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Shout out by the way to Jean Sneddon. Great to see her get a well deserved round of applause at half time. Volunteers like her are the lifeblood of clubs like ours. Bringing in half a million quid in profits over the years. Tip of the hat to you auld Jean.

Well done to Falkirk, Shakey first half hour but then started playing the better football. Your keeper had a brilliant game making some crucial stops and, worthy winners in my opinion. Hope you go on ,and beat Caley and show the pundits and football fraternity that there ARE some good teams in the lower leagues. I have no idea why you play so terribly badly against us..it's most bizarre. Anyway good luck at Hampden and enjoy your day out

This. I wasn't sure if my 8-yo son was getting the 'Falkirk bug' as his support has coincided with our biggest slump in my lifetime. It's been a tough sell some Saturdays and my tales of yesteryear can't do justice to that feeling, whether it's '97, '98 or Hearts at Brockville/Hibs and so on. However, last night with the buzz and noise - and THIS TEAM - I've finally saw it. Amarillo all the way home in the car and he was high-as-a-kite going to bed. Same again this morning watching the highlights and off to school talking non-stop about it For him this is all new and I should try and keep him grounded based on bitter experience but I'm not going to! Nights like last night and days to come are, for me, what it is to be a Falkirk Bairn and nobody can tell me any different

Not at all sure where these we didn’t play that well posts are coming from. We we’re by far the better team for all but around 20 minutes and Ayr’s only threat came from their excellent centre forward. Only one team played good football and they were in the navy blue.

10 for Tuesday. Only three guesses as well. Wow.

10/10 for Tuesday, and a league and cup double. Life is just so good right now

Another one enjoying the scenes

Thoughts with Hugh Keevins right now. GIRUY.

10 for Tuesday. Was in two minds about the island but plumped for the right one.

Hugh Keevins is an utter irrelevance. He exists to cater to your Old Firm fan who never goes to games, knows nothing about fitba, and just wants to be spoon-fed the lines about how massive the Old Firm are. The guy's been watching Scottish football for about 70 years yet knows nothing about it beyond two clubs. He's representative of all that is wrong with our game.

'We need our strongest teams in Europe.' Aye, they've been brilliant, haven't they?

10 for Tuesday.

Either Falkirk or ICT will be no more of a mismatch in the Final than any of the non-OF Premier clubs. We've tried that down the years and with a few exceptions it's been a dismally predictable outcome. As for needing our 'best' clubs in Europe, what a load of pompous shite. Let the Bairns and Caley enjoy their moment and good luck to them.

Well done Falkirk brilliant achievement

Aswell as for myself and everyone else who has suffered the post Houston era, I can't believe how happy I am for my wee lassie who comes to games with me. She's about to find out what football CAN be like, that you don't need to support a bigot twin to have big days out. We've all been lucky enough to have had a no bad amount of cup runs for a Diddy team, but for some like her, just starting her fan journey, this is going to be enormous. This is what gets us hooked. What a fucking moment it will be, supplied by John McGlynn and the most likeable bunch of players in years.

f**k YOU HUGH KEEVINS HAHAHAHA

First post since last night. Loved it last night. Was really proud of the whole team, coaching staff and every single fan. My son was a mascot in 2013 and he was there last night as a 19 year old man. To see and hear the emotion in him at full time was fantastic to see. On the flip side, my 75 year old dad who’s been going since he was a nipper is now wanting to run a mini-bus so the whole family can go to the semi. No way he’d do this if we were playing an arse cheek. Happy for people to contradict me but my opinion is firmly that these occasions are better when you ain’t playing either of the bigots. Nothing to do with the fact that they will likely hammer us but more I can enjoy the day with my dad and my boy and not be on edge about what their scummy fans might say or do. I’m really looking forward to it and genuinely think we have a good chance although I’m sure the ICT fans feel the same. Last night was brilliant - roll on the semi final.

