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I was glad it went the way it did. I was there and they didn't get an easy ride. The majority of the question were well thought out, researched and exposed them for what they are. If we had walked out or shouted, swore etc they would have used that against us. In the past when we have protested and directors cars have been damaged it has shown us up in a bad light. I think we are going about things in the right way and it is them who have came out of this badly.

This is currently the thread to watch for Heads Gone moments but I wasn't expecting to log on today and view the cranial detachment of a St Johnstone fan. Bizarre.

Keep reading this as "Alec Baldwin Finally Shoots Someone on Set" as if he's been threatening to do it for years.

Nah, minds gone blank

Hullo! This week's show sees the team delve into yet another jam-packed week of Scottish football action. Watch the show at 10:30pm on the BBC Scotland Channel, catch-up later on BBC iPlayer and feel free to tell us what you think here. Tonight’s show looks a bit like this - The Hill I'm Dying On There's a whole host of unpopular opinions in the Scottish game. The team share theirs, covering everything from Dave Cormack, and that interview to St Mirren and the quest to be a top six big-hitter. Chairman of the Board Our host Craig G Telfer is trying to seek out the next Lyndon Dykes so he can make some cash for his team. We're looking for the next big thing. Social Media Search History It’s time to get mucky and go rooting about in the search history of Scottish football. Half and Half Scarves What would make Scottish football a better game both on and off the pitch?ANYTHING from the world of sports entertainment. A Great Big Weekend It's shaping up to be another blockbuster weekend but which players managers and teams will be waking up with cheesers after this weekend? The Banker Shaughan, Joel and Rob take on Craig G Telfer as they try to predict their way to victory and the Eamonn Brophy Lone Wolf Trophy. In our 'Wee Films', we pay a visit to Gala Fairydean Rovers to have a look at their iconic ground, we showcase the wonderful game of Subbuteto and have a look back at a famous cup tie between Albion Rovers and Motherwell. So, what did you make of ‘that interview’? What would you bring to Scottish football from the world of sports entertainment and who are your bankers for this weekend? We look forward to seeing you later and on here for a blether.

I think I can help here. You're talking to a St Johnstone fan. They may well be the very model of a well-run provincial Scottish football club, and have been for many years, but the concept of something selling out isn't a thing they have to worry about very often.

I feel I may be on the cusp of the angry mob that you refer to. I very rarely post on here, I go every week home and way have done for years but tend to give my abuse on match days only having a fleeting glance on here and a cursory one of the boardroom handling. I never really felt like these board meetings changed anything. It felt like it was all just a bit of virtue signalling. Hence my reluctance to attend this or any event my club holds other than that at 3pm on a Saturday. Having now watched, what can only be described as a car crash I now feel almost fucking 'woke' at the shambles running our club. From the utterly cringe-worthy introductions, to baseless accusations of fans threatening behaviour and the utter contempt to a fan who delivered a concise, articulate and factual question/'statement' that even the Yanks wife looked impressed with. To ask fans to rally behind a team and stop booing them is one thing if its worthy. But the bar is now set so low its on the floor for Falkirk. A 3-0 home defeat against Airdrie, with one shot on target (a shit one at that). A manager who has lost his best attacking option and now reeks of desperation by playing a conservative, possession based style as he has no faith in his front line in League 1 despite having the biggest budget against part time players. Celebrating a 2-2 draw against Montrose when we are 'challenging' for the title. At what point do you turn around and go NO. Enough is enough. I get they had to save face the other night, but at what point do they evaluate their performance, be it management, players or board members and start to feel ashamed at their performance. So if the plan of this meeting was to unite us again its worked. I've seen a likeable side to Sheerin, he looks like he's really trying but just not fit for it. I will no longer direct my entire abuse to him on match-days. It'll be entirely focused at Deans a Co from now on. This whole shambles now has shone a spotlight on them for a guy like me who was almost ignorant and only interested in seeing his team on a Saturday.

Aye, too busy to attend a sold out event right enough.

f**k off

Turns out the woman who drove her car towards onto the protestors has a "Live Love Laugh" tattoo, the jury will have no difficulty passing down the harshest possible sentence I suspect.

Well done to the young lads, and especially Mitchell, on their big win today.

How do you do fellow VLs

I think the one thing Hearts and Dundee fans can unanimously agree on is that St Johnstone fans are fucking strange.

Alec Partridge? Eta: can't stop thinking 'awick' though.

