased" by transwomen, yet wrote her most famous works under a deliberately gender-ambiguous name, and writes her crime novels under an unambiguously male pseudonym. She also rants and raves about the policies of the SNP, while still advocating for the Labour Party which supports many of these exact same policies. She is, and always has been, a hypocrite, and a vile bully with a ridiculous persecution/victim complex. The trans thing is just the latest manifestation of that.

I’ve been going since 1978 and have seen some brilliant, brilliant players playing for Falkirk most of who have been called out already. What I witnessed yesterday, was a young lad raised less than a 30 min drive from Falkirk, bringing nearly 6000 people to our feet on 4 occasions whilst being the top league goalscorer in the country in a Falkirk team that’s currently unbeaten in the league all season. Legend ? No Legend ? Say what you want but I fucking love the guy.

Thanks to all those who sponsored me for the Manchester Marathon today - more than £2,000 raised for ACCORD is beyond anything I could have hoped for! 3 hours 25 minutes 19 seconds for those interested. https://www.justgiving.com/page/stuartisturning40

St Mirren have done an end of season remembrance for fans that have passed in the previous 12 months with their names being read out and displayed in the big screen, that should be the best time for this kind of thing.

Christ I’m rough I was emotional last night & still am today tbh. That was a PERFECT day & maybe my best as a Bairn so far. Start to finish with the best people, brilliant journey north on the train, scenes at 4.45 in the Picture House bar when we knew our champions outcome, then out in the high street at the Market Arms…scenes! The game & atmosphere was out of this world and then on the pitch at FT . Can’t beat it. Stirling train station on the way home was class again and to top off the night spending it with fellow Bairns, the players, management & staff was SURREAL in Behind The Wall. Carnage . Falkirk FC….The Navy Blue Army! Oh & the gaffer agreed to come on the podcast again before the end of the season, result To all the Bairns no longer with us, my Dad included, that one is for you legends! Thats us on the way back up Dad

Rovers social media team. Managed to obtain record breaking numbers of total heads gone.