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It won't be a rapist, we can be certain of that.

Well today is my second birthday after receiving my stem cells back this afternoon! Now time for them to graft back into the bone marrow. Quite emotional watching them dance up the tube back into my blood stream. Hope this spells the start of a long remission period for me

Pretty gutted to see Falkirk probably fall in to league 1. I usually hate the narrative of continually piling in to boards and managers and acting as if you could do a better job but this is one of those rare exceptions. The mismanagement from board level and Hartley in particular as a manager seems bafflingly poor. To the extent you genuinely could imagine you and your mates handling it all better. The “strategy” has just been so poorly thought out. Disband the academy which was giving you a good chance of promotion and then spunk money on signing more players than any other team in the country. Possibly I just don’t understand the economics very well but surely their wage bill must be through the roof right now. After watching you beat Ayr a few weeks ago I was actually convinced you’d end up alright. Life goes on and I’m sure you will bounce back ASAP but I can imagine you guys who dedicate so much time/resource following the club for them to just seem so directionless or misdirected must make you want to hit your head against a wall. It’s probably been covered earlier in the thread but if anyone has the figures for how much savings closing the academy has brought about I’d be appreciative as I’m curious.

Hereditary disease, I heard. Looking back, it's so bizarre, it runs in the family.

My take on the Academy closing hasn't changed, in that the majority of people complaining about its closure are parents who can't tell their mates their laddie plays for Falkirk any more.

You're hard work, man. We may as well- isn't that the point of the evening sport? I agree, their timescale is about as secure as a Thistle whatsapp chat- they (Cowden) have made a fairly decent effort at pre-management but it's virtually impossible to predict what will happen. Their focus however on us winning the league or not, is misplaced- i believe win, lose or draw, and with or without a trophy at 5.30pm, our players and fans will be united in a show of strength and and appreciation for the season at FT which might be a lot fucking harder to shift than first thought. Even if Peterhead storm into an unassailable lead declaring the winner very early, quite honestly i don't think we'll give a f**k by full-time. On the other hand- a late goal could change everything, and you don't give a quick applause then bugger off away for a team who's taken your season to that stage. We'll be in there for the players, like they have been out there for us. Absolutely ZERO chance of a quiet shuffle out. None at all.

This Edgelord patter is awful no matter what side of the debate you're on.

Shots fired.

Greg Stewart would've been on that list if McInnes hadn't insisted on signing him and taking a sledgehammer to his confidence and footballing ability once again.

5 guesses (at least) but X/X for Wednesday

Rubbish Anfield Bottlers Beaten. Never Even Scored. Barcelona Imperious Tonight.

The nesbit will be furious, watching his BT Sport, contemplating how many smileys he'll need to use to show that he's definitely not at all bothered.

To label the academy a partial failure because we have not sold a player for between £3 and 6m plus add-ons is absolute nonsense. On what possible basis did FFC or anyone associated with it expect to ever be in a position to sell a player for that amount? Where, and by whom, was this figure quoted? All of the players you have mentioned were deals done literally decades ago, they have absolutely no relevance to the academy structure you are talking about. The general "gold standard" sale for a club of our stature would be someone like James McCarthy. He went to Wigan Athletic for a reported up-front fee of about £1.2m and Hamilton then benefited from a significant sell-on clause when he joined Everton. Name the last player Partick, Killie, St Johnstone, Motherwell sold for "multi-millions"? Over the past decade we've raked in a significant seven figure sum in transfer fees and sell-on clauses which should have given us a solid platform on which to build and preogress. Instead, we'll be a third tier club this time next week. It's certainly a hell of a failure on the part of many. Not the academy though.

Club to reduce admission prices for home tie against Inverness, £12 for adults and £6 for concessions, under 12's will go free.

Anyone claiming that Greenock isnt a "hell hole" is trying way too hard.

There’s yer tea ya scouse c***s.

Not great to follow bad news but me and my fiancee have finally got ourselves a dog, had been holding off but weve now settled into our house and have a plan for it during the day when we're at work... 6 month old rough haired sausage dog, which is crossed with something else but the charity arent sure what. Collect him at the end of the month, but cant a name to agree on. A Spanish rescue dog.