Hahaha what would you have us do? Sounds like you wanted us to physically attack them, mutant FWIW the attendees done a perfect job, outing the board for the shower of arrogant charlatans whilst disproving their claims we are some uncivilized brutes

bit of a niche one this but I'll crack on.... Out last night with the Missus, we met a guy we hadn't seen for years with his new girlfriend. The guys a bit of a dick, especially when drunk and introduced us both to his new girlfriend by her name but adding in "shes the daughter of Keith West don't you know!". Keith West was the singer in Uk 60s Psychedelic band Tomorrow, who also had a solo record single reach No.2 in the UK charts in 1967 (pop pickers). Means f-all to most, but being a fan of 60s music obsessive i was faintly impressed. On the way home I said to the wife "thats mad, that lassie is the daughter of Keith West" To which the wife replies in all seriousness (and I'm sure you are ahead of me here) "not sure I'd be boasting about that with all the murders he did"

This got some love on Twitter so thought I would post it here as well, some thoughts from myself about supporting Queens in Australia. Shameless plug Love this club. https://medium.com/@ThisIsDoogie/life-of-an-adopted-doonhamer-d7e3da35c4cf

Yes. I get that football is different from other industries, but slagging off ex-employees is poor patter. Plus, there are a good number of those ex-players who aren't bad folk, who came in and tried their best and just weren't up to the standard. There's no shame in that and that's not on them.

I wonder if this propensity for Holt and the Board to stick the boot into and slag off current and ex-players is the real reason behind players not coming to Falkirk. That kind of bitchiness creates a really nasty atmosphere in the workplace and players talk. Would maybe go some way to explaining the complete collapse in form after Holt arrived and why getting 2 points was an impossible task for him.

Friday 10. Best scoring week ever for me (at least since it became the no-Aussie quiz)

This isn't going to go down well at the Film Actors Guild.

These Simpsons posts are pish btw.

This isn't a pyramid scheme, it's actually a trapezoid:

Ahoy chaps. Apologies for the outage today, we had some database issues. Glad you're all enjoying the quiz. Scottish Football theme for Monday?

Not sure I've seen this talked about yet. Interesting comments from Nesbitt - he sounds far closer to captain material than Hetherington (or anyone else for that matter). https://www.nottheoldfirm.com/interview/falkirk-star-desperate-to-turn-things-around-after-hostile-atmosphere/

I think i'll be raising that question at the AGM this year. Surely at least the shareholders should be made aware of how Gow was forced on to the board when he wasn't wanted. This won't go into details is not on.

It’s an interesting one. He absolutely was a disgrace, but to call what he said a “statement” is wrong. He quite obviously had something prepared, but it looked to me as if he was expecting a positive response from what he was saying and, when no applause was forthcoming, he dug himself in deeper with more and more word vomit to the point that he started getting heckled. And at that point, the crowd are away. They’re gone, and not going to come back to your way of thinking. I’ve been at a few of these affairs as a Livi supporter. A couple when things were looking rosey, and a couple when we were at deaths door. I don’t remember at any point, at any of them, our fans being called out in quite the manner that Colburn did, or our fans being belittled quite as much as Gary Deans did. Arrogance of the highest order, from two guys who it would appear to me quite frankly are cancerous in your club.

The only thing that can stop a bad actor with a prop gun, is a good actor with a prop gun.

As loathe as I am to wade into this interminably boring argument, if there were an easy solution that would allow Dunfermline to sell many more tickets and make many more pounds, do you not think they'd have implemented it months ago?

Just add them at Clyde.

Got lucky yesterday evening when I was walking home and spotted a wild otter having a great time swimming around a pond beside the path. Despite their rep' for being extremely shy, this particular one clearly clocked me and yet still continued to swim around for at least 20 mins before I decided to finally get home for my tea (especially as the otter resurfaced munching on something at one point). Not the best of the videos I got below, but the only one of suitable size for upload: PXL_20211021_164841374.LS.mp4

¿Més que un fanfan?

Albert Kidd...

Guesses on the pm and actor come good for a triumphant TEN to finish the week .

Successfully guessed the artist for a Super Sexy TEN to finish the week.

NSFW forum for this stunner.

Yeah, you get to stick an extra “n” and a “y” on the end.

