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Not hard to see who the Motherwell da's are. About 2 posts away from demanding Neil Lennons hired so he can "kick fuk out the fairy boys in this squad". Tam Courts took a team to 4th in this division last season and folk are turning their nose up at him because they're projecting that a young coach who talks about stats cant motivate a squad. I'd suggest youd be better with someone like him coming in and showing players how hes identified weaknesses and how he hopes to improve it, than some raging former player calling everyone shite, telling them to play better, and leaving it at that.

Thank you for doing all of Scottish football a favour tonight. Other than the 10 minutes after Darvel scored I thought you were well in control of the game. Henderson was outstanding.

Liam Henderson take a bow. For me, one of the best performances from a midfielder I’ve seen in a Falkirk shirt over 90 minutes. Aggressive, took the hits, won high balls, stuck at it, assists, sublime headed goal. Wow, just wow. Take a fkn bow Hendo. ️ Bring on the Ayr, Hampden awaits.

Will these big company’s never learn from past mistakes ,putting peoples lives at risk .

It’s absolutely wild, but not at all surprising, that the SFA are having this draw on their website instead of as part of the Darvel v Falkirk broadcast on national telly tonight. Dimwits.

Actual footage of Yogi leaving Falkirk Stadium for Easter Road

f**k Darvel, f**k John Gall and f**k the Wish Wullie Wallace and his toe curling speeches about a community none of them are part of. Get them absolutely hounded.

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Liam McLeod is generally the worst commentator the BBC have ever had.

Get to f**k Liam. Never any apologies about "up to our knees in ****** blood" but simpering on about swearing. Erse

Interesting that Sevco get credit for letting Partick score without a challenge. We did that for most of last season and nobody thanked us!

The third tier has proved troublesome but on this evidence Falkirk could do really well in the sixth tier.

Over the draw disappointment. Bring it on…

10-2 Dundee.

There's absolutely no doubt that I have sympathy for Hammell on a number of factors, but unfortunately none of them made his position any more tenable. I can see why he rolled the dice with Moult and Aarons. Moult has proven before that he can be a top player for us at this level when fit. Aarons has played at a high-level for Newcastle before and comes with a pedigree of sorts. The reason we got both of them in was the fact that they were both injured as f**k and had a connection to the club. When you see our January recruitment in forward areas Mandron, Obika, Crankshaw, Danzaki and Aitchison - it's clear to see the alternative to Moult and Aarons was a significant drop off in quality. However, if you take a double risk on injury prone players, you have to carry the can when it doesn't work. As for the settled back four - I think we probably managed to play McGinn - Solholm - Lamie - Penney probably more than we played any back four last season. Maybe it just seems like that. We knew from the moment that Penney signed that his loan was up on 18th January, yet we slept walked in to going back to playing right-backs as left-backs after he went. Now we find ourselves in a scenario where we do have a left-back, but he's not considered good enough to play in front of the right-backs who are doing it badly. I'm not going to sit here and defend the performances of some of them, but to my mind if you are Hammell and you sub a full-back at half time twice in three games, you're as much to blame for putting them out there as they are for performing like that. Show me any player who can perform knowing that one slip means they're hooked at half-time. I know with injuries etc numbers were low as January started, but I still feel we focused wrongly on quantity rather than quality with the players we brought in. I don't want to go all hypocritical as I certainly said my piece about Shields out wide, but am I convinced that Jack Aitchison (another striker playing out wide) will do any better? Am I convinced that Ollie Crankshaw who was struggling for a game in league two will be? It seems to me, particularly in forward areas, we have probably just signed different problems, rather than solutions. I think at least Butcher and Casey have the potential to *do a job* for us. I get that January is a hard market and you can't always do things in the order you please and there's not always the required quality available at your budget, but for me, those two should have come in first, hopefully solidified the spine of the team and then you can add a bit attacking wise from there. For me, McKinstry and Van Veen aren't perfect by any stretch, but they were far down our list of problems. For us to sign so many players in January and start the second game after the Window shuts with those two on the bench is just utterly baffling.

My mate has quit his job at BMW. Of course, he gave no indication he was leaving.

Don't really understand Richard Foster's wee dig saying the players were enjoying it too much at the final whistle. As far as I could see they were just showing appreciation to the fans that had travelled.

At no point there does the Darvel keeper do “incredibly well”.

McGowan desperate to get back to Darvel’s state of the art dressing rooms to charge his phone.

When will commentators fucking understand if Morrison hadn’t made that save in the first half the whole game would have been different and not 2-2 at this point. Mcleod says something similar in every game

Get this c**t and his cringy faux-Braveheart pish pumped

It's only ok to speculate on the motives of people who want to change their gender, not the people who murder them.