In fairness, we all went along to watch them get relegated.

...of the year when your team last won the league (okay I'm bored!). Celtic Rangers Aberdeen Dundee United Kilmarnock Dundee Hearts Hibs Motherwell Third Lanark Dumbarton

a third tier scottish club can't have a 60/70k a year CEO in place, surely tae f**k he will be away in the next couple of weeks

Nice cover for the programme,

Adam Hammill deciding to have a goal of the season competition with himself

Gutted at a Clyde fan piping up. Struggling to think of anything embarrassing that can be attributed to his club this season

3 points to Albion Rovers.

We need to keep it up and leak the contents of the envelopes as well. Miles Storey will have written his team in a straight line down the edge but run out of space after 9 players.

Onana

If Messi done that we’d be talking about it for weeks...

Another outstanding performance from Kilsyth tonight, after defeating Glencairn and then another great display against promotion chasing Rossvale, although they didn't look like it tonight, all they really did was moan and greet like f**k at every little thing, how the number 8 got away without a booking was astonishing to say the least, worse than a wummin honestly, if they had concentrated on the game a bit more they may have got on better, didn't really trouble us tbh, I just wish we could take that form away from home, but God knows why that is

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A player celebrating against his old club

Nah sorry, but that's a load of shite.

yeah.. Steven Gerard Neil Lennon Brendan Rodgers Gary McAllister

I would certainly be looking at there being significant regime change before I renew our season tickets.

Having deliberated, cogitated & digested the thought process of whether I should make the long arduous journey up for this game. The only conclusive answer I've come up with is......oh yes!!

AnoTher great view...

It's nice to see a mention of a couple of clubs that are no longer with us - nostalgic.

Twice.

Great move, would hope this will help boost the crowd given the size of the occasion.

Why are so many Scottish clubs determined to make it as difficult and inconvenient as possible for fans to attend matches? This is exactly the type of fixture that the casual fan would be interested in.

Of course we're angry you idiot. Some of us care more about our clubs/the football than scoring imaginary points through tired tropes on a daft forum.

Way, way back (maybe 2004 or 05 when I first saw them play) they used Glasgow Green, then started using New Petershill once it opened- that was the period I was talking about - but they then went to Airdrie for maybe five or six years before moving back to Peasy a couple of years ago. The move to Airdrie, which I understand was something to do with UEFA licensing definitely affected their crowds - I can remember going over to what I thought would be an attractive pre-season friendly against Chelsea and there were maybe 70 people there. And that's not denigrating women's sport; it's just acknowledging there currently exists a problem with getting paying customers through the door that flooding Hampden with freebies for a one-off game won't be a quick fix for. If it was, the Scottish Claymores would still be on the go and Junior terraces would be full of kids every weekend after free tickets were dished out to schools.

Post-everton Moyes has become very skilled in sniffing out an ill-advised reputation denting career move, so the scotland jobby is clearly the obvious choice for him next.

Milan legend. Mark. Hately. Honda is going to happen, you just need to get used to it.

Totally unfair ask from the management. Who these days has a stock of blank envelopes in the house? Back out to the 24hr Asda lads.

Those videos are fucking brutal, imagine going to visit Barcelona and being subjected to pissed up English/scouse football supporters acting like that? Imagine finding that sort of thing funny?

it should happen post match, we need to be behind the team pre and during the match to try and get them playing and try and lift the team

Don't mention that season! You'll just attract Vik... Never mind.

According to Ray McKinnon: if you'd asked the NK, back in Season 2, he'd be happy to get so close to Bran with only 3 episodes remaining.

Good statement at a good time IMO. Allaying fans fears of them pulling the plug due to rumours, updating on the stadium - as they don't have to do it every 5 minutes ffs - and saying in not so many words that McIntyre is getting the bullet. WTF do fans want? They moan about lack of communication from the board, then get a lengthy statement and complain about it. What did people actually want to read that would've made them happy? It's easy to stick the boot in but credit where it's due IMO.