What. A. Night. Fucking love Falkirk Football Club

You got a comprehensive reply because I don't red dot without giving someone the courtesy of an explanation. Even if their view is blinkered and dogmatic. OK, so the first point, Fir Park. Capacity approx 13k, South Stand holds 5k, 4.5k season ticket holders (including free kids), that number drops be 500-1,000 when you and your ugly sister roll into town. The Phil O'Donnell is the main stand and houses hospitality, directors and the old boys who like that vibe, the Cooper (behind the goals) houses our family section and the Hunter (what you can see opposite the telly camera's) is where the majority of our support sit. To accommodate your suggestion/entitlement means moving season ticket holders and a healthy dose of bad blood between the support and club. John Boyle did it and our former CEO now at Aberdeen said it would rightly never been repeated. Not to mention fans returning to their seats to find stickers with Gaelic slogans and AK47's on them, that is if they've not been trashed. Now to throw that back at you, say you and the Hunnorum decide to go back to what you did for up to 15 years ago and give up a fair portion of your Stadium. Would you like to be the one to tell those with season tickets in the Lisbon Lions stand that they're getting punted to accommodate the mob from Govan again? I doubt it, so why ask it of other clubs. Rangers success in the 90's was down to far more astute dealings on the transfer market and better management on and off the pitch. When they were competing against Marseille in the CL, your cash from turnstyles was being taken in biscuit tins. Ironically, that has shifted full circle since. In the 90's they were sustainable, its when they moved into the new millenium that the wheels came off by trying to maintain parity with the English Premiership and look for loopholes to do so. I'm sure Hibs fans will be interested to know what "path" they followed. As one pointed out already, it seems they just didn't win as frequently. I support my team because I grew up in the town. I made a decision upon starting high school that my support was worth more to me and the place I lived than trudging into Glasgow despite family connections. If someone lives in Blantyre I'd be asking why the f**k aren't you giving Accies a second thought, why are the OF the default? For all these fans unwilling to use a ruler, I guess what we know what their motivator is, because it's not a tie to their area, hassle factor of getting to games, travelling time or integrity. Can you explain why no more than 40k show up for midweek games against diddy teams then if there's such a "buzz". And don't go to the official attendance, its well known you publish the season ticket number as your base figure regardless. Bus parking Aberdeen won that Euro trophy 40 years ago, the club has only fleetingly dared to suggest they are as competent since. How about Dundee United, they were also a decent club in the 80's ..... Jesus on a bike. The reason teams alter their tactics is because a 0-9 may have a significant effect on moral and momentum at the time and goal difference at the business end of the season. Again let me throw that back. Imagine you didn't f**k the CL up and were in the mix on the final gameweek at the Bernabeu. Keep the loss at two goals or less and you get the Europa. Would Celtic come out all guns blazing and have a go to get 2nd place? I sincerely doubt it. Stop asking of others what you're not prepared to ask of yourselves.

Just a comment re atmosphere. The place was buzzing last night. Just goes to show what a near full house and winning team can do. . Yep it would be better with the corners filled in and a 4th side….but it’s not as bad as some make out. Roll on Hampden and revenge!

It should be a summer league. Also Scotland should be independent and have the Euro as currency. Also Ibrox and Parkhead should be turned into city zoos. Each and every one of these things would improve Scottish football and Scottish life as a whole.

How I’m choosing to imagine this conversation went:

Was that the plan all along? Produce some idea that is so glaringly horrendous that it would never be accepted, and the LL clubs continue bending over as they are doing at the moment as it is "better"?

And here, basically, is the issue. Sounding like yer absolute da here, but the game is no longer a sport, it is a business. And the absolutely vile obsession with money (see transfer deadline day, obsession with high-earning players, results from European games being reported in terms of their financial reward) in the game today, you're never going to get most fans of any club to see why they should forego a financial advantage for the good of the sport. I had a pint with a Celtic-supporting mate of mine recently (before we played them at Parkhead) and this came up. He was adamant that Celtic shouldn't have to give up any of their cash to the other teams in the league. Fair enough, but he also complained that most games he goes to on his season ticket are dull. The idea that his experience of watching football might be improved if other teams turned up at Celtic Park with a chance of winning, and if a home game against, say, Dundee United was a genuine big game didn't really register. We were off to watch a game that night where the side third in the league were 12/1 to win (and I believe drifted even further out once the team was announced), but this guy, an intelligent man, didn't see that it might be better for his experience if his club sought competition rather than blanket dominance. It won't happen, but I think you'd make a huge difference while running a pretty fair ship by saying clubs can keep 50% of their European money, while the other half goes between the other clubs in their league system. Successful clubs would still get a huge leg-up, but other clubs would have a swing at competing. But what's good for the sport simply doesn't matter to most fitba fans, and it matters not a jot to the people running clubs. Everyone is just pure self-interest. Your club, my club, all clubs. And as a result, the baw is burst.

I'm sure the Pars fans are secretly gutted that we've got a welcome distraction so soon after a bad loss, but we have, and this is all just a bit needy i'm afraid.

