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CallumPar

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  1. By the way, normally a big away crowd is very loud - at least early on. What was going on with Falkirk last night? Even in the first half, their fans were so flat/quiet. More often than not, away fans are louder than home fans in such a big crowd. But there was barely any noise from the away end all night. They seem to make a lot of noise on here and on social media, but don’t seem to actually get behind their team at games? Obviously wouldn’t be expecting much noise from them second half, but that doesn’t explain the first, where they had a lot of the ball and got into good areas.
  2. Anyway, let’s get back to Dunfermline v Falkirk chat. That’s us played them 3 times and here are some facts: Dunfermline have had 4 different goal scorers in these games. Falkirk have managed a total of 4 shots on target. Over the last 3 hours of football between the sides, Falkirk have managed 2 shots on target, Dunfermline have scored 3 goals (from 9 shots on target). Kane Ritchie-Hosler is a much better player than Kai Kennedy. Falkirk’s number 26 looks like a complete fraud of a footballer. In all seriousness, why have they taken Henderson out of that defence to play him there? He lost a header to KRH for the second goal. That’s honestly inexcusable. Matty Todd is marvellous.
  3. Airdrie, Falkirk, QoS all full time. Should they not be doing better than us, since McPake’s apparently such an awful manager? Last I checked, you can only beat the teams you’re up against. Just imagine how dominant we might have been if he hadn’t ripped up our ex Scotland and Premier League midfielder’s contract. It’s quite funny that he seems to have upset so many fans of other clubs here. Dundee fans are generally quite nice about him/seem to be happy for him. Yes, he had his shortcomings as Dundee manager. But he’s a very young and inexperienced manager, who is learning all the time. I’d hate to work alongside RandomGuy/TheScarf. Make a couple of mistakes and, in their eyes, you will never be allowed to learn from them and become better at your job.
  4. Yep, cause criticising opponents for coming up with tactics to stop you playing how you want to, then going on about winning on corners is totally normal/rational. You really can’t see why we took the piss out of him for that? Even McPake joined in taking the piss out of that interview last night. McGlynn was a bitter little guy in that interview. Last night, at least he accepted we deserved to win. You also have to remember McGlynn was Raith manager for a long time and was involved in a lot of derbies - including the 2011 title decider at East End. There’s a lot of history with him and Dunfermline rivalry. By the way, can I just point out, that despite Falkirk fans making out that they’re fantastic etc. they’ve scored 1 goal from a grand total of 4 shots on target in 3 games against us. I would be surprised if any other team has so few shots on target against us in 3 games. McGlynn was also the only manager in the championship that didn’t manage a win against us last season. In comparison, we’ve scored 4 goals from 12 shots on target and had more shots on target in each individual game. So that should put an end to the simpleton Falkirk fans falling for McGlynn’s delusion about us not trying to win these games.
  5. He keeps flapping his arms. Like a toddler throwing a tantrum. He obviously looked at the stats just before the interview and couldn’t find any way to claim they were the better team this time. Surprised he didn’t claim it was a draw, because of the yellow card count!
  6. So they only won games because of a player McPake signed? Also, you’re talking about budgets, he’s signed 3 new players on permanent deals here. One was a backup keeper. The rest of our players are loan signings and the players who were dross last season. I don’t think there’s much doubt Falkirk have outspent us this season. If you watched the likes of Mehmet, Breen, Chalmers, Wighton etc last season, you’d think their careers as full time footballers were over. Will we need to improve the squad, to compete in the championship? Absolutely. But McPake’s given us reason to believe in him/back him. His permanent signings (Hamilton and Benedictus) have been fantastic for us and are captain and vice-captain. But his main achievement is making us a team. Last season, there was no team spirit, seemed to be a lot of in-fighting in the squad. They were a shambles. McPake brought in leaders and has changed the mentality and, almost the same set of players, now seem to gel really well as a team. Is that not a sign of good management? Again, I have to ask, have you never seen anyone learn from mistakes and become better at their job? Nobody’s trying to rewrite history and claim he was the messiah at Dundee. But it’s really strange behaviour to come on here and criticise a manager, when his team are 8 points clear at the top of their league, with 16 clean sheets in 27 games.