Watching Hammell make his' long walk' at Starks Park I couldn't help but give him sympathy. Here was a guy who IMHO had barely got a break during his tenure. Remembering that he hadn't sought the job when giving up his secure post and showed by the victories in Dingwall and Pittodrie that he had a sound football brain, he was to suffer a catalogue of bad luck which I have never known in over 60 years of watching football; * Loss of Carroll very early doors. * Denied services of his marquis signings Louis and Aron's * Inexplicable player failings costing us several points eg Perth Saints in August, Utd at home, Killie away, Rangers at home ( even Hearts at home) * October/ November injuries to the improving Efford, Mugabi and temporary loss of Mc Ginn. * Scandalous deniel of penalties at Hibs , home to Aberdeen and more recently in Paisley. * Of late , the amateurish failings of players at home to Hibs and County . * The unfortunate loss of Blaney and Mandron. * The unforseen implosion of SOD * The denial of a settled back 4. All of the above taken together resulted inevitably in a loss of confidence by the team as witnessed by the horror shows in the last 3 games. Don't get me wrong as I'm not exonerating Hammell for all the team failings- his tactical limitations recently bear this out-but to me he just didn't get a break that could have helped turn the tide. Even on Saturday when we were on top at 1-2 down a deflected clearance by RR hit the crossbar. If that goes in I'm pretty certain that our momentum would have seen us win. But when your luck is out your luck is out. Yup by Saturday there was no way back for Hammell as the rot had truly set in but I do hope those shouting " sacked in the morning" take time to reflect on the many circumstances that contrived to work against him.

That injury is really holding Mahomes back

Accurate representation of watching McShane pick up a wage from us for 18 months.

Red card changed it tho BBC mom Morrison.... Henderson by a fukn mile

Morrison played well but motm should've been Henderson.

The Thread is leaking onto other sites. All hail the power of The Thread!

McFadden really is a complete fanny. How can he know so little about Scottish football fans? "Most people will be tuning in for a Darvel upset". Shut up ya fucking fanny.

The Killie Heisenberg will be spewing with that.

Tam's road to Hampden Vale of Leithen v Dunbar Dunbar v Clach Dunbar v Stirling Uni Albion Rovers v Stirling Uni Dundee Utd v Stirling Uni Dundee Utd v Kilmarnock Inverness CT v Kilmarnock Happy with that draw, I've never been to ICT and avoided the Cheeks

Thought it couldn't have gone much better tbh. Beat this lot then Killie at Hampden.

Gall caught my attention at the end of last season where he made a fool of himself talking about Talbot, then bottled promotion anyway. I do like their manager but the team talk being live on TV is tinpot and cringe - into this shite Falkirk.

Well well well, that was really something on Saturday. Still haven't had a chance to watch more than the highlights and first 20 back a second time but so much to talk about us doing well in that game. Richie Gray was superb again, solid in the main (as was Gilchrist) but a couple of big interventions with a try saving tackle on Cuthbert just before Biggar chucked into touch, and one carry in the build up to one of the tries where he basically dived through to make 3/4 metres. His work at the lineout, after our focus on overthrows last week, was superb. Funny that a functioning lineout makes us look a lot more threatening team as we can get our strike plays off. One of the big keys to our best play under Townsend has always been the lineout, often (as they showed on ScrumV very well last night) using the maul well to tie in the oppo back row - hitting a strike play and then keeping moving forward with a few carries before Finn spots space. Worked brilliantly yesterday and the new attack coaches, Dalziel (whose work I've been pretty unconvinced by previously) and Townsend deserve a lot of credit for getting it right. Equally, Tandy has shown he can build a defence that doesn't rely on having one of the best defensive 13s in the game playing, and our conditioning looks better than it ever has - no sign of being the first team to fatigue in either of our games so far. Tuipulotu and Jones have been excellent so far - both better than they've been in the past defensively and such a threat. Sione at first receiver is a real game changer. Defenders have to set to tackle as otherwise he'll run over the top but he equally has the option of Jones pretty much always picking a superb line or Russell out the back; after last week they have to worry about a kick in behind as well. The time this is giving Russell is a huge help. 3 assists plus the cross kick for Kinghorn's try is an insane output, one of the great Finn performances. Carrying game was interesting, we seem to have accepted that this is just not our game. We don't have the physicality of France or the ability to interplay in the forwards as much as Ireland so outside of the 22 we mainly use it to back up breaks, set for kicking or to get the ball wide in another phase, or to get all our backs on their feet for another strike move. Was delighted for Fagerson to get his try as he is the king of this underappreciated carrying style. So often, most notably after the cross-kick tap down to Ritchie in the first half on Saturday, he is the guy to take on the first carry after a break or when isolated after a cross kick; and he always does what he has to - either staying on his feet long enough for support to arrive or making a few yards and keeping the defence moving backwards. We still have to make improvements to have a chance in Paris, as good as he was some of Finn's kicking or forcing it could see us punished against better teams; and we are giving up a bit of ground too easily in defence at times. We also can't afford to just not play for 20 minutes again. Fortunately we have plenty of build up to the next two though. You don't want to change a winning team too much but can you leave Watson out if he is fit? His ability to impact games will be huge against France and Ireland you'd feel. White looked a bit shaky at times which is a worry, is Price recall or Horne taking the reins maybe? Graham is he's fit is our forrm back this season but Steyn has been excellent so far. Townsend is getting it spot on so far and delighted for him tbh, seems to be finally putting together all those lessons and tweaks he's made over the years. Still think it's taken longer than it should but really chuffed to support this team again, regardless of what happens over the next 4 weeks. Wales were pretty shit with a few good moments. The young back rowers all look pretty handy but I'm not sure the logic of dropping the older forwards, who all seem like level headed, good leaders, and leaving a petulant child like Biggar as one of the key leaders. The way he treated Dyer when Biggar himself was having a shocker was pretty awful. George North is an absolute ghost of himself now as well. Shame to watch almost - he was definitely knocked out as well.