Well done Falkirk as you were the only team playing football last night. As others have said Ayr were a one man team whereas Falkirk passed and attacked. I did think Ayr had escaped with that penalty but clapped at both the miss and Falkirk's deflected winner.

We can all stand down, everyone. Johnny has come along and helpfully solved the problem for us. Apparently right, all we need to do to close the gap is sign Aaron Mooy when he's a free agent. Don't sweat the small stuff about things like wages and whether his career ambitions align with playing for Ross County. You see? He's a free agent, that means that any club in Scotland could have signed him. Well done to Celtic for being sooooooo clever and realising that when the rest of us didn't. You really do deserve all of those trophies for having the smarts that our silly little clubs just can't possess.

Plus if you replace the OF B-teams with say Linlithgow Rose & Auchinleck Talbot, I can bet attendances would go up instead of down as both are well-supported clubs.

Stopped reading after this complete slavers. They were route 1 hoofball on the rare occasions we granted them a kick.

Does pie and bovril need to have a campaign to free the Hoose Rice?

A phenomenal night and well, I can only feel good things happening now. For a few years we had players, and now - we have a team! My own thanks to all those fans from our rivals and other teams who have been very sporting, wishing us well. It's much appreciated.

To be honest, I don't have much problem with what that teaching student allegedly said. It maybe wasn't the wisest forum in which to express the view, but I'm ok with the sentiment. I certainly don't regard the job as a vocation. That damaging outlook opens the door for exploitation. It's a job I do for money and when enough of it is lined up, I'll stop. That doesn't mean I don't try to do it well, or don't care about it, or regard it as not mattering. It's paid employment though. Saying so is not disgraceful.

Love to see it!!! Screen_Recording_20230313_224900_Instagram.mp4

Harry

If we hadn’t been shite against Raith Rovers, and had then beat Rangers in the quarters and then Celtic in the semis, we’d have got a lower league team in the final. Missed opportunity.

Pumped by the better team. Best of luck in the semi-final.

How the Fck did a decent few pages/posts descend into a tit for tat over stadia. Tbt both stadiums can have great atmospheres at certain games. Can we end the shite please

I agree Tynecastle would probably be a better venue from a fans/atmosphere perspective, but I don’t think you would get many of the players agreeing. For some this will probably represent their only chance ever to play at the national stadium.

The lads not impressed with being out in the rain.

A few improvements at Meadow Park since the new year including Extra shelter and a camera tower at the Old Caley rd side. Refurbished social club under the stand. Expanded and refurbished toilets

Much has been made of us deserving to be where we are and it’s true - we’re in the third tier because we were run like a basket case for a number of years. But the fans have stuck by the club remarkably over that time and really deserved a night like that. We’re on the up again. I love this club.

An actual fucking supporters club called Leith Celtic btw. Frankly, I simply pity them. They are life's losers, without the moral fibre or character to support an actual football team. Clearly they are lacking the emotional maturity to follow a club who actually might lose a domestic game more than once or twice a year. So off they go to Glasgow, in search of something "more". The vicarious feeling of superiority and dominance that they don't get in their miserable lives away from football. That special feeling of being accepted in a cult of fellow weirdos, oddballs and divorcees. I look forward to their early exit from Europe - and the subsequent gnashing of teeth and wailing - more and more every year. F**k them.

Some Motherwell FC items relating to their 1931 tour of South Africa. Look at the mileage covered during the tour and no plane journey, different times. They toured again in 1934.

Fantastic result for you guys last night, and I bet a much welcome boost to your finances even more so if you can somehow make it to the final

Likewise, I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to take my son to Hampden for the semi. He has only started coming to games this season and has only seen us lose twice. Sadly we couldn't be there last night due to illness but he would have loved the display before the game and the celebrations afterwards. My nephew has said he'd like to go to Hampden as well so if that stops him supporting either of the arsecheeks (he has said previously he wants to go to Ibrox) then that last night will hopefully go some way. I'm also happy for my cousin who celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday. He has been taking his youngest daughter to games since the Hartley era, all she has known is misery, I hope that victory shows that it's possible to have highs while being a provincial club.

McAlear has shown in flashes what he can do, and was good in the first thirty minutes. No one would want to play central midfield in our side - it must be horrific. Outnumbered and fired over your head every single game. ETA, it’s not often football truly affects me - usually stop caring very quickly. The Alloa game under McCall when Moore missed the penalty left me absolutely gutted for days. The anger is dissipating now, and I’m just absolutely gutted at the chance we have just blown.

Hilly will be smiling in heaven

Brad McKay was absolutely outstanding tonight. There I said it..