  7. We’ve been here with RandomGuy before. This guy refuses to accept that anyone can improve. McPake himself has openly said that he has grown as a person and manager over the last 12 months. He also seems to listen to the rest of his coaching team a lot, I don’t know if that’s a change or not, but Mackay certainly seems very heavily involved in big decisions/training/tactics. But he had bad spells at Dundee, so RandomGuy will follow him round for years, telling anyone they’re wrong if they praise him. He did the same with Comrie, who we’ve seen develop a lot as a footballer since joining. He was very solid in the championship, until Grant/Hughes came in. This season, he’s been excellent at RB in an 4 and RCB in the back 3. But the guy above would come to our threads regularly to say that Comrie was never a footballer, could never be good enough etc. Pars fans used Rooney as an example of players improving (mentioning how poor he was for us, then did well for St J) and the guy still doesn’t get that players improve over time. Even now, he’s somehow interpreting it as people saying Comrie is better than Rooney has ever been.
  8. That guy’s a space cadet. Imagine laughing at someone saying McPake’s doing a good job. 8 points clear, 16 clean sheets in 27 league games. How can anyone claim that’s not a good job? Regardless of the level he’s managing at, he’s clearly doing a great job. As someone else mentioned above, he claimed Comrie couldn’t be a good RB at championship level, cause he had a poor game v Celtic once. Went on to argue that he was too small to be a RB. Then when he got called out on that, said ‘small’ meant he didn’t have enough pace to be a RB.
  9. By the way, who was the Falkirk fan on here last week asking who Matty Todd was? Think he knows now.
  10. I don’t care. I was there and I loved that. Mehmet, Benedictus, Breen, Hamilton and KRH joint runners up for MoM. But Matty Todd killed Falkirk’s title bid tonight. A few times in that second half he absolutely destroyed Coll Donaldson and it was brilliant to watch.
  11. Matty Todd dominated Falkirk in the second half. Played in behind the striker and Falkirk couldn’t deal with him. Absolutely fantastic. i might post a more balanced comment tomorrow, giving Falkirk a bit of praise for the first half, but we absolutely battered them second half and they were lucky it was only 2 in the end. Fantastic crowd, brilliant atmosphere and another McPake masterclass. 16 clean sheets in 27 games. Title is ours to lose now.
  12. Yeah, cause giving your CBs all that time and space last time worked out so badly for us.
  13. Nah, that’s certainly not what I was trying to get at. Think it’s quite likely police have said no. We know what they can be like. Somehow they seem to decide that this game needs more extreme security measures than an old firm game. I’d forgotten Celtic B were there too. Every chance their fans wrecked the toilets or something.
  14. Euan Anderson wasn’t even the ref for Dunfermline v Alloa on Saturday. Why make this nonsense up?
  15. At this stage, it is what it is. I realise it’s not going to change. But when was this discussion about the North East being out of action? Feels like quite recently we had our ‘Academy Day’ where we had all our youth teams in the North East. Surely we didn’t put the youth players in an area that’s deemed unsafe/failed some sort of H&S assessment?
  16. Club have tweeted that over 7000 home tickets have been sold - think that suggests that tickets may have been sold for that section? Away end holds 3,000. So if there’s over 7,000 home tickets sold, that must be every seat.
  17. Yep. Doesn’t make sense. Even from the front of the main stand, you can get nowhere near the pitch or opposition fans. Not like the seats are ‘out of action’ either, as they’re usually available for away fans every week - and are available to buy for Edinburgh fans for our next home game.
  18. Confirmation that we’re just not selling anymore tickets/opening any more sections. Disappointing. Seems strange to turn down extra money.
  19. We’ve not released tickets for the full east wing and think we’ve left sections of the east stand unavailable. 9500ish seems most likely, unless we release more sections. All home tickets now look to have been sold. No new sections made available as yet. Also worth remembering the first couple of rows in the Section NW part are closed off and probably a few more rows of seats here and there not been made available.
  20. They only opened section L for ticket sales tonight, so assuming he means the full NW is sold out, rather than the NW minus section L.
  21. Just over 10k - roughly 10,100, I believe. North East holds about 1200 and total capacity is roughly 11,350.
  22. It’s the east wing that has seats available, west wing sold out a while ago. They’ve also not opened up the furthest right section of the east wing yet. Section L and the NE are clearly considered last resorts. But it’s hard to see those areas not being required, at least to some extent. Would expect east wing to be fully available tomorrow morning, then open up one section at a time, starting with Section L.
  23. Have police blocking access via the east side of the ground? Open the gate at the NW turnstiles, so that fans with NE tickets go through the car park that way. Will be Tuesday 9th May and Saturday 13th for semi final and Thursday 18th and Sunday 21st for the final. Both legs of final will be on Alba, I’d imagine. Don’t think it’s been announced officially, but that’s the usual format. Basically, if Falkirk want to keep players sharp for the Scottish Cup final, it would make sense for them to make sure they’re in the playoffs and don’t win the league.
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