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16 hours ago, Kircer bairn said:
So Toddy are you planning to head up the road on Saturday?
What’s it to you?
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4 hours ago, WattersIsGod said:
don't think there's any official confirmation yet but that's the pattern the last few seasons and can't see it changing. i'd been kind of hoping i didn't need to be interested but it doesn't appear to be working out that way.
True, but I got that info from Struthers a few weeks ago so I expect he’ll be ITK.
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6 hours ago, accies1874 said:
Have the play-off dates been announced yet? Had a quick Google but nothing's coming up for our division.
Sure they are Tue/Wed & Sat then Wed & Sat the weeks immediately following the final game.
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3 hours ago, Hisingdoon said:
It won’t sadly, even if we go invincible the manager of the season award will go to clement or Rodgers (whichever one wins the premiership) because they manage the old firm and they won the “best league in Scotland”
If anyone is going to win it, it should be Robinson, Docherty, mcinness, McCabe, mcglynn or naysmith (stenhousemuirs version) neither one of the old firm bosses should win it imo
Billy Reid won it when we won the First Division so I wouldn't say Rodgers or Clement are a shoe in for it.
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3 minutes ago, Groundhopping Adventures said:
What a season for Leverkusen. One day the uglies will have a shite season and someone will have the consistency to win the Premiership.
Bayern haven't had a bad season, though. That's what makes this achievement even more incredible.
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2 hours ago, Springfield said:
Apart from a couple of decent chances, if I was an Accies fan, I’d be gravely worried about the players attitude, application and general malaise. It was an absolute canter and we’ve had teams like Annan and Edinburgh giving a far more dig. Play offs are cup finals - play like yesterday and you’ve absolutely no chance of getting up.
You'd think those that watch Accies every week would have been highlighting how poor the manager is at managing and motivating our team...
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11 minutes ago, kiddy said:
That was hand ball. Got away with it.
Doesn't quite make up for the shiter you got last time at NDP but does, I suppose, support the theory that decisions even themselves out over the season.
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I remember thinking about this last time we played this fixture, but why are Falkirk in their change kit?
It's more of a clash than wearing navy blue.
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Just now, Rizzo said:
What is the mascot? A hamster?
Yes
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4 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
I'd imagine promotion was his number 1 target!
Number of points very much a minor consideration.
Winning the league was the target tbh, and matching Dunfermline's total from last season was chosen as a (realistic tbh) total that would achieve that.
He's managed neither.
The club were very quick to use the points total as his KPI in defence of him when he was still on track to hit that but probably not win the league.
Promotion is not a word that has ever been used this season as a target or aim. Because it is the absolute minimum expectation from the backing and investment he's received.
Not getting promoted would represent complete failure not just a missed target.
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Just now, Ranaldo Bairn said:
If you finish second on 75 points or whatever and go up via the playoffs he will have succeeded.
If we finish on 75 points he'll still have missed his target, though. Which is a fact.
I'd still punt him if we go up.
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4 hours ago, Balde Bairn said:
You could still get promoted so he certainly hasn’t failed. This is beyond self entitled. Falkirk is the second best team to play in this division but you expect Rankin to surpass what Sevco did in the league. It’s just ludicrous.
His target was to amass 80 points - that's on the record from fans forums. He cannot achieve this ergo he has failed to achieve his target for a second consecutive season.
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12 hours ago, FFC 1876 said:
Having watched a fair bit of the championship Friday night games I think we'll be just fine next season.
I agree tbh. The bottom half of the Championship isn't too different to the top of League One. We should have beaten Airdrie last season and we were utter dross, but it's no surprise to see both Airdrie and Dunfermline in the playoff hunt.
You'll be there too, and I reckon we could be there or there abouts if we get the chance.
Looking at the teams for next season's Championship I think it will be very open, evenly matched, and won by a relatively low points total. A great opportunity for many clubs, the like of which it hasn't been for some time.
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3 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
I’ve no idea why Hamilton fans are so desperate to convince themselves this Hamilton squad was ever going to be good enough to finish above a Falkirk side on such an extraordinary run of form.
I think the majority are comfortable that it's not possible to finish above a side that drop 12 points in 36 games.
However you don't watch us every week. The football is pish, there is no clear identity or style of play, we sit in and try to protect 1 goal leads at home to teams like Edinburgh City rather than trying to kill games off, he still doesn't know his best XI, and he continues to make baffling substitutions that actively weaken us.
If we were second but playing decent football going into the playoffs then fine. But we've not been at that level since before Christmas.
Our players literally turn up to training, eat beans on toast, doss about for a bit, have a starbucks, and then watch Netflix. Yet we're still second. That's not because of Rankin.
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15 minutes ago, Balde Bairn said:
It’s a matter of fact that he has.
It's a matter of fact he has not. At its most basic level he was set a target for this season and cannot achieve it.
Two seasons in charge, zero out of two targets achieved.