I once attended a wedding where the best man started his speech by referencing the groom’s previous engagements (which his new wife’s family were mostly unaware of) and followed it up by raising a toast to the cleavage of a lady sitting at one of the nearby tables. As amusing as I found it, never again did I think I would witness someone lose a room so quickly. But then I watched the Falkirk board’s Q&A session with supporters. Step forward, Falkirk chairman Gary Deans. Now, if I was the chairman of a full-time League One club with 3500-plus punters regularly turning up, but sitting fifth in said division despite having the biggest budget in the league, my default position when facing those fans may be one of humility. Not Mr Deans. Having asked attendees to be respectful and polite at the beginning of the meeting, he failed to show those fans the same consideration. His patronising response to a brilliantly researched opening question was jaw-dropping, and I encourage you to go on to the Falkirk TV YouTube page to view it if you haven’t already done so. The fan came prepared, alright. He cited previous win rates of clubs who have – unlike Falkirk - managed to win League One. He compared it to their current win rate, and overall win rate since Deans was appointed chairman in December 2019, which has them on course to fall well short of what must be their minimum ambition. He pointed out that in the 58 games since, they have had four different managers. His critique of the recruitment process led by Sporting Director Gary Holt was fair and balanced, with 29 (mostly sub-standard) players brought in during Deans’ short reign. He ended by posing the question of when will it get to the stage where someone – i.e. Deans – holds their hands up to their failings and steps down if they cannot reverse the decline. Rapturous applause then gave way to the faint rustle of tumbleweeds as Deans delivered his response. “That was a statement, not a question.” It was at this point I realised I may need a surgical procedure to uncurl my toes. Had I been a Falkirk supporter watching on from home, I would have been out a couple of hundred quid for a new laptop as well. At least the best man had the excuse of being about eight pints deep. Adopting a defensive, condescending tone towards supporters never ends well, far less criticising them. And in fairness to Deans, it was fellow board member Gordon Colborn who took it upon himself to take that bold step and point the finger at the paying punters. Colborn referenced an atmosphere of negativity from the stands inhibiting players, saying that the Falkirk lads were scared to try things on the pitch lest they be booed. Whatever seed of a decent point he had about abuse of players, staff or board members crossing the line was lost the minute he made the pitch that a supporter’s role was to support the team. The clue is in the name, of course, but the role of the fan is not simply to roll up, empty your pockets and back the club blindly. The argument also fails to explain how Falkirk came to implode last season from a position of strength to somehow finishing fifth when there were no supporters in the stadium at all. What made Colborn’s statement all the more staggering is that he is a lifelong fan himself. Was it beyond even him to read the room or feel the pulse of the fanbase? If only there was some sort of PR guru on the board to avoid such a car crash scenario. Oh, hold on. Board member Colin McFarlane has his day job described on the Falkirk website thusly: “He spends his days advising clients ranging from national retailers, member associations and charities how to engage with the media, government and their stakeholders.” They probably should have run some of this stuff by him. Still, it went on. According to Deans, another major reason that Falkirk were struggling was because the teams they were facing were full of players deemed not good enough for Falkirk who had been released by the club. Therefore, goes his argument, they were raising their game against them, and thus proving too strong for, erm, Falkirk. He admits, shockingly, that he ‘hasn’t done the scientific analysis’ on that one. Perhaps he can explain why Airdrie – with nary a former Falkirk player among their number – spanked them by three goals to nil at the weekend. This was all in the opening 20 minutes or so. There were other alarming moments later on, such as unseemly criticism of named former players by board members and manager Paul Sheerin – decent chap as he seems to be – admitting that he didn’t really know how he could turn things around. Let’s be fair. Deans and co didn’t have to front up like this. Their points on improving the infrastructure of the club and needing some more time for it to bear fruit are reasonable enough. Later on, there was decent input from investor and shareholder Phil Rawlins on the club’s long-term future, and it is here that Falkirk fans may be able to see a sliver of light. If anything, the one good thing that may come from the disdain shown to the supporters by some members of their board here is that it may unite the fans in a common cause, and that cause should be to move towards greater fan influence or even fan ownership. It is a model that is working well at clubs with similar fanbases, like Motherwell and St Mirren. Falkirk fans have however found the quest for representation on the board a difficult one to navigate. A six-week negotiation between the club and fan group Navy Blue took place earlier this year with a view to two supporters being appointed to the board in return for a six-figure investment, but those talks collapsed with the existing board citing ‘a set of pre-conditions that the board simply can't deliver on’. Navy Blue, for their part, blamed ‘the reluctance of the board to put the club before personal ambition and status; countenance, or compromise on any vision different from their own; recognise the jeopardy such an approach places the club under going forward.’ This Falkirk board has to realise, and quickly, that you can't win a war against the fans. Stop pointing the finger at them and start placing them at the heart of everything you do. It is the only way for a community club – as they have proclaimed themselves to be – to thrive.

It’s always great when posters come along who just don’t “get” Pie and Bovril. @Kyle Reese

Just got out the van near directly in the path of Sean Dillon out on a jog with what I presume was his young lad. Stepped out of his way and got a "Tank you" and then heard him say "Tank da nice man" and then his son thanked me, too. Manners cost nothing and my love for the delightful United hero grows. Thank you.

This. The way that the fans reacted on the night, vocal but respectful, also shot down Colborn's claim that Falkirk fans are overly aggressive and verbal at the games, chasing away other fans. Nah, the fans at the Q & A were like Goldilock's bed, not too hard, not too soft, just right.

10 for Thursday, 9 for Friday

Having seen a pattern emerging, especially on Thursday nights, the first letter in each of the words on my above post correctly forecasted the return of the mother of all nationalists

10 for Friday.

.........and he's already a contender for "the most tedious poster on the forum award 2021/22" which is some going tbqhwy.

Played Carnoustie Championship with wee brother, old boy and his mate today. So, so good. Course is absolutely immaculate , was sensational when we played it in July the week before the women’s open, but was in just as good condition today. Loved every second of it both times, helped that i played well both times too, 34 points last time, and 38 today. Put a general score in as well, so should see a wee handicap cut. Will need to save up the beer tokens and see if I can play it again next year

"Nobody steals a wage from Falkirk except me... and maybe the boy!"