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Despite having to make a round trip from Motherwell to get my ticket, I will be there early enough as I am passionate enough about my club. Try not to get too excited for nothing now.[emoji16]

Why don't you do your bit tomorrow and not queue at all? You don't appear to be too worried whether you get a ticket anyway?

Hey, here's an ideal. Why don't we just reserve all stadiums purely for home supporters? We won't be giving any advantage to away teams and most games will regularly end up home wins. Atmosphere of the sweetie papers should be good too....or at least that's what The Grass is Greener thinks...

Talking to yourself again trump? [emoji3]

How is that remotely relevant? If stadiums have capacity for bigger occasions we should be trying to fill them. The game is live on national TV. We should be doing everything we can to market how great the Championship is. Whether we go up or otherwise, I think this is a great league with decent teams and competition for pretty much all.

Yes, that attitude of yours pretty much explains the whole problem. And yet we hear about Celtic whinging about a couple of hundred possible tickets less than Aberdeen and it's all over the media. Fans are what makes this game what it is. If we ALL don't start to recognise that ,especially for teams outside the bigot brothers, attendances will only diminish further.

Genuinely I do not get how you cannot see an issue here? We are now being forced to queue up at the very last minute to ensure we have a ticket for the game on Tuesday night. I live in Motherwell so that's not so easy. We faced a similar scenario last weekend with an 80% full stadium at Dumbarton. We complain about dwindling attendances but we don't make reasonable efforts to accommodate fans. I agree we are often a bunch of moaning faced c**ts, but I genuinely am concerned re how fans are being treated at the moment.

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How big do we think the queue will be tomorrow?

Hmm, we may well go up this season without doing what you suggest. Also if we don't, the only significantly bigger budget side in the Championship next season may be Dundee United. Personally I think we could get past them over 36 games if we keep most of the current squad.

Ok, but you still have not explained what it is that we need to do differently to reach the Premiership? Are you saying we should have held onto Vaulks and Alston when their minds were about going elsewhere at a higher level? Remember this is the second season in a row we have finished second in a league to a team that ought to be in the Premiership top 6.

Agree with most of this. I think mistakes have been made in previous seasons by our board but generally they got it right with Houston. Really, as I have said before, spending fortunes to get us up to the league of doom and gloom is not the right way to approach things. Re the issue of how many seasons we have spent in the top league since the 90's being below what we might expect, I think it's important to remember we were deprived of that opportunity by the 'Make it up as we go along gang' formerly known as the SPL.

Can anyone - especially those that keep suggesting it - explain what it is you think the BOD is doing differently at Premiership clubs that we should be doing at Falkirk. It's ok to make statements but how about backing it up with some facts? If the answer is invest more, can you explain where the cash is coming from?

Way more eloquently put than I could ever have written....

Irrespective, it does not address the original point anyway. I don't think there's anyone at our club who could (or should) be writing off such a debt. This only emphasises the lack of balanced budget and appropriate management strategy that I mentioned earlier.

Not many of them came back though. There were still huge spaces in their end. For the reasons described earlier above I also equally hold Killie in contempt.

I think my key words were 'balanced' and 'strategy'. I am not convinced that Kilmarnock were doing things based on a balanced budget nor that they had a strategy at the outset for managing the debt. Hence they carried debt for many years. I presume you mean 50k? For me, at times Craigen has been key to our finishing second this year with a few key crosses and goals. Not sure we should be writing him off. Last season we all felt that the team was knackered and we lacked depth. I am not sure that's what I would like again although Dobbie is one player I would love to see at Falkirk.

They found a way out of it but were in debt for many years with rumours of administration. I just don't want us approaching things with that strategy....that's all.

We have a real chance of getting out of the Championship this season without additional investment. If we go up I agree we need to spend a little more but that should be on a balanced income basis. The last thing I want is for Falkirk to become another Kilmarnock or Dundee....or even Livi!

I had not realised that there are lots of potential investors out there willing to throw money away on the basis that we need to invest further? I would rather we ran the club within our means.

Totally agree. He was one of our better players yet you could hear the numbskulls around me criticise any mistake he made. On that pitch there was not a single player that did not make mistakes ffs.

No, of course not. We have to have ambition or we would not have the current crowds we have in the Championship. I think the problem is the one we all moan about every season. Playing each other four times, knowing that the OF will win the league, and that we also have very little opportunity of European football, even if we won the league Cup. I think the Championship is now a really good league but the Premiership is a bit of a joke with little beyond survival to play for for the majority. Unless there is a structural change in this division, lower end Premier league teams will continue to show a decline in annual attendances.

Surely this game was not abandoned and Cowdenbeath were granted the win? For anyone interested go to 2hrs and 7 mins onwards. Unbelievable!

For a season or two, yes. However when the novelty factor wears off the crowds do appear to decline.

Did Kilmarnock not also provide us with only one stand last season as they were concerned that we would out sing them? There were large spaces at the final in the Kilmarnock ends despite Falkirk filling the away stand.