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6 hours ago, LatapyBairn. said:
IMO there is as much chance of winning the lottery as there is of that Hamilton squad being able to finish above this Falkirk side regardless of who the manager is. Managing a smaller club and gaining 2nd place behind a bigger club but still with a healthy points total is no disgrace for Rankin, only 2 players or maybe 3 at a push from Hamilton would be considered starters in the current Falkirk squad.
Given we were level on points after the First Quarter I don't actually think there is a gulf in quality between the two sides. We'll never know, obviously, but had you'd lost up in Cove I don't think we'd be sitting here in April with you lot miles clear and with that as your only loss.
You've built on the confidence and belief that you can grind something out every week, and not having been beaten will be on your opposition's minds as well.
You'll do well next season, but if we do go up, a decent manager would have our current squad sniffing around the playoff spots too.
I dunno why Falkirk fans are so desperate for it to be true that Rankin has done a good job.
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53 minutes ago, Ian Mcleod said:
It does worry me a bit with that the money McGowan will get from this that he's going to go and try to destroy another club wouldn't wish it on anyone and hopefully he's nowhere near another football club.
Unless it's Clyde.
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1 hour ago, AndrewFFC said:
You have more points than Stenhousemuir who are confirmed champions and until a few hours ago had more than Dundee United too. We're just that good
We're in different divisions, so this is just a nonsense comparison.
I'm being very careful not to come across as diminishing the magnitude of going unbeaten in any division, because i'm not - that is, quite simply, a remarkable achievement, but a full-time team in League One amassing a large number of points just isn't that great of an achievement.
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3 hours ago, LatapyBairn. said:
Would you have finished any higher than 2nd place this season with any other manager ?
I'm not entirely sure what difference that makes to my point tbh - John Rankin is not a good manager and we are where we are in spite of him, not because of him. It's really not an achievement to be so far ahead of 3rd place given the money we have shovelled into this season.
However, to give your question a bit of respect, it's possible. A stronger manager may have tried to win the first game at TFS (we were both pretty terrible ) and who knows how your season pans out without the air of invincibility around your squad that has grown and grown as the season has progressed never getting beyond the 7th (I think) match day. Same with your late equaliser up in Cove. But there's no need though to resort to hypotheticals as we've had two full seasons of him demonstrating he may be a good coach but not a good manager.
What's absolutely certain, though, is we wouldn't be any lower with a different manager.
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Just now, StuartA said:
I’d still bet (and probably will) that Rankin would win next season’s League 1 with a similar squad.
As above I don't think this happening would be saying very much.
QotS and Cove as full-time teams would be my only concern with this tbh - they might see you lot finally buggering off as a great opportunity to get out of this league and strengthen.
This squad we have, with a decent manager, should be able to deal with that. But Rankin would worry me - he's too passive and lacks the ruthlessness to put teams to the sword. He'd leave the door open for sure.
I'd be up for taking McCall off Clyde's hands.
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5 hours ago, ShaggerG said:
Is Fulton still injured? He's been on the bench for weeks now.
49 minutes ago, Ian Mcleod said:Wouldn't shock me if Rankin is just waiting for Lyness to have a shocker so he can drop him tbf to Lyness he hasn't really put a foot wrong recently and has had a couple of decent games however I would much rather have Fulton for the playoffs.
Lyness has conceded I think 4 goals the whole time he’s been with us. No reason to drop him.
I’ve not been that convinced by Fulton this season at all tbh. He doesn’t command his box like he did in seasons past and hasn’t stood out as any better than the other 2 keepers we’ve played.
He’ll be on a decent wage too given he joined us in the top league - wouldn’t be that bothered if we let him go in the summer and kept Lyness and Smith.
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2 hours ago, LatapyBairn. said:
I actually fancy Hamilton to get through the play offs, they’re points total would suggest they are not a bad side. In any other normal season they would quite possibly be sitting top of the league or at least still in contention, this Falkirk side going on a season long run of form like it has is extraordinary and can’t really be legislated for, it’s for that reason I think the Hamilton fans are overly harsh on Rankin. He probably deserves a 2nd crack at it in the same way McGlynn did after finishing 2nd last season.
That we have as many points as we do is more of a reflection of how shite the standard in this league is rather than Rankin being able to motivate or organise a team.
Our players have beans on toast for breakfast, do some 3v3s for a bit, and get a Starbucks on the way home just after lunchtime.
And we’re still miles ahead of everyone bar yourselves.
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How can a city without an athletics stadium host the Commonwealth Games?
The athletes village is now also private housing.
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16 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
Whit? The heads are the same and they come with different coloured rings so you can tell which one belongs to you. Why would they come with coloured rings to identify them if they weren't expecting folk to share the handle?
Because the ring lets you know which toothbrush belongs to who.
The heads are not all the same either.
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The Falkirk FC Thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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I suspect this is sarcasm.
I don't think it's much of a surprise that a team 33 league games undefeated and won the league at a canter fill all but 1 slot in the TotY tbh. And deservedly so.