You actually make some good points quite often - but your obsession with one poster is really weird I've no idea how someone you don't even know winds you up so much just by having an opinion and maintaining a positive outlook on things where possible. I disagree with quite a lot the man says, but I don't follow him around an online forum commenting on everything he says..... how does he wind you up so much? Relax, let people have their opinions and give your own. Disagree with people all you want, but maybe be a wee bit less of a p***k about it?

I mean a board meeting after getting binned out the cup and sacking a manager at the weekend is hardly scoop of the century.

9/10 for Monday, 2 guesses right out of 3.

Whether the timing is because we didn't want to rock the boat before the game today, or because we wanted to give McCall a bit of a pre-agreed grand finale as a goodwill gesture, doesn't really matter - the last two league results and performaces, on top of other damaging sequences of results earlier in the season, justify the decision. I didn't come away from the game either thinking that we'd put in a performance that suggested we were ready to turn our season around and grab the league by the bollocks. It was an admirable enough, hard-working effort but it's not unknown for an under-performing squad to raise their game going to Ibrox or Parkhead. I think we're far more likely to plump for Doolan or Graham in the end than appointing an experienced manager, so it makes sense to rule one of them out or in before the end of the season. I don't wish McCall any ill will. He took a big risk leaving Ayr to take over the complete basket case that we were and - as brutal as we were to watch at times in League One - he got us back out of it and stabilised us in the middle of the Championship, so his last three years hasn't been completely without merit given what we could have become after Caldwell.

lol wut

Sean McGinty lifts the Scottish Cup. The skies darken and a huge message stretches across the sky. "Congratulations Scottish Football. You have reached Level 2"

Why the f**k was John Gall on the pitch before the game? Genuinely never seen that from any owner at any other level at any game! that’s team talk from Mick ffs! Couldn’t show any emotion because he was trying to so hard to remember his lines! im happy This fairy tale pish is over, they probably had a budget of a similar level to Falkirk tonight!

This absolutely enrages me. They really do think clubs like Raith genuinely exist to make up the numbers, before scurrying off grateful for any crumbs carelessly dropped by the OF. They've no idea that such clubs have their own ambitions, stories and histories. God I hate our game, its structure and its portrayal sometimes.

You can’t ask for much more than a lower league side to get to a semi final - our best chance in decades.

I guess we’ll find out soon enough just how we compare with Cove and Accies. By this time in 18 days we will have played them both, away from home… not a bad thing. Beat them both and I’ll feel confident we can turn this round; 4 points and it’s still all to play for - anything less and it’s going to be incredibly difficult. Between those games we have Partick at home, not expecting anything there, we haven’t even scored against them this season in 3 attempts and, no doubt they’ll have the new manager bounce by then. Until then it’s all just conjecture… from me too.

Nope. Fucking nope. You can have the house, I'm off.

Even from a recent history standpoint, it's ridiculous. A lower league team won it in 2016, while there'd been quite a few sides from outside the top flight in the final in the decade previously.

Separately; Stephen Craigan is a rat. Yet every time I see him at one of our games, he gets a polite wee clap off the fans - can we stop this please.